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Almost Good

DJK & TMC

Talking about movies that almost make the cut.

tv & film

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01:07:35

21 - The House That Jack Built

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2018/12/31

This is our final episode of 2018! Conversations Include: Is Lars von Trier a "Try-Hard" and Does That Matter? THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Review A Serial Killer Movie to Kill All Serial Killers (Movies)? Dead-On von Trier Impressions by JDO Dave's Huge Checklist of All the Serial Killers This References How Does Behavior Relate to Art? Thanks for listening. It's been a great year.

01:10:54

20 - Bird Box

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2018/12/27

We Talk About: J.G. Ballard's Crazy Car Books Getting Into Fights While Taking Your Kid to See Santa Book vs. Movie vs. Hype Bullets vs. Arrows BIRD BOX Review The Perils of Disliking Things Your Friends Like

01:18:11

19 - First Reformed

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2018/12/17

On This Episode: Social Media Scolding Milk Men Pre-Internet Jackassery Diluting The Joke DOG EAT DOG Review AFFLICTION Review FIRST REFORMED Review

56:34

18 - Cam / Searching

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2018/12/02

Today We Talk About: Pulling Someone Out of the Driver's Seat of a Car Internet Squealers UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 4 Review CAM Review The Fakeness of Online in Films Harlan Ellison's Shatterday SEARCHING Review The Curious Case of a Certain Word

01:16:38

17 - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

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2018/11/22

A Lot To Get To Today, Such As: Straight-to-Netflix Content THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Review Anthology Movies Steve Alten's Meg Bill Maher/Stan Lee Controversy How White Is the Coen's Wild West? Dave's Meta-Fictional Opus The Last Projector

53:49

16 - You Were Never Really Here

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2018/11/11

Are you ready for abortion, Nazis, and dad-rock revenge films? Also, why do we never see the rich get murdered on-screen? Makes ya think! Stuff Mentioned In This Episode (Sometimes With Links): T.C. Boyle's Short Story "Killing Babies" Charlene's Insane Tune "I've Never Been to Me" So Is This Bonkers Song the Polar Opposite? YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Review And a Ton of Other Movies Also Come Up, Like... Leon: The Professional Road House We Need to Talk About Kevin American History X American

01:30:03

15 - Mandy

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2018/10/01

We thought it might be easier to list all our nonsense. Let's try it... Salty Rants In This Episode Include: Dave's Shaky Basketball Analogy How You're Not Allowed to Criticize Books Should Tweets Be Movies? (un)Surprising Criticisms of BLACKkKLANSMAN MANDY Review Cage Match Nepo Babies Dueling Chainsaws (Stories)

01:18:04

14 - The Friendless

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2018/09/07

We're all we've got in this world, but we can't hug it out over Skype. Instead, we talk about The Endless, which is 100% a really really really okay (some might say "almost good") kinda movie.

55:00

13 - Beyond the Black Rainbow

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2018/08/20

On this one, we dive deep into the plasma pool with Beyond the Black Rainbow, unpacking the plot, symbolism, use of tropes in non-aesthetic ways (tools as tools!), and then we talk about brain-melting psychedelics and, ultimately, how Kill Bill 2 might just hold the key to the type of storytelling we want in our movies.

01:08:39

12 - Sorry to Bother You

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2018/08/01

JDO was really frustrated on this one. But despite it all, we talk rationally about Sorry to Bother You, one of the best movies JDO has ever seen. Dave's not so sure, but he's happy when JDO's happy.

01:18:19

11 - Millennials Stabbin’ Horses (and Sharp Objects #1)

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2018/07/10

On this episode, we talk Thoroughbreds (a.k.a. "American Psycho meets Heathers, according to the very smart packaging), Equus (lots of peners in that one), Heavenly Creatures, a good old-fashioned shredding of True Detective: Season Two, samurai swords, and a first look at Gillian Flynn's hot new HBO prestige series Sharp Objects.

