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Hollywood's been retelling stories since they discovered sound, and we're here to examine which remakes, reboots, and do-overs were worth the effort, even if it breaks us a little. Check us out!
It's another 80s classic (?) with a largely overlooked remake as Dan and Keith take on the Red Dawns! Reagan's America wove a tale of America being invaded by a Russian/Cuban alliance, which took a very elaborate amount of set-up to justify...
...held at bay by rising stars Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, and Lea Thompson. The fierce Soviet alliance brought America to its knees overnight, but couldn't withstand six teenagers with attitudes. In 2012, after a few years on the shelf...
...a new version was released with new invaders that had to be quickly re-written to keep valuable markets in play. Dan & Keith have some notes, from improbable set-ups to fast food chains that didn't pay enough for their product placement. Listen in!
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Jump back, listeners, as Dan and Keith cut loose, Footloose. In 1984, Kevin Bacon comes to the town of Bomont to redeem it from Satanic Panic oppression through the power of dance, with excellent supporting performances from Chris Penn, John Lithgow, and the great Diane Wiest.
Then in the 2010s, the story is retold with few updates aside from "also rap exists," with a cast whose breakout is... Miles Teller? In the Chris Penn role? That can't be right, can it? Which version was better than it had any right to be? Tune in!
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The Kaiju Saga reaches its conclusion in the cinematic smackdowns of Godzilla Vs. Kong, the Scaly Boi vs. the Big Monke. We start in the Showa Era with King Kong Vs Godzilla from '62, in which Big Pharma orchestrates a fight between monsters for reasons that almost make sense.
That done, Hollywood emerges from Plague Times with Godzilla Vs. Kong, then has the big boys team up for the buddy cop throwdown Godzilla X Kong: New Empire. Who had the best, or most, human subplots? The best fights? Dan and Keith break it all down.
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Dan and Keith are back into the Kings Kong. Fresh off Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson goes back to the 1930s in a remake that homages the original while still adding a fresh sensibility. Dan enjoys for the filmmaking, while Keith thinks maybe Jackson put too much mustard on it.
Then we return to the Monsterverse with Kong: Skull Island, with a new story and a new way to make Man the real monster, as an all-star cast finds out the massive gorilla isn't the biggest threat. How do the new Kongs fare against the classics?
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We are back into the Kaiju Saga, trading Japan's scaly king for the USA's Big Monke! Dan and Keith cover two takes on King Kong: the original 1933 classic, and the 1976 remake that tries to be as different as it can while still being functionally identical.
But only one got a sequel: 1986's King Kong Lives, which couldn't lure back any of the remake cast. Who Kong'd the best? Will Keith's love of practical effects take a hit?
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Throw on a suit, grab your neuralizer, and bounce with us, just bounce with us as we dig into the Men in Black! Back in 1997 an obscure comic became a classic sci-fi buddy-cop action-comedy teaming Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith...
Then an attempt was made to soft-reboot with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. Guest Munsi-Parker Munroe returns to explain why heavily bi-coded MIBs were what they never knew they always needed, and we show some love to Weird Little Guy performers! writingtherapyproductions.co…
Our deep dive into giant monsters continues as Godzilla, formerly Gojira, makes the jump across the ocean to Hollywood! Eventually. Takes a couple of tries. In 1998, Hollywood tries to adapt the big guy for America, with what could be called mixed results.
16 years later, the Monsterverse begins with US Godzilla, then went full giant monster mash in for the title bout of Godzilla vs Ghidorra in King of the Monsters. Just like last time, but with way more budget. Can Hollywood crack the Godzilla code?
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The much referenced saga begins, as Dan and Keith dig into Gojira, Godzilla to his western friends, by visiting each of the five eras of Toho's Godzilla franchise. From the original classic, through to his Avengers-style team-up flick Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster...
...to the revivals of 1985 and 2000, the more serious Shin Godzilla and the first Oscar winner, Godzilla Minus One. There's monsters, civic destruction, and even some human characters worth caring about in this look at 7 decades of Godzilla history. writingtherapyproductions.co…
A day at the circus gets very noir as Dan and Keith walk down two different Nightmare Alleys. Stanton Carlisle has dreams of making the big time with a mentalist act, one he must purloin from his employers in the carnival, and that dream goes very well until it very doesn't.
The 1946 does well but perhaps strains against 1940s film regulations. Decades later, spooky visionary Guillermo Del Toro takes another swing at the story that has more freedom in its content but maybe it too relaxed in its pacing.
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Taking on two movies about con artist pals and the woman they meet along the way getting into shenanigans in exotic locales! In the 40s, Crosby and Hope kick off a hugely popular series of road movie hijinks in Road to Singapore, which prove that millions of people can be wrong.
Flash forward to 2000, and an animated film in the same vein with Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh on The Road to El Dorado. Dig into what the 40s considered comedy, the movie behind the "Both is good" meme, and have one movie's worth of a good time.
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