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Episode 233 - Dave Made A Maze

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2022/08/15

What do you get when you mix an unemployed millennial, his girlfriend, his hipster friends, a minotaur, and an insanely huge box fort complete with an abattoir and booby traps? Normally, just a big dumb mess. But in this case, you get one of the most interesting to watch independent films in decades. This week we’re breaking down the 2017 insanely great film, “Dave Made a Maze.” Join us, shall we? | 0:00 - Intros | 1:47 - Grand Theft Auto Online | 6:40 - The Chats, Amyl and The Sniffers, and The

00:51:21

Episode 232 - High Anxiety

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2022/08/08

In 1977, Mel Brooks was on one helluva roll with classic film parodies like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. But rather than talk about those, instead we’re gonna revisit his riff on Hitchcock called High Anxiety. While it has some good bits - because Mel Brooks - this is one where the worm started to turn for his particular brand. And we aren’t entirely sure why. High Anxiety just hasn’t held up as well compared to his earlier work, and that’s our dumb thesis. Enjoy! High anxiety, it's

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Episode 231 - Burt Reynolds Is Hooper

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2022/07/31

Back in 1978, mega-star Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham followed up their enormous success of Smokey and the Bandit with a simple ode to the Hollywood Stuntman called Hooper. And we dare you not to get pulled in by its frothy, effervescent charm in a virtually plotless romp that follows Reynolds as the titular hero performing ever-crazier gags for the movie-within-a-movie “The Spy Who Laughed at Danger.” Basically, this is yet another excuse for Reynolds to have some fun with his friends

01:04:38

Episode 230 - Whip Its - Songs Bigger Than The Bands...

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2022/07/25

If you don’t know who Devo is, you probably do know their song, “Whip It.” Devo’s following is enormous, and they’ve been legendary for years. Still, “Whip It” is what would be on their tomb stone. (If bands were buried.) This show is about those songs, the ones that outshine their creators. This isn’t the same as one-hit-wonders - those are songs that are big, and the people who sang them just go away. They don’t have any following or career to speak of. This show is going to be about figuring out

00:53:52

Episode 229 - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

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2022/07/04

The world is utter garbage and everything is horrible. Here’s a show about a movie to take your mind off of the hopeless hellscape that is your life today, if only for a short while. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is another movie from the early 2000s that somehow Brian hadn’t seen yet. We talk about it. Also this week, Elvis and Ben Folds! | 0:00 - Intros | 3:00 - Elvis (2022) | 13:20 - not watching Jurassic World or Lightyear, but somehow Maria Menunos is everywhere | 15:30 - The Pentaverate

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Episode 228 - The Beastmaster: 40th Anniversary

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2022/06/26

Set the Wayback Machine to 1982 as we revisit a sword & sorcery cult classic that is about to turn 40 years old and isn't Conan - The Beastmaster! Because you really can’t go wrong with a movie about Dr. Doolittle in a loincloth talking to animals like nobody’s business and twirling a sword around his head with flair. The Beastmaster was not a huge hit at the box office, but like many films in the 80s it eventually found an audience… mostly because it aired on cable TV 5 times a week for like 10

00:54:37

Episode 226 - SLC Punk!

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2022/06/06

Hey, it’s another show about another movie about more disaffected youth… only this time it’s Punk! SLC Punk, to be specific. This late 90’s indie cult movie chronicles what appears to be the only two punk rockers living in heavily religious Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1985. While the semi-autobiographical film is light on story, it more than makes up for it with a boisterous aesthetic that DGAF… Which is kind of punk? Forget that it hews too closely to similar, more culturally significant films

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Episode 225 - John Woo Vs. Hollywood

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2022/05/30

Influential director John Woo made a name for himself in the late-80s with classically iconic Hong Kong gun-fu cinema like The Killer. Then he emigrated to Hollywood in the early 90s and proceeded to make five generically terrible actioners (Broken Arrow, MI-2, etc), and one bona-fide bat$h!t crazy classic (Face-Off). In short. Hollywood had no clue what to do with his distinctive style and his American output is a damn travesty of wasted opportunity. So what happened? Let's discuss! | 0:00 -

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Episode 224 - Pump Up The Volume

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2022/05/16

Pump Up the Volume is a view of the 90s encased in amber, when the kids were all angry and had no idea what to do about it. It comes from a long line of movies about kids who don’t get what their place in life is, but… you know, In the 90s. With a brilliant soundtrack, a prescience of what social media would become, Christian Slater as Christian Slater, and of course, Samantha Mathis’ boobs, Pump Up the Volume is a view of disaffected youth in America. Again. But… you know, In the 90s! We give our

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Episode 223 - The Most 90s Movie Ever

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2022/05/09

Fire up that 156k modem, crack open a Crystal Pepsi and get the VCR ready, because we’re about to pick The Most 90s Movie Ever! Enjoy our arbitrary and wholly unscientific attempt to find the movie that singularly defines a decade known mostly for grunge, the internet bubble, and a white Bronco. Yup, we’ve got tons of electronic & alternative soundtrack music, rollerblading, obsolete “new” tech, reverse-irony, terrible blockbusters, and some overly obvious product placement in a show about an era

