Better Living Through Bad Movies Presents: The Island (2005)

[NOTE: If you’re cast in a movie where you play a 4-year old clone who knows nothing and needs everything explained, then 85% of your performance is going to consist of this expression.]

"We should probably address the controversy up front. Some denounce this film as a shameless rip-off of  Parts: The Clonus Horror, an obscure 1979 horror movie which featured Peter Graves and the relief Darren from Bewitched, and starred that guy who played the Gene Shalit-looking fireman on Emergency! And sure, The Island does seem to recycle the premise and every major plot point of the earlier film, but that’s okay, because it’s a copy of a movie about cloning! Which is a brilliant metatextual critique of its own thematic gestalt! Or, you know, plagiarism. Whatever."

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Better Living Through Bad Movies Presents: Cutthroat Island (1995)

Jeff has been traveling and Life has been Lifing, but we'll be back with a new episode shortly. In the meantime, things have been percolating over at Better Living Through Bad Movies. Here's a Hickory Farms cheese log sampler:

Geena has to dress like a prostitute to visit her uncle (I guess we’ve all had to, especially around the holidays) and titillates him with her Dad’s scalp, which she’s been carrying around in her bikini area. He agrees to join her on the quest but says they’d better hurry, since her map is simultaneously developing dandruff and a yeast infection.

Frank Langella shows up and demands to know where the map is, threatening her with a moray eel if she doesn’t talk, but Geena refuses to admit that she’s using her father’s skin as a panty liner. He kills her uncle, but that’s okay, because it turns out Frank’s also her uncle, so she’ll still have an excuse to dress like a whore on Thanksgiving.

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Episode 107: Those Old Scientists

 Cartoon characters come to life (and for once we're not just talking about Jeff), in the Season 2 crossover episode as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds meets Lower Decks.

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Episode 106: Tangents

 

It's like Targets, but without Boris Karloff.

By the way, this is the Lois Lane Supercut we talk about on the show:

And speaking of the show... Enjoy us speaking!

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Episode 105: The Fact Rat versus New Breed

 

Scholarly rodent Webberly Rattenkraft (AKA The Fact Rat) is our Special Guest Victim this week as Jeff convinces him to watch New Breed. He quickly discovers that facts are no defense against a Stephen Groo movie. Hear a man's mind melt in real time!

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Episode 104: Stephen Groo's New Breed

Well, it finally happened. Had to happen, really. Jeff found the worst movie ever made, and warned Scott about it. Scott, in a decision no one but Homer could explain, decided to watch it, unleashing a cascade of tragedies that probably left Oedipus feeling pretty good about the way his life worked out. So get ready for an hour of bitching (same as the runtime of the film; consider this bonus commentary track our Free Gift to You!, since we're all out of the Sports Illustrated Sneaker Phone).

By the way, when we say "an hour of bitching", we mean Scott bitches for an hour. Jeff actually liked the thing. 

Of course he did.

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Episode 103: Rants and Recommendations

In this episode, Scott tells a folksy, heart-warming story about failure, while Jeff goes on not one, but two epic rants about Beau is Afraid and Renfield. 

And here are links to the first two posts on Scott's new Substack, Better Living Through Bad Movies:

Fiend With a Face (1956)

Tom Cruise in The Mummy (2017)

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