Our executive producer Adam Gobeski likes to pick films for us to review. This is where those suggestions go to die.
Movie | Year | Description | Will We Review It? |
---|---|---|---|
Shoah | 1985 | OK, you probably SHOULD watch this, but a it’s a 9 1/2 hour Holocaust documentary and maybe not the best idea for our first episode… | No |
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | 2016 | Two men bond over their mother’s first name | No |
Saw IV | 2007 | Despite Jigsaw’s death, the series inexplicably continues | No |
Orca | 1977 | “Moby Dick”, except it takes up less of your time and is somehow still insufferable | No |
Rocky IV | 1985 | Rocky ends the Cold War | No |
King Kong | 1976 | A beloved monster movie gets a less than beloved remake | No |
Dark Star | 1974 | One of the top ten space comedies of the 1970’s | No |
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol | 1987 | Presumably has Steven Guttenberg and Michael Winslow | No |
The Man in the White Suit | 1951 | A movie about an altruistic chemist? I’m not sure I understand what those words mean together… | Maybe |
Johnny Dangerously | 1984 | Man struggles to live his life with an adverb for a last name | No |
One From the Heart | 1982 | No Mr. Coppola, no amount of good will you’ve built up will make us like it! | No |
Alien Resurrection | 1997 | Unfortunate self-allegory on the reanimation of the movie franchise | No |
The Cobbler | 2014 | Wait, this was directed by Tom McCarthy…? I’ll pretend I didn’t read that… | No |
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril | 1972 | Apparently, NOT a YouTube video | Maybe |
Avatar | 2009 | Smurfs in Space. OK, that’s not fair. I can watch The Smurfs without wearing special glasses. | No |
MegaForce | 1982 | But… Barry Bostwick… | No |
Shrek Forever After | 2010 | My fifth favorite Shrek movie! | No |
Multiplicity | 1996 | The original inspiration for the movie “Split” | No |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | 2008 | Unsurprisingly, a couple of radiation physicists have some complaints about a certain scene in this one… | No |
The Boss Baby | 2017 | If there’s anything that children love, it’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” references… | Maybe |
King Solomon’s Mines | 1985 | The movie Sharon Stone was accidentally cast in! | No |
Napoleon | 1927 | Eh, Stanley Kubrick didn’t like it, so there’s my excuse for not subjecting a guest to this one | Probably Not |
Starman | 1984 | In case you pine for the days Jeff Bridges WASN’T always playing a cowboy | Probably Not |
Rampage | 2018 | 12-year-old me thinks this is a great idea for a movie | No |
The Andromeda Strain | 1971 | Tagline is literally “Rated G…But May Be Too INTENSE For Younger Children” | No |
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair | 1952 | Has humor targeted specifically at country folk aged well? | No |
Batman & Robin | 1997 | Ice-themed puns notwithstanding | No |
Swimfan | 2002 | Details how Earth has been ruined by instant messaging apps | No |
Head | 1968 | Plotless Monkees movie with credited writer Jack Nicholson! | No |
Underworld: Awakening | 2012 | Werewolves, vampires, blah, blah, blah | No |
Hell Comes to Frogtown | 1988 | And we care because…? | No |
The Revenant | 2015 | A bear sadly is not able to finish his meal | Maybe |
King Ralph | 1991 | It was years after I saw this that I finally realized John Goodman was a good actor | No |
London After Midnight | 1927 | How does Adam know this ever existed, but not that no copies remain…? | No |
Larger Than Life | 1996 | Has Bill Murray and an elephant; less than the sum of its parts | No |
United Passions | 2014 | A hagiography of sorts about FIFA including the unblemished presidency of… Sepp Blatter | No |
Trafic | 1971 | That’s French for “traffic”! | Probably |
The Gong Show Movie | 1980 | The second best movie ever made about Chuck Barris | No |
Zardoz | 1974 | The only movie we can definitively say has too much Sean Connery | No |
Vegas Vacation | 1997 | The reason I still have no desire to vacation in Las Vegas | No |
The Hottie and the Nottie | 2008 | Remember when Paris Hilton was the most unlikable relative of a hotel magnate you could name? Those were more innocent times… | No |
ABBA: The Movie | 1977 | Of movies featuring an “incompetent radio DJ”, this is in my top ten! | No |
Gotti | 2018 | When MoviePass dies, John Travolta will be the only one who attends the funeral | No |
Serenity | 2019 | Matthew McConaughey plays fishing boat captain Baker Dill…OK you’ve already lost me | No |
Lethal Weapon 4 | 1998 | Wait, they made a fourth one…? | No |
Vertigo | 1958 | Huh? | Yes, please, absolutely! |