Documenteers #66 - Minding the Gap

It’s BIG TIME BIGELOW time so we’re rolling into the holidays with the full filmography of Kathryn Bigelow and today we got an interesting little cyberpunk tale that has its merits. A 1995 movie about 1999 discussed in the year 2026. We’re talking the box-office bomb turned sleeper cult flick “STRANGE DAYS” starring a whole lotta folks including Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis pretty much nude and Ralph (it’s pronounced ‘ray’) Fiennes. Get that SQUID on and let me jack your memories and then you can jack mine and we’ll  go get shot in the street by tweaked out cops. Yeah, I remember New Year’s Eve of 1999. It happened just like that.    CREDIT LINKS “While the Earth Sleeps” by Deep Forest & Peter Gabriel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zs61WLuHRQ&list=RD2Zs61WLuHRQ&start_radio=1 “50 ft Queenie” by PJ Harvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKLiU7Hq93w&list=RDjKLiU7Hq93w&start_radio=1 “The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore” by PJ Harvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On2s0-xCXu4&list=RDOn2s0-xCXu4&start_radio=1   Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!

BIG TIME BIGELOW is in effect so it’s all the Kathryn Bigelow for the next few weeks until we’ve seen them all and today’s discussion is amongst her most infamous in the Pre-Propaganda era. The dialogue is hilarious but the stunts are pretty sic and the climax scene was quite exciting in spite of the movie often being unintentionally silly. It’s, like, a good movie but I get it if you think it’s a bad movie but maybe a bad movie could never be better than this. Is this the best bad movie? My jaw did drop when he jumped out of the plane. Of course we’re talking about the 1991 action hit “POINT BREAK” from 1991 starring Keanu Reeves, the late Patrick Swayze, the likable Lori Petty and the always welcome Gary Busey. Kinda makes me want to get a board and take my old ass out on the waves. Radical. Movie link below.   CREDIT LINKS “Point Break” is on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100004590/point-break Anthony Keidis Ding Dong Medley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIJbtHfM6OY&list=RDnIJbtHfM6OY&start_radio=1 “I’m Like A Bird” by Nelly Furtado: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPQ_M3yJTA&list=RDroPQ_M3yJTA&start_radio=1 “California Sun” by The Rivieras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF1tyjvH9is&list=RDHF1tyjvH9is&start_radio=1   Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!

NEW INTRO IS TIMESTAMPED (00:41) SO FEEL FREE TO SKIP IT IF YOU’VE HEARD IT   Documenteers was a documentary themed podcast that ran from 2016 to 2020. The RSS feed was taken down but now we’re reposting these classic documentary film discussions every Tuesday for well over a hundred weeks.   Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS  on Youtube and podcast for more episodes of Documenteers as well as old and new episodes of The Projectors.   IG: https://www.instagram.com/theprojectorsshow/

Of our trio of IPs that we’re analyzing this one might have been the most “hot button” because the nerds really be flexin’ on behalf of their favorite video game IP but that’s all it is folks….an IP. Don’t get so attached. Don’t be so precious. Actually be very precious and brand loyal so we can churn out 300 of these. God I fucking love money. We’re talking up Zach Cregger’s newest flick “RESIDENT EVIL”. Were the hardcore gamers satisfied? Seems like a lot of people are digging it but what about the people that are more hyper focused? I heard the last Resident Evil game had a zombie lady with big ‘ol tittays. It would have made the nerds happy if Cregger threw her in there. What if the movie called it “Opossum City” just to troll the fans? Let me make the next one. CREDIT LINKS Resident Larper - The Zach Cregger Incident (Resident Evil 26) by Dead By Donovan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH3BNdv0TDw&t=2127s “Jumpers” by Hays Holladay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cosae7RfsTo&list=PLaChXPv8heWE&index=21 “Zombies” by King Khan & BBQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To2c6xsG2l8&list=RDTo2c6xsG2l8&start_radio=1   The other movies we have ranked: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com   IG: https://www.instagram.com/theprojectorsshow/   Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!

We’re in the early Neo-noir trenches with our year’s director study on Kathryn Bigelow that we’re calling BIG TIME BIGELOW and we’re seeing Kathryn flesh out what kind of filmmaker she’s going to be before signing on with the US Military and raking in awards. These are Strange & Stylish Days for Kathryn Bigelow and today we’re talking about a lesser known cop drama starring Jamie Lee Curtis from 1990 called BLUE STEEL. Now we like our dripping noir melodrama but sometimes things get confused out there in the underbelly. We do have a proto Patrick Bateman and our first of three Tom Sizemore appearances as well as sex and nudity but Kthryn wanted way more nudity allegedly. Man, we can’t get over the witness plot hole. The kid was literally looking down a barrel. Check out the Tubi link to the movie below. It’s like that song says, “New York City cops…they ain’t too smart.” CREDIT LINKS “Blue Steel” is on Tubi as of this posting: https://tubitv.com/movies/307749/blue-steel “New York City Cops” by The Strokes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkLxi4Tsm2E&list=RDOkLxi4Tsm2E&start_radio=1   Our previous film scores: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com   IG: https://www.instagram.com/theprojectorsshow/   Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!

