Load Bearing Beams
147 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIt’s the Summer of Spielberg, celebrating a handful of Steven Spielberg’s films! But normally, it's a movie podcast where one host loves a movie, the other has never seen it. They watch. They discuss. Why do we call it a Load Bearing Beam? Because it's a movie you love so much that it holds up the foundation of the very structure that is you. Laci Roth and Matt Stokes are a married couple that needs to find stuff to watch together. On this show, they take a look at movies loved by one but unseen, disliked, or forgotten by the other. With open hearts but exhausted and cynical minds, they will get to the bottom of whether or not the movies they love so much are actually good.
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Episodes
39. Parenthood
July 10, 2018 17:10 - 1 hour - 103 MBAfter a month away, Load Bearing Beams returns to talk 'hood... parenthood, that is! Ron Howard's 1989 feature warmed audiences' hearts everywhere, but how does it hold up today? Then Laci and Matt give real talk about child rearing, pregnancy, and the perpetual exhaustion that comes with being a parent, as well as the movies and TV shows that accurately show all of this. Finally, they discuss Terms Of Endearment, James L. Brooks's 1983 Oscar-winning classic about mothers, daughters, and...
38. The Godfather Trilogy (Listener Choice!)
June 13, 2018 17:09 - 1 hour - 107 MBBrother Of The Show Elliott Stokes hops aboard to discuss all three of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather films. Do you want us to talk about YOUR movie? Leave a review of our podcast on iTunes, and in your review give us the name of your load-bearing beam and why it's so important to you. Website: www.loadbearingbeams.com Twitter: @LoadBearingPod YouTube: LoadBearingBeams
37. Little Nicky / Slums Of Beverly Hills
June 01, 2018 09:30 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBMatt and Laci watched Little Nicky (2000) and Slums Of Beverly Hills (1998) two weeks ago and barely remember them. Still, they bravely trudge ahead and discuss their feelings on revisiting the two films after more than ten years. PLUS: Thoughts on Solo: A Star Wars Story, more debate about the merits of the Foo Fighters, and an examination of when phone calls became the worst. Time stamps: Little Nicky (15:48) Slums Of Beverly Hills (29:30) Do you want us to talk about YOUR movi...
The Best Of Load Bearing Beams!
May 25, 2018 14:58 - 37 minutes - 52.2 MBDue to a family emergency, Laci and Matt weren't able to record a new episode this week, so instead we present seventeen short clips from the podcast that are just plum terrific. They are: "John Williams Loves a Buffet" (from Hook) "Is Jim Carrey Funny?" (from The Grinch) "Shouldn't Young Doc Brown Recognize His Future Self?" (from Back to the Future Part II) "Farting Your Dinner" (from Nacho Libre) "Matt hates The Goonies" (from The Goonies) "We're not impressed with Vada's poem...
Avengers: Infinity War (a.k.a., The Lost Episode)
May 21, 2018 18:28 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBWe lost most of this episode, but we salvaged a debate about whether or not the Foo Fighters are good and included a 20-minute bonus review of Avengers: Infinity War and Matt's thoughts on the weirdness of how voice-over narration is used in the 1996 film Matilda. Time stamps: Foo Fighters [09:20] Avengers: Infinity War [14:55] Do you want us to talk about YOUR movie? Leave a review of our podcast on iTunes, and in your review give us the name of your load-bearing beam and wh...
36. Nacho Libre (Listener Choice!)
May 11, 2018 09:30 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBFriend Of The Show Caleb Hogan joins the show live in studio to discuss his Listener Choice (because he's a Listener as well!) movie: 2006's Nacho Libre. Jack Black plays Ignacio, a friar in rural southwestern Mexico who longs to be a luchador. But that makes this movie sound much more conventional than what it is, because, really, it's just Napoleon Dynamite, but in Mexico instead of Idaho, and with a monastery instead of a high school, and with lucha wrestling instead of silly dancing. ...
35. A League Of Their Own / City Lights
May 04, 2018 09:30 - 50 minutes - 69.4 MBIn an episode Laci calls "A City Of Their Own" and Matt calls "A Light Of Their Cities," the Dangerous Dyad discuss 1992's baseball picture A League Of Their Own and 1931's alienation picture City Lights. A League Of Their Own starts right off with the annoying wrap-around modern story that then flashes back to the action you bought your ticket for. Why do so many movies do this? Does League overcome this tiresome trope? Then, City Lights is for many people a gateway drug into silent fi...
