we did folks...we rewatched a classic from 1987! SPACEBALLS

Spaceballs is Mel Brooks’ sci-fi parody following Lone Starr and his loyal “mog” sidekick Barf as they race to rescue Princess Vespa from the evil Dark Helmet, who, along with President Skroob, plans to vacuum all the fresh air from her home planet.

With help from the wise Yogurt and the mystical Schwartz, the heroes bumble their way through cosmic chaos, genre spoofs, and fourth-wall jokes to save the galaxy.

On a remote Irish island where the biggest excitement is watching grass contemplate growing, two lifelong drinking buddies suddenly break up—except one of them (Colin Farrell) can’t take the hint, and the other (Brendan Gleeson) starts chopping off his own fingers to prove a point. What follows is a darkly hilarious, petty, and oddly poetic standoff that makes every awkward friendship breakup you’ve ever had look like a polite text message. Think Chandles and Joey breaking up in Friends, but with Guinness, fiddles, and way more existential dread.

In this episode of Smokey and the Snobby, the duo dives headfirst into the world of Artificial Intelligence and its growing role in the creative arts. Snobby argues that AI is the lacks originality, a soulless machine stealing jobs, ideas, and the very essence of creativity.Smokey fires back, insisting that AI isn’t replacing artists, it’s empowering them, helping creative minds work faster, explore new styles, and push imagination further than ever before. From AI-generated music and films to digital art and storytelling, the debate gets heated, hilarious, and surprisingly philosophical.   Both agree it needs guardrails and rules.

This episode intro was created by AI as well as the cover art...flaws and all.

Join us on our latest episode as we discuss and review Escape Plan. Its no "Stop or my mom will shoot" but it was still a fun watch.

Escape Plan (2013) is an action thriller starring Sylvester Stallone as Ray Breslin, a structural-security expert who tests the reliability of maximum-security prisons by breaking out of them. When he is framed and incarcerated in a top-secret, high-tech facility known as “The Tomb,” Breslin teams up with a fellow inmate, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, to devise a daring escape. Despite its star power and nostalgic appeal for fans of ’80s action heroes, the film received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics—praised for the chemistry between Stallone and Schwarzenegger but criticized for its predictable plot, thin dialogue, and lack of suspense. It holds an average critical rating of around 50% on review aggregators, though audiences were generally more forgiving, finding it an entertaining throwback to old-school action films.

A wild ride of emotion on this weeks episode of Smokey and the Snobby. Listen in as one reviews and the other one complains about one of letterboxes favorite movies...Yi-Yi.

We did our best to explain the movie, but Smokey was hell bent on letting everyone know it was 3 hours of misery.

Yi Yi was universally acclaimed by critics and is often cited as one of the best films of the 21st century. It won Best Director at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and holds near-perfect scores on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.

Directed by Edward Yang, Yi Yi (which translates to A One and a Two…) is aTaiwanese family drama that follows three generations of the Jian family in Taipei over the course of a year. The story begins with a wedding and ends with a funeral, reflecting the cycles of life. The film explores the quiet struggles of everyday existence through three main perspectives: NJ, a weary father facing ethical dilemmas at work and regrets from the past; Min-Min, his wife, who feels spiritually lost; and their children, Ting-Ting, a shy teenager discovering love, and Yang-Yang, a curious young boy trying to understand the world through his camera lens.

Listen in while we discuss "The Equalizer". A movie thats fun to watch except for the soup scene.

Denzel Washington plays a retired guy who just wants to read books, drink tea, and mind his own business… until someone messes with a waitress he likes. Suddenly he remembers he’s basically John Wick with a library card.

He proceeds to “equalize” everyone in Boston using power tools, home improvement supplies, and an ungodly sense of calm — proving once and for all that if you’re gonna commit crimes, do it far away from a retired assassin with OCD and a stopwatch.

We’re rewinding to the 80s with Private Benjamin—a film that promised laughs but delivered… some but also something else. Marketed as a comedy, it’s more “existential boot camp” than laugh-out-loud romp. We throw on our modern-day lenses and break it all down, uncovering themes you probably didn’t expect hiding under all that khaki.

Goldie Hawn joins the Army—what could possibly go wrong? (Spoiler: pretty much everything.)

This is the Star Wars movie that asks, “What if we made an entire film about one throwaway line from the opening crawl of A New Hope?” And somehow, it works—kind of like when you and I start arguing about whether a random plot hole even matters, and three hours later we’re yelling about midichlorians.

In this episode, we dive into the creative genius of GuyRitchie! Smokey loves Guy Ritchies style and the antics he brings.  Snobby likes him but enjoys a more complex plot.  Snatch a whirlwind of subtle action packedwith hilarious physical comedy.  Thismovie is home to one of the greatest introductions to art house cinematography withthe chaos of an action/comedy genre.

Fun Facts:

Brad Pitt’s Accent: Pitt wanted to be in the film buthad trouble mastering a London accent. Instead of dropping him, Ritchie wrotethe role of Mickey the gypsy bare-knuckle boxer, whose speech is intentionallyalmost impossible to understand.

Jason Statham’s Breakthrough: Before acting, Stathamwas a market street hustler and a competitive diver. His role as Turkish wasone of his first big acting breaks.

Guy Ritchie:  beingdyslexic, guy Ritchie hand wrote the script for SNATCH in 3 months.

Pub Origins: Ritchie was inspired by stories he heard in pubs about gangsters, fightsand tomfoolery throughout the years and was able to align them into this movie.

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In the inaugural episode of Smokey and the Snobby we cover abeloved movie for the cinephile. Father and Son mildly hash it out where one ofus "LOVEED IT" and the other just wanted to know what was in the briefcase.

Pulp Fiction came out in 1994 and turned moviegoers on theirheads with a style that has been copied ever since.

FUN FACTS:

The briefcase: Tarantino has never revealed whats inthe suitcase(we figured it out)

Travolta: This movie put Travolta's acting back onthe map, but Smokey still thinks he never left since Welcome back Cotter

Tarantino: Quentin tarantino was named in part bynone other than the GOAT himself “Burt Reynolds” character Quint Asper in Gunsmoke.He was also our inspiration for the SMOKEY in Smokey and the Snobby.

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