Wednesday, February 4, 2015

F This Movie! - Demolition Man

Get ready for F This Movie Fest 4 by enhancing your calm with Patrick and Doug!



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Also discussed this episode: Whiplash (2014), Into the Woods (2014), Dear White People (2014), A Good Marriage (2014), Digging Up the Marrow (2015)

3 Days Until F This Movie Fest 4!

15 comments:

  1. I've been waiting for "Digging Up the Marrow" for a while. Looking forward to it. Ray Wise was amazing in "Suburban Gothic", too!

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  2. I hope you talk about those damn confusing 3 seashells ;)
    Cheers. I'm looking forward to this one

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  3. Oh my god, thank you for this one. I am 100% with you in my love for this movie, Patrick.

    Demolition Man licks ass!

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  4. Please don't listen to the guy that said you go off topic too much. Those are my favorite podcasts! I'm also a relatively new listener.

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    1. Thanks! It wasn't meant as a criticism from the listener, I don't think, just an observation. I only brought it up because I saw us getting off topic again.

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  5. Whiplash has been very polarising, It really worked for me, but I told someone who is a drummer friend to watch this, the perfect audience I thought, he did not get it. He Dident enjoy it at all, thought it was slow and boring, I thought it was tense and enjoyable, even touching at times,

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    1. I agree, Dennis. I studied jazz in college and I knew a teacher who was similar. I thought the film was tense throughout and I was mesmerized. I wanted another hour of it! I'm pulling for it for best picture. It won't win, but who really cares - the Academy is a joke. Even if it does win - the Academy is still a joke.

      Agree with both Doug and Patrick, probably the worst nominations for best picture in my lifetime. I wish they would go back to 5.

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  6. I hate to tell you this, but Glenn Shaddix died five years ago after he fell out of his wheelchair and hit his head. He'd retired to Alabama a few years before.

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  7. So disappointed I can't participate in the fest this year! I didn't see Demolition Man until maybe 1999 (mostly because I was 6 when it came out). I liked it, and completely got the ridiculous humor, and kind of just assumed that everyone else liked it....I was sadly mistaken. I think the movie's major problem is, like many Stallone movies, he doesn't know what his character should be. Spartan should be a complete humorless bore, because he's the fish out of water. He should be like Thor, this should be future Thor. Spartan is mostly the straight man, but still wants to be the wisecracking sidekick every now and then.

    Pretty funny that this came out the same year as Cliffhanger, which is almost completely devoid of any humor, and I'm pretty sure the only joke Stallone even attempts in that is when he calls John Lithgow "a real piece of shit."If only the 2 Stallones could flip in those 2 movies.

    Btw, John Spartan absolutely belongs as a Schwarzenegger name, it's right up there with his other all-american classic names like John Matrix, Ben Richards and Gordy Brewer.

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  8. I love Dougs explanation of the 3 seashells. Sounds painful though. You could get a rash ;)

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  9. Doug- I burst out laughing walking through my office when you had the B director yelling ". . . and get me more honey."

    I love Doug and Patrick podcasts. They are the best kind of crazy. When I was first working my way through the catalog as a late comer, I did all the Doug and Patrick ones first for the lulz.

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  10. I'm famous! Just to be perfectly clear, you and Doug getting off topic is part of what's so magical about your chemistry.

    I had to break my alphabetical binge when I saw this one pop up on my Social Medias. Demolition Man is hilarious, and I love the Verhoeven comparisons. I thought of this as a "so bad it's good" and after listening I still think a lot of my enjoyment of the film is slightly ironic, but you've definitely opened my eyes to some potential serious readings of the film. I basically thought the whole movie was pitched at the same level as Wesley Snipes performance, but I think he might be more of an exception than a symptom of the rule.

    Great stuff! I realized about halfway through that I had been smiling continuously since it started. Patrick & Doug forever.

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  11. Congrats on Murder Death Write!


    That was my favourite joke of this podcast. And the random boobs thing could be a thing, there was just no need for that scene to be there, very strange

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  12. How did it smash on the second bonce?

    Never noticed that before but now I cant not notice it, love it, very funny

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  13. Just to clarify something Doug was confused about in the movie. The "teddy bear" line from Phoenix is the vocal password to his restraints in the parole hearing. It isn't a random phrase for Snipes just to be cute. He is programed with the password known in his head, again furthering the conspiracy that he was meant to escape and wreck havoc.

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