Season Ten Wrap Show Preview

Join us for one last round of flops discussion as we embark on our traditional end of season wrap show. The full episode is available over on Patreon on our £3.00 a month tier. 

We're sad that our flops season has come to an end but what a journey it was. From terrible films to objectively brilliant movies and everything in between. 

As this was our 10th season, this time we decided to cover 10 movies which were : 

• The Thing (1982)
• Masters of the Universe (1987)
• Empire Records
• Battlefield Earth
• Nightbreed
• The King of Comedy
• Tank Girl
• Driven (2001)
• Labyrinth
• Super Mario Bros (1993)

We talk about our favourite movies and discussions in the season and also try to justify why we sometimes enjoy objectively terrible films. 

Make sure to mark June 23rd in your calendar as that is when we return for season 11!

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Episode Transcript

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You know what that means, don't you?

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You should for a rap show.
Um, if you're listening to this, this is the part that goes out on the main feed. This is the uh rap show preview.
It is.
Yeah.
Sorry, you were like, am I supposed to say something? Which that's a probably a good time to say that this is the um the far less polished version of our podcast.
Is it? I suppose so.
Yeah, the rap show is a bit more free form,
bit more loosey go. Isn't it? Yeah.
Yeah. As I say, you're listening to this, this is on the main feed and it's a preview of that. If you want to listen to the entire show, it's available in full over on Patreon. Uh, and we're going to have a couple of weeks off the air, aren't we? Like, we're going to do a a best of show next week and then or maybe a season trailer. We haven't quite nailed in what we're going to do yet, but we're back on the main feed with brand new season on the 23rd of June.
Yeah.
Um, and we're doing drugs.
How many times are you going to make that joke? Do you
Every time. Every single time.
Every time.
Okay. We are We're doing drugs.
Yeah. And we're starting with Train Spotting. Mhm.
And it's your season. We've got seven other drugs movies to talk about which will be announced
over on our Patreon on a feature.
It will. It will.
Um, with that out the way,
should we get stuck in?

(00:22):
Let's do it.
So, rap show then, season 10, flop. big floppy ones. Yeah.
Ones that what lost loads or a little bit of money or not a lot of money or
or loads of money, but sometimes they made money but not as much money as you wanted them to make. And that's still a flop.
Yeah, that was quite a mouthful.
Yeah, but that wouldn't have fitted on our little
It wouldn't No,
our little pictures that we put on Instagram, would it?
So, we just put flops.
We should have put floppies. We could have put floppies, but maybe the algorithm would have banned us in some way for for saying floppies. probably some Gen Z euphemism that we're unaware of.
We um it was season 10 and to mark the occasion we thought we would do 10 episodes and we combined that we usually take it in turns. I'll pick a season, you'll pick a season, but this time we combined our powers. I picked five and you pick five and we took it in turns on the on the lineup.
Uh so yeah, we did 10 which was different.
It was but it was nice actually. I quite liked it.
I think it might be my favorite season yet.
Oh, okay.
So, we're going to spend a bit of time talking about the season, what we picked, why we picked it, what our favorites were, what we could have picked, and then we're doing a little quiz.
Oh, yes, quiz. I'd forgotten about the quiz.
Oh, no. Did you write the questions?
Um, I wrote all of the questions.
You don't sound too convinced.
I did. I wrote all of the questions. That's good. Yes.

