Could Matinee be the movie that Joe Dante had always wanted/was destined to make? Why are you asking Jim - he does movies badly! Still, in this episode Jim discusses the great comedy Matinee, how movies may be the safest, healthiest terrors that we can experience and brings up comparisons to Stephen King's "Danse Macabre" and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

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"War Fever" by Jonathan Rosenbaum: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1993/02/war-fever/

More Than One Lesson Minisode 29: "Home": http://morethanonelesson.com/minisode-29-home/

In the first episode covering Joe Dante, Jim discusses all the reasons why he liked The 'Burbs, even if he pronounces "satirist" like a pretentious prick in doing so. A suburbanite for his entire childhood and most of his adult life, Jim discusses what Dante might be saying about the crazies who populate the suburbs and discusses the similarities The 'Burbs may or may not have to David Mamet and Rod Serling's classic "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street."

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'Tis the season of giving and David Bax of Hey Watch This! and Battleship Pretension stops by I Do Movies Badly to give Jim the gift of satire as constructed by Joe Dante. After a healthy conversation about hockey and the response to Martin Brodeur's signing with St. Louis, the boys discuss the career of Joe Dante and ponder how his relative obscurity may be a product of unfair consensus on the comedy genre. Gradually, the recommendations are revealed, one of which featuring a P.T. Anderson reference that David misses: The 'Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).

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In this episode, Jim wraps up the South Korean Revenge genre with Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (or, just "Lady Vengeance" if you're searching for it on Netflix). Jim discusses how a character who embraces her evilness from the get go makes for an interesting lens through which the world is focused and offers some general thoughts on the genre he has now come to surprisingly enjoy.

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If you were in love with I Saw the Devil like Jim was, then you'll definitely be in like with Bedevilled! In this IDMB episode, Jim discusses his mixed reaction to the Chul-soo Jang film that seems to simultaneously be both an exploitation AND feminist film that wants you to want violence. Or perhaps it wants you to feel bad for wanting violence? Either way, this podcast episode goes by with both Drag Me to Hell and Funny Games namedropped, so do with that what you will.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE7tyW8CYXs

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In this first episode into South Korean Revenge films, Jim discusses how his initial hesitation to dip his toe into the bloody revenge pool quickly morphed into eager enthusiasm to dive in head first thanks to I Saw the Devil, a brutal, but fantastically shot, directed and acted film about how consequences come full circle.

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After a brief delay, Jim is back and switching gears for November from a discussion of a director to a genre. Tim Buel of The Golden Briefcase drops by to give Jim the bloody lowdown (for a second time) on South Korean Revenge films. The podcasters with rhyming names joke about having to record the episode twice due to their own idiocy before discussing the background of SK revenge films, why as a genre it can flourish across the seas rather than here in 'Murica and how sick of a twisted bastard Tim is for his high tolerance to viscera. The twisted bastard then recommends the three titles of most import to gore hounds: I Saw the Devil (2010), Bedevilled (2010) and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005).

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In this very special double feature Halloween episode, Jim, caught between the end of Bergman and the beginning of something new, takes some time to revel in the season by discussing the Universal classic, Bride of Frankenstein with Tyler Smith. After a discussion on the arguments for Bride of Frankenstein being better than its predecessor and a brief intermission, Jim shares his thoughts on how James Whale's comedic approach enhanced the horror of the film while diverting focus away from the terror.

Jim would also like to make it clear that he does not own the rights to The Monster Mash. That claim can only be made by whatever entity currently holds the rights to the songs of Bobby Pickett and Garpax Records.

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Well, it's the last Ingmar Bergman episode here on I Do Movies Badly and Jim isn't sad to see it end. In this final discussion of the legendary Swedish filmmaker, Jim admits that he wasn't prepared to engage with the film on its own (abbreviated) terms and attempts to explore how Fanny and Alexander could be the most brilliant film he would never recommend to anybody.

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Oh boy. If Jim thought that Wild Strawberries was trouble, nothing (aside from the warnings he initially received and apparently ignored) could've prepared him for the extreme exercise in esotericism that is Persona. Not entirely sure what he witnessed - and not entirely pleased it - Jim nevertheless does his best to discuss what stood out for him in Persona including the idea of an arrogant idea of a filmmaker unleashing a personal manifesto upon an audience and the audacity/ambition of trying to visually capture what sets film apart from other forms of artistic expression.

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