34. Corky Romano (Listener Choice!)
April 27, 2018 10:30 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBIn 2001, Corky Romano rode a wave of movie vehicles led by Saturday Night Live alumni whose titles were the first and last names of their fictional protagonists. The movie was not a success. It derailed Chris Kattan's career. It has a 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the most poorly reviewed movie covered on the podcast. But is it actually that bad? Could the critics have been correct? Or is there something more to this movie? Is it, perhaps, what Laci calls a cucumber? Listen a...
33. Duck Soup / Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
April 20, 2018 09:30 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBIn an episode Laci calls, "Ace Soup" and Matt calls, "A Detective, Duck!" the Cromulent Couple once again wade into the uncertain world of comedy. Comedy is hard to discuss. You either find something funny or you don't. Case in point: Duck Soup (1933), an 85-year-old movie that Laci, having never before seen a Marx Brothers movie, found utterly hilarious. And case in counter-point: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), a movie heretofore unseen by Matt that is comparably new, yet seems inc...
32. Friday (Listener Choice!)
April 13, 2018 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBFriday (1995) is a slice-of-life comedy from the mid-nineties that has spawned a million quotes and memes repeated ad infinitum. It's one of those movies that's hard to appreciate afresh. But Matt had never seen it, and Laci hadn't seen it in a long time, so at a listener's behest, they watched and talk about. To make a long story short: It's really funny, and actually really deep. We recommend this oral history of Friday from Complex. Do you want us to talk about YOUR movie? Leave a re...
31. Beavis & Butt-Head Do America / The Pick-Up Artist
April 06, 2018 09:30 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBGuys: things used to be weird. In 1996, Beavis & Butt-Head Do America earned $61 million at the box office. Matt loved it as a teenager, and still loves it as an adult. But it leads to perhaps the biggest divide Laci and Matt have ever had on this podcast, as she is physically repulsed by it. What exactly is going on here? Then, in The Pick-Up Artist (1987), a film helmed by accused serial sexual predator James Toback, Robert Downey, Jr. is a sexual predator. But he's charming! So we do...
30. Léon: The Professional (Listener Choice!)
March 30, 2018 09:30 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MBListener Polliwogwannabe suggested Luc Besson's 1994 classic Léon: The Professional, a film Laci mistook for a kids movie about a cartoon mouse. Turns out she had actually seen it before, because it fits right into her mid-nineties canon of thrillers featuring antiheroes in dark clothing who like to talk about pop singers. Matt had never seen it. WHAT DID WE THINK? Only one way to find out: By reading this sentence—we loved it! But you should still listen. Time stamp: Léon: The Professiona...
29. Interview With the Vampire / The Maltese Falcon
March 23, 2018 10:00 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBIn an episode Laci calls "The Black Bird Interviews" and that Matt calls "Vampires Of Malta," the Peerless Pair discuss 1994's vampire/journalism film Interview With the Vampire and 1941's detective/raptor movie The Maltese Falcon. Topics covered include Tom Cruise's career, Kirsten Dunst vs. Natalie Portman, the Twilight Saga, and Humphrey Bogart's mouthpiece. Time stamps: Interview With the Vampire: 06:39 The Maltese Falcon: 36:26 Website: www.loadbearingbeams.com Twitter: @...
28. The Bucket List (Listener Choice!)
March 16, 2018 10:00 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBA Listener joins us to talk about his Choice! Friend Of The Show Wade Hymel makes his triumphant return to LBB to discuss 2007's The Bucket List, a movie about death and the meaning of life. And that's what this episode is—a mediation on mortality, self-actualization, and the strange arc of human life, from infancy to mature adult to immature elderly person. Wade is technically a listener, so this fits into the whole scheme of Load Bearing Beams. Not gonna lie: This episode goes to some weir...