(00:43):
So, we've got a quiz for each other later.
Yeah.
Um, but before that,
Yeah. Do you want to speedrun through the lineup? Just give us a refresher.
Okay. So, starting in the first place, we've got The Thing. 1982, not the remake or although it is the forget it. Number two was Masters of the Universe. Number three was Empire Records. Number four was Battlefield Earth. Five, Night Breid. Six, The King of Comedy. Seven, Tank Girl. Eight, Driven, the Sly one. Nine, Labyrinth. 10, Super Mario Brothers, the good one.
Awesome.
And uh That was our lineup. And like I say, we took it in turns. First one was yours. First one was The Thing and it's one of your favorite movies. And what a way to start a season.
My favorite movie.
It's not one of,
it's the favorite. Well, do you know what? I've always hated that question. I've always dreaded it when people are just like, "What's your favorite film?"
Yeah.
It's like, you can't ask a film person that because firstly, I'm going to sit there for days evaluating everything in my collection going, "But what is it? How can I narrow it down? down to just one, but it's become like my knee-jerk answer. What's your favorite film? The Thing.
Guns to your head. You got to make a decision. Yeah, that's what it is. But in reality, it's a much more complex question than than meets the eye.
Um,
for nerds.
For nerds. Yeah. For most people, it's just it's love, actually.
Okay. Um,
yeah. I mean, I I I love John the movies of John Carpenter. It was great to cover another John Carpenter movie. And
was that our third?
I think it was Our third. Yes. Probably. So, probably our most covered director.
Yeah.

(01:04):
I can't I can't think of anyone else that we've done more of their movies.
Not so far.
No. There will be more Carpenter in our lineup.
Yeah. There's a couple that I would like to get to definitely. There's at least three or maybe four others that I would like to get to.
Okay.
A varying levels of quality by
unapologetic, aren't you? That's what that means.
And vampires.
Yeah. And Prince of Darkness, obviously.
Darkness is great.
Yeah.
I'm sure you'll probably want to talk about the um alien glasses. What's it? They live at some point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it was good to talk about the thing. And I think that was
one of the things that surprised me about maybe the first half of the season more than the second, but how much matte paintings were a feature of this season.
This could have been Matt painting season. Yeah,
it was crazy.
Yeah, I felt like they were in every movie for for at least the first half. Maybe uh with the exception of Empire Records. Did that have a map painting? It might have done.
I don't remember it having a Matt painting.
Was Lucas a Matt painting?

(01:25):
Maybe.
Was anyone in it called Matt and they were painting?
No. AJ was painting.
Let's call him Matt.
Okay.
So, there wasn't Matt painting.
And then we moved on to Master of the Master. of the universe.
The thing that I really liked about this season, right, is I I really enjoyed it, too.
But the thing that I really liked about it is that we covered some objectively brilliant movies, some objectively terrible movies.
Yeah. And everything in between.
And and everything in between. There was such range in the quality of movies.
There were some alltime terrible ones, and there's some ones that weren't great. But I loved most of mine with the exception of one, I think. But I even if they weren't great movies, I do love them for various different reasons. And it was really nice to dig into that. And Masters of the Universe was the first example of that on the season because it's such a nostalgic film for me.
And I don't think it's terrible. I think it's
I think it's okay, but I love it.
And that's probably what a lot of my uh picks ended up being. It's not great, but I love it.
I think that's one of the reasons I enjoyed this season so much. cuz it just felt so much more personal.
Yeah.
And we were able to get really passionate about stuff that we loved even if the world at large hated it.
Yeah. Talking about stuff from my childhood naturally brought up feelings and and memories from my childhood. So naturally
cozy coupe and envy.
Yeah. Exactly. Like we we got to have conversations like that which was which was nice. We don't often get to do that. Certainly won't be able to do that in a drug season.

(01:46):
I'm sure you've got plenty to say.
No. No. Have you seen the onset photos of the new Masters of the Universe?
Okay.
I have not. No, that's the Jared Leto one.
Yeah. Um I think it's Oh god. Johnny Galline or
Johnny Gleki.
No, no, no. The the actor that's replacing Dolph,
right? I know. I heard he that it's an actor from a thing that you watched.
An actor from a thing.
Was it maybe Sex Education or something like that?
No. No.
No. Oh, no. Am I thinking of um Bottoms? Wasn't he not in Bottoms?
Oh, maybe he was.
He was the football player, I think.
Maybe he was. Yeah,
I swear I heard that. Yeah,
I I remembered him from the Craft Legacy.
Yeah, there's that, too. Which I had not seen. And you said it was brilliant.
Oh, you said it was amazing.
The Craft Legacy. The first half of it half decent. The second half of it half a star.
I swear you said you love it more than the first movie.

