Month: February 2023

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I’m living to 102 and then I’m dying like the city of Detroit. This year’s Valentine’s Day movie is Deadpool and we are joined by regular Game Night contributor Dolan Moles to discuss it. Deadpool is a very unique superhero, err, antihero movie that has so many 4th wall breaks and self aware moments. The story also jumps forward and backward a lot, but Willie explains why this wasn’t a problem for this particular movie for him. Plus, we look back at the Deadpool x Fortnite collaboration and realize that it’s pretty crazy they added Deadpool to a kid’s game and why does Wade trust Francis who seems to be selling an obvious con to cure his disease?

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Ice cream! Regular Game Night contributor Brian Kofford joins us to talk about the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the fact that this movie arguably doesn’t have a plot at all and Willie compares it to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Does that make the movie age poorly as a result? Plus, at first it may seem that the whistler guy who says he’s seen Bigfoot during the Air Force press conference is a complete non sequitur but we realize that he may have single-handedly made the entire last half of the movie possible, we’ll explain why and first time watchers might’ve missed the reason how Roy gets sunburned on only half of his face. Hint: The alien spaceship is involved.

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Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, ’cause Kansas is going bye-bye. This week we are talking about the movie The Matrix with the founder of Scynewave Engineering Ki Scyne. What exactly is The Matrix? We see it in the movie, but does Willie actually understand what it is? Scyne helps us try to understand it using lucid dreaming and live concerts in Fortnite as examples of what The Matrix is like. Plus, Scyne got to be a character in The Matrix Online game that the directors of the movie say is technically cannon in the Matrix universe and is Neo and Trinity’s kiss at the end just a fairytale-like ending or does it mean more about The Matrix than that? Dodge this!

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I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck… maybe even a “recreational vehicle.” And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that? We are joined by regular Game Night contributor Jeffrey Sax to discuss the movie The Hunt for Red October. What happens when you know so much about submarines that you unknowingly figure out information about them that is classified? That’s the exact scenario that Tom Clancy found himself in when he released the original novel that this movie is based on. We speculate what would happen if he hypothetically accidentally leaked classified information as a result of writing this story. Plus, an actor in this movie has had quite the career including being elected as a real life senator and then later starring in Law and Order and does Ramius have a reason for defecting from the Soviet Union, and is it a sound one?

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I’m going after that truck. How? I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go! Tom DiGianvittorio joins us to discuss the film Raiders of the Lost Ark the first Indiana Jones movie in the franchise. There is a hilarious scene where Indiana Jones is about to fight this swordsman and shoots one pistol shot that ends the fight pretty fast. That scene was filmed that way on purpose and the reason why is a lot less funnier. Plus, the tone shift in Indiana Jones and Marion’s conversation leaves a lot of details out and Willie explains why this frustrates him as a first time viewer and why do the Nazis exactly want the Ark of the Covenant? Is it just for power or is there another sinister reason they want it.

Indiana Jones stunt show death scene – YouTube

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We’re police officers! We’re not trained to handle this kind of violence! A first time guest has joined us, Bob Callahan is here to talk about the movie Demolition Man and how this futuristic looking town looks like the perfect utopia at first, but very quickly you find out that it’s quite the opposite in fact. That’s just San Angeles, but what about the other states in the US in this universe, are they living the same dystopia that San Angeles is? Plus, we go over the weird relationship that Dr. Raymond Cocteau and Simon Phoenix have in this movie and what Dr. Raymond’s intensions truly are with the cryogenic prison device, why some people are evil and some are good while they’re frozen and since this movie is set in 2032, we get to go over what the movie has gotten right about the future so far and the ones they “accidentally” got right as a result of the pandemic. Did this movie predict 2032 better than they predicted 1996?

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Ted, you know, if I die, you can have my Megadeth collection. But dude, we are already dead. We are joined by regular Game Night contributor Brian Kofford to discuss the sequel movie Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey and he has an interesting observation about the famous air guitar riff that Bill and Ted constantly perform. De Nomolos was annoyed by the sound of it but presumably only Bill and Ted can hear it. We go over a small detail in the movie that could explain why he can. Plus, we have a sad update on a very famous location shown in the Bill and Ted franchise that has closed its doors and this film is not a time travel movie but rather a defeating mortality story, does that hinder the movie experience?

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‘Bill and Ted’-Famous Circle K to Screen Film Before Shutting Down – The Hollywood Reporter

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It’s so dumb. Oh, it’s so dumb, it’s brilliant! No! It’s just dumb! Samuel Lewis of The Samcast Network joins us to talk about the movie Glass Onion and the fact that there are so many layers (no pun intended), smoke screens and diversion tactics that make this mystery just as fun as the last one and we go over all the things you might’ve missed if you only watched the movie once. Plus, everyone seems to think that Detective Blanc is gay. Sam doesn’t think so and provides some alternate context clues from the movie that contradict that thinking and Glass Onion doesn’t really have the same “happy ending” closure that Knives Out does, but does that make it a better story? Pisceshite!

Rian Johnson Breaks Down the Arrival Scene from ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ | Vanity Fair – YouTube

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