Legends Podcast

Legends Podcast is trick-or-treating this month with a bunch of scary movies! We're kicking the month off with the cult classic collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Half independent crime thriller, half B-movie slapstick gorefest, this 1996 release starred George Clooney, Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Salma Hayek, Cheech Marin, Cheech Marin, and Cheech Marin. When two bank robbers kidnap a family to escape south of the border, they make a pitstop at a all-night strip club that just so happens to be infested by vampires. The movie spawned two sequels and TV series, but how does it hold up to our scrutiny? Does it still rule the night, or does is SUCK? We're watching From Dusk TIll Dawn!

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Legends Podcast is getting a jumpstart on the spookiest season with the latest installment in the Ghostbusters franchise! Jason Reitman sits in the director's chair in place of his father, Ivan, who helmed the first two. Trading New York City for small-town Oklahoma and introducing a new generation of 'busters including McKenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Logan Kim, and Celeste O'Connor, the film also stars Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd as the grownups and features cameos from the original cast. Released in 2021, the film scared up over $200 million at the box office and earned a sequel set for release next year. But does Ghostbusters: Afterlife live up to the same spirit as the original, or does it make us say "boo!"? We ain't afraid of no podcast!

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We're blowing into the cartridge and pressing start on the second-biggest movie of 2023 to date! Based on several long-running video games series from Nintendo, this animated movie brings together the voice talents of Chris Pratt and Charlie Day the titular brothers, with Anya-Taylor Joy as the princess, Seth Rogan and Keegan-Michael Key as their allies, and Jack Black as the bad guy. Produced by Illumination, the studio behind the Despicable Me and Minions movies, the film super-smashed box office records to become the highest-grossing video game movie and the third highest-grossing animated movie of all time. While audiences clearly felt the Nintendo Power, critics were largely underwhelmed, citing the film as yet another rote exercise in brand expansion. Now your very own Super Podcast Bros. Beef and Lobster are laying some pipe on The Super Mario Bros. Movie! It's on like Donkey Kong!

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Rian Johnson's 2019 mystery-comedy Knives Out carved out $311 million at the box office on a budget of $40 million, making it the second-highest-grossing original movie of the year not based on existing IP. The sequel rights set off a bidding war between the top streamers, with Netflix beating Amazon and Apple with a $469 million offer. Released December 23rd, 2022, the follow-up saw the return of Daniel Craig's Southern sleuth Benoit Blanc, with another all-star cast of characters populating the film's Greek island setting. Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, and Dave Bautista round out the who's who in this whodunnit, which received a very limited theatrical release. Now Beef and Lobster are peeling back the layers of this streaming sequel. I suspect we'll press play!

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We're getting back to our regular programming with a special request from one of our listeners! Following our episode on The Road, listener Jeff shared his recommendation for another post-apocalyptic movie. According to Jeff, "It's an old one, but it still checks out." Released in 1977, the same year as Star Wars, and two years before Mad Max, this "road movie" see a small group of survivors of World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living, facing freakish mutated insects and other dangers along the way. Starring Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Paul Winfield, and very young Jackie Earle Haley, based on the novel by Roger Zelazny, and directed by George Smight, the movie was, to put it kindly, a flop, despite being released in the new "Sound 360" surround format. But it has earned a cult following in the years since, with Jeff among its devotees, thanks in part to the true star of the film: the wasteland-crawling armored RV called The Landmaster, designed by Dean Jeffries. As Jeff writes, "One of my favorite movies growing up - for the vehicle alone - was Damnation Alley. I'd love to hear Legends take on it." And take it on we shall!

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We're rolling the final dice of this gambling game we call Aug-Heist, and it just so happens to have 20 sides! After the 2000 film doomed the franchise to the plane of Box Office Oblivion, the Gary Gygax-created tabletop fantasy roleplaying game enjoyed a resurrection thanks to retro references in shows like Stranger Things and web series like Critical Role. Now, the prophecy has been fulfilled and a big-budget version was unleashed in theaters in March of this year. Starring Chris Pine, Michelle Robdriguez, Justice Smith, and Sophia Lillis as a band of thieves who set off to steal from the con man who wronged them, the movie earned rave reviews but didn't exactly plunder the box office. Still, it rolled high enough to spawn a franchise. Now we're capping off Aug-Heist with Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves!

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Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you're a stoic getaway driver, some ne'er-do-well thieves, a misdirection master, or some fantasy friends, you'll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist!

Director Louis Leterrier brought a kind of magic to the heist genre with this 2013 breakout hit. Featuring a stacked deck of an ensemble cast, including Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Mark Ruffalo, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman, the film tracks four magicians who pull off an impossible heist: robbing a bank in Paris from a stage in Las Vegas. With the FBI on their tails, they must use every trick in the book to finish the tasks set by their mysterious benefactor. The film hypnotized audiences and brought in $350 million off a $75 million budget, earning a sequel in 2016, with a third film on the way. But does it leave our hosts spellbound or does it pull a off dirty trick… We saw Now You See Me! Now hear this!

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Before he played Ken, Ryan Gosling portrayed a nameless driver in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 film based on the James Sallis novel. When a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver gets romantically involved with his neighbor, he is drawn into a mobster's plot and must use all his skills to stay alive. With an all-star cast including Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, and Albert Brooks, the film won Refn the Best Director award at Cannes. Opening in second place at the box office, the fim has gone on to become a mainstay in internet movie culture - the definition of "kino." Now we're donning our Scorpion jackets and stepping on the gas for Drive!

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And we're on to the film that launched Wes Anderson's directing career! Starring real-life brothers Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson as non-brothers Anthony and Dignan, two friends who commit felonies for fun, along with Robert Musgrave as their friend Bob and real-life third Wilson brother Andrew Wilson as Bob's in-movie brother Future Man and returning Aug-Heist con man James Caan, this caper was made for $5 million but only grossed about $500,000. Nevertheless, critics did take note, with Martin Scorcese going so far as to call it one of his favorite films of the decade. Far from a dud, the film lit Anderson's fuse and set his career on a stellar trajectory. We're putting on our matching yellow jumpsuits and firing up Bottle Rocket for our next Aug-Heist adventure!

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We're starting the month in style with our wildest Aug-Heist pick yet! When a group of seafaring thieves set out to rob a luxury ocean liner, they find a mysterious monster has beaten them to the punch - and they're about to be eaten for lunch! Starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Wes Studi, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Anthony Heald, this heist-slash-disaster-slash-monster movie genre mash-up was written and directed by The Mummy's Stephen Sommers. Released in January 1998, the film sank like a stone at the box office in the wake of that dramatic dreadnought, Titanic. Now we're kicking off Aug-Heist with a deep dive into Deep Rising!

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