Twenty-five years of white saviors in purple spandex.

Okay, so maybe it was more like one terrible opening weekend for that particular superhero trope and for that we lay the blame all around for the auteur Simon Wincer's summer blockbuster that wasn't:

• Treat Williams being bad... but not bad enough as the villain.
• Catherine Zeta-Jones being sidelined to a volume shooter off the bench.
• And Kristy Swanson's strange fascination with Jon Lovitz which we didn't know at the time... but we could tell that there was something off about her in 1996.

All of that and a discussion on white privilege from two whites in regards to a movie with the ultimate leading man of the whites, Billy Zane!

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Twenty-five years of evil gingers and dragons moved to tears over a pet names.

The only good thing about this podcast experience was that the host who was most excited to do his Sean Connery as a dragon impression was absent.

That's it.

Enjoy our episode on DRAGONHEART!

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Twenty-five years of still not being able to pronounce the French female lead's name.

And we wish we could forget that idiot Jon Voight's name who has managed to out crazy Tom Cruise.

Also he's far less handsome. And far less charismatic. What a jerk. Meanwhile we find ourselves being jerks to Leslie Neilson of all people. Our apologies but enjoy our episode on one of the biggest hits of 1996 in Brian De Palma's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE!

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Twenty-five years of staying away from fighting Eric Roberts.

Especially when he has cornrows.

A lot of interesting visuals in Phil Joanou's HEAVEN'S PRISONERS. Including the entirety of our research material which includes perusing Teri Hatcher on Mr. Skin. But then like the Grinch... our cynical movie watching (and deeply perverted) hearts grew three times larger than our nether regions as we came under the sway of Alec Baldwin's bayou detective.

That and we insult our missing host Jairo without having to go through the grunt work of editing out his pitiful retorts. Enjoy the episode!

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Twenty-five years of living in The Suck Zone.

Apparently your three hosts can't agree on the greatness of Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt's tank top, or Bill Paxton... but Philip Seymour Hoffman does move us in interesting ways.

Jan de Bont's TWISTER is a look at a profession/hobby that is "one step above LARPing" according to one super-Jamie Gertz fan. We continue to misunderstand the movies of 1996 but we do understand wet t-shirts.

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Twenty-five years of supporting Goop and hating Ross.

On this episode your three hosts ignore what Entertainment Weekly once put on the cover of their Spring Movie Preview THE PALLBEARER to instead learn how to change their Zoom backgrounds.

Also we discuss breadsticks. Enjoy!

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Twenty-five years of Janeane Garofalo needing a box to stand next to Uma Thurman.

As three enlightened men here are our takeaways from THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS:

• Jairo would have preferred Ms. Garofalo's character have a pig nose like Christina Ricci in PENELOPE.
• Jared will bump up a movie's star rating on Letterboxd if at any time it features a dog in roller skates.
• And Mike is (of course) okay with Uma Thurman bringing a turtle to bed.

We hope those are enough insights into a movie a that features animals as we have absolutely nothing to offer on a love triangle where we are meant to believe that Janeane Garofalo is undateable. For we are good men of great moral character. Like. Rate. Review. Subscribe.

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Twenty-five years of robot puppets beating podcasters to the punch.

But the one podcaster who has taken the biggest L is our co-host Jairo. A list of things that Jairo does not understand:

• The humor of one Tom Servo.
• The joy of one Crow T. Robot.
• The value of Justise Winslow as an NBA prospect.

All of this and more as the other two more refined hosts take in one of the best films of 1996 in MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE!

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Twenty-five years of the Funky Bunch not being suitable son-in-law material.

If you ever wondered about possible wrist injuries on a roller coaster...

Or perhaps the appropriate eye level that a man who would one day be in CSI needs to maintain with his daughter's school friends...

Or even the obscure rental activity of schoolmates in an obscure (but allegedly wildly promiscuous) small Kentucky town... well we have the podcast for you on James Foley's FEAR!

Actually we never mention director James Foley once, but Marky Mark's band gets a deep dive from one of our hosts. Enjoy!

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Rears of Alfre Woodard just wanting a drink after witnessing endless Edward Norton twitches.

Richard Gere has a massive ego.

That's no different in PRIMAL FEAR.

Maybe he's wrong in this one.

But he is Richard Gere. And he still looks like Richard Gere.

So he's probably not.

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