Filmshake - The ‘90s Movies Podcast

1999s Bringing Out the Dead and End of Days in the same episode?
Nicolas Cage and Arnold Schwarzenegger in THE SAME EPISODE?!
Martin Scorsese and...Peter Hyams...in the same episode?
Well yeah, this is Filmshake!

Music Heard this Episode:
"Camel Song" -- Korn
"End of Days (Main Title)" -- John Debney
"After Thoughts" -- Elmer Bernstein
"Wrong Way" -- Creed
"Crushed" -- Limp Bizkit

Intro music - "If" by Broke For Free

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In 1999, a 70-year-old Andrew Sarris spoke for the majority of critics about the Joel Schumacher-directed 8MM, when he said it "...is clearly an evil film." Well, Mr. Sarris might have been a purveyor of auteur theory, but he's also a purveyor of being wrong. 25-years-later, in a deep conversation that dissects this misunderstood Nic Cage gem like never before, Jordan and Nic reassess 8mm and find themselves at great odds with the 1999 critical establishment. But then they watch the punishment film,The Other Sister, and find that some of the time, maybe those critics were right.

Music Heard this Episode:
"Unsee" -- Mychael Danna
"Hollywood" -- Mychael Danna
"Missing Persons" -- Mychael Danna
"366 Hoyt Ave." -- Mychael Danna
"Come to Daddy" -- Aphex Twin

Intro music - "If" by Broke For Free

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You gotta lose your mind in Detroit Rock City, and we're here to help! We feel uptight on a Saturday night, the radio's the only light, and we're talking the 1999 Adam Rifkin joint about four 1978 kids who just want to see Kiss play in Detroit. But that's not all! We're also talking 1999's critically-paned cinematic revival of the 60s and 70s counterculture series, The Mod Squad, which one of our hosts inexplicably, unironically, and unconditionally loves. The celebration of 1999 continues on Filmshake!

Music Heard This Episode:
"Here But I'm Gone (Part II)" -- Curtis Mayfield and Lauren Hill
"Detroit Rock City" -- Kiss
"Jailbreak" -- Thin Lizzy
"Come Sail Away" -- Styx
"The Boys Are Back in Town" -- Everclear (Thin Lizzy cover)
"Ends" -- Everlast

Intro music - "If" by Broke For Free

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Get ready for the big Payback, as we're talking the 1999 Mel Gibson revenge flick, and the 2006 Director's Cut, and 1967's Point Blank, AND the book they're all adapted from, Donald E. Westlake's The Hunter, though mostly 1999's Payback, we promise! Except when we also talk about our punishment movie, 2011's The Beaver, also starring Mel Gibson, payback for Jordan losing trivia last episode. Can Jordan finally get his $70K back in this episode's trivia battle finale, or does he get stuck with a Director's Cut ending of his own making?! All this and more, much much more, and for what, the principle of the thing?
Stop it, we're getting misty!

Music Heard this Episode
"Main Title" -- Chris Boardman
"Lynn's Habit" -- Chris Boardman
"The Payback" -- James Brown
"You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" -- Dean Martin (written by Russ Morgan, Larry Stock, and James Cavanaugh)

Intro music - "If" by Broke For Free

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In A Perfect World, this would have been Episode 58 instead of Baby Geniuses, but you've got us driving this time machine, so just be glad this Ford hadn't crashed just yet. Is Costner a god, great, or even a good actor? Is Clint Eastwood immortally badass or is he a not-so-secretly artsy fartsy snowflake? Or does he just want to make his day and get home for dinner? How much Dern can a Dern Dern Dern if a Dern Dern can Dern Dern? All these questions answered (?) and more! Join us as we deconstruct Eastwood's deconstruction of the mythic-outlaw-on-the-run trope and wind up somewhere between knowing "not a damn thing" and wondering can anything really be known and therefore is the supposition of knowing that we don't know "a damn thing" even something that can be relied upon in a world filled with such chaos and violence!!! AHH...Such fun times!

