Named after my favorite Kevin Smith film. I guess that makes Eleven- Silent Bob and Max-Jay?Just like Mallrats, we don't start at the mall, we start at the rat farm where Billy is running away seemingly unharmed, because of racist white male privilege probably. Mike lies to Eleven because as we find out, just because "friends don't lie" it doesn't mean boyfriends don't, boyfriends lie- ALL.THE.TIME. Hopper is a little too happy about El's sadness but that's okay because he will have a date with Karma later at Enzo's. He celebrates with Joyce and almost slips on a MAGNETand Joyce fixates on those for this entire season starting now Billy smashes Karen's head in but not really, and then a lifeguard named Heather says "take me to him" but also not really... and this man LITERALLY can not stand the heat of facing the reality of women around him and like most men deals with that logically by kidnapping heather, I wonder if this is even the first time he's done this. We find out that he has been recruited into being the foot soldier of a genocidal maniac but to be honest if he'd have lived in 1940 or today the same thing would have happened to him anyway. Max takes El to the mall where she shops and explodes orange julius all over that bitch Stacey (Karma at the mall for rejecting Dustin) Max is teaching El to be herself and to be a strong independent woman and it is literally the best day of El's life even after she dumps Mike's lying assMike I know it's the 80's but shopping at the mall with just $3.50 is completely ridiculous Hopper has to stop people protesting Don- I mean the mayor because of the mall and Hopper begrudgingly arrests them and sends them off with Calvin because he's gotta get ready for dinner (it's not a date) riiight, that's why you had flo go get you a brand new magnum PI shirt.But Joyce has to leave work to go to the middle school science teacher's house because MAGNETS And Hopper is left at Enzo's all alone because Joyce stood him up because MAGNETS Dustin and the rest of the scoops troop are busy all episode decoding a russian message and Steve figures out the call is coming from inside the mall because of a song from a horse... Stranger things indeed, yall get your clues about as strangely as Spencer Hastings when she got a phone number from a bird... Nancy and Jonathon are being the journalist photographer duo and honestly, why would their lives or careers ever drive them apart, they literally have coinciding jobs, their dream life is literally the same one, another rat pops and it's disgusting and all the other rats slime shows up at the end to save heather from Billy I presume because what the freak man? Is this a hobby? Where did you learn to tie up girls and take them to abandoned buildings because this does NOT look like your first rodeo, let's hope the rat blob saves her in time :)
FINALLY, I return to give everyone what no one asked for...my opinions... tee heeHad a hard and busy year, mostly bad stuff but some good, I love my new husband!! (so far ;) ) Now back to Stranger ThingsWe start in Russia, where right off the bat several people are fried by white rose's machine... oops wrong show... anyway the terminator kills a scientist and they say comrade a million times... later in Hawkins, El and Mike make out even though they are THIRTEEN and Hopper is being "strict" by allowing this as long as the door is open three inches. It does make him turn into a tomato though.There is a mall in town now where Steve Harrington is yelling "AHOY!" at teenage girls and sneaking kids through the back halls so they can watch horror movies as if their lives aren't enough of that already. Will touches his neck for the first of a thousand times. The electric goes out and the mall is the center of all evil. Except the rat farm at the edge of town is also the center of all evil. The next day Nancy sneaks out of Johnathon's bed and Joyce thinks it's adorable and we all think she is adorable for finding it adorable. Dustin is back from Camp Nowhere or whatever it's called and can't believe no one cares that he's home and they can't believe he has a girlfriend. Hopper gets Joyce's help drafting a heart-to-heart with El and Mike and tries to date her but she's got plans to pair the two grossest things to eat at the same time ever. Karen is trying seduce a teenager and he's cool with it but no one else should be. Again Will grabs his neck and looks terrified like he just saw his own haircut, or maybe he's worried that he'll never play D&D again and this will be about the only thing he does for the entire season Dustin builds a radio tower and tries to contact his "perfect" girlfriend and Lucas says "no girl is that perfect" But Max is perfect OBVIOUSLY!! And Suzie is not real OBVIOUSLY and only one of those things are for sure the truth Hopper tries to talk to the most annoying couple ever but the annoying half of that couple makes him mad so he threatens to kill Mike's Nana before taking Mike out to the Bronco and threatens to kill him instead lol Karen sees her husband asleep and he's not so bad when he isn't talking so she decides not to sleep with a guy her daughters age after all Billy is more than ready for the date though as he talks to himself in his car, something wrecks him right beside the rat farm and he gets out to yell at the car for it. Then suddenly karma grabs Billy by the ankles and drags him to the basement of the barn where rats are grown and exploded like so much popcorn. :P
I wanted to do an episode dedicated to my dad who passed this last summer, it's been a rough couple of years for me. He loved all kinds of movies but this one kept popping into my mind and by the time I got around to starting it, it was spooky season so it fits nicely. "Now they know that we know that they know that we know."
