Not If I Reboot You First!

Somebody stop us! Tanner's rebooting The Mask, but they're pulling more from the comic this time! A little. There's still some original stuff, and some movie influence, but the key thing is that they wanna make Big Head personal and chaotic and incompetent. We also discuss a lion with a full set of golden teeth, why political satire is next to impossible now, and Monster By Mistake. You can find t...

When Agatha Christie's magnum opus has seemingly already been adapted to the most faithful degree ten years ago, what's Lindsay left with but putting her own spin on it? She's mixing together reality tv, found footage, and a cast of just the worst people you've ever seen to give this classic mystery a modern update. You can find this podcast on BlueSky @NIIRYFPod, Lindsay @LindsayM476, and Tanner...

The Penny finally drops in this, the (originally) final season of Penny Dreadful...but Tanner and Lindsay can't let it go out like this! Unfortunately they also don't have a lot to chew on with the source material this time around, so it'll take a bit for them to get going. Will they be able to make a decent third season of gothic fantasy with the help of a haunted narrative and weird Mormon nonse...

As we reach the end of our 8th year of podcasting, we look back on what they've accomplished while answering questions from our friends and viewers! Time to find out what mediums are left to reboot, how to keep a creative partnership strong, and what's tasting scrumptious these days. You can find this podcast on BlueSky @NIIRYFPod, Lindsay @LindsayM476, and Tanner @SparkyUpstart. Our email is NotI...

Kids, don't try this at home. Or do! Today Riley's teaching Tanner and Lindsay all about backyard wrestling, the drama that spins out of that, and how it's pretty similar to the noble intrigue of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. We're talking baptism matches, we're stealing a horse that's a car, we're burning someone's house down as a bit but for real. Riley can be found on bsky @badfuckinpodcas...

When it comes to sequels, Brad Bird chose poorly. Theo's brought a full vision of a better Incredibles sequel for this episode, and while we start changing it up pretty quickly, it sparks a lot of fun things for us to talk about -  the inevitability of a political message being misconstrued, how to dodge the objectivist elephant, and disney's first poly relationship. Theo can be found on bsky @fou...

Welcome to a new podcast about the Dark Universe - for this week, at least. Our friend Sky makes his inaugural appearance to reboot Universals repeatedly failed attempt at cinematic worldbuilding by going back to where it all should've began - 1999's The Mummy. Can Rick, Evy, and Jonathan fight a Wolf Man? Discover a Gill Man? And save London from the machinations of the sinister Dr. Acula? Sky ca...

Tanner's never seen Nausicaä, this is the opposite of Boss Baby. But we are discussing a story about a young girl living in nature, on good terms with a post-apocalyptic arthropod! So let's turn this short-lived manga into an anime while discussing raccoon domestication, exploding a secret start-up, and giving people names. You can find this podcast on BlueSky @NIIRYFPod, Lindsay @LindsayM476, and...

Discussion of suicide from 33:40 - 34:35. Lindsay has been challenged to take a fascinating, albeit dark, movie from 1972 - not 2011, we don't care about Jason Statham playing Jason Statham. No, the man of the day is Charles Bronson, and we're gonna let him engage in full-blown toxic yaoi with his twunky menty. You can find this podcast on BlueSky @NIIRYFPod, Lindsay @LindsayM476, and Tanner @Spar...

Is Ghost too good to reboot? Can anyone fill Swayze's shoes? Can the story be expanded on without getting too lost in the potential worldbuilding? You can find this podcast on BlueSky @NIIRYFPod, Lindsay @LindsayM476, and Tanner @SparkyUpstart. Our email is NotIfIRebootYouFirst@gmail.com . You can join our Discord at https://discord.gg/Hf8Y2yEJPe . Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her wor...

Guys, we gotta stop putting politics in spy thrillers. Or take them out. Either way, Tanner's getting really baffled at how no one's doing background checks. You can find this podcast on BlueSky @NIIRYFPod, Lindsay @LindsayM476, and Tanner @SparkyUpstart. Our email is NotIfIRebootYouFirst@gmail.com . You can join our Discord at https://discord.gg/Hf8Y2yEJPe . Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew,...

Practical Magic is an amazing movie with only a few things that bug Tanner, but there's a sequel coming out this year and they thinks that's a TERRIBLE IDEA! So they're getting ahead of things by starting from scratch, taking the original movie and turning it into a miniseries instead. With Lindsay they'll discuss the morality of love spells, curses that can be tracked through the town archives, a...

