Arachnophobia

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So...Once again, the group was one person short because Jake had to do some family stuff again, so Derek and Larry decided to watch Arachnophobia, the awesome 1990 Stephen Spielberg/Robert Zemeckis flick about a doctor (Jeff Daniels) who moves with his family to a small town to take over the town's retiring physician (Henry Jones), and runs into a batch of killer spiders (uncredited).

We're all named Stuart. Everybody just calls us 'Stu".

The guys ran into one little snag, though: Their pal Barry, over at Cinematic Catharsis posted a written review of the same film this week.

Derek and Larry were in a quandry...A QUANDRY...as to how to handle this situation. Rather than grab a different movie, which would have made this post even later, they agreed to go ahead and watch Arachnophobia. But instead of watching and then going over the same ground that Barry quite capably handles in his post, they decided to go ahead and record themselves watching it, unscripted, and off-the-cuff.

Much to the potential chagrin of our three listeners.

At any rate, they dove in, head-first, and went about saying mean things about a movie that, quite frankly, they actually enjoyed. But do not let that turn you away from listening. There are some good jokes to be had, as well as some actual insight into their thoughts about the story, the effects, and Jeff Daniels' excessive wimpiness.

Realization dawns that in four short years, he will have to work with Jim Carrey.

They also address the gloriousness that is John Goodman.

Drink it in, people. Drink it all in.

Having endeared himself to audiences in such films as Raising Arizona and Always, as well as pretending to tolerate Roseanne on the creatively-named show Roseanne (he should have won all the Emmys for that), he took what at first appears to be a small part as Delbert McClintock, an exterminator who gets drawn into the story when Dr. Jennings (Daniels) calls him to find out if the house Jennings bought for him and his family is infested with termites.

As everybody quickly learns, they have bigger problems on their hands.

This guy, trying to do a David Bowie "Heroes" pose all over the place.
But with a spider.

Fortunately, Delbert is there to be the real hero of this film, because Jennings is about as useless as a unicycle to a fish.

So grab your copy of Arachnophobia (don't pretend you don't have one; everybody does), and listen to this week's show!