TMR 052 – Cabin Boy Total Movie Recall

This week on Total Movie Recall, Ryan gets his hipster comedy credentials revoked after Steve makes him pay $3.99 to watch the 1994 not-so-classic comedy, Cabin Boy. Ryan simply cannot understand the cache this movie has in the “alt-comedy” world, or as he likes to call it, the “non-comedy” world (now that’s funny!). Steve would explain it, but you just, like, don’t get it man.

Cabin Boy (1994)

d. Adam Resnick

Starring:
Chris Elliott
Ritch Brinkley
James Gammon
Brian Doyle-Murray
Brion James
Melora Walters
David Letterman
Andy Richter
Ricki Lake

Nathanial Mayweather is a spoiled rich kid whose plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire, finding him lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors. When his crusty cabin mates get a whiff of his highfalutin attitude, they give him every rotten chore on the boat -- and take him on an absurdist adventure through Hell's Bucket!


Things discussed in the show:

Will Farrell

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito)

Late Night with David Letterman

Klonopin and coffee or Codeine and syrup

The dumb politics of 2020: QAnon and conspiracy nonsense

Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard)

Apocalypse Now - "The Final Cut" (Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall)

George Lucas constantly meddling with old Star Wars films

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young)

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando)

Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger)

Brazil (Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro)

Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio)

Democracy in Chicago

While We're Young (Noah Baumbach, Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver)

The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech)

Bug (William Friedkin, Tracy Letts, Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.)

Tangerine (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian)

The Florida Project (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe)

Kubrick v. Akira Kurisawa v. Jodorowski v. Scorsese

David Byrne's lyrics

Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer)

Brick (Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin)

28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston)

Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato)

Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper)

Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero, Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts)

The Pest (Paul Miller, John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Freddy Rodríguez)

The Walking Dead (Frank Darabont, Angela Kang, Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride)

Monkey Shines (George A. Romero, Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil)

The Great (Tony McNamara, Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox)

Werner Herzog and finding the deeper truth in documentary

The White Diamond (Werner Herzog, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Plage)

Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)

The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves)

Se7en (David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey)

Mr. Beast, Twitch streamers, mystery boxes from the dark web

Dybbuk box

Star Trek's utopia

The Vow (NXIVM, Anthony Ames, Sarah Edmondson, Bonnie Piesse, Mark Vicente)

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Noelle