Dissecting The 80s

Listener request month rolls on with a movie that's a favorite of both of ours: They Live! "This water tastes like broccoli, mannnnn"! Andrew coins a new catchphrase, utterly delightful Roddy Piper-isms, Keith David Rules, a digression on the length of time it must have took to create these sets, Tripp is overjoyed at small details and we're confused by several things! All this and more! “NewsStin...

  We kicked off Listener Request Month 2020 with a Patreon pick: Grease 2! We've got a wacky theme park stunt show, the stunt doubles for the original cast get to make a whole movie, Rizzo is inexplicably in her old high school, more cast members who hate each other, so many slow ballads, Cheer Up Charlie and bizarre high school timelines. All this and more!   Support us on Patreon! “NewsSting, Ou...

Turns out we're not the only ones with Olympians-in-movies ideas: someone paid a buncha money to make Gymkata!   This delightfully cheesy (both literally and figuratively) movie stars Olympian Kurt Thomas as Johnathan Cabot, the master of gymnastic karate: GYMKATA! This movie has EVERYTHING: so many dummy falls! Absurd dialog! Over-the-top action! An inexplicable leaf-crunching training montage!  ...

NOTE: TRIPP SCREWED UP HIS MIC SETTINGS, AND OBVIOUSLY THE SOUND ISN'T UP TO PAR ON THIS EPISODE. WE'RE SORRY! It's the movie our mom has been begging for for six years, and with a terrible-looking remake about to drop: Valley Girl! How dreamy is Nic Cage in this flick? Is there ANY plot here? Couldn't they figure out a more Romeo-like name for Nic than Randy? Plus, digressions on the ideal food f...

Just in time for the "high holidays", we rode back for the Troma classic: Class of Nuke 'Em High! We discuss our histories with Troma, swap stories of visiting the principals office, and are thoroughly confused throughout! So many Alka-Seltzer tabs, buckwild effects and a shockingly great monster!   All this and more!   Support us on Patreon!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com...

80s. Dissecting...the 80s. Coronavirus may have delayed Daniel Craig's latest Bond outing, but it hasn't delayed our second visit to the Bond-iverse. We're breaking down the oddity of Never Say Never Again, the Bond movie outside the canon of the regular films, and Connery's return to the role. Waterskiing, the secret life of Jake the Snake's Snake, why isn't her name Viper? Is Connery too old for...

We hopped in with legendary disaster artist Irwin Allen for his volcano epic: When Time Ran Out... Why does this bridge sequence run for TWENTY MINUTES? So many gorgeous matte paintings, actors covered in mysterious substances, scenes that run for 65 seconds, soap opera nonsense and so many disjointed scenes!   Plus, Randy Newman's long-lost attempts at theme songs for this film, a digression on U...

This podcast right here? Low mileage, just ONE previous owner - hop on in and take it for a listen! We're celebrating a 40th anniversary with our long-time pod-friend Kurt Russell in Used Cars! Is this peak Kurt Russell? How leisure-ey are his leisure suits? Plus, a long digression on a children's safety video that starred Joe Flaherty and was directed by Re-Animator's Stuart Gordon!    All this a...

It's our 150th Episode Spectacular, and the Savage-inator has us stuck in the 90s! Hear a clip of our She's All That episode (exclusive to Patreon) and us answering some audience questions of the journey to 150 episodes. Thanks so much for your support! All this and more! Support us on Patreon!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution...

Leap Day's Curse has struck again, driving us all the way to the year TWO THOUSAND for Ready to Rumble! Is wrestling real or scripted, because this movie sure doesn't know! Why does Scott Caan always show his butt? Why is there SO MUCH POOP in this movie? Why doesn't it get into the insanity of wrestling?! Why isn't there more Martin Landau? ARE WE DOING SHE'S ALL THAT?! All this and more! Support...

It's the nearly-final FOURBRUARY episode: Herbie Goes Bananas! Why does this kiddo call Herbie Ocho? How many great character actors can you fit into one movie? What's up with the bananas? Why doesn't Herbie do more car-related shenanigans? Plus, a digression into children's television programming. Plus, Chloris Leachman and Harvey Korman running wild! All this and more! Support us on Patreon!   “...

It's FOURBRUARY! (Maybe for the last time!) We workshop a new werewolf idea (TMTMTM), peanuts on Coke, Coke as bourbon, massive continuity issues, random day/night shifts, a true and serious lack of werewolf transitions, a bizarre medley of werewolf designs, some truly random nudity, a weirdo shopkeeper and one TRULY nasty transition. All this and more! Support us on Patreon!   “NewsSting, Ourobor...

