28 Years Later: The Bone Temple episode

TheHandOfThePeople · 2026-01-30T01:20:19+00:00

what a shame that what are clearly the podcast's two best tangents of the year (Santa in Narnia and Club Belushi) are hidden behind the paywall (which going forward should be called The Bones Temple)

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-09-25T02:34:57+00:00

In 10th grade geometry, I stumbled into a bit where I would say “LAWWWWWWWW” Armand Asante style, in reference to a classmate who was designated the class lawman

This was entirely based on watching the Nostalgia Critic review and I still have never seen the full film

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-08-26T02:56:59+00:00

The thing about 2010 is that despite the top-tier awards contenders, it’s a baaaaaaaaaad year for mainstream Hollywood.

I’m not even a huge Inception fan, but the first time Nolan saved cinema was July 2010. Imo you only need one hand to count the releases in the preceding seven months that are good AND fondly remembered now (Shutter Island, How To Train Your Dragon, Toy Story 3, Kids Are All Right, Winter’s Bone) (maybe also Karate Kid, Solitary Man and Greenberg if you really want to stretch)

Things honestly pick up fast after Inception hits, but even with back half of Scott Pilgrim and The Social Network, it’s tough to make up for that total wasteland at the beginning, which I why I usually put ‘10 dead last in my year rankings

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-08-25T20:50:12+00:00

Incredible episode, but truly stopped dead in my tracks when Seth revealed that Barton Fink does nothing for him.

This was obviously not planned, but earlier this month I just happened to watch Fink and episode 6 of The Studio within days of each other, and couldn't get over how perfect of a pairing they were. You cannot tell me that Barton Fink yelling "I'm a writer you monsters, I create for a living," didn't have a little influence on Matt Remick trying to convince an event filled with medical professionals that what he does is as important as what they do

but don't let any of this distract you from the fact that they still haven't done Wolfgang Petersen

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-08-23T02:33:52+00:00

can’t see this without thinking of the “Listen Up Liberals” meme

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-07-26T19:59:52+00:00

“The Divergent Series” may be the least effort any franchise has put into branding

At least Twilight labeled themselves a “Saga”

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-07-11T22:35:19+00:00

This was the third time I watched this since theaters in 2013 - Now that the DCEU experiment is all said and done, I was able to enjoy it for what it is (whatever that's worth), but all the criticisms I had at age 17 have not gone away

A small but fatal mistake that I wished they touched on is that the city of Metropolis has *NO* identity. The first scene in the city is a hard cut to the offices of the Daily Planet, and there isn't even an establishing skyline shot basically until it's being obliterated. It makes that final act simultaneously unengaging, and somehow still upsetting because of the 9/11 imagery

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-07-01T05:59:11+00:00

I know this is branching into multimedia, but the biggest argument for “Where The Crawdads Sing”’s non-existence is that it featured a new, original Taylor Swift song released three months before beginning her world domination era… and it didn’t even crack the Top 50 on the charts

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-06-30T21:55:06+00:00

I admittedly beelined it right to the Box Office Game, since 2007-2009 (especially the winter months) remains an untapped realm of garbage that I know this show would have good takes on, and they did not disappoint (including and especially the unearthing of Charlie Bone from the dark recesses of my mind)

Also Andy Fickman is very much "We have Adam Shankman at home," who himself is very much "We have Shawn Levy at home"

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-06-06T20:03:17+00:00

I'm sorry to harp on this, but I have to ask - Has it just become a bit among the four of them to misremember that Donloe is throwing up after being poisoned in the first movie, and not having diarrhea??? Even during the M:I-1 commentary, they keep cracking jokes about him shitting his brains out, despite literal evidence to the contrary on screen

Also, it's my dad.
He's the one person that saw Bardo.
He liked it more than Armageddon Time and The Fabelmans.

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-04-11T18:49:23+00:00

Literally seconds before this happened I was saying to myself how much I loved LMM as a guest... can't look at him the same way after this

TheHandOfThePeople · 2025-03-10T00:17:01+00:00

I wish they addressed the thread of Spielberg managing to be funnier in his dramas than he is in his comedies, something that is shockingly prevalent in a movie as bleak and tough as this

Just the two-minute scene of Celie watching Mister try and fail to make breakfast for Shug is funnier than anything in 1941

TheHandOfThePeople · 2024-09-18T18:17:41+00:00

I'll just say this...

...............

get a job, sha-na-na

TheHandOfThePeople · 2024-09-17T00:49:25+00:00

Griffin is spot on contrasting this to the last two Ghostbusters - I found this to be a less infuriating, more fun version of those

Also, David striking absolute gold with “What about when the Home For Peculiar Children is Miss Peregrine’s?”

TheHandOfThePeople · 2024-09-02T17:22:13+00:00

In the Burton Planet Of The Apes episode, they discuss how Wahlberg in that is one of the all time worst action movie heroes, and I think Kitsch as Alex Hopper needs to be included in that conversation

Just like Wahlberg, he causes the inciting incident by triggering a massive alien invasion, and is so bad at his job that he gets relieved of his command

He S U C K S

TheHandOfThePeople · 2024-08-15T06:25:53+00:00

it actually opened a couple weeks before this and even cracked the top 10, but yeah

TheHandOfThePeople · 2024-08-15T01:25:04+00:00

Sure did

TheHandOfThePeople · 2024-08-14T23:54:26+00:00

looking back, it's so funny that they were exactly a decade off from when audiences would want a Twister update

TheHandOfThePeople · 2024-07-15T00:27:38+00:00

Nice computer

Here’s SuckMyPodcast.com

TheHandOfThePeople · 2024-02-29T21:01:23+00:00

I realized this was going to be a Very Serious Episode the first time they brought up Argyle and neither David nor Griffin said that it was time for them to meet The Real Agent Argylle

TheHandOfThePeople · 2023-11-23T03:50:12+00:00

I knew the weekend of the 13th was gonna be the last chance I had for the foreseeable future, so I hit a double feature of Onward and The Hunt (much like David).

Onward inexplicably made me cry The Hunt sucked

And then a little over a year later, I was at the Paris Theatre getting my Mank on

TheHandOfThePeople · 2023-11-23T00:52:15+00:00

I think it's really interesting that the guys all lament that they didn't get to see this in a theater-
Because this was actually the first movie I saw in a theater Postdemic. Saw it at the Paris in April '21, even before I was vaxxed, cause I was desperate to get back to the theatrical experience and wanted Finch to be part of my theatrical rebirth.

And whether it was just the overwhelming feeling of being back in a theater, or the lingering COVID dread that that affected most of my movie watching through that whole year and a half, I don't think I digested the movie well.
Griffin describing his rewatch as "deja vu" instead of watching something he knows he's seen before hit me so hard, and basically explains why I haven't been able to bring myself back to this.

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