Willow (1988)
WILLOW this week... the Boyz kinda liked it, just not all of it. Sure it’s pretty broad, a little one note and too ambitious with its special effects but there are some moments that really work. In conclusion, motherfuck those fucking brownies.
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I barely like jurassic 1, but I get it...I think,?
every time the brownies were mentioned i let out an audible Ugh
I’ve never checked the comments on here. There’s more than I imagined.
Two things I learned today: Val Kilmer has a tracheotomy and he and Sorsha got married after this movie
Most debased ep in some time. 5 Stars!
Pretty sure that farmer pig is a founding member of the Volcel movement!
This was my first time watching the whole movie through, and I kept getting bumped by how similar the score is to Krull. My brain kept going "Wait, that's not how the song goes" during the high-adventure bits.
I really feel like this episode was shorter than the last one
Return to Oz is the better slightly dark movie made for kids.
Slightly? The Wheelies had me pissing my britches when I watched that as a kid.
Haven’t listened to the pod yet but watching Willow now with my kids, the score during the wagon chase is the Goonies theme
What?!
My favorite performance of Kilmer is Real Genius - i think it’s his strongest performance. Although Darr will prbly say it’s Tombstone or Heat
I thought he was pretty good in Thunderheart. Really wish ABZ would do that movie.
if nobody brings stilts for Ben to try at the next live ABZ show I'm gonna kms
Nah, Eye-ron Giant is awesome.
His name is I. Ron Giant, like L. Ron Hubbard, so Rodgers is technically correct.
Yet again my favorite thing is Ben will get something wrong (how you say Madmartigan) and then Stanger will leap in with a correction that is also, somehow, wrong.
Missed my ranazizi reference this episode.
... I like the Brownies.
I didn't mind them until the wagon chase. The flow of that entire sequence keeps getting broken up so we could check in with the Brownies every 15 seconds (That's also when the seams really start showing on the composite shots, which to that point had looked pretty solid.) That's when it clicked for me that the Brownies shared something in common with Jar-Jar on a conceptual level: These are characters that Lucas imagines are getting into big, broad slapstick hijinks at every single possible opportunity, and that there's nothing the audience is going to want more than to see every SECOND of this hilarious comedy taking place.
Speaking of Viper Room. I watched Sneakers this weekend.
Class of 2003 here. Lukewarm on Iron Giant.
Class of 2004 checking in and yeah I've never understood the fawning love.
Baseball might be getting shit wrong. The NBA has a good system: The vaccinated sections were pretty spaced out for each level. At the Nets game two days ago I grabbed a lower bowl seat- good vibes all around.
Title for Action Boyz biography: "Not Without my Dad's Hog".
The Action Boyz: A podcast about one guy’s knee, one guy’s dad, and one guy’s dad’s enormous hog.
Always thought it was "don't give a fuck if I'm cumming or bleeding"
That's way better imo
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm hoping Cosby stops by the pod more often
it’s bardy horror
Bawdy Whorer
#ReleaseTheBurglecut
Came here to post this. Good to know we’re all equally unfunny.
Get rid of those fucking brownies and the movie would be 200% better.
This movie ruined me as it made it so I was only attracted to redheads wearing plate armor that showed off their voluptuous boobies. And little people, I have a fetish for little people....
The animal transformation that fucked me up was Carol Channing turning into a sheep in that Alice In Wonderland TV movie from the 80's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIBGjXIoEs
Savini directed the 1990 Night of the Living Dead remake. Again, pretty good.
Speaking of sleds, when I was a server at O’Charley’s in Louisville, KY in 1997 we would use the large server trays as sleds. I remember going on a date seeing Titanic and then she and I going to my O’Charley’s for drinks. 3 hours later, 8 servers, a few cooks and she and I drunk server tray sledding. I tried standing on 2 small cocktail trays. Felt like the first Iron Man suit test. I’m not sure how I got home that night. 5 stars.
I’m just waiting for the day one of these hipsters names their son “Madmartigan.”
I'd imagine if the Willow tv show is a hit it'll happen as soon as next year