Quaid In Full

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S04E08: Something To Talk About Apr 08, 2021

Show notes

Tara Ariano returns to send Season 4 of QIF out on an ice floe with Something To Talk About, 1995's marriage/family dramedy starring Julia Roberts; directed by Lasse Hallstrom (!); and written by Callie Khouri (!!). What is it about this "Hallmark movie, but with an associates degree" that lets it hold together despite what Tara called "a fundamental 'should this have happened? maybe not?' quality"? Good sister chemistry with Kyra Sedgwick and a couple of relatable town gossips triumph over zyde-faux, flagrant reshoot-wig fouls, and a BS excuse for infidelity; and WE triumph over the early-to-mid-nineties portion of Quaid's c.v. If you're the one person who would have appreciated SDB's in-and-out joke, high five; everyone else, grab a helmet: it's an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 6
QQQ score: 8

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
Roger Ebert's review
Mick LaSalle's for SFGate
The origins of the "dazzy" "joke"
Get more Tara Ariano at Again With This: Melrose Place, Extra Hot Great, and Listen To Sassy
Or follow T-Bone on Twitter

Special Guest: Tara Ariano.

S04E06: Wyatt Earp Mar 12, 2021

Show notes

The good news is, Dennis Quaid is great in Wyatt Earp! The bad news is...the "in Wyatt Earp" part, as the film is interminable, perfused with beige Costnerian self-regard, and did we mention how long it is? It's long, which I guess is what happens when you cast literally half of SAG. Tom Sizemore, the poor man's Tom Sizemore, apparitions of fatherliness, and the endless wait for arrival at the corralworks factory all detract from a fascinating steampunk performance from Quaid in an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 2.5
QQQ score: 7.75

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
Roger Ebert's review
Rita Kempley's for WaPo
Walter Chaw's at Film Freak Central

S04E05: Flesh & Bone Feb 25, 2021

Show notes

Is it in your blood? We're tackling 1993's Flesh & Bone, featuring Jimmy Caan shoulders; a hall-of-fame patented "look bored and smoke" performance from Gwynnie; armadillo fan fic; Sophoclean MFA-program writing prompts; Car Guy Sarah not being a car guy; the conflation of Johnnies Damon and Depp; and a successful iteration of Dennis Del Mar. Pack up your painted chickens -- it's an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 6.75
QQQ score: 6.25

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
Roger Ebert's review
Rita Kempley's for WaPo

S04E04: Undercover Blues Feb 18, 2021

Show notes

Our second ep in a row with the I Don't Even Own A Television crew features JW Friedman -- and a much better, fizzier film all around, despite dragging us back to Nawlins and almost going full zydeco. This "nearly totally frictionless" caper is "a happier flavor of so-so" than we anticipated, but we still have questions, like whether the Coens are secret Quaidheads, if/how Herbert Ross directs his actors, what an Ocean's Two would look like, and why we're being punished with a combination of Vince McMahon hair, Reagan voice, and Trump smug smile on DQ. Get your best pleat euphemisms ready; it's an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 6.67
QQQ score: 7.33 (damn repeating decimals)

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
Friedman did! Barely. Enjoy his better edited pod with Chris Collision instead
Vincent Canby's review
Ty Burr for EW
Horwitz for WaPo

Special Guest: JW Friedman.

S04E03: Wilder Napalm Feb 11, 2021

Show notes

Chris Collision of the I Don't Even Own A Television podcast is joining us for the misbegotten Wilder Napalm, the early Vince Gilligan joint that would have made a much better X-Files episode than it did a feature film. Arli$$ jokes, aggressive quirk, a Van Helsing comparison somehow, beefcake snarling at each other, Manic Pixie Dream Winger, and a lead who should have failed out of clown college all add up to a very nineties pyrokinetic love triangle with no figurative fireworks. Close up the Quik Foto; it's an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 4
QQQ score: 3.92 (don't ask)

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
...Us either. Try Chris's pod with JW Friedman instead
Janet Maslin's review
And Owen Gleiberman's for EW

Special Guest: Chris Collision.

