Afleveringen
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This year we decided to let the dust settle a little and then look back at our Best Picture Nominees.
So, that's what we did. We watched all of them in one week.
Now, here is what we thought.
Also, Jim screwed up and didn't actually release this two weeks ago, like he thought.
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For decades, Dune has kind of been the white whale of science fiction filmmaking. Yeah, the 1984 version was interesting... Children of Dune is.... best not mentioned...
Let's take a trip back to Arrakis and see just how well they can pull this off.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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Christopher Nolan writing and directing an epic historical biopic about the controversial father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Just saying it lets you know, we are through the looking glass here, people. So, what do we get when one of the most visually interesting, narrative challenging filmmakers, who delivers with a rare level of consistency with one of the most controversial, fascinating, and consequential people who ever lived?
You get a movie with a ton of well earned praise.
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I can't think of a film series that we have had a more interesting experience with than the Creed movies.
From dismissive, to excited, to completely won over... these three movies did the unimaginable. They made Rocky relevant again.
Three movies...
Creed was perfect.
Creed 2 was amazing.
Now, lets see how we fell about the first Rocky movie, without Rocky.
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We end our look at the world of wrestling with an actual documentary, made by an actual documentary filmmaker.
"Beyond The Mat," well produced, well financed documentary that not only had unprecedented access to the WWF (still a Federation at the time), but had an actual theatrical release (yes, Jim actually saw this in the theater).
So, lets close out this chapter in style.
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As a filmmaker, what do you do when you are making a rather run of the mill, straight forward vanity profile of a well known figure and, in the middle of making this profile, one of the most epic, insane, and legendary events in the history of that person's field occurs?
Do you:
A- Switch the focus of your documentary to this insane event and become the first person to fully report on it, thus giving you orignial control of the broader narrative and create a document that would be referenced in everything ever made about this defining moment.
B- Use it as a build up to a second documentary that then becomes the original version of the story.
C- Just kinda treat it like a thing that happened, kinda tack it on at the end, and then just roll credits.
If you answered "A" or "B," you are not the makers of this movie.
Join us as we discuss the most absurd waste of material ever published.
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This week, a bizarre tag team combo...
In this corner we have a lifelong wrestling fanatic. A Texas born and raised, bonafide expert in the subject with years of watching, rewatching, reading, rereading, discussing, debating, arguing, fighting, and getting locked in the very same finishing move this movie takes its name from but his big(?) brother.
And his partner in crime...
A guy who spent from the age of 8 to the age of 12 on a military base in latin America with little access to popular culture, and what access he did have was months later and... shall we say "sporadic," and has almost no knowledge of the sport.
And in this corner...
A goddamned near impossible to adapt, and absolutely impossible to comprehend tragedy of the most successful Texas wrestling family. A story so dark and tragic, Richard III is telling it to take a knee.
That's right... The Iron Claw.
Let's has out the good, the bad, and the "WHERE THE FUCK IS CHRIS?" of the whole affair.
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That's right folks... it's time to fasTEN your seatbelts and drive, full throttle into the mouth of familia as we take another spin with Dom and the family.
I could try to explain what happens, but...
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Imagine, "The Pilgrim's Progress," but with a rich, surfing douchebag in the lead?
Ok. Now, if you thought, "That is a fucking terrible idea. Please, leave me alone." You would be correct. You, however, would absolutely not be the producers, writers, director, or stars of "Journey Into Hell."
There isn't really much more to say.
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I honestly cannot think of a sentence that inspires less confidence than, "A Christian horror movie, inspired by 'Saw.'" I can't. Maybe you can. That's cool.
Thing is, no matter what you come up with... it cannot make this movie any better. Welcome to the baffling horror (?) movie about a serial... forceful helper. It's hard to explain.
All we can say is, we are sorry.
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I would say that it is impossible to think of a movie being more wrong headed and awful than 1986's, "Soul Man," but... remember you are talking to the guys who recorded and published a full reading of, "The Day The Clown Cried." Just listen to ALL THREE PARTS
But the simple fact that we have to reference that... nightmare just for context should tell you everything you need to know.
So, let's take a look at what happens when you try to help a little too hard.
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We have seen some unlikeable protagonists in our time. We suffered Gary, endured LaRusso, and put up with Ferris (sorry, but he is a fucking sociopath)... we thought we'd seen the worst of it.
But we forgot about Kaz.
Let me try to Joe Bob Briggs this, single sentence style.
My Demon Lover is the best romantic comedy about a homeless subway saxophone performer who, due to him being cursed as a teenager, cannot get sexually aroused without turning into a demon, except for all the times he sexually harasses women on the street while somehow falling in love with a tiny pixie lady who falls in love with him immediately after meeting him when he wakes up in a literal pile of trash on the street, starring an actor best known as a terceiary character in a successful TV show made in the late 80s.
We watched it... see what we think.
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This is one of the most deceiving movies ever marketed.
There ins't much else to say except... if this is a Halloween movie, then Die Hard is 100% a Christmas movie.
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In honor of Halloween, Jim and Clarkson watch the only Friday the 13th movie Jim has seen before.
So... let's burn some trash on this All Hallow's Eve!
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If you only know the character of Fletch from the Chevy Chase movies, nobody could blame you for that. They were classic 80's comedies.
However, I.M. Fletch has a much more storied career. How storied? About 11.
Confess, Fletch is 6th in the chronology, but the second book written.
Yeah... it's one of those series.
So, how does Jon Hamm do? Listen, and find out.
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Sometimes a movie franchise is just one movie... and that's OK.
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Since Jim screwed up and launched this on the wrong feed, we figured we would try it again...
It's tough to argue against Superman and Batman as the "Big Two" of superheroes.
And, if we are being honest, when it comes to superheroes... Superman is very much THE big guy.
So, let's take a look at the character that gave us the term super hero, and who has always been a ... questionable box office presence.
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There are few, if any, characters as iconic as Indiana Jones. For a while, he was as perfect an action hero as you could find.
Then he aged.
Let's take a look at a character who proves that time is, indeed, undefeated.
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Acting isn't terribly difficult. It's not easy, and lots of people are really bad at it, but it's hard.
I guess that's why so many people take a stab at it. Join us as we take a look at some of the different results we have gotten when non actors decide to start acting.
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There are few characters with the versatility and staying power of Batman. From comic book detective, to campy superhero, to dark knight, the character of Batman has spanned a truly mind blowing spectrum of representation.
So, we take a look at the strange history of the bat.
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