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Straight To Video Hell On This Incredible Melting Podcast - Staff Picks: The Incredible Melting Man Horror Movie - Celebrity Deaths And An Army Of The Dead

May 16, 2021 Johnny Spoiler, Nicky Lates, Double A, Dangerous Dave Season 29 Episode 3
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Didn’t the title say it all? Straight To Video Hell On This Incredible Melting Podcast! Staff Picks: The Incredible Melting Man Horror Movie! Celebrity Deaths And An Army Of The Dead.

"Now is a good time to address that fact that Atom picked a staff pick without having watched the movie thus defeating the purpose of a staff pick recommendation, which is funny because I explained the staff pick theme to the audience in the first 30 seconds of last week’s episode and it looked like Atom was paying attention. "

Good-bye to actor Frank McRae from Last Action Hero and License to Kill, National Lampoon’s Vacation, 1941, Loaded Weapon, Batteries Not Included and Used Cars.

Good-bye to Tawny Kitaen, star of  Bachelor Party (1984) and music video queen.

Good-bye to George Jung. A Boston guy got hooked up with the cartels back in the day, goes to prison, writes a book, and they make him into a legendary cinema character portrayed by Johnny Depp in a  bio movie called Blow.

The Bromance is over for Seth Rogen and James Franco. Bad for Seth’s image.

Army of the Dead early reviews say wild fun, bloody blast, uneven pacing, but overall great death scenes.

Tommy and Pam bio pic with Sebastian Stan and Lily James.

Venom 2 first looks.

Tonight’s movie is called The Incredible Melting Man. We see stock footage of the sun and the moon. They call it Saturn's rings and the astronaut starts melting, and to slow down the melting he oozes on people and eats them? He is not incredible but he is melting. And a doctor and his wife argue over soup and crackers because spoiler alert: she forgot to buy crackers.
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This week’s Fan Service involves an upset fan from the UK named Jim.

Need something to watch this week? We recommend...Batman Forever, In The Earth, Manborg, and Golden Arm (2020).

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Speaker 1:

Correct. Open a cold box of wine. Pour something cold on ice.[inaudible] the podcast. I'm sorry. Thank you for talking.

Speaker 2:

I appreciate it. Yeah. Let's focus on Rick Baker's work. And Nick said, I'll save it for the podcast. Guess what? We are podcasting gentlemen. Oh, snap. Oh, snap. I mean, I know what's coming first. You know, Nick, Nicky late, who shows up late, but somehow gets to start the show every week. We gotta go. We gotta reevaluate the contract here, Dave.

Speaker 1:

No, no, we don't worry about it.

Speaker 2:

Oh, keep it rolling. Keep it rolling. Rolling. But John, I want to know what the hell happened last week. Actually, we got to party with this filmmaker named Zach. He, uh, made this comedy, which had a big foot that was involved. And then we forced him to watch serial mom with us because that was the pick for the staff pick movie month thing that we're doing. And then afterwards, we had some beers and we watched the coding cartoon that wasn't Conan Conan the barbarian, but it wasn't. And, uh, on tonight's show. Well, we're gonna go down all the way down to experience something that I call straight to video health, which, uh, might be a good time to also address an issue that, um, so like literally I went back and played last week's episode because I felt like maybe a co-host missed something in the description and I'd go, no, I'm talking to the audience. I'm talking, I'm talking to the audience. I'm like the first 30 seconds of last week's episode. Right. And I literally say, so we're doing this thing. I hit river, but I don't know where it's coming from, but I don't care. Um, uh, okay. That's good. Uh, so, so I'm talking to the audience and I go, yeah, we're doing this thing where a member of the staff is a staff pick. So like, if you remember video stores or recommendations online, it'd be like a staff member puts something on a shelf and it's like, here's my recommendation. Here's my beautiful staff pick and love it. Enjoy it, check it out. Um, I thought Adam was paying attention because when you watch the video, he looks like he's. If you watch the video version of the episode on Facebook, he looks like he's paying a student attention, listening to what I'm saying. So I think he understood. And then, uh, then come to find out, like I texted him for the toughest set. I go, did you happen to watch this movie before you recommend it first? Cause we gotta, I'm wondering that too. And he goes, no, why I'm wondering

Speaker 1:

How you even heard of this movie. This is such, I don't even, so then we launched

Speaker 2:

Into a mini discussion about like, how do you define a staff pick? And like, what is that? And, and uh, and then I'm like, you know, w I mean, he may have got anxiety over it. Cause I was like, uh, yeah, what if the movie sucks, then what's going to happen.

Speaker 3:

This may have been a watch this a watchlist pick, like, okay, maybe you wanted to see it, but did you, Oh, I mean, I can't wait to get into this. I actually didn't mind it.

Speaker 2:

Well, I need to comment on the family that I looked like I was paying attention. That's like for many years in public school, like just looking like, yeah. And then my head somewhere else. But like, I'm like, ah, that's how you keep your head down and you get that straight C average. Nobody ever knows. Yeah. You're not really under pay attention or something. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so anyway, tonight show, we'll be talking about this movie called the incredible melting man, which is not a staff pick, but it's going to be, uh, the episode where still be named staff pick. I don't know what to say. Well, so actually the title of this episode, I've already, it's already a straight to video hell on this incredible melting podcast staff pick the incredible melty man, horror movie, celebrity deaths and the army of the dead. So that's, it's a really long title, but the title of the movie he picked is long it's so long.

