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#464: Nature Laughs Last (“Into the Wild”, “Grizzly Man”)

Ian and I have come together to broadly discuss Sean Penn’s 2007 film, “Into the Wild”, Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary, “Grizzly Man”, the real life stories behind them, what exactly draws idealistic men into the wilderness, and the small areas of Alaska we would dare to explore.

Chris McCandless has been a divisive figure since his death in 1992, with several articles, films, and a great book, all made in the wake of his journey to Alaska. Ian has never been a fan of his, I used to be his biggest fan. I recently became aware of Timothy Treadwell, who similarly disliked modern human society and sought his spiritual calling in Alaska, among grizzly bears. One of these bears, whom he considered his best friends, killed and ate him.

We thought Earth Day was a great time to discuss all this.

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#463: Clone Buzz Aldrin (“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”, “Orion and the Dark”)

0:00 - A Very “Wasteful” Cold Open.

2:20 - REVIEW - “Orion and the Dark” (2024)

11:22 - REVIEW - “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” (2021)

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#462: Chocolate Tears (“Wonka”)

0:00 - Dustin is raising his son to love disgusting candy-like treats, he’s a bad father and a bad person. But Southerners love to deep fry stuff, too. Also what the hell is dry ice? Also, we’ll never be sponsored by a mail-order box service after our takedown of that industry.

16:00 - REVIEW - “Wonka” (2023)

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#461: Too Good for the Audience (“American Fiction”)

1:20 - REVIEW: “American Fiction” (2023)

We discuss this brilliant film, from our general recommendation, who it’s for, and the fine details of what it manages to accomplish.

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#460: Sexy Frankenstein (“Poor Things”)

1:25 - RECOMMENDATION - “Poor Things” (2023)

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#459: Lack of Passion (“The Creator”, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom”, “BlackkKlansman”)

1:30 - REVIEW: “BlackkKlansman” (2018)

32:40 - REVIEW: “The Creator” (2023)

47:22 - REVIEW: “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” (2023)

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#457: The Mike Flanagan Episode (“Midnight Mass”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, & “The Haunting at Bly Manor”)

Kellan and Conner spend an evening discussing the career of filmmaker Mike Flanagan, specifically his more recent limited series work on Netflix.

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#456: Lisan al Denis (“Dune: Part Two”)

0:00 - Dates (the fruit) are amazing. Clue (the board game) is amazing.

9:05 - REVIEW - “Dune: Part Two” (2024)

39:00 - SPOILER SECTION

We also explore the idea that anyone can be in charge of a creative property, sadly, regardless of their passion or lack of passion for the project. Studios should hire fans as independent consultants to simply take meetings and talk about why they love something.

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#455: Make Me Feel Something (5 Fall Horror Films for your spring)

0:00 - Halloween candy

2:40 - REVIEW - “Cobweb” (2023)

16:00 - REVIEW - “Doctor Sleep” (2019)

30:47 - REVIEW - “A Haunting in Venice” (2023)

50:15 - REVIEW - “X” (2022)

57:10 - REVIEW - “Pearl” (2022)

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#454: A Triangle Without Conflict (Marvel Catch-Up, Spring 2024)

0:00 - Conner got COVID, remembers witnessing a surgery as a child, and boasts his sore throat tolerance.

8:20 - RECOMMENDATION? - “What If” Season 2

14:00 - RECOMMENDATION? - “Echo”

20:40 - REVIEW - “The Marvels” (2023)

51:10 - Begin Spoilers, along with general comments about the big picture.
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#453: Diet Movie (5 Perfectly Enjoyable Films)

0:00 - Morning Routines and Fighting for Identity-Retaining Free Time.

9:20 - REVIEW - “You Hurt My Feelings” (2023)

20:45 - REVIEW - “Somewhere in Queens” (2022)

36:10 - REVIEW - “The Burial” (2023)

53:08 - REVIEW - “Lucy” (2014)

1:02:25 - REVIEW - “The Killer” (2023)

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#452: CanniBuddies (“Leave the World Behind”)

1:45 - REVIEW - “Leave the World Behind” (2023) - Discussion of the film and general recommendation.

