Hola, Sneakers. We didn’t say it during the show, but Happy New Year to all of you from all of us!
Let’s ring in the New Year with: we got nothing; perfect hindsight; mixed up; poly sat.; Battlestar Galactica; house tag again; surprise house; Psycho disappointment; Family Plot misremembrances; loose direction; Clint Eastwood contributions; Eiger Sanction recommendations; a minute by minute slog; fireworks are all the same; British know-it-alls; racially insensitive restaurants; sequel gaps; Casino Royale – Exhibit A; it’s a sad, sad, sad, sad movie; horror comedies; Costello makes his case; some Bob Hope notes; fantasy Canadian horror comedies; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; food à la insults; name flubbery; Scottish geography; made up Australian goodies; Wii besties; corsetted kindness; a candid moment; we recommend muppety things; more apologies, please; and, finally, forthcoming genetic heritage.
Question of the Week: Pitch your own comedy team/horror mash up (and it doesn’t have to be Canadian).
Sub-sub-question: Something underrated that is playing on a streaming service that you’d recommend.
Thanks for listening.
We don’t know if you’ll be able to spot Louise, but here is the trailer for Secrets of a Married Man – it looks pretty even-handed:
Here is The Nut-Sack Bunch:
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Here’s my comedy team/horror mash-up pitch: Garfunkel and Oats in a musical remake of my favourite Canadian horror movie, Ginger Snaps (2000). Their quirky songs of female empowerment would mesh perfectly with the movie’s allegorical theme that the transition from girlhood to womanhood can be monstrous. Here are some lyrics to start them off.
Since the beast bit me/And puberty hit me
My problems are bloody and myriad.
I don’t know what’s worse/When it comes to The Curse:
Turning werewolf or getting your period.
The screenwriter Karen Walton was also an executive producer and writer on Orphan Black, now available for streaming on Crave TV. Like Ginger Snaps, it also has strong female performances (most of them by Tatiana Maslany.)
I don’t know if you could call it under-rated, but we just finished watching season one of Atypical, which is showing on Netflix (in the UK at any rate). Beautifully written, acted and directed, with great heart and empathy for the characters, plus lots of laugh out loud scenes.
Dave’s grasp of Scottish geography isn’t too bad. Glasgow is around 100 miles from my present home of Inverness, so it would have to be a pretty special movie to justify a round trip. However, I grew up near Glasgow, so that’s why my parents took me there to see Scrooge. Asked and answered!
Hey chaps,
Straight to the mash-up pitch:
‘There’s Something about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a gross-out horror/comedy in which Ben Stiller goes searching for his old high school crush, only to discover that she has since been transformed into an undead zombie type monster. Hilarity ensues as he tries to make the relationship work, even as it becomes apparent that she is decomposing and given to violent, murderous outbursts.
I’ll leave it to you guys to brainstorm the gross-out scenes.
Mick
PS: The Star Wars fansplainer episodes have been excellent.
Mick, I’d go see “There’s Something About Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” in a heartbeat…IF the heart was still beating. Funny stuff.
Still working of the “Rise of Skywalker” Fansplainers, I don’t know whether to laugh or unsubscribe….
As a kid, I was always drawing up my own Marx Brothers posters to their films that didn’t exist. “A Day in Orbit” was the Marxes in space perhaps or something that put them during America’s Revolutionary War. But now you’ve tapped into that part of my brain again! How about all four Marx Brothers as vampire hunters (or they’ve been mistaken as vampire hunters) as they run into Bela Lugosi as Dracula in “A Night in Transylvania.” I realize we’d have to get Paramount and Universal to play nice together but imagine how much fun that would be! The hardest part for me is finding a part for Maggie Dumont, but she should be along for the ride.
I don’t plan my nights around television so I’m not watching more than one streaming show at a time. I watched “The Boys” and thought it was okay but then my stepson recommended “The Umbrella Academy” to me, I enjoyed it so much I didn’t want the first season to end. Now I just need to decide if I should read the comic, thoughts? How about recommending a series to avoid? I watched the first three seasons of “The Man in the High Castle” and liked it. Season 4 premiered back in November and I watched it during the holidays, all I could think as I watched was that I wanted it to end. Pretty much went down in flames in that final season and very rushed.
If you guys have seen it, I’m interested in your thoughts on the HBO Watchmen series. Having both sold and read the comic many times back at Lone Star Comics, I was more than interested in the HBO series. Without saying too much about it, I feel the show was just as complex and well structured as Alan Moore’s work. I think I watched each episode twice, it was so rich with overlapping stories that worked its way into and out of the existing world Moore gave us in the 80’s.
Then I attempted to watch the CW Crisis on Infinite Earths series. If Watchmen was like an eight course gourmet meal, then Crisis was like eating handfuls of candy for dinner…