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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather wade into the murky waters of Reminiscence, the murky near-future post-apocalyptic neo-noir written and directed by Lisa Joy (Westworld) and starring Wolverine.

This movie bombed. $1.9M opening weekend. And it didn’t cost Avengers money but it wasn’t cheap. This in itself is fascinating, and it’s fascinating to look at what didn’t work about the movie and to consider what it might have been.

Spoilers for Orpheus and Eurydice.

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Episode 687: Super-Threatening Fish of an Unclear Nature originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthink Val, which uses film and videotape shot by the actor Val Kilmer over the course of his life and career in order to tell the story of his life and career, puzzling out what it means to look back at moments in time; what kind of person emerges in Val Kilmer’s portrait of himself; and how closely he stuck to his aim to make a movie “about acting.”

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Episode 686: A Film With Documents originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Sony’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines, which is a heartwarming tale of a family learning to love one another and thwarting a robot uprising. Or is it?! We peel back the layers to find (and thankfully avert) a dark, Freudian psychosexual parable, a slightly confused message about the miracles and the dangers of technology, and a challenging and fascinating visual style.

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Episode 685: What Do People Her Age Say? Hits Different. originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather journey deep into the eye of the Starfish to comprehend the psycho-sexual phantasmagoria of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad the only film of 2021 that actually makes some kind of sense.

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Episode 684: The Film’s Heart Was in the Middle of the Starfish originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather start by postulating that they didn’t go to see the new Jungle Cruise movie form Disney, and end up, naturally enough, with Pete cleaning out his garage and Matt deciding that, dang it, he should buy that $17.99 bottle of Syrah. Routines, infrastructures, and the hierarchy of entertainments suspiciously resembling Maslow’s hierarchy of needs are discussed.

Bonus coffee recommendation from Matt.

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Episode 683: Are You More of a Jungler Or More of a Cruiser originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather are not satisfied with your glib reading of Space Jam: A New Legacy, starring LeBron James as a character named LeBron James but who is not LeBron James. They overthink the surprising contradictions of the film, which yokes fundamentally incompatible missions together in the same (cyber)space basketball game.

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Episode 682: If Warner Bros. Is God, Which I Think They Think They Are originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Jordan Stokes joins Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather to overthink the current state of the MCU. Or is it the MCM now? Black Widow is kind of a repositioning cruise, so even though the experience is a little disjointed there are things to enjoy. And Loki was a great half-season of television!

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Episode 681: I’m Glad That I Saw the Marvel Property That Had an Alligator with a Funny Hat originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Matthew Belinkie joins with news of his newest moonshot project, an original animated music video to his own mash-up of WAP and the original Space Jam theme song. He tells Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather about it, and they are led to overthink Richard Branson’s mashup of himself and being in space.

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Episode 680: Richard Branson, the First Billionaire to go to Prom originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthink Bo Burnham’s Netflix special Inside, and try to make sense of their own ambitions for and reactions to that championship season.

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Episode 679: That Championship Sesason originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather return to the franchise that inspires more passionate overthinking than any other — the Fast and Furious universe, as they overthink F9: The Fast Saga. They talk about the organizing visual and thematic material of the film, its ambitions and relations to the previous films in the franchise. TL;DR: Go see it.

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Episode 678: A Saga is a Multi-Generational Story about a Family originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]