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Weekly Ramblecast 185: The No-Steven-Seagal Zone
🕑 Added 2024-12-24 11:00:09 +0000 UTCBefore we left for the holidays, we recorded this lengthy dissection of our entire Watchcast planning doc, hashing out ideas we might do, coming up with some new ones, and generally talking a whole bunch of movies. Hope you're having a good holiday!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:01:03) It's Watchcast planning!
(00:02:29) Twin Peaks-adjacent movies (that we already did)
(00:08:11) Movies that feature video games
(00:10:50) The Alien Megaplaylist
(00:14:42) Classics of found footage horror
(00:19:06) Comic movies that aren't just topline Marvel/DC
(00:22:10) Paul Verhoeven month
(00:25:09) Weird ass dystopian cities
(00:26:09) '70s crime classics
(00:27:38) Top-shelf Nic Cage
(00:31:33) Coen Brothers comedies
(00:34:00) Basically the same script
(00:37:02) Music-related movies
(00:41:27) Surprisingly good/weird TV adaptations
(00:43:25) Horror originals vs. remakes
(00:45:29) Matrix month
(00:46:16) hacker month
(00:49:11) Anime movies (that aren't Ghibli)
(00:51:53) Remakes
(00:53:44) Christopher Walken month
(00:55:03) Jude Law sci-fi month
(00:57:09) Post-apocalyptic movies
(00:58:13) Documentaries
(01:05:38) Michael Keaton... month?
(01:06:44) The big old list of movies
(01:07:17) Box-office bombs
(01:08:33) Movies someone doesn't like
(01:09:16) Tiny terrors
(01:10:09) Kurt Russell month
(01:11:52) ...more Star Trek?
(01:17:45) Movies started by one director and finished by another
(01:21:12) Thanks and bye!
Comments
Ben S
similarly, Summer Wars
Midge
I’m just catching up on Podcasts so I am not sure anyone will still see this, but I noticed that when Alex mentions his continuing admiration for our generation’s greatest acting talent, Nicolas Cage, he never mentions the movie Kiss of Death. I remember loving this movie, which also stars heavy hitters like Sam Jackson, Ving Rhames, and the inimitable David Caruso. I have not watched this movie in at least 20 years but I remember Cage’s performance in this being amazing. I would love to see some other opinions on this movie if anyone has them. I just this minute subbed to a new streaming service so I can watch it this weekend.
Bigbadbarron
As far as anime movies go I'd humbly suggest Paprika.
csl316
Matrix month would be great. Took me a few watches to appreciate the sequels, back when I basically forced myself to rewatch them over and over til they got good. Lots of cool stuff in there, you just have to accept that they're not The Matrix 1. And Brad's right about Prometheus and Covenant, they're worth a rewatch.
Brian Streleckis
Really fun Ramblecast!
Nathan
Excited to see what you'll choose. Love the Watchcast so much!!! 😀
Anthony Hafner
please return to star trek. also a critters month sounds awesome and do not sleep on the gate 2.
swiftdraw
Documentaries wouldn’t be a bad call. If you want a shorter one that’s fairly entertaining, I enjoyed Riding Giants. It’s an abridged account of modern (as of 2004) surfing. Apollo 11 I also really enjoyed, but I am a huge space nerd. And I am down for more Star Trek. That is hilarious to go back to. For whatever reason, I keep getting Critters and The Langoliers confused with each other.&
Eric W
A Leslie Nielsen month would be great. Forbidden planet, Tammy and the bachelor, Naked Gun or police squad, maybe airplane?
