The Floptimists - An Optimistic Movie Podcast

Welcome to episode 50! 🎉 To celebrate this absolute dump truck of a milestone we decided to do something a liiiiiittle bit different . We decided to create a colosseum of Floptima and face off 3 celluloid Titans against each other for your listening pleasure! Thats right, we watched not 1 but 3 movies - selected for battle by each host - and watched together in one awe filled sitting. This is Bat...

On this week's episode we shine some light the waning success of Roland Emmerich's latest endeavor featuring a stellar cast; Moonfall. Join us as we try to get in more dodgy science talk than the film's script, and discuss just how many NASA staff members are actually needed for a high risk mission to defend against humanities oldest foe. Was this movie another victim of the pandemi...

If you like badly designed futuristic looking costumes, over the top acting and absolutely "amazing" special effects, then Terminal Force is a must see. This 1995 action/sci-fi flick is a classic blast from the past. It's a 90's action movie that takes it's queues from other movies that were far more successful than it, such as Terminator. Written by Nick Davis and directe...

What is there was a movie that was a cross between The Blob and thinly veiled metaphors about consumerism and capitalism in the 80's? We watched the 1985 Horror/Comedy from the mind of Larry Cohen! Join us as we talk gooey stuff, cowboy boot stuff, stuff about southern charm, stuff about advertising, a bed made of stuff, some stuff about rotating rooms, stuff about mining stuff, a good chunk...

On this weeks episode, we watched and discussed the 2016 crime/drama movie, Exposed. Starring Keanu Reeves and Ana De Armas and written and directed by Gee Malik Linton. The movie tells the story of a cop (Keanu Reeves) who is investigating the death of his detective partner, while also following the story of a young religious woman (Ana De Armas) and her own trials in life. This movie doesn'...

On this week's episode we ask the question what do you get if you cross the classic 90's kid show Brum with Jaws and set the whole thing in a massive garage that no one can get out of? You get 2010's Hybrid (aka Super Hybrid on IMDb)! A... take on the classic story of a sentient car going on a murderous rampage, cause why not? If you like classic cars and dialogue as ropey as the pr...

What do you get when you cross Predator, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Aliens, Terminator and . ..Iron Chef?  Well you get this gem of a 90's movie, DNA! Join us as we cut through the hot jungle of this hot shit movie and chat about 11 spice KFC recipe disguised as a world saving cure, bad/great early CGI, blatant plagiarism, Dr. Carl Wessinger (ian?),  another waterfall backflip explosion, c...

Suspense! Scares! Terror! Out of touch Fathers! This movie has one of these things. This week we sat down and watched The Wretched, a 2019 Horror adjacent film that answer the question; what if Stephen King had a go at writing a YA novel? Join us as we break down every nitty gritty detail of all the terror that can be found when the new neighbors start acting suspicious. Can Ben solve this incredi...

On this weeks episode of The Floptimists, we sat down and watched the 2008 Action / Sci-Fi film, Heatstroke. The film is directed by Andrew Prowse and written by Richard Manning and David Kemper. Heatstroke tells the story of one jaded army captain, his rag-tag troupe and a model, who become embroiled into an alien plot to take over earth, by "gradually" increasing the heat of the planet...

Computers! Axes! Product placement! Twists! Shady Priests! This week we sat down to watch the 1988 movie Al Filo del Hacha - Otherwise known as Edge of the Axe! Join us as we take a walk through the generic slasher woods of mediocrity - but with a few sharp edges*! We talk low budgets, Spanish productions, small town actors, gore effects, a sheriff that just hates his own town and the fever for sl...

This week we jump into a tale of love, evil cults, & dreams of owning a shoe shop. We watched 2013's Odd Thomas staring the late great Anton Yelchin, and the just always great Willem Dafoe, in which our titular character Odd (Yes, that's his real name) uses his powers of seeing ghosts and being best mates with a Police Chief to become the town's greatest unlicensed detective. Jo...

This week on The Floptimists, we watched the 2019 mind-bending fantasy/action movie "Coma" from Director Nikita Argunov. This Russian movie is a visual effects bonanza that takes queues from movies like Inception, The Matrix and Interstellar.  Coma is story about a man who awakes in a new and unusual world, in which the structure of the world is turned upside down, inside out and the law...

What if I told you there was a sci-fi movie set in the very distant future of 2008 located in a apocalyptic london starring Rutger Hauer as he attempts to hunt down a satanic serial killer but the serial killer might also be a demon from hell or maybe even just a shapeshifting mutant homeless person who lives in th- .... *takes a deep breath* ... the flooded underground of london - and rutger haue...

