Off Target Podcast

This week the crew sits down to talk about their week before doing a deep dive movie club on the 2013 Robin Wright movie The Congress

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This week, in recognition of it's 10th anniversary, Mike talks about the triumph and importance of Iron Man (2008)

This week Mike, Andrew, and James Sit down to discuss children's entertainment that, all these years later, still holds up.

This week the crew sits down to talk about some of our favorite documentaries. 

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-James has finally seen The Room

-We weigh the pros and cons of B movies

-Downsizing doesn't live up to it's premise

-FX's Happy is like a live action The Maxx

-Andrew joins the PC master race

-A brief Cryptocurrency discussion

-Andrew doesn't fully connect with Ladybird

-Mike Loves Netflix's Dark

This week Mike and the crew sit down for a movie club. This month's movie is Dallas Buyers Club

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FIRST HALF

-James is prepared with statements on Thor Ragnarok

-Some Pony Island talk

-James is a Space Pirate in Heat Signature

-Mike hates writing on paper

-We rank pens for a bit

-Andrew unpacks what it means to be an elitist

-Andrew gets pumped for the winter Olympics

-Andrew gets called out for his Tekken 7 deficiencies

-Two words: Ghost furries

-Mike enjoys the narrative constructs in AHS Roanoke

-Mike discusses his Alamo Drafthouse experinence while talking about Three Billboards

-Extensive talk about the morality in Three Billboards

-Mike struggles in his quest to finish all of the Final Fantasy games

-Mike finishes 999

This week we return with another edition of What Would You Do? This tme we explore what it would be like to clone ourselves like Michael Keaton in 1996's Multiplicity

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Highlights From The First Half

-James Talks Heavy Bullet

-Mike Mixes up Jumping Flash and Jazz Jackrabbit

-Obscure steam game train continues with Hunt: Showdown

-We have to pause recording as smoke fills our garage from a car fire right outside our studio

-We try to find more games for Andrew to play

-Andrew says “LOL, Old Gamez Sux”

-Andrew is not taken with The Cloverfield Paradox

-We have a brief aside about Net Neutrality

-Mike Loves Split Second, Zombi not so much

-Mike Discusses Fifty Shades Freed

This Week Mike sits down with Andrew and James To discuss the evolution of Superhero Movies as they become their own distinct genre

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Highlights From The First Half

-James pitches Off Target Year One: Remastered edition

-The podcast is improved greatly by some Italian red wine

-James Talks About Dead Cells New Game++ mode

-Escape From Tarkov Sounds Intriguing

-Andrew has a new cat named Television

-Shout out to the North Shore Animal League

-Andrew Explains What The Kitten Bowl Is

-Andrew Saw The Winter Classic

-Andrew quickly runs through some of the seasons biggest movies

-Mike Leads Some Switch Discussion

-Mike Talks Visual Novels and The Nonary Games

This week Mike sits down for another mini-episode where he waxes poetic about the James Mangold Film Logan.

Join us next week for another full episode where we deconstruct the current state and evolution of the Super Hero movie genre

Music Credits:

Hurt: Johnny Cash

When The Man Comes Around: Johnny Cash

This week Mike and James share their personal favorite media that they have consumed in 2017, not necessarily things that came out in 2017, just the media that was most important to them in 2017

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This week Mike, Andrew, and James sit around sharing their memories, both good and bad, as we have the most off topic of episodes to celebrate our one year anniversary. Our main topic is our unpublished episode 0, recorded before we even had a name, where Erin and I sit down and talk about hobbies.

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