HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!!!
We kid, we kid. We all uniformly despise this movie, despite its heavy cable rotation, despite starring RobinWilliams (rest in peace), and despite being directed by Francis Ford Coppola (dear god why).
Whether its the awkwardness of seeing Bill Cosby in anything these days, the overt and uncomfortable Oedipal themes, or the fact that this movie actually makes “wholesome” and “lighthearted” fun of a real disease that afflicts kids with no cure called progeria (look it up), this movie is assessed as garbage by all our hosts.
In fact, in our 3rd Annual GoodTrash Shelvie Awards, in which we are self-congratulatory about all the movies we watched for GTGC in the previous year, three of us give this film The Hebrew Hammer. That’s right, out of all the GoodTrash films we watch, we all decide that this film should be buried in that pit in New Mexico that contains millions of Atari cartridges of the atrocious E.T. video game.
After contemplating and bemoaning the film, Alexandra begins by discussing psychoanalysis and the Oedipus Complex AT LENGTH, with Arthur chiming in. Dalton discusses how the only interesting conversation this movie has is about children contemplating their own mortality. Also, Dalton says butterflies need to “fuck off as symbolism for mortality.”
Finally, Dustin discusses films as emotional manipulation machines, stolen from Emotion from the Structure of Narrative Film.
They close with the game “Interesting Film Departures by Directors” in which they play the “one of the things is not like the other” with the oeuvre of a number of directors. They conclude with being fired up in pop culture.
Celebrate April Fool’s Day by pranking your friends, and queuing up this episode so you never have to see this movie EVER again.
Seriously. Don’t watch this movie. Watching this movie would be the worst trick of all.
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Jack TIMESTAMPS
1:49 – Introductions and Welcome
4:10 – Voice of the Cinema
4:44 – Brief Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down Review
10:18 – Analysis
28:32 – Shelf or Trash/Else or Instead
33:38 – Feedback
35:35 – The Game: Interesting film departures by directors.
45:15 – Fired Up in Pop Culture
Alexandra Bohannon just graduated with her Master’s in Public Administration, and is on the job hunt. She’s also on an a weightlifting team and podcasts way too much. Keep up with Alexandra’s most recent flicks on Letterboxd @Alexvbooks or follow her on Twitter @alexvbrohannon
