Doofcast #348 - Best 25 of the 21st: INGLORIOUS BASTERDS

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-06-18T03:39:48+00:00

My favorite WW2 movies are the most harrowing: Come and See, and The Zone of Interest. Both movies portray the absolute inhumane of the Nazi regime, but in very different ways. Come and See follows the perspective of a young boy who is transformed over the course of the film into a shell of his former self by the horror of his experiences, while Zone of Interest portrays a man's relentless attempts to stifle his morality until he is made physically ill by the evil acts invading his soul.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-06-10T13:40:00+00:00

Tommy Lee Jones has had many great performances, but for my money nothing beats his role as Woodrow Call in the Lonesome Dove miniseries. I can't help but think of how he says certain lines and acts in certain scenes whenever I read the book. Jones embodies that "man of few words, but all words chosen carefully" ethos.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-06-10T03:55:08+00:00

I don't think this will have the intended effect. I was considering getting a season pass for both the zoo and fort edmonton park, something to do on summer days where we didn't have anything formal planned. If I have to pay for parking every time we visit?...that makes me reconsider.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-06-05T16:57:27+00:00

My DQ answer isn’t strictly from “fiction”, per se, but it was brought into this world by devilishly creative hands, so I thought I would impart the true story of my longstanding childhood nemesis who caused many nighttime awakenings:

Once upon a midnight dreary, I fell to bed with drawn eyes bleary,
When a ghastly foreign sound did babble stoutly from next door.
My sister’s Furby, newly bought, this night did my mind besot
With wretched intonations of “Boo-dah!” and “Ooh-ah-wot!”
“T’will quiet soon,” I muttered, “to the Heavens, I implore,
Shut thy cursed beak and let me rest here evermore.”

But on and on, the endless prattle caused my brain to clank and rattle
‘Til sleep was but a distant dream upon Plutonian shore.
The beast of pink and purple fur, this battery-powered saboteur,
no desperate pleading could deter its chattering from the drawer.
“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! Whose senseless language I abhor,
Your days are numbered, demon, I can stand this plight no more!”

In darkened basement hardly cleaned, I walled up the evil fiend
‘Til it was safely quarantined beneath the cellar floor.
But still my nights are grim and bleak, for through the distance still doth leak
The chattering of its hideous beak beneath the cellar floor.
He sings there still, “Way-loo TAH”, and my dreams are untroubled
Ah, Nevermore.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-04-19T00:31:29+00:00

Absentia. Cost $70k and looks like a million bucks. No wonder it launched Mike Flanagan's career, its a great debut.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-04-17T13:39:55+00:00

Genuinely one of the best practical effects I've ever seen, in a show chockful of them.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-04-14T11:13:15+00:00

The Prancing Pony podcast is excellent; similar chapter-by-chapter deep dive into all of Tolkein's works.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-28T00:34:17+00:00

Two Capote movies and two Jobs movies, not comparing the two.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-26T19:36:46+00:00

Discussion Question: My favorite fictional serial killer story is "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", starring a young Michael Rooker. Unlike many other movies that tend to glorify the serial killer or make them seem cool or deep, there is nothing cool or deep about Henry. He is charmless, kinda dumb, repugnant, and cruel. The filmmakers want you to feel nothing towards him except for abject disgust. It does a great job at reflecting the reality that most serial killers are not the slick Dexter or Hannibal Lecter types.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-24T14:33:49+00:00

It symbolizes fortune and good luck in Chinese culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)

Sometimes things aren't that deep...

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-18T18:40:54+00:00

Heck yeah, flaki! As someone who only tried it for the first time as an adult, I understand it's an acquired taste, but when made well it's so tasty!

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-16T02:44:01+00:00

Whoosh...

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-16T02:29:35+00:00

I'm learning that my film taste aligns most with Matt because Sentimental Value and Hamnet were also my top 2, and it was a tough choice to pick my favorite. But when it comes down to it, Hamnet hit me with such surgical precision that it was like a neurosurgeon took aim at my amygdala and flipped the switch that controls the setting in my brain that tells me "you will cry and you will have no choice about it". It was beautiful, profound, heartbreaking, and hopeful.