01:16:25

10 - Jurassic House / Hereditary

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2018/07/02

We have a question: What if the Predators in the latest unessential Predator movie 69'd? Don't worry, we also talk about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, how all opinions are invalid, and then stand back, because here comes a big-time lovefest for Hereditary.

01:40:13

9 - Dipshit Heat!

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2018/06/27

Tonight we go all-in on the worst movie of the summer, Den of Thieves, for our most "tacticool" episode yet. Which movies (besides Heat) does this thing rip off? Are movies getting darker or are they just getting darker? Does the profile fit the profile? What's the perfect Bad Cop Breakfast? And why why why does Stallone cut his pizza slice with scissors in Cobra? Answers inside.

59:19

8 - The Outsider / Logan Lucky

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2018/05/21

This week, there's another SCRIPT DOCTOR in the house, as well as some discussions about overseas markets, heists, redneck portrayals and other assorted hilarity, and (most importantly) we come back together for forgiveness and put the surprise betrayal of the previous episode behind us as only we know how... by talking about Jared Leto's appropriation gangster. Noogies for everybody.

51:05

7 - A Quiet Place

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2018/05/07

Topics: Kanye West is never far from JDO's thoughts, dropping people from Facebook for not liking baby pictures, superhero movies vs. westerns, South Korean film, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, other word viruses, rule-based movies, the massive SCRIPT DOCTORING of A Quiet Place that nobody asked for, the intelligence of monsters, and a cliffhanger ending that could spell doom for the Almost Good podcast.

01:07:08

6 - Ready Player One

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2018/04/09

After a much-needed week off, Almost Good returns in force to discuss directors saying really stupid shit, disavowing movies based on their creators, the #MeToo music loophole, our respective Netflix queues, Ready Player One... and oh no here comes a whole new breed of theater gremlin.

51:36

5 - Wheelman / Small Crimes / The Ritual

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2018/03/19

Topics: Slipknot rules, Wheelman might not rule, bad dialogue, when process shots go wrong, grabbing sandwiches, conspicuous naming, toothpicks in Asian gangster flicks, no kids in movies, good tough guys, Fred Durst’s voice, meta tough guys, okay, fine, Dave kinda liked Wheelman, bad accents, Small Crimes, a good Leonardo DiCaprio joke, two Daves do some accents of their own, The Ritual, people losing their shit when they get lost in the woods, that time JDO got lost in the woods, the proper use of

01:07:42

4 - Annihilation (on mushrooms)

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2018/03/14

Get Ready For... Mushrooms vs. movies, nice ice cubes, empathy builders, bad teaching scenes, sad music, pacing issues with the hazmat man, Dave’s bad jokes, "good" green, Toronto tax shelters, bears that scream like women, weird denial in movies, was there or wasn’t there weird chanting in the cutting-open-the-stomach scene, how you can lose it around others, does the rainbow work, how to totally ruin (and maybe solve) this movie, having something to lose, why JDO doesn’t do Valentine’s Day, being

01:25:29

3 - Black Panther / The Florida Project

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2018/03/05

On this episode of the Almost Good podcast, we talk about stuff like that one racist guy who likes Black Panther, CGI rhinos, fighting twice, Blade II as a harbinger for rubbery Gumby fights, "What are the fucking powers???", how Dave really liked the white dude with one arm, of course Killmonger was right, James Spader is ass-eating royalty, doubling down on late capitalism, Marvel already ruined movies, Dave’s stepbrother is The Movie Oracle, purple vs. orange, message from the king, is Black

01:15:28

2 - Brawl in Cell Block 99

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2018/02/21

This time we talk about the unlikely awesomeness of Kanye West, Dave transcribes JDO’s drunk phone call regarding Black Panther, how the best movies never run down the middle, Dunkirk, Bane masks at the gym, nü-metal (of course), Oscar picks and snubs, A Ghost Story, fake vomit, Ladybird, annoying theater talkers, some unique Alamo Drafthouse challenges, seat kickers, art vs. pulp, the genius of S. Craig Zahler, an alternate list of Best Pictures, Gabino Iglesias' love of milk, Bad Day for the Cut,

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