22:10 - SPOILERS for this film.

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#451: The BFF (Jennifer Lawrence, “No Hard Feelings”, & “Winter’s Bone”)

1:22 - REVIEW - “No Hard Feelings” (2023) - The undeniable appeal of Jennifer Lawrence across genres, the scarcity of decent sex comedies, and the middle-budget film.

17:00 - REVIEW - “Winter’s Bone” (2010) - Making a story world feel lived-in, making characters feel like they have history beyond the film, and what it means to be a Southern Gothic story.

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#450: Crazy Rich Caucasians (“The Crown”, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour”)

0:00 - RECOMMENDATION - “The Crown” (Netflix, series) - Craft, historical accuracy, and the responsibility of the audience.

12:20 - REVIEW - “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” (2023) - We discuss the concert movie of the tour, and we end up discussing Swift herself, the public’s perception of her, the significance of her success, and her range as an artist.

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#449: Destroyer of Worlds (“Oppenheimer”, “Godzilla Minus One”)

1:20 - REVIEW - “Oppenheimer” (2023), and a discussion about Christopher Nolan as a filmmaker.

27:30 - REVIEW - “Godzilla Minus One” (2023)

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#448: Extremism Bad (“Silence”, “Red State”)

0:00 - REVIEW - “Red State” (2011) - A rewatch review of this film and my opinions about Kevin Smith.

11:40 - REVIEW -”Silence” (2016) - and then the discussion:16:07 - DISCUSSION - The differing perspectives and depictions of different uses of religion in film and how different they can be. Also the harm that’s done by echo chambers, close-mindedness, outcome bias, and heads in the sand.

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#446: Maturity is Cool (“Scott Pilgrim Takes Off”)

0:00 - Healthy snacking and falling off the fitness wagon, and being considered old and fat by the standards of a child.

6:00 - REVIEW - “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” (series, Netflix)

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#445: Tweaked Memories (“Home Alone 2”)

0:00 - Tyler’s back!

7:00 - DISCUSSION - “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (1992) (and also “Home Alone”). Memory, truth, hindsight, context, and studio trends.

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#444: The Best Movies of 2003

Here at the end of all things…or maybe just the end of the year…once again I bring you my favorite movies from 20 years ago. Onward to 2004 (and 2024)! Cheers!

0:00 - Kids are noisy and do not follow rules or etiquette.

1:00 - My Best Movies of 2003 List!. Enjoy!

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#443: Turning Green (“Loki” Season 2)

0:00 - Sick or allergies?

5:20 - REVIEW - “Loki” Season 2 (2023)

18:52 - SPOILERS BEGIN

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#442: America’s Deep Insecurities (“Barbie” by Dustin)

Dustin finally saw “Barbie”, so I wanted to pick his brain about it a little more in-depth, now that we can spoil the plot.

2:00 - Here is my original review.

25:20 - Here are Dustin’s thoughts.

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#441: Darth Revenue (Disney Star Wars in 2023)

0:00 - We never addressed Dave Filoni’s promotion. Also Dustin makes sure I know who is deceased in Star Wars, because that’s what I now require.

1:35 - Kellan’s chocolate pants.

2:20 - We wanted to have a discussion about Star Wars in 2023. Where it is, where it’s going, and what we want from this universe. Spoilers for all Star Wars movies and shows.

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#440: The Dibs and Doodles Machine (“Now and Then”)

0:00 - Chit chat. Tattoos. Lotion. Pokeballs. Hard drive free space.

4:00 - Hello everyone!

6:15 - REVIEW/DISCUSSION - “Now and Then: The Short Film” (2023), the use of machine learning to unearth this song, the commercialization of art, and much more.

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#437: Suspicious from the Start (“Collateral”, “The Last Samurai”)

0:00 - Nothing to see here…

1:15 - REVIEW - “The Last Samurai” (2003) and a discussion of the White Savior narrative, and if we think it applies to this film.

