JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Gordon (@gordondowns) discuss 1994's The Crow , the movie that helped give goth kids a superhero to root for while simultaneously leading to the "accidental death" (a.k.a. neglect-based murder) of its star Brandon Lee. This is the shit that happens when you make a deal with the devil (a.k.a. Harvey Weinstein) to get your movie released!...
Jul 22, 2019•44 min•Ep. 145
JOIN THE OFFICIAL BLOCKBUSTING FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Pete (@PeteSaintLaurnt) talk about Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the famous musical about a murderous barber starring Johnny Depp as a guy who can't sing and Helena Bonham Carter as a quirky lady, and featuring a poorly-paced plot paired with paint-by-numbers Tim Burton flourishes that make this movie an emo kid's dream and Pete's worst nightmare....
Jul 19, 2019•44 min•Ep. 144
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Ify (@IfyNwadiwe) discuss 2004's Catwoman , the infamous Halle Berry-starring clunker that is tonally incoherent, stylistically inconsistent, and rightfully labeled as one of the worst movies of all time for reasons that Ify and I boldly uncover as we relive one of the worst movie-watching experiences of our young lives.
Jul 15, 2019•37 min•Ep. 143
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Paul (@ThePaulOfHaynes) discuss Asia Argento's The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things , a movie that covers just about every trigger-warning-ready subject in the book – child abuse, pedophilia, rape, drug addiction, and more – then slaps a cool Instagram filter on it and tries to call itself art. Plus, we can't ignore the dual wrinkle that this movie is based on a book that was written and promoted fraudul...
Jul 12, 2019•52 min•Ep. 142
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Abby (@abbyroberge) discuss Oliver Stone's Savages , a movie about two hunky surfer boys who outsmart a Mexican drug cartel while tag-teaming their beautiful girlfriend. Do we think it's realistic? Obviously not. Do we think it's needlessly fear-mongering? Nope. Do we think it's shockingly boring for a movie about drug dealers, kidnapping, and murder? You'd better believe it!...
Jul 08, 2019•36 min•Ep. 141
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Kelsey (@KelseyFGold) discuss Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail , a rom-com set at the dawn of the internet starring Tom Hanks as a likable asshole, Meg Ryan as an unlikable nice lady, and a whole slew of weird, rah-rah corporate America undertones. Dare we say fascist? Kelsey dares!
Jul 05, 2019•36 min•Ep. 140
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Dave (@YatesComedy) discuss Robert Altman's M*A*S*H, the beloved, award-winning satire about irreverent Army doctors that spawned an entire empire of spinoffs and imitators and made Dave and Jay question what the hell the big fuss was all about with all its critical acclaim.
Jul 01, 2019•33 min•Ep. 139
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Hormoz (@nothormones) discuss Crash , the controversial Best Picture winner about how literally everyone is racist that Jay and Hormoz both used to like, right up until they broadened their cinematic and cultural horizons and realized that there is such a thing as an artful way to handle racial tension, and that this film ain't it, chief....
Jun 28, 2019•39 min•Ep. 138
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and M.K. (@mkpaulsen) discuss Love, Simon , a coming-of-age dramedy about a gay teen boy that would have been groundbreaking had it come out ten years ago, but in modern times, feels like a big studio trying to cash in on gay pride and LGBT rights being trendy rather than out of any actual sense of support.
Jun 24, 2019•42 min•Ep. 137
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Justin (@justinmatson) discuss M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender , a total abomination of an adaptation that makes fantasy action boring, gives people reason to hate a franchise they know nothing about, and is such a colossal mistake that even Mr. Night himself admitted he'd done wrong by bringing this to the big screen.
Jun 21, 2019•37 min•Ep. 136
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Carmen (@thefunnycarmen) discuss Mac and Me , the infamous "E.T. if it was actually a McDonald's commercial" movie from 1988 that won a handful of Razzie Awards and won Carmen's heart for its progressive take on alien gender roles and disability visibility and oh my God there's no way Carmen can pull this argument off, is there? IS THERE? HOW DID SHE THREAD THIS SHIT NEEDLE?!?!?...
Jun 17, 2019•42 min•Ep. 135
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Drew (@TheDrewLynch) break the tension to cut through the pretension of Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko , a cult classic that is completely undeserving of its status and is, at the end of the day, a movie made for dumb people to feel smart and for angsty high schoolers feel like they're having a real "cinema" experience.
Jun 14, 2019•39 min•Ep. 134
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Well folks, someone done goofed again. Jay (@DietJay) was all ready to talk to Austin (@Austin_Train) about how he hated the Coen Brothers crime comedy classic Fargo , and then he went and watched it again and realized it's a great movie AND that you're allowed to think criminals are idiots and not cool dudes like in Scarface and Goodfellas ! What a concept!...
Jun 10, 2019•37 min•Ep. 133
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Shapel (@ShapelLacey) discuss Bring It On , a film that Roger Ebert called "the Citizen Kane of cheerleading movies" and that Shapel thinks is practically slanderous to the sport. Yes, folks, it is a sport. And if you still think that its not after listening to this episode then go back to watching Scrabble tournaments, I guess?...
Jun 07, 2019•44 min•Ep. 132
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Ayla (@AylaGlass) discuss Disney's Frozen , the Academy Award-winning animated phenomenon that swept the nation like a blizzard of mediocrity thanks to its strangely big-eyed heroines and its completely average pop song soundtrack. The perfect disappointment to show your kids!
