Prayer of the Rollerboys (GAM240)

### Starring:

Corey Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet, Julius Harris, Josh Todhunter

### Production Company:

Gaga Communications, Fox/Lorber Associates, Academy Entertainment

## Hosts

Heath Enwright

Eli Bosnick

### Special Guest

Michael Marshall

***Prayer of the Rollerboys*** is the near-future story of a dystopian society where a white supremacist drug-dealing gang rules the streets via their intimidating… synchronized rollerblade display teams. Amazing.

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we watch another terrible movie so you don't have to… but *this* week you should watch along with us.

### **How Bad Was It?**

Well, if you love the Proud Boys, but you're looking for a slightly less homoerotic gang of racists that you can take a bit more seriously, you will love *Prayer for the Rollerboys* [sic]. *Prayer for the Rollerboys* [sic] is the eighties *incarnate*: it makes no sense, it's weirdly porny, and it's very against drugs, all while doing a *ton* of drugs.

### **Best Worst**

* Marsh: ...hero motivation. [almost ...title]
* Heath: ...bad guy nicknames. [eg. "Bullwinkle" and "Bangle"]
* Eli: ... apocalypse consistency. [pizza places and financial firms still exist]

### **Notes**

* Check out Marsh on Twitter, *Be Reasonable*, *Skeptics with a K*, and at The Good Thinking Society or Skeptic of the Year.
* Recorded without Noah (hence not being especially Christian) during the coronavirus crisis on Friday the 13th, March 2020.
* Muscle soreness being caused by lactic acid buildup is a very persistent myth.

### **Jokes**

* If this movie does *anything* well, and I'm not sure that it does, it does a fantastic job of displaying the limits of rollerblading. They're just like "Alright! Now I'm… jump! And… okay. That's it! We did it." [Heath: This movie must never have any big picture in the figurative or literal sense. It must be zoomed all the way on what it's doing.] [Marsh: I reckon… I bet they had loads of really wide angle shots that they filmed, and when they looked back over them they were like "We absolutely cannot put these in the film, because it so undermines us."] [Heath: "Aw, that is… that is just silly."](10:02)
* And I just want to say, I was *so* happy, 'cause this sex scene is very gross—there's a lot of finger licking and tongue-on-tongue licking—and my notes for this entire scene are just "I love that we did this to Marsh." I love the idea that Marsh would be watching this in his office, and Nicola would walk in and he'd be like "No, it's for work, darling! I'm just… uh, you know, I've got that conference in South Africa next month, but before then I'm going to watch Patricia Arquette lick Corey Haim's fingers." [Marsh: If I heard Nicola coming into the office, I would alt+tab into some *actual* porn to hide this film from her.] "Nope, it's just grannies. It's just grannies… a favourite, I swear." (1:02:47)

### **Interstitials**

* First Ever Writer's Meeting (7:56)
* Karen's Cakes [Doodly-Doo] (28:32)
* Chester & Habersham Investments (38:09)
* Detective Casey v. The Chief (1:04:03)

### **Tropes**

* And Then the Apocalypse/Rapture Happens
* Awkward Kiss
* Black Men Don't Have Names
* Crazy Billionaire Money
* Disappointing Christian Celebrity
* Magical Black Person
* Minority Best Friend
* RACISM!
* SEXISM!
* The Most Advanced C64 Ever!

### **Links**

* Episode on Audioboom
* Episode on YouTube
* Film on YouTube
* IMDB

### **Ad Reads**

* For Hims - Heath v. High School Alumni Doctor (1:34:43)
* Mejuri - Lucky the Leprechaun (1:37:20)
* Adam & Eve - Skeptic of the Year Recommended (1:39:24)