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Oh yeah! I think I knew about that, there's a great commentary for the movie's DVD, but that totally blipped from my brain. I love Spider-Verse, I feel I shortchanged it somewhat with my thoughts, but I was burning to gush about some films, defend others and rag on my bottom pick. Spider-Verse needed little else from me. Thanks for listening!

WHY IS THIS FRANCHISE ALWAYS HORNY

Yeahhh...you hate to say it because of how it sounds (and in some ways is), but this was the most invested I've been in a WHO episode since the Capaldi era. I loved it. For one thing the plot was clear, easy to understand and uncomplicated. I completely lost track of what was going on in Flux. This was a simple bad guy story. The Master might've been the most OTT since Anthony Ainley, but I still think Sasha Dawan does a killer performance. Loved EVERYTHING with the...JNT era characters, I'll say. The only thing I wish is that they closed the door on Yaz's feelings for the Doctor, which the last episode made a point to bring up. Maybe her meeting Teagan and Ace changed her mind about it. But Jodie's regen was sad and beautiful, and as a Tennant simp I got *SO* excited to see what happens next.

So how 'bout that final 13 Regeneration story?

Man this was so funny. I haven't heard Pandy this spicy since he took a spiked bat to Halloween 1978 and pumpkin'd it all over that episode of HAA!

Hahaha he's good in that movie though!

Oooh...okay. That's a good one. Last time I watched Blade, I marveled with adult eyes at just the sheer confidence and mastery of vision at the whole thing. I don't think that film has any weaknesses. But Men in Black is also a classic. I think what comes to mind the soonest is the CGI, which strained even at the time because of the scope it was working to achieve. I think I'll say Blade, but this might come down to mood. MiB is a comedy, Blade is an action film. Both feature their lead actors at the top of their games respectively, but maybe with Blade the humor is generally unintentional and thus holds more value to me (Wesley Snipes breaking character and swearing at the cops who shoot him, Batmanning in back of the familiar cop when he's threatening Karen, Donal Logue as Quinn).

Batman Forever. Sleeping Beauty bored me as a kid.

Super congrats Ian!!

Forreal a franchise low point.

It is loud, there are colors, and Christian Bale is good. Scratch that, My Son Hunter is the worst film I've seen all year.

Suggested pick for the day HAA! does a Jenna Malone month.

300 and Sucker Punch: Directed by Zack Snyder Re-watched 300 and watched Sucker Punch for the first time for this week's episode of Questions: We Don't Have Answers. We get way into them for about an hour each, but I've got no compunction saying that Sucker Punch was stunningly bad, and the worst movie I've seen all year. Holy crap, gotdamn.

I would agree with Ian's line of thinking, especially how he broke all that down. Not taking any of those point on Gilliam and dismissing them, but I'm also loathe to just write someone off because "they did things we don't like", because you can distinguish the point of a discussion between endorsement of a person and discussion of a work. I was listening to a podcast ripping apart The Departed last week, and I agreed with pretty much everything but the hosts were also more than happy to just throw out "Oh, we don't like Leo because he dates college aged women, and didn't Jack Nicholson host a Roman Polanski party? And Matt Damon dismissed racism that one time", that kind of behavior is plainly unhelpful, because it isn't saying much beyond "we disapprove of these things" in a broad way that betrays a disinterest of nuance. Not to bury the lead for the next POYW podcast, but Christian and I don't spend every sentence going "Well this thing in Peter Pan is pretty interesting, but the movie did a racism. And this gave me a reaction...but racism". We don't dismiss the film out of hand...but best believe we get into the racism at the same time because my God, how could we not.

