Myopia: Defend Your Childhood - A Nostalgic Movies Podcast

In honor of the fact that it is taking place now, we watched 1973's Soylent Green! It's podcast, SOYLENT GREEN IS A PODCAST!  How will Soylent Green hold up? Host: Nic Hoffmann Co-host: Daniel, Matt Guest: Charlie   Directed by Richard Fleischer Starring: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Stephen Young, Lincoln Kilpatrick

This week on Myopia Movies, the Lorax gets his revenge! We finish our M. Night Shyamalan Month with the Mark Wahlberg vehicle, The Happening! All I want to know is if hot dog guy makes it! How will the Happening hold up? Host: Nic Co-hosts: Matthew and Daniel  Written, Directed, and Produced by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Spencer Breslin, Alan Ruck, and M. Night Shyamalan.

This week we tackle the movie that made me stop watching M. Night Shyamalan The Village! Enjoy monsters! Blindness! And whatever developmental issue that Adrian Brody is supposed to have! How will the Village hold up?  Host: Nic Co-host: Matthew  Written, Produced, and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan Starring Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, Cherry Jones, Judy Greer, Michael Pitt, Jesse Eisenberg and M. Night Shyamalan   

Note: There are audio issues with this file. I have cleaned them up some, but, there is still some artifacting. Sorry about that. Nic This week we continue the M. Night-a-thon with the first M. Night movie to lose money, Lady in the Water! This movie has it all! A mostly naked Bryce Dallas Howard (who is mostly mute), a starring role for M. Night, and Paul Giamatti with a stutter because his family was slaughtered...look out for a scrunt! How will Lady in the Water hold up? Host: Nic Co-Hosts: Matthew and Daniel   Written, Produced, and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury, Cindy Cheung, M. Night Shyamalan, Freddy Rodríguez, Bill Irwin 

This week on Myopia Movies, we start our M. Night Shyamamonth! The twist is that it will start halfway through the month and end halfway through the next! In honor of the 20th Anniversary, we are going to talk Signs, the reason I haven't gone to a birthday party in South America. As we have been doing, we will announce in advance the next film! In fact, in honor of the theme month, we will tell you the whole line up of this Shyamalan-ebration! Signs 18-Aug Lady in the Water 25-Aug The Village 1-Sep The Happening 8-Sep   Host: Nic Hoffmann Cohost: Matthew Quinn Directed, Written, Produced by M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, Cherry Jones, M. Night Shyamalan    

This month we continue the celebration of the return to new episodes and talk the first Vin Diesel starring vehicle, XXX! We live for this shit! Well, maybe not this movie in particular.... How does XXX (not pornography) hold up? Host: Nic Starring: Daniel Guest Star: Charlie Rose Directed by Rob Cohen Starring: Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Roof, Richy Müller

This week on Myopia Movies we watch the first time Disney tried to do Star Wars, we watched Black Hole! Coming out 20 years after it look like it should have! How will Black Hole hold up? Host: Nic Hoffmann Starring: Daniel Suddes Guest: Charlie Rose Directed by Gary Nelson Starring: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine

This week, in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the final Austin Powers movie Goldmember, (despite reports for 15 years saying another is coming soon), we are watching Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Yea baby! How will Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery hold up? Host: Jon Panel: Nic, Daniel

Since we are covering Austin Powers later this week, we figured we should release a silly Bond Movie as well. Enjoy this coverage on Never Say Never Again, a remake of Bond's most boring movie Thunderball. Sean Connery returns as Bond to spite the Broccoli's in what was supposed to create a new Bond Spin-off to challenge the Timothy Dalton movies. Oof. How can the director of Empire Strikes Back make a movie this boring! How will Never Say Never Again hold up? Host: Nic Directed by Irvin Kershner Starring: Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Barbara Carrera, Bernie Casey, Alec McCowen, Rowan Atkinson  

This week, we head to the beach for two films from the back catalog and former patreon to celebrate the beach. We watched the most recent role in black face to get nominated for an academy award and the last time Tom Cruise got to act nutty. We watched Tropic Thunder. I don't drop character 'till I done the DVD commentary.  How will Tropic Thunder hold up? Host: Nic Panel: Fitzy, Nic, Charlie Directed by Ben Stiller Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, Brandon T. Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte, Tom Cruise

This week, we head to the beach for two films from the back catalog and former patreon to celebrate the beach. This episode we go to a movie that learned all the wrong lessons from its predecessor. After the success of previous episode A Muppet Christmas Carol they thought they could do another classic. The novel Treasure Island is a layup, right? Well, replace Michael Caine with Tim Curry and we are off to the races. Also, have it led by a child in his first role and you are in trouble already. How will Muppet Treasure Island hold up? Host: Nic Panel: Thomas and Daniel Directed by Brian Henson Starring: Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Saunders, Kevin Bishop, Dave Goelz, Gonzo the Great, Steve Whitmire, Kermit the Frog, Jerry Nelson, Statler, Kevin Clash, Frank Oz, Miss Piggy

