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We may never again find a movie that we are both so passionate about on complete opposite ends of the spectrum. In this episode, James tries to convince me that this train wreck has any value whatsoever... I mean we have a very reasonable mature debate over a movie that divides the public. Perhaps it's harmless. Or perhaps it violates my 8th amendment right to be spared cruel and unusual punishment. You decide.

Gather round friends harken to my wordsOf a film beloved by B movie nerds

Seriously though, how could we consider ourselves amateur movie critics without weighing in on perhaps the best worst movie of all time? Our goal for this week was to try and see if we could figure out how to either make The Room somehow good, or recapture so bad it's good lightning in a bottle. It's a fool's errand to be sure, but we gave it our best.

We apparently didn't get our fill of 1950's nostalgia last week. This week we set out to figure out why, in an era where reviving classic 80's franchises is all the rage, you don't hear anyone teasing a Back to the Future reboot.

What began as a simple idea to analyze nostalgia in media turned into a discussion of Grease's message and basically how, for lack of a better term, "woke" it may or may not be. Is an old school message about changing oneself for the one you love actually kind of a breath of fresh air in an era where every kid is told to "be themselves?" Perhaps.

Oh, and Joe whines for a bit about how much of a tragedy it was that Freaks and Geeks got canceled after one season. Don't worry it's relevant to the topic overall... kinda.

Seriously Universal, we're rooting for you, but this?

So we've only got one episode under our belt at this point, and understandably wanted something easy to cut our teeth on. So naturally, we decided to rewrite an entire freaking Cinematic Universe. And yes, Universal only made the one movie, but that didn't stop us from planning all the way up to our first crossover.

What's that you say? You never asked for an analysis of the life and death of the spoof comedy genre focusing specifically on two of the dumbest movies ever made? Tough. This was actually just going to be a test pilot at first. But we decided this discussion was just too darn important to keep it from the world.nces.