The Flop House - The Flop House Movie Minute #10 - Teen Wolf

Episode Date: July 13, 2008

Warm nostalgia swaddles the show, as the gang discusses Teen Wolf.

And now the flop house movie minute. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ That's gonna be quiet for 3...2... So, we're talking about Teen Wolf. Hey, what's Teen Wolf, Dan? Can you clarify real quick? Well, it's a movie about a teenage werewolf. Oh yeah, that fucking man, yeah. That shit when I was a kid, right?

It's got that character styles and babs. Yeah. His name babs are Booth. Oh, no, her name's Booth. Booth, that's movie I saw that shit when I was a kid right it's got that character styles and babs Yeah, there's name babs or booth. Oh, no her name's booth booth As in beef or as in Shia law as in for what's for dinner? Yeah, oh sure okay So Ellie you watch this movie recently right well some backstory here my girlfriend knows that Teen Wolf was one of a set of movies that my sister and i have a twin sister that we watch a lot when we were young a twin sitter yet what else was on that list real quick the other list for her it was it was teen wolf not teen wolf to

it was to be neutral no is teen wolf for and that's bandit it was teen wolf and spielers day off first billers day off for me it was Gremlins, the Dark Crystal and Star Wars, but more the Dark Crystal and Gremlins. My sister, so we watched Ferris Bealers a lot, which is a movie that holds up great and is a fantastic movie, frankly, that I think is very funny. And we watched Teen Wolf a lot, which she loved.

She had a crush, I assume, when Michael J. Foxx But when when he wolves out for the first time on the basketball court She always would hide behind the couch because it was scary the same way she would hide for the last couple Sprames in thriller when he turns around and he's got yellow eyes She was afraid of people transforming with glowing eyes So that we saw that it was on AMC also called used to be a good movie channel and now they cut everything up with commercials and Daniel says oh Teen Wolf that was such a big movie channel and now they cut everything up with commercials and Daniel says oh Teen Wolf that was such a big movie in your childhood. We should watch that I assume have joking and I said we are doing this thing Let's watch Teen Wolf because she'd never seen it before so we watched the movie and the first thing that came to me

I haven't seen this movie in probably at least 10 years is that it's a bad movie and it's really cheap looking and it's really cheaply made and even the odd, maybe it was just the way the channel was playing it, but like the audio levels were really bad, the music was really loud and the dialogue was really low. Michael J. Fox is acting in his Michael J. Foxy style where he's constantly moving his hands around and he never- Hopping up on counters.

Hopping up again, but also like, um, but there's, you're telling me that he's so so it's training so hard to get all the words out of his mouth He's still charming a little bit, but he like he's lovable but irritating It's the movie is about a teenager who is kind of Unpopular and he has a best friend who's a girl who has a crush on him obviously and is prettier than the girl He has a crush on but the girl he has a crush on is blonde Which because it's an 80s movie means she's the most beautiful woman in the world, just because she's blonde. It's a rare thing to have the hair color blonde, but literally, like, one in a hundred people.

But in 80s was like, the 80s was like the era of blondes, and everyone thought blondes were much better. In the 50s, you had famous blondes like Marilyn Monroe, but you also had, you know, famous groomnets or redheads or whatever, but in the 80s, it was like, if you were a blonde, I'm sorry, I just can't get it up. I'm gonna need you to put on a blonde wig or dye your hair. Now, Darryl Hannah. Yeah. Darryl Hannah, exactly, who would not be as big a star in another decade.

