I Think It's About
One person explains the plot of a movie they’ve never seen, and then we watch it to see how right they were.
Episodes
Sara watches the movie that saved movies.
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- Poster
- "Mad World" trailer for Gears of War directed by Kosinski
- Tom Cruise eating popcorn
- "Skunk Works" memoir by Ben Rich
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Sara watches a high middlebrow classic and discovers her new favorite Tom Hanks role.
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Drew learns exactly how British this movie is.
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- Movie poster
- Paddington 2's first negative review
- "The Artist Who Photoshops Paddington Into Anything"
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A Star is Born, but make it porn.
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- Poster
- Goodfellas single-take shot
- Janet Maslin review
- Grantland oral history
- Naomi Fry on the "Sister Christian" scene
- Fiona Apple's take on cocaine
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Sara watches (felon) John McTiernan's slow-burn, monster-in-the-jungle classic and learns about "crosshairs."
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Drew watches Kiera Knightley, professional dress wearer.
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- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- r/janeausten has mysteriously vanished; Internet Archive link
- Damp Colin Firth
- The Spy and the Traitor
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We now call this meeting of the Patricia Arquette Appreciation Society to order.
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It's vampire movie month, and Drew is watching "....not the worst movie he's ever seen."
- Manohla Dargis on the lack of fangs
- Movie poster
- The M. Night Shyamalannaisance
- The high water mark for vampire movies
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Sara is not smitten by the gigantic elf.
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- Movie poster
- The History of Edward Fortyhands
- The Rankin/Bass Christmas specials
- "Daddy (I Found You)" feat. Buddy the Elf
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Drew watches Alan Arkin (RIP) as peak dad in Tim Burton's "death adjacent," waterbed-filled 60s fantasia.
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Sara watches James Cameron's favorite anime.
Show notes
- Movie poster (caution: boobs)
- All roads lead to Avatar
- The scariest movie, ever
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Drew watches George Lucas's LOTR fan fic. Val Kilmer is imprisoned for personality-based reasons, and later, is in drag. Featuring one of the best screen babies of all time.
Show notes
- Captain EO
- Taffy Brodesser-Akner profiles Val Kilmer
- The Willow video game (NES, DOS, arcade)
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Sara finds her Fall/Winter 2024 look. Drew loves Tangerine Dream. Tom Cruise, it turns out, has aged.
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- Movie poster
- Dave Kehr on Risky Business for Criterion
- Harry Dean Stanton/Rebecca De Mornay/Tom Cruise
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Fire on a submarine? No thank you. Every second of this movie is Sara's nightmare.
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Drew guesses that Steel Magnolias is a “light-hearted rom com.” Julia Roberts has one of the worst Southern accents committed to film. Dolly Parton is a national treasure.
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- Movie poster
- Tom Skerritt has the drip
- Lifetime: Steel Magnolias (2012) trailer
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Drew and Sara are sick. Sara learns that Jack Reacher and Jack Ryan are (very?) different characters. Chevy Suburbans explode.
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- Movie poster
- The Gipper loved Tom Clancy so much he made Tom Clancy's career
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