Roger (Ebert) & Me: Movie Reviews

I really enjoy this weekly round up of film reviews. A couple of notes… 1. While I am not a fan of Alien Ant Farm, that ending to the show has grown on me. I just don’t think you need to play a whole dang song. And I can’t stand Radiohead. So please tell me that the experiment with that tune is over. Yikes. 2. #TeamMark on the Captain America review. Sheesh. As a character on another franchise was want to say… Why so serious???? 3. I like the longer intros. I listen because I like you guys. Mark… how long have you been doing this? You frigging know he is going to ask you what’s going on. Try to prepare something pithy or at least something more than the untrue and lame “Not much.” It’s entertainment, man! Thank you for doing what you do.

Love Brett's other pod, The New Flesh, and I love this one as well. The chemistry between him and Mark is adorable and I admire their honesty, while also meeting the movies where they are. Also admire their genuine love of all kinds of films. Concrit time: when you guys disagree, Brett, I think it would be nice to let Mark have the last word sometimes. Back to the positives: I highly dislike the outro song but genuinely feel you should keep both warning us and torturing us with it forever. Though if you do want to change it up, I think Buckcherry's "For The Movies" is probably equivalent and might get equally reviled. Honestly, just do your thing, whatever keeps you from getting copyright claimed. In conclusion, great podcast, fills a needed niche, also I feel like one day you're going to ask Mark what's going on and he will secretly have been preventing the Earth from getting hit by an asteroid but he's required to say "not much".

I really enjoyed this week’s episode. It was a great reminder of Roger and Gene’s more raucous tête-à-têtes where they really duked it out. I have no love for Marvel movies. And I have no interest in seeing this one but I could appreciate Mark’s reverence for it. It’s kind of like an Adam Sandler movie. Take Pixels as an example, it was universally panned from what I remember(Mark gave this a one star review- I looked in the archives) but if you had pre-teen kids, and at the time, my kids were 8 and 11, it’s that much more enjoyable. So I equate it to something like that. Still I have no interest in seeing any Marvel schlock. Anyway, I love what you guys are doing! Please don’t rate the movies prior to reviewing, that would be so anticlimactic. Oh and a little constructive feedback, try to match the audio levels a little better, it was difficult hearing some of Mark’s rebuttals during Brett’s more animated diatribes about why Captain America was such a bad film. Looking forward to checking out some of this week’s three star picks including Universal Languages. Thanks guys!!

I love that we get the rating at the end of each review. Why would I want the review before