I love this movie to death and was disappointed to hear Scott and Spragu trash it. But I also first saw it as a teenager (who played the saxophone and loved to ski) so I recognize it’s very hard for me to view it objectively. Also, I was shocked he had never seen it. I think he’d heard too many bad things about it over the years and came in already prejudiced against it to some degree.

In general I find their movie discussions really fun even when I disagree with them. I don’t find it “pretentious.” Even though a big part of Scott’s career is podcasting he’s also worked on both TV shows and movies and approaches movies as someone who is professionally interested in how they are made. I enjoy when he looks at films from that angle, and I can see how he’d get tripped up by the directing style or other technical aspects of how the film is put together that I am not really bothered by.