DRUNK CINEMA 008: "Forbidden Planet" Is Up!

 
"Another one of them new worlds.  No beer, no women, no pool parlors...nothin'.  Nothin' to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans."
-- Cookie, Forbidden Planet

Hey there, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema!  This time, we reopen the Drunk Cinema Theater to watch Forbidden Planet, the 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and featuring Leslie Nielsen as Commander John J. Adams, Anne Francis as Altaira "Alta" Morbius, Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Edward Morbius, and the first appearance of Robby the Robot!

In this eighth episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan's Robby the Robot toy robot, the origin of Xan's cat Jess-Belle's name, what would happen if cats had opposable thumbs, Frank on Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Sally Field being a better leading lady for Burt Reynolds than Loni Anderson, Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, Mystery Science Theater J. Elvis Weinstein, Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man, our plea for everyone to get drunk responsibly, Forbidden Planet having the first electronic musical score, the great Delia Derbyshire from Doctor Who, Star Trek ripping off transporters from Forbidden Planet, Earl Holliman appearing in the first Twilight Zone episode, Dr. Morbius being a space-age James Bond villain, Alta being a Disney princess, Commander Adams killing Alta's tiger, the C-57D crew being extremely horny for Alta, Robby the Robot having private time with a copy of Playbot magazine, sexy being the eye of the beholder, Morbius' secret space lab, Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 1950s men being big dumb clods, Robby making Cookie a cave full of bourbon, Xan finding a big hole in her shirt, Duck Dodgers in the 24th & 1/2 Century, Alta's mourning mini-skirt, our enjoying talking about other movies rather than the movie we're watching, chicks digging scars, Night on Bald Mountain, Dr. Morbius' Unchecked Primal Aggression, the non-stop gauges, Robby making microbrews, Drunk Mail from Dave Proctor, Diana Rigg being the perfect wife for James Bond, Bob Oedekerk vs. Steve Oedekerk, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 009, as Xan and I watch Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, the 2002 martial arts comedy film written, directed by and starring Steve Oedekerk as The Chosen One, Hui Lou Chen as Master Tang, Fei Lung as Master Pain a.k.a. Betty, and Ling Ling Tse as Ling!

DRUNK CINEMA 007: "Goldfinger" Is Up!

 
"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No, Mr. Bond...I expect you to die!"
-- James Bond and Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger

Hey there, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema!  This time, we reopen the Drunk Cinema Theater to watch Goldfinger, the 1964 James Bond series espionage film, directed by Guy Hamilton and featuring Sean Connery as James Bond, Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger, and Harold Sakata as Oddjob!

In this seventh episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan mindmelding with her toilet bowl after our last episode, the Swedish Chef making Xan laugh so hard she can't breathe, Honor Blackman appearing in the Doctor Who story "Terror of the Vervoids", Gert Fröbe as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, our favorite James Bond themes, Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong in the Pink Panther movies, Goldfinger's popularity creating the 1960s spy movie phenomenon, Bond's black humor puns, Goldfinger cheating at cards, Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson, wondering how Jill's corpse was placed on the bed without dripping golden paint on the sheets, the first time Xan saw Ralph Fiennes, Pinky and the Brain being thwarted by the atomic weight of gold, the Aston Martin DB5, the Get Smart shoe gag, Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Phantom III made of gold, the importance of seat belts, Tilly looking for revenge for her dead sister Jill, Toonces the Driving Cat, Pussy Galore being a good name for a lesbian, wondering how Bond's suit stays perfectly pressed after being in a suitcase, Goldfinger paying $10 million tomorrow for crime today, Goldfinger's plan to make the United States gold reserve radioactive to drive up the price of his gold, my Dad being stationed at Fort Knox army base in the '50s, the convenient atomic bomb loading cart, Harold Sakata getting badly burned during Oddjob's electrocution scene, Goldfinger getting a reverse enema, our tenative plan to discuss Forbidden Planet, circulating the links, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 008, as Xan and I watch Forbidden Planet, the 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and featuring Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Edward Morbius, Anne Francis as Altaira "Alta" Morbius, Leslie Nielsen as Commander John J. Adams, and Frankie Darro as Robby the Robot!

