Mike and Andy shoot the sh*t a bit after our summer break.

1:12 Catching up

7:42 BS Episodes and other formats

11:37 I think we're a meme

15:27 Andy's gaming

33:12 Mythic Quest

38:02 Loki

41:02 The Suicide Squad is good !?!??

44:27 Alien Resurrection revisited

46:42 Dune, Foundation, and Roscoe the Xenomorph

58:37 The Ayer Cut (?) plus Army of the Dead sort-of

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It's been a hot minute/5 weeks, but we're back! 

It's time to close the chapter on a another multi-part series with Alien: Resurrection.  Yes, Ripley is back...sort of...with her usual dance partners to nearly lay waste to all the films that came before it.  One of the most mind-boggling, incomprehensible messes ever put to film is unfortunately the bookend to one of the best films ever made. (Spoiler alert)

But, while the movie was pretty awful, we had a blast talking about it!  Actually, talking about with 2 of my favorite people was what made this worthwhile.  So join us as we discuss the "Citizen Kane" of the Alien films, Alien: Resurrection.

(Yes, the "Citizen Kane" comparison is sarcastic)

Contents

5:20 Ravenous Consumption

38:45  Main Event: Overview, Cast, and Overall impressions

47:00 Trivia!

52:15 Plot(?) Summary

53:45  Ummm...I don’t think you guys know how cloning works…

56:50  Two words… Breath. Identification.

59:00  Charles Darwin Station and Ripley’s NBA Tryout

1:01:35 Bought out by Walmart

1:07:05 Underwater attack in Real-3D!

1:11:15 An act of...mercy??

1:13:40 Alien after dark

1:23:50 So...how exactly did this get made?

1:28:00 Finale, or running out the clock

1:36:35 Curb Your Alien

1:40:00 “It’s an insult that this movie made money”

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Fresh from our own production hell, much like the subject of this episode, we are proud to present (finally) the Fight With Mike! episode on Alien 3.  Not that we are proud to present Alien 3.  No, not really.

Alien 3 was a film mired in production problems, a revolving door of writers and directors, and studio micro-management for years.  Somehow this muddled mess made it out into the world, much like the birth of a xenomorph itself.

Yet, despite the mess, there are some gems hidden in the pile.  Enough to save the movie?  Probably not, but Mike, Andy, and Adam grab their torches and high explosives and head down into the basement to look for redeeming qualities in this movie.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Ramblings and Future Special Guests?

5:45 - Ravenous Consumption

30:05 - News!

37:15 - Main Event/ Alien 3 background info

41:08 - Cast

42:53 - Alien 3 Trivia!

48:17 - Plot summary, Initial reactions and Opening

1:02:50 - Autopsy/funeral scene

1:06:15 - Dillon’s Eulogy

1:08:41 - So, how do you like the dog-Alien?

1:11:04 - Ripley meets the crew!

1:13:30 - First victims … who cares?

1:15:30 - Clemons buys it, or, “We should have watched the director’s cut”

1:17:15 - Alien cubed?

1:18:45 - Rumor control/It’s a trap!

1:24:30 - Triple-jeopardy or...Alien cubed?

1:26:25 - “There’s a queen inside all of us”

1:29:40 - It’s (another) trap!

1:37:35 - I’ll take my Oscar now, thank you

1:40:40 - It’s a wrap, folks

Story about the production issues: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/alien-3-comparing-the-assembly-cut-to-the-theatrical-cut/

This time, it’s war.  Because, there’s more than one, you see?  And there’s space marines with guns.

Part 2 of our traipse through the Alien franchise finds us smack-dab in the middle of a hive choc-full o’ aliens.  In 1986, 7 years after the original Alien, James Cameron unloaded his sequel, an action-packed war movie with super-macho marines, a giant alien queen, and more drones and face-huggers than you can shake a stick at.

It’s fun, but how does this film and it’s complete 180-degree tonal-shift stack up against the original?  And do we care, given the sheer volume of ordinance unloaded in this movie?

Regardless, one thing’s for sure… the late, great Bill Paxton steals this movie.

(4:00) Ravenous Consumptions

(15:39) Aliens discussion start

(21:20) Opening

(28:00) Road Trip to LV426

(42:11) Drop and Colony Breach

(52:14) Ambushed!

(1:00:36) Seige/Last Stand

(1:10:12) Newt’s Rescue

(1:14:51) Fistfight!

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In space, no one can hear you scream...but in a crowded movie theater in 1979, pretty much everyone can hear an 11 year old boy wetting himself in terror.

Why was an 11 year old watching one of the most terrifying R-rated films of all time that would give him nightmares for years?  Because parents didn’t actually care what the hell their kids were watching back then.

In this episode, Mike and Andy are joined once again by Adam to embark on another multipart journey through the Alien franchise, starting with one of the most beloved SciFi classics ever put to film; Alien (1979).  Featuring a cast of veterans and unknowns, it was the film that launched Sigourney Weaver into the stratosphere, and put a relatively young John Hurt on the map.

Nigh 42 years on from its original release, does Alien hold up?

(Spoiler alert: yes, yes it does).

It had to happen...our young Andy is back at school.  But, he’s still making time to nerd out with Dad!

This week brings us 3 more classic Star Trek episodes to talk about, this time from Season 2:

Season 2 is probably the high bar of TOS, and these 3 episodes are the tip of that ice-cream-cone-of-death.

Also, Mike and Andy vent their feelings a bit on the recent coup attempt in the US Capitol, the first time the Capitol has been breached since the War of 1812.

This week Mike and Andy must face the harsh and brutal reality of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), pitting father against son in a fight to the end.  Facing the first live-action film representation of DC’s Holy Trinity required assembling, for the first time, the Fight With Mike Trinity!  Yes, we lassoed our own Wonder Woman, the lovely Megan Cico, to help us bridge our divide and face down the disastrously epic film that attempted to launch the DCEU in one bold stroke. Unfortunately, that stroke whiffed, losing the bat into the crowd and causing some serious damage and human suffering.

But just how bad was it?  Is it one of the worst films ever made?  Or, is it a noble attempt at telling an epic story of the cult of personality and the fear of what we can’t control?  And, is it OK that Batman goes bat-crazy and starts murdering people whose moms don’t have the same first name as his?

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Fresh out of the Nerd Lab!  Mike’s anime education continues with Psychopass (Season 1), a surprisingly (to Mike anyway) sophisticated piece of dystopian science fiction that incorporates  threads from several inspirations in the genre.  Also, they discuss the apparent inability in this future to fake eyelids on human-like cyborgs.

So far, Mike’s trip through anime has been a mixed bag.  How will Psychopass hold up for old man Mike?  And if it doesn’t, will Andy keep making him watch anime?

Also, news!   More than you can shake a stick at, as Disney announces metric tons of Star Wars and Marvel shows and movies over the next few years.  Join the boys as they froth at the mouth over some of the interesting announcements coming out of the House of Mouse.

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This week we dive back into Star Trek: TOS with a second round of first-season samplers hand-picked by Mike for young Andy's consumption: 

Three timeless science fiction classics (ok, well, maybe 2 timeless classics), with a dab o' politics on the side!  

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