We Wanna Watch

Ricky defines the term "bad faith" during our lengthy discussion of this week's Lane's Frame, The Last Airbender (2010) directed by M. Night Shyamalan. In between Ricky's very indulgent attempts at tearing down this movie, we get into whether an adaptation can offend its source material, the story behind the racist casting, and Ricky's secret career as a CinemaSins content creator.

This week's Rick's Pick is another great movie that's tough to say much about beyond, it's good! While discussing our second Hayao Miyazaki movie, 1984's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, we talk about Miyazaki's greater career, fandom, and whether anime is a mistake. Also, you can definitely hear the sounds of Christopher building a plane in the background during this record...just pretend it adds to the airship ambiance.

This week's Lane's Frame leads to a wicked smaht discussion of Good Will Hunting (1997) directed by Gus van Sant. Digressions include 90s Oscar bait, Matt Damon's screen persona, and how men will emotionally burn out their girlfriends instead of going to therapy. Also I spent 20 minutes in an unrelated wikipedia rabbit hole this week reading about the autistic savant character in The Predator and organically came across the article on photographic memory which clearly says it doesn't exist, so Ricky can go huff farts.

Hey, it doesn't suck! This week's very special episode on Showgirls (1995) directed by Paul Verhoeven was recorded in person with glamorous friend of the show, Lucy. We get a little Lucy Goosey talking about camp, gummy bears, and whether having sex in water is actually worth it. We lost Lucy's audio file so unfortunately the audio is a little rough here, but nevertheless she persisted.

This week's Rick's Pick is Playtime (1967) directed by Jacques Tati, and this episode is a doozy. Who would've thought it would be hard to talk about Visual Gags: The Motion Picture? Despite the short episode runtime, we manage multiple long digressions about cartoons and Joe Rogan, even though I cut out literally 15 minutes of Ricky talking about Phineas and Ferb...?

Lane’s Frame this week was Yojimbo (1961) directed by a little fella called Akira Kurosawa. HEARD OF HIM?? Our hosts agree: this movie rocks; dudes rock; kimonos, which are hot, rock. Is the ronin in this movie Grinch-coded? Was Margot Robbie snubbed for Best Actress for her performance in Barbie? And how does Ricky feel about buccal fat removal?

It's another double feature this week with a dual Wachowski extravaganza. We chat this week about Rick's Pick, Cloud Atlas (2012) and Lane's Frame, Speed Racer (2008). This episode contains a revelation from Ricky about Cloud Atlas that is SO SHOCKING it will rock you to your core!! Or at the very least you'll put your head in your hands, idk.

We take every divergent path possible in discussing this week's Lane's Frame, The Trial (1962) directed by Orson Welles. Digressions include Ricky's movie poptimism, French feminism, and a short film that makes this episode a sneaky double feature.

In our first double feature episode of Rick's Pic(k)s, we compare two vastly different anime from the same franchise: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) directed by Hayao Miyazaki and Goemon's Blood Spray (2017) directed by Takeshi Koike. Ricky can't stop smacking his desk because he talks with his hands and Lane lives right next to an ambulance depot, so excuse the audial mess but at this point I think you know what you're in for honestly.

Ricky, known misogynist, just can't stop shitting on this week's Lane Frame, All That Heaven Allows (1955) directed by Douglas Sirk. This episode has a lot of bleeps in it because we're messy bitches who live for drama.