Tuesday, January 31, 2023

NinetyForChill: The #Podcast: The Lost Boys with @CouchManBakes

NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast

Episode 105: The Lost Boys with @CouchManBakes.

The Lost Boys with @CouchManBakes

Andrew Tiede and CatBusRuss investigate what maybe the spiritual sequel to "The Goonies", Joel Schumacher's "The Lost Boys". With this rewatch, our host was actually intrigued by ThePoeticCritic's opinion that this feature is nothing more than rose...should we say...blood-tinted nostalgia. Thankfully, this week's guest reminded CatBus the national treasure that is Timmy Cappello. These two eighties kids always have a ball watching this vampire feature, and throw in their parallel paths to their forties, we get some fun Cubs and wrestling themed tangents to accompany the blood sucking fun.

Allow me to get out of third-person. Happy Prof. Shurtleff of Illinois Central College? I (CM Darth) will try not to make so much light of violent death in this summation. This is my declaration of changing perspective.

It was a busy weekend for the podcast. With a management shake up, I had to work over the weekend, but still managed to get two recording in on Sunday. This is coming off a trivia and goth night that resulted in my nearly destroying my left knee. Alcohol was obviously involved for that to occur. There were two days to recover, but four hours of podcasting means a lot more booze. Jeppson's Malort will one day sponsor me.

With the mention of Malort, we do bring up a lot of masochism in regards to our Cubs fandom and wrestling stories. Andrew and I discuss the best Cubs logos and tattoos and the Rhodes's family recent success. And how that success maybe karma correcting the world after my Terry Funk to Dustin stinkface tale.

Also when it comes to the Cubs pain, the fire sale and the Bartman incident are discussed. It leads to a conversation about Bernie Mac (and Richard Pryor) and learning how watching "The Kings of Comedy" on the opening weekend does not give one's vocabulary any flexibility. That is a weird tangent in a movie that features no minorities in it.

I may have suggested this movie is really for the fans of Richard Donner's "The Goonies" while Andrew stands by this feature being a treasure of the eighties. The love for Timmy Cappello we expressed may have led me to embrace the Couchman's argument. It also lets us celebrate seeming constant bat shit expressions that Joel Schumacher demands his features have.

Officially, we do not visit "Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy's Trash Feature Revue", but in the event that I could not nail down this recording, I revisited the low-budget, Canadian horror-comedy, "Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter". This is a fun feature that is nearly perfect for what it is. It hits the mark so well, some, or at least I, may suggest that it is technically a better movie than "The Lost Boys".

Perhaps I am letting ThePoeticCritic's Letterboxd have too much influence over me. Does Andrew Tiede talk me into keeping the premier story of the Coreys as a four-star feature? Am I just trying to balance out my Letterboxd rating curve? With my efforts to prepare to move to a new podcast platform, I hope to get this all straightened out. Thanks for coming on this journey.

Follow me on Twitter @catbusruss. If you want to be on the show, contact me on Twitter or send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All we need is a theme, movie, director, or actor and a focus on sub 100-minute material. As long as the credits start before the 1:39:59 mark on the runtime bar, the movie qualifies.

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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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