Evolving Tastes: Do We All Become Film Snobs as We Get Older?
Do you love exactly the same films for exactly the same reasons as you did 10-20-30+ years ago?In this episode, we try to figure out how and why taste changes, and explore how different our preferences are from when we first got into cinema.We will also ponder the very serious possibility that cinema acts as a literal drug, where the more exposed we are, the stronger a fix we need.Could it be that we are all on the same path to more and more extreme tastes, be it experimental cinema or the goriest horrors we can find?Listen in and find out.
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Should Everyone Be Forced to Rewatch Showgirls?
Showgirls went from being considered one of the worst films of all time to one of the best in less than 30 years.How does a film go from winning both Worst Picture and Worst Picture of the Decade at the Razzies to being in They Shoot Pictures Don't They's Top 1000?Was everyone who saw it then just "wrong"? Did they come in with the wrong expectations? Or: Was Showgirls just too ahead of its time? In this episode, Sol and Arthur tackle these and more questions while complaining, over and over again, how none of the original haters wanted to rewatch the film and join the podcast.Should everyone just bite the bullet and see Showgirls again?
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Quentin Dupieux: The Prince of Weird
He made the B-movie about a rubber tyre killing people with its psychic powers. He had superheroes give monsters cancer and stoners raise a dog-sized fly. Quentin Dupieux is weird. He's surreal. And ... kinda trashy and lowbrow when he wants. In this episode, we turn everything on its head, starting with his most recent film (that we have all seen - Daaaaaalí! - and working our way back to his very first mini-feature Nonfilm - as we try to figure out what makes him tick and how we could explain his films at a dinner party.Timestamps:Intro: 00:00:00Dinner Party Pitch - 00:03:00Daaaaaalí! - 00:12:14Yannick - 00:22:08Smoking Causes Coughing - 00:34:07Incredible but True - 00:39:38Mandibules - 00:45:00Deerskin - 00:51:17Keep an Eye Out - 00:56:32Reality - 00:59:23Wrong Cops - 01:04:33Wrong - 01:09:19Rubber - 01:11:46Steak - 01:19:43Nonfilm - 01:23:17
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Is Emilia Perez This Decade's Crash?
One of us rated Emilia Perez 1/10 - find out why, as we make blanket statements about why the Academy may love it, estimate its chances and utter the words "inspirational trauma porn" more than once.
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The 2020s Are Halfway Done: What Will This Decade Be Remembered For?
Are we in a new 60s, where Hollywood is burning out of steam and foreign films, along with A24 and Neon, are taking the spotlight? Could we be on the road to one of the best decades in history, or is it something far more lacklustre going on? Join us as we break down our impressions of the first half of the 2020s and guess/share our hopes of what this decade will be remembered for. How wrong will we be?
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