All things SEEN-EE-MAH
Joon Kim makes a triumphant return to help try to crack the case of BENJAMIN BUTTON. Who thought this movie needed to be 3 hours long? What drew Fincher to material so spectacularly ill-suited to his talents? Where did the sudden godlike omniscience in Benjamin’s narration come from, or disappear to? Why did Eric Roth […]
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As a sort of counterpoint to all the fawning over Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, John and Al look at another adaptation of an epic fantasy series that fell flat on its face. Both have intense love for Stephen King’s magnum opus, despite wildly different views of the ending stretch.
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Fincher hits an artistic high and commercial low with the epic serial killer docudrama ZODIAC. We look at the exacting period detail, the prothean versions of the Avengers and True Crime genre it represents, the murderer’s row of character actors, the squirreliness of Jake Gyllenhall, and whether there is actual closure to be gleaned
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It’s dancing barons versus singing fishwives as Joon Kim drops in once more to compare the world building of the MCU and DCEU.
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The giant-sized LOTR conversation concludes with a lot of gushing over the performances. Other topics include (of course) the multiple ending meme and the series’ enduring influence over blockbuster filmmaking.
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The guys continue to rain praises on the production design, unique humanism, special features, location work, and wizard fights of the LOTR trilogy.
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The long-prophesied SnyderCut of JUSTICE LEAGUE is upon us, and the guys are not impressed. After an hour of pondering the merits of “mature” superhero stories, unfiltered artistic visions, Steppenwolf’s makeover, and the ambiguous mourning of musical Finnish fishwives, we switch to a quick recap of the WANDAVISION finale (1:04:00) and the premiere of
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The guys decamp to Middle Earth/New Zealand to talk over the crowning achievement of blockbuster filmmaking in the 2000s, Peter Jackson’s epic, maximalist adaptation of LORD OF THE RINGS. In part one, we look at the miraculous realization of Gollum, the cascading successes the production pulled off in each area of the story’s world, and
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Joon Kim returns to talk about Fincher’s most overlooked film, the Hitchcockian (if you’re feeling generous) potboiler PANIC ROOM.
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The boys welcome Gwen Sisco to the program to break somewhere between 2 and 5 rules of Fight Club, depending on how strict you get about the “two men at a time” and “no shirts” policies.
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