S04E02: Postcards From The Edge Feb 04, 2021

Show notes

Everybody is in 1990 Mike Nichols joint Postcards From The Edge -- and almost everybody's on our episode discussing it! Returning guest John Ramos and first-time longtime Tara Ariano join us to talk about forgotten addiction storylines, if it's possible to miscast Meryl Streep, the Gene Hackman podcast we all long for, acting-legend master classes, and character studies of yesteryear that would be TV shows today. Plus, ONE of us listened to The Dennissance...and another one of us feels pretty guilty that that occurred. Get ready for an endolphin rush in an all-new Quaid In Full.

Overall score: 8.5
QQQ score: 2

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
Tara did! Honor her sacrifice by listening to her legit-rad pod with Pam Ribon, Listen To Sassy
Get in the (bridge) mix with John
Roger Ebert's Postcards From The Edge review
And Desson Howe's review

Special Guests: John Ramos and Tara Ariano.

S04E01: Come See The Paradise Jan 28, 2021

Show notes

It's a love story, a family story, AND a history that probably got sold on the strength of Dennis Quaid's involvement...even though he really shouldn't be Great White Savioring it up with the windows closed in the first place, but we do find a handful of things to like about 1991's Come See The Paradise . It's from the director of Birdy, Fame, and other fondly remembered properties; it's also miscast, oddly scored, and about 20 more minutes of reading The Japanese Internment Camps: An Explainer than we needed. So, we talked about Quaidspiracy theories, why DQ didn't play the Joker, and butt ratios instead.

Overall score: 5
QQQ score: 2

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
Roger Ebert's review
Rita Kempley's review

S03E08: Great Balls Of Fire! Dec 24, 2020

Show notes

What can we say about this offensively misconceived slice of Jerry Lee Lewis's late-'50s life, one that casts his "relationship" (ugh) with his 13-year-old cousin (blerf) as a quirkumstance of romantical fate? Well, we can say cocaine was involved; we can wonder if the estate of Foghorn Leghorn sued Dennis Quaid's performance for copyright infringement; and we can admire Winona Ryder's performance as Myra Gale while thinking it makes the story immeasurably ickier. On a scale of one to Hasselhoff, we give DQ's effort a (NC-)17, but very little about this bowdlerization of Myra Gale's memoir works. Also, "Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Swaggart." MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVER'BUDDEH!

Overall score: 3
QQQ score: 3

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
Roger Ebert's review
Rita Kempley's review
William Poundstone explains how Copperfield disappeared the Statue of Liberty in Bigger Secrets

S03E07: Everybody's All-American Dec 17, 2020

Show notes

Craig Calcaterra joins us this week for a very sports-movie-y sports movie: Everybody's All-American, a "one wedding and one long funeral" look at a college gridiron star's early peak and interminable fall that doesn't know which set of Quarterback Agonistes clichés it wants to use, and recycled Sophie's Choice's Stingo as Timothy Hutton's Cake, with merkinacious results. The three of us had a lot of questions -- why the hot cousin is A Thing in the Quaidverse, why the movie isn't about Jessica Lange's Babs and Carl Lumbly's Blue, and how Wayne Knight feels about that "Fraternity Pisser" credit, just for starters. At least Craig was a good sport about watching this dud, even

Overall score: 3
QQQ score: 3

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
Roger Ebert's review
Janet Maslin's review
John Cheever, "O Youth and Beauty!"

Special Guest: Craig Calcaterra.

S03E06: D.O.A. Dec 10, 2020

Show notes

It's another thriller, but we aren't thrilled by 1988's D.O.A., featuring Dennis Quaid as a former wunderkind novelist turned tenured professor in a rut. No: really. Is that off-label casting why this confrontationally sweaty film doesn't work? Is it the lack of onscreen chemistry between Quaid and Jane Kaczmarek...AND Jane and Meg Ryan? Does a fetal Robert "T-Bag" Knepper need more to do? New Coke, Silk Stalkings, Wonder Boys, Binder & Binder, and the heartbreak of chronic zydeco all factor into our discussion of a "noir" in which noir wit doesn't factor...at all.

Overall score: 3.5
QQQ score: 3.5

SHOW NOTES

Get EVEN MORE Qontent (...sorry) at our Patreon page
Can YOU get past the first 27 seconds of The Dennissance?
THREE stars, Rog? idk
Desson Howe's WaPo review

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