Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

Captain America: Civil War, or Marvelous! Civil Discourse (feat. Cathy Brennan)

A civil war brews on this very podcast as Nicole and guest Cathy Brennan square off against Stu over whether this movie is terrible, or merely kinda ok. We've got Steve Roger's not-gays, quasi-incest and age gaps, dubious character motivations, contrived plotting and a centerpiece action sequence that takes place entirely in a call of duty tutorial level, Nicole's insasiable lust for Chris Evans, the liberal conception of power, and the titanic behind the scenes battle between smooth-brained executives to make this movie even duller and lamer than it already is. For good and ill (ok it's all ill) with Civil War the MCU reaches peak-MCUness. 
 
Get more Cathy here:https://twitter.com/TownTattle
http://cathybrennan.contently.com 
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Production by Miguel Tanhi. Art by Zoe Woolley. Follow us at @MarvelousDeath for updates! Thank you for listening and supporting the show!

Amazing Spiderman 1 and 2, or Spiderman Flavored Spiderman

A little catch-up two for one episode as Stu and Nicole revisit Marc Webb's Andrew Garfield starring "Amazing Spiderman" films, the movies so bad they convinced Sony to bend knee to the Disney-Marvel imperium. We talk about how Marc Webb turned Peter Parker into a self-insert artsy film kid, how Garfield and Emma Stone have chemistry despite dating IRL, the complete failure of the JJ Abrams esque 'puzzle box' parent plot, how stretching out the origin story into being an hour long doesn't add depth, the madness of casting swaggiest-man-alive Jamie Foxx as a chris-chan type character, Nicole's lust for sickly and dying men, the comical bathos of Gwen Stacy and her cop-dad Denis Leary, and so much more! These movies really are amazing...ly bad! But this episode is good.
 
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Deadpool, or Red Dead Redditor

We always complain that these movies don't have enough sex or violence, so they gave us one with sex and violence. It's ok. Some of the humor is funny, some of it has aged badly. Has so much changed in just six years? It's a very 2010s movie. A very Reddit movie. We also talk about how TJ Miller is a freak and Morena Baccarin deserves better. Includes bonus Mario movie trailer live reactions (stu soyfacing dot jpg) and other miscellania.
 
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(TEASER) Stu Gets the Podcast Cancelled

Stu gets out of pocket in this excerpt from our Patreon-exclusive bonus episode "We Need To Talk About Ezra".
 
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Suicide Squad, or Insane Clown Pussy

There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.
 
 
 
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Batman v Superman, or It’s Not 1938 Anymore

Twist ending: We didn't hate it. DC Jumps into the Cinematic Universe game ass first and Zack Snyder takes a second crack at Watchmen but with official superman and batman action figures. As we've said about cinematic universes: It makes the sum of it's parts weaker. A decent if overblown Batman vs Superman movie is buried under the unmanageable weight of a rushed Death of Superman movie and a terrible Justice League prologue. Three movies is too much! Listen in as Nicole and Stu discuss how American mythos and self-identity is projected onto superhero figures, how these films continue to grapple with the legacy of post 9/11 America, and how a movie that is fundamentally about nostalgia for the golden age of liberalism gets misread as fascist by it's critics... And much much more! It's an extra long episode, but still not as long as the movie (we watched the Ultimate Cut). 
 
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Watchmen, or Stu Watches the Watchmen

In delaying their dark fate (i.e. watching the 3+ hour director's cut of Batman v Superman) once more, Nicole and Stu pre-game with Zach Snyder's big-screen adaptation of Watchmen, the definitive Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons anti-superhero comic once deemed unfilmable by Terry Gilliam. More than a decade and several loud, gray, and stupid movies later, how does Snydog's Watchmen hold up? Well, it's not Man of Steel! 
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PREVIEW Tremble! Tremble! The Witches Are Back... Suspiria (1977) vs Suspiria (2018) Part 2 [WSE #4]

Modern dance. The RAF and Baader-Meinhoff. Chest vaginas. Human origami. Abject mothers. Metal rib hooks. Thom Yorke. Mennonites. Eating chicken wings. It's Suspiria (2018), a certified Nicole-core movie (one of her favorites actually) that arguably surprasses the legendary original and paves its own fucked-up way in the process. Is that controversial to say? Do you disagree and want to yell at us? Well you're going to have to listen to the whole episode on our Patreon if you want to make a good faith argument and not get laughed at by Nicole. 
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