MARCH MADNESS 2024 - Day 24
🕑 Added 2024-03-24 16:00:10 +0000 UTCHighlander moves on to the next round - but how will he fair in the Elite Eight? Will he get...EQUALIZED?
Anyway, up today - two franchises with old-school references and (sometimes) dazzling cinematography.
It's BRANAGH AS POIROT vs PULP HEROES.
With BRANAGH AS POIROT, we'd cover Kenneth Branagh's three outings as the famous Belgian detective:
Murder on the Orient Express
Death on the Nile
A Haunting in Venice
With PULP HEROES, we'd cover five films (mostly) from the 90s, when people thought this genre was gonna be a thing:
Dick Tracy
The Shadow
The Phantom
The Rocketeer
The Spirit
Who moves on to face (gulp) Happy Madison in the next round??
Comments
Gagortion
Conan and John Carter should be in the pulp heroes lineup
Amanda's Picture Show A Go Go
I need rivers of ham
Manish Agarwal
He's just Ken (It's not enough)
sheabobay
MARGOT MFING MARTINDALE in rocketeer
CT
I voted Pulp, even though that potentially means having to talk about Frank Miller, the man who turned Batman into a brute and a facist, loves rape and misogyny as common plot elements, and totally went off the rails after 9/11, famously falling out with DC when they wouldn’t let him make a comic where Batman tortures Muslim terrorists.
Josh Harvey
I’m sensing some pulp friction (Wait for applause)
Rad Rodge
They legit should do two main-feed John Carter episodes à la the Titanic episodes, how would they even finish going through the dossier before the 2-hour mark
Rad Rodge
I truly believe John Carter is too necessary of a main feed episode for that, you know what I mean, John Carter is like one of the most obligatory movies for the show full stop
Rad Rodge
Couldn’t have said it better
Sean Elliott
The Spirit is literally one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I remember half the theater emptying when I saw it. I look forward to the two friends having the worst possible time.
Eric Gressman
Folks I love the rocketeer but Kenny B has locked himself in a room covered wall-to-wall in ham in the Poirots, they are blank checks through and through, they are towering monuments to a Fuck It Imma Do What I Want and that's something we deserve to chew our way out of with the crü
Don Knott Steiner
DICK
Don Knott Steiner
NEED
Don Knott Steiner
WE
Chad Perry
You sold me, I changed my vote.
Eric
WE WANT DICK
R. Grossman
You guys are alright
Ralph
So want to hear a three-episode series with the little grey cells.... And the eggs, the eggs are not the same, they are not acceptable... Oh dear...
Patrick McEvoy
Aha! I haven't even been keeping up with that one.
oohtruck
Because Andrew Stanton was in the main bracket.
Sean McP
I didn't even think of that. Great point!
Sean Decker
Aren’t tournament matches supposed to get closer as we get closer to the finals?
Anthony Regina
They’re just fun movies!
Anthony Regina
PULP! PULP! PULP!
Sofia Car
THE PEOPLE YEARN FOR SONDHEIM TALK. VOTE PULP.
Ben Bequette
Ppl should be voting Branagh. First one is mildly entertaining and so stupid, second one is spawned directly from hell and so stupid, third one is a masterpiece and so stupid
Mark Haugan
Slam podcasts.
Jeff Burnett
Genuinely shocked by these results
Luke Crawford
If Ernest got that close to The Equalizer, Lambert is gonna quicken Denzel's ass.
Div Whateley
I want that Rocketeer ep so bad. What an absolute classic.
Patrick McEvoy
Why no John Carter on Pulp Heroes? Huge miss, there. It's so good, yet so bloated. Sort of like Last Action Hero in some ways. Well, I voted PH anyway, much as I love Poirot. I just dream of hearing a The Spirit episode.
Matthew Graham
No love for Le Mustache?
jo wa
For all those like myself who complain that they never pick the winners: if you didnt pick highlander and pulp you dont deserve to win anything
Jeffy
We’ve reached the part of the bracket where all mine are losing .
ian
Billy Zane's Phantom is a rollicking good time that you simply won't believe was allowed to be made
Matt Grommes
I like my Blank Check miniserieses like I like my orange juice: pulp and lots of it.
Robert Young
This is gross, but I like it.
Luke Gobert
What podcast lurks in the hearts of men?
Peter M
“What evil lurks in the podcasts of men?”
The Mayor of Christmas
Poirot is a fun franchise, with one good movie, one bad one, and then a third one that takes some interesting and slightly crazy swings. But it’s also a traditional franchise, and therefore more likely to get a revisit later, especially given her short it is. And I’m really liking these homemade ones this year, so I say Pulp Heroes.
Calahan Riley
2 of the 3 Poirot movies are great and great popcorn movies don't listen to the haters.
jack read
with Stanton out yall should really throw on John Carter to Pulp Heroes
John Dog
Jarvis Cocker all the way baybeee! *checks notes*
Taman Eggers
I, too, enjoyed The Shadow more than most. Pump up the Pulp!!
Darby Dixon III
Pulppity pulp pulp pulpitty pulp
Taman Eggers
PUMP ME FULL OF PULP!!
Glen A. Napier
Sky Captain would be a good fit for pulp!
FirstPet BirthStreet
I agree but I'm a simp for The Rocketeer and enjoyed the Shadow more than most. Plus Billy Zane is in The Phantom.
sheabobay
THIS IS SO FUN!! 😂🗳️😻✨
Jonathan Bryan
They were always destined to discuss Dick Tracy. I was The Rocketeer, halloween '91, so that will be a bonus ep for me!
Leelee G
I want them to go full on orange juice on this feed, I want lots of pulp.
Aaron Salzbrenner
if not their own episodes, time must be given to the Warren Beatty/Dick Tracy TMC specials
Noah Mittman
I like my orange juice with pulp, not strychnine
CT13
Weird I was under the impression that those Branagh movies didn’t exist
Jake Yosafat
Here’s my plug for the Poirot movies…while they’re not especially good (or even fine) outside of what I would say is the gentleman’s 6/7 of the first one, they are an absolute smorgasbord of people to talk about cast-wise during each commentary
David Thompson
Branagh!!!!!
Mallori Longo
Vote Griffin's mom!
Charles
I want to Patreon in the River of Ham
Kevin Love Hewitt
If pulp heroes wins I hope they don’t push a Beatty miniseries much further out
Adam King
Now this is where it gets tough for me
Josh Taylor
Branagh please
Jack R
I’m pro-pulp!