Come celebrate Moreno’s birthday with us as Ammon, Law, and Pete MC try heir hardest to make Moreno stick around for his own party. Pete has an incredible new sounder to kick off the Christmas season. Moreno drunk dials a STAR WARS hotline. Google voice turns into a knighting of one of our favorite callers. And we watch a bunch of movies and shit. Including THE GOOD DINOSAUR, THE 33, THE FINAL GIRLS, EX MACHINA, JURASSIC WORLD, HOME ALONE, PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES, Fargo, South Park, Ash vs. Evil Dead, The Affair, and Jessica Jones.
There’s no time to mess around this week as we get to the good straight away. Garrett is in house to review CREED and CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. One of these is better than the other.
TV Round-Up overflows with talk of Fargo, Ash vs. Evil Dead, W/ Bob & David, The Knick, and more.
Google Voice sees the return of the G.O.A.T in the midst of everybody yelling at us. We love it.
What Did You Watch is blurry at best so we talk about SATURDAY NIGHT, MURDER RAP, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, CALL ME LUCKY, DRACULA and lots more.
Stupid Comments is played and Garrett is way too good at the game. So we stop playing.
Movie Homework shines a new light upon NAPOLEON DYNAMITE.
Ammon keeps showing up later and later. I’m pretty sure he will eventually just stop calling and we won’t even notice. So sad.
0:00:00-Shit gets started
0:01:55-Ammon is….? The fuck if we know. Law talks about attending church. Holy fuck. Get it? Star Wars commentaries are plugged. Listen to them cause you have nothing better to do, right? Apparently a new segment is back that is loathed by the Bingecast boys. GODDAMNIT.
0:09:15-TV ROUND UP. Season Finale of Project Greenlight and the movie tie in The Leisure Class get discussed. Both are rated. Fargo is still amazing. Aziz Ansari’s new show Master of None is pretty damn good. The boys bitch about Ammon and Sundays/they get off tangent so fuck TV round up.
1:02:39-Pete MC makes a cameo on the Binge!
1:11:22 Sounder drop wars begin, bitch.
1:24:06-GOOGLE VOICE. 5 fucking voicemails. New sounder to start the segment, yo!
1:55:53-Ammon finally fucking shows up. Google Voice presses on. Project Greenlight gets brought up again. Jesus Christ.
2:36:11-RECAP OF BINGE BULLSHIT
2:43:00-MOVIE HOMEWORK: Sam Raimi’s The Gift. Gotta love those Katie Holmes tittays
3:08:11 WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Ammon dissects Spectre. Law checked out I Smile Back. There’s more Star Wars talk because it takes precedence over all other life matters. Don’t stop get it get it.
It was a dark and rainy Halloween night. Moreno and Law called Garrett, who was puking on his carpet. Ammon said he was busy but called in anyway. They all got drunk and yelled about shit for hours. The End.
0:00:00-Let’s do this.
0:01:23-Garrett is here to bring about his grumblings, so deal with it. Ammon is absent due to Halloween happenings. Audio difficulties are now a Bingecast staple. OH WELL. What is “liquid” cocaine? We tell you so calm the fuck down please. Halloween discussion occurs since this recording took place on October 31st. GRAB SOME CANDY BITCH.
0:30:50-Garrett finished X-Files. That’s all he brings to the goddamn table. Fargo is fifed over. Breaking Bad and Garrett are not friends. Wait, WHAT THE FUCK? Moreno covers Daredevil and he’d like to cover Rosario Dawson if you get what I’m saying. You know what I’m saying, dawwwwg! There’s some Walking Dead news to get through and more Project Greenlight shenanigans. Homeland attempts to win Law’s heart back. The segment ends with Law talking Ash vs. Evil Dead. Groovy.
1:32:05-Two new sounders! Cowabunga, you assholes.
1:35:30-SUPKA VOICE. Stop your fucking with the Bingecast boys.