But like Madonna also and people like that. But anyway, there's a lot of issues, but the biggest issue that came up with the movie was about, well, there's also his best friend, his other best friend, Stiles, who serves on top of a van, which is a stupid thing to do, to stand on top of a van while it's driving down city streets. And in my mind, those styles is the hero of that film. I love that guy, because he's the dork that nobody likes, but when you put him in a party situation, he's the king of the party. He runs all the games. He's in charge of what's gonna go to happen next I'll tell you what you know He's a cool guy because he's named styles well everything you need to know about that character

And his name and his look His name is actually style style his name is actually styles McCool But uh, and he always wears sunglasses styles make cool but uh and he always wears sunglasses He's always wearing sunglasses and he's got cool t-shirts like the one that says what are you looking at dick nose? What I just want to talk about a teen wolf one of the things that I was excited about when I rewatched it recently was the fact that They're fucking they end up surfing on a van which if that movie that movie's rated PG, okay? parental guidance of that movie had come out.

That's the second lowest rating you can get. Yeah. Now if a movie nowadays came out with teenage kids doing shit like that, it'd be rated R. Ever since that, the movie the program came out where people like Lyne and the street and get run over by cars. Like you can't do all across the nation. There was a lot of people getting right over by telling. But that's the thing, it was and I don't remember any stories from the

movie came out of kids imitating that and getting hurt which means kids realize what a stupid thing it is. Only a werewolf could feasibly do it. Or someone with the coolness of styles. But here's the thing when he's a werewolf. This was and now my girlfriend is not usually the kind of person who makes sarcastic comments at movies but it was brought out of her by teen wolf is she frightened of werewolves though No, I don't like I think if a werewolf attack her she'd be scared But so would I and I'm not afraid of werewolves more like sure when Michael J Fox turns into a werewolf as she pointed out He looks more like a were bigfoot like there's hair all over him

But he doesn't have a wolfish face. He has more of a a Leonine man He hasn't learned how to maintain his hair. His look as a werewolf. It just looks like a shaggy bigfoot. As you, like, when his dad turns into a werewolf, like, when the hand is just spoilers, his dad turns into a werewolf. When his dad turns into a werewolf,

he looks like himself, basically. He just hasn't beard. His dad is very, like, kimped, you know, clearly. He's in, like, the beard that he has as a normal dad When he's not a werewolf. Oh, he doesn't I know like but he looks like he got a beard though No, he's just got a big meaty face. I'm saying that way because the werewolf. That's where that's team wolf 2 Yes, he's this cousin Like anthropic yeah, I don't you'd have to look at their family tree, but I assume it's not they get it from like They're the only family that's afflicted with wearable. Like panthropy. Yeah, like panthropy.

You'd have to look at their family tree, but I assume it's not... Did they get it from like moon rocks from... If John Jameson was the progenitor, then yes, that's how it happened. But here's the thing, it must be more widespread, because even though Michael J. Fox is surprised by turning into a wear wolf and is noticeably like,

what's happening to me? You're saying that I'm he like No one else No, sorry no one else is really that scared or even surprised like when he first turned into werewolf I was like whoa this is a surprise all right everybody let's play ball on a basketball court I'll tell you what to like Well, this isn't covered in the rule book. I guess Surely surely ref there's got to be rule against werewolves all out like yeah

but like once and also be it he's on a terrible basketball team They've a really fat kid on the team who would get cut from any team and the fat kid Francis from Peewee's big adventure. Yes, and he's great at any Peewee's big adventure Not so much in this being a werewolf makes him so good that he makes it a winning team. And he's like dunking and he's making really good shots and he's stealing the ball from guys on his own team because he's a hot dogger while he's a werewolf.

The thing is, and they put, yeah. And they put, he's a picture. Your average basketball points were. Werewolves are really good at basketball. I mean, wolves are really good at basketball. But his picture is in the school paper. And this was brought up by someone else outside of this podcast But Bill Hickey or friend Bill Hickey. Yeah, you'd think that the rival teams when they went to other schools to play Would be like you got to watch out for the beacon team because they've got a werewolf on their team

