Trash & Treasures

This is the tragedy of a group of animators who poured their hearts into thousands of drawings that never made it to the screen, because a genuinely talented but overly entitled asshole with too much money and too many chances was way more interested in self-indulgently creating a Perfect Vision (which he didn't even have a clear vision of).

Thief and the Cobbler has a famously fucked up production history, consuming hundreds of lives and millions of dollars over almost half a century. The result? An unfinished work cut heroically preserved by dedicated fans, that's part truly gorgeous and part literally physically painful to watch.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of racism, sexism, and sexual assault

The Recobbled Cut (seizure warning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZibUpH-AME&list=PL18B0CA620B61D076

3:00 The Animator's Animation

7:00 Starting with the 60s

11:00 Sakuga Interlude

16:00 Patron #1

18:00 Introduction of Tack

23:00 Patron #2

27:00 Who Framed Roger Rabbit

29:00 Patron #3

32:00 Aladdin

35:00 Released Versions

38:00 The Details

42:30 HATE'S GREAT BEST VILLAIN

47:30 Rule of Threes

49:00 Women as Literal Objects

51:00 This is What We Got

55:30 Should You Watch This

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Audition is the story of a Nice Guy who just wants to meet a nice young woman by leveraging his position as a producer to ask strangers intimate questions under false pretenses. For some reason, this ends with bad things happening to him (and it's awesome).

Gather round for Shiina Eihi's magnetic, amazing performance and the bone-deep satisfaction of watching this asshole get what's coming to him. Also some really great surrealism. Yes, it's disturbing, but not for the reason Eli Roth seems to think it is.

CONTENT WARNING for dismemberment, sexual abuse, child abuse, animal death, and the worst use of bodily fluids.

BRAVO scariest moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7CQvmNF8l0

Exterminating Angels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN6IV0FQ-sI

1:00 Previously On

2:30 A LADY Killer (gasp)

6:00 Filmmaking Pedigree

9:00 Less Pro-Woman, More Anti-Men

15:00 90s Tech

17:00 A Foolproof Plan (the DENNIS Method)

22:00 False Pretense First Date

27:00 Shiina Eihi

29:00 Rank Up Trauma Backstory

32:00 Detective Work IN HELL

35:00 Asami, Man-made Monster

41:00 The Most Upsetting Thing

48:00 Also a Foot Gets Cut Off

52:00 Should You Watch This

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One time Kevin Smith got super stoned, read a fake personal ad, and pitched a walrus horror movie. With some really good leads. And effects. And only like, 20 minutes that are completely unwatchable. Round these parts we're a sucker for quality body horror.

This film raises some very important questions, like: does Kevin Smith qualify for auteur theory? when did Shawn learn to do a pretty good Dr. Doofenshmirtz impression? Why is Johnny Depp still getting work?

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault and bestiality.

Inspiration to Script; https://soundcloud.com/smodcast/smodcast-259-the-walrus-and

The Giant Fucking Spider Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2KB1dEDdk

2:00 Production History

12:30 The Ghost of Shock Jock Future

17:00 Let's Get Our Auteur Theory On

29:00 Howard Howe, Personalized Serial Killing

35:00 The Love Interest One

39:00 Comedy Grimdark Pasts

41:00 The Movie Dies (Because Depp Stabbed it to Death)

47:00 Walrus Crime

52:00 Tears of a Manrus

59:00 True North Trilogy

61:00 Should You Watch This

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Happy Valentine's Day! As is tradition, we're ringing in the occasion with a garbage anime about love. Last year's ended with multiple homicides, but this year we went with something gentler: fetish porn. Fetish porn with a really big budget.

Witness Golden Boy, the anime you might've seen praised on Tumblr for what looks, in isolation, like a really nice swimming sequence. Or maybe you know it for its dub, a triumphant achievement of human willpower starring a man who didn't do much acting after the 90s and knows exactly what kind of show he's working on. Most shocking of all, it's an ecchi series that almost entirely focuses on women of legal age.

Yes, Golden Boy is the kind of treasure this show was invented for. Soak it in; but like, check what you're soaking in first.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of assault, false accusation narratives, racism, sexism, and bodily fluids.

The Swimming Anime Post: http://goth-mabel.tumblr.com/post/161874485158/latierradelatrasero-vampireapologist

You Can Legally Stream This: http://www.crunchyroll.com/golden-boy

1:00 Why Has the Internet Heard of This

6:30 Keitaro and Kintaro

8:30 Evangelion Cast Reunion

10:30 A Man of Kinks

15:00 The First Job ('Splaining to Lady Programmers)

26:00 False Accusation Girl

30:00 The Good Virgin and the Yakuza Horse Date

38:30 Swimming Anime

43:45 She Bones a Motorcycle

52:00 It's Become Self-Aware (Get the Band Back Together)

59:00 Should You Watch This

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How do you make a meta slasher movie in the mid-2000s without it being tired and late to the party? Well, making it a stealthy satire of true crime fandom is a pretty good starting place.

Or: What if Cabin in the Woods had been made several years earlier by people who liked the horror genre a whole lot rather than being obviously, openly contemptuous of it?

It's a pretty great hidden gem...but the screenwriters need to stop trying to make "Survivor Girl" happen. We've had a word for that for 30 years.

