We’re back! Talking about one of the most 90s of 90s movies in David Fincher’s FIGHT CLUB

FIGHT CLUB
RELEASED: October 15, 1999
DIRECTED BY: David Fincher
STARRING: Ed Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto
BUDGET: $67M
BOX OFFICE: $101.2M (including re-releases)
ESTIMATED LOSS: $25M

NEXT EPISODE: The most expensive comedy ever made is also one of the least funny- it’s EVAN ALMIGHTY

0:00 Intro
3:01 Show & tell
10:49 This week's movie

SHOW NOTES

Brad Pittois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnBupO_Kjto

Limehouse Lye Scene from Justified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsOG0ZVNftE

We’re getting super earnest and old-timey with one of the original superhero movies, 1991’s THE ROCKETEER

0:00 Intro
2:50 Show & tell
8:52 This week's movie

THE ROCKETEER
DIRECTED BY: Joe Johnston
RELEASED: June 21, 1991
STARRING: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Timothy Dalton, Alan Arkin, Terry O’Quinn
BUDGET: $40M
BOX OFFICE: $46.5M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $25M

NEXT EPISODE: This one is a doozy- we’re doing FIGHT CLUB

Oh hey didn’t see you there. We were over here being edgy career criminals. It’s THE WAY OF THE GUN

0:00 Intro
2:01 Show & tell
5:42 This week's movie

THE WAY OF THE GUN
DIRECTED BY: Christopher McQuarrie
RELEASED: September 8, 2000
STARRING: Ryan Philippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, James Caan
BUDGET: $8.5M
BOX OFFICE: $13.1M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $5M

NEXT EPISODE: How about some sincerity for a change? We’re doing 1991’s THE ROCKETEER

We’re back! And we’re doing a highly requested one this week with 2016’s Civil War drama FREE STATE OF JONES

0:00 Intro
1:48 Show & tell
7:20 This week's movie

FREE STATE OF JONES
RELEASED: June 24, 2016
DIRECTED BY: Gary Ross
STARRING: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell
BUDGET: $50M
BOX OFFICE: $25M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $40M

NEXT EPISODE: We’re doing a cult classic Tarantino ripoff with 2000’s THE WAY OF THE GUN

We're joined by the homie Nash Flynn (@ItsNashFlynn) of Death & Friends to talk about an extremely historically accurate movie: 2017's THE MUMMY.

0:00 Intro
3:47 Show & tell
9:25 This week's movie

THE MUMMY
RELEASED: June 9, 2017
DIRECTED BY: Alex Kurtzman
STARRING: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Sofia Boutella, Russell Crowe, Courtney B. Vance
BUDGET: $195M
BOX OFFICE: $410M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $90M

NEXT EPISODE: We're going way back to the civil war to check out the FREE STATE OF JONES.

We’re joined by “friend” of the show Ron Iver (@ronnui_) to talk about the first video game movie. Ever! It’s Super Mario Bros. (1993)

0:00 Intro
5:11 Show & tell
11:27 This week's movie

SUPER MARIO BROS
RELEASED: May 28, 1993
DIRECTED BY: Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel
STARRING: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, Dennis Hopper, Fiona Shaw
BUDGET: $48M
BOX OFFICE: $38.9M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $20M

NEXT EPISODE: We’re talking about the 3rd failed attempt to start a Universal Pictures “Dark Universe” with 2017’s THE MUMMY

We went all the way back to 1995 for this week's movie, with one of Russell Crowe's first American movies and maybe Denzel's silliest movie ever, VIRTUOSITY.

0:00 Intro
2:08 Show & tell
7:16 This week's movie

VIRTUOSITY
DIRECTED BY: Brett Leonard
RELEASED: August 4, 1995
STARRING: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch, Stephen Spinella, William Forsythe
BUDGET: $30M
BOX OFFICE: $37M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $20M

NEXT EPISODE: Grab your mushrooms and head for the sewers, we're doing the 1993 SUPER MARIO BROS.

Another movie where the film itself wasn’t the story, it's the creepy musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN.

0:00 Intro
2:33 Show & tell
7:32 This week's movie

DEAR EVAN HANSEN
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Chbosky,
RELEASED: September 24, 2021
STARRING: Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore
BUDGET: $28M
BOX OFFICE: $19.1M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $20M

NEXT EPISODE: We’re going back to the 90s for a movie that definitely understands what computers are, VIRTUOSITY.

SHOW NOTES
Blast Zone Movie List on Letterboxd
https://letterboxd.com/jdrake602/list/blast-zone-episode-list/

Fiddler, Please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb9m7HdBCW0