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Dollar Binema – Episode 15 – FPS: First Person Shooter

[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzFmZTViM2MtNWI0Ni00NTVmLTgyYmUtNDdhMmFjMmEzNGVkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjExMTEzODU@._V1_.jpg] Despite promising to get back on track, we managed to come together for the second show in a month and watched a unique movie called “FPS: First Person Shooter.”  It tries to pay homage by being in the style of a classic first-person shooter and has lots of nods to several early games, especially “Blood.”  The main character is voiced by the same voice actor who played the main character in the Blood games.  While the people who made this obviously had a love for these old games, they unfortunately did not share the same love for pretty much anything that is involved with making a movie. It starts off slow and honestly does not pick up much speed after that.  The main character is on a rescue mission to save his wife from a zombie outbreak, but given the sadistic musings of the voice actor it really clashes with the kind of character that the writers wanted to portray.  There are several interesting moments, but not enough to fill out a full movie runtime; most of the movie is just the main character singing to himself and idle animations… just so many idle animations.  Eventually he tracks down the source of the plague and finds his wife, but it’s too late and you are left wondering why either the viewer or the protagonist bothered. Proposed Drinking Games: — Drink when the main character gets a key — Drink when the main character takes a dose of medicine — Drink when the main character sings — Drink every time there is a poorly spoken tape/letter Podcast Intro — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Sonata 17” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) Podcast Interlude — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Narcissus” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) dbp015.mp3 [https://archive.org/download/dbp-015-fps-first-person-shooter/dbp015%20-%20fps%20first%20person%20shooter.mp3]

Dollar Binema – Episode 14 – Evil Bong

[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ5OTk5MDY2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzEzMTA2MDE@._V1_.jpg] Happy Day-After-Boxing-Day, it’s our Halloween special! After much mentioning, we finally rolled the “cult” “classic” “Evil Bong”. This stoner, um…. comedy? is definitely a movie, and is definitely another Full Moon production full of self referential content, strippers, and puppets. It has also spawned something in the neighborhood of 7 sequels, which isn’t at all concerning. The film opens with a stereotypical nerdmeister meeting his new college roommates, all of which are also stereotypical one-dimensional characters. Before too long, one of them sees an ad for a giant bong in a magazine and orders it. Shortly after they start smoking from it and, one by one, the evil bong transports the smokers to, I kid you not, an evil strip club. In this club there are numerous Full Moon cameos, including multiple masturbating puppets; the strippers then proceed to kill the smokers with increasingly odd carnivorous bras. Eventually, Tommy Chong shows up and helps to save the day from the evil talking bong and amazingly all the people killed by the bong come back to life and Tommy Chong plays with toy cars on topless strippers. I think you can now see why one would need to be on something to fully appreciate this movie. Proposed Drinking Games: — Drink when someone lights a joint or bong — Drink when someone says monkey — Drink every time the movie grossly misrepresents how people act when they are high Podcast Intro — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Sonata 17” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) Podcast Interlude — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Narcissus” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) dbp014.mp3 [https://archive.org/download/dbp-014-evil-bong/dbp014%20-%20Evil%20Bong.mp3]

Dollar Binema – Episode 13 – Brain Twisters

[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDZiMTM3ZjAtNzQ2NS00OTUyLWE5ZGEtMTBiNzJmMWMzNzg5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDU5ODIwMTk@._V1_.jpg] Sorry it took us a while to get to this baker’s dozen, but life got in the way of letting this Scrantalaicious sci fi horror thriller out of the oven until we were truly ready for it!  (Blame our respective employers for actually wanting us to do work for a change.)  This session’s movie is the 1991 thriller:  Brain Twisters.  Also released as Fractals, we are watching the version featured in the Cult Classic Gorehouse Greats Collection, (and for free on Youtube!)  We got a lot of lucky 13s on this episode, the time, the audio engineering, the episode number…..  just wow.  This movie is the only full-length feature by director Jerry Sangiuliano, and filmed Entirely in Scranton, PA, (as artfully noticed and researched by our dutiful hosts…)  If you liked Brainscan and thought Brainstorm was too artsy, then this might be the Brain-movie for you.  Chock full of questionable Italian representation and baffling MPAA ratings, this movie has everything you need to have a fun B-movie romp. The film opens with a mysterious car accident that isn’t touched on ever again, (or is it?)  We then follow noted Brain Professor and absolute sex pest, Dr Rothman, as he goes on a journey finding out his experiments are driving his subjects crazy; a fact that his financiers find out far sooner than he does.  This movie features an astounding amount of what would now be considered sexual harassment and Italian racism, but it is far too disjointed to be taken seriously.  Brinker calls Jerry the Don Dohler of Scranton, and Weyant says this is the closest thing he’s seen to a True Crime re-enactment made into a feature film; it’s a fun romp that has lots of weird regional details, which adds to its ambience.  Proposed Drinking Games: — Drink when someone uses The Machine or has it used on them — Drink when someone hangs up a phone — Drink every time Dr Rothman is creepy (normal difficulty,) or a sex pest, (Irish difficulty) — Drink every time someone wigs out and completely loses it — Drink every time you feel like it might be a little bit racist against Italians Podcast Intro — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Sonata 17” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) Podcast Interlude — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Narcissus” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) dbp013.mp3 [https://archive.org/download/dbp-013-brain-twisters/dbp013%20-%20Brain%20Twisters.mp3]