Speaker 3:

Adam is the staff member that like with the audience or rather than yeah.

Speaker 2:

Oh, customers like, Oh, let's just see if we can get somebody to rent this. It's like, it's got cool cover artwork. So he picks Schindler's list. And when they ask him what it's about, he says, it's a musical music. So moving right along to keep the train moving, Nick likes to keep the thing rolling. He said in the beginning, um, what video headlines what's going on in the wider world of movies and on demand streaming Frank Ray's dead. If you remember him, he was the, the, I don't know, chief of police or the captain on last action hero. He also popped up and licensed to kill. You might, might've seen him in national Lampoon's vacation, the a B comedy, 1941 national Lampoon's loaded weapon, which is a lethal weapon parody, which was pretty funny. Or as the, uh, simple mechanic type dude who fixes the robotic aliens and batteries not included. We also in used cars. So yeah, no, Frank MC rings solid dude. Um, last action heroes. He fights with the cartoon cat, you know, police officer in that movie, um,

Speaker 3:

License to kill. That's one of my favorite bond movies. And, uh, he's great.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I'm glad. He's like, he's like one of those guys, like you've seen him in everything, right? Yeah. Give him some dues, you know, um, like picture, like look him up and you'll be like, I'm

Speaker 4:

Looking them up right now. Like I know all these movies

Speaker 2:

And yet, Oh that, Oh, that

Speaker 1:

[inaudible]

Speaker 2:

Where he stands up to the bad guy after being like meek, the whole movie and battery batteries not included. Yeah. He's knocking down the housing development is amazing. That's a great movie. Yeah. I could be on that. Could potentially be on a feel-good list somewhere. Yeah. So what are we going to do is equal to cocoon. So I won't do roll call. If you guys give me your comments, then naturally we've heard them. So we can just move on to the next headline. You know, we won't roll call. Um, Tani Catan. You've seen her in bachelor party. She was Gwendolyn and Gwendolyn. I think she was Hercules is dead wife in Hercules, legendary journeys. And unfortunately a good old Tawny has passed away. She was also a music video queen. You might've seen her in a white snake video or two, but Nick and I actually know her from this horror movie from St B, maybe C-level horror, but it's called switchboard. Right. I don't know if anybody's seen that thing, but she's in that movie as well.

Speaker 4:

I actually met her by the way, guys. I was at a Newport beach film festival in California, 10 years ago, I was getting a drink, you know, like I am now. And, uh, she was in the line with me and we started talking. I remember looking at her going, like, I could probably get this girl right now just saying cheers to that. That was my question was I didn't want to cry. Here's the missed opportunities missed opportunity. Right. I could've gotten ton of in and been like, dude. Yeah. I, but I didn't.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. There's a choice statement you could make right now.

Speaker 4:

I know I was, I was seeing somebody at that time, so I didn't try it, but yeah.

Speaker 2:

Oh good. Yeah. You're a good guy. I'm a good guy. You would have crossed doors with David because he's been in that pool.

Speaker 1:

[inaudible]

Speaker 4:

Did you meet her

Speaker 2:

Full disclosure? The news story was she actually did pass away. Unfortunately, the joke is that the David hooking up with her, cause he's got it on the bed. Like he can see his face. He's like, what are you?

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Why are you sharing this with the world? We owe A lot of views guys. Do you think if I was really with that, that I wouldn't be like boasting that as something.

Speaker 4:

So like, you know, name dropping? No. Um, well I remember I need to get on the witch board, train them. Like I found out that's from

Speaker 1:

The guy who did night of the demons, like how everyone I seen

Speaker 4:

This movie yet. And weren't there like eight sequels to which

Speaker 2:

There's a few, I don't know if they got up to eight. I know there's at least three of them I'll find that out. I've never even heard of other desk. They all, like someone told me like that they always die in threes. Like celebrities, always dry in trilogies. I don't know. I don't understand why this happens, but, um, George who's from Boston, he got hooked up in the cartels back in the day, like, uh, sixties, early seventies or whatever. Um, went to prison a couple of times wrote a book. They adapted the book into this legendary, uh, cinema character portrayed by Johnny Depp about his life. And the movie is called blo. Um, even a filmmaker is dead actually, uh, to Demi Demi's, uh, nephew.

Speaker 3:

He has a connection to the movie tonight.

Speaker 2:

Wow. Yeah. Of, yeah. And uh, anyway, this one we should maybe linger on. I mean, he's a, he's an okay writer. He's kind of poetic also. Uh, Ethan Suplee was featured in the movie is the friend tuna. It's a really good movie actually. Um, yeah, it's about a lot of stuff and it's hard. Like when they, when they like idolize people that are doing horrible in various things, but there's some moments in the movie where like he sticks up for what is kind of like the American ideal. Like what we think is like the imaginary American dream in our mind, like there's sometimes where he sticks up to certain institutional bullies and like you're cheering during those parts of the movie. So it's like, you know, but then other times you see like friends of his colleagues, murder people in front of him and you're like, Oh, this is where we are. So, you know,

Speaker 3:

He has to beat it to like forgive him for that. Cause I mean, think about it. He said he had like supplied like 80% of the world's cocaine in the seventies and eighties.

