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Episode #805: Willow (Patreon)

Published:
2025-06-10 04:00:03
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2025-08-21 18:45:57
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2026-06
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“There’re piles of skulls, which of course I appreciate” - Steve on the set design

On this week’s episode, Totally Cool Awesome 80s Month and the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza pay tribute to the late, great Val Kilmer with a convo about the super-fun Ron Howard fantasy flick, Willow! How amazing are Warwick and Val together on screen? Isn’t it refreshing that Davis was just allowed to put a shirt on and be this character, without getting covered in prosthetics or whatever else? Wouldn’t things have been just fine in this movie without the Brownies flying around? And how amazing is that two-headed Siskel & Ebert monster? PLUS: Queen Bavmorda accidentally touches The Ooze and becomes Super Bavmorda (and is also played by Kevin Nash)!

Willow stars Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, Patricia Hayes, Billy Barty, Mark Northover, Pat Roach, David Sternberg, Phil Fondacaro, Tony Cox, Kevin Pollak, Rick Overton, and Gavan O’Herlihy as Airk; directed by Ron Howard.We hope you are enjoying Ad-Free WHM! Thanks so much for being the kick-ass Patreon subscriber that you are—your support keeps the lights on around the old clubhouse and allows us to continue doing these shows! We know you have a lot of options for podcast enjoyment and we're stoked you chose to spend some time with us!

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Kyle N.

I knew it! Willow is too dope! ❤️

imipolexGforce

Ron Howard is hit or miss, but when he hits he almost atomizes the ball. I will love this movie FOREVER. (I actually would sneak the novelization of this movie into church when I was a kid so I could read it when I couldn’t watch it.)

Jan

That’s right

Jaime Lee Ezell

Willow is like Hook, you had to see it at the right time as a kid, and you are forever devoted. We had it on Betamax!

johnny stocker

This honestly might be my favorite Kilmer performance.

Luke Gordnier

My friend is that kid who grew up with the grinch and likes it.

Gareth Spark

Listening to the ep this morning reminded me that the ONLY thing I've ever won in my entire life (literally the only thing) was a huge WILLOW poster that was first prize in a tie-in competition run by a British breakfast cereal company. I would have been....10 years old? Still remember how buzzed I was to win that thing.

Clever Girl

Cracking up that Andrew was the only one to pronounce "daikini" correctly, but also said it the least. Eric seemed unsure everytime he said it, but that didn't stop him from saying it A LOT. I love u dudes. 😂

Clever Girl

I love it too. Doc was soo good though.

Ed Harris

Saw this one a ton when I was a kid (one afternoon in fifth grade we watched it in lieu of actually learning stuff) and have always enjoyed it for what it is.

Clever Girl

I watched this movie so many times. Even as a kid...I fast forwarded or took a break when the brownies appeared on screen. I disliked them as much as I disliked that bat guy in the Neverending Story.

Busiris

Jumping off an Andrew comment - I also adore when we are putting costumes on animals in movies (including here in this movie). I *strongly* encourage folks to watch (or at least look up clips) of the 1982 movie "Deadly Eyes" where the filmmakers dressed little dachshunds up to look like giant killer rats and it's literally the cutest thing ever. I had a ball with that movie for that reason alone.

Robin Fry

That tv show was absolutely rancid though. The weirdest decision was filling the soundtrack with bad covers of 80s rock songs

Winson Paine

I also loved Gung Ho as a kid, it was on heavy cable rotation and it was the 80s so my young ass didn't notice how racist it was but mostly Watanabe and Keaton are so amazingly charming on camera I was swayed

Tim O'

Eric mentioned Ladyhawke! That's a name I've not heard in a long time. I feel like it'd be a decent episode, but I haven't seen it in like 20 years.

Tim O'

Always gonna be Heat for me, but he's good as pretty much anything except Batman

Jonnie Sea

“PLUS: Queen Bavmorda accidentally touches The Ooze and becomes Super Bavmorda (and is also played by Kevin Nash)!” - this is why I come here

Jonnie Sea

She was a cunning Lady…and a good Hawke

Winson Paine

It is just behind Tombstone for me, he is so good

Winson Paine

Oddly I have drifted towards the "we are gonna use some made up words, figure it out" vs explaining. I didn't have trouble with it when I was a kid, and shit like the MCU over explaining everything so the cinemasins shitheel types won't complain vs. a good script that gives context clues , I know what I will take

James C Harris

Do we dare mention the Lucas/Claremont sequel novels?

