Movie Meltdown - Episode 168

This episode... The Hunger Games, rooms full of giggling Eskimos, Bill Moseley, Jaws, what’s up with rich kung-fu knowing vampires, erotic cartoons, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Police Capt. Hook, David Lynch tells you about dental hygiene, the 30th anniversary of the Summer of ‘82, Salvador Dali, Alice in Wonderland: The Adult Musical, non-mutant Huck Finn, Home Improvment in a wilderness store, Troll Hunter, Creature Comforts, Jennifer Lawrence, Pan, Adrien Brody, Rango, Flesh Gordon, Shut Up Little Man, soccer moms, Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles, laughter canneries, The Big Sleep, maybe too intense for some viewers, my favorite thing Nicolas Cage ever said..., covert anti-feminist propaganda, you don’t mess with Ashley Judd!, making the sports noises, Barbie is like Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, porn talk, caller number four you’re on the air, drunken history videos, my life’s goal... to steal a pizza, The Pillow Book, I’m pro-popcorn!, the Groundhog Day factor, Barbie’s acting resume, Joanna Cassidy, Brett Ratner...didn’t I go to high school with him?, Julie Adams, A Zed and Two Noughts, more on the David Lynch coffee commercial... and cookies. Lots and lots of cookies.

“They teach kung fu in hell don’t they?”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 167

This week we return to Green Room Coffee and Espresso and we’ll need all the caffeine to help us focus on figuring out this week’s movie. By special request, we were asked to try to decide exactly what was happening in the 2011 film “Kill List”. It is...well-made, disturbing, confusing and will more then likely bring about an initial WTF reaction. But with more thought and discussion, can we in fact decide what the hell we just watched??

And while we try to decide if we are discussing the movie OR helping finish write the movie, we also mention... True Grit, a picture of a world, Kurosawa, The Atheist Channel, Curse of the Demon, The Apartment Trilogy, The Crusades, the Cohen Brothers, Diane Ladd, a demon interior decorator, the stereotypical dark side of a librarian, Spaced, what the fuck was that polar bear about?, The Devil’s Daughter, can we just say the filmmaker is wrong?, House of the Devil, Shelly Winters, Rosemary’s Baby, the actress’s Twitter page, cultural mania, naked extras, Dreams, The Wicker Man, Burn Witch Burn, compartmentalized government, organized religion, The Ladykillers, I think your dead dad is really beautiful, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, ironic laughing, by the time you are Richard Gere - you know you’ve lost it all, and trying to alienate every movie-goer in the world!

Spoiler Alert: Seriously, you HAVE to see “Kill List” BEFORE listening to the episode. So get to it...

“...here the ambiguity is kind of amorphous, it could be all kinds of different directions. Where it invites you to like, Mad Lib your own version of the movie.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 166

This week, we do in fact... talk about movies. And, at a coffee shop. That’s right The Caffeinated Movie Geeks mix things up a little this week, as we convene for our first caffeinated session at Green Room Coffee & Espresso Bar. There we meet our host Allen and continue with our usual level of movie geekery.  

And while we figure out our individual orgin stories, we also mention... a traumatic head injury and a Hillary Duff concert, Alphaville, motorcycle gang movies, John Carter, Dwayne “Not the Rock” Johnson, hipsters laughing at you, Anonymous, Russian Ark, David Lynch public service announcements, Wrath of the Titans, Hugo, narrated by a ghost, meet the man who runs the Nicolas Cage costume, Mr. Popper's Penguins, heroin chic, Tom Hardy, Jules Verne spinning in his grave, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Karenina, Jonathan Rhys Meyers vs. Jonathan Rhys-Davies, Sterotype Estates, the future of Back to the Future 2, hipsters moving in... there goes the neighborhood, Gnomeo and Juliet 2, Christopher Lloyd IS Venom, SyFy Channel presents..., Fat Dylan, Roland Emmerich, missing Halloween and peppermint candies, Hillary Duff IS Hillary Swank, not a fan people, the little funny-looking guy in Deuce Bigalow and the heavy kid from SuperBad, Reanimator, Journey 3, just put a Manson cover in your trailer and... someone needs to finish their cookie.

“It’s got CGI, you don’t need acting.”

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Movie Meltdown - Episode 165 (aka: "Greg Makes Sex Sound Disgusting")

The fourth annual Oscar Meltdown party rages on as we enjoy crack... which leads to sex talk. Weird... but then again, maybe those go together just fine. And by the time we get to the “love ewe” discussion... well, after four years of this, you’d think there would be no way we could push the envelope further into the realm of bad taste. And yet... midway into that segment, even I thought... “I can’t believe we are having THIS conversation.” These are the things that crack leads to. Just say no kids...just say no.   

We also discuss the Oscar-caliber film “Creature” starring (extended cameo) Klaus Kinski as a lovable space perv. The movie also feature thunderstorms in space, Ferris Bueller’s dad, Simone from “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” and a cosmic creature that studied with Sanford Meisner. Plus we continue awarding The Foilers for the finest cinematic moments of 2011.  

And while we discuss the special ways we care about Rosario Dawson, we also discuss... Midnight in Paris, Land of the Lost was from 2009, seeing other people’s apartments, Invader Zim, naked chicks in space, ads on Facebook, is she wearing poison ivy on her boobs?, getting nothing from Michelle Williams, talking animals movies, The Help, black Woody Allen, Norm Macdonald, for some reason... having women actually be interested in you, living in a breadtruck, Amber Heard, Zookeeper, a west coast fumble, Bobby Brown, OCD sex, being a Nazi, Sinbad’s socks, space pegboard and dryer-vent tubing, meta snaky comments, one more reason Gonzo is awesome, best extra award, Attack the Block, Drive Angry, attractive young actresses and... if Justin Beiber were a football player AND ultra-right-wing Christian.

Foiler Alert: We totally discuss all the goings on of the 1985 movie “Creature”, but as one of the gang says... “And there’s no spoiler-alert, because it’s not fucking possible to spoil this movie.”

“ I mean I thought it was crazy that that was even nominated for best picture. I mean... come on.”

Movie Meltdown - Episode 164

Join us as we kick off Oscar Meltdown 4! With our mascot Babe by our side, we dive into the h'orderves and pizza (Now Vegan Friendly!!) as we launch our own brand of coveted trophy...The Foilers - in this, the first annual Meltdown Awards.

Between eating loads of pork and discussing who has the most hideous dress, we also mention... Sailor Moon: anti-girl power, George Takei, Drive, Ryan Reynolds, Mila Kunis, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, fear of aging in Hollywood, The Lie, Neil Patrick Harris, The New Girl, Hank Azaria, Super, getting a patent... in a courtroom?, the Mayflower was made of pork rinds, Emily Browning, Brad Pitt, space puppies, K-stew, Jeffery Rush’s bare ass, being back on the market via advertising, Mr. Poppers Penguins, Wes Craven, Natalie Portman, Albert Brooks, Green Lantern, Aimee Mann’s toe... in a blanket, Purina Kid’s Chow, Sucker Punch, Adam Sandler, The Rum Diaries, Linda Hamilton beating Steve, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, X-Men: First Class, a nun on wheels, O’bacon, Cancer Boy, identifying  J Lo’s ass, The Smurfs, Danny DeVito, and the story where the thing shrieks and jumps at me like one of those raptors from Jurassic Park!

“Foiler Alert”: The accounting firm of Movie and Meltdown takes no responsiblity for Marlena’s special thoughts on “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”.

“Thou shalt not eat pork... unless it’s delicious.”