27. Rocky / Welcome To the Dollhouse
March 09, 2018 18:24 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBIn an episode Laci calls "Rocky House" but that Matt calls "Rockin' At the Dollhouse," Laci and Matt discuss the feel-good movie of all time, Rocky (1976) and the feel-bad movie of all time, Welcome To the Dollhouse (1996). What follows is weirdly intense discussion about mortality, bullying, and happiness. Also: Matt's senior class trip to Disney World sucked. Time stamps: Rocky: 06:08 Welcome To the Dollhouse: 22:37 Website: www.loadbearingbeams.com Twitter: @LoadBearin...
26. The Goonies (Listener Choice!)
March 02, 2018 16:35The Goonies (1985) is a movie beloved by many, but not by us. A listener suggested we watch it and reappraise it. We have many thoughts. For one, why do they even need a map when they just seem to fall down a coupla holes and land in a pirate ship? Anyway, just listen. ALSO: Uninformed Oscar predictions. Time stamps: Uninformed Oscar Predictions: 03:00 The Goonies: 08:52 Website: www.loadbearingbeams.com Twitter: @LoadBearingPod
26. The Goonies (Listener Choice!)
March 02, 2018 16:35The Goonies (1985) is a movie beloved by many, but not by us. A listener suggested we watch it and reappraise it. We have many thoughts. For one, why do they even need a map when they just seem to fall down a coupla holes and land in a pirate ship? Anyway, just listen. ALSO: Uninformed Oscar predictions. Time stamps: Uninformed Oscar Predictions: 03:00 The Goonies: 08:52 Website: www.loadbearingbeams.com Twitter: @LoadBearingPod
25. Ever After / X-Men
February 23, 2018 10:30 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBIn an episode Laci calls "Ever Men" but that Matt calls "X1: X-Men Ever After," the pair discuss Ever After (1998) and X-Men (2000), two movies that, to everyone's surprise, are both pure delights! Ever After, Drew Barrymore deploys a most unconvincing British accent to play the French commoner Danielle de Barbarac who pulls off a most sinister rouse and pretends to be the Comtesse de Lancret! Love ensues. Good movie. In X-Men, Hugh Jackman/Jack Hughman finds himself caught up in a war ...
24. Jumanji (Listener Choice!)
February 16, 2018 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBJumanji Fever is sweeping America—nay, the world—and Load Bearing Beams catches the fever by viewing Welcome To the Jungle's predecessor, 1995's much more somber, pensive, and scaled-down film, Jumanji. A listener selected this movie for the show, as neither Laci nor Matt was a big fan of it growing up. But this movie is much beloved by millions of people, so the show sets out to figure out why. It's a movie in which Robin Williams doesn't get to Robin Williams, and the plot revolves large...
23. Back To The Future, Part II / Empire Records
February 09, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBIn an episode Laci calls "The Future Of the Empire" and Matt calls "Recording the Future," Load Bearing Beams examines Back To the Future, Part II (1989) and Empire Records (1995). One a huge hit, the other a giant flop with a long afterlife on home video, and both a large source of internet chatter and memes. Back To the Future, Part II was one of the first mainstream American movies to explore the implications and potential paradoxes of time travel. How does its depiction of time travel ...
22. Austin Powers (Listener Choice!)
February 02, 2018 11:40 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBIt's a super-sized Listener's Choice episode in which we cover THREE MOVIES! That's right, we watched all three Austin Powers films at the suggestion of a listener, and we dig deep into all three on this podcast. First up, it's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), a low-budget movie with an unlikely premise that was a moderate hit and somehow spawned an immensely popular and profitable franchise thanks to impressions that are easy to do and a litany of quotable memes. But h...
21. Blow / Watchmen
January 26, 2018 11:30 - 50 minutes - 68.7 MBBack before Johnny Depp sucked, he starred in a movie called Blow (2001), the story of a mediocre, uninteresting drug dealer who can do no wrong... until he can do no right! Does this film pack the emotional punch for adult Laci that it did for teen Laci? Then, LBB examines Zack Snyder's Watchmen (2009), a bloated, confused, utterly fascinating adaptation of the classic graphic novel. Laci and Matt debate whether Rorshach is a flawed but admirable hero, or an overgrown male junior high sc...
