Shut Up And Watch The Movie! | Movie And TV Commentary Podcast

This time the guys tackle Mediums. You know, those people who claim to have special powers that allow them to communicate with the dead. The guys try to figure out how scientifically speaking that could work and then as is the tradition, tear it all down.

This time the guys questioned their own intelligence and wondered if that's a sign of being smart or dumb. Later they talk about not getting sick and wonder why rich people go to college. Plus things get romantic during Pop Clips!

Mark takes pride in not knowing about sports and music (he refutes this claim), so what better way for him to prove he knows absolutely nothing about sports and music than to take a super quiz. Cline came up with 20 general knowledge questions about sports and music. Did Mark fail or will he surprise us all and get them all right?  Listen tot his edition of the podcast and find out! Play Along at Home: 1. What Sport Does Colin Kaepernick Play? 2. What band released an album Titles Houses Of Holy? 3. The Dallas Mavericks play which sport? 4. Jerry Jones owns what professional football team? 5. The Rock n' Roll Hall Of Fame Is located In What city? 6. Eddie Vedder is the lead singer of this band. 7. Name all three Pittsburgh Professional sports teams. 8. What is the Beatles Home Town? 9. Mark McGwire played what professional sport? 10. Name The Los Angeles Hockey Team? 11. Who is the drummer Of Metallica? 12. Which team won the Super Bowl in February of 2014? 13. This artist was assassinated on December 8th, 1980 in New York City. 14. What team did Refrigerator Perry Play on? 15. What do most people consider to be Whitney Houston's biggest hit? 16. Who sings the lines "I can feel it coming in the air tonight" in one of his more popular songs? 17. Debbie Harry is often called by the name of her former band? What was the name of this band? 18. What two NFL teams share a stadium? 19. Peyton Manning plays for what NFL team? 20. Which of the following musicians is now dead? Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, Prince or Mick Fleetwood?

This time we watch a classic B-movie from 1987 called Miami Connection. The film is the tale of a Synth pop band who happens to have some incredible martial art abilities, which comes in handy throughout the movie as they are attacked by various other bands, street thugs and ninjas. Yes, I said ninjas. The acting in this film is horrible. The actors put little to no effort into their acting and many of the seem pretty unsure about their lines, like they just grabbed a few random dudes off the streets and stuck them in the movie. The band's main man is Mark, played by the films producer and writer Y.K. Kim, a Korean immigrant, who evidently sometimes misses his family, who has a black belt in tae kwon do, which we learn from the multiple thugs mentioning this as they run away from Mark and the rest of his band with their tails between their legs. This fact is confirmed by the fact that Mark and his band mates have the word " Tae Kwon Do" embroidered on the back of their gi. The movie has all of the classic B-movie elements, bad acting, bad dialogue, bad soundtrack, gore,  random breasts and a plot where the motives of the characters are questionable at best.  This movie is short and sweet and is totally worth your time and Netflix superscription. The movie which was originally panned as one of the worst movies ever was re-released in 2010 to become the cult classic it is considered today.  To listen to our commentary podcast just cue up your Netflix and wait for us to tell you to hit play!  

This week we are back in the world of 80's TV and watch the series finale of what was one of our favorite shows when we were kids, Knight Rider. Looking back now, it seems we had horrible taste in television, but that car was and is so cool. As was the case with Murder She Wrote, which we did a commentary for a few weeks ago, the finale was pretty much just a normal episode. The producers and actors knew that the show had a declining audience and the end was near so they wrote an episode titled The Scent Of Roses where Michael's fiancé was killed, that was supposed to be a finale but instead the network put that episode in the middle of the season and ended the series with the episode we watch, called Voo Doo Knight. So, get you Netflix of DVD ready and listen to our commentary of the series finale of the 1980's hit Knight Rider. Season 4 Episode 22: Voo Doo Knight

This week the guys jump back into this decade for a change and watch the 2012 film, LOL, starring the mush mouthed Miley Cyrus. Not Known for her acting chops or as a particularly great singer, Miley has still managed to defy the odds of being a celebrity's daughter to gain super stardom within the teen demographic. This movie is every thing you would expect from a PG-13 teen drama that sometimes marketed itself as a comedy. John Hughes would roll in his grave if he saw this sorry excuse for a teen drama. Every moment of the film is contrived and the exceptionally beautiful twenty- something actors who play high school students are not people that the average american teen could relate to. The movie has it's fair share of questionable scenes which would make most parents cringe if they were watching this movie with a younger child. Like the opening scene where Miley's Lola character walks in on her mom, played by Demi Moore, taking a bath with her younger sister and decides it would be a good time to strip down herself and take a shower which prompts her mom to question her "Brazilian" waxed nether regions. There is also plenty of bra wearing sex and closed mouth kissing that pushed this movie to the PG-13 rating. Overall this film lacks any real story or direction and the writing can be quite lazy with the use of the journal to let us know exactly how Miley's character feels throughout the movie and is used as a plot tool to create friction and drama between her and her mom. In the end the Whiz Kids both give this movie two stars for no reason other than there were some attractive girls in the movie and because Mark didn't fall asleep during the viewing for a change. So, get your Netflix (or DVD) ready and line up our audio for the 2012 movie LOL. Press play, now!    