Like no one seems to be so so surprised by the nation doesn't get around on their team. No one seems to be so surprised by it. The animation doesn't get around. It's not even like a local newscast. When you look at the movie, what's that camera? The guy who made Henry Fool, he made that movie no such thing or doesn't exist or whatever about a monster who gets discovered. And the monster is basically just a hard-drinking guy with horns. That becomes a media firestorm. But in this movie, a genuine werewolf who's great at basketball Among those things and can roots can surf on roofs and stars in a civil war-based school play the real problem with the movies That you never get to see the civil war play with the werewolf in it and I really want to know how the What no civil war play I really would love to see that play and see how they wrote into the this place that during the civil war

That one of the soldiers is a werewolf. You say there are no set werewolf that fought in the civil war. I'm stay probably did. They hit it. They hit it because people weren't tolerant. They're probably segregating their own werewolf facts. Well, that point silver was rationed, I think, probably. Yeah, I would imagine it's a beautiful.

It's made of railroads or whatever. Yeah. I think werewolves the time are more worried about gangrene, I think. You now want to be a werewolf missing a leg. So this has been Werewolf History Podcast. It's called If Werewolves Were In History. Harry Turnle Dev, where are you right this book? The Werewolves of August.

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You know the dad seems very concerned like oh, we can't get this Family secret don't tell anyone you know like we're all werewolves Once the secret comes out. There are literally literally no ill effects to know love him. He's the big man on campus. People do a werewolf dance. And this is what I know no one shows up with silver bullets. No, we have to kill the abomination. At one point at one point he leaves school and there's a crowd of children asking for his autograph.

And Daniel says parents are letting their children hang out with the werewolf. Like what kind of parents are these? This is where we'll doesn't appear to crave blood or Part of it I think is frankly I think you guys have are coming from a very Anti-warewolf background of case even watching the howling maybe your parents hate werewolves I understand that like it's fair, but the thing is I think your prejudice against werewolf

You have to assume somebody other people in the movie when you prejudice against wherewolf. You have to assume somebody other people in the movie would be prejudiced against wherewolves though. I mean, obviously if a werewolf was taking my job or it was like, I lost my position on the basketball team because this werewolf was so much better than me. I hear they, like, they're just naturally good at it. And like, I don't know, I guess I would get frustrated then. And then I would probably invest in some wolf spain maybe some uh... might be a lot of his rounds for my shotgun

you might join a non-warewolf supremacy group is where you're saying exactly also michael j fox doesn't have a mother i have to assume the father in a fit of rage one month uh... as a werewolf killed her and then hit the body or possibly the michael j J Fox tours way out of the window. That's also true as the premonition should have ended and as it's a live starts. But the the big regret that I realized before we recorded this podcast was that I said to Danielle it's it was getting late. Danielle once you see him play basketball you pretty much got the movie. You

don't need to see anymore but we cut off before the scene with the school dance where the werewolf dance is introduced and everyone does it and they look like idiots and I regret that yeah I just want to say before we wrap up that the four mentioned bill hiki my roommate in college a good friend of stewards in mind always had that teen wolf is a celebration of mediocrity basically the moral of the film apparently is you could be the wolf you could have it all but he gives it up he gives up to be normal and he gives it up to be normal because everyone's mad at him on on the basketball team but the thing is they're mad at

him because he's a hot dog he hogs the ball if you shared the ball they would all be happy that it was were well. Yeah, even like Nathan's hot dogs. No, I like the food hot dogs. I don't like people like hot dogs. Yeah, I can understand that. But so I guess what I realized watching the movie again was why did my parents let us watch this so often and I think when I have children I'm gonna try to quality control what 80s movies they watch a little bit better Especially since like again teens drinking having sex with each other

Turning into werewolves hot turning into werewolves and eventually I think also that a guy pulls his penis out at one point But that's all the way on the side of the frame my my parents probably let me watch it because frankly that didn't really give a shit I mean, I'm sure that's the reason for us. I'm sure my parents like, that's a stupid movie. Whatever kids. Enjoy your little werewolf pictures. Enjoy that, and then, Gremlins. Where will Flickr? Oh, so Teen Wolf, good movie.

No, terrible movie. But if you want to see what the 80s looked like, Teen Wolf. you