DRUNK CINEMA 006: "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" Is Up!

 
"Khan!  Khan, you've got Genesis, but you don't have me!  You were going to kill me, Khan. You're going to have to come down here! You're going to have to come down here!"
"I've done far worse than kill you.  I've hurt you, and I wish to go on hurting you.  I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her -- marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, buried alive.  Buried alive!"
Kirk: "KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!"
-- Admiral James T. Kirk and Khan Noonien Singh, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Hey there, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema!  This time, we reopen the Drunk Cinema Theatre to watch Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the 1982 science fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer and featuring William Shatner as Admiral James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Captain Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, and Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh!

In this sixth episode, Xan and I discuss things like Roger Ebert hating just about every movie that I like, the reason why Xan's husband Chris won't read film reviews anymore, Amazon Women on the Moon, my wife Lori never listening to any of my podcasts, Nicholas Meyer's movie Time After Time, The Day After, Cold War era songs "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood and "Russians" by Sting, Sherlock Holmes being a cocaine addict, my published Star Trek: Strange New Worlds II short story "Doctors Three", why Leonard Nimoy means so much to Xan, all roads leading to Star Trek, Merritt Butrick and Paul Winfield appearing on Star Trek: The Next Generation, James Horner scoring Krull, the "Aren't you dead?" line being used to throw off leaked script reports about Spock's death, Xan's homemade Romulan Ale, my turning the same age as Kirk in Wrath of Khan, Chekov moving up in the Starfleet world, Walter Koenig's son Andrew, the big plot hole of Khan recognizing Chekov's face, Scotty's nephew Peter Preston, Spock's ostentatious disco wall decor in his quarters, why Bones is my all-time favorite Star Trek character, Xan's mom realizing she's a nerd, Original Recipe vs. Extra Crispy KFC chicken, closeups on obviously fake ears, Gene Roddenberry having a problem with Kirk killing the Ceti eel that crawled out of Chekov's ear, Roy Orbison's "Ooby Dooby", Xan's husband Chris' being late to his high school graduation because he was watching Star Trek III, Xan crying during Spock's funeral, Kirk and David's awkward father-son hug, The Road Warrior vs. Mad Max: Fury Road, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 007, as Xan and I watch Goldfinger, the 1964 James Bond film directed by Guy Hamilton and featuring Sean Connery as James Bond, Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger, and Harold Sakata as Oddjob!

DRUNK CINEMA 005: "Young Frankenstein" Is Up!

 
"From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "I am man", our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself.  Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens!  We shall mock the earthquake!  We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself!"
-- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein

Hey there, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema!  This time, we reopen the Drunk Cinema Theatre to discuss Young Frankenstein, the 1974 comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and featuring Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Peter Boyle as The Monster, Marty Feldman as Igor, Teri Garr as Inga, and Cloris Leachman as Frau Blücher!

In this fifth episode, Xan and I discuss things like getting our parents their COVID-19 vaccines, our tribute to the late Cloris Leachman, Young Frankenstein being a double love story, Xan finally seeing me in a sweater instead of a t-shirt, the Oscars not liking comedies, b-movie director Irwin Allen, why Gene Wilder would've made a great Doctor on Doctor Who, Marty Feldman dying during the filming of Yellowbeard, the few Tom Cruise movies Xan has actually watched, Frederick and Elizabeth's social distancing, wondering what happened to the painting of Baron Victor Frankenstein, our mutual love of the hot pretzel shop Hot Sam, needing to appreciate sight gags in Mel Brooks movies, Igor and Sallah from Raiders of the Lost Ark being related, Mel Brooks getting the actual laboratory machines from Frankenstein (1931), Inspector Kemp wearing a monocle over an eyepatch, Frederick not being able to play darts while he's lying, Gene Hackman as Harold the blind man, Xan's favorite movie that stars a convicted murderer, the greatest Star Trek movie in the history of Star Trek movies, my wife Lori's favorite movies, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 006, as Xan and I discuss Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the 1982 science fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer and featuring William Shatner as Admiral James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Captain Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, and Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh!

