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Early Access: Movie Catch-up - April 2024

New movie catch-up is here! Timecodes below:

00:00:00 - Unfrosted Trailer

00:06:40 - Blackberry (2023)

00:12:48 - Steve Martin Documentary (2024)

00:20:22 - Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

00:28:28 - David Lynch Movies

Early Access: Movie Catch-up - April 2024
Early Access: Movie Catch-up - April 2024

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Anthony Hoffman

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Almost Cult Classics

Just read the reviews for Unfrosted. Instead of a story about the origins of Pop-Tarts, it’s boomer worship! Ryan and Joe are gonna love it! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Anthony Hoffman

I only discussed the 3 I hadn’t seen. I have seen Blue Velvet.

Ryan Lancello

I broke listening to this ep into 3 segments over a few days -- Did I miss something or did you do more than half a show about David Lynch and not mention Blue Velvet ? His Oscar nominated turn featuring a Golden Globe nominated performance by Dennis Hopper. This is Lynchs only film I own, maybe his only one I'll watch again. How do you skip that ? Have you guys seen it ?

Scott Ruisch

I love erasedhead but twin peaks s1 was só good in the first 5 EPS then I Lost interest for some reason. I enjoyed the Tetrix movie and Barbarians at the gates by HBO was a good movie about a hostile takeover.

Salvador Pereira

Hard disagree on Matt Johnson in “BlackBerry”, though admittedly it’s coming from a biased stance. I’m a fan of his, and what you saw in the film is his filmmaking style. His best work, and why he made the film (correct me if I’m wrong on this), was to get funding for the third season and film for the thing that made him and his collaborator Jay McCarrol (who did the music in “BlackBerry”) known, “Nirvanna the Band the Show”. A very funny mockumentary series that aired on Vice’s TV network and flew under a lot of peoples radar. I highly suggest checking it out; it might help you better understand and re-evaluate his performance in the film. - Seth

5chan.org

Man this is probably the closest we gotten to Ryan revealing all of Joe's secrets about the Cloning Machine

JokersJuicyAss

You dropped Problem Child?!

JokersJuicyAss

Also I would go one step further than Joe and say that Twin Peaks isn't really riffing on soap operas -- it just *is* a soap opera.

Tom Goodwin

Ryan, you'll be pleased to know that my dad feels very similarly to you about Steve Martin's banjo

Tom Goodwin

It's more so there's a few I'd take off. But, well done, it's solid. I've probably said I'd put this in my top ten about all of them lol

Ryan Lancello

What’s missing?

Luke Gordnier

It's not perfect, but it's a great list

Ryan Lancello

Now, I don't know exactly how Letterboxd works, but I really like the idea of someone stumbling upon a list entitled Ryan Lancello's Top 10 (who?!) offered up by a guy who isn't Ryan Lancello and then it's 38 movies with no further explanation.

Lux Anatis

I feel the need to add this is just my interpretation made through my own lens and is no more or less valid than anyone elses. No matter what Lynch actually wanted to express with it, what's more important is what the viewer brings to and takes from it. I didn't mean to come across as an authority on the matter.

Lux Anatis

I did it mostly based off memory and transcripts of the podcast

Luke Gordnier

This is amazing! Did you really listen to our back catalog to compile this?

Almost Cult Classics

👏👏👏

Mary and Steve

Good ol Japan rippin off Lynch for their video games again!

Lux Anatis

As demanded by popular demand, here is Ryan Lancello’s top ten that features 38 films. https://boxd.it/v6284

Luke Gordnier

Dumbphones are actually gaining traction, I've been considering getting one myself. And isn't Old Dads one of those controlled opposition things?

Lux Anatis

David Lynch is the king

Tyler Mammen

I was scared of that movie too when I was a kid. And like they said, it really does seem like it was made decades before it was actually released. When I got older and really began to feel the passage of time, I was really surprised to learn it was released only a year before I was born. Not only does it look and feel old, but it was strange to realize something that modern had so much cache with my parents, who loved it. It really is bewildering to think there was a time when a movie made for adults could be a hit.

