161: Post Traumatic Mess

Movie Meltdown - Episode 161 This week we drop back into the middle of The Grind where we are discussing “Traumatic Movies”. And somewhere during our dealing with all the mental scars, we also mention… technology is usurping humanity, Return of the Jedi, The Butterfly Effect, Wild at Heart, The Final Destination series, a bullshit version of real events, the old lady in the bathtub, working a new level of creepy into your marriage, montages, Ice Cube, Blue Velvet, being afraid to go outside, closing your eyes during the face melting scene, picking peas, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Today was a Good Day, Crash, goose-sex, being in a Freaky Friday scenario, Isabella Rossellini, CG Hugh Jackman, committing suicide, a generation of hoarders, digital Liam Neeson, The Passion of the Christ, Willem Dafoe’s teeth, Real Steel, manufacture motive, The Hills Have Eyes, naked bloody in the shower, Rules of Attraction, The People Under the Stairs, who’s that… your mom?, long dreams, Toy Story, Revenge of the Sith, Home Free, confessing to your dad, The Shining, Freeway, hatching baby chicks, National Institute for Mental Health, Where the Red Fern Grows, Pinocchio, 500 Days of Summer, No Strings Attached, Dogtooth, rape baby??, 401K, The Stone Boy, the Facebook movie, The Accused, knife-penises, Uzumaki, Up, Rock-A-Doodle, Jim Henson’s Christmas Toy, monsters getting in trouble at work, being a P.E. teacher, and a kindergarten version of Waiting for Godot.  “What if David Cronenberg and David Lynch had a baby…  this is what this movie would be!”