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Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole Netscape

A critical, tongue-in-cheek look at the bleak landscape of the modern IP-driven Hollywood blockbuster. Hosted by Tyrell James (aka Discourse Stu), Nicole Veneto and Cole Netscape. Audio production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Zoe Woolley and Johanna Hermeer.Discord: https://discord.gg/7vRmbRJDgsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/marvelousdeath

tv & film film reviews

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01:41:19

Black Panther, or The Revolution (Will Not Be)...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/06/22

In our most controversial episode yet, we take a look at the only black led movie ever made, the film that ended racism in America and dislodged the cheeto from the throat of its government: Black Panther (no relation). In this exciting episode you'll find: Stan Lee is a wily bastard, Jack Kirby talks like an old man, Afrofuturism as laser-shooting spears, bad cgi doubles, the limits of the liberal imagination, Africa as a fantasy projection for Americans, the lamest civil war since the last marvel

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02:12:01

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, or Into the...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/06/08

In the grand tradition of raining on everyone's parade, we're bucking our usual schedule and revisiting/taking to task the critically acclaimed, Academy Award winning Sony Animation extravaganza Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, a film Letterboxd users have rated as better than Goodfellas, Sunset Boulevard, and Persona. While the internet is currently freaking out over trans-coded Gwen Stacy, Nicole, Stu, and resident Spider-Man expert Cole bring some clarity to an admittedly beautiful looking but

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01:55:04

The Last Jedi, or At the Fandoms of Madness

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/05/26

Five years ago, a mysterious and terrible force struck our culture like a meteor - laying waste to fandoms, blogs, video essays and fanfic websites. Now, present day, present time, three intrepid podcasters set out across the irradiated rubble of dessicated dead discourse, into the scorched wounds of a dying film franchise, and sift through the ashes and entrails to bring you the final word on The Journal of the Whills: The Saga of The Star Wars: Episode VII: The Last Jedi - a mildly interesting but

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01:59:34

Justice League, or Two Guys One (Good) Cut

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/05/12

In this luxurious, deluxe episode the crew bring you two movies for the length of three: Justice League (2017) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). We outline the troubled production and personal tragedy that led to Snyder's ouster from his superhero magnum opus, and how WB brought in noted male feminist Joss Whedon to work his MCU magic, soy-up the grim epic and bring the runtime down to a svelte one hour, fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds. Disaster ensues, then a phoenix rises from the

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02:04:19

UNLOCKED - A Marvelous! Special Report: We Need to...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/05/04

With the release of The Flash on the summer movie horizon, we're unlocking our Patreon bonus special investigative report on Ezra Miller and their crazy ass 2022. WB-Discovery cancelled basically everything except their upcoming The Flash movie, the basket in which the newly forged juggernaut of classic films, DC superheroes and Shark Week has decided to put all their eggs? Ezra Miller. Once indie darling (alleged) turned blockbuster star (alleged) turned raving groomer psycho (alleged) turned

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01:05

TEASER: Cara Delevingne’s Eyebrows

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/04/27

The winner of our first patron raffle, the crew is forced to talk about Valerian, the already-forgotten bankruptcy inducing french pedophile sci-fi epic. In this exclusive excerpt, Cole breaks the simulation on Cara Delevingne's eyebrows. For the full after-dark exclusive episode, subscribe to our Patreon. Just $3/month provides access to all subscriber-exclusive content, VIP discord events and more.

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01:39:25

Thor Ragnarok, or Taika This Movie and Shove It

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/04/22

On this episode Stu and Cole bully Nicole for enjoying things. Cole tells us about Thor and Hulk in comics, and how the MCU films have sold them both short. We discuss how a film that seems to want to be so whimsical and colorful seems to fall so flat, and how director Taika Waititi seems totally apathetic towards if not contemptuous of fantasy and science fiction: The small-minded and unimaginative cynicism that deflates the wonder and spectacle from Marvel's adaptations of it's more cosmic and

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02:01:27

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or Turtle Penis! (w/...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/04/14

In this special bonus episode, Andy from Those Good Old Fashioned Values joins the pod to walk us through a retrospective on the formative years of this generation spanning cartoon franchise, its origin in independent comics, and a discussion of the surprisingly well-crafted and endearingly corny 1990 live action film. But first, Nicole makes a horrifying discovery about Turtle biology. Check out Andy's Twitch and listen to TGOFV! Thank you for listening! Please consider rating, reviewing, and

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01:15:15

Logan, or Children of X-Men

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/04/07

What if they made a comic-book movie... for grown ups? It's Logan! It's Wolverine! Remember Wolverine? He's old and sad. He says fuck. He chops dudes arms off. Professor X says swears and poops his pants. Everybody dies in the grim dark future of six years from now. We liked it ok, it's good but not as good as you remember, but we get to enjoy some great performances, fun gore, and discuss just what it means to make a 'mature' superhero story. Thank you for listening! Please consider rating,

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01:59:55

Wonder Woman, or Waiting for Godot (To Learn How to Act)

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/03/24

Nicole reckons with her cringe girlboss past, Stu spergs about how badly they got WWI wrong, new permanent third mic Cole has some wild shit to tell you about Wonder Woman comics lore. How could you take something as wild as a demigoddess created by a Freudian bdsm polycule and turn it into this bland rehash of First Avenger? How could you take a solid cast of stars and character actors and force them into orbit around the dead cold star that is animate mannequin Gal Gadot? Why did people like this

