Our POoRCHoices the Podcast

This week the group take flight in the final installment of the "these are a few of our favorite things" theme for 2021 with the return of Nicolas Cage to the show and he brought one of the worst southern accents ever to grace the screen in Con Air.  A movie so spectacularly full of poor choices it was a natural fit for the show, including Cameron Poe's failure to do the math on when he last saw h...

This week the group in headed to summer camp for one of Fatty's favorite things, Meatballs Part II from 1984 which has nothing to do with the original, superior, titled film in the series.  For some reason there is a man intent on cooking a horse, an alien, and more Counselors in Training than actual campers.  Directed by Ken Wiederhorn and starring Richard Mulligan, Hamilton Camp, John "Not Scott...

This week the group carries on with "these are a few of our favorite things" with Sarcastro's pick 1993's action extravaganza from Director, Marco Brambilla, Demolition Man.  A movie with so many poor choices you can't believe any of it actually made for a movie people would love, but apparently so many did.  Starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, the late Glenn Shadix, Denis...

This week the group continues the theme of a "these are a few of our favorite things" with Corporals pick, 2004's, The Day After Tomorrow.  A movie where every character with a speaking role makes poor choices and will not be persuaded by science, physics or even common sense to be the least bit realistic.     Directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Emmy...

This week the group kicks off the holiday season with the theme of "these are a few of our favorite things" which are movies we will tune into any time they air on television and the first pick goes to Commando with the Sylvester Stalone and Kurt Russell buddy cop film, Tango & Cash.  A movie that was so powerful it required two directors to complete it, Andrei Konchalovsky and Albert Magnoli.  Al...

This week the group tackles the the themes of remorse and madness by making themselves crazy watching another Gerard Butler film with 2018's The Vanishing, which might be a cautionary tale of why you shouldn't work lighthouse duty or maybe it's just an excuse to work in Scotland.  Also, Sarcastro pitches his improvements for the story by adding in Andre the Giant through archived footage and the g...

This week the group is off to the races and learning that you can't look a gift horse in the mouth with 1988's Hot to Trot, starring Bobcat Goldthwait, John Candy, Virginia Madsen, Dabney Coleman (and some great teeth) with cameos from Burgess Meredith and Gilbert Gottfried,  directed by Michael Dinner.   A movie originally pitched to have Joan Rivers which would have been a sight to see.  Also Co...

This week the group gets to reflect on Amy Heckerling's high school comedy, Clueless, starring Alicia Silverstone, Breckin Meyer, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd, Donald Faison, Jeremy Sisto, Dan Hedaya and the late, great, Brittany Murphy.  Also, Corporal gives the gang a geography lesson and advice on navigating Los Angeles and they reminisce about the days of actual phone booths.  Make sure to like, sub...

This week the group is going back to high school in the late 1950's with Grease, which makes them realize that no matter how different you think times are, kids behave exactly the same way.  Directed by Randal Kleisner and starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton John, Stockard Channing and Jeff Conway.

This week the group is rounding out October by going into deep space to talk about Paul W.S. Anderson's 1997 film, Event Horizon, starring Sam Neill, Jack Noseworthy, Joley Richardson, Jason Isaacs and show favorite Lawrence Fishburne.

This week the group is taking to the skies in the 2021 "horror" flick Blood Red Sky directed by Peter Thorwarth and starring, Peri Baumeister, Alexander Scheer, Dominic Purcell and Graham McTavish's binoculars.   Also the gang discusses their ideas for a sequel and hitting Mel Brooks up for funding on it.

This week the group is talking about everyone's friend to the end, Charles Lee Ray, in the 1988 horror hit Child's Play.  Starring Brad Douriff, Catherine Hicks, Prince Humperdink and introducing Alex Vincent.  Directed by Tom Holland and story by Don Mancini.    Also, Sarcastro introduces the next generation of POoRCHoices to the franchise.

This week the group kicks off October with Willy's Wonderland, a movie which is ultimately about having an excellent work ethic and honoring the agreements you make regardless of the situation.  It also had us pondering about why Nicolas Cage chooses to keep starring in movies like this and brings up some fond memories for Sarcastro of the last time he went to an establishment like Willy's Wonderl...

This week the group makes their way down the deadliest road in Canada and talk about the 2021 Netflix distributed film, The Ice Road, starring Liam Neeson, featuring Lawrence Fishburne, and the guy who replaced Guttenberg in the later Police Academy films.   Written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh who has written and directed a number of movies we'll cover in future episodes.  Hold on to your s...

This week the boys ventured into post-apocalyptic London in the 2002 action-fantasy romp that is Reign of Fire and realize that the depiction of 2020 in the film had a couple parallels to the actual 2020.  Directed by Rob Bowman and starring Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella (I'm not Charlize Theron) Scorupco, and returning sacrificial actor, Gerard Butler.

This week on the show the fellas watched Timeline from 2003 and in doing so come up with a better storyline involving a M. Night style twist and introduce a new character, Henry the Larper.  Directed by Richard Donner and starring Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, and Paul Walker.  Also Sarcastro blames J.J. Abrams for his lack of caring about trying to comprehend time travel in mov...

The gang goes on an interdimensional journey to save the world from a tentacled monster in the Don Coscarelli directed head trip, John Dies at the End starring Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, returning actor destined to play a character who bites it, Jonny Weston, and a terrifying non-CGI Doug Jones.

On this week's show the group talks about Beyond Skyline through the eyes of it's main character and his struggle with his love of fuel in his truck or booze in his belly.  Directed by Liam O'Donnell who they learn is of no relation to Jerry O'Connell and starring returning show favorites Frank Grillo, Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, but not Noah Wyle because this wasn't Falling Skies.  Although after wa...

This week the fellas watched Spenser Confidential, a movie that refuses to let you forget that it takes place in Boston.  Directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger, and Bokeem Woodbine.   Sadly not featuring, Wahlberg's burger joint, which is a poor choice.

The boys took a trip to Corto Maltese and all they got were these lousy starfish and watched James Gunn's, The Suicide Squad, starring people they have seen and new characters that seem like old characters they had seen in the first one.    They also learned how many bad movies Commando hasn't seen.

The boys return to the DC Extended Universe this week with 2016's Suicide Squad and learn why you don't enlist a shifty witch to join your super secret special ops team.  Written and directed by David Ayer and starring Margot Robbie, The Fresh Prince of Gotham, Joel Kinnaman and Viola Davis.  As an added bonus, Sarcastro provides his thoughts on who he would recast as Joker and his stance on face...

This week, the gang learns a most valuable lesson in horn honking etiquette by watching Unhinged, directed by Derrick Borte and staring Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman and a very special momemt with Jimmi Simpson.    Also Sarcastro can't emphasize the importance of proper phone security enough.

On this week's episode the fellas take a stroll down memory lane to watch an even worse version one of the most terrible video game adaptations not to involve Uwe Boll, Super Mario Bros.  A movie so riddled with poor choices, we couldn't not talk about it.   Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel and starring the late great Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper, as well as still living John Leguizamo...

This week the boys took a trip to the future by going back to 1986 to talk about Solarbabies.  A film so loved, that one now deceased film critic called it "trash".   Also, Sarcastro points out that in the future flashlight tech is tight and Corporal provides a quick history lesson of flashlights in films.  Directed by Alan Johnson and starring Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Peter DeLuise, James LeGros...

The fellas watched the super-hero comedy, Thunder Force and try to figure out if this movie wasn't made for any specific audience was it just an excuse for a bunch of friends to hang out at work.  Written and directed by Ben Falcone and starring Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Jason Bateman, and not Steven Bauer (Bobby Cannavale).