How Did This Get Made

Already the best movie ever, not a surprise it got made.

This was actually mostly enjoyable to watch because of how crazy it was, and I legitimately couldn't follow a lot of the plot. The overacting, the terrible budget, the roller skates, a lot of it was fun.

The film was lost after it was made and then rediscovered in 2021 without audio and entirely dubbed over so that it could be released.

Listen to the podcast to find out interesting cinematic questions like why does he keep cutting himself? And who the hell is the plutonium man? And why does that guy roll literally 10 times in a row until he is out of frame?

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The last virile man(Roddy Piper, natch) in North America is forced by the government to repopulate the continent.

But he doesn't WANNA.

Spoiler he does anyway, also he visits a town full of some animals, I can't remember.

This ep is hilarious, Jason is in top form. Just slinging the jokes, sliding hilarious asides into any open air. Really funny episode, go for it. Listen to it.

My HDTGM answer? it's rowdy Roddy Piper and a bunch of sex. This is a good investment.

The absolute avalanche of jokes happening every line of dialogue shocked me. They weren't real funny, but they were constant.

And the point in the podcast I agreed with most was when they were all very uncomfortable with the daughter of the sheriff telling whoever was on the phone that her dad was draining the lizard. Very uncomfortable.

Happy Halloween, podcasting community that has very little to do with halloween specifically. It's a joy to obliquely talk about these podcasts with you.

I remember watching this movie so many times after I bought it on DVD at GameStop. When Jason beats the campers with each other, bodily, is when I first realized that genres could cross over, and you weren't required to only have horror or only comedy in a movie.

Never want to watch it again, watched it at 2x and it was still 30 minutes too long. It's about this super bigoted dog that a puddle orders to fall in love so he can turn back? into a man. The intermittent complete silence between scenes is weird. The dog hates women and gay people, but turns into a person with a different personality who loves a woman he constantly insults and believes and calls an idiot and pizza-faced cinder block while he's a dog.

The main woman is very weird to watch, gives me weird vibes, her friend gets really angry when she intuits that her 35? year old friend is not a virgin, this is a hot, steamy mess with no coherent messages or story. Or background noise.

And yet ...the audio quality still beats birdemic 1 & 2(I don't know what I was thinking watching the sequel).

Not worth watching, insane that it was made, a true HDTGM catastrophe.

The podcast about it is hilarious, of course.

I was checking if I had already listened to one of the HDTGM podcasts and when I pushed play, Jason was talking about having just seen this amazing band called mannequin pussy, and I thought the name alone was so good that I should check them out, and wouldn't it be funny if I could see them sometime in the future.

So I went on bandsintown, and turns out that in three days Mannequin pussy would be playing Philadelphia, their hometown and where I'm living for a few months, tonight!

And I went today and it was one of the coolest, explosive sets I've ever seen, absolutely phenomenal energy from the band, wild dancing. and the music was good and I ended up getting a t-shirt and a sticker pack because I had such a good time listening, whooping and throwing the goat.

And now I finally have a t-shirt with the word "pussy" on it, so that's pretty exciting. So long, item 7 of my bucket list.

Anyone else discover anything cool from HDTGM recs?

So in fast and the furious 9, the racecar number is 23, cellblock number is 23, dudes shirt is 23, there were like a dozen references to the number 23 in this movie that I saw just as a casual observer. Anyone know what's up with that? Is that in other fast and furious movies?

Maybe Jim Carrey was a silent producer.

There's only one correct answer here as far as I'm concerned, and that is Voyage of the Rock Aliens. I genuinely enjoyed this movie, laughed a lot, and still today listen to the music occasionally, long after my honeymoon phase of a month following my initial viewing when I listened to the soundtrack constantly. I often have a very different take than the HDTGM hosts about the movies featured on the podcast, so it was a real treat to find out they love this movie as much as I do and just listen to them riff about and fawn over the music and costumes and themes and characters while sounding like their minds were blown the whole time.

Well, I've got to write about this because of the HDTGM controversy about Drop Dead Fred(1991), where at least half of the audience were on the side of Team Mom, opposite Team Fred. The argument for Team Fred is that Fred is Elizabeth's imaginary friend who allows Elizabeth to examine all the unseemly parts of her life and society so that she can process them, learn, develop and grow into an adult, but is stunted developmentally by her mom, who tapes Fred into a Jack-in-the-Box, halting Elizabeth's personal development into her adulthood. Elizabeth is pushed around and spoken to as a child for the next twenty-one years/ by her boyfriend and mother as an adult, until Elizabeth releases Fred from the Jack-in-the-Box, who encourages her to behave wildly in order to break free of the authoritarian strictures imposed upon her by, largely, her abusive mother. Team Mom's argument is that the Mom is a good mother and Fred is annoying and/or creepy, so the movie is bad. The Mom controls Elizabeth through fear, by telling Elizabeth that if she isn't a good girl, boys will run away from her, and that it is Elizabeth's fault her father left them both. According to Mom, everything that goes wrong is Elizabeth's fault and the way to being a good girl is to do everything her mother tells her to do. When Elizabeth tells her mother plainly what she wants, her mother ignores her wishes and compels her to do what Mom wants instead. To "help" Phoebe, Mom's solution is to dress her just like Mom and make her hair and make up like Mom's, then to give her drugs that stunt her emotionally by removing her capacity to deal with problems completely, firmly ensnaring Elizabeth into a less independent and more easily influenced state. A necessary tenet of Team Mom is the support of deliberate child abuse meant to perpetually blame and hobble a child emotionally so that they are easily controlled. Which is abominable. Team Fred all the way.