Speaker 2:

So in

Speaker 3:

A, in an offhand way, I mean, not directly, but I mean, if you break down the math, I mean, he was also responsible for a lot of overdoses

Speaker 2:

In the seventies and eighties. You know what I mean? Who knows? Yeah. Possibly. And I say that the people that put it in their body are actually the ones responsible.

Speaker 3:

Well, of course, I mean, I, you know, there's personal responsibility.

Speaker 2:

He's directly know if the purity is the same, then it could be the user's fault. But if they're messing with an ad, put an additives in that, that's an aside. I don't want to get into my tie rate about drugs and government conspiracies, because like, I, I do disagree, but this is not the podcast to discuss people's um, this is not negative. It's such a good movie. Okay. Well, if we ever cover the movie blow, we can talk about it. And also if we ever cover, what is it, American crime or something with brussel Crowe and uh, American gangster. Yet we recover that one then we'll definitely, we'll definitely tear into that discussion. Um, Oh, did you guys hear about this? That the bromance is over between Seth Rogen and James Franco because Seth Rogan still wants to have a career. So he's distancing himself from all, uh, uh, uh, Franco's allegations right now. So he's like, yeah, yeah. Until James Franco is like, the only reason I did it was because Seth Rogan was egging me on

Speaker 3:

Think Seth Rogan has, has a lot more clout

Speaker 2:

Or it's just out

Speaker 5:

Of pure fantasy. Okay.

Speaker 4:

It is James, James Franco. Like it's even like famous anymore. I don't know. I haven't seen him in anything lately. Have you? I don't know

Speaker 5:

For a while.

Speaker 4:

Yeah. Or he's just so weird. Cause he was with an everything for a while. Like he was literally in everything for like, like five or six years ago. Right. So yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5:

And then, and then there was that weird year where he was up for like an Oscar, but then he was like disallowed for being on stage to announce it or something. Am I right on that? You guys remember that?

Speaker 4:

And didn't, he, he, he was nominated if he went on stage, but like,

Speaker 2:

I think he was called out like by the me too crowd or something for like wearing a pin saying he was in solidarity when they were like, Oh, we got on you. Kind of a thing. That's my understanding. Yeah. There was one award show he attended. And then when he didn't in that same year for the same reason, like the scandal was starting as he showed up at an award show. And then if he didn't attend the other one, this, I think how it played out.

Speaker 5:

So, uh, did Seth, Seth Rogan announced that? Correct?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. He had like this, uh, interview long interview. Cause he's promoting a book. He's got a, he's got an autobiography coming out and so he's

Speaker 4:

Like a hard question. All the dirt.

Speaker 5:

Oh, he's trying to get that me too money. That's what it is. Okay.

Speaker 2:

Just him laughing. He's trying to get Amazon publishing ready. He's getting, he wants those Kindle dollars. We've talking about that meeting money. Is there money in me too? I don't know.

Speaker 5:

I don't know.

Speaker 2:

So even right along the early these early reviews for army of the dead are in, and this is like a compiled this from a bunch of critics, wild, fun, bloody blast, uneven pacing, but overall great death scenes.

Speaker 4:

Hmm. You know,

Speaker 2:

I read watched Dawn of the dead recently and you know, I'm, I'm, I'm down for another Zack's tonight.

Speaker 4:

That is, that is where my favorite remix, by the way. So I I'm down for, to see him what he can do. I agree. Hmm. Okay. Yeah. I don't know.[inaudible] I'll watch it. I'll watch it.

Speaker 2:

We might be covered it for the show. So we'll see

Speaker 4:

Wednesday, Wednesday coming after you then

Speaker 2:

The end of the month, like the 23rd, I think it's like the Friday after

Speaker 4:

For next. Hey, I got Netflix. I'll be there.

Speaker 2:

So I think it's called Pam and Tommy or Tom and Tammy. I'm not sure it's a bio series. It's like a mini series about, um, what, what are their names do basically the sex tape between T Palm, Pam, Pam and Tommy Lee. Yeah. Okay. So Pamela Anderson, who was Pamela Lee at one point and Tommy Lee, it's about their life. Sebastian Stan, and is playing Tommy and Lily. James is playing, uh, Pam, but, uh, Seth Rogan's in there with no beard that just was online.

Speaker 3:

The sex tape. I don't understand what's going on with this. Like I think it's just a,

Speaker 2:

You got to exclude that, right? It's not how you sell them. And he says, you got to

Speaker 1:

That's just the trailer. I don't know.

Speaker 2:

I thought I selected some really juicy headlines, but apparently not. Nobody has anything.

