Two Nerds Sitting on a Couch

In a very special episode, Two Nerds discuss the most recent (and possibly the last) MonsterVerse movie: Godzilla vs Kong. We decided to make a theme of it, so we also watched a movie called Colossal, which is about a giant monster who appears randomly in Seoul, Korea, and whose motions are tied to a young woman in the States. Colossal ended up being considerably more intense than we expected. 

We also mention the other MonsterVerse movies -- Godzilla, Godzilla: King of Monsters, and Kong: Skull Island -- and the Matthew Broderick Godzilla movie. 

CW: domestic violence, alcoholism

After we thoughtfully examined three films with repeating day scenarios -- Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things -- in Groundhog Days, we found a fourth repeating day movie: Boss Level. This one is significantly shootier than those other three! 

This is a tiny bonus episode where we somewhat giddily talk about this ridiculous movie. 

Two Nerds round up all the movies they watched on a lost Sunday, which include three timey-wimey narratives -- Time Trap, Source Code, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time -- and a slight detour to the Snyder Cut. This episode marks the end of our inquiry into time travel narratives. 

In a bonus episode, two nerds somewhat tipsily discuss Timecrimes and Time Lapse, two movies which mess around with the concept of predestination. For some godforsaken reason, the extremely silly film Final Countdown, in which the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz travels back in time, comes up again. 

CW: sexual assault. 

Continuing on with our exploration of narratives that use time as a device, we discuss three movies which take place in time loops, where the characters wake up and relive the same 24 hours over and over: Groundhog Day, Map of Tiny Perfect Things, and Palm Springs. This episode is slightly super-sized, because apparently we had a lot to say about this narrative conceit. 

CW: suicide, depression, addiction

Continuing with our time travel narratives, we discuss Hot Tub Time Machine, with a side of Back to the Future and Groundhog Day. We also discuss The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin, The Butterfly Effect, Primer, The Final Countdown and the latter two Back to the Future movies. 

Mistakes I could use a time machine to correct: A movie about the last mortal person on Earth is incorrectly identified as Mr Roboto, but was actually called Mr Nobody. Groundhog Day was also made in 1993, not the mid-80s. I'm sure there are some other mistakes, alas. 

Two Nerds Sitting on a Couch wrapped up our inquiry into teen dystopias last week with The City of Ember, which is kinda funny because the book is aimed younger than teen, and it's not really a dystopia. After a period of despondency, we decided our new theme is going to be time travel! Rather than go through the travels in time one by one, we've aggregated the last five movies into one podcast. So you can follow along at home, the five movies we watched were 24, The Final Countdown, Primer, The Time Machine, and Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel. We decided re-watchability of these movies is low, except for Primer, which is either ∞ or 2. 

We also mention the following time travel narratives, in no particular order: Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Safety not Guaranteed, Time Cave, Interstellar, Tenet, Arrival, Butterfly Effect, Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, The Sound of Thunder, Hot Tub Time Machine, Bell & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Russian Doll, The Umbrella Academy, The Doomsday Book, & Edge of Tomorrow. Richard couldn't remember the names of two Spanish-language time travel movies he watched, but I figured out what they are: The Incident and Timecrimes. Though not a time travel movie, I also take some time out to slag Ad Astra while I was slagging Interstellar. 

We have a list of four or five movies we're going to watch for our next installment, but if you have any suggestions, please drop us a line! 

Continuing our streak of young adult dystopias, two nerds sit on a couch and discuss the movie version of Lois Lowry's The Giver. 

Two nerds sitting on a couch discuss the third and ultimately final Divergent movie, Allegiant. The Divergent series, both the books and movies, is contemporary with a whole bunch of other teen dystopias, most notably The Hunger Games. They're set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago with a rigid caste system based on personality.

We thought even less of this installment.