Motion Picture Massacre Vaughn

As stated in the description, host Vaughn covers B-to-Z cinema, cult, forgotten, etc. After his intro, he gets into the films, with a trailer or clip from each movie preceding his review. Sometimes he’ll toss a song here and there as well. There is a structure, and it is well-produced, but he is not above interruptions by family or telemarketers during a recording, and it’s kind of fun to listen in on those exchanges, mostly because he is being himself, he’s not playing anything up for the microphone.

Vaughn’s is more of a regular, everyday conversational style of reviewing; there is never the sense that he is “on” or performing, rather, he’s not unlike a friend telling you about these movies, and sometimes your friend’s kid will step in while he or she is describing the Andy Milligan flick he saw last night.

Imagine taking a lunch break with a like-minded coworker on a Monday, or meeting up with an old friend from school that you haven’t seen in a while for coffee and catch up. In either imaginary scenario, this open-book-of-a-person tells you what’s been going on in his worlds both work and personal — the good, the bad, the in-between — then tells you about some movies he’s seen recently, because you’re both into cinema. That is what listening to this podcast feels like, and that’s what I really like about it.

I enjoy listening to Motion Picture Massacre. I enjoy the range of topics and genre that Vaughn covers. For example, right now I'm listening to him as he goes over the concert film "Stop Making Sense" and the movie "True Stories", both done by David Byrne of The Talking Heads, while previously he's covered Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Nekromantik and others. Vaugh is personable and it feels like he's talking to you, like you're having a chat with a friend about whatever topic he's discussing in the episode.

Vaughn Solo is good. Douchcast 5000? Not so good. I’ve tried multiple times to listen to the full douchcast, but it’s wicked long and half of it is just them calling each other trying to get Skype to work. I’m new to MMM so I missed the days when there were a lot of them. But I do listen to each new one, so I hope it continues. A single star for Vaughn Solo.