This week, we have done it. As I said Monday, we worship the beautiful specimen that is Pierce Brosnan. From the heights of James Bond, to the depths of The Lawnmower Man, we focus on everyone's favorite Irish Bond. This time we review the Stephen King adaptation SO bad, he sued to remove his name, twice. How will The Lawnmower Man hold up? Host: Jon Panel: Nic and Daniel Directed by     Brett Leonard Starring: Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright, Mark Bringelson, Geoffrey Lewis, Jeremy Slate, Dean Norris

This week on Myopia Movies, we worship the beautiful specimen that is Pierce Brosnan. From the heights of James Bond, to the depths of The Lawnmower Man, we focus on everyone's favorite Irish Bond. This week we watch Goldeneye and learn who is Invincible! How will Goldeneye hold up? Host: Nic Panel: Matt, Thomas, Daniel Directed by Martin Campbell Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, Tchéky Karyo, Gottfried John, Alan Cumming, Desmond Llewelyn, Samantha Bond

Today, as a father, we learn that babies are pretty much indestructible. We watched John Hughes' Baby's Day Out, is this the worst mafia on film? How will Baby's Day Out hold up? Host: Nic Panel: Matt, Daniel Directed by Patrick Read Johnson Written by John Hughes Starring: Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley, Cynthia Nixon, Fred Thompson

This week we visit the city of Chicago and visit a jazz club while running from the mop. We saw Adventures in Babysitting. How does Adventures in Babysitting hold up? Host: Nic Panel: Daniel, Matt Directed by Chris Columbus Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp, Vincent D'Onofrio, Penelope Ann Miller, George Newbern, Bradley Whitford

This week we wrap up season 8 with Dexter's Lab: Ego Trip, a made for TV masterpiece by Genndy Tartakovsky, as we learn that Eddie Deezen is annoying throughout all time.  Also, as an update, our Patreon is officially ending and we would like to thank all those who supported us during CoVid. In the meantime, we will be taking July off for vacation. Which for you means, you will receive two episodes a week all month long! Some from the Patreon and some from the old archive! Enjoy!  How does Dexter's Lab: Ego Trip hold up? Host: Nic Panel: Candace, Matthew, Daniel Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky Starring: Jeff Bennett, Christine Cavanaugh, Kat Cressida, Eddie Deezen, Tom Kenny, Kath Soucie

This week on Myopia we learn the true evil of owls. In honor of the release of Elvis, we watched the Glen Campbell/Don Bluth movie, Rock-A-Doodle. Nothing like a kid's movie about the forced sexual pressure put on actresses. Also, don't make the kid with the adorable speech impediment try to say "Chanticleer" 1000 times. How will Rock-A-Doodle hold up? Host: Nic Panel: Matthew and Daniel Directed by:     Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Dan Kuenster Starring: Glen Campbell, Christopher Plummer, Phil Harris, Eddie Deezen, Toby Ganger, Charles Nelson Reilly  

In honor of the mediocre end to the Jurassic World Trilogy, we return to the 2015 movie that sucked the charisma out of Chris Pratt, Jurassic World; a movie I have now seen easily two dozen times due to my daughter's love of dinosaurs and a vast Mattel marketing line. Join us for a second season episode where we are young sounding and still optimistic for the hopes of Universal Dino movies, we ignore running in heels, and are generally high on a fun movie experience. Enjoy Hosted by Nic Directed by Colin Trevorrow Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Judy Greer, Irrfan Khan, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Lauren Lapkus, and a useless cameo by Jimmy Fallon    

This week on Myopia Movies, the take down Optimus Prime. We saw Transformers: The Movie (1986), cameos in disguise. Transformers: The Movie (1986) is Directed by Nelson Shin Starring: Orson Welles, Robert Stack, Leonard Nimoy, Norman Alden, Eric Idle, Scatman Crothers.  Music Includes Weird Al Yankovic for some reason. Host: Nic Panel: Daniel and Matthew  

This week, we visit the hallowed halls of ACME Looniversity just in time for it to be closed for the summer, we watched Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation! Yet another movie directly poking Happy World Land, I mean Disney.  Nothing like reminiscing to summer couch days and watching Tiny Toons. Starring: Charlie Adler, Tress MacNeille, Jonathan Winters, Don Messick, Edie McClurg, Maurice LaMarche, Joe Alaskey How will Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation hold up? Panel: Nic, Matthew, and Daniel