Jason And Todd Talk Through Lousy Films

Like Normal People is a TV movie where Shaun Cassidy plays a guy constantly referred to as a word that nobody dares use anymore. Jason thinks Shaun Cassidy is Andrew McCarthy and then spends much of the podcast fumbling around the word nobody uses anymore while Todd freely admits to getting choked up in the first act before losing interest somewhere in the second act and then not finding an actual third act. 

The Great Outdoors is a movie from the John Hughes/John Candy team up era of comedy movies. Jason doesn't like family comedies, but Todd is okay with them if they have raccoons and teen romance, and each character gets their own specific scoring. Mostly Jason and Todd talk about current event issues like homelessness and also television monologues. The movie is only 90 minutes, but this conversation runs longer. Which is what you have come to expect from this podcast.

Lost Horizon is a movie about a plane filled with rich white trash crash landing into a musical. Jason and Todd don't like musicals to begin with, but this thing really brings a new meaning to the concept of lousy films. Also, George Kennedy had hard water, and nobody ever told him about filtration systems. Doesn't matter, Jason and Todd talk about loads of other stuff, including weight loss and the inherent problems with immortality and as always - Godzilla. Jason says the c-word a lot in reference to the Dalai Lama. 

House Party is another movie called House Party made for this year, 2023. Jason doesn't like it and talks about his anal fissure. Todd reminisces about his youth when it seemed like he had a really good shot at lucrative acting gigs. He doesn't like the new House Party, either, but he loves the old ones. He saw House Party 3 in the theater! No matter, because this podcast has made a list! Here's the list: 30 Best Cult Movie Podcasts You Must Follow in 2023 (feedspot.com)

Trackdown is a movie that has Eric Estrada in it. One time, Todd saw Eric Estrada's personal locker at a cigar store in Studio City. But that's not at all what Jason and Todd talk about while watching this movie that has Anne Archer in it, they've got to talk about people with the last name Sidaris and socio-political issues they clearly don't fully understand while still finding reasons to ALMOST yell at each other about. But they don't quite yell. That's probably a disappointment, isn't it?

Stewardess School is an 80s comedy about exactly what it sounds like.  This is the kind of movie that Jason thinks is a detriment to society, and the kind of absolute garbage Todd delights in. This of course leads to discussion about impenetrable loneliness and feeling abandoned by society. Whatever, they don't watch sports, so this is all they got.

A Ghost Story is a movie about Casey Affleck standing around in a bedsheet. In other news, Jason got a colonoscopy and Todd saw a movie called Plane. As if that's not enough, there's a complete breakdown of Oscar contenders regardless of how few of them were actually seen by the two self-described idiots who talk a good twenty minutes after the movie is over. This is entertainment! 

Dead for a Dollar is a Walter Hill western that came out in 2022. Seems fitting for the last movie Jason and Todd talk through for the year. In addition to complaining about not enough gun fire, Jason dives deep into his family history, and Todd talks about the (also 2022) movie Troll. This one made Jason real mad and now he has vowed revenge.

[[:encoded, "Portland Expose is an old movie based on true facts that expose the criminal underbelly of Portland. It exposes everything. A real expose. Jason and Todd only stop to be horrified by the violence towards women while talking about nuclear war, nazis, and The Water Wars. Oh, and Blonde. They talk about Blonde."]]

[[:encoded, "Willy's Wonderland is a movie about a silent Nic Cage fighting animatronic demons. Jason thinks it's the best movie ever made, and Todd thinks it's maybe third or fourth best. No matter; they talk about lots of other things like old man health issues, David Mamet being old and having old man health issues like Republicanism, and also how hard it is to make a good lighthouse movie."]]

[[:encoded, "The White Buffalo has a magical white buffalo puppet, a magical Jack Warden, and a Charles Bronson who never takes his damn shirt off. Don't matter, though, cuz Jason and Todd talk about other things most of the time, like what their lives were like in 5th grade and how their memories are not at all dependable. They don't yell at each other at all because Todd's wife is home and she won't have it."]]

[[:encoded, "Action U.S.A. is a movie about cars blowing up and people catching fire and jumping off bridges. While this unfolds before them, Jason and Todd talk about other car movies, have a love fest over the movie The Best Years of Our Lives, and they also talked about voting for sure - although that one may have happened off mic, we don't remember. We were kinda high."]]

[[:encoded, "The Oscar is a sleazy movie about a sociopath who wants to win an Oscar real bad. While the sordid tale unravels, Jason and Todd talk about the reality of cashmere sweaters against bare skin, the difference between Valley dive bars and The Oscars, and the importance of the correct percentage of THC for editing an audio play."]]

[[:encoded, "Turkey Shoot aka Escape 2000 is another exploitative take on The Most Dangerous Game starring the magnetic Steve Railsback. It's epic and kind of wonderful but Jason and Todd mostly talk about Ukraine and their equally subjective and uneducated opinions on auteur filmmakers. And Todd complains about that same stupid commercial director again. It's as if he actually suffered some kind of trauma. Bonus: Jason relates fourteen different stories about showing up to wildly late to important events. Anyway. Lots of love here."]]

[[:encoded, "The Identical is a movie about Elvis's twin being as good as Elvis which according to this movie's music also sucks. No matter. Despite the running time of an hour forty for the movie, Jason and Todd talk for three and a half hours. Included are thoughts on this movie, other Christian movies, and then they yell fight for thirty minutes about shit (Rogan, Chappelle, groups insulted by them) they both agree for the last thirty minutes that they have no business or effect on - but at a certain point Todd literally whines, \"I am so tired and I just want to eat.\" That's it. That's the show only one hour shorter than the average Joe Rogan Experience. Sorry for the run-on sentences, but I was high when we recorded this and it is now nighttime."]]

[[:encoded, "Cosmic Sin is a movie with Frank Grillo and Bruce Willis and they are in space. There's a lot of neon and tons of giant loud laser guns, but you would think Jason and Todd can't hear it as they instead talk about Lamb (a completely unrelated movie) and the truth about COVID and comedians, both alive and not alive. 2022 begins!"]]

[[:encoded, "The Unseen is a movie about a Bond girl who stays at a bed and breakfast in Solvang whose owners keep Flounder from Animal House in their basement. It's really the perfect way to celebrate their 100th episode, and Jason and Todd barely pay attention to the murder onscreen because they are both in crisis about how horrible they were as young men. Come on and celebrate with them!"]]

[[:encoded, "The Many Saints of Newark is an HBO movie prequel to an HBO television series about gangsters with eating disorders. Jason and Todd mostly talk about the whole David Chappelle controversy despite Todd swearing he doesn't want to. Spoiler Alert! They manage to come to some kind of understanding. Sort of. No, don't talk about the movie for more than five minutes."]]

[[:encoded, "Cry Macho was made by an elderly man who only has time for single takes. Jason takes this man down. Todd laughs. Also, they talk about other things, like other movies and old man ailments."]]

[[:encoded, "Reminiscence is a movie that is two hours long. Normally when people get bored by a movie, they shut it off. But Jason and Todd, they talk through the entire thing and then keep talking for another forty minutes after that."]]