Speaker 3:

No, I'm actually down for this because as I told John, and you were talking about it before, um, it's from the guy who directed I Tonya. So he took something that I thought was going to be so boring and stupid. Like why make a movie about Tonya Harding and made it into one of the best movies that year. So knowing he's behind it, I'm I don't care. I'll watch it. Well, I mean it's

Speaker 1:

Style and ability

Speaker 2:

Execution. I said, you guys, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cry.

Speaker 1:

No, that's fine. I was just going to say that they should use, they should recreate the sex tape and use it as the trailer and release it on all the naughty websites. You know? That'd be huge. That's a good idea. Right? I mean, Tommy's filmed the trailer before you filmed the movie, right?

Speaker 3:

Yeah. PornHub needs. It's like game of Thrones or it's like flagship show, like it's stranger things like why not Pam and Tommy Edward penis hands or,

Speaker 2:

I mean, let's just tell the truth. That's how you get independent movies made is you got to have the sex scenes and also that's how you got the horror movies made back in the day that were straight to video.

Speaker 3:

I think tonight's

Speaker 2:

Movie has, has a little risque scene at one moment too. When he runs into a character that has no reason to be there. Who's getting photographed for some random read. Just one person. He runs it. You mean

Speaker 3:

One, one random moment in the movie?

Speaker 2:

Uh, where are we at? Okay. The last headline is venom.[inaudible] like, uh, the first trailer came out for, let there be carnage. So it's obviously included the other symbiont carnage, the fight venom. Uh, it looks like it has more jokes in the first one. So they're definitely playing up the comedy and venom is wasn't really a comedian in the comics, but it is in the movie as we know. And then current is playing, being played by a Woody Harrelson, but it looks like they use the same character modeling. So if you guys have seen venom, like he's a CGI, but he's way jacked up. Like he's on steroids. Like Roy is just like, right. Carnage is supposed to be like elongated and kind of a shadowy figure with like lots of knives that he makes into his hands and stuff like that. More of a, like a Freddy Krueger type, like really scary and like, uh, yeah, definitely not supposed to be like all bulked out, but it looks like the same character model that they use in the computer for venom that all of the symbionts look the same. They just change the skin color. So that's kinda, yeah. Kind of storytelling, but it, yeah, I don't like that. I think Cornyn should be lethal in different ways, intimidating in different ways and in his abilities and the comics they drew like venom is the big bulky guy. And then, yeah, as we know from that other movie, psycho Gorman, everybody loves the hunky boys. So I'm still going to watch them too, without a doubt. I'm still going to buy a ticket and be on board because I'll watch you kind of get another minute. Well, you haven't watched the first one. I have not seen the first one

Speaker 4:

Yet. I know I saw my movie theater.

Speaker 3:

You need to watch it. It's watching. I gotta recover.

Speaker 2:

I got to recover. Cause now Nick is letting me down as a binge watcher.

Speaker 3:

No, I'm sorry. I mean, I'm, I'm sorry. I'm going to say like, it is a perfect three-star movie. Like I wanted to hate it and I thought it was fine. I mean, it's, it could have been a lot worse, although it's weird. It's the weirdest two, it's an hour and a half, two hour movie. And I say that because I watched it at home and I paused it or the credits were up and I'm like, there's 30 minutes left, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll through middle scene. There's still 15 minutes left. Like they tack on like a whole beginning of Spider-Man at the end. Like weird. So you strap in for two hours.

Speaker 4:

I had no idea. I had no idea.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Wow. Um, it's not it's it's fine. I enjoyed it. Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Well I hope they learn from them. I hope they like work out the tone in the second movie and just make it that much better. Maybe like it'll just be, get better with each one. I don't know.

Speaker 2:

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I love Tony. I looked forward to that ad, you know, overall, the other ad I use, I use it. Trust me

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In the video. Facebook pulled the toilet paper image as the thumbnail for the episode, I was like, it.

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Crushing views on the first day. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2:

Back to the night's feature presentation. We are talking about, uh, tonight's movie, which is the incredible melting man. Um, I can't, I don't know if you want to say the word staff pick because it's not accurate, but okay. So we're watching it incredible melting, man. Um, what is this movie about? This is what it is in my opinion. Tell me if I'm wrong. We see stock footage of the sun and then the moon they call it Saturn's rings. And then the astronaut starts melting and then just slow down his melting. He was just on people and eats them. I wrote a question Mark, because it doesn't really, he doesn't really consume them, but he just spreads his go everywhere. He's not incredible, but he is melting. And then a doctor and his wife argue over soup and crackers because spoiler alert, she forgot to buy it. I believe that's an accurate, uh, synopsis of the moon.

Speaker 1:

Pretty much. Yeah. You got it down

Speaker 3:

The nail on the head. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I don't know that he's getting anything out of killing people. So would you believe it? Um, this is a really movie, but Dave found some incredible trivia about it. Actually

Speaker 3:

It's still believe it or not. This had like the Mo one of the most facts I've seen on IMDV not all of them are worth it, but uh, so believe it or not, this movie actually has two Academy award. One of a multiple Academy award winners attached to this movie. Yeah. For reals. Uh, well of course Rick Baker, who did the makeup effects in? It won several times. Didn't win an Academy award. I'm sorry. No, this movie

Speaker 1:

[inaudible]

Speaker 3:

Right. Okay. Gotcha. Uh, no. Uh, so yeah, Rick Baker is, you know, did the makeup effects and of course he's won multiple times for, uh, you know, American werewolf in London and Norbit of all things. I couldn't believe that.