Gave Ben Shapiro a run for his money, but that last bolded part made me laugh out loud.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Brainless movie title aside, this is healthily the second best DB movie since the franchise renewed itself with Battle of Gods. While I tapped out of the Super series itself years ago, I loved Super Broly, in part because the time it took to re-establish the lore and history of its universe was really cool. This does similar, with the first ten minutes focusing on the villains who have one of the coolest villain plots in the series' history, with the Z-Fighters and Bulma perceived as part of a massive conspiracy to take over the world. It sounds funny, and is, but the way they reach that conclusion is a genius bit of writing, and requires a thorough knowledge of the DB history as far back as the Red Ribbon Army Saga. Additionally, this movie is 2/3rds a Piccolo film and 1/3rd Gohan. There's a loud conversation in this one about bringing Gohan back to the Goblin-Mode God-Tier status he was circa the Cell Games, and there's also not-so-subtle visual cues hearkening back to that era, him wearing Piccolo's outfit like he did in the Cell Games for instance. It's interesting, because there's a notable interview back in the 90s where Toriyama admitted that he made Gohan the main hero for the Buu Saga, but felt it didn't work, so he benched him and brought back Goku. There have been interviews in anticipation for this film where Toriyama express regret and is interested in Gohan as a character again. I feel that the concern expressed by Piccolo might be a touch overdone, but for fans of the character including myself, this is the movie to see your boy get his shine back.

A ton of legends are passing on this year. She was nearly 90, but nevertheless a homegrown star has faded off from our orbit into farther, grander reaches of the galaxy.

Uh, The Dark Knight. I love the Shining, it's my favorite horror movie, but The Dark Knight is more exciting and watches quicker, even though it's longer than The Shining by six minutes. When comparing the two, The Shining has a far moodier, creepy atmosphere and a bravura center performance in Jack Nicholson. It's also effectively frightening with proper jump scares and a killer score. But The Dark Knight has Batman, it's thematically a Batman story that to this day people overlook, every performance is great, there's less reported misogynist torture compared to The Shining and less uses of the N-word. Which doesn't exactly drag it down as a film for me, personally, but between the two - this is kind of a "come the fuck on" scenario. Both are mood movies, you can't just throw them in, but this doesn't take a lot of thinking effort on my part.

I've been casually re-watching Seinfeld in the past few months and consistently enjoy it. There's some definitely dated humor regarding gender politics and the show's kind of hobby obsession with racial stereotypes, specifically Asian people, but overall it's more clever than I knew when I watched it as a younger kid. Jason Alexander and Julia Louis Dreyfuss are just top level talents. Clearly supremely intelligent, intuitive performers who just crush every single script. They're pleasures to listen to in interviews as well.

I enjoyed this! From the eclectic cast to the sleazy subject matter, and Steel and Lace elicited some big laughs from me. Any upcoming list of movies or tentative schedule to look out for?

RIP he was an angel of an actor...

Wasn't the last shot of Jonah in his basement YouTube setup? I've seen the film about three times now, but I can't recall that positively.

My boy Bertone rants about this all the time, and it's not unfounded. Because Barry and Iris grew up together for close to ten years, it's too much for him to be harboring a crush and for Joe not to see that as the kids go through puberty. Best to never mention it again. I think Ms. Marvel just about stuck the landing, but it didn't finish as blazingly awesome as how it started out. Those first two episodes were so much fun, and the more they got into the mythology and backstory of her abilities, the less invested I became. Because in the comics it's really simple. She got exposed to the Terrigen gas and became an InHuman. There was none of this Partition legacy and time travel and all that. It ultimately congested the origin story for a very street level hero. And I thought the villains sucked. I didn't like how the Clandestined turned evil at the drop of a hat, specifically Najma. I just didn't buy her conviction and she wasn't in the least bit effectively sympathetic. I think the show ended up being more about Indian-Pakistani representation than the life of Kamala Khan, as there kept on being montages and scenes of the show just stopping for several minutes to present that way of life. I was pretty grateful of the history aspect, as I was ignorant of it, but it didn't seem like they were confident in the super hero stuff or even had much of a story to fatten out the six episodes. But the finale I enjoyed, especially when she EBIGGENED. That's her Marvel catchphrase, and it felt like Ms. Marvel to me. The reveal by Bruno at the end I don't mind, but a number of fans are salty on Twitter. Overall I'm glad we're done with the origin and we can have simple Ms. Marvel adventures, because the cast is a real find, and is perfect.

No, dude, I'm right there with you, I can't tell.