In 1995 after twelve glorious seasons of Murder, She Wrote, the favorite show of senior citizens everywhere, came to a close. After being moved to Thursdays in direct competition with NBCs historically  successful Must See TV line up the show lost the good majority of its ratings. At the end of its eleventh season it enjoyed being the eighth most watched television show but would fall to the fifty-eighth in the final season. At this point CBS decided that they were sick of all their viewers dying of natural causes and wanted to start to skew the demographics of the network to the younger crowd and would cancel the show at the end of the 1995-1996 season. In the series finale the shows story line would coincidentally  or maybe not so coincidentally cover that same topic. It is clear when you watch the finale that the writers and producers were not planning on this being the finale episode of the series. It runs just as every other episode of the program did throughout the twelve years of being on the air. There would be a murder, Angela Lansbury would sniff around the crime scene and eventually solve the case for the seemingly clueless police detectives. This episode was much of the same and could be the worst series finale in the history of television with the motive of the killer being questionable at best. Luckily for us CBS put out a few made for TV movies of Murder She Wrote in the late nineties and early two thousands so we could all get our Jessica Fletcher fix. Angela Lansbury is still kicking around as I type this so we might luck out and get one more taste of everyone's favorite whodunit series before she leaves this earth. So get your Netflix ready, call your Grandma and get ready to hit play! From May 16th 1996 here is the series finale of Murder She Wrote with an episode called "Death By Demographics" (Season 12, Episode 24).

  Wow. What a bad movie. This week we watch the 1983 movie BMX Bandits, a movie that is probably 30 minutes too long and has a story line that is a little bit absurd. The movie features a 16 year old Nicole Kidman. The movie features obnoxiously long chase themes involving cars and BMX bikes and of course the kids are way smarter than the adult criminal types and in the end save the day. All in all this is one of the worst movies we have ever seen. So get your Netflix ready to line up with our audio and pres play now!                                      

This week on our Netflix movie commentary podcast is a personal favorite of mine, Explorers. It is a movie about a few kids, who are evidently super geniuses, who manage to build their own space ship. The movie takes advantage of every kid's fantasy to just get away from it all and you can't get much further away than actually leaving the planet earth. The movie loses something at the end when they finally meet the aliens, who happen to be kids themselves (spoiler), but all in all this is a fantastic Sci-Fi fantasy movie from the same people who made Gremlins and one of my favorites, Innerspace, which came out a couple of years later. Explorers was also the the debut film of Ethan Hawke And the late River Phoenix. I should also note that movie came out the same summer as my favorite movie of all time Back To The Future, so it was a great summer for science fiction films. Check out our commentary of this film this weekend on Shut Up And watch The movie!        

In the 80's action shows with pseudo violence were the king of the hill. Shows like A-Team were #1 in their time slot for years. The cartoonish violence was a trademark of 80's action shows where thousands of bullets and hundreds of explosions accounted for very few serious injuries or deaths.         This week we watch one of the most infamous episodes of the series which featured a cameo by androgynous pop star Boy George.  The cameo made little to no sense but the A-team were looking for ratings and Boy George and Culture Club were trying to keep their careers alive as the late 80's approached. Get your Netflix, Hulu or DVD ready* and enjoy the A-Team Commentary Podcast!   Season 4: Episode 16- "Cowboy George" *Line our audio up with the playback online or your DVD.  

                  This week the guys watch, Zeta One (The love Factor) what could be one of the worst movies in the history of cinema. The movie tells the tale of an international spy, who seemingly never leaves his neighborhood and a colony of aliens who happen to be beautiful woman who may or may not have been abducted from planet earth. The film moves at a painfully slow pace which literally put Mark to sleep as we recorded this episode. We tried our hardest to keep this movie entertaining but it was our biggest challenge to date.        

This week the guys watch the 1974 classic, Death Wish staring Charles Bronson. A tail of a crime victim turned reckless vigilante . This  movie was the first of five movies in the series with every movies plot more ridiculous as the last.                    

This week we watch the show Vampire Diaries. A show where Vampires and other assorted models go to school in fictional Mystic Falls, Virginia where ugly people are apparently not allowed. In this world Vampires can go outside when they wear a special magic ring and every murder a vampire commits seems to be explained away as a vicious animal attack. For what the show is it's not horrible, but that doesn't mean it's good.                      

                    This week the guys watch the outrageously bad 1970's show Emergency!, which somehow stayed on the air for six seasons. The show is a precursor to shows like ER and Third Watch but not even close to as compelling as those modern shows. If you like over acting and simple story lines than this show is for you!          

