Movieing On - Movies from 1999 or Earlier

It’s one of the 80s fantasy classics, and we’re tackling it here, on the final episode in the two-hundreds. So sit down, relax and enjoy our discussion of Willow… Which mainly centers around foley work and cameras, not so much the plot, but anyway!

Show notes and links:

* Willow (1988) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* John Kenneth Muir’s Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Cult-Movie Review: Willow (1988) (reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com)

* Willow Movie Review & Film Summary (1988) (rogerebert.com)

* Ben Burtt – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* Film Riot (youtube.com)

* Jurassic Park sound – YouTube (youtube.com)

* Jurassic Park dinosaur sounds are animal sex (businessinsider.com)

* The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2) (youtube.com)

* The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios (Part 2/2) (youtube.com)

When a book named Rocket Boys gets the anagram treatment when it’s turned into a movie called October Sky, it gets Breki’s attention. When it also turns out to be a lovely coming-of-age movie about a group of boys in the late 1950s who want to build rockets instead of working the coal mines? Well, then you’ve got a movie we want to see.

Stuff we talk about and/or which might be interesting:

* October Sky (1999), directed by Joe Johnston.

* Brass, season two, is out! Hear our very own Nancy Frye portraying a multitude of people in this radio series.

* Douglas Swander has a very impressive biography, despite not having had much of a movie carreer. That “Douglas Swander” guy who wrote his bio must really like Douglas Swander.

* Concept art for Star Wars by Joe Johnston. Imagine being the guy who created the visual designs for The Iron Giant, Yoda and Boba Fett – and who also directed a handfull of great movies. Why aren’t people talking about Joe Johnston more than they are?

* The story of real-life Coalwood, West Virginia.

 

No; it’s not a movie about a biker gang – it’s a movie about the civil war. That’s the American Civil War, not the Captain America Civil War.

Gordon alert:

25:10 – Redlegs riding by Roedel’s house at night.

1:26:50 – Quantrill’s guys riding by.

1:31:20 – Dead center behind Quantrill’s right shoulder.

1:37:51 – Center left, twirling mustache (of course).

1:45:11 – Right of center, gold boards on shoulder. Yeah, he switched sides.

The film that we got is in the pod that is cast, but the cast of the film is in the pod that was got. Got it? Got it. Good.

Show notes and links:

* The Court Jester (1955) – IMDb (imdb.com)

This is one of those movies where the title seems to be trying to misdirect you. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. Sure; there is a woman named Martha Ivers in this movie, and there are a lot of strange things about her – but there’s nothing even remotely resembling love.

… maybe that’s the strange thing? That she cannot seem to love?

In the future, things are very much like they are today – only underground, dystopian and everything is white.

Show notes and links:

* THX 1138 (1971) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* The Making of THX 1138.avi (youtube.com)

There were many patterns in the nineties that only become obvious when you stop and look back on them. One of those patterns was the movie about the guy who dies and then comes back to avenge his death. Darkman is one of those movies.

Two sets of identical twins were born on the same night and in the same little house. One pair belonged to nobility, the other to the lowest of plebs. Naturally, the pairs were mixed up and the parents went home with one of each. That’s how it started. Nobody really knows how it ends, because everybody dies before finishing the sentence.

Show notes and links:

* Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) (imdb.com)

* Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors’ Accents | WIRED (youtube.com)

* Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages From Film & TV | WIRED (youtube.com)

* Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 31 Actors Playing Real People | WIRED (youtube.com)

Sometimes, a movie comes across our desks which amazes us, astounds us, and moves us to the very core of our beings. We question our humanity, our values and the ways we live our lives. We learn to love anew.

… This is not that movie. Not by far.

Show notes and links:

* Walking and Talking (1996) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* IT (2017) Pitch Meeting – YouTube (youtube.com)

When a movie’s review has some people describing “such beautiful pictures, such poetry in every single one of them” on the one hand, and “Jarmusch’s indie camera work lacks style” on the other, you know you’re in for a treat. When one person says that this movie is “half the reason I stopped being an investment banker and became a film-maker” when another person says that it “is one of the most pretentious, boring and ridiculous films ever made” … Then you know you’ve got to see it.

All quotes are actual quotes from reviews on IMDb.

Show notes and links:

* Dead Man (1995) – IMDb (imdb.com)

* Jim Jarmusch Q&A | ‘Dead Man’ (Full) (youtube.com)