Jun 03, 2019•37 min•Ep. 131
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Nicky (@tweetsattoilets) discuss X -Men Origins: Wolverine, the superhero movie equivalent of Star Wars Episode I that features a weird proto-Deadpool, offensive bones, and Hugh Jackman trying his absolute best to save this stupid, terrible movie.
May 31, 2019•36 min•Ep. 130
JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blockbusting/ Jay (@DietJay) and Sarah (@SarahKeller07) discuss Beetlejuice, the 80's classic that features an iconic Michael Keaton performance, standard weirdo Tim Burton imagery that freaked Sarah out as a kid, and a plot that is more convoluted than Jay remembered it being. Does this flick stand the test of time?
May 27, 2019•37 min•Ep. 129
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Nikki (@thenikkibon) talk about Wine Country , the reunion movie for a bunch of SNL's funniest women that manages to squander almost all of their talents with a middle-of-the-road script and one-note characters and leaves them in mid-life crisis hell for an hour and 43 minutes.
May 24, 2019•44 min•Ep. 128
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Tim (@ClosedPistachio) discuss Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive , the movie that launched a thousand 80's-themed playlists, did its damndest to make Ryan Gosling seem intimidating, and was the cool indie action flick du jour for plenty of film school kids like Jay while simultaneously driving folks like Tim – who thinks this film is chock-full of missed opportunities and flimsy characterization – completely up the wall....
May 20, 2019•43 min•Ep. 127
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Eli (@EliOlsberg) discuss Steven Spielberg's seminal Jurassic Park, a film that wowed audiences at the time and cemented its spot as a basic-cable mainstay, but has since drawn Eli's ire for not living up to the cinematic standard he knows Spielberg can achieve – even for a mainstream popcorn blockbuster.
May 17, 2019•46 min•Ep. 126
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Josh (@theedelmeister) discuss Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, a galactic-level catastrophe that turned both of their stomachs and made Josh swear off our favorite popcorn intellectual (and secretly Republican) British director almost for good. Not only do they dissect the film world's prettiest dumpster fire, they disagree about why they disagree! This movie brings out the worst in people!...
May 13, 2019•41 min•Ep. 125
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Superhero movie hater Jay (@DietJay) and salty longtime Marvel fan Jeremy (@JeremyScippio) discuss the global phenomenon Avengers: Endgame , the culmination of over a decade of comic book filmmaking that is undeniably going to be the highest-grossing movie in cinema history. However, it rings too hollow, shoehorns in too much exposition, and makes too many concessions for its characters. GIMME MORE THANOS, YOU COWARDS....
May 10, 2019•41 min•Ep. 124
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Stephanie (@stephstreisand) dissect the 2005 movie version of Broadway classic Rent, an extremely bad adaptation of a musical that arguably only has its legendary status due to the writer dying. WHOOPS. WE'RE GOIN' THERE! This movie is five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred pounds of bullshit.
May 06, 2019•36 min•Ep. 123
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Jacob (@JacobMTrimmer) talk about The Nightmare Before Christmas, the movie that launched a thousand Hot Topic careers, emo kid journal entries, and open skepticism about the viability of stop-motion animation. PLUS: is Jack Skellington actually one of the shittiest main characters of all time? We get to the bottom of it!
May 03, 2019•35 min•Ep. 122
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Jessie (@jetskijohnson) discuss Jupiter Ascending , the latest movie by The Wachowskis that takes the admirable goal of creating a sci-fi movie led by a strong female character and does everything it can to make that movie as dumb, poorly paced, and incomprehensible as possible along the two-plus hour running time.
Apr 29, 2019•40 min•Ep. 121
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Steven (@stevenrandolph2) discuss Cast Away , the iconic "Tom Hanks talks to a volleyball for an hour" movie from Robert Zemeckis that triggered every single one of Steven's fears and insecurities in strange and specific ways. Shoutout to abandonment issues!
Apr 26, 2019•43 min•Ep. 120
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Lisa (@lisa_curry) discuss 2017's indie Oscar darling Lady Bird , a coming-of-age story about a boring white girl that apparently cast Laurie Metcalf through a deal with the devil and baffled both of us in its widespread acceptance and adoration. Will we ever work in this town again after sharing these opinions? By golly we sure hope so!
Apr 22, 2019•43 min•Ep. 119
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Josh (@optimuswaldge) discuss David Lynch's Mulholland Drive , David Lynch's infamous L.A.-set psychosexual neo-noir, which Josh didn't like because it's weird, hard to understand, and requires multiple viewings to really "get." And yeah maybe he's right, objectively. But is he right right? Does a movie being difficult make it bad?
Apr 19, 2019•35 min•Ep. 118
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Griffin (@gameboizpod) talk about Adam McKay's The Big Short , the Oscar-winning comedy about the late-2000s economic collapse that Jay puts in his all-time top 20 and Griffin puts straight in the garbage. Can Griffin's well-reasoned, extremely sensible, and unexpectedly personal argument against the film turn the tide of Jay's opinion?
Apr 15, 2019•41 min•Ep. 117
PLEASE TAKE MY AUDIENCE SURVEY: https://bit.ly/2Yoyb7V Jay (@DietJay) and Becca (@pizzabagelbecca) discuss 2010's The Kids Are All Right , a movie about lesbian parents that sort of glosses over the lesbian part to make a pretty basic romantic dramedy, which Becca felt even more disconnected to based on her own wildly different upbringing by a lesbian couple.
Apr 12, 2019•35 min•Ep. 116
