The Magnificently Huge Podcast

Not all blockbuster movies are garbage. Some of them are just right. Everything the preview promised you you’d see is kept, the feeling you hoped you’d have by the end is earned… In short, some blockbusters are worthy of their hype. This week we reminisce about the best big budget (sometimes) Summer Blockbusters we’ve seen, and why they were a cut above. We’ll also share all the stuff we’ve been e...

Back in the 70’s, horny boys didn’t have the internet. The lucky ones had Playboy. The truly nerdy ones had Heavy Metal, an illustrated anthology magazine that featured the sort of sex, violence, and power fantasies that would eventually be provided by video games. But the poor lonely pre-teens of the 70’s didn’t really even have that to turn to. So yeah, Heavy Metal. And then in 1981 they made a...

At first glance, 1996 was kind of a bland year for movies, eh? At second glance, it’s still a bit, well... meh. The Top 10 moneymakers were all straight up studio products and a bit lifeless, while the Oscar contenders are mostly forgettable. If the 90’s had a crack in which to fall through, 1996 is certainly that year. Our challenge, then, was for each of us to bring our Top Five Movies of 1996 a...

If you didn’t like “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” it’s only because you didn’t see all of these other Indiana Jones adventurer knockoffs in the 1980's that were hilariously, misguidedly, and unrepentantly bad. This week, from the decade that brought you Twisted Sister, Reaganomics, television’s “Small Wonder,” and the crack cocaine epidemic, comes the Indiana Jones rip-offs...

This week we delve into the 2nd most blatantly sampled song in the world. It just wouldn’t be the late 80’s / early 90’s without the rhythm found in James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” underneath everything from DJs with mad skills to pasty white dudes with absolutely no skills whatsoever. We also review James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad”. Check out the show! It’s a trip, it’s got a funky beat, and you ca...

Does anyone watch classic Hollywood movies anymore? Because this round we got a doozy for you… 1940’s The Philadelphia Story, starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart in the glorious screwball comedy from director George Cukor. This is by far the oldest movie we’ve ever featured on the show, and while Chris and Eric both enjoy it immensely and have seen it many times, this was Bria...

This week we take a look at filmmakers who should probably have hung it up a long time ago. You know what we’re talking about too - remember the last time you were watching a film by someone you used to like, only to say, “What the hell is going on here? When did Tim Burton get so uninteresting and aggressively banal?” I mean, any time I see a bad film by someone who used to be worth watching, I s...

Boy did we pick the wrong week to stop sniffing glue! Brian challenged the MagHuge crew to jump feet-first into a movie none of us had ever seen, and it did not disappoint. Thanks to some other trippy 70’s movies from previous podcasts the HBO Max recommendation engine suggested we watch House, a 1977 horror movie from Japanese studio Toho - best known for the Godzilla movies. What we expected was...

Join the Magnificently Huge Podcast for a look back at the semi-forgotten 80’s action-buddy-road-comedy, Midnight Run! Robert DeNiro stars in his first mainstream comedy, as a bounty hunter taking a mob accountant (Charles Grodin in a genius deadpan signature role) cross-country in a race against the Feds, the Mob and time itself! It’s an almost-classic that has not aged well, but it is still a so...

This round is actors who surprised us by going the career distance over the ones we expected to soar but who actually fizzled. It’s a real Tortoise Vs. Hare sitch that turned out to be way more difficult to wrap our heads around than we thought. For example, who knew the kid from Teen Wolf Too would go on to become the class-act we now know as multi-hyphenate actor/writer/producer/directorJason Ba...

Strap in for some pure escapist fun, because we’re celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Rocketeer! Based on a popular indie comic, The Rocketeer is basically Indiana Jones Meets Iron Man done as an earnest, cynicism-free homage to the 1930’s movie adventure serials of yesteryear. Put out by Disney, this was supposed to be the start of a big franchise. Sadly, it landed with a mild thud amid some...

For years, we’ve all found something in a movie that was incorrect - something with it’s own canon, wrong historical references, or just stuff so weird you wonder how it wound up in there in the first place. But what if these things were intentional, put there to hint at a larger universe just out of view? Fan theories work to cover mistakes by creating more interesting possibilities. Today, we sh...

We’ve had enough. Enough of the grim. Enough of the dark. Enough of the grimdark! There’s only so many movies about depression, stress, and violence we can tolerate. Reality is depressing enough. So this week we’re looking for some pick-me-ups. We’re talking about movies that lift the spirits. Fun, dammit! FUN! Also Cruella I guess. | 0:00 - Intros | 4:30 - Alexander (2004) | 9:00 - Cruella (2021)...