MarkNM

If only Lucas had gotten the "Chosen One Prophecy" shit out of his system here.

Watch_N_Rewatch

I have a confession... I've never seen Willow and I lied when I was 10 saying I saw it, and described a scene from Labyrinth... My charade has shamed me every since

Eren Keskin

Speaking of LOTR similarities, this was also filmed in New Zealand

Daniel Garcia

Willow was actually a fun side scrolling arcade game during Capcom's short but good era, experimenting with D&D as a side scrolling beat'em up with a leveling system and class system. Love this movie.

MarkNM

Garb.

Jan

What was George Lucas thinking?? He should be sued again

Winson Paine

He pronounced it exactly like a STUPID. FAT. DAIKINI! Which is something my wife and I still call each other and we are totally healthy

Clever Girl

I haven't watched Heat in years, but I used to love that film as a kid. What I DO remember is Val Kilmer was great in Heat. Tim is correct. Apparently, he's good in everything except Batman!

Clever Girl

You should call or DM a friend from grade school and confess. Its the only way to rid yourself of the darkness.

RJ Cunningham

Warwick Davis had great chemistry with the two kids that played his children. I found their relationship very cute

Christopher Oxentine

I have never seen this movie. I was 16 in 1988 so I felt like I was "too old" to see it and I've never thought about going back.

Matt

WHM true crime podcast - "Cereal" and it's mostly the guys reviewing assorted breakfast options

Watch_N_Rewatch

I can only predict that if I tried to explain to an old classmate, almost 27 years later ... They'd be like, "What?" 😂

DRKITTENPHD

Sure, but removing it was diabolical. They also forced Warwick to take down everything about it from his socials. So he can’t talk about this big project he recently starred in. It’s a spot in his resume that he can’t use. Warwick, and people with dwarfism, have done so much for Hollywood only to be treated like garbage.

Robin Fry

To be clear, while I obviously didn’t like the show, I don’t agree with that decision either. I’m sure there were others that enjoyed it and it represented hard work from a whole group of people

Smaug

"You want em to put the lady in handcuffs? They're dogs!" - Andrew. Lol! My pick for the episode tagline

Craig

Brush-tail possums are everywhere in Australia. Probably the native animal that had adapted to urban life the best. They live in trees in people’s backyards in the inner city. Cute, but they make horrible growling noises and scare the crap out of you when they go pounding over your roof at 3am.

Catboyslim

Gung Ho, not a big hit in the Motor City….during theRonnie Raygun years when your entire neighborhood worked for the big 3, plants closing, people losing their houses , or forced to move out of state ….anyways they showed a trailer of this once at the local theater and the all hell broke loose. People were so touchy the local rock stations wouldn’t even play “ Turning Japanese “ by the Vapors. Good wholesome Republican days….

HockeenightsCT

The soundtrack was insane but the needle drop that played over the final stinger scene made me laugh so hard I couldn’t breathe.

HockeenightsCT

*SPOILER FOR A SHOW NOBODY CAN WATCH* The heroic character who sacrificed himself to defeat the villain wakes up in what is basically hell. The series antagonist has taken the form of his love and asks him to lead her army. Pull back to see an army of monsters (including the two-headed dragon thing) awaiting him. And it all plays out to the brilliant sounds of Dire Straits “Money for Nothing”

Jamie

Oh, you mean when Willow transforms into the floor and calls the little girl an ugly pig?

Jamie

Steve, here's the problem with fucking after you turn into an animal... What happens when you fuck a cat and you realize that it's the best experience ever? Then you have to live as a human just knowing that for the rest of your life?

Brandon

took me all the way back to my McDonalds Willow cups w the two head monster. Fuck Berglecuck. Loved the ep, fellas. Long live Kilmer in our hearts.

The Mad Jay Woman

I have been way too internet creator-pilled: when y’all made the joke about Willow wanting to magic full time a voice in my head shouted “so if you guys could just remember to like and subscribe and sign up for the Patreon by the end of the harvest I should be able to make wizarding my job”