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PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON
How does one go on living after watching 'Magnolia'? You record a podcast about it. Impressively, the pod doesn't reach the length of the film itself.
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
Rhys and Kane take on this daunting film, intimidated by its length, intense themes and the slight possibility that Kane isn't into this maybe as much as Rhys is.
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PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON
Everyone is blessed with one special thing.
For PTA, it seems to be film making.
It's 1977, and teenage busboy Eddie Adams gets discovered by Jack Horner, who takes him under his wing and transforms him into the adult-film sensation: Dirk Diggler.
Rhys and Kane bite off PTA's second feature, which already packs in a giant ensemble, and shoves its audience deep into the adult-film-industry of the 1970s. There's drugs, blood, inspirational character transformations, and Jessie's Girl.
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PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON
The hardcore film analysis helmets are coming on. Rhys and Kane are taking a break from horror and kids movies to go through the filmography of one of Rhys' favourite directors: PTA.
This episode sees a bit of a rundown of who Paul Thomas Anderson is as a film maker, why we should care about him, and explores his first directorial feature.
A seed has been planted, and a whole floodgate opened unleashing: strange paternal dynamics, lost men in a world full of loneliness, and John C. Reilly. Without any of which, a PTA movie could not be formed.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
After a long road of many little singers covered in fur, a few strange A-to-B kids movies, and only one Dave and Uncle Ian, the entire Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise has been marathoned.
Kane and Rhys are more cut-out for horror movies and iconic trilogies, but they've done the hard work and walked the line... now its time that they rank these Chipmunk films and cleanse them from the podcast for good.
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ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON
Alien is BACK... and Marathon Me could not be more excited. Horror franchise installments from this year have been pretty damn good, and with Fede Alvarez on-board, things are looking promising.
In this entry, we join the timeline between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) and see Space colonisers come face to face with the most terrifying life-form in the universe while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station. I wonder if we'll see a familiar face(hugger) or two.
Rhys and Kane revisit the franchise, place Romulus in their ranking, and debate all things alien-babies and maternal fears once again.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
A fourth entry to a beloved children's franchise that changes up the look and feel of the originals and is set on a road trip?... oh no. We've been here before and it wasn't pretty.
Alvin, Simon and Theodore believe that Dave is going to propose to his girlfriend Samantha in Miami. In a bid to retain their place in Dave's life, the three set out to stop him. And the Chipettes are hosting American Idol, but don't worry about that.
Rhys and Kane buckle up for the road chip of a lifetime. With expectations down to the ground, there's no way to go but up.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
The next logical step in this series based around Chipmunk children who can sing: they all have to survive the trials and tribulations of a desert island.
Dave, Alvin, Simon, Theodore, (Brittany, Jeanette, Eleanor and Ian) ALL find themselves on a cruise together. All is good, the world is content. Until one crazy thing leads to another, and the crew of misfits, oddballs and rodents all end up stranded on a desert island. They encounter treasure, volcanoes and Jenny Slate.
Kane gets sent back to a childhood favourite, and Rhys gets sent to hell. Both men... are chipwrecked.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
History has been made: the first ever Squeakquel. They said they were mad... but Hollywood made it happen.
Following Alvin and the Chipmunks' rise to fame in the first film, only to discover that family and love is much more valuable than being in the spotlight, they move onto the next logical narrative step: going to high school. And also there's girl chipmunks now, too.
Kane and Rhys mourn the loss of screen time spent with Jason Lee in this entry, and discuss how it makes no f*cking sense that these little creatures were accepted in human high school.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
It's all been building up to this one... the journey of Dave Savil and his borderline psychotic break, where Chipmunks take over the man's life.
There's Alvin, Simon and Theodore, and the whole world is there oyster. They're not just cool, handsome, smart and ambitious... they can also SING. And this is all that Jason Lee... I mean Dave, needs to save his crumbling life.
Kane and Rhys start to unpack their watch-a-thon of the Chipmunk movies and answer the question if the original still holds up now as grown-ass adults.
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MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON
The (fury) road has come to an end. With five films down, it has been an emotional journey for the two men.
The marathon has taken them across a sandy landscape, touching on four separate decades, and an entire evolution of Mad Max was witnessed. From humble beginnings in regional Victoria - to a world stage, starring A-list talent.
Rhys and Kane individually rank the franchise, to very divisive opinions, talk about the future of Mad Max, and go on a bit of a tirade about the direction of the film industry as a whole.
This franchise is a sad one to say good night to...
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MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON
I guess every franchise has to do one... prequel. BUT, a prequel for one of the most interesting and open-ended characters in the franchise? Maybe sold on this one.
Almost a decade after Fury Road, Furiosa gets her well-deserved prequel film that brings the Mad Max franchise to a point where we have no Max anymore. It is the world that shines the brightest light.
