Almost Good

After a much-needed week off, Almost Good returns in force to discuss directors saying really stupid shit, disavowing movies based on their creators, the #MeToo music loophole, our respective Netflix queues, Ready Player One... and oh no here comes a whole new breed of theater gremlin.

Topics: Slipknot rules, Wheelman might not rule, bad dialogue, when process shots go wrong, grabbing sandwiches, conspicuous naming, toothpicks in Asian gangster flicks, no kids in movies, good tough guys, Fred Durst’s voice, meta tough guys, okay, fine, Dave kinda liked Wheelman, bad accents, Small Crimes, a good Leonardo DiCaprio joke, two Daves do some accents of their own, The Ritual, people losing their shit when they get lost in the woods, that time JDO got lost in the woods, the proper use of a Grillo revealed, cool-as-hell monsters, monsters that are simply too powerful, and what exactly is Almost Good?

Get Ready For...

Mushrooms vs. movies, nice ice cubes, empathy builders, bad teaching scenes, sad music, pacing issues with the hazmat man, Dave’s bad jokes, "good" green, Toronto tax shelters, bears that scream like women, weird denial in movies, was there or wasn’t there weird chanting in the cutting-open-the-stomach scene, how you can lose it around others, does the rainbow work, how to totally ruin (and maybe solve) this movie, having something to lose, why JDO doesn’t do Valentine’s Day, being sad in the sad place, cool water shots, mirror processing shots, Finch, Event Horizon vibes, benevolent evil, one time when JDO (allegedly) took too many mushrooms watching a movie, thank-you trailers, good seats as a harbinger for movie death, theater gremlins again, fuck The Disaster Artist, and THE SCRIPT DOCTOR is back and ready to tackle Winchester.

On this episode of the Almost Good podcast, we talk about stuff like that one racist guy who likes Black Panther, CGI rhinos, fighting twice, Blade II as a harbinger for rubbery Gumby fights, "What are the fucking powers???", how Dave really liked the white dude with one arm, of course Killmonger was right, James Spader is ass-eating royalty, doubling down on late capitalism, Marvel already ruined movies, Dave’s stepbrother is The Movie Oracle, purple vs. orange, message from the king, is Black Panther almost good, Sean Baker rules, The Florida Project lovefest (but is it poverty porn?), process shots, no N-words, getting “staffed”, CHAPPiE, some Blade knockoffs, theater gremlins, and THE SCRIPT DOCTOR swings by to totally fix Black Panther.

This time we talk about the unlikely awesomeness of Kanye West, Dave transcribes JDO’s drunk phone call regarding Black Panther, how the best movies never run down the middle, Dunkirk, Bane masks at the gym, nü-metal (of course), Oscar picks and snubs, A Ghost Story, fake vomit, Ladybird, annoying theater talkers, some unique Alamo Drafthouse challenges, seat kickers, art vs. pulp, the genius of S. Craig Zahler, an alternate list of Best Pictures, Gabino Iglesias' love of milk, Bad Day for the Cut, playing Rammstein at work, car fighting, and THE SCRIPT DOCTOR is on double duty, rolling in again to fix both Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Blade Runner 2049. Oh, and how has Jared Leto not been #MeToo’d yet (as of this recording)?

For our very first episode, Dave talks about almost getting into a fight on the way to a movie about fish fucking, what it was like to go to movie theaters in the '80s, The Shape of Water gets reviewed for real, then we ramble about the importance of character evolution. Also, we ask each other questions like, "What even is an Oscar movie?" talk a little about Instagram Cinema, the feel-bad/white-trash epic I, Tonya, and finally bust out THE SCRIPT DOCTOR, who totally fixes The Shape of Water for free.