The Magic Christian (1969) w/Consequence of SOund
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English - March 28, 2014 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsTV & Film Comedy movies films drinking alcohol comedy funny cult indiana jones games Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Come and get it, listeners – Nick from Consequence of Sound comes back to continue our exploration of cinematic Beatles efforts with the strange, bizarre creature that is The Magic Christian! Based on a novel by Terry Southern, the film is a hippie-tastic, Pythonesque journey in which Peter Sellers’ obscenely rich social prankster adopts homeless Ringo Starr and takes him through one ham-fisted counterculture prank after another. The result is the kind of disjointed experimental film we saw a lot of in the 70s, but without any of the nuance or cleverness to ground it. Nonetheless, it’s a bizarrely entertaining watch, especially with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!