Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review
Shat on Entertainment
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
"Shat The Movies" fans are horror fans, so we jumped at the chance to do a scary movie outside October. When longtime listener Carmelita commissioned "Jacob's Ladder," the Shat Crew collectively squealed.
This 1990 Tim Robbins banger did lots of things we'd later see in '90s movies and beyond: non-linear storytelling, the questioning of reality, faceless doctors, and that wiggly head thing from Tool music videos. But it didn't stop there: "Jacob's Ladder" flipped the horror genre on its head by actually addressing death, not just killing.
In this episode, Big D crushes Gene's romanticism about '70s New York City. Ash gives a crash course on the fragility of memory, and all three hosts marvel at just how cute Macaulay Culkin was at 9 years old. What did the ending mean? We'll get into that, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, that party was not bad. |
| 0:02.4 | You had a great storyteller on the stairs. |
| 0:04.8 | You had fucking sexy people everywhere. |
| 0:06.5 | Everybody was dancing, joking the apartment. |
| 0:09.3 | Fuck yeah, let's go. |
| 0:11.3 | Decent music, you know, I take a tail between my legs. |
| 0:14.6 | If that's what I got to do to get on, you know? |
| 0:16.3 | The horns bust out of your head, yeah. |
| 0:18.3 | No problem. |
| 0:19.3 | Remember when we first met John McLean? |
| 0:22.4 | Our God picked him up from the plane |
| 0:25.0 | and took him down the knack and told me tower |
| 0:28.1 | at the Christmas party. |
| 0:30.1 | And the terrorists were hopeless, |
| 0:32.3 | but it was sweet when they killed Alice. |
| 0:35.4 | And with a little help from Alice, John McLean kicked out. |
| 0:39.8 | Welcome back and chat to movies. |
| 0:41.4 | The podcast where we answer the question |
| 0:43.1 | where the movies we love and we were growing up really that good. |
| 0:46.1 | Have you ever caught yourself thinking, |
| 0:47.4 | why don't they make movies like they used to? |
| 0:49.0 | Can you still remember spending your Friday night |
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