19:00 - REVIEW - “Collateral” (2004)

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#436: Meme Girls (“Mean Girls”)

0:00 - Are you morally obligated to return food that was not supposed to be delivered to you?

14:10 - RETRO REVIEW - “Mean Girls” (2004)

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#435: Normcorpse (“Psycho”)

0:00 - Dustin’s voice be all cattywampus and I have a new Simpsons fan in my house.

2:22 - Check out Dustin’s movie room on Instagram, @insidethemovieroom.

5:11 - REVIEW - “Psycho” (1960), I’ve never seen Psycho before!

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#434: Let Us Wear Pants (“No One Will Save You”, “Justified: City Primeval”)

0:00 - What’s Up?

2:00 - REVIEW - “Justified: City Primeval” (2023)

10:50 - REVIEW - “No One Will Save You” (2023)

21:24 - SPOILERS, We discuss the third act and the ending.

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#433: Bleak Mirror (“Melancholia”, “Black Mirror Season 6”)

0:00 - Who listens to podcasts alone?

1:30 - REVIEW: “Melancholia” (2011) and the existential things it made me feel. Buckle up, kiddies, Conner’s going VERY DEEP today. Can you handle this film?

24:30 - REVIEW: “Black Mirror” Season 6 on Netflix.

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#432: How to Watch a Kids Movie

0:00 - We had to record from a car this week, that’s how much we care.

1:40 - Conner’s Dream Broadcast RV.

6:00 - How to watch kid movies without pulling your hair out.

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#431: Justice Matters Most (“Better Call Saul”)

-We’re going to spoil everything Gilliverse, so SPOILERS for “Breaking Bad”, “El Camino”, and “Better Call Saul”. But PLEASE go watch them all, in that order!

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#430: I Wanna Dance on a Humpback Whale (“Belle”)

0:00 - Where our kids have and have not pooped.

8:25 - REVIEW - “Belle” (2021)

28:00 - SPOILERS

34:20 - A Letterboxd review leads to hilarious observations about this virtual reality world and the fact that it selects certain people to be horribly average within a fantasy universe.

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#429: Lip Flaps (Catching Up in September 2023)

0:00 - Anime noises

8:08 - Amazon Wish List items, and how they’re desired, but never urgent. Also, it seems like when you’re an adult, every single purchase you make is somehow connected to a larger, more bureaucratic chain of events (can’t get books or movies until we have bookshelves, but we can’t get bookshelves before we fix the door or replace the A/C unit). Capital improvements make you feel guilty as an adult who’s trying to be responsible with limited funds.

17:00 - We missed a couple of weeks of recording because Dustin was busy and I had a kid in the emergency room.

24:00 - My kids have friends now, and a chance at a childhood that I thought had died with mine in the 1990s. The joy of unstructured play.

41:40 - We just want to spread the Good Word of Denis Villeneuve.

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#427: Kill Captain Booth (“Captain Underpants”, “Phone Booth”, & “Kill Bill: Volume 1”)

0:00 - Why am I alone?

1:40 - REVIEW - “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” (2017)

13:00 - REVIEW - “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003)

29:18 - REVIEW - “Phone Booth” (2003)

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#426: A Famously Huge Turd (“Secret Invasion”)

0:00 - HooperCast fatigue? The Content Blitz will stop in September for now.

1:30 - REVIEW - “Jack Ryan” (Full Series)(Amazon Prime), no spoilers.

13:00 - REVIEW - “Secret Invasion”(2023)(Disney+) beginning without spoilers.

20:12 - Final recommendation, and then we begin spoilers.

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#425: 2 Little Men Talking About Women (“Little Women”, “Women Talking”)

0:00 - I promise I’m not cynically advocating for women’s art in order to signal progressive values in order to gain an audience or false heroic sympathy. Allow me to consume art as I see fit.

