Weekly Ramblecast 185: The No-Steven-Seagal Zone
Added 2024-12-24 11:01:01 +0000 UTCBefore we left for the holidays, we recorded this lengthy dissection of our entire Watchcast planning doc, hashing out ideas we might do, coming up with some new ones, and generally talking a whole bunch of movies. Hope you're having a good holiday!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:01:03) It's Watchcast planning!
(00:02:29) Twin Peaks-adjacent movies (that we already did)
(00:08:11) Movies that feature video games
(00:10:50) The Alien Megaplaylist
(00:14:42) Classics of found footage horror
(00:19:06) Comic movies that aren't just topline Marvel/DC
(00:22:10) Paul Verhoeven month
(00:25:09) Weird ass dystopian cities
(00:26:09) '70s crime classics
(00:27:38) Top-shelf Nic Cage
(00:31:33) Coen Brothers comedies
(00:34:00) Basically the same script
(00:37:02) Music-related movies
(00:41:27) Surprisingly good/weird TV adaptations
(00:43:25) Horror originals vs. remakes
(00:45:29) Matrix month
(00:46:16) hacker month
(00:49:11) Anime movies (that aren't Ghibli)
(00:51:53) Remakes
(00:53:44) Christopher Walken month
(00:55:03) Jude Law sci-fi month
(00:57:09) Post-apocalyptic movies
(00:58:13) Documentaries
(01:05:38) Michael Keaton... month?
(01:06:44) The big old list of movies
(01:07:17) Box-office bombs
(01:08:33) Movies someone doesn't like
(01:09:16) Tiny terrors
(01:10:09) Kurt Russell month
(01:11:52) ...more Star Trek?
(01:17:45) Movies started by one director and finished by another
(01:21:12) Thanks and bye!
Comments
As somebody else already said, a Satoshi Kon month (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Paprika, and Tokyo Godfathers) would be great. I also like the movies of Mamoru Hosoda. Summer Wars would have been a good choice for that video game themed month, but I also like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Wolf Children, and Belle. I feel like there’s enough to do a Satoshi Kon month, but a general non-Ghibli month, like Perfect Blue, Summer Wars, Your Name, A Silent Voice, would be fun. I can’t remember when this came up, but Alex also said the word Evangelion recently, so there’s also Evangelion + End of Eva + the Rebuild series.
Michael
2025-01-02 16:55:15 +0000 UTCI think you said suggestions are welcome- For Cohens Hail, Caesar! is rough. Some additional suggestions: Barton Fink, Blood Simple, Man Who Wasn't There, Oh Brother!
Chris Woodward
2024-12-28 19:58:30 +0000 UTCFor docs, I think you really should consider at least one Errol Morris- maybe Thin Blue Line or Gates of Heaven. Mr. Death is a ride but maybe not a recomendation.
Chris Woodward
2024-12-28 19:17:17 +0000 UTCFor remakes- consider "Made Abroad"/ American Remakes: Let me In/Let the Right One In, Funny Games, The Vanishing, La Femme Nakita/Nakita
Chris Woodward
2024-12-28 19:01:50 +0000 UTCMore "This is the same script" films that come to mind. The Prestige and The Illusionist. Also, Red Planet and Mission to Mars.
Matt Smith
2024-12-27 23:19:04 +0000 UTCCouple of suggestions: music movies - The Dirt, A Mighty Wind Remakes - Road House
Jason Bush
2024-12-27 15:46:35 +0000 UTCUnder Siege 2 is alright! But Segal is also a piece of shit.
Steve Francis
2024-12-27 13:26:39 +0000 UTCNot an endorsement but White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen (both 2013) are another pair of those oddly similar movies released at the same time.
Rory Donagh O'Breasail
2024-12-27 07:27:26 +0000 UTCSatoshi Kon made 4 movies! You forgot Paprika! They're all good, and you should watch them all - you can literally do a Satoshi Kon Month and it would SLAP
Ben
2024-12-27 01:50:24 +0000 UTCMore music movies: The Last Waltz (The Band’s final concert, directed by Scorsese) Song Street (same director as Once. Irish teenagers in the 80s start a band. Great music, beautiful film)
DMFB
2024-12-26 18:19:30 +0000 UTCI have heard the 8-4 guys say multiple times that Ghibli is pronounced "jibbly." No explanation was offered, though.
neuroflare
2024-12-26 04:28:14 +0000 UTCI have that new Second Sight edition of Blair Witch Project, and it is really cool. They have the 35mm version as well as the intended version from the filmmakers, so you can switch between them and really see the difference. Especially with the Hi-8 footage.
Paul Dronet
2024-12-26 02:39:00 +0000 UTCPlenty of exciting options! If y'all aren't already movie buffs, it's a great time to be one! I'm just hoping we don't spend too much time in Star Trek TV land. It's a slap in the face to movie buffs! /s
Zooclaw
2024-12-25 23:15:06 +0000 UTCIt's perhaps telling how rotten my brain is when I cheered when Alex mentioned Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever. Hopefully we'll see that during next year.
Valli
2024-12-25 09:50:09 +0000 UTCOh man, you guys really gotta see The French Connection....also, Pig is really excellent and I don't know it gets the attention it deserves.
Thom Konan
2024-12-24 16:53:21 +0000 UTCI am flipping the F out about the watch list movies coming up. Oh man
Remix 26
2024-12-24 15:56:06 +0000 UTC
