After the jump, you'll find the all new SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EPISODE of the Travis Bickle on the Riviera movie podcast. This Halloween, we discuss an American institution.
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Holidays are the worst thing in our culture. Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years, Valentine's Day, Bastille Day - those holidays are for people who love their lives. Disgusting. But there's always the day Michael Myer's came home. On this holiest of holidays, we discuss the films of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Listen to previous year's Halloween specials: Episode 6: Horror movie special, Episode 51: John Carpenter special featuring 10 guests in 8 individuals segments.
This episode your hosts Truckasaurus Stone and Season of the Witzke are joined by Wet Donut In Aliens Jeske, Grave-vid Smothers, Satanic Horror-ocks, The (understandably) Unretrieved Cremains of John K.O., and Jared the Atomic Space Ape Lewis
0:00:00 -0:42:28 - BRACKET PART ONE with David Brothers & Morgan Jeske.
0:42:49 - 1:04:15 - Spotlight on Running Man with Jared Lewis & John Keogh.
1:04:16 - 1:33:17 - Spotlight on Commando with Sarah Horrocks.
1:33:18 - 2:41:03 - BRACKET PART TWO: 3D Battle Across Time.
The films discussed include:
Conan the Barbarian (1982), written and directed by John Milius, co-starring James Earl Jones, Max Von Sydow, Sandhal Bergman, Sven Ole-Thorson, Mako, Ben Davidson, and Gary Lopez.
The Terminator (1984), written and directed by James Cameron, co-starring Linda Hamilton, Michael Beihn, Paul Winfield, and Lance Henriksen. Cameo by Bill Paxton.
Commando (1985), directed by Mark L. Lester, co-starring Rae Dawn Chong, David Patrick Kelly, Dan Hedeya, Vernon Wells, Bill Duke, and Alyssa Milano
Raw Deal (1986), directed by John Irvin, co-starring Darren McGavin and Robert Davi.
Predator (1987), directed by John McTiernan, co-starring Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Kevin Peter Hall, Shane Black, Richard Chaves, Elpidia Carrillo, and Richard Thorson.
The Running Man (1987), directed by Paul Michael Glaser, co-starring Richard Dawson, Maria Conchita-Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Mick Fleetwood, Sven Ole-Thorson, Prof Toru Tanaka, Erland Von Lith, Jesse Ventura, and Jim Brown.
Red Heat (1988), directed by Walter Hill, co-starring Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle, Gina Gershon, Larry Fishburne, and Ed O'Ross.
Twins (1988), directed by Ivan Reitman, co-starring Danny Devito, David Caruso, Heather Graham, Kelly Preston, and Bonnie Bartlett.
Total Recall (1990), directed by Paul Verhoeven, co-starring Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Dean Norris, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, and Mel Johnson Jr.
Kindergarten Cop (1990), directed by Ivan Reitman, co-starring Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Richard Tyson, and Cathy Moriarty.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), directed by James Cameron, co-starring Richard Patrick, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, and Joe Morton.
Last Action Hero (1993), directed by John McTiernan, co-starring Austin O'Brien, Tom Noonan, Charles Dance, F Murray Abraham, Robert Prosky, Frank McCrae, Mercedes Ruehl, and Ian McKellen.
True Lies (1994), directed by James Cameron, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Paxton, Tom Arnold, Tia Carrere, Charlton Heston, and Grant Heslov.
Junior (1994), directed by Ivan Reitman, co-starring Danny Devito, Emma Thompson, Pamela Reed, and Frank Langella.
Eraser (1996), directed by Chuck Russell, co-starring James Caan and Vanessa Williams.
Jingle All the Way (1996), directed by Brian Levant, co-starring Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Darth Vader, and Rita Wilson.
Batman & Robin (1997), directed by Joel Schumacher, co-starring Alicia Silverstone and Coolio.
End of Days (1999), directed by Peter Hyams, co-starring Gabriel Byrne, Rod Stieger, Kevin Pollak, Robin Tunney, Udo Kier, and CCH Pounder.
The 6th Day (2000), directed by Roger Spottiswoode, co-starring Robert Duvall?, Michael Rappaport, and Terry Crews.
Collateral Damage (2002), directed by Andrew Davis, co-starring Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, John Tuturro, John Leguizamo, and Cliff Curtis.
The Last Stand (2013), directed by Kim Ji-Woon, co-starring Johnny Knoxville, Luis Guzman, Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Stormare, Rodrigo Santiago, and Forrest Whitaker.
Escape Plan (2013), directed by Mikael Halfstrom, co-starring Jim Caviezel, Sylvester Stallone, Amy Ryan, 50 Cent, Sam Neill, Vinnie Jones, and Vincent D'onofrio.
Sabotage (2014), directed by David Ayer, co-starring Olivia Williams, Sam Worthington, Mirelle Enos, Terrence Howard, Joe Mangianello, Harold Perrineu, Max Martini, and Josh Holloway.
Music: All music in this episode has been taken from the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Ride, composed by Buddy Baker and featuring Paul Frees.
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ALL I HAVE IS YOU SO DARLING HELP ME UNDERSTAND.
Those middle segments were great.
Posted by: Morgan Jeske | 2014.10.28 at 22:28
When Terminator 2 came out I seem to remember that Arnold's wife (Maria Shriver, who is part of the Kennedy family and thus a part of so called "High Society") didn't want him playing a villain as heartless as the terminator he playing in the first movie. I don't feel like looking up whether this is me remembering correctly but...that's a memory I have. I remember seeing him play a "likable" terminator and getting the same feeling as when I saw Mad Max Beyond Thunder Dome, which was "sigh, it's been watered down to appeal to all the kids they need to get into the theater. Was T2 rated R? I forget. Anyway, Terminator was like a hold over from the 70's and T2 gave in to the Disney 80's (or 90's as it was).
I went to see T2 on opening night. We got there early to get the seats we wanted and then all the people that show up 10 minutes before the movie starts came in and couldn't sit together. The usher (a small teenager who couldn't care less about his job) came out and asked if we could all move over to let others sit together. In muttering unison we basically told him that we got here early so we could sit where we wanted. He shrugged and walked away. When Sarah gives her speech early in the movie about how men and their guns & fighting lead us to this coming "judgement day" etc... the guys sitting behind us loudly called her a liberal bitch and groaned that she should shut the f*ck up. We sat in fear after that. Not my fav, but it still had great action scenes, can't argue that. Anytime you guys want to know what going to the movies in the olden days was like, just call! Love, Tim
Posted by: Tim Hamilton | 2014.10.29 at 09:23
Shame y'all didn't talk about James Cromwell's power, window shattering suicide in Eraser.
I wished True Lies made it to the end. True lies has a special place in my heart. I saw it with parents at the theater, and I was in awe of everyone's--especially, my boy, Bill Paxton--acting and how ludicrous the story was. I swear, it's a screwball action comedy that has some many visual and verbal jokes in almost every scene. My Mom and I, to this day, quote the fuck out of that film.
"Oh yeah, she's got her head in the guy's lap all right. Yahoo.
Maybe she's sleepy."
Posted by: Larry B Vossler | 2014.10.29 at 13:12
After listening, I went ahead and watched Escape Plan. I liked the movie, but even if it sucked, it would have been worth sitting through the whole 2 hours just to catch the ten-second scene with the Asian guy in the engine room. So wonderful.
Posted by: Cass | 2014.10.30 at 19:42