We have a lot of opinion’s on the “movie” this week, and they are all over the spectrum. Is this version of Justice League better than Whedon’s? You don’t even have to listen to the episode for the answer, it is definitely better. However this doesn’t mean that it is good. It’s complicated, and we ramble on for a bit about how a movie can be both bad and good at the same time.
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This week we are giving are general thoughts about WandaVision. I don’t know why you would listen if you haven’t seen the show, but it is very spoiler heavy as we talk about how this influences the MCU, and where the character will go from here. We also make fun of the people who think they know all the answers as soon as the first episode aired, only to end up with egg on their face. So sit back and relax as we once again dip our toes into the cool waters of the MCU.
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The episode this week is really a microcosm of our lives; just a bunch of nerds, sitting in basements, talking about the greatness of Army of Darkness. It is hard to believe that this movie is almost 30 years old, but it is still the gold standard for schlocky, cult classic, cinema. Do some of the sequences show their age? Yes. Do those silly moments make the movie even better? That’s up to you, but we were laughing pretty hard.
So if you want to listen to us gush over one of our favorites,… … come get some.
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There were a few technical problems with the intro this week, but we still managed to persevere and give you a solid episode. This week we went with the 1986 movie, SpaceCamp. Like many of our choices, some of us had seen it, and others were completely in the dark. It mostly stood the test of time, but I am sure it was propped up by a stellar cast, and a fine score by John Williams.
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We had a lot of concerns about this week’s pick. Comedies seems to age poorly, especially ones from this era, where writers didn’t care if their scripts were overtly racist and homophobic. Naked Gun was not nearly as bad as we thought it might be. There were still some cringeworthy parts, but mostly just because the jokes seem to be geared towards the “13 year old kid who was watching this after their parents went to sleep” crowd. That also happened to be our kind of movie as well.
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Almost 15 years after it was released. a couple of us watched Spike Lee’s Inside Man for the first time, while a couple of us revisited it for the first time in many many years. We all had praises and criticisms, which is unusual on a show where we all normally dig end and defend one side or another.
When is the last time you watched this one? Thoughts? What should we watch on one of our movie nights? We will take your suggestions, we’re mostly open to new stuff.
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It wouldn’t have been an accurate show about 2020 unless we had a number of technical difficulties. Hopefully you don’t really notice them, and if you do, hopefully you will please be very understanding. We still had a great time judging each other’s lists, while fiercely defending our own. We hope that your lists are full of all the movies that helped you make it through last year.
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I know that we said we were going to give you our Best of 2020 show this week, but we all wanted to do a little more research. Instead, Roy really shocked us all by picking the David Lynch classic, Mulholland Drive. None of us really felt like we understood it much better than the last time we watched it, but maybe there is some humor to be found in our general confusion.
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I know, I know, how could anyone possibly complain about anything in regards to 2020. I also know that with the very long list a history changing problems last year, that our opinions on some of the movies seems pretty trivial. I can’t disagree with that sentiment. But getting together (virtually) every week to watch and talk about movies was one of the ways we found our own balance last year, so just bare with us as we discuss the films that were awful and the ones that “didn’t make us mad, they just disappointed us”. No, but some of those movies also made us mad.
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We haven’t watched Justice League since it was released in 2017, but thought that we should revisit it before the 4 hour behemoth that is the “Snyder Cut” is released in March. Our original feelings were pretty bad, maybe Roy kinda liked it…maybe, but perhaps the longest 4 years ever softened our hearts and made it so we could enjoy some escapism fun when we need it the most.
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10 years ago, when this podcast was in its infancy, we reviewed Source Code along with Black Death. While I have never had any interest in watching one of those movies again, Ryan decided that revisiting Duncan Jone’s follow up to Moon would be a good way to spend an evening together. We got lucky in that half of us had never seen it, so there are new and old opinions. If you have a movie that you would like us to watch and review, all in one night, please just let us know.
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There will be an upcoming episode where we talk about the best and worst movies of 2020, but for now, here is an episode about everything else we watched this year. We watched older movies we’d never seen before, we rewatched movies that we had tucked away in the recesses of our minds, we binged watched season upon season of television. This was life for many people in 2020, and so we wanted to take a minute, or a 100, and discuss.
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Christmas has come and gone, but we aren’t done with our celebrating. So here is one more Christmas movie to tide you over until 2021. This week we are watching and discussing Sean’t selection, All I Want for Christmas. Just because this is the last Christmas movie we are doing this year, doesn’t mean it it is the least. The terrible story…that’s why it’s the least.
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It really is the most wonderful time of year as the four of us get together (virtually) to talk about all the Hallmark movies that we watched this year. There are highs and there are lows, but good times are had by all. If you want to know what’s in store for you, these are the are the titles we went with:
-One Royal Holliday
-The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
-A Nashville Christmas Carol
-If I Only had Christmas
-Pride, Prejudice, & Mistletoe
-A Christmas in Vermont
-On the 12th Date of Christmas
-Christmas Waltz
-Feliz Navidad
It’s an impressive list, but nothing but the best for our listeners.
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After a couple of unusual choices for holiday episodes, this week we talked about the Netflix movie, Christmas Chronicles 2. I was instructed to say that even though this is a family film, we may have slipped, and cursed early on during the show, but that is not a reflection of our thoughts or opinions towards CC2, but rather and indicator of our limited vocabulary.
So sit back and join us as we try and figure out what happened to Chris Columbus.
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Sticking with the holiday theme, this week Roy asked us to watch the perhaps forgotten gem from 1994, Trapped in Paradise. This was a hot minute before Nicholas Cage took over the late 90’s, and you can just start to see the beginnings of those tale-tell Cage mannerisms. So sit back with a big mug of hot chocolate, then grab a big bottle of bourbon cream, now mix it all together while watching Trapped in Paradise.
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Fatman…what can we really say about this strange satire/action/comedy about Santa and the over-commercialization of Christmas? My guess is we can say about 35 minutes worth of things…on this episode…because this is a podcast where we talk about movies. I really thought you would have figured that out by now.
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This Thanksgiving we are thankful that we can are finally at the end of Fox’s run of The X-Men. We’ve had some good times along the way, and more than a few disappointments. But before the curtain drops on this franchise, one last film is finally seeing the light of day, The New Mutants. This may not be the movie we were promised, or the movie we hoped for, but it feels like a movie that could only come out in 2020. So sit back, relax, and enjoy our thoughts on the last X-Men movie to be released…by Fox…because Disney will surely release at least a dozen more.
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We are doing it old school this week, where we just talk about a couple of random things that we have watched lately. So you get a little comedy and a little “horror”, though maybe there are some disagreements about whether the comedy was funny, or if the horror was scary. Yep, just another 2020 night, as we talk about the minutia of movies that a lot of people don’t really care about.
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For this week’s random Movie Night, Ryan chose the 1985 cult classic, Re-Animator. Most of us had seen this at some point already, but that did not take away from the jaw-dropping madness that unfolded before us. One of us also consumed way too much whiskey to see if that made this movie any better. All the data isn’t in yet, but right now it appears to be an entertaining watching, sober or not.
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