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Mission Creep

The distractables

A movies podcast that wanders

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01:39:28

34. The Spiderverses, with Andy Karlson and Winston...

Mission Creep ·

2023/09/08

In which we discover, truly, how much I was missing by not spending enough time with comic books as a kid, and in which we learn again and again how the Spiderman character in particular allows writers and audiences to explore infinite iterations of adolescent struggles with the experiences of inheritance, responsibility, loss, and change. Do we see a spark in these films? That's a copy.

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01:11:58

Ep_33: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), with...

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2023/08/31

Seriously: the killer's motives make NO SENSE. He has gotten away with avenging his daughter's death, and four teenagers in the full flower of their glorious youth think that THEY are responsible! And everyone else seems to think that David Egan accidentally drowned, or just disappeared, or something. So why would the killer want to off his own alibis? This movie brought to you by the North Carolina State Tourism Board. Not really.

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01:14:16

Ep_32: Out of Sight (1998), with Andy Karlson and...

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2023/08/17

Is there such a thing as a "meet-violent?" Was George Clooney simply auditioning for the Ocean's 11 franchise with this performance? How does love enmesh us in a web of vulnerabilities, to use Winston's phrase, and what does it have to do with midlife crises? All this and more in a discussion of yet another Elmore Leonard adaption.

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01:20:52

Ep_31: Alien(s), with Colin Harrison

Mission Creep ·

2023/07/18

It doesn't make sense for this show to have "seasons" at all, so please enjoy this thirty-first overall episode of the podcast, featuring substantial digressions into Star Wars and Westworld, in addition to the promised subject matter!

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01:17:48

S2E16: Jackie Brown (1997), with Winston Thompson and...

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2023/07/07

In which we tackle the really big questions, like: "Is 44 old or not that old?" "Is a body count of 4 high or low?" "Who, in this movie about seedy life in the underworld, most closely resembles Mr. Rogers?"

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01:42:30

S2E15 Now and Then (1995), with Rachel White

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2023/06/17

The cast of this movie is so incredible that Hank Azaria, Brendan Fraser, and Janeane Garofalo are merely scene-stealing cameo appearances!

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01:29:23

S2E14: Get Shorty (1995), with Andy Karlson and...

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2023/06/09

Chili Palmer, minivan connoisseur, would be on the right side of the WGA writer's strike, is all we're saying.

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01:15:54

S2E13: Jerry Maguire (1996), with Rachel White

Mission Creep ·

2023/06/06

What EXACTLY are Jerry and Dorothy on the well-lit front porch, in full view of any neighbors, before they go inside to be swept away by Chad-the-nanny's jaaaaaazzzzzz?

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00:58:03

S2E12: She's All That (1999), with Susan Haarman

Mission Creep ·

2023/05/30

Can the king of the school turn a girl who wears a one-piece to the beach into a prom queen? Find out the answer in the best-ever adaptation of Pygmalion*! Also if I were to tell you that this movie features Gabrielle Union, Lil Kim, Usher, and Dulé Hill -- which it does! -- you would never in a million years be able to predict how white it remains. *except for literally all the others.

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01:18:30

S2E11: Billy Madison (1995), with Rachel White

Mission Creep ·

2023/05/23

Look. It's actually insane that one of the top-five lines in movie history -- "If peeing your pants is cool, then consider me Miles Davis" -- is barely a top-three line in this very film.

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01:17:40

S2E10: Meet Joe Black (1998), with Rachel White

Mission Creep ·

2023/05/11

What can we say about a film that has everything--love, death, a soaring score, the widest ties, a SHOCKING effort at a Jamaican accent? Plenty, as it happens! Join us!

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01:16:00

S2E9: Face/Off (1997) REDUX, with Winston Thompson

Mission Creep ·

2023/05/03

Why would you remove a guy's face FIRST, and only then trim up his bangs??

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01:03:05

S2E8: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), with Rachel White

Mission Creep ·

2023/04/23

I heard that you were feeling ill: headache, fever, and a chill. I came to help restore your pluck, because I'm the nurse who likes to spend inordinate amounts of time dissecting Ed Rooney's trauma, Ferris's own sociopathic tendencies, Charlie Sheen's louche and effortless sexiness, and whether Cameron is not the actual protagonist of this movie. Won't you join us?

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01:30:08

S2E7: The Bourne Trilogy (2002-2007), with Winston...

Mission Creep ·

2023/04/06

In which it is revealed that what we had previously thought of as genre-defining artistry in the world of spy-based action films is really, basically, the Pilgrim's Progress on the levels of both the individual and the national soul. And never has the phrase "This is not who we are" been more laughably, enragingly false.

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01:16:42

S2E6: Demolition Man (1993), with Andy Karlson &...

Mission Creep ·

2023/03/12

Enhance your calm! Velvety fascism is here!

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00:54:20

S2E5: Clueless (1995), with Susan Haarman

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2023/03/04

Pop quiz, hot shot. Which movie features a college freshman reading Nietzsche by the pool, a lot of drug jokes that went over our teenaged heads, and a surprisingly underwhelming soundtrack? It's Clueless! Susan Haarman joins us LIVE and IN PERSON to talk about this classic adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma.

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01:27:18

S2E4: Total Recall (1990), with Winston Thompson and...

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2023/02/08

Is this an end-of-history movie or not? Is Arnold Schwarzenegger dreaming the whole thing or not? What is the political vision, and what are the stakes, of this film?

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01:26:28

S2E2: Jurassic Park (1993), with Andy Karlson and...

Mission Creep ·

2023/01/16

Andy describes the end of this movie as a "Deus rex machina" and I have not stopped chuckling about it since.

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01:04:01

S2E1: Independence Day (1996), with Andy Smarick

Mission Creep ·

2023/01/04

Welcome to Earth! Andy and I get together to remember a time when Will Smith wasn't yet a huge star, when Harry Connick, Jr. was just a crooner, and when Jeff Goldblum was still playing characters rather than "Jeff Goldblum." And we talk about the 90s geopolitics that made this movie possible, including Vietnam War memory, Clinton-era cosmopolitanism, and the role of aliens as an external and existential threat to unified humanity.

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01:21:56

S1E14: You’ve Got Mail (1998), with Annie Schultz

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2022/12/27

There is a huge question that runs throughout our conversation here: Should we understand romantic comedies as parables of a certain kind, or should we hold the characters in romantic comedies to a standard of psychological realism? But that's far from the only question on which Dr. Schultz and I find ourselves divided. Is Nora Ephron an object-oriented ontologist? Is the city of New York the true romantic lead in this film? Does Greg Kinnear's character just utterly indict all of us nerds? Is

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