This week we watch the 2009 movie the Jerk Theory starring Adam Dynes and Mrs. Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan. In the film Adam Dynes' character is a lead singer in a high school band who decided it will be easier to get girls if he is a jerk. All this stems from an incident where he was heart broken after his arch rival took his girl to the prom. The music in the movie was written and performed by Mr. Dynes himself, which I wouldn't openly admit in public if I were him. As viewers we are forced to suspend our disbelief and musical taste and pretend the watered down, generic pop music is something all of the kids at his Catholic high school love. Tom Arnold and some especially ugly sidekick offer some "comic relief" and the movie is a little bit more edgy than you would think for a wannabee 80's teen movie. All in all the movie sucks, but The Hotshot Whiz Kids are here to help. Get your Netflix all ready and Shut up And Watch The Movie!                    

This week we head back to 1991 and watch the classic Sally Field film, Not Without My Daughter. the movie is about an American woman who is married to an Iranian doctor in Michigan. Her husband convinces her to travel to Iran with him to visit his family. Once they get there she finds out it was a one way trip and if she leaves she would have to do it Without her daughter!                

This week the guys provide a commentary for the 2005 ABC Family movie Pizza MY Heart. This movie takes the Romeo And Juliet story and places it in modern Verona, New Jersey where two feuding families, who happen to own adjoining pizza restaurants, battle for Pizza supremacy and a chance to franchise their restaurants. Of course the Son and daughter of each family fall in love, much to the chagrin of their battling families. If you are new to the show, here's how to listen.      

This time we do something a little different and take on the brand new NBC comedy 1600 Penn. The show doesn't actually premier on television until January 10th, but luckily for us NBC gives us the pilot of this horrible show that is almost sure to get cancelled. Go to the link below to watch online. The writing is amazingly bad and there is not a laugh to be found in the humble opinion of these two podcasters. Watch 1600 Penn Here        

  This time the guys provide commentary for the 1983 classic, Flashdance. It is the tale of a Pittsburgh girl who is a welder by day and a dancer by night. It features classic bad 80's songs and a horrible script. Enjoy!  

This week we watch the Pilot episode of Family Ties from way back in 1982. Things have certainly changed since then because I doubt the show would ever be picked up in modern times.

If you are a fan of incest you are going to love this movie. This film was released in 1987 and is based on the book of the same name which incidentally contained even more incest than the film adaptation. The film stars Kristy Swanson who was the original Buffy and also starred in a number of other eighties and early nineties movies. On the Whiz-o-meter Mark gave it gave it 2 1/2 stars while Cline gave it a full three stars.              

The Whiz Kids decide to get into the holiday spirit by providing a commentary to the 1985 film Santa Claus The Movie starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow. The movie sets out to explain the origins of ole' St. Nick while also crow barring in a story line that doesn't introduce the protagonist until an hour into the film. If You Are new to the show Click Here to learn how to line up the podcast and movie audio.

This week the guys take on yet another Lina Blair film. In the movie Blair plays a Young nurse that investigates suspicious deaths in a psychiatric ward. The movie takes place in Australia and had a surprising amount of topless scenes that unfortunately did not include Linda Blair's bare breasts. Get your Netflix ready and enjoy!

Fire up your Netflix and get ready to watch one of the worst movies ever made. This film has very little story line and a whole lot of bad acting and effects. The guys try to help you get through the film with their own movie commentary. We give it three and a half thumbs down. Click Here To Learn how to line up the Audio

This week the guys watch the 1985 cult movie Toxic Avenger, which inexplicably includes a very unfunny intro that was on the Laserdisc release. Once you get past that part the movie doesn't get much better but at least you will have the Whiz Kids to help you get through the film.

This week the guys watch the pilot episode of hit WB drama Felicity from 1998. You will hear the guys as they literally watch the show for the first time and knew nothing about the show other than the name.

Today the guys cover the 1979 film, Roller Boogie. The movie stars Linda Blair and uses the basic story lines that are used in about a million other movies. The movie was made in a hurry as the Roller Skating fad of the era came to an end. It should also be noted that by coincidence the Roller Boogie contest and climax of the film takes place on Cline's exact day of birth. Enjoy!

In this edition of Shut Up and watch The Movie! the guys dip their toes into the television waters and watch the first episode of My So-called Life, which premiered on August 25th 1994. After watching the show a young Mike Cline Jr. would fall in love with Claire Danes and write her a fan letter which she would never return. This is a first in a series of television pilots that the guys will provide commentary. Next TV show: Felicity (Pilot) Next Movie: Roller Boogie (1979)  

Welcome to the debut episode of Shut Up And Watch The Movie! In this premier episode of the podcast we tackle the cult classic, Night Of The Comet from 1984. The best way to watch is with your Netflix streaming account. Make sure to have it open prior to playing so you are properly lined up. Get your popcorn ready and enjoy!