2:00 Wes Craven roots

4:00 The Vanilla Ice defense

7:00 Found footage

9:30 A cast of unknowns

14;00 That true crime shade

20:00 Stop saying "survivor girl"

24:00 "We couldn't get Donald Pleasence"

27:00 Leslie the sociopath

35:00 Those gender politics

40:00 Final girl as complicit

45:00 TURTLE MAN

49:00 Taylor woes

56:00 Cabin in the Woods

60:00 Should you watch this?

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We asked readers to pick us a movie, and the results were...extremely 70s.

It's cool: Vrai is a big Phantom of the Opera nerd, and Dorothy is totally primed to watch the older version of The Crow (that there's not much reason to watch, because now The Crow exists). And we can all come together and marvel at the glory of BEEF, the most magical and meatheadiest gay rocker.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of misogyny, sexual assault, suicide.

2;00 It's so 70s

5:00 Brian de Palma, Fuck

9:00 Christine is awesome, actually

14:00 Our Hero is too dumb to live

19:00 So. Phoenix, huh

23:00 A foolproof plan

27:00 We've peaked

29:00 BEEF and musical logistics

34:00 Dorian Satan Gray

40:00 The Final Crowdown

42:30 Let's throw a few bones

45:00 Is there a Very Important Theme in here

47:00 Should you watch this?

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We take you to the early 90s. While Philadelphia was teaching straight America that The Gays Are People Too, Single White Female made sure to tell them that lesbians are definitely coming to obsessively stalk and then murder you with their scary mental illness. But, y'know, you get to see some boobs first.

It's super not a good film, y'all. Take a good whiff of that pyscho lesbian trope; then hold your nose and follow us in. The movie finally convinced us that its central antagonist was an awful person--but way, way after it thought it had. The first two thirds are the sad tale of a woman trying to desperately hold onto a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan.

(Vrai had some audio issues on this episode--don't worry, it'll be worked out by next time.)

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, mental illness, and animal death.

3:00 The Erotic Thriller Genre

7:00 Illustrious Acting Credits

11:00 Our Heroine's List of Woes

14;00 The Badly Named Lesbian Parade

17:00 Gaybor Graham

20:00 Scary Lesbian Hedra (is Good Actually)

24:00 This is Our Love Interest?

29:30 Dog Dead, Details Later

34:00 Armchair Psychology

38:00 There's That Crossed Line

45:00 Women Be Competin: A Film

48:00 Unfinished Business

51:00 Very Deep Monologuing

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Merry Christmas and happy holidays, listeners! We rang in the season the only way we knew how: with a book banned by the Catholic Church. Turned out they weren't happy with the whole "Jesus got his dick out one time" argument.

We're just unhappy because it's agonizing.

Oh, and it was a major reflection of the post-9/11 Bush years and the stratifying power fantasies inherit in secret societies or whatever.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of misogyny, antisemitism, ableism.

4:00 9/11 Culture

7:30 Dorothy's Spy Grandpa

11:00 3rd Person Omniscient is Bullshit

14:30 The Museum Murder

18:30 Sophie, Head of Cabbage

23:00 It Do Art History Bad

28:00 SYMBOLOGY and Secret Organizations

33:00 The Holy Grail

35:00 You Did Not Do a Feminism

43:30 Dan Brown Thinks This Shit is Real

48:00 THE LAYERS OF BAD REP

52:00 The Climax

59:00 Moar Symmbology

63:00 That Fucking Pyramid

68:00 Anti-Stratfordians

72:30 Should You Read This

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It's the holidays, and you know what that means--something old and something...wait. Maybe that's something else.

Have a sit and let us mock two movies we really love a lot: the tale of Douchebro McBonehead's quest for cultural appropriation, and Terry Pratchett's "You CAN be an Atheist and Not be a Dick About it."

2:30 Free Whasisname Selick

5:00 Apologies, we are Fake Pratchett Fans

9:00 Jack Skellington: Douchebro

12:30 Pestilent Morporkh

15:30 Sir Curly Visual Pun

19:00 The Very Competent Woman

21:00 The Power of Stories (WHAT ARE THESE EMOTIONS)

31:30 Good Omens Break

35:00 Nightmare v Corpse Bride

40:00 The Craft of Stop Motion

42:30 Weird Questions We've had for 20 Years

47:00 Cultural Appropriation, Kids!

53:00 Should You Watch These?

That Weird Epilogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvD5dsCKtI

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Behold: a movie about a teen girl who's a survivor of sexual abuse, written by a straight man...that doesn't suck. Actually, it's kind of good at telling a power fantasy about a young woman below the poverty line raging against upper class straight male privilege.

It...it's less good at talking about race. It's super bad at that, actually.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, child abuse, pedophilia, suicide, and necrophilia.

2:00 Discount Danny Elfman Appears

5:00 Just like Red Riding Hood

9:00 Male gaze and car ride of horrors

19:00 How to solve male privilege

25:00 Movie by white writers and directors tries talking about race

31:00 Women in prison

39:00 The dumbest break in the case

43:00 Where'd this ominous shed come from?

47:00 Showdown at ye olde trailer park

53:00 Should you watch this movie?

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