Chained Mystery

     This week things return to normal with another strange double feature.
     What happens when an old beloved franchise takes a decade in development with an up and coming screenwriter, a cast that is nearly perfect, one of the worst directors of all time, and a studio that gets cold feet just before production? Scooby-Doo! In their first live action outing, the gang goes to Spooky Island to find out just what is happening to make the young people with attitudes leave as upstanding super strong citizens. 

     Remember when Samuel L Jackson actually acted? Remember when Christina Ricci wasn't just doing semi-horror bio pics for Lifetime? RotP remembers... we celebrate those days with Black Snake Moan. What else is an old poor farmer in the deep South supposed to do when he finds an unconscious nymphomaniac in a ditch except take her home and chain her to the radiator?

     All that AND Tyler reveals the first of four landings on The Staircase to Tylerdom, Dave tries to get others to better appreciate an animated series, Kevin just doesn't have time for either of their shit. Join us, won't you?

Episode 169- Chained Mystery

Better the Second Time Around

     We draw remake month to a close the only way we know how, by asking the age old question, is the remake ever better? Well, yeah, sometimes but what about these four examples? MAYBE! 

     We skinny dip through the last film before John McTiernan lost his shit to paranoia... The Thomas Crown Affair. Can the 90s make work a daring heist film about a bored billionaire work better than the 60s original about a bored millionaire? 
     Can people eating fish really improve on another try? Does dipping it in meta and gleeful nudity soaked in gore bring it to a new edge? Or do Piranha 3D lose their teeth?

     Can you really out Vincent Price Vincent Price? Does making it less Scooby-Doo and more Ghostbusters actually bring the terror home or does the 1999 House on Haunted Hill stand empty?

     Finally, we can't go a week lately without a little Lillard and Thirteen Ghosts. Reworking the original gimmick in a nice touch but going full nu-metal in every other way possible. Don't throw stones at ghosts in glass houses, they don't like it.
     All that and Kevin sees things man, Dave corrupts youth and innocence, and Tyler does it all for the glory of fap. Join us, won't you?

Episode 168- Better the Second Time Around