Old Man Orange Podcast

Spencer and Dave are going back to 1981 to discuss the first film of Kathryn Bigelow with Monty Montgomery and Willem Dafoe. A singular day in a small southern town with a goofy gang of bikers who think they are beyond cool and are trying to get to the Daytona races but one of them needs to repair his bike. So they are just chilling for the whole day. Meeting the locals and being regular hooligans...

Spencer and Josh are going back to the original East meets West film, Red Sun. Really, this movie is like taking a bunch of big names from all around the world and creating one awesome epic of an action flick. It's a western and samurai film all rolled into one, staring Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Ursula Andress (Bond Girl), and Alain Delon who was a huge French movie star. Directed by Te...

Spencer and Josh are going back to the ultra macho, 80s action flick, Cobra. Sylvester Stallone's 1986 vehicle to compete with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the battle of the action heroes. Directed by George P. Cosmatos of Rambo 2 and Tombstone fame, along with Stallone writing the script. Based off the novel Fair Game. This movie is almost an artistic display of action with some top notch cinemat...

We got a party going this week with Spencer, Cameron, Dave, and Buddy going back to 2009 and re-visiting the metal epic, Brutal Legend. Featuring the late and always great, Ozzy Osbourne in a totally awesome role as your underworld, upgrade guy. This is one of those games that if you love all things heavy metal and classic rock and roll it just is about the best ode to that lifestyle and world tha...

Spencer and Ryan are going back to the early 2000s for more Superman good times with a DC Comics graphic novel retrospective review of Birthright. By Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Yu, and Gerry Alanguilan. A lot of the elements in this book are what were used for the latest Superman film. With what might seem like a simple Clark Kent and Lex Luthor origin story for the new millennium, it's defiant...

Spencer and Dave are going back to 2000 to rewatch Troy Duffy's writer and directorial premier, The Boondock Saints. One of the knock off era Tarantino style flicks (which is never a bad thing in our books) that fuses with a Punisher like war on crime stories. With an ultra-Irish Boston flair that just makes you want to be a part of their journey. Featuring Young Indiana Jones himself, Sean Patric...

Spencer and Dave are going back to the 90s for the sci-fi classic, The Fifth Element. A fusion blend of Valerian, Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and a whole lot more mixed through the French cinema filter for a spectacle all its own. Directed By Luc Besson and starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, and Ian Holm. Get ready for sci fi fun, with a fantastic blend of speci...

Parasite Eve II, how does this game rank amongst the others of the survival horror golden age? How does it compare to the first game? And is this the best-looking game graphically on the PlayStation 1? Spencer and Cameron are back in another Survival Horror Retrospective Review on the Silent Evil Podcast. This time continuing into part 2 of Aya Brea's journey against the mitochondria terror cr...

Spencer and Ryan and talking about the new future of DC and Marvel with their 2 summer blockbuster films, Fantastic Four First Steps and Superman. Both are excellent examples of turning comics into live action films and pushing the two companies forward to the next era. Capturing the characters, vibe, and world of each universe while jumping right into the story without a prolong origin or backsto...

Spencer and Dave are back to watch the third Blade movie in the Wesley Snipes trilogy. Blade Trinity from 2004 featuring Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Patton Oswalt, Parker Posey, and Triple H joining the crew. Along with even Kris Kristofferson back again. This time, the writer David S. Goyer is given the reigns to direct and issues arise back and forth between him and Snipes throughout the whole...

Spencer and Dave are continuing their Blade trilogy marathon, this time with part 2. The Guillermo del Toro movie that plays out like the Dirty Dozen of Vampire movies. With Wesley Snipes Blade leading the charge. We also forgot about how big this cast is with Kris Kristofferson returning and adding in Ron Perlman, Norman Reedus and an early days for US cinema of Donnie Yen. This movie is action p...

Spencer, Cameron, and Josh are going back for another round of what is one of all three of their favorite games around, Metal Gear Solid 1998. Talking about playing this game over 27 years later and how the experience always has held up as one of the all time greatest video games around. From our favorite characters, greatest cutscene moments, boss battles, unique strategies, and the impact the st...

