I think Ralph would really love One Punch Man! It does something different with the whole superhero-thing and doesn't just rely on it's beautiful animation.
The Wall is a piece of art tbh. I don't know how but it was one of the few movies that actually made me cry, and it wasn't anything about Pink directly, it was the scenes showing ww2 which together with music made the atmosphere just so incredibly sad and tragic. Also, the trial scene? masterpiece. I've seen it so so so many times.
The story of Syd shaving his head and eyebrows is from the sessions of Wish You Were Here in 1974/75. Syd got booted from the band in 1968, and he became reclusive in the early 70s, so nobody really heard from him or saw him until the sessions. He showed up and nobody recognized him. He had put on a lot of weight, and as Alex said, he had a shaved head. I highly recommend reading more about Syd Barrett, as he was a brilliant songwriter and guitarist who led an incredibly interesting life.
This has been the second underwhelming October for movies in a row. Last year, BR2049 was critically acclaimed but completely tanked-and it was still the best-reviewed and highest-grossing movie of that month. And now this year, Venom opens to the October record, and there are people telling me to just shut up and enjoy this movie instead of dreck like A Star Is Born and First Man. I feel like we’ve gone backwards as a filmgoing audience.
I'm right there with Ralph, it's by no means a good movie but at least it was entertaining and had some genuinely enjoyable things about it unlike TASM 2
Honestly Venom is extremely progressive because they're the first gender neutral hero in a superhero movie. Venom is neither male nor female, they take the shape of their host, and they're literally just a thick fluid.
Ralph's constant bias towards movies with superheros or villains in them is really grating. When he can't even see the flaw in his logic when it comes to claiming parts of this movie are "competent", then saying that the same parts dont have value in the Amazing Spiderman 2 because it's "boring", then he shouldn't be trying to rate them to begin with. I'm not trying to defend either of these movies since they're dogshit, but double standards drive me nuts
Guys, lemme start like this. I love you, your content and this podcast. I love the way you critique and talk about movies. But man...leave the anime and video game critiques. Love you
Suprised that ralph didnt mention transformers in the discussion about what movie whould be better as R rated, since he mentioned exactly that in his own review :,D
@Nerdyy, "people who disagree with me about movies are racists" what? I thought black panther was fine, but what does my or anyone else's opinion about the quality of a movie have to do with race?
It is honestly one of the textbook examples of how to do a adaptation extreamly well. Not only does it respect the source material well, but it actually compliments and adds to it.
QUESTION TIMESTAMPS 1:14:49 - Best Make Up/Practical Effects? 1:19:34 - Movies That Would Be Better As R-rated? 1:24:50 - Favorite TV Theme Song? 1:28:34 - Thoughts On Anime 1:35:26 - The Best Story In A Video Game?
Damn, I kinda wish you saved that ‘anime question’ for when Chris Stuckmann was on next week. He’s not an expert, mind you, but he’s much more versed in terms of that medium.
someguy ihate It’s called The Shows and Movies that changed the world of Japanese Animation and is extremely in depth. If writing a book that detailed doesn’t make you an expert I don’t know what does
Oh interesting. I didn't know that he wrote a book about anime/animation, that's pretty cool. He seemed more like a more casual fan. All the MORE reason he should've been here for THAT question haha. Oh well, I guess.
Thing is Venom is a total badass in the comics, he has backstory and motivation for being evil he is a actual character in the comics. But that’s all kinda tied in with Spider-Man so the second they said “no Spider-Man” in the trailer I knew they would screw it up
My family's friends with a retired member of Stretch Armstrong, it's so weird because they went to their concerts all the time like 20 years ago, but it was way before we knew him
BoJack Horseman is easily my favorite TV intro. I mean, musically, it's pretty fucking good, but the visuals are soooo perfect, especially season 4, 5 and 6
I went to see venom to prove how bad it was to friends Also "my leg was broke now it's not" the people who wrote Jumanji 2 and a fifty shades of grey film wrote it
Fun fact: The Wall was originally intended to be a multimedia experience, with Waters wanting a film, record, and live tour with unique aspects. The tour was played in much smaller arenas, and had giant puppets and a crew assembling a wall of cardboard bricks during the show that Waters smashed into the crowd with a hammer before playing the final track "Outside the Wall". The album is unique in that it can be cycled from back to front, ending with "isn't this where-" and beginning with "-we came in?". The film has it's unique songs and multilayered visual storytelling. This whole experience makes it Pink Floyd's magnum opus IMHO.
Truls Tykesson I don’t read comics but I’ve heard that venoms children are much more evil and powerful than him and venom/Eddie have to clean up the mess of the younger parasites. Which imo could’ve been venoms character arc in this movie and would’ve been interesting
38:27-42:12 After hearing what's going on with the Spider-Man stuff & the possible multiverse, I'm still laughing at Alex's confidence in thinking there's no way they'd put the idea of having the MCU Spidey with Tom Hardy's Venom in a movie together.
I went to see Venom yesterday; I was less disappointed than I expected to. Trashy still, but I was going with such low expectancy that I could hardly be badly surprised.
I don't think suicide squad as a concept is destined to fail, because the animated films are pretty good Mostly because they understand that these characters are fundamentally not good people, and their motivation is survival and nothing else The problem with suicide squad and venom is that they didn't write it as a villain film, they wrote it as a superhero film
The Wall is most definitely a masterpiece. It's a shame that the makers have all but disowned it. I first saw it when I was thirteen, and it brought the album's story to life. It was the movie that taught me how to appreciate movies as art. With no dialog, I was forced to find meaning in the visuals. I have friends that think the film is nonsensical, and trippy for the sake of trippy, but I could see a clear story shining through, and fell in love. IHE got a few facts mixed up. Syd Barrett went crazy in the early years of the band, and was replaced while they were recording their second album. He became a recluse, and the band hadn't seen him for years. They were in the studio recording WISH YOU WERE HERE, and Syd showed up, out of the blue. The band couldn't recognize him, as he was very overweight, bald, and had removed his eyebrows. They tried to hang withhim, and realized his illnesses now very severe. They were so shook up, knowing that Syd started the band, and their success was because of him, and now he was just this sad hermit. The war stuff is because Roger Water's father was killed in Ansio, during WWII, when Roger was a kid. These factors contributed to the creation of the album. Roger began to feel alienated from his fans, and had the idea of building a giant wall on stage, between himself and the audience. The album was written first, and then he ideas were incorporated into an elaborate stage show, building the wall on stage, that would be exploded at the conclusion. These ideas were further fleshed out to create the film, but there is a clear evolution of ideas from album to film. This movie is a gem, and it needs to be shared, so it's not forgotten.
You guys should check out The Who's Tommy. It's similar to The Wall in some ways (such as it being based on an album, and whatnot) but I love that movie almost as much as The Wall. It has a great backstory, and it was recently re-released on Blu-ray steel book.
Every time I watch The Wall all the way through, and get to “Bring the Boys Back Home”, I get emotionally overwhelmed. Following that, “Comfortably Numb” has one of the best guitar solos in rock history.
Asking the question, "Do you like Anime?", is a really weird way to phrase that question. It's like asking, "Do you like american cartoons?", or, "Do you like American movies?". You're basically asking if a person likes a vast and variable form of art that is produced in a country, which is just too vague to answer correctly. If I only see three american tv shows that are bad, I can't make the claim, "I don't like american tv", since I'd have such a limited scope of reference. Not criticizing their answer or the podcast, just thought it was important to distinguish.
I will always go to George Romero’s Day of the Dead as an example of amazing practical effects and makeup. The jawless zombie in the opening scene is impressive on its own, but pretty much all of Tom Savini’s work in that film is some if the best he’s ever done.
I think Adam and Alex would love the anime Monster. Fantastic psychological thriller and the dub is just as good as the sub. Not really an anime in terms of tropes and general art style and character designs. Well paced and well structured.
interesting. I'll look it up. As a side note, I'm glad you mentioned that the dub was good. I find that, as voice acting has been taken more seriously and some big names have developed, that anime dubbing has gotten much better as a whole. Sub purists piss me right off. "Oh yeah, I'm sure the actors are _so much better_ when they're high-pitch screaming in a language you can't understand." Subs (of those I've seen, mind you) are nearly always extremely overacted, and character voices seem to never match personalities or scene tones very well at all. Meanwhile, in the dubs, you get subtlety and impression, and you don't have to look away from the scene to "hear" the dialogue. For English viewers, it is the full experience.
I'm on the process of reading 20th Century Boys which is a manga written and drawn by the same guy who created Monster ( can't remember it's name right now ) and god damn I fucking love it so much. I need to watch Monster though.
As someone who actually kinda liked it (as a dumb superhero movie, like what Ralph basically said)....I 100% agree with this, and that would explain the high box office numbers and decent-above average positive audience reception...
The song venom by eminem is so weird. The music video has like 100 million views and all of the comments are positive. One comment even said that the video was sure to get 1 billion views within a year. I love old school eminem, and this song is just so weird. I dont get how anyone found the "venom, gotta go get em" part good.
I came here to listen to you guys talk about The Wall due to it being one of my favorites, and I sat through 40 minutes of Venom discussion. 10/10 Best Episode so far
Cowboy Bebop and Paranoia Agent are perfect anime for people who are art-house movie buffs and don't generally like anime. Both are only one season long and have high quality animation and writing.
Alex is wrong about the character of Venom, they have done a lot more with both Symbiote users and Eddie Brock and it has appeared in many stories without Spiderman or hating him being the focus.
Yeah, that bothered me a lot. It would take 5 minutes to research Venom's history and find out about his own comic book series and his days as a crazy-as-shit vigilante, but Alex failed to do even that.