Speaker 2:

Oh, wow.

Speaker 3:

That's the only good thing you could say about that movie was the makeup. But, but, uh, Jonathan Demi is an actor in the movie and I've already forgotten his character because I forgotten most of this movie. But, uh, Jonathan Demi and the director of silence of the lambs is actually an actor in this movie. So, Oh my gosh. Wow. Um, I forgot which one he was. Okay. I don't know. Um, so the director, so here's the thing. This movie may have been good if the director actually comic got his way. Uh, so the director wanted to make this more of a campy, like tales from the crypt type movie and the studio wanted a straight up horror movie. So they clashed and with that made this movie clash itself because sometimes it feels campy. Sometimes it feels like they're trying to be serious, so it never, never really panned out. Um, and so John mentioned the stock footage, which he's totally right, but here's the thing. They couldn't even afford actual stock footage of Saturn because the budget was so low. So they had to like use public domain footage of the sun and a rocket and say, yeah, they, you know, it works so well.

Speaker 2:

I mean, back then it wasn't public domain footage. There were just people just sold footage that they'd taken film. It was filmed stuff for sale.

Speaker 3:

That's true. But they couldn't afford to pay anybody. So they used actually public domain that was free. Right? Yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's clearly the sun because there's like solar flares that are popping and exploding. And then we get into the movie and then they go look at the rings of Saturn. We're so close, but they're looking, but they fixed it in the script. And they said you haven't seen anything until you've seen the sun through Saturn's rings.

Speaker 3:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

I'm telling you, I, Y I just watched it. Okay. But then immediately in the L cut shot immediately with their voiceover, it goes to, what's clearly the moon and a lunar pod objecting towards the moon surface. So that's just one, the Statens. Man's John, my gosh, how much I love this movie. I changed the favorite bit section to worst bits. And we'll jump over to Nikki later and see what he has to say.

Speaker 4:

It's hard. Cause I wanted, I wanted to movie praise it. I mean, you're talking about my own. My only part it's hard because anything besides the melting man sucks, but the melty man looks so good. Does he? Not from 1977, I think he looks good. But anything that has made a great is, is everything else is a worst bit. But the melting man, well, this look to

Speaker 3:

Me real for Rick Baker, for sure.

Speaker 4:

No. I mean like I just, I watched the, like just the melting face. I'm like, I love it. But anything else is a worst bit besides the melting man. It's all bad.

Speaker 2:

Well, what about the men?

Speaker 4:

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, no, no, no. I I'm. I'm defending the effects in the melting man. And I'm sorry. I'm I know, I know this movie means the world to you and I'm

Speaker 2:

Nicky nominated as a staff thing. This must be his favorite.

Speaker 4:

He must be, is there a movie poster in the background I'm seeing, I don't know. You know what this part is like

Speaker 3:

Really did mean something to them. What if this was like something his grandfather took him to the theater or something like that? Like what if there was a weird memory attached to this and we're laying

Speaker 4:

Adams and very silent right now and he's,

Speaker 2:

He's laying it on really thick. Now there's a way for Adam to come back at us, this would be the pushback and I'll help you Adam. Cause I'm a, so I need some help. If you wanted to push back on Nick, this is what you would say to Nick. Nick, if you walk into the video store, I'm the cover was just the mountain, man. Would you run through the, as a staff?

Speaker 4:

Hell yeah, I would. Okay. And by the way, boom. Yes, I agree. I know how to pick them. I was like,

Speaker 2:

Uh, that's how a lot of crappy movies are getting downloaded and renting is the poster. Yep. I will do that.

Speaker 3:

It was a big seller of VHS in the eighties. Like they're like, dude, we could have the movie, but if it has cool poster art or cover our people rent it.

Speaker 2:

So Netflix, I don't know if you noticed this, but over time Netflix keeps changing out the artwork that represents whatever it is over and over and over gets hit every demographic possible for everyone.

Speaker 3:

Well, I was going to say, so check that. So if you have multiple accounts go and like look on each one and for the same movie and see what poster art they give you. Cause they said they do that. They'll change it based on the person's profile.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I want to rent it right now. I just watched it already.[inaudible]

Speaker 4:

Was a video.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Well, yeah,

Speaker 4:

Let's do the podcast. I'm showing a poster and it looks pretty solid. Google it. I would watch this based

Speaker 3:

On that, like

Speaker 5:

A skull with melting flesh on it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. It kind of,

Speaker 5:

No, I would pick a staff pick by the way. I just wanted to say that I didn't get cover art,

Speaker 3:

I guess my favorite or

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we're over to you. Dangerous. It's your turn.

