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Movie of the Year: 1997 Princess Mononoke The Taste Buds continue their journey through 1997 with Princess Mononoke! [to the tune of the Annie-are-you-OK part of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal”] Princess Mononoke! Studio Ghibli is all up in the guts of this podcast. We’re brave enough to declare we love the cinema of one…
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Movie of the Year: 1997 Contact The Taste Buds continue their journey through 1997 with Contact! Are aliens real? Is anything real, man? But, yes, aliens are real as foretold by that guy from Blink-182 who also sang about spiders in that one song. What a bad song, and yet I think about it…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1997 State of the Franchise Franchises, where would this country be without them? I tremble at a hypothetical so awesome in its utter enormity. I cannot gaze with my mind’s eye long upon the imagined hellscape that is an America Cinema devoid of prequels, sequels, and even squeak -quels. No, do…
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Movie of the Year: 1997 Good Will Hunting The Taste Buds continue their journey through 1997 with Good WIll Hunting! The Taste Buds are talking the movies of 1997, and there is no way to talk about the movies of this year without getting wicked deep into Good Will Hunting. Will they all shout…
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Movie of the Year: 1997 GenreBlast The Taste Buds choose the best 1997 movies of each genre! Genres, what would movies be without them? What would America be without them? Makes you think. So the next time someone says, “Hey, I don’t think genres are all that important.” You walk up to that man–you know…
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Movie of the Year: 1997 Jackie Brown The Taste Buds tackle the 1997 hit Jackie Brown! Jackie Brown reflects on the simpler life of 1995 mall culture, when everyone would risk it all for a chance to get $500,000 and a sweet, backwards Kangol. Jackie is a stone-cold player and a tactical genius, so obviously…
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Movie of the Year: 1997 Boogie Nights The Taste Buds tackle the 1997 hit Boogie Nights! Boogie Nights (pronounced like how the dog from the Cookie Crisp commercial says “Cookie Crisp”) is the story of a little man with a very big dream. That dream? To make things sexy. And for a while, friends, he…
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Movie of the Year: 1997 – Mix Tape Mix Tapes, they’re almost all bad because so few of them are made in a round-robin draft format by four people who don’t know anything about music and have restricted their choices to the songs of one year. Well, listener, we have fixed that by going out…
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Movie of the Year: 1997 – LA Confidential The Taste Buds tackle one of the biggest crime movies of all time, 1997s LA Confidential. This movie is right up the combined alleys of our intrepid Pod Pals, but does it have what it takes to take out the competition? We’ll also make a Rushmore out of…
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Movie of the Year: 1997 – Titanic The Taste Buds tackle one of the biggest movies of all time. And that’s not just because it is very long, it also made a lot of money. But, dudes, do you remember how long this silly movie is? It is two total VHS tapes, as Ryan pointed…
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