Legends Podcast

In an age of movies about the end of the world, Disney’s Tomorrowland offered a hopeful alternative. So of course audiences rejected it and it crashed at the box office.

2012 was the year of the franchise movie. The Avengers, James Bond, and Batman dominated the box office, but one of the most expensive movies of the year was also the biggest failure. Legends Podcasts treks to Mars to find out why it will be another 95 years before Disney makes another John Carter movie. SPOILERS AHEAD>>> Star War ROTSW, Joker, 1917(ish), 1st ep of Expanse, GOT ssn1, Mandal(Mando(ish)), Citizen Kane, Psycho.. listen for the tones.... lililisten! Email us LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com

In 2010, Hollywood went gaga for 3-D and ‘80s remakes. Disney proved no exception with their update of the 1982 cult hit TRON. Special guest Sean O’Hara joins Legends Podcast to take a memory dump on TRON: Legacy.

Disney owned the box office in 2019, but hasn’t always produced winners. Animated feature films have always been their signature product, but one film from the Dark Ages nearly put them out of business. We kick off our month of crappy movies by taking a dump in The Black Cauldron!

It’s the end of the year, the end of the decade, and the end of the Skywalker saga! Join Legends Podcast as we count down our favorites from the past ten trips around the sun, talk news and trailers, and reflect on The Mandalorian finale and The Rise of Spoilers - er, um, Skywalker! You’ve been warned!

Lobster brings our celebration of ‘99 to its only conclusion. There were many fine films of 1999, but none finer than Galaxy Quest. Released on Christmas Day, the film, which came out of a troubled production for DreamWorks Studios, flew under box office radar, but earned praise from critics and audiences alike, and secured an enduring legacy as what George Takei called “a chillingly realistic documentary.” Now, MovieDude Eric joins LegendsPodcast on a final Legend of ‘99. Never give up, never sur

Wing brings us the all star cast of 1999’s lone superhero movie, Mystery Men. Yes, this was the only notable comic book movie in one of the greatest years of cinematic history. Mystery Men simultaneously predicted the next twenty years of box office hits and failed to make any money whatsoever, grossing less than half its overall budget. But is this film ahead of its time, or is the only mystery here why we’re mentioning it in the same breath as the best films of ‘99?

First up, it’s Beef’s pick, and it’s perhaps the weirdest film in the Class of ‘99, which is really saying something. Written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Three Kings co-star Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich was a critical darling, a box office hit, and was nominated for three Academy Awards. It’s also a commentary on identity, celebrity, and power. But does it hold up ten year later? Or should the door to John Malkovich mind be shut forever? Find out on our 450th episode - Beefing John Mal

Walt Disney Pictures released Flight of the Navigator in 1986, about a time-displaced child and a talking spaceship voiced by Pee-Wee Herman star Paul Reubens. The film was a modest hit during Disney’s “dark age,” but nowhere near as successful as E.T. Disney has promised to make a reboot since 2009, so Legends Podcast wraps up its time travel month with Beef’s childhood favorite. Do not know “promise…” This is Chronovember!

7 of Michael Crichton's books getting the big-screen treatment in the ‘90s. Crichton capped his amazing run with a novel that tackled sci-fi’s holy grail - time travel - with his signature exhaustive pseudoscientific detail. In 2003, ace action director Richard Donner brought Timeline to life with a Paul Walker led feature film, about a group of scholars sent back in time to medieval France. There's one thing worse than dying here, and that's living here... This is Chronovember!

Time travel is extremely complicated, rife with unintended consequences...Yet Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure accomplished consequence-free time travel with just a phone booth, and it scored big at the box office, with one sequel in 1991, two television spin-offs (one live-action and one animated) and a third film, Bill & Ted Face the Music, in the works for summer 2020 release. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K... This is Chronovember!

This past weekend’s release of Terminator: Dark Fate became the third attempt to restart the franchise in only a decade. But will the fact that Fate delivered less than $30 million at the box office be enough to convince Hollywood to terminate this aging relic? Or will future time travelers be able to erase the past ten years of reboots? We’re going back to the beginning to see if there’s hope. Come with us if you want to live... This is Chronovember!

Director Robert Eggers made a name for himself with the 2015 release of his debut film, The Witch. Stylized as The VVitch, the film, set in colonial New England with all its "thees" and "thous," established Eggers's bonafides as an auteur with an instinct for authenticity. With his next film, The Lighthouse, now in theaters and earning rave reviews, Wing and Lobster venture into the woods to see a goat about a man. Move along, this is Legends of Halloween… pilgrim.

Thanksgiving is a time when friends and family gather together to eat, watch football, and be grateful. And what podcast wouldn’t be grateful to have listeners who request films for us to watch and rate? Films like 2009’s ThanksKilling, a direct-to-video horror-comedy flick so absurd that no studio would touch it. ThanksKilling has since become a cult classic, with a KickStarter-funded sequel. Now, Legends Podcast is talking turkey. Gobble, gobble, motherfeather, this is Legends of Halloween!

The Sixth Sense spent five weeks at number one in the U.S. box office, was nominated for six Academy Awards, and introduced the phrase “I see dead people” into the pop culture lexicon. The film’s final twist, which became a Shyamalan trademark, kept audiences going back to see if they could spot the clues, which also translated to strong VHS sales and rental figures when The Sixth Sense was released on home video. Now, Legends Podcast is ready to tell you Bruce Willis’s secret… he’s wearing a ha