The Magnificently Huge Podcast

Eric pitched a totally different show this week that Brian and Chris prepared for… Then he called an audible at showtime for an impromptu Q&A game. Hilarity ensues. Yes, it’s Pop Quiz, Hot Shot: 70s/80s Edition! What was the first movie you ever went to? The first album you ever bought with your own money? The first television show you binged out on (because it meant something special to you, not...

Did you know the moon was actually an alien-made superstructure put in our orbit for… reasons? Now the angry E.T.’s that put it there want it back for… other reasons. Stuff explodes, cities are destroyed, and humanity hangs in the balance for… more reasons. Moonfall - the latest disaster jam from our favorite big-budget schlockmeister Roland Emmerich - gets its due with a full-throated and arbitra...

Ever been caught in the middle of a garbage film and thought, “Wow! This one actor is really good though! I wish they were in something else, so I could be watching it instead right now!” This week we dive into those performances that are our personal favorites, the ones that appear in otherwise worthless films. We also dig into some movies, video games, TV shows, and music that is new or sort of...

It’s an awesome spectacle. Truly a sight to behold. The show, beaten. The once Magnificently Huge podcast, now a study in mopishness. No longer the once-a-week podcast we’ve listened to so many times before, but a pathetic, washed up, aged ex-champion. We also want our TWO DOLLARS! This week the MagHuge crew takes on one of our all time favorites: 1985’s Better Off Dead! Plus: The Batman, Halo, an...

Destroy the movie and listen to the soundtrack instead, because some films are just pure crap and deserve to be erased. Occasionally we find an unwatchable film that lives on in our collective culture by sole virtue of a great soundtrack. It is the healing power of music alone that prevents us from gouging out our eyeballs again rather than watch one more crap movie that is touted as a classic by...

In 1984, there were only 5 albums that hit #1 all year. This is the least amount of top records in a single year EVER. Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Huey Lewis & the News and the Footloose soundtrack… that’s it. Which means 1984 was either the most homogenous year in music history, or that MTV finally exerted its place at the top of the corporate music heap. Forget Madonna. Forget Ti...

This week we discuss the largely underrated horror movie 1408, one of the last really good John Cusack films. 1408 is one of those mood-driven scary movies that doesn’t rely on jump scares (though there are a couple), gore, or teenagers being picked off. It’s also the only movie I’m aware of that uses the concept of “noclipping out of reality.” If you’re familiar with The Backrooms, you know what...

It was Chris’s turn to pick the show topic this round, so he deliberately chose something he knew would irritate both Eric and Brian to no end. And that is the movie Rubber in a nutshell. Ostensibly a B-movie horror satire about a sentient, homicidal tire on a desert rampage, Rubber quickly becomes too smart for its own good with a full-tilt meta-commentary on the nature of how audiences and art i...

Journey back to a time when there was no such thing as too much CGI in our summer blockbusters! In 1982, stoner animator Steven Lisberger blew all our minds with Tron: a work of staggering visual design with a script that made not one lick of sense. It was followed up decades later when the Master Control Program that runs Disney calculated there was more profit to be made with a sequel that no on...

It’s time we talk about the 1980 classic “The Blues Brothers” - for good or for ill, the forerunner of every Saturday Night Live based film to come after it. Full of great music, weird guest appearances, and the most cars destroyed on screen (until it’s lamentably shitty sequel, of which we will say nothing,) “The Blues Brothers” is probably the most underrated masterpiece there is. | 0:00 - Intro...

Back in August 1985, three science-themed comedies aimed at teenagers were all released within one week of each other - Weird Science, Real Genius and My Science Project. And as we all learned in chemistry class, you should never try to mix acids and bases or something bad can happen. In this particular questionable experiment in cloning, we got one problematic John Hughes sub-classic, one genuine...

The first Harry Potter movie is now 20 years old! Which makes all you kiddoes who grew up with the series in the naughty aughties pretty much middle-age now. So fire up your patronus charm to scare away those Dementors, because here’s our old-guy take on The Boy Who Lived (and his coterie of witches and wizards). It is arguably the biggest and most fantastical film franchise that made kids want to...

It’s January, and that means the MagHuge crew has been away from podcasting for a few weeks, and we have SO MUCH FRESHNESS to talk about! We’re covering most of the big clickbait this week. Check below for timestamps because we have a heapin’ helpin’ of SPOILERS for The Matrix: Resurrections, Ghostbusters Afterlife, Yellowjackets, Hawkeye, The Book of Boba Fett, and many more! Meet the new year, s...

