Faint Praise

In Eric's first time joining in a Faint Praise Extra episode, we talk about Justice League, and if it's as bad as we both think it's going to be.

In honor of the release of the new Punisher Netflix series, we watched all 3 of the Punisher movies to see which is the best one, and the results may be surprising given general public opinion about these generally forgotten films.

It's a Halloween miracle, Toni actually watched a horror movie for fun! In the last of the Eric-free FPX series, Toni talks about Happy Death Day and other movies and shows with the Groundhog Day theme.

What was originally supposed to be a matchup of remakes of The Mummy instead morphed into a comparison of The Mummy (2017) and Gods of Egypt, due to the fact that in the 21st century there's no good reason to make yourself watch a Brendan Frasier movie.

Remember when Clive Owen played King Arthur, but like in Roman times? Neither did we! But we wanted to talk about the impressively bad Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie from this year, so we had to find something to compare it to. So listen to us struggle to make it through both King Arthur from 2004 and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

We live!! Sorry about the long absence - there were many things that contributed to it, and it turned out to just be a better idea to wait until they all passed before resuming the podcast. But from now on we shouldn't have too many issues keeping to our weekly schedule. Our triumphant return is to examine a couple 80's movies about heavily muscled masters, with Masters of the Universe vs. Beastmaster. Hear Eric get really upset about the "aggressive bastardization" of He-Man! Hear Toni have a cute attack over ferrets!

Sorry we've been absent for a few weeks. Computer/internet troubles have been plaguing the production, but we are back with a second Faint Praise Extra episode, this time reviewing the Duffer Brothers movie Hidden.

This week we're back on track with an episode proper, and boy are we back! It's a real doozie, looking at two of the worst movies of 2002 (and maybe all time?) with Rollerball and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. If you want to enhance your podcast listening experience, after we start talking about the night vision scene in Rollerball do yourself a favor and watch this clip: https://youtu.be/d7Dfi-b-qns?t=35s.

Sorry that we've missed a couple weeks recently. This episode is a little different than our usual fare and includes a quick explanation at the beginning of what's been going on and our plans for the future. So enjoy the first of what we're calling Faint Praise Extras, with a longer-than-expected review of Dunkirk.

This week we go back to 1994 with Terminal Velocity and Drop Zone, two movies that desperately try to convince us that skydiving could be an effective way of either perpetrating or fighting crime. All they really convince us of is that we'd rather be watching Point Break.