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@schmanthonyp.bsky.social and @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social covering the top fifty highest grossing films of 2006, movies you haven’t thought of in decades for very good reasons https://open.spotify.com/show/30HWgT2vsbVUtgKokSkvNE?si=xQuXGR8QSMSR9EJ9Wj0uHA
FOLKS! @boxofficegross.bsky.social did not intend to overload you with random off-brand episodes, but for the second straight week, we recorded something that we just had to get out on time!
TOMORROW! (March 12th), once again for SICKOS ONLY(tm), we are covering...
The 78th Annual Academy Awards!!
I have been alerted that @boxofficegross.bsky.social has received its VERY FIRST APPLE PODCASTS REVIEW!!!
First of all SHAME ON ALL OF YOU FOR NOT DOING IT jk :P
But also, this is really sweet and compliments so many things that we've worked hard to do, it's so cool (even if it's pro-HITCH :P )
It was so awesome having Jourdain here, we had so much fun, and I hope you'll join us! Check it out!
...as well as its enduring power as symbolism, my enduring hatred for the Ain't It Cool News Butt-Numb-a-Thon, the enduring out-of-time qualities of the IMDb top 250, and how in the hell I'm familiar with all these mid-2000s R&B songs.
We discuss the disastrously mid work of director James McTeigue, Natalie Portman's catastrophically poor performance and the Wachowskis' decision to make the titular character a little fuckin' dweeb, less like Jigsaw and more like Batman via kids-cartoon Joker.
...leaving an action-packed but oddly muddled narrative that makes perfect sense that people have, ironically, mostly forgotten forgotten as a piece of cinema.
We discuss the film's curiously dissonant relation to its graphic-novel source material, its resonance (or lack thereof) with its original Thatcherite origins vs. its War on Terror traipsings and its strange decision to closely adapted a lot of the novels' structure but hollow out its context...
FOLKS! This week @boxofficegross.bsky.social DESCENDS INTO ANARCHY!
The lovely and talented @judysquirrels.bsky.social joins us to remember remember the 36th highest grossing film of 2006, the dystopian political thriller V FOR VENDETTA!
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FOLKS! Coming -THIS MONDAY (Mar. 9th)- to @boxofficegross.bsky.social !!!!
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Hoo boy.
There's part of this I haven't even heard yet! Because we went so long I had to fuckin' leave at one point lolol! This shit brings the house down and we had so much exhausting, exhaustive fun doing it.
YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
Check this one out only if you absolutely positively have to hear everything about Clerks II, and about Rob's trip to visit Kevin (Smith) and Brian (O'Halloran), recounted in loving and entertaining detail to Kevin (Gray) and Brian (Schmid). :P <3
We grabbed our Unofficial Third Host Kevin Gray, who has a similarly reverent love for the film, and Rob's running things on this one, so we go looooong, SICKOS ONLY. (For the record, Clerks was also deeply important to me as a teenager as well, but nothing like these boys feel)
CLERKS II absolutely did not make the top 50 (or even the top 100!) of the 2006 box office, but it was a film and director so deeply near and dear to Rob's heart, and a really cool experience so worth hearing about, so we had to do an episode on it.
FOLKS! Today we have a SURPRISE BONUS EPISODE of @boxofficegross.bsky.social!
@wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social had an opportunity to attend a "stop and start" 20th anniversary screening of CLERKS II with Kevin Smith & Brian O'Halloran, and we had to memorialize it! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
You are, legitimately, not ready for how long this episode is.
FOLKS! I have an announcement to make.
TOMORROW, you are going to be graced with an EPIC LENGTH BONUS EPISODE of @boxofficegross.bsky.social!!!!
But I must warn you:
This episode is FOR SICKOS ONLY(tm)!!!
But if you are our kind of sicko, you're not gonna want to miss this one.
A new kind of horror movie…
Horribly funny!
This is the novel I read, from 1923! Very funny to read it, very funny that it's credited in every version.
Here's the poster for the original 1959 entry.
It's always a blast when Steve stops by and this episode is so fun because we're just so DAMN ROWDY, woof woof, feelin' like a big dog, ayyyyyyy. Check it out!
Other topics of discussion include the sad legacy of original star Tommy Kirk, downloading films off of Morpheus, how Spencer Breslin taught us it was okay to be weird, the existential philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, me being a "badminton savant" and whatever the hell a "Wibberly" is.
...to the career of one Tim Allen, starring with an insanely overqualified cast in in a completely forgotten resurrection of the IP that one of our hosts unexpectedly found a lot of philosophical animalistic value in, that had host and star feelin' like a big dog, woof, feelin' like a big dog, ayyy.
We discuss this shambling, wooly franchise, from its unexpected origins in Weimar-Republic-era German literature, to its massive original late '50s hit that set the tone for decades of Disney live-action cinema, to its ultra-wacky and bizarrely canon-faithful(?!) belated follow-ups.
FOLKS! I have NERVE ISSUES so it HURTS TO LAUGH, so I can't listen to today's @boxofficegross.bsky.social, but YOU CAN: the great @lcosgrove.bsky.social returns for what is, unexpectedly, Rob & I's most CONTENTIOUS DISAGREEMENT yet: Tim Allen in THE SHAGGY DOG!
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You guys are missing out on important organizational information in the @boxofficegross.bsky.social group chat
The other tagline I found was "Raise the woof", which is something.
You would not think this would be a contentious episode between the hosts! YOU WOULD BE WRONG!
STAY TUNED!!!!
FOLKS! Coming THIS MONDAY (March 2nd), to @boxofficegross.bsky.social!
Everything is going to the dogs.
This movie is CERTAINLY never boring, and we definitely don't run out of things to discuss in this very VERY fun episode, including me making a righteous correction to the ACTUAL FACTUAL INCORRECT CREDITS OF THE FILM ITSELF. Check it out! We had a blast!
@mobute.bsky.social was the perfect guest to have here thanks to his years of expertise in demented Hallmark detritus, as we pick through the good and the bad of this wacky piece of work, from the high-point supporting cast to its demented B-Dub-3-ass climax.
I, meanwhile, passionately define it as a dogshit movie where Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker swirl around a tedious idiot plot while occasionally suffering ludicrous slapstick animal attacks that get less and less funny the longer we go.
BOTH OF US ARE RIGHT
THAT'S THE FUN