4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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This week on Shat the Movies, we’re diving into The Beach (2000), where Leonardo DiCaprio ditches civilization for a secret island paradise, and things go off the rails fast. Directed by Danny Boyle and loaded with Y2K angst, hallucinatory madness, and a killer soundtrack, this film tries to mix Lord of the Flies, Apocalypse Now, and a Gap commercial. Gene and Big D unpack the wild tone shifts, moral chaos, and whether Leo’s backpacker nightmare still holds up today.
Movie Plot:
The desire to find something real -- to connect with something or someone -- is what drives Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), a young American backpacker who arrives in Thailand with adventure on his mind. Etienne (Guillaume Canet) and Francoise (Virginie Ledoyen) join him on an adventure to "The Beach," a mystical paradise. However, this paradise is less than perfect.
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| 0:00.0 | You know the thing about a shark, Gene? |
| 0:02.9 | He's got lifeless eyes. |
| 0:04.9 | Black eyes like a doll's eyes. |
| 0:07.6 | And they rip you to pieces. |
| 0:09.8 | 1,100 men went into the water. |
| 0:13.0 | 316 men came out. |
| 0:16.1 | They need your voice over on the beach. |
| 0:18.2 | Oh, God, yes. |
| 0:19.9 | Oh, three Swedes went into the water. |
| 0:22.8 | And only one and a half came out. |
| 0:26.0 | Remember when we first met John McLean? |
| 0:29.0 | Our God picked him up from the plane |
| 0:31.3 | and took him down an Akitomi tower at the Christmas party. |
| 0:36.4 | And the terrorists were overzealous, but it was sweet when they killed Ellis |
| 0:41.6 | and with a little help from Allen, John McClink, he died. |
| 0:46.4 | Welcome back to Shad, the movies, the podcast where we answered the question with the movies we love when we were growing up really that good. |
| 0:52.7 | If you ever caught yourself thinking, why don't they make movies like they used to? Can you still remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie rental blockbuster video? Do you know what blockbuster video is? If you answered yes, and this is the podcast for you, I'm one of your hosts, Gene Lyons, alongside who's a co-host, Big D. Dick Ebert. Good evening. And each week, we took a look back in time to decide if our favorite films still hold up. |
| 1:13.8 | The movies who cover are chosen by you, the listeners, who generously commission the films you love. If you like to sell the movies we have covered, we'll cover one and choose one for yourself. Please listen to chatpod.com and have a look. at the end of each podcast, we'll provide you the audience with the number of wipes each movie take to get off your respected butts. |
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