Imagine a guy. Like a guy’s guy. Just the most dude-guy-bro who ever was a man.

Yeah we’re not doing that version of this movie. We’re doing our OWN version! With empathy! And listening! And possibly also some small dogs for comedic effect and also so I can hold them.

We remade What Women Want with guest Alix Sternberg (Supergirl, Full Out 2: You Got This!). We have some thoughts, and we’re going to try to share them with you so you don’t need to go through some comical mishap granting you the ability to hear those thoughts.

And truly, isn’t that what all women want?

Guests:

Alix Sternberg – prefers not to post socials

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

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Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra

This is a movie about stealing a diamond! And then stealing it again. And again. Aaaaaand again. But they’re definitely good thieves! They promise! So it’s perfectly fine to trust them with this helicopter.

We’re remaking 1972’s The Hot Rock, starring Robert Redford. This is a hard movie to track down, but writer Brian Nelson (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night, Altered Carbon) insisted that this was the remake we needed to make happen! And you know what? We DID!

Guests:

Brian Nelson – @ohthatbriannelson on Instagram

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

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Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra

I am certain that this movie is going to be remade eventually. I couldn’t possibly predict when that remake will be coming out, so just to be safe, we better release this episode this week.

I invited back my friend Amanda Barnes (@itsamandabarnes on Instagram) to have a solemn and dramatic conversation about one of the most silly comedies to ever comedy. The pressure on this next sentence to be funny is so high that I’m afraid it was arrested and thrown in jail by the lead of this movie.

Guests:

Amanda Barnes – @itsamandabarnes on Instagram

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw

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Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra

He’s the kind of uncle we all wish we had but don’t necessarily want to be ourselves. That’s right it’s Uncle Buck! One of the lesser-known John Hughes movies despite it being the John Hughes movie that means the most to me!

But I found someone who also loves giant pancakes, bowling, and John Candy and that is Myles Warden! Myles (@reallymighty on the socials) and I remade Uncle Buck and we cannot WAIT for you to make the commitment, after EIGHT YEARS, and finally listen to this with us!

Guests:

Myles Warden – @reallymighty on the socials

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw

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Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra

You remind of the pod. What pod? The pod with the power. What power? The power of remakes. Remakes? Remakes. Remakes! Remaking on this pod.

Uhh… so anyway we’re remaking Labyrinth this episode! Emmy award-winning writing Shannon Peace (@citizen.peace on Instagram) and I are talking muppets, contact juggling, and everything we can think of that made the movie Labyrinth so amazing!

Guests:

Shannon Peace – @citizen.peace on Instagram

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

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Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra

For someone from Tucson, AZ who has actually spent time in Oracle and even AT the Biosphere 2, you’d think I would have seen Bio-Dome a long time ago! But nope!

Luckily the master of all things mediocre was able to guide me through the process. Michael Ornelas of the Fine Dining podcast (@finediningpodcast on the socials) is locked into this movie with me and we won’t be let out until we have our remake! Or a year goes by. Or if we just find a key in one of the windows. But since those two things won’t happen, we better get to work!

Guests:

Michael Ornelas – @finediningpodcast on Instagram and BlueSky

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw

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Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra

So. Godzilla. Obviously it’s about time I covered one of those movies. So why not start with one of the movies that is pretty much universally recognized as “not good.”

But over the horizon, stomping into town, we have Presley Peters (@i_am_the_dude_my_dudes on Instagram), resident lover of all things Godzilla, to help make this a movie that the Godzilla canon would be proud to call its own!

But also, and most fundamentally, Big Monster is fun!

Guests:

Presley Peters – @i_am_the_dude_my_dudes on Instagram

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw

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Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra

It’s possible to dream of a better and brighter future! It’s possible to hope and to believe those hopes can be achieved! That is what we want everyone in the world to have. And that is what we wished the movie Tomorrowland really got across. Ah well…

In the meantime, Sam Block (@blockinator on Instagram) is here to to try and make it to… the FUTURE!!

And ain’t no robot children that explode are going to get in our way!

Guests:

Sam Block – @blockinator on Instagram

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw

Support Dueling Genre on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dgp

Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra

Would you like to FLYYYYYY? Yes?

It’s time to take a trip to Transylvania! We’ve heard rumors about a dark presence making themselves known throughout the land… Legend speaks… of DRACULA!!

Thankfully Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsdale… or whatever their character’s names are capable of saving us all from vampires, werewolves, weird pod baby vampires, and one very creepy gravedigger!

Only Aurora Lena (@my2t1c on Instagram) can help me figure out this mess, set right the lore, and give us a Van Helsing that we all truly need right now!

Guests:

Aurora Lena – @my2t1c on Instagram

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw

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Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra

You hear the thunder of something in the distance getting closer. The water in your couple ripples from the reverberations of the footsteps. Whatever it is, it’s huge!

It’s Ideal Remake. And we’re BACK for season 8!

And what better way to start off this season than with a journey to Jurassic Park! Joined by Matt Conant (@CinevoreFilm on Instagram) and Lauren Cipollo (@LaurenCipollo on Instagram), we take on the daunting task of remaking a masterpiece!

What could we POSSIBLY do? Where do we even begin? And also do we even TALK about our favorite dinosaurs?? (No. I forgot to ask.) But the episode is great and you should listen!

Guests:

Matt Conant – @CinevoreFilm on Instagram

Lauren Cipollo – @LaurenCipollo on Instagram

@idealremake on Instagram

Host: Sam Gasch – @samgasch on BlueSky

Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)

Theme Song: Rebel Spies “Not Dead, Not Yet” from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com

Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw

Support Dueling Genre on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dgp

Patreon Associate Producers: Matt Bennett and Mark Ybarra