The Rewind Movie Podcast

The Beach (2000) - Episode 149

The Rewind Movie Podcast

Show Notes

“EVERYBODY HAPPY!”

Dig out your Moby CDs, log onto My Excite, and check your electronic mail for Danny Boyle’s divisive, turn-of-the-millennium hippy-dippy paradise existential Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle The Beach.

Did its comedy conquer the world, or was it an ASSH*LE suggestion? Did it stand a chicken’s chance in Thailand? Was it a lot of dope, or f*cked in the head? Did it hurt, and if so, was it worth it? Did we have anything to smoke, or did we waste time taking photographs of the sky? Did we understand what Robert Carlyle was on about, or did it have a powerful index of incompatibility?

Devlin and Patrick followed the regular tourist trail and preferred the debauchery of the Khao San Road Maccy D’s, so turn yourself into a rubbish computer game and join bastard parasites Gali and Matt for a topless underwater hookup, as we squirt water at a cannabis monkey on The Rewind Movie Podcast.

Tentatively jump off a big rock, and plunge into rewindmoviecast.com for our entire archive of artwork, essays, merch, and playlists.

Trippy Leo image by the procurer of the cure, Dead Penpal.

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