Movieing On - Movies from 1999 or Earlier

For our final episode of the season, we look back to the early works of a celebrated director and ask ourselves the question … How in the hell did he go from that to classics like Starman and The Thing?!

Show notes and links:

* Dark Star (1974) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Honest Trailers – Paranormal Activity (youtube.com)

* Something Is Incredibly Wrong Here… | Observation – Part 1 (youtube.com)

* There’s Someone Else Here! | Observation – Part 2 (youtube.com)

* No…. That’s Not Possible! | Observation – Part 3 (youtube.com)

* There’s No Going Back Now! | Observation – Part 4 (END) (youtube.com)

Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. Meanwhile, Breki, Nancy and Linnea watch him watching it all. It gets very meta once you consider that you’re listening to what we thought about watching the man watching his life turning upside down.

Show notes and links:

* Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (imdb.com)

Sorry for the delay here! There was a hick-up in the publication process that made everything look like it was published, but it just didn’t appear on the site or in the feeds. We’ve found and fixed the problem, though, so this shouldn’t keep happening.

Edit: And if that wasn’t enough, turns out the audio file was broken all along. >.< … Fixed version has now replaced the original! Sorry!

Show notes and links:

* Sliding Doors (1998) – IMDb (imdb.com)

Way back in 1941, they made a movie about the world in 1941. Unfortunately, they got a lot of things wrong, but managed to make a somewhat enjoyable movie nonetheless.

Show notes and links:

* Sundown (1941) – IMDb (imdb.com)

Ever been sitting in a car when something in you just … just snaps? This week, we see how Michael Douglas deals with exactly that, in Falling Down.

Show notes and links:

* Falling Down (1993) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* List of English terms of venery, by animal (wikipedia.org)

* Falling Down Movie Review & Film Summary (1993) (rogerebert.com)

* theoffcamerashow – YouTube (youtube.com)

* Gemini Man (2019) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* M134 Minigun – Google Search (google.com)

This week, we check out that lovely little 90s comedy called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. There are plenty of lies in that previous sentence, as the movie is neither lovely, little nor a comedy.

Show notes and links:

* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) (imdb.com)

* Deadly snake venom delivers pain relief : Nature News & Comment (nature.com)

* Adrenochrome – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* 12 Insanely Subtle CGI Movie Moments Nobody Noticed (youtube.com)

#11 on this list is Tobey Maguire’s hair in this movie.

In another case of “Huh, I thought we’d done that movie already…”, we bring you the movie which you always forget drops the ‘g’; Singin’ In the Rain. After watchin’ it, we started talkin’ about it and discussin’ some of the details. Did we like it? You’ll know all there is to know after downloadin’ the episode!

Before we had the Iron Giant, Iron Will or Iron Man, we had another Iron hero to look up to. Today, we sit back and spend ninety minutes of movie magic with the original Iron hero, namely Iron Monkey.

Show notes and links:

* Siu nin Wong Fei Hung chi: Tit ma lau (1993) (imdb.com)

The movie.

* Woo-Ping Yuen – IMDb (imdb.com)

The Director.

* An Interview with BRASS actor Nancy Frye – BATTLEGROUND PRODUCTIONS (battlegroundproductions.org)

The Interview.

* THE STOLEN BACILLUS – BATTLEGROUND PRODUCTIONS (battlegroundproductions.org)

The Podcast.

* Quicksand (TV Series 2019– ) (imdb.com)

What Linnea has been watching.

* Hinterland (TV Series 2013– ) (imdb.com)

What Nancy has been watching.

A movie so good it’s been made five times. We’ve watched the fourth, perhaps the most popular of the versions, and we have opinions. What are those opinions? Well, why don’t you listen to the show instead of me telling you? I mean, … I don’t want there to be any spoilers in the description…

Eh? Eh? See, it’s funny, because the movie’s … the title of the movie… Oh, never mind.

Show notes and links:

* The Spoilers (1942) – IMDb (imdb.com)

In July of 1980, Roger Ebert felt he had seen enough movies to qualify his review for The Blue Lagoon by stating that “”The Blue Lagoon is the dumbest movie of the year”, and in this week’s episode, the gang find it quite hard to argue against that assessment – and to his observation that, quote, “every third shot in this movie seems to be showing a parrot’s reaction to something”.

Show notes and links:

* The Blue Lagoon Movie Review & Film Summary (1980) (rogerebert.com)

* The Blue Lagoon (1980) – IMDb (imdb.com)