The Magnificently Huge Podcast

There's more to comic book movies than just your Avengers and Justice League, kiddo. "The Watchmen," "Dredd," the original Christopher Reeve "Superman" - if you like action heroes, there are tons of movies from decades past that get the concept right, even if they didn't have the effects technology yet. This is the ultimate superhero booty call. This week, the MagHuge crew tackle the subject of th...

We get our 90s on to remember a time when superhero flicks were rare and even good CGI effects looked like frisbees on strings. Hear about all the junk culture of the decade that would lay the foundation for every big, dumb movie spectacle we get saddled with now in the 21st Century. Yes, the 90s were plain awful. And awfully necessary. Check out a playlist of the songs in this episode here: https...

We saw the new smash hit action extravaganza “The Hurricane Heist” so you don’t have to! Here’s our takeaway: If your entire plan to steal $600-million from a federal vault hinges on waiting for the Storm of the Century to randomly appear, you may be the worst criminal mastermind ever. This movie is so bonkers it teeters into our early pick for The Best Worst Movie of 2018! Somehow, we also came u...

As a kid, did you ever watch a movie that touched your heart and moved your very soul? Did you ever watch that movie again as an adult? How did that work out for you? This week the @MagHuge crew talks about which movies and shows stood the test of time, plus the ones that most certainly did not. Check out a playlist of the music from this episode at https://open.spotify.com/user/magnificentlyhuge/...

The TV spinoff. For every “Maude” or “Frasier” there are dozens more like “Joey” or “After M*A*S*H.” Are spinoffs just a creatively-bankrupt way to extend a familiar brand? Or, do they actually improve upon the best qualities of their original to create something unique? We may not always get the spinoff we want, but sometimes we get the spinoff we deserve. 0:00 Intros 3:12 Supertrain 6:55 Mute 8:...

Suppose you were put in an arbitrary and unrealistically restrictive situation and were forced to whittle your music collection down to 10 albums. Suppose you still think of music as coming packaged as “albums”. Suppose you still consider albums to be things that come on "discs". Suppose that you had a way to play those discs on a desert island. Okay, it’s a stupid hypothetical, but this week the...

Gophers, golfers and the uneven comedy juggernaut known as “Caddyshack”! It’s Volume 3 of our ongoing series about the movie soundtracks of Mr. Kenny Loggins. We take a mulligan and decide to be the ball as we work through our very complicated feelings for this shambolic mess of undeniable classic comedy gold. Gunga galunga, America! I’m alright… 0:00 Intros 4:30 Book of Mormon 11:45 Black Mirror...

Where were you in 1986? If you’re like most of our listeners, you weren’t even born yet. Goddamn Millennials. But for the rest of us who were there for it, most would all agree that 1986 was most definitely a year. This week, we’re taking a look back at another watershed moment in pop culture - 1986: When Mav first turned and burned, when Eddie Murphy was the #1 everything, and real nerds listened...

Episode 33 – The Magnificently Huge Guide to Time Travel What do we want? Time Travel! When do we want it? It’s Irrelevant! Yes, an entire episode dedicated to the most irresponsible ways to use a time machine. From DeLoreans to wormholes and everything in between, find out how you can go back in time and erase your entire existence by sneezing on Abraham Lincoln just before he invents the smartph...

A reboot is just another name for a remake. But not all remakes are reboots. And some reboots are actually sequels. Unless they reimagine a previous remake. Confused? You won’t be after this episode of Magnificently Huge. Well, okay, you probably will be confused like us, because we have no idea what the hell the difference is between a reboot and a remake. All we know for certain is that reboots...

Not every movie deserves a sequel, but some movies deserve the sequels they get. The MagHuge team drops trou on unnecessary sequels and discovers that very few are worth your time! Plus, hear the lads pitch their own sequel ideas for follow-ups that will never get made. Not in a million years. Sad emoji. 0:00 - Intros 5:00 - Something Rotten! 17:19 - Too Funny To Fail 22:00 - Sequel discussion int...

