Big week this week!!!
We have our special guest Mr Matthew Caverhill from the blog Culture Kills adding his own insights on the 1985 John Cusack film Better Off Dead.
Lee also threatens… well several people actually, we think he might need a stress ball.
Dan hasn’t seen Revenge of the Nerds.
Yes it’s another midnight movie club podcast:
Next week is ID4: Independence Day!!!
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So now I know that Lee is going beard grey… so he has something new to dye with his various products.
@MC, I dreading recording the next podcast and seeing that monstrosity live.
@Dan, well, you could always ask him to draw a suitable replacement on a piece of paper.
Nice podcast. Have you reviewed Harold and Maude? It’s a quirky attempting suicide movie that would give you a lot to talk about.
@scc, another attempting suicide movie?? I didn’t realise there were so many!
@Dan, and Harold and Maude was made during the renaissance period of midnight movies in the 1970′s.
Two Dollars!!!
I think you guys might be right about the key to loving this movie being seeing it in your teens. Luckily, I did, and I love this movie.
I’m also very fond of One Crazy Summer, which deserves a review, ’cause I need an excuse to watch it again. It probably sucks compared to my memory of it, though.
Anyway… it’s all those random, quirky things in the film that sell this one to me. The newspaper boy, the drag racers, the walking food… great stuff.
@Jeff, One Crazy Summer is one that i haven’t heard of either. I thought I was pretty up on this sort of stuff!
@Dan, Dude… you guys talk about it in your podcast…
It’s the one Cusak was starting when he walked out of the Better Off Dead screening.
@Jeff, I never talked about that one. it was probably Lee and I seldom listen to anything he says.
@Jeff, One Crazy Summer is in essence those involved trying to capture the same lunatic spirit of BOD with less of the success. Aside from Cusack and Armstrong, the movie also features Demi Moore, Mark Metcalfe (you’ve seen him… he is one of the classic movie assholes along with William Atherton), Joe Flaherty and Bobcat Goldwaith.
OMGOMG
Independence day!
The best disaster film ( pretending not be a disaster film) of the 1990s
can’t wait for the review!!!!!
@john Gray, And the first one to be a disaster film on a global rather than local scale I think.