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The Traumatic Cinematic Show: Ep. 54 – Groundhog Day
A holiday so insignificant that most people forget when it even is but that didn’t stop the @TCPodcastCrew from featuring it for an episode. The guys discuss one of Bill Murray’s best films so tune in and find out if any of the guys see their shadow or if an early spring is on it’s way.
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Groundhog Day (1993)
Some sci-fi films are aggressively marketed as such with stirring trailers and boastful news stories about how good they are, how much they cost, or some conflation of the two. Others sneak into the movie dead zone of early February, marketed as comedies from the team that brought you Ghostbusters and Caddyshack. Groundhog Day‘s not generally regarded as a sci-fi movie, but it introduced more people to the idea of stable temporal loops than anything outside of Star Trek. Sci-fi fans should totally claim it while the claiming’s good. Comedy fans (assuming such people still exist) don’t seem to be using it.
Anyway, it’s a classic that hasn’t aged a day in the years since its release…apart from a minor point about long distance telephone lines sure to confuse anyone would can’t do research or remember the early 1990s. Technical stuff aside, Groundhog Day‘s still a frighteningly accurate portrait modern ennui and its dozens, if not hundreds (or three hundred millions) of permutations. It’s not as “funny” as some entries on the resumes of its director or its headliner, but it is more human. We would also accept “humane” as a descriptor, since the movie goes out of its way to ground its Out There, SF ideas in the simplest terms. Every age needs that. Everyone needs a Groundhog Day.
Not that I’m advocating everyone go out and start acting as if there were no tomorrow. That would be silly. That’s at least half the reason Goundhog Day exists. It’s a very silly film, knows this, and uses that as a stalking horse. We go in thinking this is another Bill Murray vehicle, an industrial strength delivery system for his jokes. Inevitably, we lower our emotional defenses, allowing the movie to sucker punch us by making us feel something, the shady bastard. What gave it the right? Continue reading Groundhog Day (1993)
Cosmopolis (2012)
The Traumatic Cinematic Show, Ep. 53: 80s Month #4: Cloak & Dagger
80?s month has come to an end and to finish it off proper the trio delves into a Dabney Coleman classic Cloak & Dagger. Find out what the inside of a Atari cartridge should look like, if there is life after staring in ET, and how people communicated before cell phones. Will Mr. DeMoss crack the code and expose the top secrete plans to the world? Will Mr. Wickliff find the hidden message this film was trying to portray? Will MuGumBo be able to stay awake through the full discussion? Find out these answers and many more right now by listening to the show!
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The Traumatic Cinematic Show, Ep. 52: 80s Month #3: Re-Animator
Who hasn’t wanted to dabble in the fine art of bringing the dead back to life? Well in this weeks episode the trio delves deep into the warped mind of H.P. Lovecraft and the film Re-Animator which is loosely based on one of his stories. Will the crew succeed in bring back a recently deceased listener? Will DeMoss explain why H.P. Lovecraft was a lonely soul tormented by freakish nightmars? Will Mike share the secrete of the glowing serum in the syringes so those at home can bring back ex loved ones? The only way to find out it to listen right now!!
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The Traumatic Cinematic Show, Ep. 51: 80s Month #2: Buckaroo Banzai
To keep in line with the all 80’s Traumatic Cinematic month the crew watched and discusses a mid 80’s classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Find out the varied opinions on this cult flick and learn why some of the guys think the whole production was a inside joke.
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The Traumatic Cinematic Show, Ep. 50: 80s Month #1: Class of Nuke ‘Em High
It is a new year and we have changed a few little things around here at the Traumatic Cinematic studios. First off we are rocking a brand spanking new theme song and outro song created by our house band Moneygrip courtesy of Tom Jenner. You can feel the excitement from the trio as they are back from their holiday break energized and ready to conquer the world one movie at a time.
This weeks show the guys discuss a Troma classic Class of Nuke Em High and they leave no stone unturned. Radioactive weed seems to be the theme of this story so load up this episode, roll one up, and prepare to glow in the dark!
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It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Columbia Pictures should give us all hope that we can rise above our station in life. This little Poverty Row studio, which made a name for itself producing comedy shorts in the 30s (including The Three Stooges’ most famous works) had, by the mid-50s, replaced RKO as a member of the Big Studios Club. With everything from Superman cartoons to Marlon Brando Oscar winners in their catalog, its seems only natural Columbia would try to field a giant monster movie for 1955.
You have to give them credit for going about it the right way – hiring two of Them!‘s writers and a man (now) more famous than either of ’em – the stop-motion animator behind The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Ray Harryhausen. If this film’s remembered for anything, it’s remembered for Harryhausen’s effects. This is the mid-point between his career-defining turn in Beast and the next year’s State of the Art showcase, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers. But Art doesn’t come cheap, so I shouldn’t be surprised all of Harryhausen’s contribution’s are crammed into the film’s last 15 minutes. I was. Unpleasantly so. But I shouldn’t have been.
It Came from Beneath the Sea fired its first warning shot right off, beginning with a Bad Movie Double Down: droning narration played over military stock footage. It’s 1955, after all, one year after the successful launch of the U.S. Navy’s first nuclear submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus. This is meant to make the move Relevant to a distracted audience who may not give a crap about anything outside their pathetic little lives. It ends up pointing towards a theme that might’ve ameliorated the many failings of this film, had anyone cared to play that theme out. As Our Humble Narrator says,
“The mind of man had thought of everything – except that which was beyond his comprehension!” Continue reading It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)