The Third Part in our Brothers Brought Low Trilogy
Even when you nail the casting with Chris Hemsworth wearing a red cape and Tom Hiddleston with golden horns on his head... you still need Kat Dennings to save the day and STILL two bumbling podcasters will complain about your flick over a decade later.
Which is to say that there is no pleasing anyone with anything and that it could always be worse. Like in the sequel THOR: THE DARK WORLD. But that's for another episode! For now, let's enjoy our little chat on The Original THOR. A classic of good enough!
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Gattaca (1997)
The Second Part in our Brothers Brought Low Trilogy
How could there ever be a cult classic for a wide release starring Uma Thurman? Wouldn't everyone pause to gaze at her beauty and charisma? Of course as I type up these very show notes I'm reminded of finally catching up with EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES and being horrified at what my favorite screen goddess did which nearly RUINED the career of one Gus Van Sant before he could make his 1998 classic PSYCHO. But as the chosen film (I'm getting to it) GATTACA shows us... nobody's perfect. Even Ethan Hawke. Especially Ethan Hawke when he shares the screen with Jude Law. Enjoy!
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The Game (1997)
The First Part in our Brothers Brought Low Trilogy
Michael Douglas being a desperate (and often times very sweaty) asshole is something like movie comfort food here at the TiT offices... HOWEVER David Fincher's THE GAME is not a film that your two hosts can agree upon. Such gentlemanly episodes are saved for verified classics like TOWER HEIST (coming this Thanksgiving if that threat doesn't have you unsubscribing before then) but this conversation is all about what Sean Penn got wrong with his brotherly birthday gift to Mr. Douglas. And then it's about how wrong (AND STUPID) the host that just said anything was wrong with this picture is. And so on and so forth. Enjoy!
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Patreon Preview of Blade 2 (2002)
The Not Ready for the MCU Players #3
This is an episode that requires a paywall to talk about in full (our Patreon is a lowly ONE BUCK A MONTH, by the way) because when one talks BLADE 2 that means a mention of Harry Knowles unfortunate review of the film which talked primarily about oral sex.
Yeah.
We do our best to mention the initial infamy of the film and have fun with what Wesley Snipes and Guillermo del Toro ACTUALLY created... without all of that particular subtext. Enjoy!
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Bluesky: @trilogyintheory
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Iron Man 2 (2010)
The Third Part in our Father's Legacy Trilogy
Mickey Rourke does his best to whip the sequel to IRON MAN into shape... which is terrible, but we did enjoy the extended (in our mind) whipping sequence if only The Auteur Jon Favreau had the COURAGE to pull a Peter Jackson and give us MORE. More Garry Shandling calling Iron Man a dick! More Sam Rockwell dancing! More Scarlett Johansson... more TRILOGY IN THEORY!
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