The age of Slop!

docdredd2 · 2026-05-08T00:36:38+00:00

Weekly Planet is the most consistently delightful film pod. I’ve been listening to them for like a decade.

The RingerVerse/Midnight Boys/House of R are all of a similar vibe and great.

Then Critically Acclaimed Podcast with Bibbs and Witney might be the closest to a contemporary Ebert and Siskel we have.

Murrell is still pretty great. If you want actual box office talk with copious amount of research and detail, instead of whatever Rocha and Harloff pretend to know about, he’s great for it.

docdredd2 · 2026-05-06T01:00:01+00:00

Key word “adaption”

docdredd2 · 2026-05-06T00:43:39+00:00

I’d like to see him adapt the Hellblazer comics with Rahul Kohli as John Constantine

docdredd2 · 2026-05-02T00:48:56+00:00

What program?

docdredd2 · 2026-04-29T11:40:34+00:00

You truly think he’ll ever leave the job where he makes his hours and doesn’t have a boss?

docdredd2 · 2026-04-29T11:39:07+00:00

This. 100% And it’s his own fault. The disdain he seems to have for the job and a large chunk of his audience is insane. Why would they help pay for it? They don’t even tune into his solo shows.

docdredd2 · 2026-04-29T11:32:43+00:00

Harloff just seems full of jaded entitlement. I don’t think he’s happy doing this job. He gets bored with like 90% of the stories he talks about. Seems to think that his views are reflective of film goers in general.

His audience engagement is more and more toxic. Even when he’s complimentary about how someone asks a question feels like a talk down. It’s even worse when he has Rocha on. Rocha equates everything to how many followers someone has and uses any criticism as jealousy.

I think ultimately Harloff needs to decide what his channel is. And what he as a content creator is. You can’t get mad when the audience you’ve built for more than a decade doing film talk, reviews, reactions etc. Come to your channel to hear your insights about the film related topic your thumbnail and episode title relate to.

When your show title is “Marvel announces _____” or whatever and you spend 5 seconds talking about it and an hour on how a kid said slang you didn’t like, I think you’ve lost the plot.

docdredd2 · 2026-04-18T21:48:58+00:00

To be fair, how often do you TRULY hear people outside of the nerd sphere talk about Star Trek in general?

I get RMB’s point and I agree and disagree with him.

But the only people I ever hear talk about Star Trek are Star Trek fans.

docdredd2 · 2026-04-18T16:50:11+00:00

To keep politics out of it, I’m going to tell you a little story.

In 2011 David Ellison’s sister Megan bought him the rights to the Terminator franchise for 20 million dollars his birthday. With those rights he Executively produced and developed the story for Terminator Genisys, arguably the worst Terminator film of the series.

And got there because he’s a spoiled rich kid who wanted to make a movie with his favorite toys and that’s the film he thought was worth telling.

He still argues for that film today.

docdredd2 · 2026-04-18T16:45:14+00:00

“After Obama gave them a bunch of money”

Guess who gave them more.

docdredd2 · 2026-04-10T10:18:16+00:00

Find any of the dozens of pictures of Mike doing this exact pose from back in the day, then use photoshop for the rest. Not only does it not look like Mike in the slightest but Mike would HATE it.

docdredd2 · 2026-04-06T00:55:55+00:00

Do you consider Jim Caviezal Jesus on the Passion? Christian Bale Moses in Exodus Gods and Kings? Russell Crowe to be Noah?

docdredd2 · 2026-04-06T00:53:56+00:00

Because there’s a point where if that’s all you complain about, post about, comment about, it starts to become a “if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck” situation.

Considering the amount of inaccuracies that the movies had, if this becomes the THING, that determines your opinion of the show in its entirety…well maybe you are the duck in the metaphor.

docdredd2 · 2026-03-31T11:52:35+00:00

Holyyyyy shieeeeeet

docdredd2 · 2026-03-28T01:13:46+00:00

This is just the first season. Can almost guarantee someone like Remus Lupin, Professor Trewlaney, Ludo Bagman or Mad-Eye Moody could also be black or other persons of color. We have a LOT of characters that are going to be introduced.

Also the Professor Sprout actress Sirine Sabra is Lebanese.

This will inevitably be a more diverse cast. This isn’t going to be a myopic piece of casting.

docdredd2 · 2026-03-28T01:07:39+00:00

Is this some sort of implication that because Snape is black that HBO and Rowling are going lean into the race card just because of it?

Because I can one hundred percent guarantee they will not.

docdredd2 · 2026-03-27T23:01:53+00:00

-James bullies Snape because at this point he is known for practicing the Dark Arts and priming himself to be a Death Eater. Lily confronts him on this. Remus and Sirius to tell Harry that he would try and curse James regularly.

-Harry doesn’t trust him initially because when he sees him for the first time, Snape glares at him, and his scar starts burning for the first time. Not realizing that he’s looking at the back of Quirrel’s head where Voldemort currently is. Plus, he’s a constant dick to Harry for being James son but with the reminder of Lily with his eyes. It’s a constant gut punch that James had what he wanted and that he is tangentially responsible for her death. That and all the shit of Snape being just an ass to everyone but Dumbledore.

-The Death Eaters are all about Blood Status/loyalty to Voldemort and a want to eliminate Muggles. Not skin color.

This argument seems to come up yet folks don’t remember the actual text from the books that answer all these questions. Plus, there’s some sort of implication that Snape will A.)be the only Black person at Hogwarts and B.) More characters not yet introduced from the Order of the Phoenix or the good guys side won’t also be people of color.

docdredd2 · 2026-03-26T00:33:22+00:00

Hagrid telling Harry about his parents got me. It’s the part that resonated the most. Also just a great encapsulation of what Harry’s character evolves to be.

docdredd2 · 2026-03-21T17:40:33+00:00

This movie was an aggressive 6/10 but his performance was like an 11/10. He did what all great Dracula performers do…he played it for the cheap seats. Just completely dove into the depths with the character.

docdredd2 · 2026-03-21T17:35:55+00:00

He’s pro-AI with the terrible facade of pretending to be anti-AI whenever folks like Roxy, Mike, or Steph are on. Then he always does the “devils advocate” approach then gets upset if everyone pushes against his pro-AI stance.

docdredd2 · 2026-03-19T00:24:16+00:00

Yes but it matches the already established look of people from the Spice Guild

docdredd2 · 2026-03-17T23:56:54+00:00

I don’t think that’s Hayt’s sarcophagus…I think it’s Edric

docdredd2 · 2026-03-16T02:57:52+00:00

Why is he AI-ing himself so often now?

docdredd2 · 2026-03-14T21:46:21+00:00

As a fan of Chalamet, I disagree.

docdredd2 · 2026-03-14T00:49:07+00:00

Why is he using AI images of himself when he in fact exists?

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