Movieing On - Movies from 1999 or Earlier

For our final episode of the season, we look back to the early works of a celebrated director and ask ourselves the question ... How in the hell did he go from that to classics like Starman and The Thing?! Show notes and links: Dark Star (1974) - IMDb (imdb.com) Honest Trailers - Paranormal Activity (youtube.com) Something Is Incredibly Wrong Here... | Observation - Part 1 (youtube.com) There's Someone Else Here! | Observation - Part 2 (youtube.com) No.... That's Not Possible! | Observation - Part 3 (youtube.com) There's No Going Back Now! | Observation - Part 4 (END) (youtube.com)

Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. Meanwhile, Breki, Nancy and Linnea watch him watching it all. It gets very meta once you consider that you're listening to what we thought about watching the man watching his life turning upside down. Show notes and links: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (imdb.com)

Sorry for the delay here! There was a hick-up in the publication process that made everything look like it was published, but it just didn't appear on the site or in the feeds. We've found and fixed the problem, though, so this shouldn't keep happening. Edit: And if that wasn't enough, turns out the audio file was broken all along. >.< ... Fixed version has now replaced the original! Sorry! Show notes and links: Sliding Doors (1998) - IMDb (imdb.com)

Way back in 1941, they made a movie about the world in 1941. Unfortunately, they got a lot of things wrong, but managed to make a somewhat enjoyable movie nonetheless. Show notes and links: Sundown (1941) - IMDb (imdb.com)

Ever been sitting in a car when something in you just ... just snaps? This week, we see how Michael Douglas deals with exactly that, in Falling Down. Show notes and links: Falling Down (1993) - IMDb (imdb.com) List of English terms of venery, by animal (wikipedia.org) Falling Down Movie Review & Film Summary (1993) (rogerebert.com) theoffcamerashow - YouTube (youtube.com) Gemini Man (2019) - IMDb (imdb.com) M134 Minigun - Google Search (google.com)

This week, we check out that lovely little 90s comedy called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. There are plenty of lies in that previous sentence, as the movie is neither lovely, little nor a comedy. Show notes and links: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) (imdb.com) Deadly snake venom delivers pain relief : Nature News & Comment (nature.com) Adrenochrome - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) 12 Insanely Subtle CGI Movie Moments Nobody Noticed (youtube.com) #11 on this list is Tobey Maguire's hair in this movie.

In another case of "Huh, I thought we'd done that movie already...", we bring you the movie which you always forget drops the 'g'; Singin' In the Rain. After watchin' it, we started talkin' about it and discussin' some of the details. Did we like it? You'll know all there is to know after downloadin' the episode!

Before we had the Iron Giant, Iron Will or Iron Man, we had another Iron hero to look up to. Today, we sit back and spend ninety minutes of movie magic with the original Iron hero, namely Iron Monkey. Show notes and links: Siu nin Wong Fei Hung chi: Tit ma lau (1993) (imdb.com) The movie. Woo-Ping Yuen - IMDb (imdb.com) The Director. An Interview with BRASS actor Nancy Frye – BATTLEGROUND PRODUCTIONS (battlegroundproductions.org) The Interview. THE STOLEN BACILLUS – BATTLEGROUND PRODUCTIONS (battlegroundproductions.org) The Podcast. Quicksand (TV Series 2019– ) (imdb.com) What Linnea has been watching. Hinterland (TV Series 2013– ) (imdb.com) What Nancy has been watching.

A movie so good it's been made five times. We've watched the fourth, perhaps the most popular of the versions, and we have opinions. What are those opinions? Well, why don't you listen to the show instead of me telling you? I mean, ... I don't want there to be any spoilers in the description... Eh? Eh? See, it's funny, because the movie's ... the title of the movie... Oh, never mind. Show notes and links: The Spoilers (1942) - IMDb (imdb.com)

In July of 1980, Roger Ebert felt he had seen enough movies to qualify his review for The Blue Lagoon by stating that ""The Blue Lagoon is the dumbest movie of the year", and in this week's episode, the gang find it quite hard to argue against that assessment - and to his observation that, quote, "every third shot in this movie seems to be showing a parrot's reaction to something". Show notes and links: The Blue Lagoon Movie Review & Film Summary (1980) (rogerebert.com) The Blue Lagoon (1980) - IMDb (imdb.com)

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". Everybody knows the quote, but it's surprising how few have read the book or seen the movie based on it. We have. Why haven't you?