Speaker 3:

So I, I watched this movie like believe it or not like three times in a weird way because I watched it once with mystery science theater while it was building Legos. Well, and once I watched the movie itself, sorry. Uh, well basically I watched the mystery science theater version two times one will like Pat or like in the background and once actually watching it. And I did watch the actual movie ones because I gotta be genuine. Uh, but the, the mystery science theater is the only way to watch this. Some of the best jokes are commenting on the crackers. Like they keep bringing up crackers throughout the movie. Like really? You don't have any sociables any writs, anything, uh, like he steps on a sandwich at some point, you know, they got protoplasm and my peanut butter, I don't know. It's just watched mystery science theater, 3000 version, if you really want to see the effects, but also make it tolerable on YouTube. Oh yeah. I always do. When you're trying to shine. Why do you love this movie? Yeah.

Speaker 5:

I love this movie because you've never seen a better head floating down a stream than in this movie. I mean, where else are you going to see? Yeah,

Speaker 3:

I need that point. Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 5:

Yeah. It's it's the best of that kind of scene ever filmed and ever will be filmed, but, and I get a hundred off.

Speaker 3:

I feel like, do you feel like Raiders of the lost Ark in those few seconds did a melting head better than this movie? Simple question. I'm just asking you again.

Speaker 5:

Okay. Uh, uh, I don't know. The answer is this movie did a better melting head because you got to see more stages of the melting head and it looked better like the melting had and not as good, but it's like, what half a second?

Speaker 3:

It's like three seconds per yeah. There's like two guys that melt and the other guy explodes, I think. Yeah. And Raiders. So, okay. I'm just trying to think of where melting heads.

Speaker 5:

Yeah. This one had a severed head.

Speaker 2:

Ben, because it's a real stretch to compare this movie to

Speaker 3:

You're right. You're right. I've just kept hearing effects.

Speaker 2:

Right? You're reaching your cover art. You're right.

Speaker 3:

I'm reading read podcasts. I'm sorry. I, I think next step, I'm going to choose another melting man movie to go along with this so we can compare contrast. Is there another one in the people movies I can think of actually, which one street, trash and body melt both matter. They're both better than this one. So then you got street. Trash definitely is. I've only seen parts of body melt. Okay. So let me get my

Speaker 2:

Worst bet. So we can get to the fan service this

Speaker 3:

Week, which is going to be really funny. Actually. It should be fun. Okay. Um, so the Cracker kills me.

Speaker 2:

Like I was ready to turn the movie off and then I saw the crackers scene and then it didn't get any better, but at least I was still watching them.

Speaker 4:

You were like, I'm going for it. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. And even the soup was pathetic. Like they couldn't even give the guy a good soup. Like it's not, Progreso, it's Campbell tomato soup. And I'm like, you're a doctor. This is the house you come home to. It's a trailer park.

Speaker 4:

It was really like ghetto. Right? Yeah. It was pretty good.

Speaker 2:

Not even a regular doctor. He's like the specialist that NASA calls to deal with a melting man. And he doesn't even have crackers for his soup. Give me, give me a break. All right. Okay. So, okay. So, so okay. To preface this, our show is doing crackers.

Speaker 4:

I wish that I should've brought some crackers

Speaker 2:

As a little independent show. Our podcast is doing all right by anybody's standards. And even by industry standards, we're crushing some certain things. And we have like, I don't know something like 1,005 stars or whatever, but today we got a really amazing one star review from Jim in the United Kingdom somewhere and probably England listener. Cause we hit like their top 50 or whatever this week. So he goes, Oh, I sent you guys a screenshot, but I remember what he said, Oh, he said, um, this is unnecessary to have recorded. This is what he said, you know, how many things get recorded that are not necessary. But the beautiful thing is entertainment. So turn the channel where obviously not a show for him, but he found us and I'll listen to anyway. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing though. Like it's actually, even though it's negative, it's good because that means he listened to an episode and took the time to write about it. Now it's out there and he he's an audience member. He has the right to say whatever he wants. He doesn't like this episode or whatever. He doesn't like, he doesn't like our show. Okay, man, again, change the channel. Like there might be somebody out there who loves melting, man. It's not us. And I thought, well, maybe Jim has something to do with the production of one of the warlocks. And we, and you know what I'm saying? Like maybe he's on a film crew of one of the United Kingdom movies that we reviewed, who knows, Hey Jimmy, from the UK, I thrive on constructive criticism.

Speaker 4:

Elaborate why? So let me know, like Nikki, Nikki late sucked.

Speaker 2:

I don't know. I got a review. Uh, I have a story on Amazon that Adam actually illustrated the cover for. It's a great cover, by the way. It's a good story by the way. But like I gotta, I gotta, I got a 4.5 and the rationalization made no sense. It was like, I gave this a 4.5 and not a five because I really love the story. I sat there and thought, well, if you really, really loved it, you would have clicked five and not, you wouldn't have downgraded to a 4.5. So there's nothing rational about people's reading. David, are you the 4.5? Are you the four point? No, but I get that like when I watch like

Speaker 3:

That's two, 4.5 movies this week and the only reason I can't give it a five is because I always feel like you got to give time. Time has to pass for something to be a five. Am I going to think about it later? Am I going to rewatch it? So I get the 4.5. Wow.

