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#673 - Virtual Encountering on a Global Scale
🕑 Added 2025-11-30 20:53:21 +0000 UTC
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Daniel Champion
i also want an episode on the sequel dave eggers tom hanks movie, the circle
Grigory Graborenko
hell yeah can't wait for Shinra
D.I.E.
This movie makes me realize this pod has to do 2002’s “three kings”.
Tyler M.
This additional ELO fan from Pittsburgh would also recommend Dreaming of 4000 from that very same record.
Denise Fillion
I wonder how this movie lined up with the first MBS PR push and US tour?
Christoph
Might be redundant to mention this, but this movie being partially shot in Düsseldorf is classic German film subsidy shenanigans. They’ll fund anything if big names are attached, Hanks is quite popular and Tykwer is like one of the only recognizable directors. I don’t know a whole lot about it, and I don’t mean to be too reactionary, because at the end of the day subsidies are a net good. I just cringe at Germans thinking they’re participating in the big league when the result is this junk
majjj
You missed a chance to do a lame Gulf-based fish-out-of-water self-actualization comedy/drama double-bill with Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (also directed by a Euro-hack, Lasse Hallström)
romancekiller
[Tom Tykwer mopping his brow as he feels this pitch meeting slipping away from him] "OK guys, what about...'Syriana,' but...funny?"
Denise Fillion
Can we get a patreon playlist of will’s rants on Tom Hanks. They’re my faves. 😂
Worf Worfstofferson, and I'm da Venari Ral
what's that? you need a guy from Pittsburgh to recommend a sweet ELO deep cut..? then all I can do for you is say Bluebird is Dead, off of "On the Third Day." also, when I say that Will hit the nail on the head with "[Hanks] is trying to suck up the essences of all these beloved Americans," I mean that a nail has never been hit more directly on its head. you're like a purple-clad Jeremy Renner, but for nails.
Lilebile
There were at least 3 Pinocchio movies that came out in 2022: The Tom Hanks/Zemeckis one, the Del Toro one (which literally takes place in Fascist Italy with a puppet Mussolini) and the Pauly Shore one. My dream episode would be you both digesting all 3.
