This week we tear apart David O. Russell’s 2012 film that was nominated for eight Oscars, “Silver Linings Playbook.” Bradley Cooper plays a guy who gets out of a mental institution and tries to get his wife back, until he meets Jennifer Lawrence’s character and they start dancing or something.
We wonder why on earth this pile of [BLEEP] that’s essentially just an unfunny sports movie was nominated for EIGHT Academy Awards and how JLaw won the Oscar for Best Actress. We also discuss unprofessional therapists, restraining orders, the seemingly-everywhere Cheshire Cat-like cop character, and how Robert De Niro’s desire to make bad movies seems almost as strong as his belief that vaccines cause autism.
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This week we’re tearing apart the beloved romantic comedy from 2003 “Love Actually.” This star-studded cast of British regulars (and Laura Linney) intersect in a tangled web of love (I guess) in London that would make Robert Altman spin in his grave. Hugh Grant plays the lovesick Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Billy Bob Thornton plays the president of the United States. Others include Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Martin Freeman, Andrew Lincoln, Keira Knightley, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and the late, great Alan Rickman.
We wonder why people would ever consider this movie romantic, because all the characters merely confuse instant attraction and distant infatuation for love. We unpack the uneasiness of Liam Neeson’s creepy step-son, Laura Linney’s bizarre relationship with her mentally ill brother, and the famous holding-cue-cards-at-the-door scene. Keating deals with his inexplicable untoward thoughts about certain cartoon characters while we also try to figure out why this movie feels the need to countdown the weeks until Christmas, and what exactly Billy Bob Thornton means by saying, “nice pipes.”
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In the inaugural episode of Film Snuff, we tear apart a beloved classic from our childhoods, the 1992 film “The Mighty Ducks.” This movie was so popular that it spawned two sequels, an animated TV series, and a professional hockey team.
Emilio Estevez plays Gordon Bombay, a successful Minneapolis defense attorney who is haunted by a missed shot in his 1973 peewee hockey championship game. But his cynical eyes get opened when he is forced to coach a ragtag bunch of poor kids.
We wonder why the punishment for getting a DUI would be to work with children, why Gordon Bombay can’t get over missing that one shot, what the deal with creepy Hans is, and who could be writing this many newspaper articles about this peewee hockey league. We discuss how disturbing it is that Charlie insists on his mom dating his hockey coach, that the moral of this movie is having money and ringers is the only way to win, and we try to get to the bottom of Goldberg’s mysterious claim that he would soon be moving to Philly.
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A sneak peak at FILM SNUFF, a new comedy podcast where hosts Keating Thomas & Jim offer a different bent on all those “bad movie podcasts” out there that usually take the worst movies ever made that everyone agrees are terrible—and most of us haven’t either seen or even heard of—and rip them apart. Film Snuff instead takes all those overrated turds that were beloved hits at the box office or inexplicable critics darlings—and gives THEM movies their deserved bullying.
These movies range from Oscar-nominated garbage, huge box-office hits, beloved comedies that aren’t funny, sappy romantic trash, and even some acclaimed movies from their childhood that in retrospect are actually nonsense.