Mad About Movies

Hope this podcast never ends. My favorite— I’ve listened to all the episodes. Love the banter and perspectives of each of them. Would love for them to review Angel Studios movies— not even from a Christian perspective, but from a niche / movie phenomenon perspective. While Hollywood is failing, this has been one market / niche— that’s not been touched on by the show (to my knowledge). Keep up the great work guys!

Mad About Movies Seems like Kent and Brian hate the majority of movies they watch. Richard questions every little trivial aspect of movies he doesn’t like. Way too often something insufficient doesn’t make sense to Richard…and rarely lets those things go…making them into big deals. You will not receive any interesting insights about the movie being reviewed from them. Tons of group think can make discussions feel redundant. I used to listen to them all the time…but for a while now I’ve been very selective in what I consume from them. As a whole…they come off like movie prude most of the time…but they’ll light up for your run-of-the-mill summer blockbuster. I’ve been avoiding giving them a rating for 3 years…in hopes they would improve but it is what it is at this point. I can’t recommend them.

I like movies. I like good movie podcasts. I like to hear people break down a film and help me understand things I might’ve missed. Or make me want to see a movie that I didn’t know about or hadn’t given the time to. When I hear one of the hosts of a MOVIE podcast say that he watches movies in the background while he’s working, and he decides if he likes them by whether they can pass the test of being good while he’s dividing his attention between the movie and whatever else he has to do during the day, I’m out. If that’s how you review movies, you’re telling me you don’t really like movies. (Maybe he should call the podcast Mad at Movies.) Or at least enough to give them the time to not miss key parts of the plot. If you’re watching Citizen Kane for the first time and you miss who/what rosebud is, and then you complain about not knowing who rosebud is then you might think it was a badly told story. When what you’re really doing is not paying attention. And the same host used the word “joint“ in the best and worst movies of 2024 episode multiple times. As in, “this was a Dakota Fanning joint” for instance. After the second time, I realized this is truly how lazy this guy is. “A Spike Lee joint“ was an interesting phrase 25 years ago. Now it just makes you sound like you’re high and your needle’s stuck in the same groove over and over again. And the three hosts got hung up on a joke they made and laughed for about a minute and then repeated the joke just to make sure we got the point. Unsubscribing.

I used to like this podcast, but for a long time now the hosts sound so uninterested in the entire thing, so indifferent to the movie in question (and even movies in general), that begs the question, why are they still doing this. The Oscars episodes are infuriating, as they haven’t watched most of the movies, so the episode becomes empty rambling. It doesn’t sounds like these guys even enjoy cinema anymore – I’m done here.