0:00 Intro 3:23 The Fresh S**t 4:52 Kick Ass Oregon History Podcast 9:50 Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History 12:55 Dirk Gentley’s Holistic Detective Agency 19:22 Brian actually does Black Friday 20:22 Shane Black 26:34 Are there criteria for Christmas Adjacent vs Christmas? 27:35 A Christmas Carol 2 28:28 Rocky 4 29:28 Gremlins 31:17 Home Alone 32:18 Skyfall 34:07 When Harry Met Sally 35:15 Bet...

This week the #MagHuge crew is in the Christmas spirit! We talk traditions, toys, holiday films and specials, and other wonderful memories. And also Justice League. Yeah, that. This is the 2nd half of the recording we made right before Thanksgiving 2017. 0:00 Intro 1:13 Good Omens 2:00 Justice League 9:45 Christmas with divorce (from kid and parent perspectives) 12:12 Santa 15:00 Getting and givin...

Merry Christmas, $h!tter was full! In 1989 the Griswolds returned for another attempt to put the Vacation lightning back into a smaller bottle, and the results were… shall we say, uneven? The holidays are the backdrop for a family gathering of epic comic mayhem, or so the National Lampoon gang would lead us to believe. Instead, we got a slew of PG-13 dad jokes, Chevy Chase pratfalls, and the retur...

We're not going to fall for the banana in the tailpipe...but we are going to enjoy this week's talk about the king of mega-gigantic-blockbuster action comedies that helped define the 80's, Beverly Hills Cop. This pop juggernaut of the Me Decade spawned two sequels and has a soundtrack full of bangers, and it firmly cemented the star power of Eddie Murphy forever. But does it hold up today? The hea...

Aliens - everybody talks about them, but nobody does anything about them. Once an Alien: Resurrection or Alien: Covenant comes rolling around, people are shocked they suck. Why? Because the only Alien movie anyone needs is 1986’s James Cameron classic, “Aliens.” This is what every Alien movie since has tried to be better than, and has failed at miserably. So let’s pick apart some Aliens. Try not t...

Clint Eastwood and his ape best friend, Clyde, travel the American West in search of love and fistfights. At least that’s what we think this so-called 1978 blockbuster comedy was about. It’s a shambolic, terminally unfunny mess of a film about toxic masculinity and bad country music, as far as we could decipher. It is also Eastwood’s weirdest film ever, one we thought would be an enjoyable lark. Y...

What do you get when you combine actors who are past their prime with special effects that are past their prime, in support of a literally ancient story? If it’s 1981, you get fantasy classic Clash of the Titans! Join the MagHuge crew as they revisit their inner 10 year olds, who dreamt of making epics with a super 8 camera and the toys in their basements. Does it hold up? Listen and find out! | 0...

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.” For a few uber-nerds, that line means the start of the most respected - and ripped off - science fiction franchise of all time, Frank Herbert's. Dune. This month, a new film adaptation was released - the third time the original 1965 novel was adapted, we might add. To commemorate this, and to cash in on the...

Whatever you do, don't fall asleep...until you listen to our latest podcast all about Wes Craven's horror classic-cum-Freudian-facepunch - A Nightmare on Elm Street. Freddy Krueger burst onto the scene in 1984 with his razor-tipped glove and evil grin to hunt us in our dreams and became an instant horror icon in the process. Sure, the films maybe got a little goofy as their budgets increased, but...

Welcome to One More Freshitravaganza - literally a whole show about EVERYTHING and NOTHING all at once! We're back from vacation, and that means it's time for another lazy free-for-all of extemporaneous hilarity in lieu of an official topic. Yep, all the Movies, TV, Music and more that we could fit into a single podcast already bursting at the seams with old men yelling at clouds! Don't miss it. |...

This week, we talk all about covers - those great songs made better or worse by someone else performing them. From punker bands that speed them up, to choral groups that slow them way down, covers are music's way of paying tribute to its favorite past musicians - or riding their coat tails. Check out this YouTube playlist of all these awesome covers and more: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs…d58q...

Holy cow, we’ve made 200 episodes of this thing! This week the MagHuge crew goes back to the film that everyone blames for the modern superhero extravaganza: Blade! THRILL as we talk about yet another movie that somehow at least one of us is the last human on Earth to have watched! GASP IN AMAZEMENT at all the other movies we talk about including Role Models and Pan’s Labyrinth! BOGGLE YOUR MIND a...