Director Showdown

On this final episode of season 1, Adam and Brent are joined by returning guest John Casares and Sticker Fridge pal Brian Menard to discuss Spielberg’s 2001 film ‘AI: Artificial Intelligence’. The guys go over their mixed feelings on the film, some fascinating trivia behind the movie, and just how useless a character ‘Teddy’ turns out to be. Also discussed is the history of AI: or How Spielberg stopped worrying about Minority Report and decided to make this for his old buddy Kubrick. Lastly, the guys talk about their thoughts on the season as a whole*, what they’ve learned, and attempt to make one last pitch for who they think wins the Director Showdown! It’s an extra length episode jam packed with good stuff, so enjoy and thanks for listening!

*jump to the 1:30 mark for the season wrap-up

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This week on the 10th and penultimate episode of Director Showdown: season one, we have the FINAL Kubrick film; The Shining! Adam and Brent are joined by their friends David Rodriguez and Brent’s new* wife Amy! This week they dig into the conspiracies and possible meanings of Kubrick’s horror classic, talk about their own personal stories of seeing it for the first time, and tear Brent to shreds live on-air for merely ‘liking’ the movie; what an absolute monster. Enjoy the episode!

* ‘New’ here meaning that it just happened, not that she’s like my second or third wife or something.

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This week on Director Showdown, Adam and Brent watch the one that started it all; Jaws! They talk about some of the hardships and difficulties Spielberg faced while making it, secret UFO shots that may or may not tie the Spielberg cinematic universe together, and how Quint is one of the best characters of all time! All of this, while being tired and in Brent‘s case, having an enormous headache due to recovering from his Bachelor party (so apologies for the somewhat low energy episode!) Sharks! UFO’s! Richard Dreyfuss! Enjoy, everyone!

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After taking a week off for Brent’s wedding, the boys are back at it with the 1987 Kubrick war film ‘Full Metal Jacket’. Comparisons with the prior weeks ‘Saving Private Ryan’ are aplenty, as well as discussing the timeless style in which Kubrick shot the film, and maybe even another ‘Precious’ joke! Only time will tell, this week on Director Showdown!

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This week on Director Showdown, Brent and Adam watch the 1998 Spielberg masterpiece ‘Saving Private Ryan’. They make some jokes, get a little heartfelt, and talk about some of the interesting trivia behind the scenes. Enjoy!

*If you’re listening to this and know/are Tom Hanks, please have your agent contact Sticker Fridge to bless us with your paternal and patriotic embrace*

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Today Adam and Brent are joined by good buddy/Sticker Fridge associate/sexy buff guy Zach Cavender to dive into Kubrick’s 1971 ‘A Clockwork Orange’. We discuss the historic banning of the film for decades in England, the violence (often sexual) in the film, and the book the film is based on. Thanks for checking out Director Showdown!

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This week, Brent and Adam are joined by friend and Sticker Fridge buddy John Casares to talk Spielberg’s 1977 ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’. We talk about the iconic John Williams score, early examples of Spielberg’s eye for visual storytelling, and how terrible a father Richard Dreyfuss’ character is in this movie. Thanks for listening, and share with your friends!

*QUICK NOTE ABOUT THE SOUND ISSUES*

There are some substantial differences in mic volumes in this episode that we tried incredibly hard to fix, but unfortunately couldn’t improve. Hopefully you still give it a shot because it’s a great episode, but WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR BLOWING OUT YOUR EARDRUMS, WE LOVE U K BYE

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On today’s episode of Director Showdown, Adam and Brent check out one of Stanley Kubrick’s lesser talked about films (and masterpiece), 1975’s Barry Lyndon. Discussions of incestuous relationships, dramatic re-enactments of dying children, and plenty more on episode 4 of Director Showdown!

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This week, Brent picked a more recent Spielberg flick: 2005 historical thriller ‘Munich’. How does it compare to his classic Amblin films? Is this the most cynical, Kubrick-esque Spielberg joint yet? Find out on episode three!

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This week on Director Showdown, Brent and Adam are joined by their friend Sergio to discuss Stanley Kubrick’s ambitious and iconic 1968 classic ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.

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