It's The Floptimists'  Father's Day special! And what a special! We watched the cult classic Xtro, a tale of a father (Sam) kidnapped for 3 years trying to track down his estranged family and reunite with his son (Tony). We know it sounds sweet and heartwarming, but we're actually sugar coating this alien-fueled rollercoaster of insanity and 80's violence. Join us as we di...

This week on The Floptimists, we booby trapped our homes with shotguns, crossbows, bear traps and of course, death traps hidden in the grass. All so we could sit down and watch the 2017 horror/sci-fi/thriller movie, Abduction (also known as Devil's Gate in some places). When a mother and son go missing from their home/farmland in North Dakota, a cliched local sheriff's deputy and a recen...

Cyborgs! Gunfights! Butts! Stop Motion! More gunfights! Face-guns! Explosions! Defenestration! Fashion! Even more gunfights ! This week we watched a movie that's going straight to The Floptimists #1 top spot - 1992’s Nemesis! With an absolutely stacked cast and stacked action we follow a cop forced to hunt down his ex-lover turned terrorist to stop a cyborg uprising - but can he retain enough...

Join us for another SYFY channel classic, where we'll take a trip back 12th century Limerick before being rudely transported to California in 2011. Can a group of audacious artifact archivists stand up to might of a 1000 year old head in a box that can scream you to death? Can we get over the bad SFX, web design, & pronunciation of words in Irish? The answer to these and a lot more questi...

This week on The Floptimists, we discuss the 2014 action, adventure, fantasy movie, Mythica: A Quest for Heroes. Written and directed by Anne K. Black, the movie tells a story of a fledgling magician, Marek and a rag tag band of adventurers who set out in search of a kidnapped magician, who possesses a powerful stone.  Mythica certainly takes it queue's from other majorly successful fantasy f...

Head explosions! Cronenberg horror! Constipation! This week we sat down to watch the cult-classic Scanner Cop!  Can Sam Staziak, using only his newly acquired skills learned on the force ...and also maybe his incredibly awkward scanner techniques, track down a cop killer in the mean streets of 90's L.A? We chat baby-sized headaches, theatrical villains, nepotism, inappropriate Cuban cigars an...

This week we're breaking down 2016's Lost in the Pacific, starring Brandon Routh (Superman Returns, Scott Pilgrim vs the World) & Russell Wong (Romeo Must Die, Clifford the Big Red Dog). Come on a journey (most of the way) across the largest mass of water on Earth, aboard the maiden flight of the largest, most fancy, high tech,  flying casino/restaurant the near future can muster. Jo...

On this week's episode of The Floptimists, we discuss the 2014 horror movie, Kingdom Come. Kingdom Come is written by Greg A. Sager, Geoff Hart and A. Jaye Williams and is directed by Greg A. Sager. Kingdom Come asks the question, what would a group of strangers do, when they find themselves inside an abandoned hospital and are confronted by the sins of their past. Will they repent or will th...

Laws. Jungles. This move has neither. This week we sat down to watch the 1995 thriller Jungle Law which puts a successful lawyer in an incredible extraordinary scenario - eviction.  While out on his ass he takes on a job competing in underground MMA fights so he can win back his honour - and furnishings . Join us as we chat about gentlemen loan sharks, how eviction works, bad accents, slicked back...

In a disaster movie thats ripped right out of the early 90's, but er... made in 2011 - can this movie surpass the epic's of Volcano (1998) and Dantes Peak (1997)? Well this low budget disaster movie has something up its sleeve - a little old dose of ridiculous science fiction! Join us this week as we chat about photoshop special effects, 80's green screen, concept artists gone direc...

For this week's special Easter Episode, we have a bit of a surprise. We were able to record in person, in the same room, for the first time! The world has finally returned to some form normality. However, rest assured, this week's pick is just as crazy as always and fits The Floptimists formula perfectly! This week's film is the 2014 "Horror/Sci-Fi" movie (as per IMDB) cal...

In the FAR distant future of 2025 the entire world is obsessed with one single extreme sport called ...er ... Futuresport . Really. With two superpowers at the brink of war over the islands of Hawaii its up to Dean Cain to throw diplomacy to the wind and solve this crisis over a single game of Futuresport, or risk starting WW3! Really! In this episode the guys attempt to unpack whatever this movie...