11.1K
Downloads
79
Episodes
Second Chance Cinema is a new podcast where instead of "reviewing" movies, hosts MC and Spro hope to REVIVE the movies that don't get enough love.
Episodes
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Originally 3 Parts which aired:
April 19th, 2020 - Part One
April 24th, 2020 - Part Two
May 1st, 2020 - Part Three)
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965)[1] is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions.[2][3] The films he has produced and directed, which include Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001) and the Transformers film series (2007–present), have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of the most commercially successful directors in history.[4][5]
He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute, a.k.a. The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness.[6] He co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house which has remade horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).[7]
Despite his commercial success at the box office, Bay's work is generally held in low esteem by film critics. While The Rock (1996), Transformers (2007), 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), and Ambulance (2022) received moderately positive reviews, most of his other films, particularly the four Transformers sequels, have been received negatively by critics.
SONG PARODY--
"Sitting in a film by the Bay
Turning on a smile and off my brain
Sitting in the dark with my bae
This is what I need today." -Spro
(To the tune of "Sitting by the Dock of a Bay")
LIMERICK--
"There once was a man named Bay
About him, the critics would say:
'His movies are trash.'
'Overshadowed by cash.'
We say-- 'Stay out of his way.' -MC
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Original Airdate - March 31st, 2020)
Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.
The film focuses on an outbreak of Motaba, a fictional ebolavirus- and orthomyxoviridae-like virus, in Zaire and later in a small town in California. It is primarily set in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.
The film, released by Warner Bros. on March 10, 1995, was a box-office success, and Spacey won two awards for his performance. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released.[1]
HAIKU--
"Grey's Anatomy's
Patrick Dempsy grabs monkey
Becomes killer Friend." -Spro
"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit,
Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.
Shit, shit, shit, shit, fuuuck." -MC
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Original Airdate - December 4th, 2019)
Death Sentence is a 2007 American vigilante action thriller film loosely based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Brian Garfield; although the novel is a sequel to Garfield's Death Wish, the film is unconnected to the previous Death Wish film series. Directed by James Wan, the film stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, a man who takes the law into his own hands after his son is murdered by a gang member as an initiation ritual; Hume must then protect his family from the gang's resulting vengeance.
Death Sentence was released by 20th Century Fox on August 31, 2007, and was released on DVD on January 8, 2008. It was a box-office bomb earning $16 million against a $20 million budget, and received negative reviews from critics, who criticized the graphic violence and plot.
SCRAPPED POEM--
"Kelly Preston is perfection
Did I mention?
She's in Death Sentence." -Spro
HAIKU--
"Kelly Preston, d'oh!
Kevin Bacon wraps his head
and goes tit-for-tat." -Spro
LIMERICK--
"Kevin Bacon kicks everyone's asses.
Not one punk gets any free passes.
He kills one and all.
His morals all fall.
How thick were John Goodman's glasses?" -MC
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Original Airdate - November 5th, 2019)
Toy Soldiers is a 1991 American action film directed by Daniel Petrie Jr., with a screenplay by Petrie and David Koepp. It stars Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Louis Gossett Jr., Andrew Divoff, Mason Adams and Denholm Elliott.
The plot revolves around an all-male boarding school overtaken by terrorists. While the authorities remain helpless, a group of rebellious and mischievous students decide to put their resourcefulness to good use.[2]
POEM--
"The Regis School of Rejects,
drinking mouthwash and talking sex,
doing their worst is doing their best,
by doing battle with a dangerous terrorist." -Spro
HAIKU
"Rudy, Whil Wheaton,
other dudes in underpants.
John McClain shakes head." -MC
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Original Airdate - October 9th, 2019)
A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures as its second feature-length film, following Toy Story (1995). Directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Andrew Stanton from a screenplay written by Stanton, Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw and a story conceived by Lasseter, Stanton and Joe Ranft, the film stars the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In the film, a misfit ant named Flik, looks for "tough warriors" to save his ant colony from a protection racket run by a gang of grasshoppers. Unfortunately, the "warriors" he brings back turn out to be an inept troupe of Circus Bugs. The film's plot was initially inspired by Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper.[3][4]
Production on A Bug's Life began shortly after the release of Toy Story in 1995. The ants in the film were redesigned to be more appealing, and Pixar's animation unit employed technical innovations in computer animation. Randy Newman composed the music for the film. During production, a controversial public feud erupted between Steve Jobs and Lasseter of Pixar and DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg due to the parallel production of his similar film Antz, which was released the same year.
