Welcome to the third installment of our look at the Jaws franchise. Or, as Law and I call it, the part we do not remember doing. See, this podcast was recorded after we had been drinking and recording this week’s Binge Cast. Combine that with a wide awake and ready to hate on anything avocado related Nate Peterson, and yet another co-host who decided to watch the film as we were reviewing it, and you have yourself a recipe for podcast disaster.
Speaking of disasters, that would bring me to this week’s film. Jaws 3 was highly touted as being a terrifying addition to the franchise when it was being released. To top things off, it was riding the 80s wave of (cardboard glasses) 3D, as well as starring recent Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Join the three of us as we take the winding road that answers this question. And be sure to join us NEXT week, when we conclude this series with another entry in the Jaws franchise which stars an Oscar winner. Again, what could go wrong?
Or as I like to call it, the podcast that almost wasn’t. After getting Jason to finally leave the alcohol table and Nate Peterson to get up at 3 AM to record the second (and final?) part of this retrospective, I forgot a sort of important part of recording a podcast. 40 minutes into blabbing about Back to the Future, I realized I forgot to hit the record button.
Not only do we get into this story, Jason, Nate and I do have other business to attend to, which consists of dissecting the two sequels to a movie that was not originally destined to have one. Lots of questions are asked and (not really) answered in this complete breakdown of Back to the Futures Part 2 and Part 3.
Some of which are:
Why is Crispin Glover not here, and how much is he missed?
How much of the future did they get right?
Why does Doc Brown peel off his face?
How the hell did Ohh LaLa not catch on?
How big of an asshole is Biff?
How stupid of a McGuffin is that stupid Sports Almanac?
Why can’t Lea Thompson catch a break when it comes to her make-up jobs?
Speaking of Thompson, what the hell is she doing in 3?
What are the chances of a Back to the Future remake?
How many times can we get Jason to screw up Mary Steenburgen’s name?
Why do I now have the tendency to go play the TellTale game?
Plus, listen as Jason gets more and more slurred and drunk as the podcast goes on. After two plus hours (actually almost three if you count the lost 40 minutes) you can imagine how much his mic was holding him up. A little over two weeks into the year, I don’t think the craziness that comes with this podcast will be topped.
Welcome to our first Aftertaste of the new year. To usher in 2016, I decided to throw Jason a bone by doing a retrospective on what he has called on the air one of his favorite movies of all time. Needless to say, Jason is very excited to not talk Star Wars anymore, and in turn talk about something he actually cares about.
But hold on, Bingers. There’s more. To spice up this retrospective, I brought in my old friend and Binge voicemail favorite Nate Peterson to offer his own opinions on the entire series. Is he as high on Back to the Future as Jason? Why am I so cynical when it comes to the series? What can we expect to see from this experience of watching the movies that we haven’t seen before? Is Nate going to get so heated throughout this retrospective it will be the lawst time he appears on the Binge airwaves?
While I expected to talk about the first two films of the series in this one podcast, we were such blabbermouths that we were only able to get through the first movie. We touch on many things in this observation of 1985’s sentimental hit.
Things such as:
How creepy is Doc and Marty’s relationship, and could it resonate today as it did then?
How hot is Lea Thompson?
How bad is Lea Thompson’s old age make-up?
How triumphant is George’s moment of glory?
What would the owner of that 50s diner think of Obama being our president?
Who the hell sleeps like THAT?!
What would Eric Stoltz have done with the character of Marty McFly?
Who the hell is Eric Stoltz?
All this and more lie ahead in this, our first retrospective of the year. So click that download button and wait for all our Back to the Future knowledge hit your ear holes at 1.21 gigawatts. Or, something like that.
Welcome back to another edition of “Working the Weekend with Luke”. Hopefully, you’ve had a good weekend thus far and are enjoying a relaxing Sunday. I’ve got my daughters this weekend, so relaxation really isn’t an option for me, but that’s okay. We spent Friday night enjoying some pizza and another viewing of Frozen, which I’m actually okay with. Seriously, it’s a good movie and watching my girls act it out is hysterical. We spent yesterday at a pumpkin festival nearby which included a parade, a few rides, and some face painting, so another win. They’re down for a nap at the moment, which is allowing me to watch some of the Cowboys game and get this out to you, so you better enjoy it. Today, I’ll be bringing you #5 in the trilogy countdown and a tribute to Joan Rivers you probably haven’t seen, but before I get to that, let’s start with the biggest day of last week.
9/11-NEVER FORGET
Since that fateful Tuesday morning, I’ve always been fascinated by September 11th. It would be very easy for me to spend a great deal of time talking about it and/or writing about it, but I won’t do that here today. Thursday marked the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks and I’m still captivated by the images. I still remember staying up for nearly two days straight watching the live coverage as the events unfolded in 2001. And this year, just as I do every year, I went looking through the program guide, wondering which show I would watch to remind myself, even if just for a day, what the people that were directly affected by this horrific tragedy went through. I’ve yet to decide whether or not that makes me a sick individual, but I digress. The documentary I chose to watch this year was one I’ve seen before, but I believe is one of the most interesting ones out there. 102 Minutes That Changed America gives the viewer a different perspective on the events that played out in New York, focusing on nine different pieces of footage shot from regular people. If you do plan to ever watch this, please be aware that the footage is unfiltered and can be very disturbing. There is clear footage of some of the people that jumped from the World Trade Center, so again, consider yourself warned. I really have no idea why I choose to watch these things every year. I really don’t. I didn’t know a single person in New York or Washington or Pennsylvania, but as I said previously, I’m fascinated by the whole thing.
