This week on Total Movie Recall, we go to the suck. Steve develops a thousand yard stare reserved for veterans of nightmare wars and mediocre podcasts. Ryan chalks up another point in the Irresponsible Father column, reflecting on his father’s prudent decision to let him watch this vision of insanity at a tender age yet again. If you listen to this episode, you can go to my house and fornicate with my sister.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

d. Stanley Kubrick

w. Gustav Hasford based on his novel The Short-Timers

Starring:
Matthew Modine as Pvt. Joker
Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother
Vincent D'Onofrio as Pvt. Pyle
R. Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman
Dorian Harewood as Eightball
Kevyn Major Howard as Rafterman
Arliss Howard as Pvt. Cowboy

Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis, quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant, and pudgy Private Lawrence, nicknamed "Gomer Pyle," as they endure the rigors of basic training. Though Pyle takes a frightening detour, Joker graduates to the Marine Corps and is sent to Vietnam as a journalist, covering -- and eventually participating in -- the bloody Battle of Hué.

Things discussed in the show:

Willy Wonka

Godzilla vs. Kong (Adam Wingard, Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall)

Zack Snyder's Justice League (Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Cyborg, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, J.K. Simmons)

The Mummy Returns (Stephen Sommers, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah)

Dawn of the Dead 2004 (Zack Snyder, George A. Romero, James Gunn, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer)

300 (Zack Snyder, Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham)

Joss Whedon gets canceled

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield Ford)

Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison)

Mel Gibbson uncancelable?

Toxic fandom

Firefly (Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass)

Moulin Rogue! (Baz Luhrmann, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo)

Luc Besson

Josie and the Pussycats (Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Carson Daly)

Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante, Thunder Levin, Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard)

Bullitt (Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn)

George Burns

Sean Connery

Larry Sanders Show (Dennis Klein, Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, Wallace Langham, Rip Torn, Janeane Garofalo, Jeremy Piven)

Billy Crystal

Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly)

Kitbag - new Napoleon film (Ridley Scott, David Scarpa, Joaquin Phoenix, Jodie Comer)

Hieronymus Bosch - Dutch painter

Visual Tone Poem

François Truffaut on war films

Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore)

John Wayne

The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien

The Mickey Mouse Club theme song

Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann)

Jungian duality of man

Next week: UHF