1:46:11-Ammon appears! He talks Project Greenlight briefly and says what he needs to about American Horror Story: Hotel.
2:00:15-RECAP OF BINGE BULLSHIT.
2:14:40-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Ammon gets the ball rolling with Hocus Pocus. Why does everyone fucking adore this flick? He continues with It Follows, which is not a Twitter movie, so shut up. Garrett is next up, with The Hallow, Southpaw, and Dope. ALSO SPECTRE, HOLY SHIT. Law tells about his viewings with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. Moreno grabs his lightsaber and cuts through every single Star Wars movie to date. May the fucking force be with you, motherfuckers.
0:01:35-Moreno is back again after his wedding, again. Tales of his second marriage begin. Ammon is fashionably late per the norm. Last week’s Bingecast gets recapped.
0:19:53-TV ROUND UP. Ammon graces us with his presence finally and despite it being completely off topic, his trip to Hawaii gets detailed. TV talk does occur, so calm your tits. Fargo, Project Greenlight, Daredevil, The Affair, South Park, American Horror Story: Hotel, The Walking Dead, and Homeland all have time in the sun. Something for everybody, goddamnit.
1:43:13-Did you miss anything the Binge Media Podcast Network cause you were too fucking drunk? Well, we bring you up to speed. You’re welcome.
1:49:10-Moreno watches the Star Wars Episode VII trailer for the first time due to peer pressue. The recent Friday Night Law is plugged because Jim Law is a whore for Star Wars.
1:56:53-LITERALLY LITERARY. Moreno discussed The Cartel by Don Winslow. The boys also bitch about the next Game of Thrones book STILL NOT BEING FUCKING OUT. COME ON, JAR JAR.
2:21:22-GOOGLE VOICE. Only 2 Voicemails. How high will Supka be? Find the fuck out!
2:50:33-MOVIE HOMEWORK. Goosebumps, because it’s the only movie that takes place in Delaware.
3:02:30-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? New sounder! Jim Law also drunkenly fumbles around and plays other sounders. He begins the segment with Everest, this year’s Vertical Limit. He continues with Bone Tomahawk, which he fifes all over. Meadowland is next. Ammon follows discussion with the Lazarus Effect and Alone After Dark…wait, no…Lost After Dark. Law cuts in on Moreno’s time and talks about Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn. Moreno and Law tag team on Back in Time to end the show. THAT’S THE POWER OF LOVE.
Nothing but box office points for the last two weeks of HFL updates. When the hell did Ammon get 130 points? That’s like 125 more than he had last year. Everybody with STAR WARS ladies are waiting patiently. The points will come, oh yes, they will come. Click the link below for the whole shebang.
Welcome to our 400th podcast! It’s hard to believe we remember how to do this each and every week let alone 400 times. Let’s celebrate with Law, MovieFreak, and BingeCast rookie, Batch.
TV Round-Up goes deep inside The Walking Dead, Project Greenlight, Homeland, You’re the Worst, Fargo, Daredevil, Gotham, Flash, and more. Moreno and Kupka call in from The Other Other Wedding, completely shitfaced and supka’d.
Somewhere in there we get on the topic of how the film version of Marvel’s CIVIL WAR is going to pull off what the book did with only a handful of characters.
We all get yelled at during Google Voice which is a good thing, we need that kind of punishment once in a while.
What Did You Watch rocks out with TALES OF HALLOWEEN, GOODNIGHT MOMMY, BEASTS OF NO NATION. THE GIFT, MISSISSIPPI GRIND, and more.
Finally, we take a look at Movie Homework. The original LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT is a weird movie that makes you feel happy-go-lucky while watching a woman get raped by a tree.
Stay tuned this week because our commentaries are back with the new season of Fargo!
WE HAD AUDIO PROBLEMS ALL NIGHT WHILE RECORDING THE SHOW SO THE AUDIO QUALITY IS SHAKY AT BEST. WE SALVAGED AND FIXED WHAT WE COULD.
