The Film Thugs Movie Show

This week we decided to talk about the women who have influenced us throughout our lives. The amazingly talented ladies who have influenced both our tastes in films and our tastes in women. Join us, wont you?

Remember, you can be a part of the show any time you wild like. How's that? All you have to do is call or e-mail us. If you live in the US, or any place that makes calling the US easy, just dial 512-666-RANT and leave us a voicemail. We will read the Google Voice transcript and play your message. It's both funny AND informative.

If you live outside the US you can call us on Skype at The_Film_Thugs. You can leave a message, or someone might actually answer.

E-mail us at thefilmthugs@gmail.com and we will read/play whatever you send us, or you can e-mail thugquestions@gmail.com to be part of  an upcoming "Ask the Film Thugs" show, where we answer questions on any subject without having heard them first.

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Thanks for listening, and until next week...

Jim out

There is nothing better than a good action movie. Well, maybe a bad action movie, but only if its the right kind of bad.



This week we decided to do some penance for the ordeal we inflicted upon you over the past month by going a little nuts and talking ridiculous action movies. From the myriad Die Hard rip offs to Stone Cold and all points in between, we talk foolishness and guns.

Remember, you can be a part of the show any time you wild like. How's that? All you have to do is call or e-mail us. If you live in the US, or any place that makes calling the US easy, just dial 512-666-RANT and leave us a voicemail. We will read the Google Voice transcript and play your message. It's both funny AND informative.

If you live outside the US you can call us on Skype at The_Film_Thugs. You can leave a message, or someone might actually answer.

E-mail us at thefilmthugs@gmail.com and we will read/play whatever you send us, or you can e-mail thugquestions@gmail.com to be part of  an upcoming "Ask the Film Thugs" show, where we answer questions on any subject without having heard them first.

Also, we are on twitter @thefilmthugs and on Facebook and Vine.

You can also click on one of our sponsor links below and THEY will pay us. That's right. You won't have to pay a PENNY extra, and Amazon/Onnit/Teefury will give us a little taste.

Thanks for listening, and until next week...

Finally, we have reached the end of... this thing.

I'm not really sure what this began as... I mean... we were honest about our intentions. We wanted to take a look at one of the most ego fueled acts of hubris from an industry that specializes in those two things, to look into the arrogance behind such a mythic piece of work, and simply ask, "why?" ... or at the very least, "how?"

What did we learn? Well, we learned that there isn't always a why or a how, that we don't deserve answers to every question.

Basically, we just got mad. Mad at the blatant exploitation of one of the darkest chapters in human history. Mad at the lack of self awareness that is needed to make something like this. Mad at the thought that this material could be mined for financial or critical gain in such a...

You know, just listen to the show. All I can do here is recap the anger that flared up in us while recording.

Hang in there, you are almost done with the first public performance of one of the most notorious pieces of "entertainment" ever created. Know that you have made it.

Please note that this performance is intend as satire and parody, and is presented in a transformational way for both critical and educational purposes.

That being said, we are very sorry. And may God have mercy on our souls.

And we are back with our continuing look at one of the biggest cinematic mistakes of all time.

For those who missed last week show, we are in the process of giving the first public performance of Jerry Lewis's baffling awful concentration camp comedy, "The Day The Clown Cried." In this part things go from bad to worse. What simply began as a poorly written, misguided film is beginning to turn into a blatantly exploitative, cheaply manipulative, and completely reprehensible collection of wrong minded and offensive... I don't even know what to call it.

Again, please note that we are not making light of the subject matter in any way, shape, form, or fashion. To do so would be monstrously wrong. What we are doing is waging war on the unfettered ego and painfully obvious Oscerbating that is "The Day the Clown Cried."

Please note that this performance is intend as satire and parody, and is presented in a transformational way for both critical and educational purposes.

That being said, we are very sorry. And may God have mercy on our souls.

The wait is over!

Don't get too excited.

Sometimes a bad idea transcends simple awfulness and achieves such a baffling level of... wrongness... that it defies explanation.

We found something that perfectly epitomizes this idea.

In 1972 Jerry Lewis, for reasons that only he could possibly fathom, decided to make.... well, a concentration camp comedy. About a clown named Helmut Doork. In a concentration camp. Who entertains children. Children in line for... I wager you can finish the rest of that sentence.

The result was a movie so profoundly wrong that it has, to this day, never been released. Lewis swears to have the only copy, and that it will NEVER be released.

After reading the script, which is available online, I can understand why.

Over the past 42 years there has been one public screening. Harry Shearer was present for a screening of the rough cut in 1979. He described this way
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With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. "Oh My God!" — that's all you can say.

Well, after finding the script Jim decided that the world needed to know about this.

So, in a special mini-series event, The Film Thugs present the first public performance of the most notorious unreleased film of all time.

Over the course of the next few weeks, join us as we delve into a work that should not exist as we try and figure out how and why this thing happened.

Please note that we are not making light of the subject matter in any way, shape, form, or fashion. To do so would be monstrously wrong.

What we are doing is waging war on the unfettered ego and painfully obvious Oscerbating that is "The Day the Clown Cried."

Please note that this performance is intend as satire and parody, and is presented in a transformational way for both critical and educational purposes.

That being said, we are very sorry. And may God have mercy on our souls.