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Brad picks one of the show's favorite movies to discuss, and, surprisingly, it's taken this long to talk about it. This week, we are watching John Carpenter's They Live (1988), starring Roddy Piper. Quick Facts Directed by John Carpenter Music by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth Distributed by Universal Pictures (North America) and Carolco Pictures (International) Release date November 4th, 1988 (b/c they didn’t want to compete head-to-head with Halloween 4 on October 21st) Running time of 94 minutes Budget $3 million Box Office $13.4 million (North America) Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer 87%/Popcornmeter 80% Starring Roddy Piper as John Nada Keith David as Frank Meg Foster as Holly Thompson George Buck Flower as Drifter / Collaborator How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of FilmDiscuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analog Jones loves reviewing Canon Films, and this week Steve picks a crazy one in Ninja III: The Domination (1984). Quick Facts Directed by Sam Firstenberg Written by James R. Silke Distributed by Cannon Film Released on September 14, 1984 Budget of $2 million Box Office: $7,610,785 Rotten Tomatoes: 33% Tomatometer / 53% Popcornmeter Starring Sho Kosugi (Japanese) as Goro Yamada Lucinda Dickey as Christie Ryder Jordan Bennett as Billy Secord James Hong (an American born to Chinese immigrants) as Miyashima David Chung (a Korean-American) as Black Ninja Hanjuro How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of FilmDiscuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Analog Jones and the Temple of Film we discuss Project N-Terro with producer/writer Traycee King. The Story America has fallen from its first world status and its main export is now human. In a dystopian world of human trafficking, cannibalism, and experimentations, individuals diagnosed with ADHD have been found to have high amounts of mirror neurons. Extraction for pharmaceutical use was inevitable. The story follows Tarra, a double-agent sent to interrogate a pedophile only to discover she must confront her own past to complete her mission. With help from her partner, Eve, and their mentor, Brimstone, they will help bring down a human trafficking ring known as the Flesh Circus. Indiegogo Project https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/project-n-terro#/ How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of FilmDiscuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Only the universe could host a podcast this big! We watched a space adventure primarily set on Earth. Get ready to hear Analog Jones discuss the heroic, muscle-bound warrior known as He-Man in Masters of the Universe. Quick Facts Directed by Gary Goddard (First full-length Film) Written by David Odell (Wrote the Screenplay for Dark Crystal and Supergirl) Music by Bill Conti (Rocky and Karate Kid Motion Pictures) Distributed by The Cannon Group Inc. Running Time: 106 minutes Released August 7, 1987 Budget: $22 million Box Office: $17.3 million Rotten Tomatoes: 21% Tomatometer / 41% Popcornmeter Starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man Frank Langella as Skeletor Courteney Cox as Julie Winston Robert Duncan McNeill as Kevin Corrigan Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn Chelsea Field as Teela Jon Cypher as Man-At-Arms Billy Barty as Gwildor James Tolkan as Detective High Lubic Christina Pickles as Sorceress Tony Carroll as Beast Man How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of FilmDiscuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No more Mr. Nice podcast! Brad picks Wes Craven's Shocker from 1989 to finish off our "Hey, it's not that bad" theme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every once in a while, you revisit a movie you loved as a teenager and realize that you were completely wrong about it. This week, Chris chose "Battlefield Earth" for our theme of "Hey, it's not that bad," only to realize he was truly wrong about how awful the film is. Quick Facts Directed by Roger Christian Screenplay by Corey Mandell and J. D. Shapiro Based on Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard Produced by Jonathan Krane, Elie Samaha, and John Travolta Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Release Date: May 12, 2000 Running Time: 117 minutes Budget: $44 million Box office: $29.7 million Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer 3% | Popcorn Meter 13% Starring John Travolta as Terl Barry Pepper as Jonnie Goodboy Tyler Forest Whitaker as Ker Kim Coates as Carlo Richard Tyson as Robert the Fox Sabine Karsenti as Chrissy How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of FilmDiscuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analog Jones begins their "Hey, it's not that bad" theme! Our first movie is the Kevin Costner bomb, Waterworld. Quick Facts Directed by Kevin Reynolds (Robinhood: Prince of Thieves) Written by Peter Rader and David Twohy (Wrote the Riddick Series) Distributed by Universal Pictures Released on July 28th, 1995 (United States) Budget: $172-175 million Box Office: $264 million Rotten Tomatoes: 45% Tomatometer / 44% Popcornmeter Starring Kevin Kostner as The Mariner or Ulysses Dennis Hopper as The Deacon Jeanne Tripplehorn as Helen Tina Majorino as Enola Michael Jeter as Old Gregor Gerard Murphy as The Nord How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of FilmDiscuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analog Jones takes on a classic from the 1980s when they review The Princess Bride. Get a peanut and prepare for some sword fighting! Quick Facts Directed by Rob Reiner (Yeah, Meathead directed this along with This is Spinal Tap and Stand By Me) Screenplay by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men) Distributed by 20th Century Fox Budget of $16 million Box Office of $30.9 million Rotten Tomatoes: 96% Tomatometer /  94% Popcornmeter Starring Cary Elwes as Westley/the Dread Pirate Roberts Robin Wright as Buttercup, the Princess Bride Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya Wallace Shawn as Vizzini André the Giant as Fezzik Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck Christopher Guest as Count Tyrone Rugen Fred Savage as the grandson Peter Falk as the grandfather  How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of Film Discuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Chris picks the Rescuers Down Under, we go to the land with koala bears and crazy German doctors. Quick Facts Directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel (co-directed Pocahontas) Screenplay by Jim Cox, Karey Kirkpatrick, Byron Simpson, and Joe Ranft Based on Characters by Margery Sharp (who created the Rescuers series in 1959) Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Released on November 16, 1990 A budget of around $48 million Box Office of $47.4 million (this was a bomb) Rotten Tomatoes: 85% Tomatometer /  68% Popcornmeter Starring (Voice Cast) Bob Newhart as Bernard Eva Gabor as Miss Bianca John Candy as Wilbur Adam Ryen as Cody Tristan Rogers as Jake George C. Scott as Percival C. McLeach Frank Welker as Marahute and Joanna How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of Film Discuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analog Jones is new to the neighborhood. Mac is new to the planet. We review a classic so bad it's good movie, Mac and Me, for our theme of "kids' movies we loved and couldn't live without." Quick Facts Directed by Stewart Raffill (The Ice Pirates and Tammy and the T-Rex) Written by Steve Feke and Stewart Raffill Distributed by Orion Pictures (Robocop and Great Balls of Fire) Released on August 12, 1988 (United States) Budget: $13 million Box Office: $6.4 million Rotten Tomatoes: 7% Tomatometer / 38% Popcornmeter Starring Jade Calegory as Eric Cruise (Had Spina Bifida in real life) Jonathan Ward as Michael Cruise Christine Ebersole as Janet Cruise (SNL alum 81-82) Lauren Stanley as Debbie Tina Caspary as Courtney (Was originally cast as Kelly Bundy on Married…with Children) How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of Film Discuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analog Jones finishes its post-apocalyptic theme when we watch an Ozplotation classic in Turkey Shoot aka Escape 2000 aka Blood Camp Thatcher. Quick Facts Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Man from Hong Kong, BMX Bandits and Leprechaun 3 and 4) Screenplay by Jon George and Neill D. Hicks Story by George Schenck, Robert Williams, and David Lawerence  Distributed by Roadshow Films Distributors Released on October 14, 1982 Budget: $2.5 million Box Office: $321, 0000 (Australia) Rotten Tomatoes: – Tomatometer / 18% Popcornmeter Starring Prisoners Steve Railsback as Paul Anders (Cockfighter, Walker Texas Ranger) Olivia Hussey as Chris Walters (was married to Dean Martin’s son, who was a fighter pilot in the CA Air National Guard who died in a training flight crash) Lynda Stoner as Rita Daniels Bill Young as Griffin John Ley as Dodge Hunters Michael Craig as Charles Thatcher (coincidentally Margaret Thatcher was UK PM at the time) Noel Ferrier as Secretary Mallory (looks like a plantation owner that enjoys calling people “boy”) Carmen Duncan as Jennifer Michael Petrovitch as Tito (sadistic Ryan Day) Steve Rackman as Alph (Donk in Crocodile Dundee and NWA Austra-Asia Tag Team Champion) Guards Roger Ward as Ritter (I thought this was the guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark) Gus Mercurio as Red (Whipmaster Ron Jeremy sideburns) How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of Film Discuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new breed of podcast has taken over the world... Sam Hell has come to take it back. Analog Jones with the help of Jonathan and Paul London reviews Hell Comes to Frogtown starring the amazing Roddy Rowdy Piper! Jonathan and Paul London also tell us about their Kickstarter campaign for Paul London: Hero of the Prophecy. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geekscapeforever/hero-of-the-prophecy-1-a-pro-wrestling-comedic-fantasy?ref=edwabq Quick Facts Directed by Donald G. Jackson and R. J. Kizer Screenplay by Donald G. Jackson and Randall Frakes Distributed by New World Pictures (Roger Corman) Release date: January 1988 Budget: $1.5 million Rotten Tomatoes: 60% Tomatometer (10 reviews) / 47% Popcornmeter Starring Roddy Piper as Sam Hell Sandahl Bergman as Spangle Cec Verrell as Centinella William Smith as Captain Devlin / Count Sodom Rory Calhoun as Looney Tunes How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of Film Discuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analog Jones continues its post-apocalyptic theme by reviewing the hidden gem, 2002's Reign of Fire. Listen closely as Chris imparts a valuable lesson about dragons. Quick Facts Director: Rob Bowman (Electra) Writers: Gregg Chabot, Kevin Peterka, Matt Greenberg (Halloween h20, Prophesy 2, Children of the Corn 3) Production companies: Touchstone Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Zanuck Company Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Released: July, 12 2002 Budget: $60 million Box office: $82.2 million Rotten Tomatoes: 41% Tomatometer / 49% Popcornmeter Starring Matthew McConaughey (TCM the next generation) Christian BaleI (Equilibrium) Izabella Scorupco (Golden Eye not the game but the 1995 movie based on the game) Gerard Butler (How to Train Your Dragon and 300) How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of Film Discuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analog Jones starts 2025 off with a post-apocalyptic theme! Listen to us discuss the cult classic, Night of the Comet. Quick Facts Directed by Thom Eberhardt (Captain Ron) Written by Thom Eberhardt Distributed by Atlantic Releasing Corporation Release Date: November 16, 1984 Budget: $700,000 Box Office: $14.4 million Rotten Tomatoes: 79% Tomatometer / 58% Popcornmeter Starring Catherine Mary Stewart as Regina "Reggie" Belmont (The Last Starfigher) Kelli Maroney as Samantha "Sam" Belmont (Chopping Mall) Robert Beltran as Hector Gomez Mary Woronov as Audrey White Geoffrey Lewis as Dr. Carter, the leader of the think tank How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of Film Discuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at [email protected] with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analog Jones has a quarterly nerd news episode, in which we discuss series like The Penguin, Agatha All Along, Hysteria, Dune Prophecy, and Skeleton Crew. We also discuss movies like The Substance, Venom: The Last Dance, Terrifier 3, Alien: Romulus, Wicked, Maxxxine, and Mr. Crocket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices