Ninety For Chill: The #Podcast with @CatBusRuss
Episode 159: "Coraline" in 12 Parsecs with HappyBeebsMeowMeow
It is never too late to start the New Year. Some people hope to just get out of their comfort zone. That is the goal of Brandy Stonum, or should we call her HappyBeebsMeowMeow.
With a Twitch handle like that, watching a movie where a feline plays a big role seemed perfect. So CatBusRuss was able to bend the rules of the podcast a bit, Han Solo style, and allowed Henry Selick's Neil Gaiman adaptation, "Coraline", be the focus of the show.
CatBusRuss has been trying to get one of his best Champaign/Urbana pals onto the podcast since about the inception of the show. The two chat about and have watched movies in each other's company over the past couple of years, so he thought content would come naturally. Our host thought the biggest issue was just finding a movie to fit the parameters of the pod, but people can just be nervous about putting themselves out there.
This was probably true of Russ until he had to cut his first wrestling promo. There were just too many quiet goth wrestlers in Peoria. Creating a character was the only in he had.
Brandy is a few weeks from bringing her Twitch channel online, so like our film's protagonist, she has to make the online world in her image and not have it handed to her. Hopefully, we can get her back on the podcast once her channel goes live, but until then, lets revel in her cinematic intelligence and patience when it comes to dealing with the CatBus.
Ninety For Chill: The #Podcast with @CatBusRuss
Episode 161: Super Mario Bros. 93 with Ta2Squid
If it is a movie adapted from a video game, you may lure out the Ta2Squid. CatBusRuss welcomes a returning Andras Bodolai to Ninety For Chill: The Podcast for a chat about what is essentially the first attempt at bringing characters from a home gaming console to the big screen, "Super Mario Bros. (1993)".
Our host's first conversation with his fellow podcaster was about 2005's "Doom". Like the John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins led movie, most do not remember that feature fondly (if at all as displayed by Kollin from the Trash Panda Podcast). But, there has not been a reclamation effort for the Dwayne Johnson film. Maybe more time needs to pass. Give it 30 years (and a billion-dollar animated feature), and Karl Urban's Doom Slayer might get his proper due.
Russ thinks a narrative might still hold the Martian-based movie back. It would not have even needed a sane one because what Dennis Hopper movies do?
CatBus and his guest discuss how this may have been a bad adaptation of the source material, but a fun mind shag of movie that walked so "Mortal Kombat" could kick ass. This Screen Drafts Marquee of Fame entrant maybe a flawed masterpiece. The direction is lacking, but this is a movie that has a crazy enough story and charming enough characters that it may have been a decade too late for when the audience would have ate this flick up. And/or, it was a decade too early which prevented meta-obsessed fanatics from appreciating it.
It definitely needs more attention since this is only the first round of the Leguizamo v. Hopper battle. Hit CatBusRuss on social media if you would like to discuss George A. Romero's "Land of the Dead".
If you find this episode interesting (despite the technical issues...and a "Ghostbusters (2016)" review), we hope you still have a DVD player because that is the only legal way to watch this underappreciated film.