Carla Gugino? Ted Wheeler? Cole Sprouse? Mary Shelley? A PINK house? How could I NOT cover this on the podcast? Okay Cole Sprouse could have the best chemistry with a lamp... thankfully in this movie we have Kathryn Newton who I haven't seen before this movie but I LOVE her... this cast is top notch... this movie is so FUN and colorful and a pink house with a teal door... it's like it was made for me specifically because literally that's what colors my house is too... "yea... yea... she's a bitch" possibly best line I laughed a lot but I also cried... I don't care what critics say about this movie... also I want a Victorian man as a bf (mainly Charles Dickens) this movie is so cute, the romance is sweet and real and adorable, Cole is adorable... I love this mix of Edward Scissorhands meets Heathers meets all the best color schemes and fashions... it's all the things I love and this movie is not for the filmbros it's for the tumblr girlies so if you're not down for that... what is wrong with you? lol
what started out to be a podcast about Lisa Frankenstein turned into a rant about Riverdale, I promise I'll get to Lisa Frankenstein next episode
The season two finale, finally. Mike pulls a Noah from the notebook "I 'wrote' every day for a year" And El tells him she telepathically left him on 'read' and hopper takes the blame so Mike beats him up and hopper lets him because he's emotionally intelligent El sticks her thumb in Dustin's mouth and her cold shoulder at Max Nancy and Jonathon get steamy again but this time it is not fun and his mom and brother is there (kind of) Billy hits on Karen and then hits on Steve (in more than one way) Mike wants to start a fire and Steve says 'uh yea that's a no' El retraumatizes herself to save the world Nancy stabs a twelve year old with a red hot poker and it's all good Max lays down the law on Billy's racist ass and steals his car so they can go be arsonists underground Hopper is the best dad and El is the best daughter and Owens isn't so bad Murray gets revenge, barb is laid to rest There's a dance Dustin is sad and Nancy is not just badass she's a sweetheart and Jopper hug 🤗 Kisses, dancing, upside down It's not over yet
Travel back with me to the 90s to enjoy one of my favorite guilty pleasures... This movie has a lot going on, but most of it is super fun and unexpected, it goes against a lot of stereotypes and introduces us to Carla Gugino, which is like so awesome. The acting is really good, and yes lots of people complain about Pauly Shore but is he really that bad? Really? He's at the very least adorable... I think he does a good job honestly and he's not NOT trying to be different character, the 'weasel' was kind of his whole thing on purpose just like "Jay and Silent Bob" are the same in all their movies, you go to see them, it's almost an IP ya know? The 90s was a great time for movies, when even the stupid ones were actually pretty good and lowkey MVP of this movie was Tracy who did nothing wrong and got treated the worst for absolutely no reason until the end. Also I come up with a new way to judge men, and it's kind of a thing I've been thinking about a lot lately. This is a long podcast and discription but oh well chill out bud-dy :)
Back to the lab again... oops there goes Rabbit... aka Hopper "Who let the dogs out?" Sorry corny music jokes aside... So we come back to the lab and the dogs are busting through and this is an action movie for bit. Joyce asks Will who she is and he hesitates to she stabs him... Well with a needle to put him to sleep, his true dad (Hopper) comes and picks him up Out in the woods Lucas and Dustin are still fighting over a girl and a dog. Steve hears something and they go to the lab where they find Nancy and Jonathon who have shown up to find all the lights out and the gate not working and Dustin shoves Jonathon and says "no you push button, I push button" After Bob gets the lights on and dies the most unnecessarily brutal death in the history of streaming tv, the rest of them minus Owens who is a nice guy after all who stays behind to get them all out. RIP Bob Newby, Superhero, but now #Jopper can be a thing They all go to Joyce's and sit around sad and discuss giant monster nazis that