20. The Lost Boys (Listener Choice!)
January 19, 2018 11:30 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBA listener suggested The Lost Boys (1987), and LBB watches and reviews it. This movie is kind of delightful and, according to Laci, is a thorough and unrelenting look at the destructiveness of heroin addiction. Matt dislikes Haim, likes Feldman. ALSO: We debut our new recurring feature, the Mickey's Clubhouse Clubhouse, in which Laci pokes holes in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, a TV program for toddlers. Time stamps: Mickey's Clubhouse Clubhouse: 04:25 The Lost Boys: 12:36 Websit...
19. The X-Files: Fight the Future / The Boondock Saints
January 12, 2018 19:41 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBLBB is back for a new year! First up: It's the first X-Files movie: The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998). Matt loved this television show as a teenager and, by proxy, loved this movie. What does Laci think, having never seen it and being only minimally familiar with the TV series? Also: Much discussion about TV shows turned into movies. Then, Laci reexamines The Boondock Saints (1999), a movie about which she says, "It's something that I loved a lot and very intensely for about four years,...
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (BONUS EPISODE)
December 15, 2017 21:01 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBSPOILERS for this bonus mini-episode! Matt and Laci, fresh from having seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi, share their thoughts with each other. Matt's a huge Star Wars fan, Laci until had recently had never seen the original movies but is a big fan of The Force Awakens... what did they think? Again, please do not listen if you haven't yet seen this movie. We SPOIL the porg out of this film. SPOIL SPOIL SPOIL Darth Vader is Luke's father!
18. How The Grinch Stole Christmas / The Empire Strikes Back
December 14, 2017 18:43 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MBMatt is finding it very difficult to think of anything other than Star Wars two days before The Last Jedi comes out, so the gang revisits the Star Wars saga by looking at The Empire Strikes Back (1980), widely considered the best film in the series. BUT FIRST it's Ron Howard's Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), a movie that takes the Grinchverse and expands it into directions you never knew you wanted... because you didn't want them. Yeah, this movie's actually very boring a...
17. What About Bob? / Crimes & Misdemeanors
December 04, 2017 17:44 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBLet's talk What About Bob: In this Frank Oz picture from 1991, Bill Murray plays Bob, and he is just so silly but you can't help but love him, the scamp! And Richard Dreyfuss is his cranky therapist who can't get his family to see how annoying his patient is, because the patient has followed his family on their vacation, see, but even though this is highly inappropriate and predatory behavior, Dreyfuss's family is charmed out of their very seats by Bob and his antics. We are all Richard Drey...
16. Jurassic Park III / My Girl
November 17, 2017 23:09 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBLaci and Matt return, if not better than ever then at least not diminished, to discuss the films Jurassic Park III (2001) and My Girl (1991). First up, it's Jurassic Park III, a movie selected by Matt because he loves the first Jurassic Park and this one also has dinosaurs on an island, so it'll do. The Roth-Stokeses assess this movie and its place in the larger Jurassic canon, especially when compared with Jurassic World. Then it's My Girl. What can you say about My Girl? This is a mov...
15. Buffy The Vampire Slayer / Citizen Kane
October 20, 2017 23:56 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBBuffy is a beloved TV show to many, but it doesn't mean s**t to Laci, who prefers the 1992 film [05:55] of the same name. It's the tale of a Chosen One cheerleader doing battle against the occult and being courted by 56-year-old Luke Perry. What about this movie so spoke to Laci as a young person, and how does she feel about it now? And how funky is your chicken? Then: Citizen Kane (1941) [20:30] is generally considered to be the greatest English-language film ever made. Matt has seen it ...
14. Napoleon Dynamite / Blade Runner
October 06, 2017 18:10 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBAs an October hurricane heads for their house, Laci and Matt turn their attention to Napoleon Dynamite (2004) and Blade Runner (1982), a set of movies about inscrutable men and the women who can't help but love them. First, Laci and Matt tackle Napoleon Dynamite [03:10], a movie about which Laci no longer knows how she feels, but which Matt calls "not unenjoyable." But does this collection of awkward quirks ultimately amount to something more than Mad Libs: The Movie? And is the secret to...
13. A Little Princess / Red Dawn
September 22, 2017 22:41 - 1 hour - 91.9 MBWe welcome Sara and Steve Jones to discuss A Little Princess (1995) [02:00] and Red Dawn (1984) [29:00]. We ran the gamut of topics in this episode: guerilla warfare, survivalism, what makes us cry in movies, chimney sweeps, the Ramayana, the Cold War, Jeff Goldblum's daughter from The Lost World: Jurassic Park, amnesia, Harry Potter, and much more. And is that Ser Davos, the Onion Knight, as the titular little princess's father? It is! Enjoy!
