"The prequels are better than the sequels."  

With those fightin' words begins the first epic, multi-part series of the Fight with Mike! podcast.

The preliminaries are out of the way, and now it's time to take on the big fish -- that's right, Star Wars.   The series of films that defined the summer blockbuster, and created the notion of the "summer tent-pole" film.  But, for all their financial success, the Star Wars movies...well, let's just say they can be a mixed bag.

In keeping with the epic nature of the movies, we decided to dedicate the next few episodes to reviewing and comparing all 3 trilogies, by installment.  In this episode, we look at the first installment of each trilogy: A New Hope, The Phantom Menace, and Another New Hope...I mean, The Force Awakens.  We look at what works and what doesn't work, how they hold up over time, and how they stack up against each other (spoiler alert: it's a race for 2nd place!).

We also take a little time to reflect on the first couple of episodes, and introduce a new small segment.  We also address some listener comments about the nature of the podcast, and about the episode length.  We respond with our longest episode yet!

We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!

In round 2, Mike and Andy get to the issue that originally sparked the idea of the podcast, the 2016 DCEU film Suicide Squad.  Star-studded (sort of) cast, big effects budget, and more wacky characters than you can shake a stick at.  I mean, seriously.  Waaaaay too many.

Suicide Squad is not a good movie (spoiler alert).  But, is Suicide Squad just a bad movie?  Or one of the worst movies ever made?  Only the Fight With Mike! podcast dares to ask this question.

So get ready for another round of pulse-pounding, hard-hitting discussion on Fight....with Mike!

Welcome to the FIght With Mike! podcast!  Join father-and-son dynamic duo Mike and Andy as they discuss the burning issues of the day.  As in, the burning issues that a couple of 10 year olds might discuss deep into the night over their comic books as they guzzle Dr. Pepper and talk about superheroes, horror movies, and the girls they like but will never get to kiss.

In this inaugural episode of Fight With Mike! we talk about how we came up with the idea for the podcast, what we plan to talk about generally, and our hopes for the show going forward.

But enough of that touchy-feely stuff.  You folks paid for a fight, so in this episode we discuss the deep burning question that has bedeviled historians and philosophers for centuries, or at least a few nerds over the last couple of years since Infinity War came out; which villain was a better, Thanos (as portrayed in Infinity War) or Heath Leger's Joker from 2008's The Dark Knight.  It's a no-holds barred, mano-y-mano bar-room brawl where we examine the characters, their motivations, the performances behind them, and how they stack up against each other.  We also chat about the movies themselves, their relative importance to the genre, and how they each changed the game.