take over brains and then take Will out to the shed for a good whipping... Just kidding, they take him out there to interrogate him and tell him sad stories about his traumatic childhood This forces the Will inside to tap out some morse code to let them know how to stop the smoke Nazi but not before those dang telemarketers ruin everything and Will figures out where he is and calls the hounds of hell (aka the upside down) to his side to kill his family, what a sweet little boy lol They all stand at the ready but one by one hear the demo dogs getting demolished outside... then the door opens and it's our GIRL ELEVEN is back BITCHES, she's home and she's kicking ass and taking names...
Hi Barbie! I want — to make meaning — not be the thing that's made. I want to do the imagining — I don’t want to be the idea. Oh I went in excited for the PINK PINK PINK BARBIE GIRL PINK movie and came out with an existential crisis lol (but in the best way) Thank you Margot, Thank you Greta and Thank you Ruth, Thank you Barbie and all the Barbies out there And Ken is just Kenough lol
We start off with Eleven trying to track down her "sister" aka another child Brenner kidnapped, in case we forgot what an evil monster that guy was (is?) El finds her in Chicago and overhears Aunt Becky (have mercy) tattling on her to Flo at the Hawkins police Dept. El then starts her episode-long crime spree by stealing Becky's money and getting out of there, leaving Terry in her dream circle like the rebellious daughter she's been all season Dressed in her most bada** bibbed overalls, El hits the mean streets of Chicago where she finds the island of misfit toys... Meet Kali, aka 008 aka "sister" She's a traumatized victim of the government who's the human version of an acid trip, she can like make you totally see glowing butterflies, it's like a total trip man, far out. She's also totally healed of her trauma, completely, I mean she talks like someone who is emotionally dead inside but she's totally healed guys, we know this because she says it over and over and because healed people always travel around the country murdering all the people who've wronged them. There's also the rest of the gang Axel- he's pretty much just the joker with a mohawk and is scared of spiders Mick- she worries and drives the van Dottie- harley quinn/raggedy ann and Funshine- he's a teddy bear (and I do actually like him because he's nice to 'miss jane') learn them, know them, love them because you will never see any of these characters ever again. Kali tells El that anger is good and forgiveness is bad and she should be angry enough to move a train car so El does that... then she gets a makeover that is apparently "bitchin" They shoplift, El steals Eggos, Kali makes a good point actually about capitalism in the middle of a gas station where it won't actually change anything THEN Kali takes El to a man's home to break in and terrify him and his children and then tries to force El to murder him. El thankfully does not turn to the darkside and remains a Jedi who uses 'the force' for good by knocking the gun right out of Kali's (not traumatized anymore seriously guys) hand and straight out the window, anakin skywalker she is not, she's Luke Then in true Kali fashion she gets revenge for that by making El see Brenner again to retraumatize her and I guess make a point or something? "ELEVEN krr I am your FATHA krr" But El doesn't really like putting up with this acid trip nightmare dad and screams at Kali to stop making her hallucinate her abuser like a cruel heartless b*tch El checks in on her real dad the policeman aka daddy hopper a couple times and at the end sees that he and mike are in danger so she must use the force to destroy the Deathstar... wait wrong show... the warehouse gets raided so Kali makes them invisible which is honestly pretty freaking cool and then they leave but before they can pull off El tells Kali that she is in fact not up for serial killing across the usa and has to return to the north pole to help santa guide the sleigh... oh crap wrong thing again Anyway El tells her she has a better island of misfits to get to and admits her friends might not be able to save her but she can save them because she is *that bitch* and we all love her... she's going home because home is not a place, it's the people she loves :'(
WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY BOY???? well he's a liar is one of the things... lol but no that's not really his fault but still, naughty Steve gives Dustin terrible dating and hair advice while tossing raw meat around... Max calls Lucas a mormon and Billy gets more buff and (Im assuming) racist by the second... Mike is a good friend but more importantly for this episode he's a smart friend Jonathon did indeed enjoy the pullout and from the grin on her face we can assume Nancy did too Owens proves himself worthy of some of our trust... while insulting the mind flayer by calling him a virus... word Bob makes me cry Hopper makes me cry Lucas and Max make me cry Steve makes himself live bait No but seriously Lucas deserves Max more than Dustin does (sorry not sorry) but really Dustin you're acting a little incel and Lucas is actually getting to know her and once again we end on a cliff hanger of Hopper being in apparent mortal danger... and this would be the worst time ever to make a hard left into a completely different genre and show so let's hope they don't do that for the next episode (what? they did what? right now? it couldn't have been placed somewhere else or split up into different scenes instead of making us sit through an entire episode wondering if Hopper was going to die? oh cool cool cool)
I lay it all out there, next episode will be about Stranger things, I promise... just wanted to give an explaination as to where I've been
Hopper should make some 'don't be stupid' rules for himself because once again he's got himself into mortal danger and no one even knows where he is... thankfully Mike and Joyce are... well they don't really do anything but they do know Bob and Bob is good at puzzles so he has to be a superhero and figure out that the scribbles all over Joyce's house are a map of Hawkins... thanks Bob... and at the X is treasure and that treasure is Hopper's sexy dad bod that Joyce can't stop thinking about so hard that she repeatedly forgets Bob exists lol Nancy and Jonathon run off and get a hotel (a double room though... boo this isn't like our fanfics) then the next day they go give Murray a recap of season 1 as Lucas tricks Max into listening to him do the same, she likes it but thinks it's a little derivative which is so meta and self-deprecating of the writers and I love that... Murray thinks it's a little much for people to handle, umm ya think? That's why this show has taken over so many of our lives Murray... And if season 1 wasn't too much for you, this one sure was for me when Eleven goes to find her Mama and finds out that her abuser who kidnapped her and several other children also fried her Mama's brain so much that she's stuck in a continuous loop nightmare of the most traumatic thing that ever happened to her... in case we all forgot what a monster Brenner is... Speaking of monsters, Billy continues to be a racist a-hole and even the actual creature who ate a cat doesn't compare to how evil those two entitled white men are honestly But yes Dustin has to lie to his poor sad mom about mews and trick Dart into the cellar and no one is answering his 'code red' besides the capitalism-lovin brat that people love for some reason I don't understand because she annoys me most of the time, to be honest The other entitled white man we don't like on this show who doesn't really do anything wrong but is quite useless as Dustin points out, Ted Wheeler tells Dustin his kids nor anyone else's kids matter to him really and so Dustin has to enlist the help of Steve who is bringing Nancy flowers for saying she doesn't love him which is a weird flex and even Steve questions why he is the one apologizing... whatever she loves Jonathon anyway, but thankfully this kicks off a great bromance but we'll get to that later because by the end of the episode, Hopper is fine and Will is very much not, as per usual something is wrong with "my boy" as Joyce would say