Zack Snyder, you got your zombie movie on my heist flick! Or did you get your heist flick on this crazy new film mashup, Army of the Dead? We’re putting a team together for a smash-and-grab spoilerific review of the 2.5-hour long zombie-heist-action-comedy romp no one asked for, from a director who is notorious for being all style, little substance. So strap in for some Fear and Loathing in Las Ve...

If you had a time machine, and someone else already went back in time to kill Hitler, when would you go? That’s the tortured premise we’re going with this week, as each of the boys reveals their own choice destination - based on that year’s music, movies, TV shows, video games and noteworthy disasters. What would be YOUR year? | 0:00 - Intros | 2:30 - Tenet (2020) | 8:30 - Star Trek Discovery (sea...

Episode 181 - Fourth Films in a Franchise Hey, The Magnificently Huge Podcast officially turns four years old with this one! Since the fourth time's the charm (or however the saying goes), we’ll be yukking it up about the fourth entries in some of the most (in)famous movie franchises of all time. Fourth films are seldom needed, often pointless, usually lazy, and rare is the entry that transcends t...

Hey, look! It's another music nostalgia show about death and the 90's… only fun! We revisit the soundtrack to a decade full of great songs and the artists who eventually left this earth way too soon, thereby ruining any chance of a reunion tour. Thanks, heroin! Cheers, depression! Kudos, irony! SPOILER: There were other bands besides Nirvana back then, kids. So fire up our mixtape salute to surviv...

The 21st Century has given us plenty of great films so far. Some are inarguable classics, even. But we're here today instead to talk about the more obscure gems that maybe fell through the cracks a little bit over the years. So buckle up for our unusual list of very good movies of the past 20 years that don't get the recognition we think they deserve. | 0:00 - Intros | 5:00 - Bunch Of Kunst (2017)...

If kaiju is wrong, we don't wanna be right. So here's our big dumb look at another big dumb movie about more big dumb monsters fighting bigly and dumbly because... reasons. Time to pick a side once and for all: Are you Team Godzilla or Team Kong? Dat axe, tho… | 0:00 - Intros | 3:45 - Extract (2009) | 7:45 - Outriders (Square Enix, 2021) | 12:25 - The Irregulars (Netflix, 2021) | 16:45 - Classic 8...

The fans have spoken and the SnyderCut of DCEU's Justice League has finally been released! Was it worth the wait? Does it correct the terrible sins of Joss Whedon's midwifed 2017 stillbirth? Does it even matter? We sat through all 16 hours of Zack Snyder's Justice League SuperFriends Supercut to find out! #SnyderCutJusticeLeague #SnydersCut | 0:00 - Intros | 3:05 - The Courier (2021) | 6:09 - Wand...

Even some of the best movies have… well, issues. We want to talk about some of our favorite movies that have some glaring problems. From a war movie that secretly thinks war is cool, to a teen comedy about a sociopath, to a comedy classic whose cast includes the world’s most famous murderer running back. | 0:00 - Intros | 2:20 - On NOT watching Tom & Jerry (2021) | 4:00 - Get Shorty (1995) | 8:50...

Sometimes it’s just being a big sell-out. Sometimes it’s being an artistic chameleon. This week the MagHuge crew discusses musicians who straight up switched genres and changed their sound completely, or simply jumped on a trend to grab some filthy lucre…for better or worse. | 0:00 - Intros & Frozen Texas Blackout | 9:00 - The Thin Red Line (Jones, 1962) | 10:00 - The Little Things (2021) | 12:50...

Johnny Mnemonic is pretty dumb, but also pretty amazing. Made in 1995, this cyberpunk action romp imagines the future world of 2021 (ie, NOW) in which the internet requires an excessive amount of VR hardware and physical exertion to actually use. And that 180GB of memory is pushing the limits of file sizes. And that dolphins weaponized by the military are the ultimate hackers. And fax machines and...

Predator is a bona fide classic sci-fi actioner starring Arnold Schwarzenegger that rocks. Sadly, all of its sequels suck. Like, a LOT. They are all terrible for different reasons, of course, but terrible nonetheless. Which is weird, because other notable series have managed at least one or two good sequels (even some not involving James Cameron). But not the Predator franchise, which should have...

This week we take a look at Ben Stiller’s other classic movie, the one that isn’t “Zoolander.” This film-within-a-war-film is a hilariously scathing look at vapid Hollywood culture and it remains one of the last completely politically incorrect films of its kind. So check your virtue signals at the door and have a great time with our talk about a comedy juggernaut - Tropic Thunder! | 0:00 - Intros...