Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Under the Wheels Episode 21: I'm Thinking of Ending Things


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Gabe and Matt dive deep into the mind of Charlie Kaufman and attempt to make meaning of his latest film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, not sponsored by Dairy Queen. Along the way, they stumble their way through how Mulan the Movie is having a direct negative effect on Hong Kong, they get demonetized and banned in China for... well, obvious reasons, Matt is wrong in most of the assumptions he makes, how movie theaters can make a killing on concessions by appealing to people's need to not wear a mask, the evolution of expensive food, a very strange tangent about Pauline Kael, the crazy theories around The Shining, how Gabe knows more about the flag physics of the moon than Matt, and the Roger Ebert video-games-as-art controversy.

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Friday, September 11, 2020

Under the Wheels Episode 20: The Old Guard


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Sponsored by Jif Peanut Butter (please?) - Matt and Gabe get back into movies made in 2020 with the "hit" Netflix movie "The Old Guard" starring Dudley Dursley from Harry Potter with some other somewhat famous international stars. Topics include how awesome Rutger Hauer is/was, Sly Stallone's steroid-enhanced Ego and his drag sensibilities, the odd style choices of Julie Taymore (and how they sometimes work), Vincent D'Onofrio's voice, the qualities of a biopic, the Under the Wheels version of a Harriet Tubman biopic, Brian Tyree Henry, Matt Damon through the years, poor execution of moral quandries, the makeup of good villains (and really lazy ones), a few of Gabe's rules for Action Scenes, multiple mentions of Rhiz Ahmed, the horrible new trend in movie soundtracks (not score), and answer some viewer questions!

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