Josh, our special guest and Senior Baz Luhrmann Correspondent, joins Alex for breaking down The Great Gatsby. We talk about Leo’s introduction, our general confusion with Tobey Maguire being in things again, Luhrmann’s use of music, and whether or not he’s like Michael Bay. Josh also encourages Hollywood to produce a Go Bots movie starring John Leguizamo and Lou Diamond Phillips, because of course he does.

Episode 124: The Great Gatsby

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This week, we look at Michael Bay’s latest opus, Pain and Gain. We discuss why it’s Bay’s most interesting work, why it’s good despite having similar, Bay-ian problems, why it’s funny, and why it’s not being given a fair shake. We also go into detail about how the movie, despite being absurd, offers a realist look at the positive aspects of the American Dream… F Scott Fitzgerald’s got nothing on Mike.

Episode 123: Pain and Gain

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We continue our discussion of Michael Bay’s career with a Bad Boys 2 drinking game, general disappointment in The Island, and an appreciation of the Transformers series, or at least the first one. We talk about everything from bucket hats to James’ elementary school graduation song, and Alex shares his theory on Michael Bay’s innate ability to capture the shitegeist.

Episode 122: Michael Bay, Part 2

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This week, we finally tackle the most divise modern filmmaker in Hollywood: Michael Bay. In part one, we look at his earlier films, from Bad Boys to Pearl Harbor. We talk about how Armageddon is so shitty it feels like a surrealistic nightmare, why The Rock has aged so well, how horrible Pearl Harbor really is, how Bad Boys made Will Smith into a movie star, and why the film is Bay’s most progressive work.

Episode 121: Michael Bay, Part 1

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This week, we look at the new Ryan Gosling/Bradley Cooper joint, The Place Beyond the Pines. We look at the film’s interesting structure, the big moments, and the themes that make it one of the most fun movies to think about in recent memory. Alex explains why he finds complaints about the movie’s third act unfounded, James talks about why Ray Liotta is the best, and we discuss a funny story about Gosling’s face tattoo.

Episode 120: The Place Beyond the Pines

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This episode is all about your favourite movie as a kid: The Sandlot. We look at thow the movie is kind of like a series of somebody’s childhood memories loosely strung together, why Denis Leary is a fucking MAN, and James examines how the movie is all about becoming a man.

Episode 119: The Sandlot

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In this episode, we finally tackle the untackleable – Blade Runner. James talks about how he sees the theme of perspective in the movie, Alex tries to picture Tommy Lee Jones as Deckard, and we somehow manage to compare the movie to Veronica Mars and her Kickstarter account.

Episode 118: Blade Runner

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This week, we look at two recent movies that have a bit more going on than their ads might suggest. First, we talk about Side Effects, what genre the film belongs to, who the real villain is in the movie, and why Channing Tatum always has to wear a fedora. Then we move on to Snitch, which has more going on than just The Rock kicking the shit out of people. We talk about his character, the fact that the movie focuses on much more than just him, and try to discover how many times we can say mandatory minimum in an hour.

Episode 117: Side Effects and Snitch

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This week we talk about the only thing a movie podcast talks about this week: the Oscars. We look at Seth McFarlane as host, Grant Heslov’s stellar joke, why Alex was so upset about the cinematography and score categories, and James addresses Michelle Obama’s appearance. Also, we talk about the alleged Best Picture of 2012, Argo, how it measures up with the rest of the year in film, and how it dumbs down for its audience.

Episode 116: Oscars and Argo

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This week, we look at possibly the worst, least thoughtful movie we’ve ever talked about on the podcast: A Good Day to Die Hard. It sucks, sucks, sucks. Alex tells you what it would have been a Good Day to do instead of going to the movies, James tries to figure out why the secondary villain loved carrots, and we try to figure out how the idea of magic trunks full of guns ever popped into the head of writer Skip Woods. Seriously, this movie is fucking awful.

Episode 115: A Good Day to Die Hard

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