Does This Still Work?

Medium Popcorn's Brandon Collins sits in with heavyweights Joe and George to discuss this mid-90s film about a bunch of chunky kids sent to Summer camp. Does this still work? Depends, how many fat jokes do you enjoy?

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Brandon Collins' Links:

https://www.mediumpopcorn.com/

https://www.caveat.nyc/series/drunk-black-history

Thai Summer Camp

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7561546/

Oompa loompa doompety doo, we've got a perfect puzzle for you. What do you get when you have a grown man abuse children for an hour and a half? Yep, thanks to the votes of their Patrons, Joe and George go Willie Wonka. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867

It's NYC life among upper class gays in Ronald Reagan's America during the height of the AIDS crisis, And two straight guys 35 years later in Joe Biden's America are going to judge it. What could be more fun?

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Things George Read or Used for the Summary:

Nancy Reagan's Real Role in the AIDS Crisis https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/full-story-nancy-reagan-and-aids-crisis/618552/

SCREEN: A COUPLE'S 'PARTING GLANCES'

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1986/02/19/986086.html?pageNumber=72

MOVIE REVIEW : WIT AND COMPASSION OF 'PARTING GLANCES'

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-06-ca-16049-story.html

Film / Parting Glances

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PartingGlances

Parting Glances

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parting_Glances

Parting Glances

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091725/

PARTING GLANCES (1986) - FULL TRANSCRIPT

https://subslikescript.com/movie/Parting_Glances-91725

Joe visits Dead John Hughes in Hell to find out why he wrote/produced Flubber then Joe and George discuss this Robin Williams masterpiece. Calling it a masterpiece is sarcasm, people.

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Seaborgium info:

https://periodictable.com/Isotopes/106.266/index.full.dm.html

https://ptable.com/?lang=en#Properties

Film critics bent over backwards to avoid revealing what was the twist of this film. But what might have been daring movie making yesterday may very well be downright offensive today. Is it? ElI Bosnick of God Awful Movies is our guest.

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Things George read to try getting a handle on this film:

• How we made The Crying Game
• • https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/21/how-we-made-the-crying-game-neil-jordan-stephen-rea-miranda-richardson
• Review/Film Festival; An Irish Terrorist in Human Terms
• • https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/26/movies/review-film-festival-an-irish-terrorist-in-human-terms.html
• 'The Crying Game': 'They wanted me to cast a woman that was pretending to be a man'
• • https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/the-crying-game-they-wanted-me-to-cast-a-woman-that-was-pretending-to-be-a-man-1.3167472
• On The Crying Game and That Scene
• • https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/11/24/crying-game-scene/
• Gender Troubles in The Crying Game
• • https://thesundae.net/2020/01/06/gender-troubles-the-crying-game/
• The Crying Game
• • https://deepfocusreview.com/definitives/the-crying-game/
• Secret's out -- but the biggest surprise in 'Crying Game' is not what you think
• • https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-02-28-1993059251-story.html
• The Last Taboo: Stephen Rea talks The Crying Game
• • https://tiff.net/the-review/stephen-rea-talks-the-crying-game

Is motherhood hell? Well, it sure is for Rosemary. Is this movie hell? That's what Joe and George are going to find out.

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Religion 1968

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/the-religious-world-changed-in-1968-but-not-in-the-ways-we-think/10214328

Hays Code

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93301189&utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Bleak Outlook For Religion

https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/25/archives/a-bleak-outlook-is-seen-for-religion.html?smid=tw-share

Just another pregnant girl in a George and Joe movie. That's right, the boys take another trip down teen pregnancy lane with this film about a young lady who finds herself knocked up.

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Teen Pregnancy 1993

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-14-vw-680-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/02/garden/pregnant-teen-agers-are-outcasts-no-longer.html

Joe & former Navy boy George look back at this story of a Marine during the Gulf War. You remember the Gulf War. It was the prequel to the Iraq War. But that's not the point. Does this film still work?

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Marines 2005

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8797271

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8822384

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4646406

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-08-fg-security8-story.html

https://www.forbes.com/2005/08/02/iraq-war-infection-bacteria-cx_mh_0802iraqinfect.html?sh=569726ac22bb

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-02-02-0502020337-story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/02/02/va-marine-killed-in-iraq/8bef0bbf-8f1e-44fd-a6b1-a6485cfd7f6e/

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9772398

What's a Jody?

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jody?rq=jody

Joe got abducted by comedians. George grabbed the nearest human that lives with him, is funny, and can represent Earth Girls. Kit Nowokunski sits in to see if this primary colorful fuzzy film still works.

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It may seem like there is a theme here but honest, the boys aren't running some sort of film noir or crime drama festival. It just turns out, Hollywood makes a lot of these movies! But anyway, does anyone remember this film? Should you?

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• Brain
  • https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-09-19-0009190082-story.html