Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

TEASER: Cara Loft - Womb Raider

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, or The Real Glup Shitto

A $4 billion dollar Disney acquisition, Reddit internet flamewars, and three film trilogies of the so-called “Skywalker Saga” have finally led to this: a movie so desperate to backtrack on The Last Jedi and meet its 2019 release date that the end result is something akin to a term paper written half an hour before you’re supposed to turn it in. Rise of Skywalker isn’t so much a film as it is the apotheosis of every single horrible trend in IP blockbuster filmmaking this podcast has discussed since our very first episode, a movie that set out to please everyone and in turn satisfied absolutely nobody save for your dumbest co-worker and children with the attention spans of goldfish. JJ Abrams’ mystery box collapses in on itself in a jaw-droppingly stupid way that leaves you asking one question: how did anyone think this was okay to release?
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Joker, or How I Got These (Psychological) Scars (feat. Ty)

Comedian and friend of the show Ty from TGOF(V) joins us to discuss the most well adjusted and normal practitioner of the greatest art, and its greatest artist: noted non-rapping Insane Clown and sometimes Bats-men pesterer, The Joker. A role now more prestigious than Macbeth, it both won an Academy Award and turned every lonely man that saw it into a spree shooter. Join us as we dive into the sick n' twizted origin story of the clown prince of crime, and maybe crack a few jokes of our own along the way.
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TEASER: Anti-Rape Super Saiyan

We ended up talking a lot about Dragon Ball Z in our discussion of Bitter Moon and the many sex crimes of one Roman Polanski. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.
 

Dark Phoenix, or Professor Baldy's Academy for Freaks

In our first run at the Fox X-Men films proper we tackle Dark Phoenix, a film that turns one of the classic story arcs in comics that turns it into a flaccid two hours of cinematic rice cake. We explore the film's very troubled production history, the career of writer/director Simon Kinberg, and discuss the source material, how commercially oriented film production strips it of everything weird, exciting or interesting, and put two more Xs into the X-Men.
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TEASER: Our Idea for Big 2

We came up with not one but two pitches for legacy sequels over the course of our discussion about Bound. This is one of them.
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters, or Boston Strong (feat. Andy again)

In our first stab at Legendary's Monsterverse, we tackle 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which is really just a shiny American remake of Invasion of the Astro-Monster, Destroy All Monsters, and All Monsters Attack except there are no aliens dressed like a New Wave band and nuclear radiation is net positive for the environment. We've got our favorite Godzilla autist Andy from Those Good Old Fashioned Values back to talk all about our big favorite guy and why this movie isn't good. At least Nicole's home turf of Boston gets razed in the climax. Too bad you can't see much of it through all the CG snow/rain/fog. Brought to you by Murk-O-Vision!
*Yes, we'll go back and do Kong: Skull Island when we hit 2020 and COVID makes it so there were only three movies to talk about for the entire year.
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Detective Pikachu, or Adult Baby Consent Machine

We discuss a pokemon movie that a lot of people where tricked into liking because it had cinematography and a cute little guy. Along the we cover the (mis)casting of Ryan Reynolds, the growing synergy between American and Japanese entertainment industries, adapting anime characters to live action, childhood memories, childhood atavism, Drake, Roger Ebert: Southern Gentleman, and much more in a free-ranging tall-grass episode with some of the weirdest and wildest bets yet recorded.
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