Another weird horror movie can only mean one thing, another episode from our cabin trip. This was actually the last movie we watched that weekend, which is why you may notice that we don’t all make it to the table. The excitement of the weekend made some of us fall asleep almost immediately after we started this gem from the 90’s. We also discover that most movies could be improved by simply adding a little more Billy Zane to the cast. It’s not that difficult.
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Each time we make it to another century mark I am surprised that we are still doing this. I know that it isn’t always easy to make time to watch all of these movies and then find even more time to record these episodes, but I am glad that everyone has been up to the challenge, and these last hundred have certainly thrown many challenges our way. The bulk of the last hundred have been recorded remotely, with only a single episode taking place where we were all physically together. For me personally, having this show to look forward to each week provided a great deal of comfort during the anxiety ridden days of 2020/2021, and for that I will always be grateful.
If you managed to stick around as we worked through all the technical ins and outs of doing this show remotely, and suffered through us talking about Space Camp and 3 Ninjas while new movies were constantly being shelved, then we all thank you very much.
Now to start the next hundred…
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Today is Sean’s 40th birthday, and to celebrate we took a little trip and all got together for the first time in a couple of years. We watched a lot of movies, we recorded a lot of episodes, but we wanted something special for his actual birthday, so we gave Sean the option of recording about anything he wanted, and he chose his all time favorite, The Shawshank Redemption.
Watching movies is great, but sharing this experience with the other guys on the show has been an absolute pleasure.
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Here is a nice double feature to keep our October movies going. Maybe they aren’t technically “horror”, but there are still plenty of jumps and scares, so we are adding it to the list. There are a lot of weird choices they make in this series, and we like some and hate others, as characters and their motivations seem to change a lot . We hope everyone has a great Halloween, and that you are watching only the best scary movies to stay in the mood.
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As October finally rolls in, what better way to begin this spooky month, than with a conversation about the truly terrifying film, Candyman. We tried our best to now get scared, but we were not up to the task. This is collectively one of our favorite times of year to talk about movie, so if there’s a horror film that you want recognized, please let us know.
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This week we decided to celebrate Ryan’s upcoming wedding by letting him choose the movie for movie night. At first he mentioned possibly choosing a romantic comedy as a way to pay tribute to his upcoming nuptials, but finally settled on the sci-fi thriller, Freaks, because nothing says “true love” like any of Ryan’s movie picks.
If you haven’t seen this movie yet, it is available on Netflix. So fire it up, then come back and listen to this very very very romantic episode of Coming Off the Reels.
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The movie this week was a pure nostalgia pick, as there really aren’t a lot of reasons to watch the 1995 action/thriller, The Hunted. I was hoping to capture the same magic I felt when I watched this movie 26 years ago, but it turns out that there are only so many perfect moments in a life, and you can’t recreate no matter how hard you try. Instead I was left with on of the weirdest sex scenes in recent memory. Thanks a lot, Christopher Lambert, you really know how to take the fun out of everything.
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I know that we said we were going to give you our Best of 2020 show this week, but we all wanted to do a little more research. Instead, Roy really shocked us all by picking the David Lynch classic, Mulholland Drive. None of us really felt like we understood it much better than the last time we watched it, but maybe there is some humor to be found in our general confusion.
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We haven’t watched Justice League since it was released in 2017, but thought that we should revisit it before the 4 hour behemoth that is the “Snyder Cut” is released in March. Our original feelings were pretty bad, maybe Roy kinda liked it…maybe, but perhaps the longest 4 years ever softened our hearts and made it so we could enjoy some escapism fun when we need it the most.
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We really couldn’t have picked two more different things to talk about this week. The cast of West Wing got back together for a special performance of one of their best episodes to raise awareness about the importance of voting in the upcoming election. As fans of the show, we were thrilled by this. Then we talk about Utopia, a show about a pandemic and the very worst that our society can be. As people living in a pandemic and seeing the very worst of society, this show was a gut punch.
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This week we let Roy pick a movie for us to watch and record about. He chose the 1992 “class” “film” about “ninjas”…3 Ninjas. The classic debate arose, is this movie actually good or is nostalgia doing most of the heavy lifting. Sean assigned which ninja each of us would be with mixed results, while Roy comes to the realization that we watched some kind of much darker extended version of this movie. Good times all around.
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This week we discuss some of the news to come out of the DC event, DC Fandome. We can all agree that the name left something to be desired, but did Warner Bros give us enough new information to get us excited about Wonder Woman 84, The Batman, The Suicide Squad, and the Snyder cut of Justice League? We even dive into the first looks of some of the new video games being release from DC. So much on the horizon, so much of it looks dull.
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Sometime, while we were all mostly stuck in our homes, a small science fiction movie was released on Amazon Prime called The Vast of Night. Sometimes the movies released in these crazy times feel more special than they are just because we are all desperate for anything new. Does The Vast of Night fall into this category, or is it actually a good, if not great, sci-fi entry. Guess you should probably listen to this episode to find out.
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This week we watch two movies featuring the SNL star, Pete Davidson. First we discuss the latest film from Judd Apatow, The King of Staten Island. In the vacuum COVID has created, this movie is one of the few “big” movies to be released. Next, we watched the lesser known (though maybe better movie) Big Time Adolescence. So sit back and relax as we try and channel some of Pete’s BDE for this week’s episode.
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We took a couple of weeks off to prepare ourselves for the new Netflix action movie, The Old Guard. When the trailer first dropped, we responded with mixed levels of excitement. There’s a change that some minds were changed from what we thought this movie would be. We also catch up one what we’ve been doing, since we clearly haven’t been talking to each other.
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Ooof, I don’t even know where to start with this one. Clearly Disney knew that this movie was in trouble by the fact that it was supposed to be released last summer. I know that when you spend over a hundred million dollars on a film, that you are kind of stuck with it, but even as a direct to Disney+ release, it feels cheap and unnecessary. Anyway, I hope I didn’t tip our hand too much on how we felt about this week’s movie, but figured you deserved to know the truth.
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We had so much fun doing the homework for this one. Even though we can't see each other yet, we watched 7 films from Renny Harlin together online, in what Roy named, The Renny-sance. That joke is the reason you have this extra long episode of COTR. Were all of the movies good? That depends on which of us you ask. Did someone get up and secretly walk to his neighbor’s house during one of the movies? It is certainly possible. Does Renny know how to blow shit up? You’re damn right he does.
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Some movies come along at a perfect time in our collective lives and manage to make things 1% better for awhile. Extraction could have just been lost in the mix of the seemingly endless supply of Netflix content, but when there are no new movies being released, this basic premise, Chris Hemsworth action flick becomes so much more. We are also joined by a very special guest this week, and though she didn’t seem to appreciate how the rest of us are all built like fat Thor, we still had a blast recording this episode. I hope everyone continues to stay safe out there.
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Don’t worry, most of December will be devoted to movies that focus on people learning the “true meaning of Christmas”. But until we dive into that saccharine wonderland, here is this week’s episode about a killer robot from the future. Actually I don’t think it would take much effort to draw similarities between the terminator franchise and most Christmas stories, so maybe we are already on theme for the month.
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I guess Roy will be happy that this isn’t called Zombieland 2, but that doesn’t mean that this sequel to the 2009 film was wanted or needed. This week we breakdown the goods and bads of this low stakes horror/comedy, and how they could have maybe made it a little better. We also get way to excited thinking about doing more episodes about Hallmark holiday films!
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