DRUNK CINEMA 004: "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" Is Up!

 
"Hey, hey, hey, hey now.  Don't be mean.  We don't have to be mean, 'cause, remember...no matter where you go, there you are."
-- Buckaroo Banzai, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

Hey there, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema!  This time, we reopen the Drunk Cinema Theatre to discuss The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, the 1984 science fiction cult classic directed by W.D. Richter and featuring Peter Weller as Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, John Lithgow as Dr. Emilio Lizardo/Lord John Whorfin, Ellen Barkin as Penny Priddy, Jeff Goldblum as New Jersey, and Christopher Lloyd as John Bigbootél

In this fourth episode, Xan and I discuss things like Buckaroo Banzai being one of Xan's two all-time favorite movies, Xan meeting Peter Weller and Christopher Lloyd, Xan and Chris' Banzai Institute wedding invitations, Xan's email tribute to Buckaroo's enemy Hanoi Xan, Fox's proposed 1998 TV series Buckaroo Banzai: Ancient Secrets and New Mysteries, Kevin Smith's proposed 2016 TV series adaptation, the alternate opening featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as Buckaroo's mom, Ford trucks not being structurally capable of going 900 MPH, Perfect Tommy being the definitive '80s character, Billy Vera and the Beaters as Buckaroo's backup bands, that awkward moment when Penny Priddy tries to kill herself with a gun and gets mistaken for an assassin, Buckaroo wanting Penny to hold his Overthruster, Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, the creepiness of Buckaroo being attracted to Penny because she's the twin sister of his dead wife, the thermopod flying like a truck, the Black Lectroids impractical chairs, the modern credit sequence after the movie, the greatness of the Buckaroo Banzai theme, filming the end credits to the sound of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl", John Lithgow in The World According to Garp, Xan getting her Madeline Kahn on, and more!

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Be sure to come back next month for Episode 005, as Xan and discuss Young Frankenstein, the 1974 comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and featuring Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Peter Boyle as The Monster, Marty Feldman as Igor, Teri Garr as Inga, and Madeline Kahn as Elizabeth!

DRUNK CINEMA 003: "Die Hard" Is Up!

 
"Come out to the coast...We'll get together, have a few laughs..."
-- John McClane, Die Hard

Hey there, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema!  This time, we reopen the Drunk Cinema Theatre to discuss the ultimate Christmas movie, Die Hard, the 1988 action film directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber, Bonnie Bedelia as Holly Gennero, and Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell!

In this third episode, Xan and I discuss things like which of us will get sick of the other first, Bruce Willis as David Addison on Moonlighting, Reginald VelJohnson on Family Matters, De'voreaux White ripping off Ray's Music Exchange in The Blues Brothers, Xan thinking Alexander Godunov is sexy, what we're drinking this time, anticipating Star Wars after hearing the 20th Century Fox fanfare, differences from the original novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp, Run-D.M.C.'s "Christmas in Hollis", the scene establishing McClane being barefoot and wearing only a tank-top t-shirt, the fake security guard who looks like Huey Lewis, my souvenir piece of the Berlin Wall from 1989, Karl being part Klingon, my enjoying Twinkies along with Sgt. Al Powell, Xan's rubber prop gun used in Die Hard, Theo doing all the work and probably skimming off the top, Genghis Khan stealing candy from the concession stand, how to swear in German, Karl wanting to kill Ellis, Hans' bullshit list of demands, Helsinki Syndrome vs. Stockholm Syndrome, the cringe-inducing scene where McClane has to walk barefoot across a floor covered in broken glass, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", wondering why the two Agent Johnsons don't use their first names, Accutane probably giving me Crohn's Disease, Xan's phobia of eating in public, the Johnsons living with 20 to 25% of losing the hostages, Die Hard being a Hallmark Christmas movie, apologizing to Christine Peruski for not having her on Drunk Cinema yet, and more!