Most Disney movies try to teach us something - an important life lesson, as it were. Sometimes it's quite surface-level, sometimes it's profound and intelligent. In this week's movie, we learn that it's important to have lofty ambitions and avenge your father's death by performing the death-defying stunt that he died trying to perform. ... Sorry, let me correct that. It's important to try to perform the death-defying stunt. It doesn't really matter if you succeed or not, it's just important that you wanted to and that you probably could have had things turned out differently or something. Show notes and links: Third Man on the Mountain (1959) (imdb.com)

This week, the gang has a misadventure in the Australian Outback and find themselves walking aimlessly, looking for civilization... Or at least some kind of a plot or subtlety in the message, at least. Anything would be better than this, right? Show notes and links: Walkabout (1971) - IMDb (imdb.com) The Secret Life of Pets - Sausage Factory Scene (5/10) | Movieclips (youtube.com)

Imagine asking a 56-year old Austrian man to write a story about a 17-year old American girl. You'd get something like this. Show notes and links: Gidget (1959) - IMDb (imdb.com) Frederick Kohner - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

A few weeks ago, we talked about the Tom Hanks movie Sleepless in Seattle. In it, the movie An Affair to Remember appears in the background several times. So we figured, hey; why not watch that for Valentine's day? So we did. Show notes and links: An Affair to Remember (1957) (imdb.com)

It's time for us to travel back to 1997 and see what all the fuss is about. The Teen Mystery Horror Thriller Genre-bender named I Know What You Did Last Summer is next on the Movieing On schedule! Show notes and links: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) (imdb.com)

We'd done far too many movies from the last two decades of the past century, so it was time to pay a visit to the 1950s and see if your mind can be changed by Juror #9, played by Henry Fonda. Show notes and links: 12 Angry Men (1957) - IMDb (imdb.com) 12 Angry Men (TV Movie 1997) (imdb.com) The 1997 version of the movie mentioned every so often during the episode.

It doesn't take a real genius to understand the Value ... eerhm ... I can't think of a good way to make a pun using Val Kilmer's surname. I mean, "The value of killing mermaids" is the closest I get, but that doesn't work, now, does it? Either way; good movie is good. Enjoy! Show notes and links: How I helped inspire the lead female character. (slate.com) Interesting article from Slate about how a real person served as the inspiration for Jordan, the movies' lead female. Real Genius (Film) - TV Tropes (tvtropes.org) Real Genius - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

In this week's episode, we take a look at an action thriller starring Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones and the most hamfisted interpretation of the law we've seen in quite some time. Show notes and links: Double Jeopardy (1999) - IMDb (imdb.com) Double Jeopardy (Film) - TV Tropes (tvtropes.org) Double jeopardy - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Guilty as Sin (1993) - IMDb (imdb.com) Malice (1993) - IMDb (imdb.com) Final Analysis (1992) - IMDb (imdb.com)

I say this a lot, but ... I can't believe it's taken us this long to get to this movie. I mean, okay, it's not a great movie, sure, but it's got that scene in it where he holds a boombox over his head, so that's cool. Show notes and links: Say Anything... (1989) - IMDb (imdb.com) Say Anything... (Film) - TV Tropes (tvtropes.org) Flatiron Building - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Bob's Java Jive – Tacoma, Washington (atlasobscura.com)

So there was far less of a New Year Eve theme to this movie than any of us remembered, but hey - it's a good movie nonetheless!

Finding a time where all three of us could record was tricky around the Christmas holidays, but we made it work! The movie? The 1947 Christmas classic, Miracle on 34th Street. Honestly; I'm having a hard time understanding how we didn't get to do this movie earlier. ... Now to start planning for how we can find time to record our New Years episode! Show notes and links: Miracle on 34th Street (1947) (imdb.com) - The movie we watched for this week's episode. Miracle on 34th Street (TV Movie 1959) (imdb.com) - The 1959 TV Movie. Miracle on 34th Street (TV Movie 1973) (imdb.com) - The 1973 TV Movie. Miracle on 34th Street (1994) (imdb.com) - The 1994 rebooted movie, starring Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, and Dylan McDermott.