May the 4th be with you! We've completely rebuilt Rise of Skywalker from the ground up, including the name! It's Rise of the Taral now! Did you know the Sith have a language? Anyway, we're done with Star Wars now, until we decide to make an animated series to fill the time skip. All these new characters are gonna pay HUGE dividends. You can find this podcast on BlueSky @NIIRYFPod, Lindsay @Lindsay...

Remember that middle-grade story from 2005 about some teens descended from figures of Greek Mythology who had to team up to fight Cronus and other Greek monsters? Well there were two, and Canada's Class of the Titans got it's lunch absolutely eaten by Percy. Lindsay's not surprised - it's severely lacking in ongoing plots or more than one villain or any kind of party balance - but she's confident...

There's no peace among the stars, but you know what there is? A lot of lore! That doesn't matter, except it kinda does? Fabby's here to teach us all about Warhammer 40k, the Imperium, Chaos, Femboiz, Puppy Girls - the works. And along the way we manage to make a mechsploitation roadtrip series! Fabby can be found on bsky @fabbybear.itch.io! You can find this podcast on BlueSky @NIIRYFPod, Lindsay...

Dog Soldiers is a simple movie about soldiers fighting werewolves, but that does mean that some of it falls apart in the third act. Not to mention, it's such a simple premise that it's easy to either remake it or make a sequel...or maybe both? Along with Lindsay they'll discuss the myth of the alpha wolf, the difference between foreshadowing and just saying things, and likin' dags. If you'd like t...

We're at the opera tonight, despite Tanner's protests - but don't worry, Lindsay is gonna make sure everyone has context for what an opera even is (and why Napoleon's here). And after that, we're gonna reboot Puccini's Tosca! Listen to hear about a Hall of Fame Slimeball, doing the Full Gethsemane, and ASMR Hell Guest Starring John Noble. Thank you to @cwoodsart.bsky.social for being our phone-on...

We're really concerned about the children, y'all. They're being raised like veal, and it's absolutely hobbyless behvaiour out there. Good thing our guest Kit Walker is here to pitch some new (weird) (freaky) (Canadian) PSAs to the TikTok generation. We've got ways to encourage them to spend responsibly, be true to themselves, touch grass, and form their own opinions - not to mention a few to convi...

You know the saying - "there can only be one!" The Highlander franchise has shown this repeatedly, but apparently a reboot is actually getting off the ground now? Well whether that works out or not, Tanner's been challenged to figure out what a good Highlander will look like. They're starting with a movie framing the titular scotsman as an urban legend, but as Lindsay offers more and more options...

The legend of Tomyris (the legend) is kinda fascinating, but The Legend of Tomiris (the film) squanders those parts and manages to be really long and say very little about the title character or her people. Plus, y'know, there's just a dash of propoganda baked into it. But Tanner wants there to be a good film about this warrior queen, and Lindsay wants it to be a film that does justice to both par...

Mega Man Star Force 4 only got as far as a concept, but it's enough of a concept for Tanner to spin into a whole pitch and game summary (which is good, because Lindsay knows almost nothing about any Mega Mans). They'll set the teenage blue bomber against systemic corruption while also discussing Capcom's Broad-Strokes universe, fitting tarot motifs, and flirting with your situationship's tsunderes...

Let's get a little meta today. Lindsay's not quite remaking Jamaica Inn so much as paying homage to it, with the tale of a woman using the book as a guide to explore all the English lore and history in Cornwall. But with some local cultists being haunted by the past and detesting the future, will the young lady make it out alive? And does this story have room for animal ghosts, the knights templar...

Point Break is a patently silly premise executed shockingly well? Why are we rebooting this? Well, it's not explicitly gay and we gotta change that. But that's not enough for an entire episode, so we also have to figure out ways to do things differently without disrupting the hyper-heightened atmosphere. Along the way we'll discuss unexpected places to develop film tech, Buseys all the way down, a...

The Lady Vanishes seems like a real outlier among the rest of Albert Hitchcock's works - maybe because he didn't write the story, or the script, and only fulfilled it out of contractual obligation. But it's still pretty solid! Just very wacky and slapstick for what advertises itself as a wartime spy thriller with actual gaslighting and suspect love interest. She'd prefer to push it in a more reali...

Years ago, Not If I Reboot You First started a Patreon just to help cover hosting costs, but we ended up putting it on ice because we felt we couldn't come up with enough bonus stuff to warrant it, and because we were both in positions were we could pay for podcast hosting anyway. Nowadays - well, we can still cover costs, but NIIRYF has become part of the Corner Podcast Network, alongside Loser L...