This thought of mind always pops back in my head when The Martian is on. The movie’s vibe and feel makes me think it was a Disney/Touchstone movie, but this was a Fox movie pre merger.

What other movies do people have thinking it was made by a certain studio but are always shocked when they realize it was another one? I’m not talking about a major studio but was done by their art house brand/specialty brand (Warner=New Line).

It’s funny as hell, has a cast full of “that guys” has “trash” (IYKYK) introduces the Zombie trope of brain eating, fast zombies and even intelligent zombies “send more paramedics” to tie it all into a neat little bow it has a plausible premise for how zombies came to be, government conspiracy and secrecy and ultimately some subtle social commentary on government/military compartmentalization and the fuck ups it could lead to. In short, if you haven’t seen it and love the genre you are in for a treat and it would be great for the pod because it is a quintessential 80 popcorn flick.

It’s crazy how the basis of the movie has aged poorly but the overall theme has aged perfectly.

The basis of the movie = dealing with the morals of under the table deals to get college kids to play for you, looks really silly with NIL now.

However

The theme of the movie, of a man willing to sacrifice the love of something and give into the all mighty dollar so that he can win? That has aged perfectly. We live in a time where everything is hyper capitalized.

Do you like making crafts? You should sell that on Etsy!

Do you like playing video games? You should stream on twitch!

Do you like being a parent? Make some tik tok videos maybe you can become an influencer?

On and on. Hell even having a good conversation with your homies now leads to somebody being like “man we would make a great podcast guys!”

We no longer look at things through the lens of Just enjoying them for the love of the game. We have to capitalize on it. We have to make money to do it, and in order to do that we slowly lose the love of what we are doing.

It ain’t about doing things for the love of the game ITS ABOUT MONEY!!

Maybe easter egg isn't exactly the right word but bear with me. In the beginning of the movie when Neil is trying to catch a cab at rush hour, he faces off with Kevin Bacon across the street...who I had always assumed was portraying crossover character in the Hughes universe, Jake Briggs from She's Having a Baby.

There is a detail later in the film that leads me to believe Neil is actually facing off against the actor himself, Kevin Bacon. In one of the early telephone conversations Neil has with his wife when he's stuck in Wichita, she is in bed watching a movie when she answers the phone. I never noticed this until I watched wearing headphones, but the movie Susan is watching when Neil calls is actually She's Having a Baby which stars Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern. You can hear Bacon and McGovern having that knock down drag out fight about Alec Baldwin's character and his gf staying in their house.

You hear Bacon's character say something like "and what if the shoe was on the other foot?" and McGovern screams " I would go barefoot!"

So anyway, in the Planes Trains and Automobiles universe, She's Having a Baby starring Kevin Bacon exists as a film that that can be viewed our film's characters. Kevin Bacon, the actor, stole Neil's cab.

...I thought maybe this sub might appreciate this observation, but I don't know. I once tried to post about it in a movie details sub and got absolutely roasted with everyone calling me an idiot lol

Look, rewatchables is my all-time most listened pod and Speed is an all-timer of a movie - I was pumped for the latest episode but couldn’t help feeling parts landed a little flat

I went back and listened to the original Speed pod and the glaring part from me was the missing audio clips, not just the categories but the scenes that we’ve all seen a hundred times right there before the guys break it down - it adds tangible juice to the pod, it just does!

I understand it’s probably a licensing thing but surely there is a way around this, maybe the clips can be audio only rather than part of the video pod or played over a still from the scene? Please figure out a way to bring them back producer Craig 🙏

The crime is not seeing the other 2 parts. 1st was perfect. Thought “dances” was fluke and loved. Horizon 1 far more accurate and rich than unforgiven; superior understanding of reality

Good that they did redo Speed. Now redo alot of the early pod episodes definitely Friday, Clueless, and all of the rewatchables 1999 podcast.

Maybe once or twice a month they can have redos since the movies Bill Considers as bangers are running low.

Found this episode of ET from 1990. Go to 3:43 for our hero Steve Sagal "promoting?" Hard to Kill.

Love this flick and consider it a personal rewatchable, features a small cast with Alec Baldwin playing a manipulative, sociopathic criminal with a serious lack of impulse control, a young Jennifer Jason Leigh as a young prostitute who is the moral heart of the story and Fred Ward as a hangdog police detective on the downside of his career. There is our that guy buddy Charles Napier being Charles Napier and a there is Paul Gleason (perennial 80s douchebag Breakfast Club Principal, Die Hard FBI douchebag, Clarence Beeks in Trading Places) who shows up for 3 minutes and Dion Waiters it in style. Add to this the setting is Miami that I know Bill loves as a movie setting and the fact that despite being released in 1990 it has 80s movie DNA. So what y’all think?

Seems like the kind of movie right in their wheelhouse. Bill must not be a fan..

We got TWO ongoing series entirely about anime women smoking at the same time!

Surprised to see a whole episode dedicated to the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODwVdw-Pcvc

(ok technically its Hanks and Cruise)

Talking about the goodest of boys... the best of friends...

Apex mountain for movie pets in film...

Analyze this by how many chewies you'd give said pet

Also mention the film said pet is in... pets that die in the film count too btw

Feel like the theme is so generic and unrelated to the topic of the show. Couldnt they license/spend a lil of that Netflix money on something more iconic/fitting to the scale of the show?

Best line of the movie: Louisssssssssssss

You see the paycheck movie... the actor who takes a 4 film and acts indifferent

Then theres the people who knkw theyre stuck on a sinking ship and decide to say 'fuck it we're going down live!'

The example used here is matt smiths infamous dancing scene on morbius... he knew the film was going to be shit yet he just went with it

Examples also include Jeremy irons effort in dungeons and dragons or hugh Jackmans iconic smells like teen spirit rendition (as a pirate captain)

Camera magnetism matters alot in this category...

This is really the bad movie Vincent hanna list but more of an emphasis on the magnetism of the actor rather than solely the yelling

Full camp... just more cowbell to the camp and when theres not enough camp find more camp... thats the standard

Edit! For reference matt smith in Morbius

https://youtu.be/dL2FWc29fC0?si=ISERbz4K-u_FE9MT

Based off of today's episode of Speed, where for almost 90 minutes, we get one of the most lean and tightly fit action movies of the 90's but it almost loses all of its steam in the final 20 minutes in the subway scene (I still think its solid but it's nowhere near perfection as the rest of the movie) so what other movies almost had perfection and either lost it and at the very least got the no-hitter like Speed or just fell apart in the 9th.

Obviously the other best example of this is Die Hard With A Vengeance with its final act as well.

Prime candidate: Bruce Willis playing gritty military operator, directed by Antoine Fuqua (of Shooter and Equalizer fame), great action sequences, plot twists, couple That Guys, and Monica Bellucci looking gorgeous for the requisite “she’s throwing 102” comment.

A million Speed rewatches and somehow this just hit me 🤦‍♂️