The Futile Podcast

Deconstructing 80's & 90's action movies. Relating them to comics, TV, and cartoons from then and now.

239. Social Network

239. Social Network (right click OR click)

Zack and Ian are back in futile form for this one. Is it the new Citzen Kane? Or is it just what you get when you have a talented group of people make a movie about shallowness and the computers that they use for love ?

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music: nine inch nails – Something I Can Never Have

233. Hudson Hawk

233. Hudson Hawk (right click Or click)

Mark and Ian talk about this live action cartoon of a movie/musical.  If you can enjoy this movie then you are good people 😉

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music:

Sinatra – The Best is Yet to Come 2:54

Futile Con Year 0003

Futile Con report 0003 (right click OR click)

We reminisce about the first podcast those many years ago, talk about what new plans we have in the future for Year 4, Ryan and Blaine give their report on SDCC and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Zack talks about The Other Guys

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221. Silver Streak

221. Silver Streak (right click OR click)

Despite being set mostly on a train this movie is not as good as an anime series called Baccano! could be that 70’s era train travel isn’t as cool as 30’s?  That’s not really a question though is it? This is the movie with Gene Wilder and hints of Richard Pryor though honestly there is far more Pryor in Superman 3.

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music:

David Bowie – I’m Deranged*

 

*bonus points if you’ve seen Lost Highway or own this soundtrack or Outside, it’s all pretty solid

218. Gamer

218. Gamer (right click OR click)

I don’t know what is what with this one.  I mean the Crank guys make this and they use Law Abiding Citizen too but not even  Terry Crews or Keith David  can quite make this movie work …  But we talk about it anyway and discuss the important issues of what happens when people treat people like this:

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music:

Tweaker – Years From Now

213. The Burbs

213. The Burbs (right click OR click)

Ian and Mark talk about this Joe Dante film from the late 80’s.  A simpler time when Tom Hanks movies were  a little more fun than they are now.  Though at its heart this film is quite dark.

Watch out Tom, that guy was in The Last Unicorn

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music:

Jerry Goldsmith – Patton (theme)

212. Any Which Way You Can

212. Any Which Way You Can (right click OR click)

Mark and Ian make good on their promise and get back to this Clint classic.  In this movie we learn that too much alcohol can make you think a monkey looks like an old lady.  And that there are … good Neo-Nazis?

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music:

Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle