Almost Good

We thought it might be easier to list all our nonsense. Let's try it...

Salty Rants In This Episode Include:

Dave's Shaky Basketball Analogy

We're all we've got in this world, but we can't hug it out over Skype. Instead, we talk about The Endless, which is 100% a really really really okay (some might say "almost good") kinda movie.

On this one, we dive deep into the plasma pool with Beyond the Black Rainbow, unpacking the plot, symbolism, use of tropes in non-aesthetic ways (tools as tools!), and then we talk about brain-melting psychedelics and, ultimately, how Kill Bill 2 might just hold the key to the type of storytelling we want in our movies.

JDO was really frustrated on this one. But despite it all, we talk rationally about Sorry to Bother You, one of the best movies JDO has ever seen. Dave's not so sure, but he's happy when JDO's happy.

On this episode, we talk Thoroughbreds (a.k.a. "American Psycho meets Heathers, according to the very smart packaging), Equus (lots of peners in that one), Heavenly Creatures, a good old-fashioned shredding of True Detective: Season Two, samurai swords, and a first look at Gillian Flynn's hot new HBO prestige series Sharp Objects.

on this episode dave and i talk thoroughbreds (american psycho meets heathers, according to the very smart packaging in which the dvd is packaged), equus (lots of penis in that one), heavenly creatures, a good old fashioned rag on true detective 2, samurai swords, and the new hbo series sharp objects

We have a question:

What if the Predators in the latest unessential Predator movie 69'd?

Don't worry, we also talk about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, how all opinions are invalid, and then stand back, because here comes a big-time lovefest for Hereditary.

Tonight we go all-in on the worst movie of the summer, Den of Thieves, for our most "tacticool" episode yet. Which movies (besides Heat) does this thing rip off? Are movies getting darker or are they just getting darker? Does the profile fit the profile? What's the perfect Bad Cop Breakfast? And why why why does Stallone cut his pizza slice with scissors in Cobra? Answers inside.

This week, there's another SCRIPT DOCTOR in the house, as well as some discussions about overseas markets, heists, redneck portrayals and other assorted hilarity, and (most importantly) we come back together for forgiveness and put the surprise betrayal of the previous episode behind us as only we know how... by talking about Jared Leto's appropriation gangster. Noogies for everybody.

Topics: Kanye West is never far from JDO's thoughts, dropping people from Facebook for not liking baby pictures, superhero movies vs. westerns, South Korean film, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, other word viruses, rule-based movies, the massive SCRIPT DOCTORING of A Quiet Place that nobody asked for, the intelligence of monsters, and a cliffhanger ending that could spell doom for the Almost Good podcast.