The film was released worldwide on November 20, 1998, received positive reviews and became a commercial success, having grossed $363 million at the box office. It was the first film to be digitally transferred frame-by-frame and released on DVD, and has been released multiple times on home video.
POEM--
"What is the meaning of A Bug's Life?
Is it working hard or avoiding strife?
Flick lives his on the edge of a scythe
while trying to impress and gain a princess wife." -Spro
LIMERICK--
"There once was an ant named Flick
Conformity, it made him so sick
So, he took a stand
with his feet in the sand
And told the grasshoppers just what they could stick [up their asses.]" -MC
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Original Airdate - September 22nd, 2019)
Equilibrium is a 2002 American science fiction film[4] written and directed by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Christian Bale, Emily Watson, and Taye Diggs.
The film follows John Preston (Christian Bale), an enforcement officer in a future in which feelings and artistic expression are outlawed and citizens take daily injections of powerful psychoactive drugs to suppress their emotions. After accidentally missing a dose, Preston begins to experience emotions, which makes him question his morality and moderate his actions while attempting to remain undetected by the suspicious society in which he lives. Ultimately, he aids a resistance movement using advanced martial arts, which he was taught by the regime he is helping to overthrow.
HAIKUs--
"What is with Bale's mouth?
Father betrays William Wallace.
Taye Diggs is handsome." -Spro
"Mona Lisa burned.
Emotions are outlawed BUT
no Kardashians." -MC
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Original Airdate - July 15th, 2019)
Lakeview Terrace is a 2008 American crime thriller film[2] directed by Neil LaBute, written by David Loughery and Howard Korder, co-produced by James Lassiter and Will Smith, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington. Jackson plays a racist African-American LAPD police officer who terrorizes his new next-door neighbors (Wilson and Washington) because they are an interracially married couple. The title is a reference to the ethnically mixed middle class Los Angeles neighborhood of Lake View Terrace.
The film was released on September 19, 2008, received mixed reviews and grossed $44 million.
HAIKU--
"Lakeview Terrace home.
Sam L. hates: Kobe Bryant,
Smoke, and White People." -Spro
LIMERICK--
"I enjoy this film truly
I think it's pretty groovy
Lakeview Terrace
Should be embarrassed
They call it Lakeview Circle in the movie." -MC
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Original Airdate - July 4th, 2019)
The Ice Harvest is a 2005 American neo-noir black comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Scott Phillips and starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Connie Nielsen, with Randy Quaid and Oliver Platt in supporting roles. It was distributed by Focus Features, and it was released on VHS and DVD on February 28, 2006, making it the last Focus Features film released on VHS format. The Ice Harvest grossed $10.2 million worldwide.
HAIKUs--
"As Wichita Falls
So Falls Connie Nielson as
Jessica Rabbit." -Spro
"Charlie and Vick stole money.
Randy Quaid is mobster boss.
Wichita strippers." -MC
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Original Airdate - April 17th, 2019)
The Faculty is a 1998 American science fiction horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Kevin Williamson. It stars Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Usher Raymond, Jon Stewart, and Elijah Wood.
The film was theatrically released on December 25, 1998, by Miramax Films through Dimension Films. It grossed $63.2 million[2] and has developed a cult following since its release, with some critics noting it as underrated in Rodriguez's catalog.[3][4][5][6]
HAIKUs--
"Joshua Hartnett's
hair needs a comb and water.
He dates Ms. Bad Bangs." -Spro
"Teachers are monsters.
Drugs in ball point pen bodies
mightier than sword." -MC
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
(Original Airdate - February 21st, 2019)
The Beach is a 2000 adventure drama film directed by Danny Boyle, from a screenplay by John Hodge, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and Robert Carlyle. It was filmed on the Thai island of Ko Phi Phi Le.
The film was a moderate box office success but received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics.
HAIKUs--
"The Beach is pristine.
Francoise takes pictures of stars.
Leo goes crazy." -Spro
"Richard was a dick.
He found a map to the beach.
Not a Baywatch film." -MC