Podcast: R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022)

Your Stupid Minds tackles a prequel no one’s ever heard of to a movie no one ever saw. It’s 2022’s R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned!

Roy Pulsipher (Jeffrey Donovan, replacing Jeff Bridges in the role) is a sheriff in 1870s Wyoming who’s about to wed his daughter Charlotte (Tilly Keeper) to her weenie fiancé Angus (Richard Fleeshman). But some ruffians try to rob the train station and Roy is shot and killed in the ruckus.

Roy is sent up to heaven to the Rest in Peace Department (R.I.P.D.) where he must help them fight deados and maintain the balance between heaven and hell. He’s sent back to earth with his partner Jeanne (Penelope Mitchell), a 15th century devout French woman warrior with a fear of fire (see if you can guess which historical figure she is). They fight the deados and Roy learns some things about understanding or something.

Podcast: Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (1991)

Pull up your cowboy boots and strap on your six-shooter, we’re going western this time around with Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Joan Severance, and Rip Torn in the nonsensically titled Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind.

Featuring the most degenerate picture tilting this side of the Rio Grande.

When Texas Ranger Rip Metcalf’s (played by Kristofferson, not Rip Torn) colleague and friend Captain Jack Parsons (who is played by Rip Torn) is accused of murder, it’s up to Rip 1 to clear his name. Noted gambler and character from the first movie Billy Roy “Ace” Rodriguez (Willie Nelson) joins him, along with the FBI agent Susan Davis (Joan Severance, who does not play a Rip, though she was in No Holds Barred which does have a character named Rip) as the token woman/love interest.

Friend and co-host Chris Dobson (left) uncannily resembles the swarthy scumbag murderer in the film (right).

Shot around Central Texas, APoA: TofK provides a great glimpse of early 90s Austin, a view covered in a cowboy hats, drab state government buildings, and not condos.

Some Notes:

• We all know Another Pair of Aces is a shameless cash grab to capitalize on Walker, Texas Ranger (which came out two years later).
• REGULATOOOOORS. Mount up!
• For a quick primer on Central Texas BBQ, please see this brief explanation from Hitler.

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Podcast: Jonah Hex (2010)

Jonah Hex begs the question "Is an 81 minute movie with no plot still a movie?" Starring Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, and Michael Fassbender, Hex goes after Quentin Turnbull, the man who murdered his family and scarred his face. Meanwhile Turnbull executes a series of daring raids to assemble a superweapon designed by none-other than famous inventor guy Eli Whitney!


Our special guest Patrick Regan, who portrayed an extra in the film, provides us with exclusive anecdotes from the set, be it the second unit's insightful direction ("do some stuff!") or the insane Civil War re-enactors the production hired instead of stuntmen.

Jonah Hex, starring (from L to R): Michael Fassbender, special guest Pat Regan, and John Malkovich.

Patrick is a screenwriter based out of Los Angeles. For the hundreds of Hollywood producers who listen to the podcast, you can follow him on Twitter @UnderwoodFive.

You should also follow this dog.

Some notes:

• For those who wondered if the dog was a hellhound, ChaCha has you covered.
• Horton Hears a Who!, the director's only other directing credit, is a whopping 86 minutes (and he co-directed).
• For more information about fictitious weapons, check out Jonah Hex's entry on the Internet Firearms Movie Database.
• To learn more about James Garfield's assassin Charles Guiteau, read his hilarous Wikipedia article or visit your local library! A highlight: "His personal requests to Garfield and to cabinet members (as one of many job seekers who lined up every day) were continually rejected; on May 14, 1881, he was finally told personally never to return by Secretary of State James G. Blaine."

Narrative Folding

Brad Pitt as Jesse James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007).

Nick and I have both mentioned the term "narrative folding" on this site and in other contexts and we're often asked "what does that mean?" The short answer can be hard to describe because the man who we borrow the term from is Ted Goranson, an MIT grad and scientist who is not always easy to understand. His blog, and accompanying links to his thousands of IMDb comments, can be found here. The term "Metafilm" is more common for what we're discussing, but this is generally used only to refer to films whose story is about film. In addition to this, Ted's term includes what is often referred to as "intertextuality" when it's used in a text context.