Roleplay Retcon remakes the movies that let you down using tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGS), soundtracks by indie bands, and lots of goofy writers' room jokes. Professional writer Benjamin Gray, Theatre sensei Jensie, and RPG expert/comedian/cinephile Alex invite a new guest, feature a new band, and play a new roleplaying or storytelling game for each bad movie.
Let's wind down and talk about the good and the bad of The Adventures of Pluto Nash, both the original movie and our version. We also cast our characters and reveal our next movie remakes!
Leroy struggles to save the refugees from the Dark Side after crash-landing their getaway ship. Meanwhile, Pluto and Tracy make a plan to hijack the Corpos' concert and expose their conspiracy against Graceland. Content warnings: Violence, profanity
Ben and Jensie play It Takes This Long, a Roleplay Retcon original TTRPG, to remake the 1998 Harrison Ford/Anne Heche desert island adventure Six Days, Seven Nights. While not a horrible film, it was on the meh side and would be much better as the tale of estranged cousins/teleporter scientists who find themselves battling pirates after an unfortunate teleporter accident. You can back It Takes This Long on Kickstarter through March...
Zoom Baby's secret identity sends Pluto into a fit, plus he receives an offer he can't refuse. Meanwhile, Leroy continues his liberation of the Dark Side with a little inspiration from his new friend Tracy.
Content warnings: Violence, death, profanity, sexual content
Traitors reveal themselves and tear down Pluto and Tracy's plans for a concert at NashVegas. Leroy awakens in a strange and terrifying place far away from Graceland.
Content warnings: Violence, profanity
Pluto does his best to patch Tracy up before they return to Baskins to warn her about what they just survived and to see if they can recruit help for their Rebellion Concert. Meanwhile, Leroy meets a little prick at NashVegas.
Content warnings: Violence, profanity
A mysterious paramilitary force seems hell-bent on rounding up the mutants in Slimothy Jimothy's. Tracy starts a revolution. Leroy tries a new poultry dish. Pluto shows off his ride. Content warnings: Violence
Pluto, Leroy, and Tracy break into Loss Prevention squad leader Jo Malone's apartment, where things take a turn none of them could have imagined.
Content warnings: Violence
Mr. B learns a few things at claw-point about the suits that busted up Nashvegas, but not as much as Nash would like. Tracy joins the pair in their quest for answers as they turn to fellow entrepreneur Baskins of Baskins Trashbins, known for their generous portions of fries. Nash won't like the answers here, either.
Content warnings: Violence
Life is hard in Graceland, a city-state on the moon with no official laws. Nashvegas, Pluto Nash's combination live music venue/bowling alley/casino/bar and grill, makes life a little easier. Nash and his bouncer, the spectacular mutant cat-man Leroy "Mr. B" Brown, are living the good life until Tracy, the ex-love of Nash's life, walks through Nashvegas's front door.
Content warnings: Gun violence
Senior employee space case Stew, new hire and lifelong nerd Dash Starkiller, and the sensitive part timer Rose are all looking for the store's cat, which is missing on the most important day of the year, the day a minor celebrity comes to Empire Records and boosts their sales. That celebrity is Denise Leary, a formerly famous singer songwriter who got caught up in a plagiarism scandal years ago. The missing cat isn't the on...
We play the game we were born to play: Damn the Man, Save the Music by Hannah Shaffer, a game based on notorious flop Empire Records (1995). Sorry if you're one of the cult fans of this movie, but hopefully you'll like this one, too! We're joined by one of our favorite musicians, Pete Mitchell of No More Kings!
In the finale of our remake of Steven King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), Nickels reveals a devastating secret, Jeremy reveals an unbelievable secret, and Matthew reveals he played a cartoon lion in a movie.
Content warnings: Descriptions of death and gore, sexual content
Hey, I think these machines are trying to kill us! In episode 2 of our remake of Steven King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), Nickels finds some long-lost family (maybe), Matthew reveals his scandalous profession, Jeremy's hips tell the truth, and Ben is right about what kind of vehicle the Ghostbusters car is, which is not important to the story, but I write these teasers and I wanted people to know.
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For Spooky Month, we're remaking Steven King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), a movie so bad even King disowns it! And he directed it! Persephone Valentine, a.k.a. Persephiroth, of Dimension 20 and Um, Actually fame is joining us as we play Grant Howitt's "We That Remain," a game about revealing secrets while holing up and surviving "Them."
Content warnings: Descriptions of death and gore, sexual content
...In the finale of our remake of Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever (2002), The eponymous characters grow closer, only for a rift to form between them when the terrifying reality of the mysterious orb reveals itself. There is also a lot of nervous giggling.
Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever (2002) is infamous for being the worst reviewed movie in Rotten Tomatoes history. Pretty much anything would improve it, but we're going to focus on adding some romantic tension! Jensie teams up with master game designer Alex Roberts to play her game Star Crossed, which is about people who want to kiss, but shouldn't because it would be disasterous, forbidden, or a real career killer. This is very ...
The end of this MillerFrankin' movie! The Spirit solves the case, all on his own, with no help from anyone while Sand Serif searches for her McGuffin, and Dr. Cobra makes an important scientific discovery that nobody cares about.
Content warnings: gun violence, sexual content, mental illness.
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