Episode 153 - Movie Hype A-Go-Go!

Some movies are all sizzle and no steak, sad to tell you. We have a theory: Awesome Trailer = Awful Movie. And by our math, this formula is correct about 92% of the time. So here is our salute to the pitfalls of movie marketing! It’s the campaigns that got us excited to see a film opening weekend. And how most of these ended up being giant disappointments, along with the few rare times we hit the Awesome Trailer/Awesome Movie jackpot! Plus a few we totally knew would suck but we went anyway! We aren’t mad at the hype machine so much as mad at ourselves for always taking the slick, glossy, technicolor packaging at face value. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us 100 times, we’ll likely go see the next movie anyway because we are suckers who never learn. | 0:00 - Intros | 7:04 - Dolemite is my Name (2019) | 10:20 - Pure (HBO Max, 2020) | 12:10 - Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 (2020) | 14:45 - Gangster Movies on DVD (Hard Boiled, Infernal Affairs, Sexy Beast, The Untouchables, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre) | 26:45 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) | 31:00 - Class Action Park (2020) | 36:09 - Movie Hype! (featuring Batman, Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer, Star Wars, Marvel, and many more!) | Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Fountains of Wayne - Bright Future In Sales | Clip from Outfoxed (2004) | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | The Dead Milkmen - Life Is Shit | Craig Robinson - Dolemite | Altered Images - I Could Be Happy | Clip from Pure s1e1 | Dead Kennedys - Police Truck | Joo Rita - Red Car Boogie Hard Boiled | Ennio Morricone - On the Rooftops - The Untouchables | Clip from The Untouchables (1987) | John Williams - Duel of the Fates | Class Action Park trailer | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Public Enemy - Don’t Believe the Hype | Trailer for Batman (1989) | Trailer for Dick Tracy (1990) | Prince - Batdance | Teaser for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | Daft Punk - Derezzed