At long last a movie that's all about cardio! Assuming your knees are up for it.
We remade The Running Man! And we're getting this in just under the wire so we don't even know how much Edgar Wright crushed it yet!
It's the far off, distant future of 2017. The United States is run by a gameshow host who kills people for ratings. *clears throat* So... yeah.
But at least we had fun remaking it! I am joined by Ian Ager (@IanAger on the socials) to give this gameshow a real boost before mid-season sweeps! Can we get the ratings we need to avoid becoming contestants ourselves? Let's find out!
Guests:
Ian Ager - @IanAger on the Socials
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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So there's this comet right. It's a once in a lifetime, maybe ALL lifetimes, event to get to see it! So, like, obviously we're gonna go out and see this comet. BIG MISTAKE! Now you're red space dust! What's that? You were just around but didn't actually look at the comet? BIG MISTAKE! Now you're a zombie slowly turning into dust!
The fate of humanity is in the hands of whoever happened to be completely protected by some sort of steel infrastructure. I just hope you didn't leave the vents open!
Returning to Ideal Remake is Jake Hoolihan (@KinoTripper on Instagram and YOUTUBE) and they will definitely be the right person for the job of definitely NOT LOOKING AT THE COMET. For sure this time. Hopefully.
Guests:
Jake Hoolihan - @Kinotripper on Instagram and YOUTUBE!!
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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For a movie/franchise called "Uncharted" there sure were a lot of maps/charts...
And that's why Alex Caine (@foodandhippos on Instagram) is returning to Ideal Remake for yet ANOTHER video game movie! It really was time to cover Uncharted. After all, it came out all the way back in 2022! That's slightly over three years ago! So long!
So obviously the time is now. And for those of you who are big fans of these video games, don't worry! Alex has played all of them, liked three of them, and gets me through most of the important points I think!
Guests:
Alex Caine - @foodandhippos on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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Winner winner chicken dinner!
And that is exactly how you should feel about getting to listen to this episode! That's right, episode 175 of Ideal Remake is 21! Numbers are fun. At least our main character thinks so. And he's going to take that love of math all the way to Vegas and try to win BIG!
My incredible guest for this episode, Xu Mason (@hellotherexu), has some STRONG opinions about this movie and did the absolute MOST research in order to back those opinions up with FACTS. And, in the end, isn't that what gambling is all about?
Guests:
Xu Mason - @hellotherexu
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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So there's this baby. It might be, unironically, the greatest baby actor that I have ever seen in a movie. My perception of how good a baby actor could be in a movie has had the bar set from when I was nearly a baby myself.
Because Baby's Day Out is an absolute TREASURE!! I watched it CONSTANTLY as a kid! And I am very excited to talk about it today with incredible writer and wonderful person Andra Whipple (Adam Ruins Everything).
This movie is GOING places and we're just trying to keep up!
Guests:
Andra Whipple - prefers not to be on the socials
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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Imagine a guy. Like a guy's guy. Just the most dude-guy-bro who ever was a man.
Yeah we're not doing that version of this movie. We're doing our OWN version! With empathy! And listening! And possibly also some small dogs for comedic effect and also so I can hold them.
We remade What Women Want with guest Alix Sternberg (Supergirl, Full Out 2: You Got This!). We have some thoughts, and we're going to try to share them with you so you don't need to go through some comical mishap granting you the ability to hear those thoughts.
And truly, isn't that what all women want?
Guests:
Alix Sternberg - prefers not to post socials
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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This is a movie about stealing a diamond! And then stealing it again. And again. Aaaaaand again. But they're definitely good thieves! They promise! So it's perfectly fine to trust them with this helicopter.
We're remaking 1972's The Hot Rock, starring Robert Redford. This is a hard movie to track down, but writer Brian Nelson (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night, Altered Carbon) insisted that this was the remake we needed to make happen! And you know what? We DID!
Guests:
Brian Nelson - @ohthatbriannelson on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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I am certain that this movie is going to be remade eventually. I couldn't possibly predict when that remake will be coming out, so just to be safe, we better release this episode this week.
I invited back my friend Amanda Barnes (@itsamandabarnes on Instagram) to have a solemn and dramatic conversation about one of the most silly comedies to ever comedy. The pressure on this next sentence to be funny is so high that I'm afraid it was arrested and thrown in jail by the lead of this movie.
Guests:
Amanda Barnes - @itsamandabarnes on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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He's the kind of uncle we all wish we had but don't necessarily want to be ourselves. That's right it's Uncle Buck! One of the lesser-known John Hughes movies despite it being the John Hughes movie that means the most to me!
But I found someone who also loves giant pancakes, bowling, and John Candy and that is Myles Warden! Myles (@reallymighty on the socials) and I remade Uncle Buck and we cannot WAIT for you to make the commitment, after EIGHT YEARS, and finally listen to this with us!
Guests:
Myles Warden - @reallymighty on the socials
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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You remind of the pod. What pod? The pod with the power. What power? The power of remakes. Remakes? Remakes. Remakes! Remaking on this pod.
Uhh... so anyway we're remaking Labyrinth this episode! Emmy award-winning writing Shannon Peace (@citizen.peace on Instagram) and I are talking muppets, contact juggling, and everything we can think of that made the movie Labyrinth so amazing!
Guests:
Shannon Peace - @citizen.peace on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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For someone from Tucson, AZ who has actually spent time in Oracle and even AT the Biosphere 2, you'd think I would have seen Bio-Dome a long time ago! But nope!
Luckily the master of all things mediocre was able to guide me through the process. Michael Ornelis of the Fine Dining podcast (@finediningpodcast on the socials) is locked into this movie with me and we won't be let out until we have our remake! Or a year goes by. Or if we just find a key in one of the windows. But since those two things won't happen, we better get to work!
