The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot (w/ Don S.)

Episode 177: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (2018)

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Hosts: Oz & Curtis (featuring Don S.)

This week, Oz and Curtis (joined by Patreon VIP and professional movie-bringer Don S.) unpack The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot — a movie marriage of Forrest Gump meets Inglourious Basterds with a dash of Road House and a whole lot of Harry and the Hendersons. It’s a title that sounds like a SyFy Channel fever dream… but instead delivers a surprisingly thoughtful character study about regret, duty, lost love, and Sam Elliott walking his dog. It’s tender, weird, mythic, melancholy, and somehow still about killing Hitler and Bigfoot.

Join your three favorite “wait… this isn’t a B-movie?” podcasters as they explore:

• Sam Elliott doing prestige acting in a movie with Bigfoot in the title — and absolutely crushing it.

• The emotional gut punch of a man haunted by the jobs he took… and the life he missed.

• A government pitch meeting that feels like Ron Livingston wandered in from a different movie.

• The Bigfoot hunt: equal parts Predator, wilderness survival, and rancid peach-cobbler barf.

• A finale that leaves you asking, “Is this real? Symbolic? Hallucinatory? Or just Ed’s fever dream?”

From impeccable match cuts to wooden boxes full of regrets to a surprisingly moving meditation on heroism, Oz, Curtis, and Don break down a film that’s nothing like what the title promises — and somehow better for it.

Enjoy Don’s take? Then check out more Don!

• Film Obsessive
• Every Movie Has a Lesson
• Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast

Final Verdict

Oz — 8 Almosts
Curtis — 83 servings of peach cobbler
Don — 9 marquee letters
All — Still unsure how Bigfoot managed to puke that much orange goo.