Lux Anatis

Yeah I think Moe Szyslaksaid that, too.

Lux Anatis

My Grandpa took my mom and my uncle to see The elephant man when they were kids and it scarred them.

Luke Gordnier

There’s actually a popular internet critic that has made the lynch is random for the sake of random criticism.

Luke Gordnier

I think Eraserhead is about a man terrified not just of parenthood, marriage, or commitment, but of change. The baby, it's shrewish mother, the his glamourous neighbor, and the radiator angel all support this and that intro with the planet is the baby's conception. As the guy who leads the campaign against Joe's gaming talk, dare I say it's very similar to the 2011 PS3/360 game Catherine in it's themes and it's not even the only Lynch film a Japanese video game directly lifted from. I'm eternally grateful I had never seen Lost Highway before I played Silent Hill 2.

Lux Anatis

Concerning David Lynch, once I started to realize new movies weren't interesting anymore, I told myself I was going to start marathoning directors and he was the one I started with. I think I agree with Ryan's assessment; his films are not the best, but he might utilize the medium of cinema as the marriage of other mediums better than almost anybody. Also I believe of all of the decades after the fact revivals that have been taking advantage of the neverending trend of nostalgia that began in the 2010s Twin Peaks Season 3 is not only the very best but actually manages to top its predecessor. Dune, on the other hand, is a giant mess of a movie and a narrative disaster, but I say it's relationship with the recent ones is similar to the Star Wars prequels relationship with the Star Wars sequels; it has more value as an interesting failure than it's contemporary does as a more palatable success. Anyway, it was a pleasant surprise to hear you guys talk about Lynch's films. If it's pretentious to discuss and be genuinely excited about French films, interesting artists, and actual books without pictures in them, and then by all means keep being pretentious. It's just a word internet philistines use to describe people who dare to exhibt a taste for things they can't appreciate.

Lux Anatis

I’m shocked Glenn hasn’t had a big career like Charlie has. Maybe things would’ve been different if he got Starlord.

Luke Gordnier

Slowly but surely our children are being prepped to accept movies about Mountain Dew and CHEETOS!!!

Lux Anatis

lmao at least Childhood's End had humanity ascending to be one with the Overmind, instead of being mired in endless hokey mediocrity forever.

Ryan Lancello

Fun fact (to me): Cage’s snakeskin jacket in Wild at Heart is so cool the Like a Dragon/Yakuza videogames stole the look for the character Majima.

Mary and Steve

That Pop Tarts trailer represents, to me, everything wrong with movies today, shows what a dark age of art we're all enduring, and illustrates the desperate need for a return to sincerity. I'm really starting to believe our planet is in the midst of a Childhood's End situation alien takeover.

Lux Anatis

I love how every few years there’s a new wave of Eraserhead memes and shitposts

Mary and Steve

I love that Eraserhead baby ☺️

Mary and Steve

Here's a great shitpost of Eraserhead I saw on Twitter https://twitter.com/ecto_fun/status/1772734830192492618

JokersJuicyAss

David Lynch was also a regular in the Cleveland Show which never fails to make me laugh not only he was really good in that show, but out of all of the stuff he turned down, he did the Cleveland Show

JokersJuicyAss

Welp Ryan, I'm glad to give you guys that Johnny Paycheck cd since I know Joe won't use it

JokersJuicyAss

Ryan not only it was a thing at the time, you still see people say they like the click. Now granted they are quiet about going out of their way to get one since you can still buy flip phones, same goes to people who talk about old cars, talk big about how a old Camry from the 90s will last forever but they never bit that 1.5k bullet

JokersJuicyAss

Based solely on that Unfrosted trailer, I’m comfortable saying our Pop-Tarts movie (food review on youtube) is better (it won an award).

Mary and Steve

Speaking of Bill Burr outside of being my second go to fake name (It's either Mike Hunt or Nick Burr) Have you guys ever seen this movie called Old Dads, it was directed by Bill

JokersJuicyAss


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