After Dark: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Added 2024-04-25 12:00:08 +0000 UTCDavid, Devindra, and Jeff discuss your favorite train movies/sequences and reflect on Jerry Seinfeld's recent interview with GQ about the state of movies. Then starting at ~22:00 or so, we dive into The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and have a heated debate about whose filmography is better: Matthew Vaughn or Guy Ritchie?
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Guy Ritchie over Matthew Vaughn and it’s not close and it’s concerning anyone would think otherwise!
Wil Johnson
2024-10-17 13:58:31 +0000 UTC‘Jon Voight and ‘Runaway Train’. The Best!
Todd Taiepa
2024-04-28 14:20:13 +0000 UTCI imagine that one day Jeff will vehemently and confidently insist to his grandchildren that the main characters on The Shield would regularly carry and use literal shields.
Shane Driscoll
2024-04-27 07:22:08 +0000 UTCThe train on the bridge sequence in "Stand By Me" terrified me as a kid!
Alphonse Brown
2024-04-26 21:01:11 +0000 UTCthey mentioned it in the original discussion
Matt
2024-04-26 20:56:05 +0000 UTCYou’re right. Someone told me he played him 2 years ago and I never looked it up.
David Stripinis
2024-04-26 13:15:12 +0000 UTCThere's a very funny train scene in the movie Top Secret! from 1984. I think the movie industry, and especially the theatrical experience is doomed for sure. I go to the movies almost every week, I see probably 6-7 movies in theaters every month on average, and the theaters are almost totally empty. I go on weeknights to avoid crowds, but there is a local AMC close to me (in Los Angeles, near where Jeff used to live), where I look at showtimes around 7 at night and see nothing but almost totally empty theaters every single day. What has really convinced me that movies are doomed though is that I have a group of about 10 people I've been friends with for about 25 years who are all huge movie buffs who simply do not see hardly anything anymore. These are people who could quote hundreds of movies to you, who can name screenwriters, directors, and even minor actors from any movie you can think of, and many of these people even went to film school at USC, and they simply don't see new movies anymore. I saw them last month after the Oscars and was stunned that none of them had seen more than about 3 of the Best Picture nominees (and that includes Barbenheimer). We used to always go see movies together and talk about movies when we would get together, but for the last couple years if I ask them if they've seen anything good, they often talk about old TV shows. If I ask them about any recent movie, odds are good they may not have even heard of it or know anything about it. And it's not cause there's nothing to see, or because there's a lack of good movies being released, as there are great movies coming out all the time. The problem is most people haven't heard of any of them and don't go to see them, so they get quickly pulled from theaters and are unceremoniously dumped on streaming somewhere to be undiscovered by most people. Movies have been a big part of my life ever since I was a kid, but I look around and see an art form that is in dire straits. I don't know how it can survive like this unless there are drastic changes real soon.
Stranger2Reality
2024-04-26 09:59:34 +0000 UTCI'm not sure if this was a joke or not, but that wasn't Alan Ritchson, it was Daniel Cudmore who played Colossus in X2, X-Men The Last Stand and also Days of Future Past.
Stranger2Reality
2024-04-26 09:46:53 +0000 UTCOmitting the train scene from Back to the Future Part III is criminal.
mepotts
2024-04-25 18:49:08 +0000 UTCA certified Good Sit kinda film.
Andrew Fast
2024-04-25 17:13:53 +0000 UTCCame here to post this, it was the Uncharted episode with Christian Spicer
Alex Crumb
2024-04-25 17:00:35 +0000 UTCNo "Throw Momma From The Train"?
Tim Goergen
2024-04-25 16:41:57 +0000 UTCI’m with Devindra…the original Omen is just okay. It has a healthy layer of cheese that keeps me from ever taking it seriously. Gregory Peck is slumming and not very good in it. I do think Goldsmith’s score is excellent though, and the scene with “it’s all for you, Damien” is creepy. But I’ve never considered it a classic and it does feel like an also-ran on the heels of The Exorcist
DarmineDoggyDoor
2024-04-25 16:23:28 +0000 UTCEP 658 Jeff talked about The Kings Man and actually said that he not only loved it, but "everybody including my mom loved it." It was Dave who hated it and called it a "disaster"
Ryan Goodwin
2024-04-25 16:08:32 +0000 UTCAlan Ritchson was already in X-men. He played Colossus in X2
David Stripinis
2024-04-25 16:00:12 +0000 UTCAfter this three hour discussion about Ritchie vs. Vaughn (it was fun), I beg you, I implore you, to finally watch Casablanca 😭😂
Mountain of Conflict
2024-04-25 14:35:17 +0000 UTCThe title of this film could be the title of this podcast if you remove the “un” and added “about cinema.” Ok ok so it really needs to be adapted quite thoroughly but still it’s close!
Per
2024-04-25 14:17:59 +0000 UTC
