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BC MARCH MADNESS 2025 - Day 1

🕑 Added 2025-03-01 19:00:08 +0000 UTC

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KidOccult

I can’t believe Pulp Heroes lost!!! Bummer

Jon Ryves

yeh, there does seem to be a core of Blankies that just vote for the most prestigious movies come what may, without thinking of which would be most fun for them to cover as a commentary. Oh well

youngthugisthegreatestlivingrapper

Interesting thought experiment, but I honestly don't mind waiting for someone inevitable to be covered if it means getting someone who most likely won't get covered without a MM win (like Spike Lee)

Alex Lovendahl

Here's a little doc I wrote about "inevitable" a few years back. Suffice it to say, "inevitable" is a very long time. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_007uoVFloLWVyzbDt1u-Y8nYa1iMn1N/view

sheabobay

The new artwork is sick!! 📀

Everything Important

Idea: replace the two blade runners with Imposters and Screamers. I can’t imagine a future where you do a BC series on Gary Fleder or Christian Duguay.

Josh Harvey

Pulp can move baby!

Patrick Orlob

Who ever wins, dick wins.

James G

Yeah, I wanna see some dick: Dick Tracey and other pulp heroes.

jahr

This sword fight is peak Patreon content DICK DICK DICK DICK

jahr

How about when one ok movie becomes the Jelly series? There will be time and plenty of reasons for odd ones to appear as long as Blank Check continues doin what they do IMO

Chuck Emmett

While both of these entries contain some of my favorite films of all time, the Dick entries seem almost guaranteed to be Main Feed eps at some point but I'm not getting The Phantom any other way.

Swoll Tits

Y'all are some serious Dickheads

Jackie C.

Wild to me that so many would vote for a series probably mostly for one movie that will likely be covered in the main feed one day. You all really want to hear Next and Adjustment Bureau eps over the five Pulp choices, each of which sound like a total blast??

Good

Sweet update fellas!!! That’s really clever and cool.

Joseph Patrick O'Connell

If they do Pulp Heroes I'm hoping the can confirm that the Phantom's "No Smoking In The Skull Cave" gag is reference to a similar " No Smoking in the palace!" gag from Sid Caesar's Your Show Of Shows. Im almost certain it is.

Adam Michel

More like Phillip K Don’t Throw Your Vote Away, as if you’re not gonna get _Blade Runner_ some day, come on folks, we deserve a discussion of Billy Zane’s equestrian skills, of Alec Baldwin’s extremely weird facial hair, of whether Terry O’Quinn should have reprised his role in The Aviator. Get your minds right.

James Asmus

If these people fail us, I say we have our own Zoom watch party and go halvsies on a Billy Zane Cameo or somethin

Teddy boi

Was about to post this but figured somebody beat me too it

Michael Birdsall

Dick Dick Dick Dick Dick

Matt Robison-Sanchez

Screamers low key a decent film

JC9000

yeah right off the bat two that should be squaring off against something lame I have no faith in you ppl anyways this is going end in something stupid as fuuuuuuuuuck regardless

Spam Boi

Straight up this. On Patreon I ALWAYS vote for a good time that wouldn’t otherwise be had. We can catch those directors on main feed but you ain’t getting a Phantom ep without Pulp Heroes.

PG

John Woo could be on main feed easily even if they just covered his Hollywood movies or picked a movie like A Better Tomorrow and went from there. Did Zorro already happen? I don't remember.

Sj

So we are just doing good movies vs bad movies now?

Matthew Benson

Honestly I want pulp just for the Dicky T pod.

David

Yes! Kinda stacked supporting cast too

Beef Steak Tomato

Dick, but it’s real close

Good

They covered Ouija board. Nothing can be worse than that. I mean nothing. That was a legit waste of everyone time on both sides. 😂😂😂😂

Good

HELL YEAH!!! The should have totally added that. You’re talking about the Seth Rogen one right?

Good

The paycheck episode looks tempting As fuck 😂 but l gotta go with Pulp.

Taman Eggers

GIMME A GLASS FULL OF PULP!!