Sorry for the time away, but we're back - and we've got a good one! Show notes and links: Cold Comfort Farm (TV Movie 1995) (imdb.com)

It was the year 1917. Evil Swedes roamed the wilds of Northern Minnesota, and everybody was So. Damned. Cold. If the Evil Swedes didn't get you, frostbite or scheming businessmen would. So what's a seventeen-year old to do? That's right, he's going to travel by Husky. Cliché after cliché ensues in the trope-fest that we call ... Iron Man .. no? Iron Fist? No? ... Oh, right! Iron Will! Show notes and links: Iron Will (1994) - IMDb (imdb.com) Movie Mistakes: When does Film Continuity REALLY Matter? (youtube.com)

It's the final movie in our Halloween series, the 1999 Johnny Depp classic, Sleepy Hollow! (After we've finally resolved so many of the issues we've had with the technology as regards recording an episode, a new technical issue appears that comes in the way of editing it properly. Sorry for this coming out so late!) Show notes and links: Sleepy Hollow (1999) - IMDb (imdb.com) Ichabod Crane - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

As far as scary movies go, some are scarier than others. Then there are the ones that try to inject a bit of humor into it all. Then there are those that try to be scary but end up being funny. This is an example of that last category. Show notes and links: House on Haunted Hill (1959) (imdb.com) Bizarrchitecture - TV Tropes (tvtropes.org) Smell-O-Vision - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Redlettermedia Paranormal Activity Tour - YouTube (youtube.com) "House M.D." Pilot (TV Episode 2004) - Trivia (imdb.com)

You know - there are very few times in life when you feel that the last few minutes of a thing make up for the rest of the thing not having been very good. In fact; I can only think of three; bad sex, an ice cream dessert following a distatestful dinner ... and this movie. If you could just read the synopsis of this movie and then watch the last twelve minutes, that should be enough. Show notes and links: Priest (1994) - IMDb (imdb.com)

This week, we move on to Dark City, a lovely philosophical treatise on Last Thursdayism. Show notes and links: Dark City (1998) - IMDb (imdb.com)

It was a movie never intended for human consumption ... But we are a foolhardy bunch, and we dared consume it. Much retching was to follow. Show notes and links: The Fantastic Four (1994) - IMDb (imdb.com) *SNEAK PEEK* DOOMED! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's THE FANTASTIC FOUR (youtube.com)

Despite technical issues, we've got ourselves a show! Here's to hoping that we celebrate episode 400 with fewer issues. Show notes and links: 300 (2006) - IMDb (imdb.com) Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 28 More Actors' Accents | WIRED (youtube.com)

It's one of the 80s fantasy classics, and we're tackling it here, on the final episode in the two-hundreds. So sit down, relax and enjoy our discussion of Willow... Which mainly centers around foley work and cameras, not so much the plot, but anyway! [caption id="attachment_53018" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Spot the stunt man and the dummy![/caption] Show notes and links: Willow (1988) - IMDb (imdb.com) John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Cult-Movie Review: Willow (1988) (reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com) Willow Movie Review & Film Summary (1988) (rogerebert.com) Ben Burtt - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Film Riot (youtube.com) Jurassic Park sound - YouTube (youtube.com) Jurassic Park dinosaur sounds are animal sex (businessinsider.com) The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2) (youtube.com) The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios (Part 2/2) (youtube.com)

When a book named Rocket Boys gets the anagram treatment when it's turned into a movie called October Sky, it gets Breki's attention. When it also turns out to be a lovely coming-of-age movie about a group of boys in the late 1950s who want to build rockets instead of working the coal mines? Well, then you've got a movie we want to see. Stuff we talk about and/or which might be interesting: October Sky (1999), directed by Joe Johnston. Brass, season two, is out! Hear our very own Nancy Frye portraying a multitude of people in this radio series. Douglas Swander has a very impressive biography, despite not having had much of a movie carreer. That "Douglas Swander" guy who wrote his bio must really like Douglas Swander. Concept art for Star Wars by Joe Johnston. Imagine being the guy who created the visual designs for The Iron Giant, Yoda and Boba Fett - and who also directed a handfull of great movies. Why aren't people talking about Joe Johnston more than they are? The story of real-life Coalwood, West Virginia.