12B. It
September 08, 2017 17:07 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBIt (1990) is an annoyingly-titled movie* about the bond among a group of children in the 1950s and their whimsical adventures. In other words, it's computer engineered to aggravate Matt. In our discussion of this chronicle of the Losers Club and their battles against an evil alien clown-spider, we discuss, among other things, trypophobia, 90s Friday-night sitcoms, Laci's adolescent desire to be the girl who hangs out with the guys, and what it means for a topic to be Buzzfeed-y. Also, we giv...
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey / Stephen King's It
September 08, 2017 17:07 - 1 hour - 102 MBWe discuss Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), one of Matt's favorite movies ever. Laci knew nothing about it, but was assured by her husband that its many puzzlebox mysteries would pay off in the end. Do they? We also discuss what predictions about the future got wrong and get to the bottom of whether or not we're all living in a computer simulation. It (1990) is an annoyingly-titled movie* about the bond among a group of children in the 1950s and their whimsical adventures....
12A. 2001: A Space Odyssey
September 06, 2017 16:18 - 37 minutes - 52.4 MBLike the home video release of 1990's It, we're splitting this episode into two VHS tapes. In cassette 1 we discuss Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), one of Matt's favorite movies ever. Laci knew nothing about it, but was assured by her husband that its many puzzlebox mysteries would pay off in the end. Do they? We also discuss what predictions about the future got wrong and get to the bottom of whether or not we're all living in a computer simulation.
11. All The President's Men / True Romance
August 23, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBYour married co-hosts debate Laci's grand unifying theory of movies. Must the movie have stakes? How big must these stakes be? (Big.) And can the stakes get bigger than they are in All the President's Men (1976) [05:52], in which the president's top aids are tied to a burglary operation via reporters' digging? Together, we dig in. Then we fall in love with Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette in True Romance (1993) [29:30]. Awwwwww! Also: What's up with Quentin Tarantino?
10. Drop Dead Fred / Dawn Of the Dead
August 09, 2017 15:35 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBDrop of the Fred with the Sickness in this spooktacular examination of childhood mental illness and mindless consumerism. That's right, it's 1991's Drop Dead Fred (Rotten Tomatoes score: 9%) and 1978's Dawn Of the Dead! Again, Drop Dead Fred [02:48] has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 9%. Nine! Its reputation is far worse than any other movie covered on this show. Is it really that bad? Why is Laci is so fond of movies with silly stop motion effects? Is this movie actually a nuanced look at de...
09. Knowing / Clueless
July 26, 2017 17:13 - 51 minutes - 70.9 MBWhat do we really know? Is the future predetermined? Are human beings really free? These questions and more are addressed and resolved in the two movie selections Load Bearing Beams, episode 9: Alex Proyas's Knowing (2009) [03:30] and Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995) [32:10]. Matt argues that even though Knowing is lumped in with the terrible cash-in movies of Nicolas Cage's later career, it's actually a thrilling and thought-provoking film. Is he right? And could anything be scarier...
08. Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban / GoldenEye
July 13, 2017 02:53 - 1 hour - 121 MBNOTE FROM 2024: Many years later, once we learned how to actually podcast, we took another look at GoldenEye with our pal Wade. Check out Episode 104 to hear a much longer discussion of the film, where at least one of the hosts changed their minds about it. LBB welcomes its first guests: romantically entangled young power couple Sam Hall and Wade Hymel. Sam and Wade join Matt and Laci to discuss their own load-bearing beam movies. Sam's selection is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkab...
07. Death Becomes Her / Spider-Man 2
July 05, 2017 15:04 - 56 minutes - 78.5 MBMore fliffity-floo! Laci presents one of the best comedies ever made about an aging stage actress who takes a de-aging potion and then gets murdered by her husband but she can't die so she sticks around and continues her feud with a rival who took the same potion: Death Becomes Her (1992) [02:00]. Why were movies like this so appealing back in the early nineties, and why don't they get made anymore? This is yet another of Laci's movies to feature bodies doing hilariously bendy things they sh...
