The Futile Podcast

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

“My coke!”

Running Scared review (right click or click)

  • Dan Hedeya
  • onion rings
  • John Candy
  • Dancin’ in the Dark
  • Morris Day and the Time
  • The Honest of Tom Noonan

I would like to find a copy of this soundtrack on audio tape so I can rock it in my car.

 

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Musics: 

Ice House – Paradise

Prince – The Beautiful Ones

 

runtime:  0:45:22:09

“Uncle Benny!”

Corrupter and Doomsday quick reviews (right click OR click)

A little something for you beloved listeners to enjoy on your roadtrips to visit family for the food based holiday of joy. 

It’s important to remember that Oaks are hard.

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musics:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Merry Seat

Frank Sinatra – The Best is Yet to Come

“I bet you’ll make it 23 miles before you drink that.”

007 (right click OR click)

We talk about the pathology of James Bond.  The winning ego.  SPECTRE = Quantum.   Be sure to read Zack’s companion review for Quantum of Solace at his site here:  http://theforgottenreviews.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/new-release-quantum-of-solace/

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musics:

Gladys Knight – License to Kill

John Barry – Gassing the Gangsters

Tina Turner – Golden Eye

Lulu – The Man With the Golden Gun

Lani Hall – Never Say Never Again

Nancy Sinatra – You Only Live Twice

 

runtime:  0:58:22:12

 

Spy Genre bonus

We continue what we started with the QoS review and talk about the spy/paranoia genre in film.

music: 

Enigma – The Eyes of Truth

runtime:  0:15:24:03

“Let’s go back to base.”

Blue Thunder review (right click OR click)

Blue Thunder teaches us how to avoid heat seeking missiles in a city.   We also talk about the Cobretti Trilogy and how having a knife case on your belt makes you king shit. 

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Musics:

Coldplay _  Warning Sign

Seal – Prayer for the Dying

 

 

runtime:  0:29:36:07

“You might have been talking about the Shakespearean Puck.”

City of Ember review (right click or click)

Martin Landau is still alive.  Zack talks about this oddly dark children’s story based on a series of children’s novels. 

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Music:

Mercury Rev – The Dark is Rising

runtime: 0:15:51:08

I lost today … but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.

The winners for the podcast awards were just announced and in the General category we lost to this:  http://www.myextralife.com/

I’ll have to check this guy’s site out at some point.  I suppose in the future it would be wise to commission my brother to make a few more web-comics for the site.  I’d like to thank all of you who voted for the podcast (especially all of you that voted more than once). 

 We’ll keep on keepin’ on.

 

-Ian Strope 

 Film Junk also lost which is suspect because that podcast is the bee’s knees.  check them out here:   http://www.filmjunk.com/

“Baretta did that shit.”

Electra Glide in Blue review (right click OR click)

Topics of discussion are variable and it gets kind of dense discussing the tumultous era of the 20th Century as it relates to one cop trying to live by his principles. 

This movie does not have:  “Artifically Grittyified environments”

This movie does have:   McAlister from Lethal Weapon,  PPP (Proper Police Procedure OR Proper Preparation of Porkchops)

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musics:

Filter – Stuck in Here

Ice House – Electric Blue

runtime:  0:54:15:00