For our big 666th episode of the podcast, Spencer and Ryan are going back to 2010 to re-watch the Kim Jee-Woon flick, I Saw the Devil. A Korean horror and action thriller film about a serial killer who doesn't stop and the avenger who wants to keep on punishing him over and over, brutally that is, for his heinous crimes. The movie is intense! And very dark. A film you wouldn't want to show...

Spencer and Dave are going back to 1998 to talk all about the first movie in to start off the golden age of comic book movies, Blade. Starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, and Kris Kristofferson in the vampire hunting and fight world of the Marvel Comics character. Directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Taking the comics serious enough and making the film full R rated. Some...

Spencer and Cameron dive into the eerie depths of SOMA in this episode of the Silent Evil Podcast , taking a retrospective look at Frictional Games’ unforgettable 2015 underwater survival horror experience. From its tense gameplay to its deeply philosophical story, we break down everything that makes SOMA a standout in the genre. Set in a haunting, post-apocalyptic underwater facility, the game ch...

Spencer and Josh are going back to watch the classic anime, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade from 1999. An alternative history movie in a post Japan that was once occupied by Germany after it won World War 2. Now there are feuds in the street from the anti-government terrorist group, The Sect against the Wolf Brigade Panzer Cop police. With two folks coming together from opposite sides of the struggle an...

Spencer and Dave are going back to the total original Mortal Kombat movie from 1995! And no, that is not the classic live action film, this is The Animated Video cassette that came out to promote the movie. The Journey Begins is a mix match experimental cartoon that uses both traditional 2D animation and 3D cutscenes. Giving a short story to catch people up on some of the original characters and t...

Spencer and Josh are going back to 1995 to watch what might be the biggest spectacle of any pirate movie ever made, Cutthroat Island. If anything, no other film out there might have as much explosives as this movie is packing. We discuss the movie in a retrospective review going through all the turmoils and issues that it had while being made and why it did not seem to make the big bucks it deserv...

Spencer and Cameron are going back to PlayStation 1, 1998 style with one of the most unique gaming experiences one can have and a style that has never been duplicated in all the years that follow. We are talking all about the Survival Horror RPG from Squaresoft, Parasite Eve, staring the ever-classic female protagonist. Aya Brea. A story sequel to the 1995 book and 1997 adaptation movie of the sam...

Spencer and Ryan are talking all about the new Predator animated anthology movie, Killer of Killers. Up now on Hulu and Disney Plus and made by the same creators as the last Predator movie, Prey, Dan Trachtenberg and Micho Robert Rutare. The story follows 3 different eras of warriors, a Norse Viking Grandma, an Edo period Samurai, and a WW2 fighter pilot. After each one's struggle and battle w...

Spencer is joined by his ole comic book making buddy, Jack Foster once again to talk about the great joys of vintage cinema. This time they travel back to 1982 and rewatch a fun filled animated classic, The Last Unicorn. A movie that hits more now as adults than it did when we were kids. This is also the last cinema release movie of Rankin and Bass, the ones of all the stop motion Christmas Classi...

Spencer and Dave finish up their Mortal Kombat Story Konquest with Part 2 of MK 1's tale, the Khaos Reighns Expansion. After all the time travel, inter dimensional multi-verse junk, and just characters coming back but with a twist, we enter the chaos realm and take a journey that is somewhat reminiscent to the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven King movie, The Running Man. It's fun and inter...

Spencer and Ryan are talking all about the 2016 action comedy, detective film from Shane Black, The Nice Guys. Which might be the greatest 2010's movie in our book. It's damn near perfect. With a fantastic 1977 era story in the Los Angeles area, hilarious and witty dialogue, great characters all around, and filled with the top-notch violence too. The look is awesome too and really makes yo...

Spencer and Dave are back to finish off this Mortal Kombat modern era Quadrilogy, with the latest story line from Mortal Kombat 1 (Always confusing title choice) Part 1. The game has a cool 70s Shaw's Brother like kung fu movie aesthetic and focuses heavily on those martial arts style characters. Which is defiantly a neat look to the world. Of course, Fire God Liu Kang has attempted to shift t...

Spencer and Cameron are jumping into the new indie survival horror video game, Post Trauma. Taking a lot of inspiration from the Silent Hill section of horror adventure. It is a very psychological and surreal world with a lot left to the imagination. Filled with some really interesting puzzles and mysteries. Even if the game plays very janky and misses the mark on how an old school survival horror...