Lots to cover this week with MovieFreak, Moreno, and Law so let’s get right to it.
TV Round-Up is mostly Project Greenlight with a little Daredevil and Fargo mixed in there.
Google Voice is Eric King kicking his family out of the house and going movie crazy.
Movie Homework is a deep appreciation for THE SHINING.
What Did You Watch is SICARIO, THE GIFT, KNOCK KNOCK, THE MARTIAN, PRISONERS, STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, TRICK r TREAT, BEETLEJUICE, AN HONEST LIAR, SLEEPY HOLLOW, KING OF KONG and more.
Plot: A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom’s most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film’s maniacal killer.
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Writers: M.A. Fortin, Joshua John Miller
Cast: Taissa Farmiga, Malin Åkerman, Adam DeVine, Thomas Middleditch, Alia Shawkat, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Chloe Bridges, and Angela Trimbur.
Is it possible for a film to have too much heart? It is. Especially when you want it to be as silly and gruesome as possible. I don’t mean to skip to the end of my review but that’s where my problems stem from when it come to THE FINAL GIRLS. Book-ended by greatness, the film gets a little too sappy in the second act and there are too many punches pulled throughout for me to completely love it. Let’s discuss.
The tragedy that hits our main character, Max (Taissa Farmiga) in the opening minutes of the film comes fast and hard. It’s sets up the story perfectly and leaves Max a legitimate mess for the majority of the movie. Her arc isn’t so much about being the last girl standing as it is about closure for a part of her life that was stripped form her prematurely. While attending an anniversary screening of her mother’s (Malin Ackerman) cult classic horror film, CAMP BLOODBATH, Max, her best friend (Alia Shawkat), a cute boy (Alexander Ludwig), the resident mean girl (Nina Dobrev), and the film geek extraordinaire (Thomas Middleditch) get literally sucked into the film after a fire breaks out in the theater. After meeting up with the main cast of the film, the rules of survival are simple – stick with the final girl, make it to the end of the film, go back to their normal universe. BLOODBATH is a mixture of FRIDAY THE 13th and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE specifically, with touches of other classic horror franchises scattered throughout. Of course, Max’s mother is in the film and it allows her a surreal opportunity to hang out with her one last time.
The cast of the film within the film is highlighted by Adam DeVine, who is basically playing his character from Workaholics line for line, and Angela Trimbur, playing the slutty dimwit to perfection. The plan go out the window when Max and friends alter the plot of the film with their presence and have to make up a new plot scene by scene. Trimbur, especially, steals almost every scene she’s in. In order to lure the serial killer to the cabin, she’s released in an open doorway to do a provocative striptease and it’s easily the funniest moment of the film. Nothing is even close.
The best character of the film overall however is Middleditch’s Duncan. He is the “Randy from SCREAM” dude that is torn from geeking out over their situation and helping everybody survive because he knows the film like the back of his hand. It’s too bad he’s barely in it. When Duncan takes a backseat so does my interest in their survival. Without him it’s simply just another slasher movie. You can pinpoint the moment when this film turns from witty horror comedy to cringe-worthy mother/daughter love-fest. And that’s not too far after Duncan disappears.
To be honest though, it’s not the mommy issues that bring this movie down a notch for me, it’s the rating. At PG-13, FINAL GIRLS misses an incredible amount of opportunities to dirty itself up. Off screen kills, assumed nudity, and one “Fuck” have no place in the genre that’s being parodied here. A big reason I loved CABIN IN THE WOODS (a film that most definitely paved the way for this film) so much is that it went all out with the appropriate horror staples. FINAL GIRLS gets the tone correct, nails the humor, and seems to leave out all the good parts along the way.
Everybody is decent if not great here, based on performance. The beginning and the ending (which teases a sequel that would playfully rip-off another beloved horror franchise) are brilliant. It’s the meat of the movie that’s missing, and because of the universe that they’re pulling us into, that seems almost unforgivable.