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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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Movie of the Year: 1997 The Battle Begins The Taste Buds figure out which movies have a chance of becoming the Movie of 1997! The movies of 1997, they’re so good, but which of them is the best? How would someone even decide something like that? It seems, at least to us, that the best…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Finale Part 2 The Taste Buds choose THE movie of 1988! This is really it. Everything you have done in your life has really been leading to this moment. Take a really deep breath and prepare yourself to finally really know the real answer to the only question that has…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Finale Part 1 This is it. Everything you have done in your life has been leading to this moment. Take a deep breath and prepare yourself to finally know the answer to the only question that has ever mattered to you: what is the 1988 Movie of the Year? Are…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Big The Taste Buds review the 1988 blockbuster Big! Big is a movie about the worlds of adults and kids colliding, but also it is a movie about adult life being a nightmare. Is this a good way to handle such a sensitive issue? I’m going to say maybe, but…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Taste Buds review the 1988 blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit! Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a movie about the worlds of people and toons colliding, but also it is a movie about race in this country. Is this a good way to handle such a…
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