06. Master & Commander / Now & Then
June 28, 2017 16:04 - 1 hour - 96.8 MBIt's our highly-anticipated Ampersand Episode! Laci & Matt take a look at the historical seafaring epic Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) [02:55], and Laci puts aside her prejudice against blondes to embrace Paul Bettany's performance as Charles Darwin Stephen Maturin, then conducts some in-depth research into the number of Russell Crowe characters whose names begin with the letter J. Next, the pair takes a look at Girl Stand By Me Now & Then (1995) [39:53], a movie that...
05. Beetlejuice / Films of Tim Burton
June 16, 2017 20:28 - 46 minutes - 53.5 MBNOTE FROM 2024: Many years later, once we learned how to actually podcast, we revisited Beetlejuice. In Episode 89, we went back to Beetlejuice and had a much more informed conversation about it. Are you ready for some whimsy? The show takes a deep dive into the films of Tim Burton after Laci picks Beetlejuice (1988) as her load-bearing beam and it leads to a sprawling conversation about how much fliffity-floo any one human being can tolerate.
04B. The Craft
June 12, 2017 03:03 - 26 minutes - 29.7 MBWe all just want to fit in. We all know what it's like to feel like the outcast. We all accidentally summon tropical snakes with our minds. And we all miss 1996. So crank up the Our Lady Peace and join us for part B of our two-parter with "The Craft," a coming-of-age story about the travails of four teenage witches who use their magical witch powers to do witchcraft (but no wizardry).
04. Jaws / The Craft
June 12, 2017 03:03 - 26 minutes - 29.7 MBYou're gonna need bigger ears to hear this gem of a half episode! In part A of episode 4, our hosts dive in to the world of "Jaws," (1975) which is not the name of the shark but still a weird thing to identify about the story (As Laci points out, it's like calling a slasher movie "Wrist."). What is it about this obscene bloodbath that made such a charmer for families, the original summer blockbuster? Was Quint (Robert Shaw) an anti-war pacifist? And are sharks really that scary? (They are....
04A. Jaws
June 09, 2017 16:09 - 28 minutes - 32.7 MBYou're gonna need bigger ears to hear this gem of a half episode! In part A of episode 4, our hosts dive in to the world of "Jaws," (1975) which is not the name of the shark but still a weird thing to identify about the story (As Laci points out, it's like calling a slasher movie "Wrist."). What is it about this obscene bloodbath that made such a charmer for families, the original summer blockbuster? Was Quint (Robert Shaw) an anti-war pacifist? And are sharks really that scary? (They are.) ...
03. Alien / The Breakfast Club
May 30, 2017 18:37 - 1 hour - 101 MBIn space, no one can hear Matt and Laci scream at each other about the movie Alien (1979) [2:40]. Why are these intergalactic space travelers so blasé about their magical trip through outer space? What's up with Jonesy the cat? Will protocol save us all in the end? Will anybody back on Earth miss the crew members of the Nostromo after they're eaten by the alien [spoiler alert]? Our hosts then move on to dig into The Breakfast Club (1985) [41:33]. And who could quarrel with this movie'...
02. Hook / Halloween
May 23, 2017 22:47 - 1 hour - 106 MBNOTE FROM 2024: Many years later, once we learned how to actually podcast, we revisited Halloween (1978) in Episode 92. Load Bearing Beams deeply regrets some of the skepticism shown toward the film Halloween in this episode. We have learned and grown. All we can do is forgive ourselves. Like many born in the 1980s, Laci is (or was) a big fan of Steven Spielberg's "Hook" (1991) [02:35]. Matt saw it when he was four years old and is revisiting it for the first time. Does the movie hold ...
01. Star Wars / Dirty Dancing
May 12, 2017 14:38 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBNOTE FROM 2024: Many years later, once we learned how to actually podcast, we revisited both of these movies. In Episode 99 we went back to Dirty Dancing and in Episode 100 we went back to Star Wars. In the debut episode, Laci and Matt discuss the concept of load-bearing-beam movies, and then do a deep dive into their first selections. Matt choosesStar Wars (1977) and Laci chooses Dirty Dancing (1987). Many important issues are tackled, including why the original "Star Wars" movie should...