2:20 - REVIEW - “Women Talking” (2022)

12:30 - REVIEW - “Little Women” (2019)

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#424: Catching Up in August 2023

0:00 - Just saying hi and catching up a little bit

1:00 - Talking about eye exams

11:30 - There’s a few things going on in mid-August 2023. The WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike is still happening, Disney is raising its streaming prices, and the box office is full of franchises.

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#423: A Whale Person (“The Whale”, “A Good Person”)

0:00 - Remember the “Wazzup?” Budweiser commercials? Good stuff.

2:30 - REVIEW - “The Whale” (2022) no Spoilers.

13:50 - REVIEW - “A Good Person” (2022) no spoilers.

26:00 - I found some early HORRIBLE writing of mine. And Dustin had some too!

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#422: With Grown Man Eyes (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”)

0:00 - Catching up, it’s the end of the summer and life’s been busy.

3:00 - REVIEW - “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (2023)

36:30 - The Paramount Turtles universe, and other corporate capitalization of successful storytelling, until it’s been used, abused, and diluted by giant studios. We also talk about the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and their effect on the upcoming Sonic 3 film, maybe it will force them to make it without any human characters, thereby making a fan favorite movie by accident.

42:43 - What it must be like to try to talk brass tacks business with extremely abstract people like Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., or Marlon Brando.

48:38 - Are we, at 34, aging out of the demographic of movies in general? Also, Daniel Radcliffe should be the new Wolverine, come on.

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#421: Please Don’t Ruin This (The “John Wick” Franchise)

0:00 - DISCUSSION - The “John Wick” film franchise, revisiting when it’s time to end a series, and how studios can ruin your favorite movies by waiting until it’s too late to call it quits.

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#420: The Way She Views the World (“Barbie”)

0:00 - Why complaining is pointless. Hey, head to https://jconnor.substack.com/ for thought-provoking essays and not-film recommendations!

7:24 - Dustin discovers my big secret.

9:42 - REVIEW - “Barbie”(2023), no spoilers.

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#419: The Novelist Screenwriter (The Gillian Flynn Episode)

0:00 - I’m here to make the case that authors, at least some authors, ought to be given priority, or they themselves should insist on involvement, when their works are adapted to other mediums.

1:30 - REVIEW - “Gone Girl” (2014) Film and Novel (2012)

10:48 - REVIEW - “Sharp Objects: (2018) Series and Novel (2006)

15:00 - REVIEW - “Dark Places” (2015) Film and Novel (2009)

26:15 - Should Novelists be given first crack at adapting their own material? What are the average results of work that is adapted from another artist? What if that artist is still alive? What if they do it themselves?

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#418: Driving Large Vehicles (“Finch” & “Ambulance”)

1:30 - REVIEW - “Finch” (2021)

17:12 - REVIEW - “Ambulance” (2022) and separating Michael Bay the Filmmaker from his finished products.

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#417: Widen Your Perspective (“Mass”)

0:00 - Andrew Dice Clay

1:15 - “Goodnight, Hackers” will be available by book and ebook soon, everyone!

3:00 - REVIEW - “Mass” (2021)

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#416: What Happened to All of Our Putty? (“Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One”)

0:00 - I had to stop eating apples.

6:00 - A brief aside while I complain about the audio being out of sync in my theater.

13:45 - REVIEW - “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One” (2023). General recommendations.

25:00 - BEGIN SPOILERS - Plot details and nitty gritty discussion here, stay away unless you’ve seen the film!

53:00 - We address the SAG-AFTRA (and WGA) strike and its impact on the production of many films, including Part Two of this film.

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#415: That Streaming Noise (“Extraction 2”)

0:00 - I have Netflix back for the next 2 months.

1:35 - Dustin and I launch into a discussion about streaming vs physical media of our favorite movies and television shows. Why own something on disc? Is the quality better on Blu-Ray or does 4K streaming reign supreme? What’s more expensive? How many times will you want something you bought and own on disc?

22:20 - REVIEW - “Extraction 2” (2023)

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#464: Nature Laughs Last (“Into the Wild”, “Grizzly Man”)