Speaker 5:

I used to be a nine star out of 10 guy. Cause I always thought, Oh, there's room for improvement. But then I realized it was affecting people's jobs. And now I just put 10 on everything. So we'll see now I feel bad.

Speaker 2:

You should work in human resources. You were just caddying, everybody.

Speaker 5:

They said it was like, it was like nine is satisfied and 10 is very satisfied. How do I know the difference? I'm not various. I'm satisfied. That's good. That's a nine and nine is good, but they wanted very satisfied.

Speaker 2:

Okay. Let's see. Let's see if we can[inaudible]

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that sounds like an album cover.

Speaker 5:

Uh, at the end of man Borg, there's a melting cop.

Speaker 3:

That's really good man. Board Robocop is kind of the melting man movie for a minute. Oh, Oh dude. You're all right.

Speaker 2:

I'm going to block the uh, okay.

Speaker 3:

That good. When we're mentioning Raiders of the lost Ark and Robocop,

Speaker 2:

I want to call double a double right now because he's just the show has to stop. Now. It's like mentioning the Hobbit. He mentioned man board, which we've talked about before. So now we've got to stop men made by the people that made the void, which void is good, man, Borg isn't they also made a psycho Gorman and Nick forgot that we talked about it. So I have to mention that. I forgot it. I forgot I brought it up. So then we have to stop and talk about man work. As I'm trying to get us to our, do you need something to watch this week? We're going to recommend some stuff to you. Section of the podcast. You know, what's funny is I think maybe the sociopath is Adam because he wastes till we get to the end. We're all talking at the same time. And then he throws something out to know that it's going to totally make the whole thing blow up before we get in. Before we get there, where we're going to be blowing

Speaker 3:

Us up, what's going on?

Speaker 5:

Just that I waited because I was like, I wanted to share it at the time, but then everyone was talking and then had to wait for the first gap. I needed to get it out. Sorry.

Speaker 2:

You had to mention man Borg. It was on the tip of your tongue.

Speaker 5:

The thing at the end of man bark, it's actually better than all of man Borg. It's like a trailer for a, uh, melting cop movie. Who's an agony,

Speaker 2:

Uh, AA recommends you go watch man board this week. I'm going to make a note of that and go your name. Oh my God, Nikki lates. Uh, what did you watch this week that you recommend to the audience?

Speaker 3:

I know this is going to sound a little weird, but I went back to the old Batman series and I watched forever

Speaker 4:

And it wasn't as bad as I remembered it. I actually kind of liked it. There was some style. It's not the George Clooney one, but I actually really liked it. It held up

Speaker 3:

Just say I have a, I have a soft spot for Val Kilmer that man I do too. That was really good. Right? Like I, you know what I mean, what

Speaker 4:

Joel Schumacher did after that look kind of weird, but actually Batman, you know who I hate in it though. I don't like Tommy Lee Jones in it. I think he's really a kind of rigid, like crazy. I just, I wasn't feeling him. Do you guys feel the same or am I just, is it just me

Speaker 3:

Watch it in years? But like that's the only one of the Batman's of that original series that I saw in the theater and

Speaker 4:

That I, I have a soft spot for that movie.

Speaker 3:

I was finding it in you're right.

Speaker 4:

I thought it was fun. And I thought he was trying to compete with Jim Carey who was so crazy. I felt like maybe he needed to be more I'm the serious villain. And Jim Karen needs to be the comical villain. I just felt like Tommy was kind of out of place.

Speaker 3:

I thought that that was the problem though, is I thought he, by comparison, he was too subdued compared to everybody else. You got Jim Carrey, you got these wild colors. You got Joel Schumacher redirection, which I'm a defender. I think Joel Schumacher is actually really good director that got on for a couple batteries.

Speaker 4:

I agree. He's amazing. He's a great director. And actually the style is actually really good in Batman forever. I think he went so extreme in the next one, but I think forever stands up and I would recommend checking it out again, to be honest with you. I'm just saying yeah, the director's cut. Oh,

Speaker 3:

Somebody is trying to get us a cut going for that. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

[inaudible] article. I would love to see that.

Speaker 3:

I would love it. Hey, am I the only one that wants the nipples on the bed seat? Am I alone? I don't mind them. Yes. Dave, what's your dangerous recommendation for this week? Um, so I'm going to give two really quick recommendations because I did say I saw two, 4.5 stars, movies. You guys really like these long episodes that drone on for a year

Speaker 1:

Dropping one stars on a system. I know. Right?

Speaker 3:

And I'll be really quick. Cause it's huge on Netflix right now, but like don't, don't be swayed by its popularity. Mitchell's versus the machines is genuinely a good movie. I threw it on in the background and I fell in love with it. Especially you guys, this has to do with a girl going to call it to film school. What is the name of this? Going to touch your heart Mitchell's versus the machines. It's like the number one movie on Netflix right now. He said it was supposed to go to theaters, but you know, COVID um, it's from the animators who did, uh, the spider verse movie. And it has the same writing team. I think it's, it's, it's really funny. Every time we've mentioned that it's the number one movie on Netflix. He gets$5. I wish. Um, the other movie I saw is probably the best horror movie I've seen this year. So far called in the earth from Ben Wheatley. Um, Sightseers kill list. Um, basically two people have to go into the woods for a scientific experiment with trees and talking to trees and there's it, it just goes, they have to fend off some really crazy elements and there's trauma to a particular body part, not the Dick. I'm going to say that upfront, but there's trauma to a particular body part in this movie that I just was screaming the entire time. Every time something happened to this body part, I was, but check it out. It's a rental right now. It's the best new horror movie I've seen so far this year, highly recommended in the earth. Where, where can you watch it? Um, I rented it on voodoo. Okay. Uh, so, so Adam, what did you watch?

