Tuesday, March 23, 2021

NinetyForChill.com: The Podcast Episode 10: Skimble Dies at the End (Just Press Play)

NinetyForChill.com: The Podcast

Episode 10: Skimble Dies at the End (Just Press Play)

I suggested doing a podcast about the "Phantasm" franchise. Kodiak Thompson wanted me to investigate the schizophrenic nature of "John Dies at the End". All of these features are from Don Coscarelli, perhaps the best auteur when it comes to affordable horror, so it was not hard to meet in the middle.

With the exception of his attempt to be a genre director, the American sword-and-sandals movie and HBO stable "The Beastmaster", all of Coscarelli's features come in at under 100 minutes. His filmography only features 11 full-length films (If you include "Phantasm V: Ravager" which he only wrote. Did this inspire Quentin Tarantino to want to stop directing after 10 movies?) and five of them make up the franchise that inspired the design of J.J. Abrams's Captain Phasma from the "Star Wars" sequels, so it should have not been overly difficult to cover his hits. We do skip his family-friendly work before he introduced us to Angus Scrimm's legendary "Tall Man" and we failed to address the conceptually awesome collaboration of him and Lance Henriksen, "Survival Quest". I guess I have another name to apologize to along side Michelle Wolf and Ken Foree...

...and homosexual Muslims. I am sorry for our little tangent about the Starz series "American Gods" when I said that people find it difficult to get into because they do not want/need to see a three-minute gay sex scene. To say that is insulting to the people behind the series and this American minority that might really appreciate the representation.

Some other tangents we go off on include one about Alan Tudyk. Another is how feeding a man into a wood chipper seems to be an indication of great cinema. This all stems from us just mentioning "The Beastmaster", so the 90-minute podcast (nice) fits the non-linear storytelling method that Coscarelli masterfully delivered upon in "John Dies at the End".

There are just three other regrets that stem from this episode. First, I failed to bring up the last horror film that I saw which featured the late great Angus Scrimm, "I Sell the Dead", a comedy that is centered around a conversation between Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman. Secondly, I should have asked what Kodiak thought of rebooting the "Phantasm" franchise with Clancy Brown as the Tall Man. And the third regret, taking the time to watch "Twilight" based on @QuidPro_joe's suggestion. That cost me a rewatch of "Ravager" aside from me feeling that the success of the books should have told us all that we should have done more for teenage girls' self esteem during the Bush era.

Needless to say, it will be nice to return to "Ally's Accessories Shop's Trash Film Reviews" instead of further investigating "Twilight: New Moon". Then again, I do have a free Rifftrax for that film.

I hope you enjoy this episode and if you want to be a guest on the podcast, send your movie, theme, director, or actor suggestion to russthebus07@gmail.com. Just focus on sub 100-minute movies. Distance is not an issue. It seems Zoom recordings take up less memory than memory than Audacity audio.

Thanks for the visit. Enjoy.

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The Undrafted and Wrongfully Drafted

"Bull Durham" was not drafted on the Baseball Draft (A film that can only be drafted at #1)
"No Fear of a Black Hat" on the Fictional Band Mini-Mega Draft
The entire George Lucas Draft
"The Birdcage" instead of "La Cage Aux Folles" on the Drag Draft
"Road Trip" was not even mentioned during the Road Trip Draft
"Major League" instead of "Drop Zone" on the Wesley Snipes Draft
"Black Swan" instead of "Mermaids" on the Wynona Ryder Draft
"Akira" instead of "Ghost World" on the Comic Book Movie (Non-Super Hero) Draft. Tetsuo is a Supe.
"Now You See Me" instead of "Diggstown" on the Con Artist Movie Draft
"The Onion Movie" instead of "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" on the Sketch Comedy Anthologies Draft
"The Big Lebowski" not being marked eight on the Coen Bros. Draft
"Labrynth" or "Dark Crystal" not receiving the number 1 or 2 spot in the Jim Henson Draft
"Stage Fright" on the Giallo Draft. It is a slasher despite the presentation.
"Assault of Precinct 13" and "Prince of Darkness" Instead of "Escape from New York" and "The Thing" on the John Carpenter Draft
"Con Air" instead of "US Marshalls" and "Universal Soldier" instead of "Time Cop " on the 90's Action Draft
"WarGames" instead of "Spies Like Us" on the Cold War Draft
"Traffic" instead of "Side Effects" on the Steven Soderbergh Draft
"Fight Club" instead of "The Virgin Suicides" on the 1999 Draft ("Suicides" made the Actor Directorial Debut Draft)
Any Kirk Douglass instead of "The Shining" being on the Kubrick Draft
"Return of the Jedi" instead of "Tokyo Drift" on the Threequels Draft (there's only one "Return," okay, and it ain't "of the King," it's "of the Jedi.")

Deserves a Second Chance

Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

I find the DC movies, or at least Zack Snyder, was trying to bring comic books to the big screen as opposed to adapting comic books for the big screen. If you read, (or watch the excellent animated adaptation of) "The Dark Knight Returns", it is a very slow build to the battle between the Bat and Supe. This is regarded as one of the best threads in comics.

As a guy who fell in love with wrestling in the 1980's, the very methodical showdown is what I loved. It's a love letter to comic book fans who read and note every detail and want to try figuring out the plot before the character do. Come at the flick this way, and I think you will get something out of it.

Tropic Thunder (2008)

This is a feature that dares you to be offended. When director Ben Stiller is that forthcoming like Robert Downey Sr. was with 1969's "Putney Swope", an audience saying that something is in poor taste, hence not funny, means they are afraid to make a mockery of a concept.

My own experience with junkies bankrupting me allows me to thoroughly enjoy Jack Black's making addiction seem ridiculous. Robert Downey Jr. nails his taboo performance and I would say helps the call for actors from a demographic to be the first people called on for the roles representing them. As for the "Forest Gump" knock off jokes, they serve as a way to ridicule us for what we accepted (and encouraged) as fine a decade prior. The narrative that controls the pace in the second act can drag, but the content that is delivered cannot be cut.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2021