(02:07):
Are you joking?
Yes.
Awful. awful film.
I'm not particularly excited about um a reboot to that because of Jared Leto, but some of the casting is brilliant.
So like on the one side of it, I'm like, yeah, Idris Ela, great.
Um
Alison Bree,
Alison Brie, yeah, even better.
But then Jared Leto and it's like, ah, he's the flying oinkment.
Oinkman.
Yeah.
I just want to know who's still casting this prick.
I don't know.
It's such a well-known thing that he's a C. cheap.
Yeah.
And just not a great human being. So, I don't get it. I don't get the appeal.
Plus, he's just making s*** movies that flop like MorbiiUs. What's
Why are we doing this?
It's not even bankable anymore.
You know, because social media, I think.
I don't know. Well, obviously, we're all in our little algorithm echo chambers. So, I don't get to see anything positive about Jared Leto because that's not the content that I engage with. What I engage with is people outing him for DMing underage models,

(02:28):
right? Yeah.
So, um yeah, I've yet to see anybody say a nice word about that man. I
I just gather that he's got a huge following because he was in that band.
Yeah.
And he's been an actor for ages and he's started a cult and all allegedly all of that stuff.
Oh, yeah. Cuz people who start cults are great.
And uh
historically,
I'm guessing that he's just on paper got a lot of followers that they people imagine they're going to get a lot of bums on seats, but I don't know. Like,
but it's not working.
No, it's not. Let's stop talking about Jared. over.
All right.
So, moving on from Masters of the Universe.
Yeah. You picked Empire Records. Why'd you pick that one? Eh,
because I love it.
And what else would you have put it in? A music season. I guess we could have done that for high fidelity.
Yeah.
But you love it. We spoke about it in the show. Another example of uh talking about when we first saw a thing, what we thought about it, and you've got a nice story in that show about when you first saw it
accidentally. Yeah.
Yeah. Accidentally. And that's that's a nice thing, isn't it? When you see something accident It rarely happens. Especially when you are I know pretty much every film I watch I know pretty much what it is.
Well, it just doesn't happen anymore, does it?

(02:49):
No. Like you never And you never We don't have the thing anymore where you're just flicking through the the television. You
I grew up in a time before you even had the the display on the tell. You just had to flick through it and go, "What's this?"
Yeah. Just try and figure it out halfway through.
That was fun though. I used to like doing that. I used to flick through and like a lot of the times I get in a movie and my parents were like, "How are you doing? How are you getting and then 10 years later end up in the um the forums on IMDb going, "Does anybody know what this is?" I can only describe the second half.
Yeah. Gone of Gone of those days.
And I suppose films like Empire Records remind you of of that to a degree.
Very much so. Yeah.
And you really like that movie.
I do. But it's another example of what you were talking about in that it's a film that was not received well that I don't think is necessarily particularly great.
Um but I just it gives me the warm and fuzzies, man. Yeah, that's important.
It makes me happy
even if it has got Lucas in it. That's fascinating. I
you and your Rory Cochran hate
I um sort of talked about it in the show, but I'm starting to come around to it. And I don't I don't love it, but I'm like, "Yeah, I can I can I can get through this. This is okay. If we have to watch this every year, okay, let let's crack open a beer and it's fine.
It just brings me joy."
Yeah, good. But why wasn't Matthew Lillard in it? That's the question. That's my main take away from Yeah, he would have fit right in.
He would have Battlefield Earth was the next one, which was my choice. Which do we really want to talk about that anymore or should we move on from now?
Let's move on. I think we said everything we needed to say.
We were pretty scathing about that.
More than we wanted to say.
Yeah.

(03:10):
And I think we've probably wasted enough of our lives on that piece of s***.
Moving on to Nightbre then.