We here at Binge Buddies love our rankings as much as you do! Even when a franchise has a few more low moments than you would prefer, the high moments are still something worth celebrating! A little bit from every film gets mentioned here as we try to be as fair as possible! Be sure to tune in next week when we start our new show Fork the Forking Forkers! (The Good Place)
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Automatic Pig: Robocop Remake
Your hosts Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Frank Serpicao” Dykes, Joel “Robert Warren” Dewitte, and Ryan “Jim Rockford” Lootens dive into one of the all time worst remakes. Robocop is a rough watch, but it was an absolute blast to chat about! Automatic Pig is coming to an end folks!
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Automatic Pig: Robocop 3
Your hosts Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Nichola Angel” Dykes, Joel “Sommerset” Dewitte, and Ryan “Jake Peralta” Lootens take a deep dive into the 3rd film in the Robocop franchise. This might be one of the worst films we’ve covered here at Binge Buddies, only next week’s remake could take a swing for the top spot. But as is usually the case, a terrible movie makes for a fantastic conversation!
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Automatic Pig: Robocop 2
Hosts Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Elliot Ness RoboCop” Dykes, Ryan “Ed Tom Bell” Lootens dive into the only good Robocop sequel. This movie is a step down from the original but not a huge one. The Binge Buddies have a blast digging into all the craziness that this movie has to offer!
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Automatic Pig: Robocop
Bryan, Zombie Dog, Joel, and Ryan start a new season of Binge Buddies with Automatic Pig! Over the next 5 weeks we will be discussing each of the films and then finish it up with a ranking episode! We are so excited to dive into these crazy films and can’t wait for you to hear it!
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Oscars? Mario Boots? Cocaine Shark?
I, Jon from ATH Network, completely missed that the Oscars happened this past weekend. Like, I was surprised while compiling the stories for today’s post. Anyway, it sounds like the best film dominated and that’s a-okay with me. Of course, other stuff happened over the weekend and I GUESS we’ll share those with you below.
(Oh yeah, that thumbnail of King Shark from the hilarious James Gunn romp Suicide Squad? Seemed fitting for a news story about a cocaine shark.)
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai – 35th Anniversary
NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE!
In 1984, a film was released that was considered to be a flop at the time. It made very little at the box office, however, the film went on to become a cult classic. The reason for this is: nobody really knows exactly what the film is about. You can speculate; you can say what the story beats are,-you can even think that you know what the deeper meaning of the story is. The truth is- this is a film that is completely unique to everyone who watches it. It’s a film that could easily be dismissed as a cheesy product of the 1980’s. You would be so very wrong in your dismissal though. There is more to this film than it’s cheesiness- which there are moments of- there is no denying that. One of the biggest draws of the film is the fact that it dumps the audience into an existing universe and offers very little information about it up front. It tells the audience ‘this is the world, you’ll catch up.’ Treating the audience with respect, and treating them like the intelligent people that they are, was something that is very rare in film in general. It was especially rare in the early 1980’s.
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Matt is a huge film and TV buff who studied film and moving image production at university. In his spare time he enjoys reading comics and books, the occasional gaming session and writing novels.