Good

😂😂😂 I feel like this podcast’s Patreon community is split between two groups: people who want to watch fun movies that will never be covered on the main feed while making the most of this Patreon, especially since they put the choices in our hands and those who just don’t get it and most likely pretentious film goers. LMAO I’m being facetious, but still. Richard Linklater, John Woo, Lee Tamahori, and Ridley Scott might all make it to the main feed one day, but there’s no way in hell Warren Beatty or Simon Wincer will ever get there. So when voting this year, just keep in mind that some of these directors might eventually make it to the main feed.

Ginger’s Boyfriend Matt

God dammit I need these boys to watch The Shadow you’re all disappointing me

John

Boooo this turnout boooo

Liam Palmer

Paycheck isn’t even the worst of John Woo’s Hollywood films

Liam Palmer

One advantage to voting PKD is “Paycheck” opens the door to John Woo

Liam Palmer

dick v dick

Giggleloop

Time to see if I can beat my streak of last year for voting for the loser in each bracket 🤣

Giggleloop

Damn starting out with a tough one already!!!

Cosmic Cowboy

dick v pulp sets the tone for 2025

Kibblesmith

Day one and I’m already mad.

Joe P

These are the tough decisions we have to make

Geoff Gershon

Wow talk about two GENUINE mixed bag categories! 😄 I mean the drop-offs from Blade Runner to NEXT....from The Rocketeer to The SPIRIT. 🙄 That said, I'm a true sucker for those early '90's retro-comic strip films....Dick Tracy, The Shadow, so rewatchable!

Robert Young

Voting pulp on behalf of matte paintings everywhere.

bscronin

I really want to hear their take on the fedoras in the Adjustment Bureau

Geraint Thomas

So I'm voting pulp heroes!

Geraint Thomas

Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 are two of my favourite films.

Lobo

Dick, meaning Dick Tracy right? Right?!

Lobo

And Madonna talk!

Glenn Ponka

All haill the Dick man!

Tom Lowery

Pulp it up.

Jamie

Hear me out: combine them and call the series Dick and Dick

Brandon Skidmore

PULP

Timothy the Terrific Tabaxi

Both would be fun but I voted for Dick.

Kevin Love Hewitt

They probably would not cover Gondry any decade soon haha

Kevin Love Hewitt

Definitely right about Mikan and probably about Nash.

Sam A. Sipe

Vote Dick, worth it to hear David's head explode during"Next".

sheabobay

This is FUN!! YAY YOU GUYS

CT

A Scanner Darkly alone makes Dick worth it. I voted Pulp last year, but I really don’t want to have to talk about freakin Frank Miller as the capper to that series.

Holden Martinson

I think the comms are best when it's a mix of good movies and less good movies. So, PKD it is.

JP

Already knew I’d be on the losing team for this. I think people just like Blade Runner. Pulp heroes is so much more interesting to talk about

John Toerner

Philip K Dick movies are about as visually appealing as you can get.

Brian Redford

Lesson learned from last year. Clue watch along wasn't as great as anticipated because it was so dialogue driven. I'll be voting for visuals and action all month long. Gimme the pulp heroes.

OG McDuck

Next would also be fun to hear you talk about while you have to watch it but i don't

OG McDuck

I feel like such a jerk because i voted for Dick just bc i think the Paycheck episode will be hilarious. And because i love dick.

Bairbre

I was really into PKD when I first discovered psychedelics in my 20s, back when the seeds of the "alt-right" were just being planted on the internet and in the tiny window when it was ok to consume Infowars content. Now I'm in my 40s and we're living in *gestures vaguely* this. Voting for Pulp.

Jim Bo

Philip K Dick Tracy

Dylan Murray

PTA feels like this year's David Lynch. I'm not mad at the enthusiasm it's just a boring choice. Lynch is my favorite American filmmaker but his movies don't really need podcast episodes about them - which is why I thought the Twin Peaks eps were the best.

calvin dishes

Basketball Body Guess #1: I think PTA is steve nash and David Lean is george mikan

jo wa

Sometimes I wish I knew people in real life who listened to blank check so we could talk about it, but then something like this reminds me that if I ever did meet a blankie in real life the odds are 2-1 that you will be an ai generated version of an obnoxious film twitter snob

David

Could the green hornet be added to pulp heroes or is that being saved for gondry?