It's the single most confusing movie we've ever done on the show: William Friedkin's Cruising! Why is this movie made this way? What on EARTH is Al Pacino doing in it? Why is it completely out of sorts? Why is everyone named similarly? Why does everyone look the same? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? All this and more! Support us on Patreon!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (inco...

We're kicking off 2020 with a weird little movie turning 35: Tuff Turf! Baby James Spader is doing a not-so-great James Dean to woo future Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kim Richards away from her EXTREMELY abusive boyfriend with the help of a baby Robert Downey, Jr.! Andrew reveals WAY too much knowledge about the Real Housewives canon, we don't know enough about California, a very strange...

We're revisiting a childhood favorite in celebration of the final Star Wars Skywalker film: Return of the Jedi! WHERE'S THE YUB NUB? All the horrible CGI changes in the current version of the film are discussed, Columbo visits Endor, Darth Vader gets high, more incest, and the good guys win! All this and more! Support us on Patreon!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed...

Yippee-Ki-Yay, Patreon Dissectamaniacs! We hope you're having a fabulous holiday, and we've got a present for you - one you don't have to unwrap: a feature-length, in-studio episode of what Tripp calls the greatest action movie of all time: Die Hard on the Patreon page. Here's a snippet of what you'll hear - our mom calls it our best-ever episode! Support us on Patreon!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Ke...

You serious, Dissecting the 80s? We are! And we're taking on Christmas Vacation for our annual holiday episode. Where does this rank amongst the Vacation films? Are there too many animal sequences in this movie? Juliette Lewis is fantastic, Randy Quaid is a gem, and this movie is awesome! All this and more! Support us on Patreon!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed un...

We're kicking off December with a super fun buddy cop movie turning 30 this year: Tango & Cash! Did Tripp finally learn an impression? (Yes) Does he do it too much? (Also, yes). Andrew confuses Kurt Russell and Patrick Swayze for an entire movie, so Tripp is concerned for his health. Stallone continues to mumble his way through everything, but in nicer clothes! So many explosions. So many characte...

We're diving into Splash for its 35th anniversary, and taking on our LONG-TIME nemesis: Ron. Howard. It's our longest episode ever and it's T. Hanks-giving!   Why is there so little Clint? We pitch a buddy movie with Clint and Randy Quaid, Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard get theoretically so mad at us, Andrew remembers several Disney Channel Original Movies, We discuss the signature Tom Hanks Y...

We're celebrating the anniversary of a movie you probably haven't heard of: The Wraith! We've got not one but TWO better brothers: Randy Quaid and Clint Howard! Plus, Charlie Sheen as a reinCARnated (I can't believe we didn't come up with that during this episode) guy, Nick Cassavettes as a true scumbag, Twin Peaks' Sherilynn Fenn and some great car action! Plus, Andrew uses "boop" in a way that d...

Out-of-context-quote from this episode: "I'm watching a movie, not at an Outback Steakhouse!" The spooktacular ends with a truly bizarre movie: Death Spa! (AKA Witch Bitch)   What's up with this nonsense technology? Why can't we tell anyone apart? Who, exactly, is the bad guy in this movie? Are we dealing with witches or not? The used car salesman of breasts. Really, really, really great practical...

Out now on our Patreon page, it's our LIVE SPOOKTACULAR episode recorded at the 2019 Baltimore Podcast Festival! We talk vampires, glampires, Keifer Sutherland, '80s fashion, Grampa who totally rules (and uses windex as cologne), Vamp lore and so so much more! Support us on Patreon and hear the whole episode!   “Deep and Dirty, NewsSting” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Com...

It's the 2019 SPOOKTACULAR! In this tangent-ey episode, Tripp prattles on about How I Met Your Mother, we debate the ideal shape and type of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Tripp tries a new tactic for podcast reviews, Rhesus Reese's, Tripp gives an Aldi tip, a brief digression on dudity (male nudity), two badass ladies, zombies and crazy scientists and a wicked good time with this unsung gem!  Suppor...

Thanks to our incredible Patreon supporters and the fabulous folks at Universal Orlando, we crossed one off the bucket list and went to Halloween Horror Nights! Universal provided us tickets to the park during the day and at night, express passes and a hotel to experience the magic and terror of Halloween Horror Nights 29 for ourselves. We hope you enjoy this recap of our experience, and interview...

The desiccated husk of Sylvester Stallone is releasing a final chapter in the Rambo series, so we're going to where it started going off the rails: Rambo: First Blood II! How stupid is this title? Is Rambo a Mary Sue? Why doesn't this movie have a proper sidekick? What's Stallone's Vietnam obsession? Is this the worst love story in the history of feature film? Just how many knives is Sylvester Sta...