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Be sure to come back next month for Episode 004, as Xan and I begin 2021 by discussing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, the 1984 science fiction cult classic, featuring Peter Weller as Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, John Lithgow as Dr. Emilio Lizardo /Lord John Whorfin, Ellen Barkin as Penny Priddy, and Jeff Goldblum as New Jersey/Dr. Sidney Zweibel!

DRUNK CINEMA 002: "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" Is Up!

 
"Life moves pretty fast.  If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
-- Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Hey there, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema!  This time, we reopen the Drunk Cinema Theatre to discuss Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the 1986 teen comedy directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller, Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson, Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye, and Jennifer Grey as Jeanie Bueller!

In this second episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan being my emotional support animal, seeing Ferris Bueller's Day Off for the first time, Xan meeting Alan Ruck at a convention, finally getting a Ferris Bueller's soundtrack, Xan and I being bad influences on one another, our drink choices while we're watching the movie, Xan crushing on neurotic mess boys like Cameron, Xan recreating the scene of Cameron in his car debating whether to go over to Ferris' house, Jeffrey Jones being a registered sex offender, the greatness of Edie McClurg, Charlie Sheen as a prophetic drug addict, composer Ira Newborn scoring Mallrats, Ferris' bedroom decor dictating Xan's musical choices, wondering how Ferris hacked a school computer in the 1980s, Cameron's Three Stooges riff at the Chicago stock exchange, weeping for the future, Ferris having the best answering machine message, downtown parade choreography, Cameron going berserk, wondering why the police never went into Ferris' bedroom, the post-credits scene, how Ferris Bueller's Day Off changed my life, Drunk Mail from Dave Proctor, teasing our upcoming Die Hard discussion, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 003, as Xan and I celebrate Christmas by discussing Die Hard, the 1988 action film directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber, Bonnie Bedelia as Holly Gennero, and Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell!

DRUNK CINEMA 001: "Batman (1989)" Is Up!

 
"I feel a little drunk...and you're not anything."
"Hey, one drink and I'm flying."
"Why are you afraid of flying?"
-- Vicki Vale and Bruce Wayne, Batman (1989)

Hey there, movie fans!  My wonderful Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast co-host Xan Sprouse and I have finally launched our new movie commentary podcast, Drunk Cinema!  In this first episode, we open the Drunk Cinema Theatre to discuss Batman, the 1989 superhero film directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Jack Nicholson as The Joker/Jack Napier, Kim Basinger as Vicki Vale, and Michael Gough as Alfred Pennyworth!

In this debut episode, Xan and I discuss things like the very simple premise for Drunk Cinema, quoting Batman (1989) in our first Ghostwood episode, being allowed to use adult words, Tim Burton becoming the Batman director after Beetlejuice was a hit, what we're drinking while watching Batman, Xan's interesting story about Prince, Bob Kane and Bill Finger, Mark Hamill being our favorite Joker, Casino Night at Hogwarts, Lisa Simpson needing braces, Xan having to wait to see Batman on home video, the Batmobile being ribbed for her pleasure, Batman's homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark, the definitive Batman movie sequence, Xan's 1989 fashion choices, the Batwing being cooler than X-Wings, the one Joker henchman who's worth something, explaining the Laughing Bag novelty gag, how to reach us on the interwebs, Xan and I finally getting to watch Batman together, Xan and I realizing we had mutual friends and mutual interests, teasing our second episode, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 002, as Xan and I discuss Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the 1986 teen comedy directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller, Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson, Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye, and Jennifer Grey as Jeanie Bueller!