The Futile Podcast

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

211. Sword of the Stranger

211. Sword of the Stranger (right click OR click)

A good anime … a good anime movie … a recently produced good anime movie?  Yes.

Blood stings, you don't want to get it in your eyes.

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music:

Force of Nature – Nightshift

210. The Informant and A Serious Man

210. The Informant and A Serious Man (right click OR click)

Zack and Ian hark back to the good ole’ days of the Futile Podcast and do about 3 or 4 movie reviews in one.  We discuss the themes and the ideas at play in these films.   It is all very technical and not for the layperson … yeah right.

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music:

muziq – Green Crumble

208. Split Second

208. Split Second (right click OR click)

Probably don’t know about this Rutger Hauer sci-fi movie do yah?  Well Mark and Ian watched it so you won’t have to … though you might want to, I mean it has a mutated Rat creature that is a Satanic Serial killer?  I think … maybe.

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music:

Gorillaz – Demon Days

207. The Outlaw Josie Wales

Mark and Ian talk about Clint Eastwood’s favorite Western.
Mel "blanks" up in this one too.
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music:
Toto – In A Feeling

206. Unforgiven revisited

206. Unforgiven revisited (right click OR click)

Mark and Ian return to Clint’s masterpiece, this time on Blu-Ray.  You can see the original Unforgiven podcast that Ian and Zack did here:  Podcast 08b Unforgiven.

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Music:

Blood and Thunder – Trigun Soundtrack

204. Hurt Locker and Inglorious Basterds reviews

204. Hurt Locker and Basterds (right click OR click)

In my world there would be a different coloured Hitler behind each door.

We talk about two of the better pictures of 2009 as we play a bit of catch up due to our time away.  Ian also talks about his distrust for documentaries while Seth and Zack talk about Fantasy Sports … NERDS!

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music:

David Bowie – Cat People