Faint Praise

We examine our first instance on Faint Praise of that weird phenomenon where major studios release two movies in the same year with the exact same plot, with Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman. Hear Toni inexplicably call Jane Krakowski "Jane Kowalski" for no reason, multiple times!

How similar can two movies with the same premise of a future society on Earth that's centered around fighting invading alien space bugs be? Listen to us talk about Ender's Game and Starship Troopers to find out. Toni continues to get easily searchable facts wrong by trying to discuss the Ender's Game novel decades after reading and not liking it. Toni also continues to not care about the Ender's Game novel or what happens in it.

Toni and Eric compare the first couple movies in the "versus" genre, which arguably never really caught on in mainstream cinema, with Alien vs. Predator vs. Freddy vs. Jason. Does Toni keep up the fledgling tradition started in FP01 of getting obvious things wrong and not realizing it until after finishing recording? You be the judge!

Welcome to the pilot episode of Faint Praise! We talk about two movies that for some reason have Paul Bettany playing the ultimate warrior of God, made by the same director in almost the same year: Priest and Legion. Here we begin what is likely to be a grand tradition of Toni getting things wrong and not realizing until after the episode is already done recording. The main thing she got wrong this time was of course the sound quality (sorry about that!), but also the pronunciation of Cam Gigandet's name (less sorry about that one).