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No, not the one that everyone liked.

Due to the Treaty of Ruffalo's Pass after the Battle of Three Christophers, it is forbidden for any podcast to talk about MCU movies without invoking the Pact of Seventeen Eyes. 

But you CAN still talk about the Sony Marvels. Including this one! Where Ben Affleck thinks he's in a moody television drama titled Just A Man Living On Whistlepig Lane, Jennifer Garner thinks she's in an action comedy titled Karate Kooks, Colin Farrell thinks he's in a character piece titled Beefboys of Belfast and Michael Clarke Duncan thinks he's in a superhero movie titled Daredevil.

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The very first LIVE episode of Slop Culture, in-person and face-to-face, is here and it's full of snot and coughing because Will and Sam recorded this inside a shipping container, sick as dogs that work blue collar jobs. But stronger than the flu is their devotion to horrifying action movies and, brother, they don't come more horrifying than a movie about how to beat Lou Ferrigno in a sword fight. Join these greasy, wheezing boys for a foray into one of the most so-straight-to-video-it-hurts movies of all time.

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Today, Will and Sam take a look at one of cinema's most renowned pillars, a franchise that singlehandedly holds up the artistic tradition of guys in tank tops racing cars and doing crimes--INTERNATIONALLY. That's right, we're taking a deep dive into the legendary Tokyo Drift to better understand the struggle of a 36-year-old Alabama man trying to get by in a Japanese high school for some reason.

Take a deep breath and inhale the scent of Slop Culture's 50th episode. Smell that? That's the scent of artistic achievement.

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Today, the boys set out on a quest to cleanse their palates with a foolhardy and forgettable movie about someone who plays video games (a gamer, if you will) and instead discover a horrific vision into a future where people rent out their bodies to be commandeered by the wealthy and decadent, where the only use of human flesh is in service to cold and unfeeling technology, where you are required by law to think Michael C. Hall is cool and so is his inexplicable southern accent.

Join Will and Sam as they indulge in a movie that has aged like a fine wine with swear words written on the label.

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Join Will and Sam for an evening at the macho action movie equivalent of opera as we settle in for a long and fraught discussion about the nature of pageantry, atmosphere, dramatic theme and the role of colorful costumery in male friendships. Could the solution to this isolated, atomized existence we languish under be to dress in themed matching costumes, paint your faces and roll out with your boys to rumble with the Turnbull ACs? Let's find out together as we watch 1979's The Warriors.

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Will and Sam build bridges between nations after watching the tragic majesty of a movie in which a French dude pretending to be a Scottish dude whacks people with swords because a Scottish dude pretending to be an Egyptian dude pretending to be a Spanish dude told him it would solve all his problems--and, just like in real life, it does.

Get Quickening'd, fool.

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Will and Sam spend the greater part of an hour trying to pick themselves up after getting struck by the hardest-hitting action comedy to ever bust out a pair of nunchuks in Michael Jai White's send-up to 1970s exploitation movies.

Please note that, contrary to what is said in the episode, neither Will nor Sam are seriously contending that Monsanto sponsors gamers, zones or gamerzones of any kind and everything they say should be taken as the rantings of madmen walled up in a cellar. 

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Once every few years, all elements of an action movie begin to move as celestial bodies adrift in space--plot, writing, actors, chemistry, physical comedy, fight scenes, set design, charisma, budget and Christopher Walken in all his sweaty glory. And, with a vision of beauty that could only be crafted in the heavens itself, these factors align to create The Perfect Action Movie.

My friends. Will and Sam are here to tell you about that movie.

Also there's a bit in there about gnome crime dramas and it's just great.

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The society of 2004 did not call out for a 1930s retro adventure. It did not demand a story about planes fighting robots; it did not clamor for an aggressively gormless romance between two people reciting lines while quietly wondering if it's a social faux pas to eat turkey for dinner three nights in a row.

But Hollywood gave it to them, anyway. Join Will and Sam for a look at one of cinema's campiest, as well as an in-depth discussion about the surprising diversity of the clowning world.

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In days long past, in the forgotten era of 2002, mankind walked this earth with all manner of primitive, early CGI. It was an age of darkness. It was an age where Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey couldn't turn down work. It was an age where you could basically just throw ideas like dragons and helicopters together and some Hollywood looney tune would look up from his pile of flesh and snow long enough to hurl money at it.

Join Will and Sam for a look at a movie about dragons. And helicopters.

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