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
Conan and John Carter should be in the pulp heroes lineup
Gagortion
2024-03-26 16:10:32 +0000 UTCI need rivers of ham
Amanda's Picture Show A Go Go
2024-03-25 12:02:24 +0000 UTCHe's just Ken (It's not enough)
Manish Agarwal
2024-03-25 11:38:14 +0000 UTCMARGOT MFING MARTINDALE in rocketeer
sheabobay
2024-03-25 04:24:32 +0000 UTCI 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.
CT
2024-03-25 02:35:44 +0000 UTCI’m sensing some pulp friction (Wait for applause)
Josh Harvey
2024-03-25 02:30:21 +0000 UTCThey 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
2024-03-25 02:28:12 +0000 UTCI 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
2024-03-25 02:27:05 +0000 UTCCouldn’t have said it better
Rad Rodge
2024-03-25 02:25:27 +0000 UTCThe 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.
Sean Elliott
2024-03-25 00:12:14 +0000 UTCFolks 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
Eric Gressman
2024-03-24 21:11:05 +0000 UTCDICK
Don Knott Steiner
2024-03-24 20:39:58 +0000 UTCNEED
Don Knott Steiner
2024-03-24 20:39:42 +0000 UTCWE
Don Knott Steiner
2024-03-24 20:39:24 +0000 UTCYou sold me, I changed my vote.
Chad Perry
2024-03-24 20:09:23 +0000 UTCWE WANT DICK
Eric
2024-03-24 19:39:40 +0000 UTCYou guys are alright
R. Grossman
2024-03-24 19:33:33 +0000 UTCSo 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...
Ralph
2024-03-24 19:19:36 +0000 UTCAha! I haven't even been keeping up with that one.
Patrick McEvoy
2024-03-24 18:44:06 +0000 UTCBecause Andrew Stanton was in the main bracket.
oohtruck
2024-03-24 18:39:18 +0000 UTCI didn't even think of that. Great point!
Sean McP
2024-03-24 18:23:55 +0000 UTCAren’t tournament matches supposed to get closer as we get closer to the finals?
Sean Decker
2024-03-24 18:23:37 +0000 UTCThey’re just fun movies!
Anthony Regina
2024-03-24 18:17:57 +0000 UTCPULP! PULP! PULP!
Anthony Regina
2024-03-24 18:17:15 +0000 UTCTHE PEOPLE YEARN FOR SONDHEIM TALK. VOTE PULP.
Sofia Car
2024-03-24 17:59:43 +0000 UTCPpl 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
Ben Bequette
2024-03-24 17:47:40 +0000 UTCSlam podcasts.
Mark Haugan
2024-03-24 17:40:45 +0000 UTCGenuinely shocked by these results
Jeff Burnett
2024-03-24 17:39:59 +0000 UTCIf Ernest got that close to The Equalizer, Lambert is gonna quicken Denzel's ass.
Luke Crawford
2024-03-24 17:37:30 +0000 UTCI want that Rocketeer ep so bad. What an absolute classic.
Div Whateley
2024-03-24 17:34:45 +0000 UTCWhy 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.
Patrick McEvoy
2024-03-24 17:17:44 +0000 UTCNo love for Le Mustache?
Matthew Graham
2024-03-24 17:15:08 +0000 UTCFor 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
jo wa
2024-03-24 17:11:34 +0000 UTCWe’ve reached the part of the bracket where all mine are losing .
Jeffy
2024-03-24 17:10:18 +0000 UTCBilly Zane's Phantom is a rollicking good time that you simply won't believe was allowed to be made
ian
2024-03-24 17:04:50 +0000 UTCI like my Blank Check miniserieses like I like my orange juice: pulp and lots of it.
Matt Grommes
2024-03-24 16:41:55 +0000 UTCThis is gross, but I like it.
Robert Young
2024-03-24 16:39:43 +0000 UTCWhat podcast lurks in the hearts of men?
Luke Gobert
2024-03-24 16:29:22 +0000 UTC“What evil lurks in the podcasts of men?”
Peter M
2024-03-24 16:25:33 +0000 UTCPoirot 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.
The Mayor of Christmas
2024-03-24 16:23:37 +0000 UTC2 of the 3 Poirot movies are great and great popcorn movies don't listen to the haters.
Calahan Riley
2024-03-24 16:22:33 +0000 UTCwith Stanton out yall should really throw on John Carter to Pulp Heroes
jack read
2024-03-24 16:18:26 +0000 UTCJarvis Cocker all the way baybeee! *checks notes*
John Dog
2024-03-24 16:16:59 +0000 UTCI, too, enjoyed The Shadow more than most. Pump up the Pulp!!
Taman Eggers
2024-03-24 16:16:06 +0000 UTCPulppity pulp pulp pulpitty pulp
Darby Dixon III
2024-03-24 16:15:59 +0000 UTCPUMP ME FULL OF PULP!!
Taman Eggers
2024-03-24 16:15:05 +0000 UTCSky Captain would be a good fit for pulp!
Glen A. Napier
2024-03-24 16:14:05 +0000 UTCI agree but I'm a simp for The Rocketeer and enjoyed the Shadow more than most. Plus Billy Zane is in The Phantom.
FirstPet BirthStreet
2024-03-24 16:11:10 +0000 UTCTHIS IS SO FUN!! 😂🗳️😻✨
sheabobay
2024-03-24 16:08:03 +0000 UTCThey were always destined to discuss Dick Tracy. I was The Rocketeer, halloween '91, so that will be a bonus ep for me!
Jonathan Bryan
2024-03-24 16:07:40 +0000 UTCI want them to go full on orange juice on this feed, I want lots of pulp.
Leelee G
2024-03-24 16:07:15 +0000 UTCif not their own episodes, time must be given to the Warren Beatty/Dick Tracy TMC specials
Aaron Salzbrenner
2024-03-24 16:06:53 +0000 UTCI like my orange juice with pulp, not strychnine
Noah Mittman
2024-03-24 16:06:43 +0000 UTCWeird I was under the impression that those Branagh movies didn’t exist
CT13
2024-03-24 16:06:35 +0000 UTCHere’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
Jake Yosafat
2024-03-24 16:06:23 +0000 UTCBranagh!!!!!
David Thompson
2024-03-24 16:06:23 +0000 UTCVote Griffin's mom!
Mallori Longo
2024-03-24 16:06:07 +0000 UTCI want to Patreon in the River of Ham
Charles
2024-03-24 16:05:39 +0000 UTCIf pulp heroes wins I hope they don’t push a Beatty miniseries much further out
Kevin Love Hewitt
2024-03-24 16:05:35 +0000 UTCNow this is where it gets tough for me
Adam King
2024-03-24 16:05:23 +0000 UTCBranagh please
Josh Taylor
2024-03-24 16:05:22 +0000 UTCI’m pro-pulp!
Jack R
2024-03-24 16:05:03 +0000 UTC
