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“The premise of this show is promising. I’ve only heard one episode that lives up to its potential because these people are clowns. They make weirdly confident judgments about movies they’ve heard their friends summarize. Poorly. Whatever appeal this podcast could have withered on the vine long ago.
The only thing that makes any of these episodes worthwhile is the occasional talented guest who makes the summary vastly more interesting than the typical episode, and from whom the hosts learn nothing.
You get the sense a lot of the hosts’ understanding of cinematic storytelling also comes from some drunk person’s half-remembered reports on how to critically engage with the media. Their interests are limited entirely to plot points. Tone, the grammar of filmmaking, or most of the qualities that make a movie artful just kind of go by the wayside. The hosts half pay attention to even to the summaries (the bulk of the episodes) as they are giving them. Most of the time the hosts can’t even get through their artless, flat summaries of the movies without having to rewind and insert some moment they forgot.
Then the hosts—who have never seen the movie—start talking about it like they’re experts on something they only have a flimsy experience with. The humor is forced and so is everything else about this podcast. It’s for people who either dislike or are uninterested in movies. May as well listen to your mom try to summarize her favorite Seinfeld episode that she last saw 30 years ago. Or some dude try to tell you what he remembers from a cosmology class he took back in college. Either way, you’re getting nothing worthwhile from the experience.”
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United States of America ·
06/21/22
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United States of America ·
06/15/20
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