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02:06:35

Spider-Man: Homecoming, or Peter Parker Custody Battle

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/03/10

Cole (@java_jigga) returns once again to help us out with Spidey's grand foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and Disney shareholders' wallets), Spider-Man: Homecoming. After a prolonged and ugly custody battle, Sony begrudgingly offered Marvel Studios to share parental rights over their little baby cash cow, and the result is yet another genre pastiche with the visual tactility of a Verizon commercial. Thank you for listening! Please consider rating, reviewing, and subscribing to our

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01:49:47

Spiderman, A People’s History (feat. Cole) [Part 2 of 2]

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/02/17

Spiderman expert Cole returns to take us from the close of the 1980s Bronze Age of Comics and into the modern day, with the rise and fall of independent comics, 'adult' subjects, edginess, Marvel's bankruptcy, and the decline of mainstream American comics in the 21st century through the lens of Marvel's flagship webhead. This is the second part of a two part series. Next time, we'll be watching Spiderman: Homecoming - as the friendly neighborhood arachnid is assimilated into the Disney-Marvel

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01:54:13

Spiderman, A People’s History (feat. Cole) [Part 1 of 2]

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/02/02

Noted comics scholar Cole (@java_jigga) joins us to discuss the History of Spiderman as a character and brand, from his origins in the 1960s, through major lore moments, changes in creative staff, behind the scenes shenanigans, and the long weird history of licensed spin-offs, including a Japanese live-action series from the 1970s that had a formative role in the tokusatsu/sentai genre of television that begat series like Kamen Rider and Power Rangers. Along the way we learn about the long-history

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01:38:47

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, or Oedipal Phallic Power

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/01/20

We ring in the new year and year two of the podcast not adrift in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but somewhere a long time ago in a galaxy far far away (but still owned by the Walt Disney corporation). The Force Awakens: woke SJW propaganda, the Walt Disney Company's hollow retread of A New Hope, a Lacanian manifesto in white men's fragile masculinity, or a JJ Abrams puzzlebox that's all set up and no pay off? Stu and Nicole take a break from capeshit to talk about gay ass space wizards and how

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01:47:00

Christmas Special: How the Grinch Stole Christmas...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2022/12/22

Merry Christmas simps! While our Patreon subscribers will be treated to the much teased Batman Returns discussion like good little girls and boys, you freeloading plebs get a lump of coal in your shit stockings. But isn't every lump of coal capable of being a diamond — or at least an insanely horny and stylistically over-the-top curio of Millennial childhood at the end of history? To celebrate the Yuletide, Nicole and Stu (re)watch Ron Howard's 2000 live-action adaptation of Dr. Seuss's How the

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01:43:46

Guardians of the Galaxy 2, or The Simple Feels Machine

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2022/12/12

Nicole kind of liked this one. Stu did not. It's kind of a movie. It's about found families. It's about feelings. It's fine. It's just fine. It's smooth. It's the vaseline you smear over your baby groot funko pop before you jam it up your ass and it's so smooth you feel... nothing. Nothing at all. If you enjoy the show please consider helping us out with a positive rating or review, subscribing to our Patreon and joining our Discord Community! Apologies for the late release. Stu, like the cartoon

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01:42:04

Doctor Strange, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2022/11/24

The non-event Marvel film formula is perfected with Dr. Strange, a movie so perfectly smooth and spherical it's already become a fixture of neoclassical economics textbooks. All the pieces are here and they're all shiny and grey like a kitchen appliance. Join Nicole and Stu as they try and fail to talk about this movie and talk about everything around this movie, because there's nothing to talk about. There is an idea of a Dr. Strange, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real movie, only an

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02:42:15

Captain America: Civil War, or Marvelous! Civil...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2022/11/11

A civil war brews on this very podcast as Nicole and guest Cathy Brennan square off against Stu over whether this movie is terrible, or merely kinda ok. We've got Steve Roger's not-gays, quasi-incest and age gaps, dubious character motivations, contrived plotting and a centerpiece action sequence that takes place entirely in a call of duty tutorial level, Nicole's insasiable lust for Chris Evans, the liberal conception of power, and the titanic behind the scenes battle between smooth-brained

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01:50:03

Amazing Spiderman 1 and 2, or Spiderman Flavored...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2022/10/27

A little catch-up two for one episode as Stu and Nicole revisit Marc Webb's Andrew Garfield starring "Amazing Spiderman" films, the movies so bad they convinced Sony to bend knee to the Disney-Marvel imperium. We talk about how Marc Webb turned Peter Parker into a self-insert artsy film kid, how Garfield and Emma Stone have chemistry despite dating IRL, the complete failure of the JJ Abrams esque 'puzzle box' parent plot, how stretching out the origin story into being an hour long doesn't add depth,

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01:38:58

Deadpool, or Red Dead Redditor

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2022/10/13

We always complain that these movies don't have enough sex or violence, so they gave us one with sex and violence. It's ok. Some of the humor is funny, some of it has aged badly. Has so much changed in just six years? It's a very 2010s movie. A very Reddit movie. We also talk about how TJ Miller is a freak and Morena Baccarin deserves better. Includes bonus Mario movie trailer live reactions (stu soyfacing dot jpg) and other miscellania. Subscribe to the Patreon and join the Discord. We need weed

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