Music Heard This Episode:
"Big Fran's Baby" -- Lennie Niehaus and Clint Eastwood
"Ida Red" -- Bob Willis and His Texas Playboys
"Philip's Theme" -- Lennie Niehaus
"Guess Things Happen That Way" -- Johnny Cash

Intro music - "If" by Broke For Free

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You know what wakes me up in the middle of the night covered in a cold sweat? Knowing that you aren't any worse than anyone else in your whole screwed up generation. In the old days, you know how you got to the top? Huh? By listening to Filmshake! This episode, we're talking 1999's Golp Fiction...I mean Go, directed by Doug Liman, written by the guy who wrote Charlie's Angels and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. And now the top is down here, it used to be up here... and you don't even know the difference.

Music Heard This Episode:
"Fire Up the Shoesaw (LP Version)" -- Lionrock
"Angel" -- Massive Attack
"Gangster Tripping" -- Fatboy Slim
"Steal My Sunshine" -- Len
"New" -- No Doubt
"Magic Carpet Ride (Steir's 1999 Ride Club Mix) -- Steppenwolf

Intro music - "If" by Broke For Free

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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you shouldn't listen to Filmshake because we're talking Tony Scott's prescient 1998 action-thriller, Enemy of the State. Will Smith, Gene Hackman, and a Pentagon-full of well-regarded and beloved actors star in this cinematic exploration of government overreach into private citizens' privacy, and also, Jason Lee makes a brilliant exclamation about untoward things being done to a duck. Rather fittingly, yet for no good reason, Jordan and Nic approach this film as off the leash as Jon Voight with a free government pass, like this movie is the lingerie store from this movie. The only privacy left is inside your head, so listen to Filmshake!

Music Heard This Episode:
"Main Titles (Enemy of the State" by Trevor Rabin and Harry Gregson-Williams
"Coal Yard Part 2" by Trevor Rabin and Harry Gregson-Williams
"Territorial P*ssings" by Nirvana

Intro music - "If" by Broke For Free

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We're not even supposed to be here today, but that's okay because Filmshake is covering 1994's indie-classic, Clerks! You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work, and neither will we, but we will provide you 90-minutes of Clerks-centric entertainment! That also includes a little bit of Clerks II and Clerks III discussion, as well as our usual, Happy Scrappy Hero Pup Trivia Battle. You don't wanna miss THE 90s movies podcast talking one of the most 90s 90s movies ever made! This one's personal.

Music Heard This Episode
"Clerks" -- Love Among Freaks
"Got Me Wrong" -- Alice In Chains
"Can't Even Tell" -- Soul Asylum

Intro music - "If" by Broke For Free

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Oh, look. Another glorious Filmshake. Makes me sick!
A virgin lit the candle, and now two men approaching middle age are talking this early 90s film made for pre-teen girls. Do we love these three VERY theatrical, Better Midler-led witches, or do we want to burn them alive in the school furnace? Wait, did you think we were talking Clerks this week?
TRICK OR TREAT, IT'S 1993's HOCUS POCUS!
Jordan is also punished with 1989's Little Monsters. Does he think this Fred Savage-starring children's comedy is the goblin's knees, or does he want Howie Mandel to choke on Doritos?
Hey bud, the only way to find out is to listen!

Music Heard this Episode:
"Main Title" by John Debney
"Sarah's Theme" by James Horner, sung by Sarah Jessica Parker
"I Put a Spell On You" by "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, produced and arranged by Marc Shaiman; performed by Bette Midler

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NOTE: This episode was originally only for Patreon subscribers, but we've opened it up for everyone. Subscribe to our Patreon for more bonus material like this throughout the year at this link: https://www.patreon.com/filmshake

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Two words: Nic Cage. Has there ever been two other words in the history of language that could contain the multitudes that these words represent? Maybe when the ancients were building the tower of Babel and the world's language was confused, there remained slivers of the pure language that contained the secrets to the universe. It's like Nic Cage knew this, changing his name from Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage (after his favorite Marvel character Luke Cage). He knew he'd need to hold back that purity (put it in a Cage, if you will), because otherwise we would have built a tower to Heaven with the ridiculousness and awesomeness that is his filmography.

Maybe it can still get us there. Like to Baby-O in Con Air, Nic is here to show us that, yes, God does exist, and He loves Nic Cage.

That's good. Because we do too!

Here, the other lesser Nic and I each choose our top 5 Cage moments, ranging from the ridiculous and the over-the-top (two phrases you'll here a lot) to the...well mainly more of that. These knobs go to eleven, baby, like no other Filmshake has shaken!

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