The Rewinders Podcast

063 - A Very Netflix Christmas 2018 pt.1

Bethany and Joe Return a year later to mock the hell out of the next installment of A Christmas Prince. 

 

The Royal Wedding had big shoes to fill - did it do the job? Was it so bad it was good? Or did the whole thing just fall flat?

 

Come along for some chuckles in a super-cut of live riffing of A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding.

062 - Encino Man [1992]

Two outcast teenagers from Encino, California, discover a caveman in their backyard frozen in a block of ice. The caveman, Link, has to learn to live in the 20th century. And along the way he teaches them about life.

 

Lee and Natalie talk early this early 90s guilty pleasure - and determine if it still holds up.

061 - Space Camp [1986]

Andie Bergstrom (Kate Capshaw), an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach (Tom Skerritt). One night during an engine test, Andie and four teenage campers are accidentally shot into space. Together, the group -- which includes Kathryn (Lea Thompson), a pilot-in-training, and Tish (Kelly Preston), a ditz with a perfect memory -- must work together to operate the spacecraft and return home.

 

Lee and Joe sleepily recall Space Camp and determine if it still holds up

060 - Flight of the Navigator [1986]

Given the opportunity, you need to steal a UFO from the government to experience life.

Teach that UFO to speak like a child entertainment actor and take you on a trip into the future.

and once that UFO is done with you, leave you in a ditch back in your normal time.

 

Lee and Joe take you on a wild adventure of childhood memories and determine if Flight of the Navigator holds up.

059 - Altered Carbon - Season One [2018]

This episode does not explore a movie from the 80s or 90s - but a modern Netflix show that Joe was excited to watch.

 

Previews fluttered the heart of Cyberpunk fans (or at least Joe) with bright lights, cybernetics, and sprawling mega cities.

But, will the story keep a Cyberpunk fan interested through the full season of Altered Carbon?

 

Joe discusses his thoughts and if this show delivers the goods for Cyberpunk fans that have been in a drought.

058 - Spaceballs [1987]

A wildly sarcastic take on Star Wars - with tons of quotable lines - Spaceballs is loved by many, but should it be loved by them?

 

Lee and Joe comb the film Spaceballs to review what it was like to watch this movie as a kid and determine if it still holds up.

057 - An American Tale [1986]

Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he'd be rid off.

 

Lee and Joe terribly sing to American Tale and determine if it still holds up.

056 - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory [1971]

Gene Wilder takes vengeance out on children who need moral lessons taught to them. I guess, in that aspect, those lessons may have been taken too far... or not far enough?

 

The dark factory across town that has been inactive for a long long time suddenly starts running again. If that is not creepy, the fact that it is making chocolate would probably be even more creepy.

 

Now the mainstream media is going nuts over golden tickets for children to tour the factory that NOBODY GOES IN, AND NOBODY COMES OUT... that isn't creepy

 

Now add a 30 year old swooning kids with singing and chocolate and the creep factor blows through the glass ceiling like a WONKAVATOR!

 

Lee and Joe work through some childhood trauma and discuss if the film still holds up.

055 - Blade Runner [1982]

In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants - artificially created humanoids with short, fixed lifespans - which are illegal on Earth but are used in the off-world colonies. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specializes in terminating replicants. He is forced to come out of retirement when four replicants escape from an off-world colony and come to Earth.

 

Lee and Joe talk Blade Runner (Joe sounds like an old-world robot) and they determine if it still holds up.

054 - Willow [1988]

This movie proves the ole adage "its not the size of the Nelwyn that matters, its how the Nelwyn uses it."

 

Willow, like the hobbits from Lord of the Rings, is like the Spanish Inquisition - no one expects him... or treats him as a threat until its too late. Using that, along side crazy Madmartigan and his red-headed sweatie, Queen Bavmorda's daughter, Sorsha - the good guys end up saving the day.

 

But this is a Lucasfilm movie, so expect pandering to children... forced comedy duos... silliness to break up anything scary and the such.

 

Join Lee and Joe as they discuss their Daikini lifestyle and if the film still holds up.