Speaker 5:

I watched and the earth too. I thought it was a, I thought the first 30 minutes were intolerable, but the rest of the movie was amazing. Um, I watched, uh, the first three arcs of the, the buzzard storyline on Netflix because I had put off watching it for a long time. Uh, and I have to say that the original 19 episode series is far superior. Uh, but this was also good and watching both of them, I got to see more of the story animated from the manga. And I would recommend, uh, anime fans to watch, uh, to wa to watch the one on Netflix that because it's available and if you know how to find the first 19 episodes, original series to check that out, if you like people with big swords that have to conquer over insurmountable odds. Um, and there's a lot of funds that this story, I don't know the order, you should watch them as in the first 19 episodes. You've seen that, John?

Speaker 2:

No, not at all.

Speaker 5:

Yeah. The first 19 episodes, I don't know. I can't find it online. I can't find it on any of those services.

Speaker 2:

I don't know. It's one of those enemies that has too many parts and like too many mini series. Like, I don't know where to start. I don't know like which one is first, which one is second or third? It's like trying to watch the gun to Wingstop with the robots because you don't know what you don't know what's going on.

Speaker 5:

Uh, they remade it for Netflix. Yeah. So that's like from the beginning and then it continues on HBO max, I think. And, uh, there's two seasons on there that continue on from where, uh, arc three leaves off. Uh, although it's in the animation, isn't as good, but it's still worth watching. If you like Bismarck, somebody's going to get it.

Speaker 3:

It sounds like you'd have to jump around all the streaming services to see the whole thing.

Speaker 2:

It's pretty bloody though. If you like action packed blood fantasy stuff, that's supposed to be pretty good. Um, if I have time, I'll watch it. I like, I like to talk about it for a long time, but it's not an anime episode. Um, I got a great pick, I think, uh, golden arm. It just came out. I think it dethrones over the top as the best arm wrestling movie. That's come out. There's a Korean movie, so there's not very many. However, it's a really good movie. It's got, um, Mary Holland and Betsy Sub-Zero has a pair of friends. One of them's really into arm wrestling as a trucker, by the way, that's the reference to over the top. She is in fact a trucker, um, it's described as yeah, the female adventure version of over the top, but it's actually really good at it for its own sake. So comparison stops there. She has a trucker and your armor was, that's the only connection really. And, but it's got, um, this older lady named dot Marie Jones. Who's hilarious. And her character, she's the armor scene trainer whose name is big sexy, which is ridiculous, but it's, it's awesome. So I recommend checking that out and it's a paid rental, but I liked it so much. I kicked up a few bucks to these guys to watch it. And I was, uh, I mean, it also helps that I was getting a little bit sloshed, a little soft when I watched it, but it's a good movie. It was really good movie. Um, it's out now, check it out golden arm and let's see what else is going on,

Speaker 4:

John with the coming attractions by the way. Oh, thanks Nick.

Speaker 1:

Yeah,

Speaker 2:

That actually, you're the only one who's really like running a hundred tonight. We're like all of this

Speaker 1:

Crap. So

Speaker 2:

The coming attractions, we have staff picnic week, actually. It's your turn, Nick. And I think, um, you said at the time you wanted to do officially cover, give more coverage to the Wolf, the snow hollow. Is that still your choice? Or you have some surprise thing or we're doing whole, we're doing snow.

Speaker 4:

I would love to do snow holla if you guys are down.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. So that's it.

Speaker 4:

One of my favorite movies of last year, uh, John, like it was like, dude, check this out. I, so I'm, I'm totally down if you guys are. I think it was kind of a restart.

Speaker 2:

That was a hard recommend last year. I was like pushing so hard for these guys to watch it, but also grinding my team, not to spoil it.

Speaker 1:

And I can't talk about it. It's so hard. You know, it's one of those it's like next week, next week.

Speaker 4:

Oh, you guys need to watch it. He was probably my favorite movie of last year,

Speaker 2:

Considering going on the show without watching it. But thanks for that endorsement.

Speaker 4:

And that was pretty quiet. I'm there.

Speaker 1:

Wait, you're not going, wait, wait, I'm confused. Completely blind. And he's not even, he's like, I don't want to watch it, but he doesn't have to watch. So I thought you could just make stuff up. I was like, okay, well let me try that. We have to, we have to reverse the order next week. He has to go first. He's bullshitting. Pretty good. Yeah. When do we hear from Christian Slater? When is he going to come on the show? Let me die. That is becoming the new hobby. It was my favorite movie of the year.