The Projector’s weeks are staying loaded after rolling out of Halloween Humpfest 4 (for now) and that’s because we had to speak on some movies we’ve seen in the theater over the past few months. All notable IPs. That’s what we call all movies now. IPs. Everything needs to connect. Everything needs to cross over into everything else and all of your children’s content should be all under one monopolized roof. One brand. This movie, though? The good people over at WARNERBROSDISCOVERYPARAMOUNTSKYDANCE deemed that this movie would not be released and did we listen? No. We had to make a fuss until somebody made a distribution company named after a condiment and grovelled at the feet of our benevolent overlords to allow this movie in front of our eyeballs. All thanks to those amazing executives over at WARNERBOSDISCOVERYPARAMOUNTSKYDANCE and nobody else. We’re discussing COYOTE VS. ACME and I’m getting QR codes tattooed all over my body. Surprising my wife for Christmas.   CREDIT LINKS “Roadrunner (destxmido Mix)” by Migos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WhUTwCxbf4&list=RD9WhUTwCxbf4&start_radio=1 “Roadrunner” by Modern Lovers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy88-5pc7c8&list=RDGy88-5pc7c8&start_radio=1   The other movies we have ranked: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com   IG: https://www.instagram.com/theprojectorsshow/   Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!

We’re past the spooky season but we’re keeping the first week of November packed with new stuff as well as beginning, right now, our DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR series. It was Lars von Trier a couple of years ago, M. Night Shyamalan last year and we’re FINALLY getting to the movies of Kathryn Bigelow starting today and all November long. We already discussed “NEAR DARK” in our first year on an old recording whose link you can find below. Our score on it was pretty controversial because Kathryn’s films do evoke some emotional loyalty here and there. Our first ever Kathryn Bigelow directed film just so happens to be Willem Dafoe’s first feature film. Co-directed with Monty Montgomery, Kathryn Bigelow’s THE LOVELESS from 1981 is a seemingly satirical but tragic pastiche of 50s bikers and the small southern towns they find themselves in. Lots of posing and hooking up in hotel rooms with questionably aged girls who are very depressed. It does take a long ass time to get that bike fixed. Can a leather biker crook have a little bit of a heart at least? Maybe just for a second, daddy-o, then we gotta go be cats in Daytona. Are you Jake? Then roll your cigarettes into your t-shirt sleeve and let’s go. CREDIT LINKS “The Loveless” is on Tubi as of this posting: https://tubitv.com/movies/100004368/the-loveless Our episode on NEAR DARK: https://youtu.be/--e9InLx5Sk?si=LQDx7rZFZGqaGJ7z  “Fun City” by Tuff Darts (cool radio recording): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYZDWtsQNLo&list=RDDYZDWtsQNLo&start_radio=1 “Out in the Streets” by The Shangri-Las: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrICMb-VIGc   Our previous film scores: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com   IG: https://www.instagram.com/theprojectorsshow/   Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!

Halloween Humpfest is good and done so let’s catch up on a few new releases from the past few months for our three movie discussion we’re calling STATE OF THE IP REPORT. That’s right “IP”. Intellectual Property. It ain’t the first cinematic rodeo for these corporate cultural icons. We’re giving in to “The Man”. Forget it. We’re done. Let God AI come wipe our asses or wipe us out. I don’t care. Build a data center in my yard. God, please. But until then we start it off with a discussion on the mega-blockbuster from last summer, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY starring Spider-Man, The Punisher, MJ, Scorpion, Black Widow, Aunt May, Jean Gray, Hulk, Ned Leeds, Tombstone and a few kitchen sinks. Goddamn this movie is busy. CREDIT LINKS “Mean” by Taylor Swift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYa1eI1hpDE&list=RDjYa1eI1hpDE&start_radio=1 “Mad Technology” by CZARFACE, Frankie Pulitzer & Method Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O3daMS6aTE&list=RD_O3daMS6aTE&start_radio=1 “Spidey’s Curse” by The Black Lips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxvp_mfUzj4   The other movies we have ranked: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com   IG: https://www.instagram.com/theprojectorsshow/   Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!

NEW INTRO IS TIMESTAMPED (00:41) SO FEEL FREE TO SKIP IT IF YOU’VE HEARD IT   Documenteers was a documentary themed podcast that ran from 2016 to 2020. The RSS feed was taken down but now we’re reposting these classic documentary film discussions every Tuesday for well over a hundred weeks.   Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS  on Youtube and podcast for more episodes of Documenteers as well as old and new episodes of The Projectors.   IG: https://www.instagram.com/theprojectorsshow/

It’s Halloween Eve and it’s time for HALLOWEEN HUMPFEST 4 to end and we hope you all have a wonderful Halloween. In this last edition of FRANCHISED FREAKS we discuss David Gordon Green’s hand at the Exorcist franchise with THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER from 2023 and man…it must be really hard to make a good Exorcist movie. After Friedkin they had to get the guy who created the story to get back to decent and it’s been a struggle ever since.Some hyperbolic reviewers might tell you this is just as bad, if not worse, than Exorcist II but they’re way wrong. We also wear our favorite masks and reminisce on Halloween in our history which, now that I think of it, we might have done that before but just hear the stories again anyway. You probably forgot them. It’s been a year. Some new movie talks, Kathryn Bigelow’s Filmography and an ode to a country music legend are around the corner so SUBCRIBE if you haven’t already done so for this and much much more. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! CREDIT LINKS 1986 California Raisins Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDGbaCsatQ “Tomb of the Boom” by Outkast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCIDVh31VDw Sesame Street: Bert & Ernie in The Pyramid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yiqGtZXCmQ “Possessed” by Venom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Zqe8bdOg8 The other movies we have ranked: https://theprojectorspodcast.wordpress.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/theprojectorsshow/ Subscribe to THE PROJECTORS on YouTube and podcast for a plethora of movie discussions as well as weekly repostings of our very first movie podcast “Documenteers” and much much more!