No; it's not a movie about a biker gang - it's a movie about the civil war. That's the American Civil War, not the Captain America Civil War. Gordon alert: 25:10 - Redlegs riding by Roedel’s house at night. 1:26:50 - Quantrill’s guys riding by. 1:31:20 - Dead center behind Quantrill’s right shoulder. 1:37:51 - Center left, twirling mustache (of course). 1:45:11 - Right of center, gold boards on shoulder. Yeah, he switched sides.

The film that we got is in the pod that is cast, but the cast of the film is in the pod that was got. Got it? Got it. Good. Show notes and links: The Court Jester (1955) - IMDb (imdb.com)

This is one of those movies where the title seems to be trying to misdirect you. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. Sure; there is a woman named Martha Ivers in this movie, and there are a lot of strange things about her - but there's nothing even remotely resembling love. ... maybe that's the strange thing? That she cannot seem to love?

In the future, things are very much like they are today - only underground, dystopian and everything is white. Show notes and links: THX 1138 (1971) - IMDb (imdb.com) The Making of THX 1138.avi (youtube.com)

There were many patterns in the nineties that only become obvious when you stop and look back on them. One of those patterns was the movie about the guy who dies and then comes back to avenge his death. Darkman is one of those movies.

Two sets of identical twins were born on the same night and in the same little house. One pair belonged to nobility, the other to the lowest of plebs. Naturally, the pairs were mixed up and the parents went home with one of each. That's how it started. Nobody really knows how it ends, because everybody dies before finishing the sentence. Show notes and links: Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) (imdb.com) Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED (youtube.com) Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages From Film & TV | WIRED (youtube.com) Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 31 Actors Playing Real People | WIRED (youtube.com)

Sometimes, a movie comes across our desks which amazes us, astounds us, and moves us to the very core of our beings. We question our humanity, our values and the ways we live our lives. We learn to love anew. ... This is not that movie. Not by far. Show notes and links: Walking and Talking (1996) - IMDb (imdb.com) IT (2017) Pitch Meeting - YouTube (youtube.com)

When a movie's review has some people describing "such beautiful pictures, such poetry in every single one of them" on the one hand, and "Jarmusch's indie camera work lacks style" on the other, you know you're in for a treat. When one person says that this movie is "half the reason I stopped being an investment banker and became a film-maker" when another person says that it "is one of the most pretentious, boring and ridiculous films ever made" ... Then you know you've got to see it. All quotes are actual quotes from reviews on IMDb. Show notes and links: Dead Man (1995) - IMDb (imdb.com) Jim Jarmusch Q&A | 'Dead Man' (Full) (youtube.com)

Remember The Seven Samurai? There, you had seven good guys defending a city against all odds. Now imagine that movie, set it in the end of the Wild West, and have the good guys be bad guys. Then give it to a 1960s version of Quentin Tarantino and ask him to direct it. Yup, that's pretty much The Wild Bunch. Show notes and links: The Wild Bunch (1969) - IMDb (imdb.com) salad days - YouTube (youtu.be)

Thelma & Louise. It's hard to imagine, looking at the sheer amount of episodes that we've done, that we've never gotten around to making an episode about this movie. It is, after all, the quintessential road trip movie ... What's that? Huh? It's famous for other things, too? Oh. I did not know that! Fascinating. Come see what Ridley Scott does when he's not making effect-heavy blockbusters scored by Hans Zimmer. Come see two of the women who were nominated, but ultimately lost the Best Actress academy Award to Jodie Foster this year. Come away asking yourself if this is the true origin of the phrase "Geez, Louise". Also, drama, excitement, death, sex, money, robberies and everything else a person could desire. As we mention in the beginnin gof this episode, there have been some pretty bad technical issues to deal with of late. Hopefully we'll have them all sorted out within the next few weeks, but in case we get an episode or two out late every so often - now you know why. Show notes and links: Thelma & Louise (1991) - IMDb (imdb.com) “Off the Cliff” by Becky Aikman (amzn.to) Facts to Know about Women in Hollywood (womenandhollywood.com)