Will finds out exactly why everyone says smoking is bad for you. Eleven does some redecorating at the cabin Will helps Joyce redecorate her house again this time with terror puzzles and coldness Nancy is the smartest person ever!! Mike is being so kind to Will that he has to balance it by being a jerk to max for no reason We find out that Billy is a straight up racist, so no one should be defending him. And Hopper decides it will be easier to dig a hole to the center of the earth and bury himself in a tunnel from the upside down than raise a teenage daughter lol
The pic says it all, "Dustin!" This episode should have been titled, "poor choices" Eleven is proving how "not stupid" she is by breaking every single "don't be stupid" rule. Dustin is breaking his own "don't be stupid" rules by harboring a visitor from the upside down who was a stowaway aboard the SS Will Byers... Mike is mean to Max for literally no reason, Steve gets jealous of Jonathon and Nancy... again. Get this, because Jonathon drove her home... because Steve asked him to? What the heck Steve? how does that even make sense? Jonathan and Nancy (mostly Nancy) is still sick of the BS and devises a plan when she spots who may or not be the spiritual essence of future Eddie Munson listing to Metal on a walkman... Joyce does some terrifying coloring and eats bologna and I'm not sure which is more frightening to me personally but she figures things out too late because Bob has given Will the worst good advice ever and he gets the old "John Locke" treatment from this show's smoke monster :)
"Ghost" "I see that" "Halloween" "Sure is" Why is this my favorite scene of all time? lol seriously... Hopper S1: "Mornings are for coffee and contemplation", Hopper S2: *wakes up early to cook breakfast* aka Eleven literally gave him a reason to wake up in the morning :'( Joyce is a nervous wreck so... nothing new there, something's wrong with Will... so nothing new there either, the boys go trick or treating, Max is coming around, Billy is an a-hole, Jonathon doesn't want to party, Steve is trying to hold Nancy together and Nancy thinks this is BS, BS, BS!
oh boy here we go again, season 2 we meet Max, who I LOVE... Jonathon gives one of his famous speeches first thing which is a treat... dustin has teeth now and is purring and it's a good thing considering what happens to the cat later his mom Claudia is going to need another one... Will is being called Zombie boy like he really needs more things to traumatize his sensitive little big compassionate heart :( OH and the duffers know how to do fan service precisely the right amount... because the last 2 minutes are the best and nothing even happens really just a father-daughter meal... best one ever!! LOVE IT!! Oh yea and ted wheeler is as clueless as ever, asking Mike if his friends jumped off a cliff if he would too... "I'd jump first Dad, GOSH!"
Welcome to part 2 where I continue to gush about the actors, and how being childfree is awesome and misunderstood. And where we figure out whether or not Alan Grant is the perfect man... spoiler alert: he is. lol TEAM REXY for life.
I loved this movie as a kid, I had all the dialog completely memorized. So many moral and ethical questions are raised by this movie and i love that aspect of it. Part 2 coming soon, "hold onto your butts"
Such an underrated movie to be honest. This was such a big part of my childhood and is still very special to me because it reminds me of my Best Friend, it's perfect for Galentine's Day because of Janey and Lynne but also it's got some romance, the first couple I remember 'shipping' Janey and Jeff, so it also works for Valentine's Day. This movie would have aged well if it weren't for Drew lol he's a level 12 creeper and literally SA's someone which is not okay at all. But aside from him I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of misogyny in this movie, especially from our leading man. *crush renewed* lol Lynne is fantastic, Janie is loveable and realistic, Jeff is a pretty decent guy considering he's a white man in an 80s movie... not bad and dare I say a cuter version of Joey Lawerence? Whoa! anyway that was cheesy but so is this movie, I had a lot of fun watching it again. Buckle up in your exotic wheels (a Schwinn ten speed?) and grab your fire extinguishers it's DTV time! Also best advice from this movie: "Stay away from him, he's a boy"