HeyJaredDissect the Direct
We seek out the gory, the violent and the ridiculous films that we remember from our childhood in the 80s and 90s and pick them apart with fondness and catharsis. buymeacoffee.com/dissectthedirect
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John McTiernan's 1999 The 13th Warrior (opens the original)
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Mead, Monsters and Myths. We put a Beowolf adaptation and box office bomb starring Antonio Banderas on the slab for our 57th episode.
Guy Ritchie's 1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (opens the original)
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A dodgy poker game, antique shotguns and copious amounts of ganja, yeah? We put the gangster film that launched more than a few careers on the marble slab for our 56th episode.
Robert Zemeckis 1985 Back to the Future (opens the original)
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For our 55th episode we put this beloved sci-fi classic on the slab.
Paul W.S. Anderson's 1997 Event Horizon (opens the original)
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As a small tribute to Sir Sam Neil we chose this hellish science fiction cult classic for our 54th episode. Libera te tutemet ex inferis...
George A Romero's 1979 Dawn of the Dead (opens the original)
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For our 53th episode we take a scalpel to one of cinema's most enduring monsters via George A Romero's horror classic. (The strong female protagonist is called Francine).
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