Guests:
Michael Ornelis - @finediningpodcast on Instagram and BlueSky
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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So. Godzilla. Obviously it's about time I covered one of those movies. So why not start with one of the movies that is pretty much universally recognized as "not good."
But over the horizon, stomping into town, we have Presley Peters (@i_am_the_dude_my_dudes on Instagram), resident lover of all things Godzilla, to help make this a movie that the Godzilla canon would be proud to call its own!
But also, and most fundamentally, Big Monster is fun!
Guests:
Presley Peters - @i_am_the_dude_my_dudes on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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It's possible to dream of a better and brighter future! It's possible to hope and to believe those hopes can be achieved! That is what we want everyone in the world to have. And that is what we wished the movie Tomorrowland really got across. Ah well...
In the meantime, Sam Block (@blockinator on Instagram) is here to to try and make it to... the FUTURE!!
And ain't no robot children that explode are going to get in our way!
Guests:
Sam Block - @blockinator on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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Would you like to FLYYYYYY? Yes?
It's time to take a trip to Transylvania! We've heard rumors about a dark presence making themselves known throughout the land... Legend speaks... of DRACULA!!
Thankfully Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsdale... or whatever their character's names are capable of saving us all from vampires, werewolves, weird pod baby vampires, and one very creepy gravedigger!
Only Aurora Lena (@my2t1c on Instagram) can help me figure out this mess, set right the lore, and give us a Van Helsing that we all truly need right now!
Guests:
Aurora Lena - @my2t1c on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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You hear the thunder of something in the distance getting closer. The water in your couple ripples from the reverberations of the footsteps. Whatever it is, it's huge!
It's Ideal Remake. And we're BACK for season 8!
And what better way to start off this season than with a journey to Jurassic Park! Joined by Matt Conant (@CinevoreFilm on Instagram) and Lauren Cipollo (@LaurenCipollo on Instagram), we take on the daunting task of remaking a masterpiece!
What could we POSSIBLY do? Where do we even begin? And also do we even TALK about our favorite dinosaurs?? (No. I forgot to ask.) But the episode is great and you should listen!
Guests:
Matt Conant - @CinevoreFilm on Instagram
Lauren Cipollo - @LaurenCipollo on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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That's it for season 7 of Ideal Remake! I had so much fun making all the episodes for this season and my guests were INCREDIBLE! Please check them all out! They are some of the coolest people I know!
Guests:
Ian Ager - @ianagerDianne Bloom - @diannebloomCeleste Klaus - @celestemarie14Micki Boden - @mickifiedScott Carelli - @scottcarelliAmanda Barnes & Kevin Mosteller - @itsamandabarnes & @kevinmostellermusicTanner Vogelgesang - @sparkyyoungupstartJon Guttierez - @dasgoot1Raye Pettigrew - @rayeboiAlex Caine - @foodandhipposDana Braziel-Solovy - @danabrazielMatt Harry - @matt_harry_mhJake Hoolihan @kinotripperDan Peck - @doonpookScott Carelli (again!) - @scottcarelliSemien Abay - @semienabayCorsica Wilson - @corsicajeanneIan Webb - Not on the socialsYousif Nash - @vaderfanog
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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It's time to get in the holiday spirits by talking about everyone's favorite green guy! I wanted to make a Grinch joke here, but that's something puny Banner would have done. Instead we're talking about THE HULK!!
It's the final episode of season 7 of Ideal Remake! So why not end the season with a smash? Yousif Nash (@vaderfan on BlueSky) is a huge Hulk fan! So why not watch the movie that could have put the kibosh on the green man's entire film career?
There are a lot of things going on in this movie, unfortunately they're all either happening at once or not at all. So let's break it down, expose them to some gamma radiation and really make something that can leap into the sky!
Guests:
Yousif Nash - @VaderFan on Blue Sky, @VaderFanOG on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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Zardoz! ZARDOZ! ZARDOOOOOZZZZZ!!
Anyway Zardoz is a floating stone head that descends from the sky. As ya do. And it is also a GOD!! We believe in and follow the will of Zardoz. Zardoz gives guns and tells us to kill a bunch of people. So that's... that's a god for ya!
But what Zardoz REALLY wants is for me and Ian Webb from the Movies "So Bad They're Good", Midnight Cult Classics, and Camp podcast to remake this sci-fi movies starring Sean Connery from 1974! And if that's what Zardoz wants, then that's what Zardoz gets!
Guests:
Ian Webb - Wisely not on the Social Medias
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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You find yourself sitting at the airport with your spouse. You're waiting to go to France. Neither of you want to go. Neither of you are happy. And how did you even get here?
Two for the Road is a look back at the various stages of the relationship between Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. Corsica and I decide to look at the various parts of this movie and see if we can't come up with an Ideal Remake!
But we'll have to jump around in time so that we really understand where we're at!
Guests:
Corsica Wilson - @corsicajeanne on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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Let's say that you're a baby. A cute one for sure! And a fairy drops by to grant you a gift. And that gift is to be obedient to everything that you are ordered to do. That's not... do you really have to take that gift? Well... it's either that or become a squirrel! Looks like obedience it is!
Semien Abay (@semienabay) returns to Ideal Remake to let Sam know exactly how different this movie is from the book, and together we find a way to make the book into a more faithful adaptation. We laugh, we cry, we learn that the gift of obedience sounds AWFUL.
What was the fairy Lucinda thinking??
Guests:
Semien Abay - @semienabay on Instagram
@idealremake on Instagram
Host: Sam Gasch - @samgasch on BlueSky
Artwork: Jason Hammons (@JasonHalftones on Instagram)
Theme Song: Rebel Spies "Not Dead, Not Yet" from the album Rise!: www.rebelspies.bandcamp.com
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