Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

We take a brave stance on our Patreon Raffle episode for the 2009 CGI Astro Boy that bankrupted a studio that animated movies for children should be good, or even cinema.

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We return to our regularly scheduled timeline and the MCU with one of COVID's most high profile release victims: Black Widow. It's a movie at least five years too late to be of any value and literally ends with Natasha saving ALL women. You probably know about the lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney about how co-releasing the movie on Disney+ fucked her bag up, but did you also know Disney was going to pay the original creators of Yelena Belova/White Widow a few thousand dollars as compensation for Florence Pugh playing their character? Just business as usual. 

Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Kevin Feige doing the Shmurda Dance, Jim (shout out to Jim!), jprestonpoole, Sam, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2.

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It's a very special Halloween episode as the gang covers the classic EC-comics inspired 1982 George Romero/Stephen King anthology film Creepshow. Our conversation includes: The strengths of the anthology format, the history of moral panics, how much creatively minded boomers hated their dads, EC comics and the comics code, scary Leslie Neilson, and King's memorable turn as doomed simpleton farmer Jordy Verrill.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past is notable for three things. The first is that it splits the timeline continuity between the old X-Men movies directed by (allegedly) sex pests towards underage boys or adult women with the new ones that will eventually bring us to Dark Phoenix and New Mutants taking Fox's outing with Marvel off a cliff, and in doing so innovates the now lucrative concept of the "multiverse." The second is that aforementioned sex pest towards underage boys (allegedly) is back to directing an X-Men movie and now we have to talk about him. The third is that JFK is a mutant.

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In one of our many silly tangents about Steel Cole laments that there aren't enough big third act scenes where the climax is a weapons auction to different stereotypical racial ethnicities, seemingly forgetting about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Ty is also here.

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Finally, our most off topic episode. Like a Millarworld comic we've got dick and fart jokes, imminently dated jokes about what's in the news, and a slight fixation on race in maybe our most off topic episode yet. Maybe in 15 years Netflix will give us like 10 billion dollars to produce a live action version of the podcast that will be canceled after one season. Did anyone else ever watch the netflix released Jupiter's Legacy show?

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Did any of you guys get the pandora mental illness? I didn't for the first one but now I think I'd fuck a blue lady if she looked white enough. Do you guys read these? Anyways stu and nicole are having a JO sesh at the local theater so they let me do this and I had to spend like 45 minutes figuring out the login because nobody knows what the podcast email is. Anyways we had a great time with the homie john on this one.

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So here's a movie everyone misremembers as being really good: X-Men: First Class. Not directed by a serial rapist pedophile or rampant sex pest of adult women, but by certified hack slop directed Matthew Vaughn a.k.a. Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond. It's the first of Fox's nu-X-Men movies in a saga that will end in Dark Phoenix (or New Mutants, however the fuck this canon goes). Basically we watched Star Trek again because this is also a prequel overstuffed with fanservice and weird shit about women. Made to be watched on FX with commercial breaks or by teenage girls projecting yaoi fanfic onto young Professor X and Magneto. Stu begins this episode in the closet and ends it in the closet running a 102 degree fever.

Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Porridge Fist, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Kevin Feige doing the Shmurda Dance, Owen2, bernventers, Jim (shout out to Jim!), and jprestonpoole

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Jonathan Majors couldn't stop doing DV and now they're giving an unfounded amount of money to Robert Downey Jr. and his brand new Oscar to come back as Doctor Doom. All that and more Marvel news covered in this Special Report.

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It's finally time for us to delve into a massive franchise we have yet to cover on the pod: Star Trek. Before J.J. Abrams was handed the keys to Star Wars to run into a brick wall and the hack fraud writing duo Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci gave us whatever the fuck the Tom Cruise Mummy movie was, they rebooted Trek with a glossy blockbuster prequel everyone loved and had absolutely no issues with. Does it really hold up after all these year? Three out of four podcasters say no, it doesn't. (Guess which one of us said it's alright. Hint: it wasn't Nicole.) We're joined by Trekkie/friend of the show/food wizard/beloved Discord moderator Seqarts to discuss all things Star and Trek.

Nikkei Progressives

Palestinian Youth Movement

Gaza Scholarship Fund for Displaced Students

Tickets to Boxing Helena at the Somerville Theater where Nicole is introducing the movie

Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Porridge Fist, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Owen2, bernventers, Lohik, Jim (shout out to Jim!), jprestonpoole, and PineappleRevy.

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