Mad About Movies Mad About Movies

These guys are awesome! I love listening to their podcast during moments of downtime while working or in the car. They have an interesting perspective on movies and the movie industry that most people don't have. They all have dry humor which may not be for everyone but I find it funny. Overall I never understood why I enjoyed watching movies until I found this Podcast and they definitely have made me view movies differently and have made me grow in my appreciation for film and challenged my viewing of certain films.

Thanks Guys!

Watching a movie than rambling about it isn’t a breakdown - there’s other podcasts out there with better content with good notes or at least a full thought with reason to back up opinions

First, the bad: Comments are sometimes made about films, like the locust plot in "JW: Dominion," where the hosts ask, "Why is this here? It's not explained. It makes no sense," when, in fact, the film does explain why that plot point is there. There are a number of other comments made about a number of other movies where the hosts missed explanations or other contexts that made their final thoughts on a movie skewed.

Also, I've heard a lot about how a movie like "Jurassic Park" is a perfect movie by a couple of the hosts when that movie has a number of issues itself, but the hosts refuse to name any of the problems (ie: Why is the wonderful moral discussion on gentics and cloning immediately dropped halfway through the movie? The characters are types; how in the world did the T-Rex miraculously show up at the end without everyone, including the raptors, realizing this?, etc.). Yet, they will easily nitpick the other movies.

*EDIT 2-1-24*

Listening to their "Joker" podcast and them coming in saying Todd Philips has an ego and believes he's Scorsesee and then calling the movie cocking is like calling the kettle black. For a bunch of guys that fall head over heels with the new Marvel movie, that is the same as every previous MCU movie, they sure piss in a pot over something that has something more serious to say about our society than to watch another yuk-fest in the MCU.

It's fine if they didn't like "Joker," but them saying Philips is cocky (without evidence) and then to be cocky themselves as to what the movie is talking about and coming awfully close to censoring the movie, even though they say they don't want to, it just rich.

Their issue with Arthur Fleck having tourettes in "Joker" is just mind-boggling. They say they were very uncomfortable with that. Newsflash, dude: That was the point! A movie, like "Joker," is intended to make you uncomfortable and to realize you cannot root for anyone as the movie progresses because there are no real decent people to root for. That. Is. The. Point. Not everything is black and white.

They're such prudes.

For a podcast that is typically fair to movies than most podcasts, this one will occasionally be totally unfair to movies and simply miss some of the simplest elements of a movie while clapping wildly for MCU movies that don't require you to think.

A podcast with, generally, good discussions, but some of the thoughts and opinions are misguided, inconsistent, hypocritcal, and unreasonable at times.