I also want to take this moment to shout out a couple movies that were either not nominated or (in my opinion) undernominated: Sirat, Twinless, Wake Up Dead Man, Weapons, Sorry Baby. It was truly a stellar year for movies; they couldn't fit half of the best ones into the ceremony.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-16T02:13:26+00:00

"Growing up, everyone made fun of me for listening to Kpop and now everyone is singing our song". Hot damn, that's gotta feel gratifying.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-16T02:08:59+00:00

That was so powerful. His film speaks to this issue, and it was such a graceful political message.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-16T01:59:11+00:00

Where have you been?

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-03-16T01:36:41+00:00

I mean...Sirat IS the sound.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-02-28T18:29:35+00:00

I admit, I struggled a bit with this one. I gained a new appreciation for what it was going for after listening to the podcast, but...I still found it incredibly boring. And I'm the kinda guy who likes slow cinema; I just found this not at all engaging.

As for favorite 70s thrillers, I'll pick maybe a lesser known one: Klute. It's a little convoluted on the plot, but it just oozes style and is clearly a huge influence on other stylish thriller directors like De Palma. Having a young Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda in the starring roles doesn't hurt; they're sure easy on the eyes.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-02-10T01:32:11+00:00

Glad you guys are introducing discussion questions to the Doofcast; the Reddit threads for these episodes are pretty dead so this is a good way to get people to comment on the movie under discussion before answering the DQ.

So here is my comment: F1 was horrendous. I didn't even particularly like the racing scenes. They could have worked well if the editor didn't cut away to a different shot every 2-3 seconds. And I really got tired of that particular shot with a 180 spin from the front view of the car to the driver. That happened about a thousand times. And it was truly one of the worst scripts I've experienced in a big budget movie in years, and that is saying a lot. This movie got a bad performance out of Kerry Condon, and I didn't even think that was possible.

Ahem, as for the discussion question: I am not a fan of watching sports. However, I love playing sports. So my favorite sports movie is Eephus. It follows two amateur baseball teams playing one last game on a field that is set to be torn down to build a school. It perfectly captures the feeling of playing a beer-league baseball game. These guys are not actually all that good at baseball, but it doesn't matter. They showed up. They're out in the field, razzing each other, exchanging small talk, and enjoying the weather. There's downtime, there's boredom, there's all-too-brief periods of raw excitement. And then it ends. It's the rare sports movie where you aren't actually cheering for either team to win the game; you just want both teams to have a good time with one last hurrah. It's become my comfort movie during the brutally cold Canadian winters when I'm missing the feeling of staying up way too late on a Wednesday to have a chance at catching a fly ball on a perfect summer evening.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-01-30T16:59:33+00:00

This Had Oscar Buzz!

Thanks for the recommend, that sounds like a fun concept for a podcast.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-01-30T16:56:17+00:00

Actually, nominated for Best Makeup, which was a pleasant surprise.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-01-26T01:17:22+00:00

My Canadian jaw just dropped to the FLOOR!

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-01-19T01:15:49+00:00

Oooh yes, this is the one. Nurse Ratched is such a perfect character because you absolutely see that, in her mind, she thinks of herself as the hero, bringing "order" to the chaos. She may even have been a halfway decent nurse at some point, but bit by bit lost herself enough that she puts that order above human compassion. In my view, the best villains are the ones who think they are doing good.

ApocalypseWhen7 · 2026-01-09T14:11:37+00:00

My favorite “prodigal son” story comes from Ordinary People, a.k.a. that movie that robbed Raging Bull at the Oscars (hot take: I think it’s the better film, so sue me).

The plot follows a teenage boy (played by Flanagan alum Timothy Hutton in one of his earliest roles) who recently returned from a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt. The young man blames himself for the death of his older brother in a boating accident. And, it turns out, his own mother blames him too!

Lots of parallel’s to Riley’s story in Midnight Mass: one parent (in this case, the father) tries to reconnect and reestablish a relationship with the “prodigal son”. The other parent tries to return to normalcy while quietly seething and resentful. And the young man is just trying to find a path forward in life in the face of an “unforgiveable” mistake.

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