Movie Meltdown - Episode 163

This week we welcome director Scooter Downey and actors Sean Elliot and Rose Sirna to sit-in with us and tell us about their movie "It's in the Blood". (Which also stars show favorite Lance Henriksen.) Oh... and they just happen to fall right in line with our usual geeky conversations. It's an amazing thing when geeks find each other. Come experience the movie bonding session!

And as we find the classiest way to use the phase ear pussy, we also discuss... The Lord of the Rings, Against the Dark, Yellow Brick Road, Blow Up, accents, Jaws, Troll 2, Mario Puzo's Monopoly, putting action stars in tutus, a performance video nutjob, They, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Michael, Albert Brooks, farm machinery show, The Virgin Springs, The Alamo Draft House, Shia LaBeouf, the gatekeepers are going to become the marketplace, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, is 3D revolutionary?, Bergman movies, The Vow, watching Fast Five with your Grandma, Sam Worthington, Jurassic Park, The Quest, film is an expression of mood, scruffy-looking Nick Nolte, 5K of running away from zombies, The Simpsons in Spanish, John Carter, he’s a cross between Robin Williams and John McEnroe, David Lynch, pulling Lance up a hill, loving schlocky movies, shooting a film on an iPhone, Avatar, losing our language, that big chubby Mongolian guy, My Name is Bruce, The Barbarian Brothers, calling Apple about my users agreement, Drive, Snow Dogs, she threw the liquid in the air..., Guillermo del Toro, Wizard of Oz, ninja flash mob, Tentacles, French Shudder Island, The Rock, Ron Perlman, Total Recall sing-along, Pepe Le Pew martial artist, Ryan Gosling, Easy. Painless. Beautiful., Sasquatch, Wrath of the Titans, the Harry Potter movie with the lady in black, the mysterious presence at the backyard barbecue, Southland Tales, The Thing, Insidious, Aliens, (and this episode may in fact be) the high-water mark of human achievement.

“...that movie, or that series of movies really solidified it for me. The magic of cinema. The power just to take you somewhere.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 162

Movie Meltdown - Episode 161

This week we drop back into the middle of The Grind where we are discussing “Traumatic Movies”. And somewhere during our dealing with all the mental scars, we also mention… technology is usurping humanity, Return of the Jedi, The Butterfly Effect, Wild at Heart, The Final Destination series, a bullshit version of real events, the old lady in the bathtub, working a new level of creepy into your marriage, montages, Ice Cube, Blue Velvet, being afraid to go outside, closing your eyes during the face melting scene, picking peas, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Today was a Good Day, Crash, goose-sex, being in a Freaky Friday scenario, Isabella Rossellini, CG Hugh Jackman, committing suicide, a generation of hoarders, digital Liam Neeson, The Passion of the Christ, Willem Dafoe’s teeth, Real Steel, manufacture motive, The Hills Have Eyes, naked bloody in the shower, Rules of Attraction, The People Under the Stairs, who’s that… your mom?, long dreams, Toy Story, Revenge of the Sith, Home Free, confessing to your dad, The Shining, Freeway, hatching baby chicks, National Institute for Mental Health, Where the Red Fern Grows, Pinocchio, 500 Days of Summer, No Strings Attached, Dogtooth, rape baby??, 401K, The Stone Boy, the Facebook movie, The Accused, knife-penises, Uzumaki, Up, Rock-A-Doodle, Jim Henson’s Christmas Toy, monsters getting in trouble at work, being a P.E. teacher, and a kindergarten version of Waiting for Godot. 

“What if David Cronenberg and David Lynch had a baby…  this is what this movie would be!”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 160

This week we fling open the doors to the coffee shop and expand the cast to a bigger and better level! And what better way to welcome the new members to the show, then to immerse them into trauma. That’s right, this week we kick off another session of The Grind where we discuss “Traumatic Movies“… or movies that scarred me for life. What results is more traumatic talk then one show can contain! 

And along the way, we also bring up… Man on a Ledge, making kids watch a Bergman film, Michael Fassbender, Haywire, Snake Eyes, Super, Channing Tatum, the dog with the human head, turn up the smoky, when your friends won’t shut up during the movie, that face women do that says… do me, intentionally schlocky, Candy-Colored Clown, scanning TV Guide for the horror movies, Charlotte’s Web, offending Nazis, Steven Soderbergh, The Vow, I just watched Krull 25 times in a row, it was the first time it occurred to me that so many naked women could be so boring, Iago, G.I. Joe 2, the movie you hate… that everyone else loves, I think that movie is going to responsible for so many break-ups, Lassie kills a guy, you know, there are lots of different kinds of trauma, Fran Drescher, it’s like Dwight Schrute in Taxi Driver, 1001 Amish Insults, Gina Carano, The Naked City, Dennis Hopper, the AFI lists and the trauma of Little Man.

“It was like, FINALLY - I thought I’d got my kids to the level of trauma I’ve been looking for…”