Dollar Binema – Episode 12 – Lemon Sky

[https://flxt.tmsimg.com/assets/p10539_v_v10_aa.jpg] We wrap up a cool dozen episodes with the 1988 Kevin Bacon film: “Lemon Sky.” After finally getting through our Kevin Bacon wall after the travesty that was “Queens Logic,” we are treated with what turned out to be a TV adaptation of a play by the same name. This dialogue heavy film definitely keeps the look and feel of a stage play; it’s more artsy-fartsy than our typical tripe, but we manage to get through the free form jazz and sometimes disjointed narrative… Drinking may have been involved. This film is set in what looks like the 1950’s, with a son (Kevin Bacon) meeting his estranged father and traveling across half the country to move in with his new family. Things seem to start off fine, and Bacon meets his half siblings and adoptive step siblings. His estranged father quickly starts pushing his son to go to school and find a job, both full time, while also berating him for not doing all the other things he used to do as a teen. Through a series of internal and external monologues we find out the one step sister is on a variety of drugs and his other adoptive step sister is being hit on by his dad. He becomes more abusive and claims Bacon is a homosexual because he isn’t out chasing girls, and kicks him out. Bacon drops a whole lot of exposition about past abuses from his father before he left his mother, everything pretty much falls apart, and the credits roll. Overall, the acting is pretty good in this film, but unless you are really into the arts you are probably gonna want some drinks to get you through this thing. Drinking Games: – Drink every time a beer is opened – Drink every time the movie cuts to Kevin Bacon in a black shirt – Drink every time there is a monologue with a lighting change – Drink every time a you see a new person shows up in the “dream bar” – Drink every time you think Kevin Bacon and his stepmom are going to bang (a drunk Brinker suggestion) Podcast Intro — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Sonata 17” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) Podcast Interlude — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Narcissus” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) dbp012.mp3 [https://archive.org/download/dbp-012-lemon-sky/dbp012%20-%20Lemon%20Sky.mp3]

Dollar Binema – Episode 11 – Decadent Evil

[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/horrormovies/images/1/1a/Decadent-Evil-Affiche.jpg] dbp011.mp3 [https://archive.org/download/dbp-011-decadent-evil/dbp011%20-%20Decadent%20Evil.mp3] For our eleventh episode and our first anniversary, we have randomly chosen the 2005 (that looks like it’s from the 90’s) movie: Decadent Evil. This is the first movie off our four movie disc from the mind of Charles Band; we struggled to come up with a full length episode with this movie, as the runtime was barely over an hour and a good 15 minutes of that was opening/closing credits.  This of course made the drinking game more difficult, also, this movie is not good, but does manage to stray into the realm of being somewhat entertainingly bad, as long as it is accompanied by a rapid fire drink fest. Drinking Games: Remember this movie is only an hour long, so hard liquor is probably not the best choice. – Drink every time there is a credit sequence – Drink every time a vampire bites someone – Drink every time you see a greek statue or there is a dutch angle exterior shot, (you’ll know it when you see it) – Drink every time a homunculus is jerking it. If you think he might be, he is. – Drink every time you see a black and white checkered floor Podcast Intro — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Sonata 17” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]) Podcast Interlude — Music from https://filmmusic.io [https://filmmusic.io] “Narcissus” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com [https://incompetech.com]) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/])