Episode #722: Blast from the Past
Added 2024-02-06 05:00:02 +0000 UTC“Now here’s my question… bellhops at a Holiday Inn?” — Andrew
On this week’s show, we’re chatting about the goofy sci-fi rom-com that should’ve been made as an eerie sci-fi thriller, Blast from the Past! Shouldn’t Christopher Walken’s character be brought up on charges? How has Brendan Fraser’s character not grown into a big, hulking baby psycho? Why do Fraser and Dave Foley both have terribly dyed jet-black hair in this movie? And could we just get a weird little movie about Joey Slotnick’s dive bar? PLUS: The return of the VHS Trailer Game!
Blast from the Past stars Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley, Joey Slotnick, and Nathan Fillion as Cliff; directed by Hugh Wilson.
We hope you are enjoying Ad-Free WHM! Thanks so much for being the kick-ass Patreon subscriber that you are—your support keeps the lights on around the old clubhouse and allows us to continue doing these shows! We know you have a lot of options for podcast enjoyment and we're stoked you chose to spend some time with us!
Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
I saw this one as a kid--family rental--and trying to avoid work this late night/early morn I thought, "Didn't the guys cover this one?" ... Turns out they did! :) I remember liking this one--was introduced to Brendan Fraser via the pretty excellent George of the Jungle -but it was a strange one. Can't wait to see how it fares! Love you guys, best of luck in England. Don't forget to wear the blue. :)
Zora McBride
2025-03-11 09:27:01 +0000 UTCYou guys really need to see Passion of Darkly Noon. A similar premise that actually plays out in a terrifying manner. It is easily my favorite Brendan Fraser performance.
Bethany Culclasure
2024-02-22 16:41:57 +0000 UTCFor some reason this episode made me want to see this train wreck of a film.
John Locke
2024-02-12 19:38:35 +0000 UTCI can confirm that Chris is right, the N-word line did feature in the trailer or at least a TV spot because I remember it, but have never seen the movie.
Craig
2024-02-11 05:20:28 +0000 UTCI watched this once at the theaters upon release and never again
Deitrich Tennin
2024-02-08 17:06:25 +0000 UTCHey Alicia Silverstone has a fantastic performance in The Lodge. It'll blow your mind.
Jamie
2024-02-08 04:16:31 +0000 UTCAlthough I guess I could buy plane tickets and go so, bluff called!
RJ Cunningham
2024-02-07 18:19:51 +0000 UTCHopefully that Dusk til Dawn show is recorded or they do it as an episode for the podcast. Like Steve, my most rented movie ever and would pay/sponsor for that episode to be made
RJ Cunningham
2024-02-07 18:16:26 +0000 UTCsomeone didn't rewind him
Matt
2024-02-07 15:28:38 +0000 UTCWow! I'm genuinely shocked! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-02-07 13:19:27 +0000 UTCThe liquor lockdown Tom Siezemore Heat bit absolutely killed me at work in a very otherwise quiet room. HILARIOUS! Keep up the good work! (-o-)
Nathan Lemire
2024-02-07 02:24:42 +0000 UTCI demand a full accounting and Congressional investigation into how the reigning champion of the VHS Trailer Game had zero points in February of the current season. Shenanigans!
jribs
2024-02-07 00:07:56 +0000 UTCI saw this movie on release weekend in theatres! Requested a few times for listener request month so very happy to finally see the guys cover it. Glad it doesn’t hold because I recall at the time thinking it was weird as fuck
Alex Fry
2024-02-06 22:23:22 +0000 UTCI would just like to say, I am with Chris Cabin I’ve also been very disappointed by this season of True Detective
Joel Myers
2024-02-06 21:28:52 +0000 UTCthe main story of this movie should’ve been Sissy Spacek cracking and leaving the bunker so Brendan has to go after her because Walken won’t leave the bunker. Blam.
Adam Pollock
2024-02-06 21:17:57 +0000 UTCI, not four days ago, stayed at a Holiday Inn in Memphis that had a bellhop and valet. It was odd.
Richard Buttry
2024-02-06 20:40:50 +0000 UTCIt's nice to get away from 2023's awful movies and get back to general history's awful movies.
MarkNM
2024-02-06 20:04:20 +0000 UTCI watch this at least 3 times a year with my parents.... Should I call the movie psychiatrist?
Montserrat Morales
2024-02-06 19:30:52 +0000 UTCI always wanted to try getting lit by drinking nothing but cooking sherry.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-02-06 19:28:21 +0000 UTCSteve you magnificent bastard, the return of the VHS Trailer Game! I'm so glad my favorite Jame Master recovered from his VCR hemorrhage or whatever the medical complications were
Smaug
2024-02-06 19:12:23 +0000 UTCDeciding to open your light romcom with a more manic version of 12 Cloverfield Lane is certainly one hell of a directing choice.
John Edwards
2024-02-06 18:32:16 +0000 UTCFondly(?) remembering when this was inexplicably my boomer parents' emotional support movie after 9/11. Eager for a remake where they are hiding from y2k and one of the kids from stranger things needs to learn to navigate TikTok
Juliana Duffy
2024-02-06 18:24:34 +0000 UTCI never watched Eight Days a Week but according to IMDB, Buck Kartalian is credited as "Nonno"
Felipe Sobreiro
2024-02-06 17:22:34 +0000 UTCI dunno, those Fallout games are pretty funny, including the first one from 1997
Smaug
2024-02-06 17:20:05 +0000 UTCImmediately reminded of hot Dr. Pepper
Tala Hobballah
2024-02-06 16:34:21 +0000 UTCi actually think this works as a light romantic comedy. There are a million movies/shows, not to mention every damn video game, about people living in a bunker during some apocalyptic event. They are all very serious and very boring. Either it’s not a bunker or it’s not an apocalypse, and it’s always the robot’s fault. I welcome Brendan Fraser pitching woo at Alicia Silverstone.
AlsoNamedB0rt
2024-02-06 15:21:23 +0000 UTCI would have bet the FARM that Slotnick's character was played by Giamatti. Better movie?
Matt
2024-02-06 15:12:49 +0000 UTCI like this movie but Brendan Fraser basically exclusively played cartoon characters until like....he graduated to pulp comic characters in The Mummy and they don't saddle him with any other real human cartoon type of people other than Walken so the movie can't sustain cartoon logic
G Goldhar
2024-02-06 14:39:09 +0000 UTCYou absolutely need to do Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. I'd pay $20 a month for content like that.
Truck McGuffin
2024-02-06 14:20:18 +0000 UTCVHS Trailer Game is back, bay-bee!!
Derek Baxter
2024-02-06 14:17:39 +0000 UTCWould this have worked if Brendan Fraser’s character had grown up in the 40s and then the family just got cryogenically frozen by Christopher Walken’s character in the 60s and they all unfreeze in the 90s
DR
2024-02-06 09:19:44 +0000 UTCremember watching this on hbo a handful of times.
Frank Grimes
2024-02-06 09:07:10 +0000 UTC
