EPISODE #19: Armageddon

It’s the end of the world, and you’re all invited! Join Adam and Jim and a group of roughneck oil drillers as they travel to the edge of space (and their sanity) in order to save the Earth from Armageddon.

SHOWNOTES

• Armageddon - Criterion

• Director: Michael Bay

  • Bad Boys

  • The Rock

• Acting:

  • Harry Stamper: Bruce Willis

  • Grace Stamper: Liv Tyler

    • The Leftovers

  • A.J. Frost: Ben Affleck

  • Dan Truman: Billy Bob Thornton

  • Chick: Will Patton

  • Rockhound: Steve Buscemi

  • Lev Andropov: Peter Stormare

    • Steve and Peter previously appeared together in the 1996 movie Fargo

  • Colonel Willie Sharp: William Fichtner

  • Oscar: Owen Wilson

    • The Royal Tenenbaums 

  • Bear: Michael Clark Duncan

  • Jennifer Watts: Jessica Steen

  • Flight Director Clark: Chris Ellis

    • Apollo 13

    • That Thing You Do

  • Psychologist: Udo Kier

    • Melancholia

  • Guest Comedians

    • Eddie Griffin

    • Mark Curry

      • Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper

  • Movies

    • Independence Day

    • Deep Impact

    • The Right Stuff

  • Cinematography:

    • 5 Things That Happen In Every Michael Bay Movie(including slow motion)

  • Music:

    • Bon Jovi - Mister Big Time

    • Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

    • Ben Affleck sings “Leaving On A JetPlane” to Liv Tyler

EPISODE #18: THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Adam and Jim are discussing The Princess Bride? Inconceivable! Join us in episode #18 as we travel with Westley, Fezzik and Inigo Montoya across the countryside of Florin, past the Cliffs of Insanity, to rescue Princess Buttercup from the castle of Prince Humperdinck, all the while avoiding the shrieking eels, flame spurts, lightning sand and Rodents of Unusual Size.

SHOWNOTES

• The Princess Bride - Criterion

• Director: Rob Reiner

  • This Is Spinal Tap

  • A Few Good Men

  • Sleepless in Seattle

  • The American President

  Writer: William Goldman

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

  • All the President's Men

  • Misery

  • Absolute Power

  • The General's Daughter

  Actors:

  • Westley - Carry Elwes

    • Psych - Pierre Despereaux

      • Extradition - British Columbia

      • Extradition II - The Actual Extradition Part

      • Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy Rusty Old Dagger

      • Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels, and Burton Guster’s Goblet of Fire

  • Inigo Montoya - Mandy Patinkin

    • Homeland

  • Buttercup - Robin Wright

    • Forrest Gump

    • House of Cards

  • Vizzini - Wallace Shawn

    • My Dinner with Andre (Criterion #479)

      • COTC episode #12

    • Toy Story - Dinosaur

  • Fezzik - Andre the Giant

  • Humperdinck - Chris Sarandon

  • Count Ruben - Christopher Guest

    • This is Spinal Tap (Criterion #12)

    • Waiting for Guffman

    • Best in Show

  • Miracle Max - Billy Crystal

  • Valerie - Carol Kane

  • The Albino - Mel Smith

  • Clergyman - Peter Cook

  • Fred Savage & Peter Falk have no names

    • Wonder Years

    • Columbo

EPISODE #17: WATERSHIP DOWN

Hazel, Dandelion, Blackberry and Clover? No, we’re not making a salad, instead we’re discussing the 1978 animated retelling of the Richard Adam’s novel Watership Down. Join us in episode #17 as we heed Fiver’s warnings and search for our new warren.

SHOWNOTES

• Watership Down - Criterion

• Director - Martin Rosen

  • The Plague Dogs (1982)

    • Theme Song - “Time and Tide”  by Alan Price (original keyboardist for The Animals)

      • The House of the Rising Sun

      • Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

• Hazel - John Hurt (Died Jan 25, 2017)  (207 acting credits)

  • Alien (1979)

  • The Elephant Man (1980)

  • The Plague Dogs as Snitter (1982)

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

  • Hellboy (2004)

  • V for Vendetta (2005)

  • Melancholia (2011)

  • Doctor Who as The War Doctor in 3 episodes (2013)

  • Watership Down mini-series as General Woundwort (1999 -2000)

• Fiver - Richard Briers (Died Feb 17, 2013

• Bigwig - Michael Graham Cox (Died Apr 30, 1995)

• Captain Holly - John Bennett (April 11, 2005)

• Chief Rabbit - Ralph Richardson (Died Oct 10, 1983)

• Blackberry - Simon Cadell (Died March 6, 1996)

• Silver - Terence Rigby (Died August 10, 2008)

• Pipkin - Roy Kinnear (Died September 20, 1988)

• Dandelion - Richard O’Callaghan (Still Alive?)

• Cat - Lynn Farleigh (Still Alive?)

• General Woundwort - Harry Andrews (Died March 6, 1989)

• Cowslip - Denholm Elliott

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

• Clover - Mary Maddox

• Kehaar (Bird) - Zero Mostel (comedian)

• The only black man (Clifton Jones) plays a character named “Blackavar”

• Watership Down references in the TV Show “Lost”

• Movies with similar stories / plots include Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Secret of NIMH

• Other movies mentioned:

  • Raiders of The Lost Ark

  • The Dark Crystal

  • Floyd Norman - An Animated Life

  • The Inbetweeners