I honestly didn’t even plan to write any of that. The whole point I was going to make was simply about the term “Never Forget”, which you undoubtedly saw on your facebook or Twitter this week, probably something similar to the picture you see above. While I’ve got zero problem with anybody putting something like this, there’s something else I want all of you to think about, and I include myself in this. I want everyone to never forget the way we treated each other after the attacks. We were all a little nicer to each other back then. We became a society, even for a few weeks, that we all wish that we were all the time. We held open a few more doors. We helped a neighbor that maybe we didn’t know before. We let go of some of the petty arguments and situations that continue to plague us all. If there’s anything positive that we could take away from 9/11, maybe that was it. Maybe we really are capable of better things. Maybe that’s why I go back and watch.
JOAN RIVERS
I know that I’m a week late on this, but I just wanted to comment quickly on the passing of Joan Rivers. I don’t pretend to be an expert on her, but what I do know is that she was a funny lady. Without her doing what she did for women comics, we wouldn’t have Whitney Cummings or Amy Schumer, so I’ll thank her just for that. If only her daughter wasn’t so annoyingly awful. If you’re a fan or Joan Rivers, then I’m sure you’ve seen all of her greatest clips, so I won’t give you those. If you really know me, then you know that I’m a big pro wrestling nerd. I’ve watched since I was a kid, so what I have for you today is a tribute I saw on WWE Monday Night Raw. Enjoy.
THE TRILOGY COUNTDOWN
#10-THE INFERNAL AFFAIRS TRILOGY-IF YOU MISSED IT, CLICK HERE
#9-THE NAKED GUN TRILOGY-IF YOU MISSED IT, CLICK HERE
#8-THE LECTER TRILOGY-IF YOU MISSED IT, CLICK HERE
#7-THE MAN WITH NO NAME TRILOGY-IF YOU MISSED IT, CLICK HERE
#6-THE KARATE KID TRILOGY-IF YOU MISSED IT, CLICK HERE
#5-THE BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY
BACK TO THE FUTURE, BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II, BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III
Okay, here we go with the top five in my favorite trilogies. You had to know that this was coming at some point. It’s the 80s at its finest. It’s Michael J. Fox. It’s Christopher Lloyd. It’s Crispin Glover. It’s Lea Thompson. It’s Back to the Future and it’s #5 on the countdown.
To put it simply, the original is a classic. If you’ve seen the top 15 movie lists going around facebook the past few weeks, then you’ve probably seen this movie on at least a few of your friends’ picks. If you can get past the creepiness of a high school kid hanging out with an oddball scientist and nobody batting an eye at it, then it’s nearly impossible not to love this movie.
There’s not much I can say about this movie that you don’t already know, so I won’t bore you with a full synopsis. We’re in 1985 and then we’re in 1955 and Marty McFly is making sure that he doesn’t screw anything up. Chaos ensues, his mother tries to bang him, he nearly evaporates, but makes it back to his own time after a serious lightning storm. Damn, if I were to try to sell a movie to a studio right now with that description, you think they’d go for it? But seriously, this film really is what entertainment is supposed to be. It gives you some great comedy, some great drama if you really pay attention, and some amazing quotes. Come on, you can’t tell me that even to this day, that you don’t use “HELLO! MCFLY?” from time to time. But my favorite quote comes from perhaps my favorite character. Classic Glover.
Back to the Future Part II continues the saga where the first movie left off. Doc has taken Marty into the year 2015 to solve a problem with one of his kids. More chaos ensues, Biff is crazy rich due to a sports almanac that seems way too thin to have that many years of scores in it, flying cars, and more. In fact, with this date coming up next year, I’m hoping to open an exact replica of that kick-ass 80s café they were hanging out in. While I still think the original is the best in the trilogy, there are a lot of people that would list this one instead. For those that do think that part two is the best, I can’t blame you and I’ll give you two reasons why. For those who grew up with these flicks, you can’t tell me that you never wished you had one of these.
No, not the shoes, but those are pretty badass too. But if you’re around my age group and you didn’t somehow try to invent a hoverboard, your childhood was awful or you’re just a stone-faced liar. Reason number two should be quite obvious for those who know me.
The Cubs win the World Series! I love Hollywood.
While Back to the Future Part III is widely regarded as the weakest of the trilogy, I still enjoy it. Maybe it’s because I’m a big fan of the Old West, but the last entry closes things out rather nicely. Michael J. Fox even gets to use a really bad Irish accent. There’s a gunfight, a train rundown, and hey, Doc deserves a chick too. We’re taken back to the beginning of the clock tower and the story comes full circle. Marty returns home to 1985 for the final time and he and Jennifer watch the final destruction of the Delorean. Doc and Ted Danson’s wife show up in a train time machine with two creepy-looking kids and some great advice. All is well in Hill Valley and all is awesome in the #5 entry in the trilogy countdown.
Well, I’m outatime (damn, I’m clever) for today. Do you have any thoughts on 9/11, Joan Rivers, or Back to the Future? Leave them in the comments section below, or just follow me and tweet @THElukenorris. But as always, before I go, here’s your Beverly Hills, 90210 clip of the week. That’s right, I’ve still got Tiffani Thiessen on the brain.