The Super 70 Podcast

Dylan Davis

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The Super 70 Podcast

The Super 70 Podcast is a commentary you play along with the film for scene by scene analysis, or you can just listen in your car. Dylan Davis is the author of "FLYNN!", Dating Virginia, Buffalo Seine, and Threshold. He is a reader, listener, and appreciator of culture. Find him at www.thatdylandavis.com and on Twitter @thatdylandavis #super70podcast

NOV 24

36.2 Joker 2- Wahnsinn Für Zwei

Luke is going to school in Berlin this semester and there’s no good reason why he can’t keep up with the release schedule. In between Brewmaster classes, history classes, and yes, a true to form Deutch Kino Class, Luke has been streaming Prime and heading down to you guessed it, Berlin Alexanderplatz, or Zoo Station to see what it is the rest of the world says is great... or sucks. A little background if you hear us toss around a few terms. An OV in German cinemas is the Original Version. This screening will have no changes whatsoever. No dubbing, no subtitles (unless they’re part of the original film). OmU is Original Mit untertiteln, Meaning ‘original with subtitles’, OmU films have the original audio* along with subtitles. Unless otherwise specified, assume these subtitles are German. OmdU stands for Original mit deutschen Untertiteln. This is the film in OV with German subtitles. Then there is OmeU or Original mit englischen Untertiteln. Films with English subtitles since there are so many English speakers in Germany. Last is DF for Deutsche Fassung meaning German Version. This is the first one German audiences look for, meaning it has been dubbed into German. Most Hollywood film are dubbed into German, and most theatres in Germany carry both the DF and the Omdu. This episode we catch up and find out what the other is seeing. Find Rozalind MacPhail’s music at www.rozalindmacphail.com Find Warren Hayes on Twitter @Warren_Hayes. You can find me, my books and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. You can email me at thatdylandavis@gmail.com. You can find the small, thermal exhaust port right below the main port. Thanks for hanging out with Luke and I while we talked about the Joker. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. You can email me at thatdylandavis@gmail.com. You’ll see us next time at the Delphi Lux. Get off at Zoo Station.

25 min
NOV 16

36.1 Batman Schmatman

Once again we are faced with the fact that sometimes the best conversations are the meandering ones we have after the commentary is over. I asked Warren Hayes and Paul Emig to stay over a little loner, have a couple of beers, and talk about our favorite caped crusader, why comic book films are fading, and why they still enthrall us. But first, David Lynch. And later, the English Patient. Find Rozalind MacPhail’s music at www.rozalindmacphail.com Find Warren Hayes on Twitter @Warren_Hayes. You can find me, my books and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. You can email me at thatdylandavis@gmail.com. You can find the small, thermal exhaust port right below the main port.

1h 37m
OCT 20

36 Batman (1989)

In one of the bravest acts of Cinema History, Warner Brothers decided to give Tim Burton, a former Disney animator with a whopping two directing credits to his name, the keys to the Batcave. One of Burton’s most controversial decisions, casting comedic actor Michael Keaton as the brooding millionaire Bruce Wayne. The cinema event of the summer, Batman 1989 touched pop culture in a way that exceeded even Richard Donner’s Superman of the previous decade. Launching a franchise that lasted almost a decade, Batman 1989 also launched several other comic book properties hoping to grab hold of a new audience buying an increasing amount of comic books. Much loved by a generation, it is also much maligned by those like me who feel the World’s Greatest Detective needs to be more like Frank Miller and less like Batman ‘66.

2h 10m
SEPT 22

35.1 The Phantom Bonus

After we recorded The Phantom Menace Commentary, Warren and Paul and I pontificated on the many reasons the film did not succeed even though it had tons of pluses to it. We discuss the action figure market, the genius of Carrie Fisher, and that thing we all hate with a passion: sand.

1h 49m
AUG 23

35 The Phantom Menace (1999)

After sixteen years of a fanbase growing into adulthood, George Lucas dropped fifty millon dollars of Lucasfilm Limited’s money into the surest bet in Hollywood history: The first film in a new trilogy of Star Wars films. Though distributed by Fox and produced by Rick McCallum, Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace would be exactly like the first film from 1977. Lucas would have total control over screenplay, production, casting, editing, and marketing. What emerged was the most controversial franchise film in history, a movie that conflicted with Canon, had red herrings, left some audiences confused, some angry, and had the greatest lightsaber duel in history. Twenty-five years later, Warren Hayes, Paul Emig and myself go through The Phantom Menace scene by scene as we lament what could have been and appreciate what we do like. Join us as we watch the Phantom Menace and discuss all thing Lucas: including racism, bad acting, our total respect for Ahmed Best, and how much all of us miss Marcia Lucas.

2h 17m
JUL 1

34.12 Hannibal And Hannibal

As will be explained in the subsequent conversation, Luke and I came across two very different films called Hannibal and decided to do a double feature in a day. The result... was very dour.

52 min
JUN 19

34.11 Wild Movie Weekend

We had a helluva weekend folks. Friday night, the boy and an caught The Phantom Menace for the 25th anniversary re-release. Saturday, we caught Jeanne du Barry with Johnny Depp. Starring Johnny Depp, I mean we didn’t go see the movie with him. And Sunday we woke up and caught the first screening of The Fall Guy. Join Luke and I as we try to navigate our feelings around such an emotionally complicated weekend.

1h 1m
MAY 19

34.10 The James Bond Theme Song Bracket

Just after we finished the bracket for the best James Bond film, Luke and I kept on going, using the same bracket and the same faulty feeders to determine the best James Bond theme song. Just like the film bracket, the results here might surprise you. Jack White and Alicia Keyes made cinema history when they collaborated on what White called “the most divisive thing I’ve ever done,” the theme song to Quantum of Solace titled “Another Way to Die.” EON Productions originally tried to sign Amy Winehouse, but her death opened the door to White who saw a shrinking schedule as a way to capitalize on doing something completely original. Keeping to a musical style dating back to Tina Turner’s incredible title song to “Goldeneye,” White brought in Alicia Keyes to add an R and B flavor to his alternative bent. The result, “Another Way to Die” has become a James Bond Theme song you either love or hate. Like it or not, the song remains the only duet in the James Bond catalogue to describe what it must be like for a secret agent to deal with the immense pressures of life undercover. With White’s guitar and Keyes’ piano leading a cacophony of sound, Another Way to Die has become a powerhouse anthem of fear and anxiety – definitely an unusual way of thinking about cinema’s most famous spy.

56 min

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The Super 70 Podcast is a commentary you play along with the film for scene by scene analysis, or you can just listen in your car. Dylan Davis is the author of "FLYNN!", Dating Virginia, Buffalo Seine, and Threshold. He is a reader, listener, and appreciator of culture. Find him at www.thatdylandavis.com and on Twitter @thatdylandavis #super70podcast

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Dylan Davis
Years Active

2016 - 2024
Episodes

71
Rating

Explicit
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