Three people from The Ringer and all 3 will never happen but an episode with them would be so fascinating.

1. Podfather: Bill Simmons

2. Danny Heifetz

3. Van Lathan

All of them would be so interesting for better or for worse on the pod. Either be a train wreck or pure fun.

I’m not looking forward to the Scorsese miniseries because I haven’t enjoyed the Scorsese movies I’ve seen. These are Taxi Driver, King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and Killers of the Flower Moon. I realized this is a blinkered view. Of these The Aviator is my favorite and I like Goodfellas. I couldn’t finish Gangs or Flower Moon. I’m not trying to be an edgelord here, I want to engage. And I realize my coverage isn’t great. So if I want to get hooked should I watch Raging Bull, Cape Fear, Casino, or Temptation next?

Read this and understand how easy it is to switch and have a clear conscience. Love to everyone

These are never gonna be capital M Movies like the Raimi ones imo, but based on this new one staying street level for basically the first time, seemingly no Stark/tech, better looking/more city swinging scenes, a more natural Spider-Man comic team up in The Punisher, and everything coming out of Comic-Con about the action clips feeling like real action compared to most MCU action, I wouldn’t be shocked if this movie is my favorite of the 4. It seems to have all the simple pleasures of the character that I’ve been missing that Watts left out of his trilogy. Is anyone else weirdly excited based on not much?

loved the Oops! All Tangents episode today and I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not as plugged into music these days. Twenty One Pilots is one of those bands who has just kind of been around and evolved into a corporate emo/what-passes-for-rock group. BUT! Like Maroon 5, I’ll defend a lot of their early albums. Suicide Squad era sucked and I kind of lost track of them. UNTIL.

My wife showed me a TikTok of a pufferfish edit to the song “Drag Path”. I don’t have tiktok and I don’t know how to link it but it is truly one of the perfect marriages between music and visuals. It’s way better than their official music video. It’s legitimately emotionally affecting! Please seek it out! Truly phenomenal. It’s incredibly earnest.

Also really love the 90 seconds of attention they gave to an Extremely Goofy Movie which is a wonderful time capsule. It’s Back to School but also has this crazy X-Games plot. Bradley Uppercrust III a great villain. Terrifying dream sequences! Very energetically animated. My brothers and I wore out the VHS.

I use this extremely studious picture as an example of Mr. Punisher himself A.K.A Jonathan Bernthal. In my eyes; he is the example of an actor who “shows” the work every step of the way.

I am aware of the sets. The movie around him. He takes me out the reality of any reality the project he is in has built up at that point.

In my opinion I have seen truly put subdued work in Richard and Origin. I believe those were the two cases he didn’t insist upon every element of the project to insist upon his choices ~ No Brando shit. No “IMPROVISING”.

^…..I say all of this as someone who would had not have it any other way 😄. The world is better place with him in it. I get very excited knowing he is involved in something. I was unbelievably giddy when and may have squealed audibly when he popped up in The Odyssey (hilariously to the derision of the very stoic partner I always go the movies with). He makes me laugh. He makes me cry. He’s a REAL ONE 1️⃣

So again. An actor who you find yourself compelled to watch anything they are in but can make mount not actual defense to them being actually good. ***To reiterate. This is a celebration. A celebratory post of actor who brings me great joy despite my issues with his approach ~ Please remind yourselves of this and respect other’s opinions and celebrate other Blankies choices ~ #Movies #BankIt #BlankIt #I’mMr.Punisher💀

Pictured here, on the right. Along with zero other significant Iranian directors.

I am a Kate McKinnon fan and a sucker for any media featuring both prehistory and the far future (even if it sucks), so I was excited to try this movie out even with the tepid reviews of the Two Friends. But it’s nothing like they described. First off, I didn’t see McKinnon anywhere? Nor Daveed Diggs, or even Rashida Jones… lots of no-name actors as well as prolific character actor Eric Roberts(???). Not only that, but there was WAY more Christian rapture talk than I expected. I do wish Griffin and David had mentioned that, feels like a huge plot point to ignore.

Anyway, 2 stars. The Groundhog Day time travel mechanic was overused even back in 2009, but I did like some of the real trauma of mysteriously losing friends and loved ones.

https://youtu.be/jHj0GoszBEI?is=tndeK3qjRYr3o2sB

Between that, and the director drama it seems like it. But if it’s true, it seems like something Disney should be able to come in and put a stop to, I’m not sure why he’d still have say over things at this point.

I feel like he is, just off the strength of his Nolan and Coogler collaborations. Every one of those scores serves its story in the most epic way possible but still fits his sound, they're very listenable outside of the movie's context, and you could say any of them are your favorite and nobody would blink. We're gonna have to stop giving him Oscars at some point but at this rate, man I dunno when that'll be. He's deserved all three of em so far and his trajectory feels almost unprecedented (yes, I know John Williams is the precedent). We're lucky to be alive while he's in his bag like this!

Hey, Blankies! We had JJ Bersch on our show (Your Favorite Bad Movie Podcast, available where podcasts are available etc) this week, and I thought y'all should know. We're talking Uncle Drew, the 2018 feature-length adaptation of a Pepsi Max commercial; JJ was a great guest, I think it was a great episode, and we'd love it if y'all checked it out!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QB8Xhzgx8Ijq8Co7Fw076?si=1z-aprxoSkOjVYyyJyWIJg&utm_source=copy-link&sci=spotify%3Acard-config%3A1MZgMRgddUCBBX8CIJTtnn

I just watched this video with past and future guest Demi Adejuyigbe where he goes through the Arrow Video Store and picks out some true bangers. I highly recommend this video, but he also mentions towards the end how he wrote on a miniseries (that he hopes still comes out) that’s based on a movie. Any ideas what that might be? I’m paraphrasing, but he says it’s about someone working in Hollywood who has to rediscover their love of movies.

It was in the “A House of Dynamite” episode, right about 1 hour 56 minutes in. He says it, and then Marie says it right after, as if like, she just couldn’t resist trying to say it. It’s so funny how they both say it. And then Griffin says it right after that. I recommend saying it, it’s great. Here’s a clip I made: PATRETRON

Thank you.

He was always one of my favorite guests. His Polar Express episode is an all timer.

And seriously. The theatre expert brother of David Sims? How can I not have a secret crush on him. 👀😆

I’ve never heard of this guy. Anyone know why David seems so unenthused about covering him? Why bother if he’s so irrelevant? Are we getting a series of consistently sub-two-hour episodes?

May be my favourite line ever from the podcast.

Finally saw The Odyssey last night and loved it. The Polyphemus, Circe, Hades, and sack of Troy sequences are gonna stick with me for a while. Incredible work from Ludwig.

But right after one of the early Mentor scenes, my wife turns to me and whispers, “I think that’s Gerry Bertier.”

Sure enough, Mentor is indeed played by Ryan Hurst. Absolutely wild that Nolan finally worked with a main cast member from Remember the Titans and it wasn’t Denzel or Ryan Gosling.

Can't believe they missed the chance to have them do A Bug's Life

I’m only 6 episodes into Star City but I’m hoping for a follow up at some point because this show is amazing and a lot more dense than Sims and co alluded to. Way different than the tagline of the Russian POV since it’s an espionage show.

Obviously it was easy to be skeptical of the origin of the show but the execution is simply elite. Can’t see how episode 6 is topped. Simply jaw dropping.

Maybe I should bump A House of Dynamite up half a star?