Myopia Movies

This week on Myopia Movies, we plug directly into the algorithmic void with one of the most expensive “what happened here?” movies in recent memory: The Electric State (2025).

This is the kind of film that looks incredible in still images—rusted robots, abandoned highways, that eerie retro-future aesthetic—and yet somehow feels completely hollow once it starts moving. It’s all vibes, no voltage. The bones of something interesting are there, but the movie never quite figures out what it wants to be: a heartfelt road story? A dystopian warning? A quirky robot adventure? Yes. And also… not really any of them.

And look, you’ve got Millie Bobby Brown doing everything she can to ground the film, and Chris Pratt doing his usual charm-forward routine. Nobody here is phoning it in. But the script feels like it was assembled by committee, filtered through three different tones, and then sanded down until nothing sharp—or memorable—remains.

Which, in a weird way, makes it perfect for us.

Because this is exactly the kind of movie that should work. The pedigree is there. The budget is there. The source material is there. And yet… here we are.

So grab your neural headset, hop in your broken-down robot companion, and join us as we wander through one of the most visually striking and emotionally confusing movies of the year.

And the best part?

We’re just getting started.

God help us.

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Host: Nic

Panel: Matthew, Keiko, Jeremy

Directed by: Anthony & Joe Russo

Starring:

Millie Bobby Brown

Chris Pratt

Ke Huy Quan

Giancarlo Esposito

Stanley Tucci

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Host: Nic

Panel: Matthew, Alex, Keiko, Nur

Directed by: Rich Lee

Starring: Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, Iman Benson, and Michael O’Neill

This week on Myopia Movies, we kick off our annual dive into some of the worst movies of the previous year. And we are starting with a real doozy: the live-action 2025 remake of Snow White.

This is one of those films that somehow manages to miss why the original worked in the first place. The charm, the simplicity, the fairy-tale tone—gone. In their place: baffling creative decisions, tonal confusion, and a remake that feels strangely disconnected from the magic of the classic.

And honestly, you almost feel bad for Rachel Zegler, who is clearly trying and probably gives the most earnest performance in the film. Yet she ended up taking the brunt of the blame for the movie’s failure—much of it tied to the controversy surrounding her public comments on Gaza, which turned the film into a culture-war lightning rod before it even hit theaters.

None of that makes the movie better.

But it does make it perfect material for Myopia Movies.

So grab your poisoned apple and join us as we dig into one of the strangest big-budget misfires of the year.

And the best part?

God help us.

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Host: Nic

Panel: Alex, Keiko, Jeremy

Directed by: Marc Webb

Starring:

This month we revisit Cruel Intentions, the film that asked, “What if Dangerous Liaisons… but everyone shops at Abercrombie?” Schemes! Staircases! Smirks that could cut glass! Where impossibly wealthy teenagers treat Manhattan like a chessboard and human emotions like a hobby. It’s seduction, manipulation, and dramatic journal entries, all set to the most aggressively 1999 soundtrack imaginable.

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Host: Nic

Panel: Keiko, Candace, Alex

This week on Myopia Movies, we sharpen the knife and head back to Woodsboro in honor of Scream 7 slashing into theaters. That’s right — we revisited Scream 2, the sequel to a horror classic we genuinely love… and enrolled ourselves in Sequel Class to figure out what went wrong. More meta? Yes. More bodies? Absolutely. Better than the original? Well… let’s just say the killer might not be the only thing chasing diminishing returns.

Was it a worthy follow-up or just another case of sequel syndrome?

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Host: Nic

Panel: Keiko, Jeremy, and Alex

Directed by Wes Craven

This week as we continue the erotic thrillers month, we get a little witchy.  We watched The Craft, the second best Neve Campbell and Skeet Ulrich of 1996, see the previous episode. 

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Host: Nic

Panel: Keiko, Alex, Jeremy

Directed by Andrew Fleming

This week on Myopia Movies, we give you a peak behind the curtains as we try to explain how we do what we do on the podcast and the Cineprov live show. From a veteran, a young gun, and a newbie. 

Host: Nic 

Panel: Nur and Keiko. 

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This week on Myopia Movies, we dig something out of the trash! Not the episode, of course, but the movie! Listen to episode 58 Congo remastered nine years later! Man, we have been doing this too long. Watch CGI Gorillas for no good reason! 

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Host: Nic

Defendant: Matt

Directed by Frank Marshall

Starring: Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov,  Joe Don Baker, Lola Noh, Mary Ellen Trainor, Jimmy Buffet, Delroy Lindo

This week on Myopia Movies, we continue our Erotic Thrillers month with the spiciest 27 year old high schoolers you have ever seen! We watched Wild Things, one of the most paused VHS tapes in history. 

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Host: Nic

Panel: Keiko, Alex, and Matthew

Directed by John McNaughton

This week we start a slew of Erotic Thrillers with the first name you think of when you think erotic and thriller, Jim Belushi. We watched Traces of Red! A trashy movie set in the swamps of Florida.

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Host: Nic

Panel: Jeremy, Matt

Directed by Andy Wolk