Eye of the Storm Movie Podcast

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week we discover Guillermo Del Toro's 2009 fantasy movie Hellboy 2: The Golden Army starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair in which Hellboy and the BPRD fight an elven prince who seeks to destroy humanity in revenge for the humiliation of his people.

We discuss how the movie compares to the 2004 movie Hellboy, what we thought about the development of its characters, the geopolitics of elves, and much more.

This week we review and discuss The Crow (2024), a superhero movie based on the comic book of the same name, directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Bill Skarsgard, FKA Twigs and Danny Huston about a man who comes back to life after being killed to avenge his death and save his girlfriend's soul.

Join us for our in depth spoiler movie review and analysis of The Crow, in which we talk about why this movie was so strongly rejected by audiences and flopped so decisively at the box office, the choices made in updating this beloved character, and what the negative reception this movie has received says about the changing movie landscape and audience tastes and attitudes.

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0:00 Intro
0:16 Best Recent Thing Watched
4:42 Synopsis and Overall Impressions
11:15 Spoiler Conversation
48:38 The Crow, Borderlands and Audience Rebellion
01:07:03 Conclusion and Ratings

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week the talk about James Cameron's The Terminator from 1984 starring Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, about a woman who is hunted by a time travelling cyborg assassin from the future due to the role she will play in a future war between humanity and the machines.

We discuss how science fiction classic The Terminator started a multi decade franchise that has lost its way in recent incarnations, what the first movie did right that later installments would not and why this is a near perfect movie. We also talk about the character arc its protagonist Sarah Connor goes on and what other movies can learn from it.

This week we review and discuss Alien: Romulus, a science fiction horror movie directed by Fede Alvarez and starring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson and Isabela Merced, about a group of downtrodden young space colonists in pursuit of better life conditions, who encounter hostile creatures while scavenging a derelict space station.

Join us for our in depth spoiler discussion and analysis of Alien: Romulus in which we debate whether this is the best Alien movie, where the franchise can go from here, the morality of androids, and much more.

0:00 Intro
0:20 Best Recent Thing Watched
6:19 Synopsis and General Impressions
13:58 Spoiler Conversation
01:03:40 Conclusion and Ratings

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week the talk about Guillermo Del Toro's 2004 fantasy movie Hellboy starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair in which a demon child, summoned by the mystic Rasputin during WWII and rescued by Allied forces, grows up to protect the world from supernatural threats as part of a secret government organization.

We discuss the movie's themes of destiny, responsibility and humanity, how the 2004 movie stacks up against the other interpretations of the Hellboy comics, how the movie holds up 20 years later, and much more.

This week we review and discuss Borderlands, a science fiction action comedy directed by Eli Roth and starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin hart, Jack Black, Ariana Greenblatt, Gina Gershon and Jamie Lee Curtis, about Lillith, an outlaw who forms an alliance with a team of misfits to find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe who is the key to accessing a vault of lost alien technology.

Join us for our in depth spoiler review and analysis of Borderlands in which we discuss whether this movie deserves its distinction of being the first 0% movie on Rotten Tomatoes and the worst adaptation of a video game, what the severe audience backlash to this movie means, how to do an adaptation and how important respecting the source material is, and much more.

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0:00 Intro
0:24 Best Recent Thing Watched
08:07 Synopsis and Overall Impressions
13:33 Spoiler Discussion
01:05:38 Rating and Conclusion

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week the talk about Tim Burton's classic superhero movie Batman from 1989 which stars Michael Keaton as Batman and Jack Nicholson as the Joker in which billionaire Bruce Wayne, as the masked vigilante Batman, battles the psychotic Joker, who wreaks havoc on Gotham City after a chemical accident

We talk about how this foundational classic of the superhero holds up to someone watching it for the first time in 2024, how it realises its iconic characters, the story as well as its place in the superhero genre that would not exist the way it does today without this movie.

This week we review and discuss season 1 of Batman: Caped Crusader, an animated superhero series starring Hamish Linklater, Eric Morgan Stuart and Krystal Joy Brown, which is a noir-inspired reimagining of the Batman mythos, focusing on a young Bruce Wayne during the early stages of his crime-fighting career in Gotham City.

Join us for our in depth spoiler review and analysis of Batman: Caped Crusader in which we discuss plot and characters, how this version of Batman stacks up against Batman the Animated series which this is a spiritual successor to as well as the larger Batman mythos, as well as how important respecting the source material is and when a change or reimagining is worth it.

0:00 Intro
0:23 Best Recent Thing We Watched
09:04 Synopsis and Overall Impressions
13:47 Spoiler Discussion
59:30 Conclusion and Ratings

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.

This week the talk about James Cameron's Aliens from 1986 which is a sequel to Alien and the other good movie in the Alien franchise. In this science fiction action classic, Ellen Ripley returns with a squad of Colonial Marines to the moon LV-426 to battle hordes of deadly Xenomorphs after contact with a human colony is lost.

We talk about what makes Aliens work as a sequel, why Ellen Ripley is such a great character, and more.

This week we review and discuss Deadpool & Wolverine, a Marvel superhero movie that brings Deadpool and Wolverine into the MCU, directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and everybody who has ever been in a Marvel movie.

Join us for our in depth spoiler review and analysis of Deadpool & Wolverine in which we discuss the plot and allegory at its heart, what Deadpool does for the MCU and what that means for the superhero genre moving forward, and much more.