A Magnificently Huge spoiler filled review of the brilliant and hilarious Thor:Ragnarok! Because really, how can you fully appreciate this movie without us telling you what to think? Or at least us telling you what WE think? Clips: Dread Zeppelin - Immigrant Song Lunachicks - Spoilt Joss Stone - Spoiled Monty Python - Spam Doctor Who Rihanna - Umbrella Flash Gordon Thor: Ragnarok Leslie Bricusse a...

The continuing adventures of the Avengers in the second part of Marvel's historic, enormous, money-fat juggernaut, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Iron Man 3 Thor: The Dark World Captain America: The Winter Soldier Guardians of the Galaxy Avengers: Age of Ultron Ant-Man Keep in touch with us - unlike all those other podcasts, we actually want to hear from you! Email: magnificentlyhuge@gmail.com Fac...

Everyone says they hate people - but unless you pay to watch hundreds of them die, you’re just a poseur. This week, we break down the rules that govern the most overlooked, under appreciated genre of mass-market entertainment.

Few years in history capture the imagination quite like the year 1984. George Orwell predicted it would be a literal Big Brother State, an awful dystopian world full of paranoia, fear and desperation. Instead we got Reagan, Cold War histrionics, and the summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Oh, and some of the best damn movies ever made. Period. If ignorance is strength, then the MagHuge team has y...

Scooby-Doo, Justice League, chicks in cat costumes - has there ever been a more eclectic collection of entertainment as Saturday Morning Cartoons? Pour a bowl of your favorite sugary cereal, leave your footy pajamas on, and hunker down with some old school animation.

What’s in the trunk? Director Alex Cox’s only good movie – Repo Man. It’s the classic comedy/sci-fi/punk/noir/conspiracy mashup that made a generation of suburban punks want to go get sushi and not pay. We’ve got Quincy punks…Plates of shrimp…The scruffy genius of Harry Dean Stanton (R.I.P)… And how the greatest soundtrack EVER MADE dragged Repo Man from the brink of total obscurity and shoved it...

What makes a movie truly bad? The MagHuge crew attempts to explore this question through the lens of the 2014 box office failure "I, Frankenstein." We realized very quickly that one man's trash is another man's...enjoyable trash! Please join us for our take on the best Underworld sequel you've probably never seen, but really should.

A show about all the musicians that have enjoyed unparalleled success - despite sucking. A lot. These musical acts shouldn’t have gotten out of their garages, and yet for some reason odds are good a fifth of these losers are in your CD changer, old timer.

Is the third time really the charm when it comes to movie sequels? These days, practically every movie gets a sequel, but it takes true hubris – real cajones – to push a series into Threequel territory and not have it fail spectacularly. The team ponders movie sequels with a 3 in their title to answer the question no one wants answered: Why is a 3quel?

For the first time in podcasting history, a show about the Marvel superhero movies! No, really! No one has ever done this before! We discuss Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Not one of the best guns, not the penultimate gun... the TOP gun. This week it's the second part in our talks about the soundtrack work of quasi-Yacht Rocker Kenny Loggins, and his most favorite soundtrack offering.

You know how your Dad talks about the video games he grew up with back in the stone age? We're talking about those, how cool they sometimes were, and often weren't. Brian gives a master class in the downfall of video games in the 1980s.

This week we look at the ouvre of Quentin Tarantino - the guy who made all those films Gen-X thought were so trailblazing in the 90s, and now look at and sort of say, "meh." It's an attempt at an honest look at what he does that works, and what doesn't. Also, what's up with his foot fetish?

Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker made some of the funniest and most quotable movies in history, and then one day the funny stopped. We perform a comedy postmortem on the ZAZ team to determine how we got from "Airplaine!" to "Scary Movie 4". And stop calling us Shirley.