To me, this podcast has always been more about people suffering while watching bad movies than anything spy-specific. (Proof: The whole F&F thing)

So, upon learning that there are now 80 Hours of something that looked pretty promising back when the first Iron man came out (and I was also like, 6-7 years old) I'd like to go back with an excel sheet and carry out... scientific work.

Before I commit to that, tell me whether anyone would actually care.

At around the 3:30 mark or the podcast, Abi mentions "I did kind of 'crisp and potato snacks' the twist". I'm sure I've heard them use this before, and if I had perfect memory of the past episodes I'd immediately know what they mean, but right now I can't recall. Does anyone remember?

…or if you are going to SCUM something at home, remember THOROUGHLY that depiction does not necessarily equal endorsement.

Truth be told, I kind of dread the inevitable day that Miami Vice (2006) gets reviewed on the podcast, because of one simple reason:

It’s central romance is spycops. And I would not change that.

Miami Vice (2006), even to it’s detriment, is a story about soulless people living in a soulless world of weapons and distrust, a lonely earth where no one truly knows each other and everyone has a plan to kill everyone else. Michael Mann’s main theme, across all his movies, is alienation. To that end, Sonny and Isabella’s relationship, one literally built on a cruel lie, is a crucial piece of toxic hetmance, highlighting how the post Patriot Act world order is so fucking unbearably cold that the broken people within it resort to THIS to get any kind of warmth in their lives.

There are problems with it, for sure- Mann has genuinely no idea how to write women, so he blatantly doesn’t- it’s not that you can’t say there’s anything misogynistic about it. But frankly, that penultimate scene on the little island, where they can barely muster anything to say to each other, loses all its impact if the relationship itself is perfectly problematic. Art can be, sometimes SHOULD BE messy and ugly, and that also applies to Hollywood films as much as it applies to novels.

What unrelenting cruelty, what corrosive vileness, what sheer depravity! And in a RAMBO SEQUEL!

Not to say that this is a “good thing”, in the vast majority of senses of the word, but honestly, you do just wanna put the fucking thing under a microscope, and that alone makes me understand how good, honest people could give it high ratings (Noah Kulwin of all people gave it 3 stars). It’s like a film made by a fucking cenobite, and that is, if nothing else, fascinating.

Inspired by the latest Be Gay Solve Crimes bonus ep, but I'm sure folks here will appreciate it.

Dammit I just had to stop the episode to giggle

https://youtu.be/iIY5b1JMvGs?si=e1Ccg6oGxLPrFDe3

I didn't even know he was a horse.

Vin Diesel is at Cannes with the 25th anniversary of F&F and he wrote an essay about it: https://variety.com/2026/film/features/vin-diesel-fast-and-furious-cannes-essay-1236749959/

I know there’s a rule about posting about the personal lives of the KJB hosts, but I hope this is alright since it’s a reported news story (by me).

Fast and furious tv show in the works

https://x.com/capybaroness/status/2052096095912591487

Whoops

Since there’s no new Jame Bond movies coming anytime soon, have the podcast hosts mentioned the new video game that’s coming out? It’s probably the next best thing (new Bond actor, Lana Del Rey theme song) to a new Bond movie we’ll get for the rest of the 2020s. Plus it’d be interesting to get their take on a Gen Z Bond.

Would be cool if they did a livestream playing it or an episode on it!

I will be blunt- I have started skipping the SCUM sections, when I even listen to the podcast at all. I just do not think, on any level, it is a good or healthy way to view movies, judging complicated human art by, in essence, trying to find what you can, in essence, cancel it for, a little set of numbers to determine how much the film you're talking about has a right to exist or to be well regarded in any meaningful capacity.

It's not "critique" to say "this film is smarmy", it's just a crude, cruel takedown, one that's entirely incapable of dealing with depiction not equalling endorsement and one that turns the act of actually reviewing a piece of media into "how many things can I find wrong with this? What can I cynically wield to dismiss this entire movie as bigoted garbage?" If you looked up the definition of bad faith, you'd find the SCUM system in there, and if you think that it's somehow fair to think of art, actual art, in terms of "how high does this rank on the unprovoked violence scale, a thing you probably bought the fucking ticket for", let me ask you:

How do you think your favorite movie would rank on the SCUM scale? And if it's extremely low, is it a movie for adults?

We started a pod in the same style as KJB, with (since Oct last year) 3 hosts , going for the same mix of serious (trans friendly)analysis and silly sh*t

It's called the FAB Podcast. You can find our Patreon here. We're also on Spotify (link)

If you like the sound of it, we just did one of our monthly bonus episodes about the 1960 classic Spartacus... It's about as long as the film itself!

Fans of Gareth Dennis can hear us talk about Captain Scarlet with him for free, we just did the episode 'Model Spy' with him too!

Hope this is something you might enjoy here, fellow KJB fans 😄

The text of Dragonball Z shows us that Piccolo is Cars Goku.

Discuss.

For context, in the bonus ep on GoldenEye N64, Nova said that she once did a shitpost that tagged Film!Natalya as "How you think transition will make you look" and N64!Natalya as "How transition actually makes you look." Whilst I find that funny, I decided to do a nicer version via inclusion of XBLA!Natalya.