Movieing On - Movies from 1999 or Earlier

I’d like to talk to you about the movie we’ve seen for this week, but since you already have spying equipment installed in my apartment, you probably already know everything I’m going to say. Hell; you probably know me better than I know myself at this point. Scary.

Show notes and links:

* Enemy of the State (1998) (imdb.com)

This week, we go back to the Winter of our Discontent, checking in with an up-and coming artist who we all know is going to make it big. Only … once she does, things don’t always turn out the way she had hoped. It’s one many “rise and fall”-themed movies that have been made, but it’s definitely a cut above the rest. Listen in as the gang talks about Breaking Glass!

Show notes and links:

* Breaking Glass (1980) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* 7 Witches (2017) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Bad Lip Reading Twilight – YouTube (youtube.com)

It’s a blast from the past, we’re going back to 1984 to discuss a movie that couldn’t be more 80s even if it had a soundtrack by Cyndi Lauper and Men at Work … Which, I just remembered, is another movie starring Emilio Estevez. Funny how that works out sometimes, isn’t it?

Show notes and links:

* Repo Man (1984) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Repo Man (film) – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

1951 was an important year in so many ways. I can’t think of anything special that stands out right now, but I’m sure there are things. This movie, for example! This movie was an important thing that happened in 1951.

Show notes and links:

* The Thing from Another World (1951) (imdb.com)

* Dreams (1990) – IMDb (imdb.com)

Nietzsche said that “if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you”. By that logic, if you blow up a photograph enough, the photograph will blow you up, too. At least, that’s what I’m taking away from this movie … I think. I’m going to have to zoom in on a couple of frames of the movie to be abolutely sure. I think. Maybe.

Show notes and links:

* Blow-Up (1966) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Blowup – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

On April 2nd, 2012, CSICON released the very first episode of a new podcast series named Movieing On. Today, five years later, we look back at the movies that were released on around that early April and picked one of them to talk about. For that reason, we’re breaking the 1999-or-earlier routine and dedicating this week’s episode to a discussion of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods.

Show notes and links:

* The Cabin in the Woods (2012) (imdb.com)

If you take the best of British late-70s comedy and combine it with a retro stoner comedy duo from the American 80s, then throw in just a sprinkle of … well, anything else you can find, by the looks of it, really; then you get Yellowbeard, the movie that killed comedy.

Show notes and links:

* Yellowbeard (1983) – IMDb (imdb.com)

In a movie not well named for the “find it on Pirate Bay”-generation, we follow a story that is equal parts Forrest Gump, All the President’s Men, Clueless and … something that’s not nearly as good as any of those.

Show notes and links:

* Dick (1999) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Dumb Blonde – TV Tropes (tvtropes.org)

* John H. Tobin – IMDb (imdb.com) (Uncredited)

* Deep Throat (Watergate) – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

“A man moves to a house that turns out to be haunted” is a movie idea as old as time, but describing this movie in this way is to do it a disservice; the movie is so much more.

Show notes and links:

* The Changeling (1980) – IMDb (imdb.com)

Linnea said it best; this movie is ing weird. That’s about it. We can be thankful to this movie for having given us the conditions that led to Pixar being Pixar – it’s a convoluted story but it all boils down to this very movie – … but that’s about it.

Show notes and links:

* Howard the Duck (1986) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* How Howard the Duck Changed Hollywood – (bathroomreader.com)