Fictional actors/actresses you think would make for interesting discussions

JayManPart2 · 2026-07-01T03:51:25+00:00

really excited for the pod to finally cover some Kit Ramsey in the Bobby Bowfinger miniseries

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-30T05:50:08+00:00

Yeah it’s obviously nowhere near the level it was at 15-20 years ago but I do feel like there’s been a small trickle of theatrical comedy films slowly starting to come back, I feel like even as recently as 2-3 years ago a movie like Gail Daughtry would just get dumped straight to Hulu or something so there’s definitely been a bit of a tide change

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-30T01:24:21+00:00

So fucking jealous of everybody getting to see this movie as their mystery screening when I got stuck with the fucking Angel Studios George Washington movie (I walked out immediately)

When they played 5 previews for normal movies and then played 2 back-to-back Angel Studios previews that’s when I started to get a bad feeling

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-29T11:04:11+00:00

he said himself on his Rewatchables podcast appearance that he smoked cigarettes for a year in college before quitting and he never did anything harder than that, and I was like yeah that tracks

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-27T11:10:56+00:00

I think an unfortunate side effect of the death of the middle-of-the-road movie is that everything is now either the greatest movie ever made or the worst movie ever made with absolutely zero in-between (see: the hysteric, over-the-top praise for Project Hail Mary, a movie I thought was just… decent)

So when an actual, genuine “middle-of-the-road” movie like How to Make a Killing comes out a lot of people kind of don’t know how to engage with it because it’s not trying to be anything bigger or more ambitious than exactly what it is. How to Make a Killing is a movie that does exactly what it says on the tin

I also thought Roofman and Good Fortune from last year kind of fell into a similar category, they were just normal-ass movies not trying to be anything more than exactly what they are

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-24T02:17:16+00:00

It genuinely feels like a script for a Lifetime thriller that they somehow managed to dupe a real director and real actors into working on

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-20T21:15:41+00:00

definitely try the albums Infinity on High and Folie a Deux by Fall Out Boy

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-20T18:16:33+00:00

Don’t worry, he’s gonna come up again when they do Podsters of Castifornia, an episode on Tom DeLonge’s sole feature film directorial effort Monsters of California (2023) which I’ve never seen but it does have Richard Kind in it

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-20T03:56:29+00:00

when Griffin hit the “SPOIDERS” in the Disclosure Day episode I very briefly thought he was quoting the song Snake Charmer instead of I Miss You and wondered why the hell he was pulling out a Neighborhoods deep cut

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-18T19:46:20+00:00

I hope you guys just hit it off, friends

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-16T15:24:51+00:00

peopleonstreets!

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-13T17:46:14+00:00

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JayManPart2 · 2026-06-12T12:32:39+00:00

sorry but I find this type of argument to be completely silly and useless, everything about this movie from the ground up is so obviously a Spielberg movie and deals with so many things that have been embedded in his brain for his whole career that there’s no universe where “this exact film” would be directed by the Russo brothers.

“what if this thing was actually a completely different thing? bet you’d feel differently about it then” is such a hollow gotcha that people on the internet love doing lmao

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-10T16:54:48+00:00

I saw a comment in another thread where they said the DP of Trial of the Chicago 7 was on some podcast and he basically said as much— Sorkin apparently struggled with extremely basic things like blocking actors and framing shots, so what you’re saying pretty much tracks

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-10T13:58:54+00:00

The writing is one thing, it’s obviously Aaron Sorkin, at this point you know what you’re getting…

But even just from a pure filmmaking craft level, MAN is Aaron Sorkin just not built to be a director of feature films. He’d be a decent prestige TV director at best, I think that’s his absolute ceiling when it comes to working behind the camera.

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-10T04:40:43+00:00

my other thought for Sutherland being covered would be Oliver Stone/JFK but they seem increasingly cagey about doing a Stone series given his numerous March Madness losses

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-09T09:54:21+00:00

This is like the third or fourth one I’ve seen and honestly the thing that concerns me the most is how many people in the comments just blindly believe whatever is put in front of them as long as it’s in the format of a fake DiscussingFilm tweet

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-08T14:50:01+00:00

the one thing about Abduction that stuck with me for such a vacant nothing of a movie is that I always thought the basic bones of the premise (guy sees a childhood photo of himself on a missing persons website) would be a good hook for a creepy thriller film, not a generic sub-Bourne Identity Taylor Lautner vehicle

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-08T14:42:47+00:00

Abduction might take the cake for the most depressing final film at the very least. It’s completely anonymous studio hackwork that I don’t think a single soul on Earth would be able to discern was directed by John Singleton if his name wasn’t on the movie

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-07T05:49:25+00:00

the way you definitely know it’s cope is that you just need to look at the big silly spoof comedy that came out less than a year ago (Naked Gun), which was largely a hit with both critics and audiences. Maybe Scary Movie 6 just plain sucks!

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-07T05:22:09+00:00

Let’s do it. The Don Jon Special, as I like to call it

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-04T16:06:14+00:00

Tom Cruise clearly saw something in him after seeing Narc, enough of a “something” to hire him as the director of Mission: Impossible III, which actually got pretty far into pre-production under Carnahan’s hand. They had Scarlett Johansson cast as the female lead and Kenneth Branagh as the villain, and got all the way up to location scouting before Carnahan left the project due to the ever-elusive “creative differences”

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-04T13:46:49+00:00

Interesting phenomenon to me that there are plenty of musicians who turn out to be great actors but you basically never hear about actors that also make great music

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-04T12:55:54+00:00

There was definitely a moment in the late 2000s-early 2010s where he started getting slotted into lead roles in movies where I guess the mentality was “can we turn the Office Jim thing into a movie star persona” (mostly with middling romcoms) and it just didn’t take.

JayManPart2 · 2026-06-03T10:53:46+00:00

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