God Awful Movies 442: Best Friends Recycled
Feb 6, 2024
This podcast episode of 'God Awful Movies' features a review of the sequel film 'Best Friends Recycled', discussing its lack of humor and depressing storyline. The hosts also talk about exaggerated reactions to a character's past sex life, analyze bad chess moves in a movie, discuss a meeting scene and a character who is fasting, and have humorous conversations about relationships and church. They also touch on self-care, therapy, financial matters, and anticipation of AIDS test results.
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Self-Aggrandizing Dialogue Undercuts Characters
- Donald James Parker's films radiate self-importance through characters who constantly announce how clever they are.
- Hosts find Parker's dialogue abrasive and intentionally crafted to make his protagonists seem irresistibly witty to himself.
A Single Slip Becomes An AIDS Obsession
- The panel nominated this movie for 'Best Worst AIDS' because a throwaway premarital encounter becomes central anxiety.
- The film spends an extended sequence treating a single past consensual sexual encounter as proof of imminent AIDS doom.
Banter Feels Mechanical Not Spontaneous
- The movie's comic banter often reads as hostile because lines sound rehearsed and delayed.
- Hosts compare the dialogue timing to actors fed lines through earpieces, making banter feel robotic rather than witty.