J. Longo

"EVERYWHERE I LOOK, IT'S PODCAST! PODCAST, PODCAST, PODCAST!!" Voting for Pulp simply because of the meltdowns Dick Tracy would prompt. HellYeah

Seamus

An episode covering "The Spirit" would be worth the cost of a year's Patreon membership to me, easily.

Alex Burke

Vote Fun! Vote Pulp!

Catie

Next is the silliest movie I have ever seen and they must cover it

Jacob beach

No Screamers?

Dan Warnken

Dick Riders Unite!!!

Jordan Gibson

Doing a deep dive on Scanner Darkly would be worth the whole win

Connor Lynch

We simply must have the boys reaction to "I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American" and "Let 'um have it, boys!" in the Rocketeer. My vote is a vote for shooting... German badguys in 2025.

Terry Ballard

A curated Lean run would be awesome. But 16 is a lot of movies. Towards the end of Carpenter series I was just getting bored.

Daniel Citron

Yes the rocketeer but the spirit and the shadow are pretty rough

Will Greene

I only like *some* pulp

Wyatt Gray

Give me a tall glass of juice with extra PULP please.

Dylan Murray

A lot of these PKD films would make better main feed eps, which is why I'm Pulpin it - but name recognition will win out in the end

Benjamin Russell

This is a real "whoever wins, we win" cataegory.

BB

I am one of the world’s only Adjustment Bureau fans but, on the other hand, The Rocketeer…

Eric Brown

An episode about the wild adaption of The Spirit, directed by a completely out of his mind Frank Miller has all the makings of an all-timer. Vote Pulp Heroes.

FatDogDad

BDE

jack read

not that i think it’s gonna win now but Green Hornet is such a strange object and would be a great addition to Pulp Heroes

Kyle Martinak

So either subject the boys to Paycheck or The Spirit? Yeesh.

jscro

I know Philip K Dick makes more sense for the show but Pulp Heroes just seems more fun.

Sean Gillum

This is infuriating because I wanna hear them talk over Blade Runner and Rocketeer

bobbitt15

I like my OJ with a lot of pulp

Art Curtis

The correct statement is NEXT let's do this! That garbage fire demands a commentary

Terry Ballard

Pulp movies would be fun ... Vote for fun!

Art Curtis

A lot of us have decided that inevitability is overrated. Over the years theyve labeled like 20 directors as inevitable, so it's not actual practical to ever hit everyone. So vote your heart. Vote...LEAN!!

mikey GOLDSMITH

Gimme that dick

Mr. Meow-Meow

DO RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH YOU COWARDS!

Robert O'Neill

2024: Brest Men. 2025: Dick Dudes

youngthugisthegreatestlivingrapper

I don't have a Reddit account so I can't ask this this there, but does anyone have any insight as to why so many people are voting for someone as "inevitable" as PTA? It seems odd to waste MM on a director with a (relatively) short filmography that can be slotted anywhere versus someone like Lean who really needs a MM win to be covered

Harrison Cordle

Pulp Heroes need to win this. Philip K Dick crosses over with so many blank check directors

Will Redmond

We need a Dick Tracy episode asap. The merch talk is unbelievable

Brendan Radigan

Starting with this one.. Ouch

Tobey

PKD FTW!

Lucas Roetter

I can wait for Ridley and Linklater main feed to get my Philip K. Dick talk....The Rocketeer and Dick Tracy are secret masterpieces.

Alexander Hoskins

I’m voting for against The Rocketeer, but officially asking for a Joe Johnston series at some point, because boy howdy is it up and down.

Hello y’all

BladeRunner 2029 ! Let’s fucking do this.

Connor Fitzgerald

The Phantom and Dick Tracy would be incredible eps.

Del Lorenson

Gettin Dicked in '25

Drew B Hall

This year is gonna be rough 🥵

Patrick Smith

Pulp heroes baby! Many of the Phillip K Dick movies will eventually be on main feed, and frankly would be better analyzed after viewing. But Pulp Heroes will be tons of fun with live viewing.