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Episode 222 - Pop Quiz, HotShot: 70s/80s Edition

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2022/05/02

Eric pitched a totally different show this week that Brian and Chris prepared for… Then he called an audible at showtime for an impromptu Q&A game. Hilarity ensues. Yes, it’s Pop Quiz, Hot Shot: 70s/80s Edition! What was the first movie you ever went to? The first album you ever bought with your own money? The first television show you binged out on (because it meant something special to you, not because your parents parked you in front of the TV)? Your first celebrity crush? These are the hard

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Episode 220 - Moonfall: A Roland Emmerich Disaster Jam

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2022/04/18

Did you know the moon was actually an alien-made superstructure put in our orbit for… reasons? Now the angry E.T.’s that put it there want it back for… other reasons. Stuff explodes, cities are destroyed, and humanity hangs in the balance for… more reasons. Moonfall - the latest disaster jam from our favorite big-budget schlockmeister Roland Emmerich - gets its due with a full-throated and arbitrary review. And yes, even by the standards of an Emmerich movie, this thing is D-U-M-B. But is it fun

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Episode 219 - Good Performances In Bad Movies

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2022/04/11

Ever been caught in the middle of a garbage film and thought, “Wow! This one actor is really good though! I wish they were in something else, so I could be watching it instead right now!” This week we dive into those performances that are our personal favorites, the ones that appear in otherwise worthless films. We also dig into some movies, video games, TV shows, and music that is new or sort of new, and all the other culturally aware stuff you expect from a podcast of our grand stature! Huzzah!

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Episode 218 - Better Off Dead

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2022/04/03

It’s an awesome spectacle. Truly a sight to behold. The show, beaten. The once Magnificently Huge podcast, now a study in mopishness. No longer the once-a-week podcast we’ve listened to so many times before, but a pathetic, washed up, aged ex-champion. We also want our TWO DOLLARS! This week the MagHuge crew takes on one of our all time favorites: 1985’s Better Off Dead! Plus: The Batman, Halo, and Spider-Man: No Way Home all get our dumb hot-takes and faux-brilliant anaylisis. As of this week

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Crap Movies Saved By Great Soundtracks

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2022/03/08

Destroy the movie and listen to the soundtrack instead, because some films are just pure crap and deserve to be erased. Occasionally we find an unwatchable film that lives on in our collective culture by sole virtue of a great soundtrack. It is the healing power of music alone that prevents us from gouging out our eyeballs again rather than watch one more crap movie that is touted as a classic by the unwashed masses. Classic soundtrack, yes. But burn that bad movie, kill it with fire, and enjoy

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Episode 216 - The Five #1 Albums Of 1984

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2022/02/28

In 1984, there were only 5 albums that hit #1 all year. This is the least amount of top records in a single year EVER. Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Huey Lewis & the News and the Footloose soundtrack… that’s it. Which means 1984 was either the most homogenous year in music history, or that MTV finally exerted its place at the top of the corporate music heap. Forget Madonna. Forget Tina Turner. Forget Wham or the Police. These are the only five records that existed in 1984. Period

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Episode 215 - 1408

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2022/02/21

This week we discuss the largely underrated horror movie 1408, one of the last really good John Cusack films. 1408 is one of those mood-driven scary movies that doesn’t rely on jump scares (though there are a couple), gore, or teenagers being picked off. It’s also the only movie I’m aware of that uses the concept of “noclipping out of reality.” If you’re familiar with The Backrooms, you know what I’m talking about. (Go look it up on Reddit. It’s pretty creepy.) If you haven’t seen 1408 before,

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Episode 214 - Rubber

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2022/02/14

It was Chris’s turn to pick the show topic this round, so he deliberately chose something he knew would irritate both Eric and Brian to no end. And that is the movie Rubber in a nutshell. Ostensibly a B-movie horror satire about a sentient, homicidal tire on a desert rampage, Rubber quickly becomes too smart for its own good with a full-tilt meta-commentary on the nature of how audiences and art interact. Or something. Whatever, heads explode and Wings Hauser shows up, so that should be enough.

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Episode 213 - TRON VS. TRON Legacy

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2022/02/07

Journey back to a time when there was no such thing as too much CGI in our summer blockbusters! In 1982, stoner animator Steven Lisberger blew all our minds with Tron: a work of staggering visual design with a script that made not one lick of sense. It was followed up decades later when the Master Control Program that runs Disney calculated there was more profit to be made with a sequel that no one really asked for. We take off the nostalgia goggles and beam ourselves directly into the

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Episode 212 - The Blues Brothers

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2022/02/01

It’s time we talk about the 1980 classic “The Blues Brothers” - for good or for ill, the forerunner of every Saturday Night Live based film to come after it. Full of great music, weird guest appearances, and the most cars destroyed on screen (until it’s lamentably shitty sequel, of which we will say nothing,) “The Blues Brothers” is probably the most underrated masterpiece there is. | 0:00 - Intros | 4:15 - The Legend Of Vox Machina (Amazon, 2022) | 7:00 - Pennyworth (Epix, 2019) | 15:20 -

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