Rhys and Kane experience their most divisive film yet. Something that may tear the very fabric of Marathon Me apart. Potentially it takes a wasteland to tear these two men apart. The wasteland is often known to do so.
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MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON
Mad Max in the 21st century - what could this possibly look like? An insane world opened up for the wasteland to thrive and expand.
Max enters a world entirely over-run by sand and close to $160 million of set-design. It is fresh. It is next level. It is the next stage of the wasteland.
Rhys and Kane discuss this giant leap for the franchise - entering a whole new era of filmmaking. The boys make sure their marathon is ready for a thrill-ride with no brakes, only high octane progress.
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MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON
The world of Mad Max has been corrupt by a sickness. Not radiation poisoning, but rather, the cocaine-fueled 80s - at it's gotten into every pore of this sequel.
A war has passed, and Max now has luscious locks of hair to accompany his fists of fury. Constantly evolving, the wasteland has met its next stage, full of mutants and live-action cartoon characters. At least we can feel at home knowing there's still a whole lot of sand around.
Rhys and Kane dive into this instalment that trades cars for camp, as they can't quite decide if they love or hate this black sheep.
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MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON
It's madder. It's Maxer. It's 2er.
Max is now a lonely, hardened, high-definition man - taking on the wasteland that was thrust upon him.
The world has deeply entered an apocalypse, and turned to a primitive hellscape. We rejoin Max with everything lost, forced to realise that it isn't about the destination, but the friends you make along the way (no one says this directly, but it is what happens).
Rhys and Kane put their seatbelts on for a full-throttle sequel that emphasises the action and intensity. The boys discuss their hatred of sand but love of Mad Max.
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MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON
It's about time the Australian boys take on a franchise from their great nation. Time for a visit to the motherland. Warm your engines, because they're taking on Mad Max.
The first Mad Max is not what most imagine when they picture pop culture's favourite rev-head, but it is the closest glimpse we've gotten so far of how the world turned into the wasteland. We see how Max actually became mad; and its an interesting tale nonetheless.
Rhys, self-defined Mad-Max-maniac, revisits an old favourite, whilst Kane takes his first taste of Mel Gibson as Max and shares his first experience.
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HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHON
The Hostel world-tour is complete and it's time to put it all into perspective. How do these films fare as a franchise?
A quicky, but a goody; this trilogy of torture is taken from underground theatrical, to straight-to-DVD entertainment, taking a simple concept and creating a world and mythology in the long-run.
Eli Roth may not have been there for all of the films, but Rhys and Kane sure were (for better and for worse). The pair band together to rank the trilogy and talk a little more on the Roth-man.
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HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHON
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
A Hostel direct-to-DVD sequel - did not know this was going to happen. The Elite Hunting Club has expanded to the city of sin, and we follow a group of degenerate men on a bachelor's-weekend in Vegas, where they indulge in all of the vices, only to find themselves in vices by the end.
Rhys and Kane explore if Eli Roth leaving the franchise, tears down the solid fabric of the series, or if this strange cousin of a movie may become a welcome expansion to the universe. Based off of the boys' track record with direct-to-DVD sequels (looking at you 'American Pie Presents:' films), their hopes aren't high.
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HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHON
This one's for the girls.
A feminist masterpiece? Not quite. But this follow up is a nice counterpart to the heavily dude-oriented first film, with possibly a lot more to say: about female-focused objectification, uber-rich greed, and incel culture.
'Hostel: Part II' sees us go back to Slovakia, with a trio of adventurous young women. Obviously, they have a trip full of friendship, fun and pictures of tourist destinations; and none of the women get tortured (spoiler alert: some do actually).
Rhys and Kane dive into this surprisingly strong sequel, exploring how the choice to follow female protagonists alters the lens of the story and makes this entry a totally different beast to our original.
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HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHON
Moving on from the spawn of Satan entering the world of the living, to the living entering a hell-on-earth: a new marathon is under way, and it's Hostel.
Eli Roth's second major film, spawning from the wallet of Quentin Tarantino, this franchise sees the 'Elite Hunting Club' traffic human beings in Slovakia for the uber-rich to do with them as they will and explore the disgusting extremity of human objectification.
Rhys and Kane try to hold in their lunch and not pass out, as they marathon all three Hostel movies - a pillar in the cinematic canon of the torture-p*rn sub-genre. Maybe Rhys might postpone that Europe trip?
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THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON
6 films, touching 6 decades, with 6 takes on the anti-Christ (to varying degrees of quality)
Some friends are only with you for a short time, and some are with you for life. Damien is one of the lifelong homies. After investigating and diving into the sometimes scary, sometimes wild world of The Omen, the boys have found another home amidst the religious imagery and anxieties of this cinematic universe.
Rhys and Kane go through their individual rankings of the franchise, so you know which ones are a must-watch, and which ones you can throw in the bin. On top of this, the pair touch on varying additional Omen-related media and what their overall take on the franchise is.
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