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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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01:53:00

Green Lantern, or Emerald Shitty

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/07/26

Just in time for Deadpool and Wolverine, we're turning back the clock to 2011 to revisit Ryan "Reddit" Reynolds of Mint Mobile's greatest superhero shame, Green Lantern. Is it really as bad as everyone's made it out to be in the last 13 years? Yes, actually. But it also represents a fascinating transition point where Warner Brothers is trying to catch up to the MCU with their own attempt at Iron Man. The result is a movie that's simultaneously dated for the time it was released and also innovative

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02:20

TEASER: Release the Timberlake Cut

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/07/19

Somehow in our discussion of Southland Tales we discovered that Stu's a semi-fan of the Justin Timberlake star vehicle In Time.If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.

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02:16:01

Wonder Woman 1984, or Triumph of the Wish (feat. Liz)

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/07/12

We end our brief and bitter sojourn into the COVID-riddled landscape of 2020 releases not with a whimper, but with a hateful, unapologetically awful bang. The follow up to the DCEU's critically and commercially successful Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins' sequel Wonder Woman 1984 was reviled and mocked when it was released in theaters and on HBO Max. And if you can believe it, the movie has only gotten worse in the wake of ongoing genocidal events in Gaza. Returning guest Liz (@liz_irl) joins us to help

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01:59:22

The New Mutants, or X-Men, Interrupted

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2024/06/28

Remember that one poster you saw at the theater back in 2017 for that X-Men spin-off that you kept waiting to come out and never did, only to one day find it was playing at a movieplex near you in the middle of COVID? It's The New Mutants, the final installment in Fox's X-Men franchise victimized by both the Disney buyout and being the product of the guy who directed The Fault in Our Stars trying to make a horror movie for Freeform teenagers (among a bunch of other things). And in a shocking turn of

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01:48

TEASER: Nicole Flexes Her Gender Studies Masters...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/06/21

I know tons of you probably hate Assassination Nation and anything else Sam Levinson touches but what if I told you there's some insight to be mined from this movie?If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.

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01:34:50

Sonic the Hedgehog, or Chaos Uncontrolled (feat. Andy...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/06/14

It's finally time to talk about Paramount's live action-animated hybrid Sonic the Hedgehog starring Jean-Ralphio as Sonic, every kid's favorite movie star James Marsden talking to another CGI animal, and Jim Carrey as Robotnik on Ozempic. Our favorite boy/Sonic-enthusiast Andy (@Ex_AnarchoAnon) from TGOFV returns once again to discuss the results. Everything basically turns to chaos. Stu literally begged us to end the episode. Don't worry, we talk about Ugly Sonic before that though.Thank you to

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00:56

TEASER: How to Lose Your Patrons in 60 Seconds

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2024/06/07

Somehow in the middle of our discussion on Belladonna of Sadness we entered a tangent about Bear in the Big Blue House. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.

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02:34:46

Birds of Prey, or I, Harley Quinn (feat. Fabiola Liaño)

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/05/31

We're cracking open our brief excursion into 2020 with one of the last movies to get a theatrical run before COVID shut everything down. Women finally got their own Deadpool starring and produced by mega-star of the moment Margot Robbie. Against her better critical judgement, Nicole enjoyed this one for the incredibly flawed and messy thing that it is because women can have a junk food treat sometimes. Cole and Stu basically hated it. To help us break down whether or not women have the right to be

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01:47:04

Train to Busan, or Trains, Brains, and Negligent Fathers

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/05/16

We're going international baby to see how other countries do their blockbusters! (Super producer and editor Miguel) picked, you (paying Patrons) voted: 2016's Train to Busan, South Korea's hit zombie flick . You're probably more than aware that South Korean movies (and a lot of their recent cultural exports) have been dog walking the slop America's been putting out recently, and for good reason. We talk a little bit about that, but mostly we go off the rails a lot talking about trains.Thank you to

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03:14

TEASER: Tactical Twink-strategy (feat. Angie)

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/05/10

This anime bullshit is actually giving us a real political discussion if you can actually believe it. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.

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01:51:56

Spider-Man: Far From Home, or Batalon Royale

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2024/05/03

Right off the back of the milestone of watching/shitting on Avengers: Endgame, followed it up with another Spider-Man movie, and to nobody's surprise it literally doesn't matter. This is an anime beach episode that has no bearing on anything else that happens in a cinematic universe. Spider-Man accidentally drones a school bus driving through the Czech Republic to get back at fakeass Charles Melton for taking revenge porn of him, and somehow it doesn't feel as insane as it should be. Everyone is so

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02:30:34

Avengers: Endgame, or This is (Not) the End

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/04/19

It's all led to this. 21 movies, tens of billions of dollars made at the box office, a movie going public willing and hungry to return to the trough to see even more purple Josh Brolin. It's the second highest grossing movie of all time (unadjusted for inflation) and the episode you've all been waiting for since the very beginning: Avengers: Endgame. Has enough time passed now to say it sucks?Extra special thanks to Seqarts, our $100 Kevin Fiege tier supporter for April!! Thank you to our $10

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02:16

TEASER: Cara Loft - Womb Raider

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/04/13

It's exactly what you think it is. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.

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02:14:37

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, or The Real Glup...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/04/05

A $4 billion dollar Disney acquisition, Reddit internet flamewars, and three film trilogies of the so-called “Skywalker Saga” have finally led to this: a movie so desperate to backtrack on The Last Jedi and meet its 2019 release date that the end result is something akin to a term paper written half an hour before you’re supposed to turn it in. Rise of Skywalker isn’t so much a film as it is the apotheosis of every single horrible trend in IP blockbuster filmmaking this podcast has discussed since

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01:15:10

Joker, or How I Got These (Psychological) Scars...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/03/22

Comedian and friend of the show Ty from TGOF(V) joins us to discuss the most well adjusted and normal practitioners of the greatest art, and it's greatest artist: Noted non-rapping Insane Clown and sometimes Bats-men pesterer: The Joker. A role now more prestigious than MacBeth, it both won an Academy Award and turned every lonely man that saw it into a spree shooter. Join us as we dive into the sick n' twizted origin story of the clown prince of crime, and maybe crack a few jokes of our own along

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00:58

TEASER: Anti-Rape Super Saiyan

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/03/15

We ended up talking a lot about Dragon Ball Z in our discussion of Bitter Moon and the many sex crimes of one Roman Polanski. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.

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01:49:46

Dark Phoenix, or Professor Baldy's Academy for Freaks

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/03/08

In our first run at the Fox X-Men films proper we tackle Dark Phoenix, a film that turns one of the classic story arcs in comics that turns it into a flaccid two hours of cinematic rice cake. We explore the film's very troubled production history, the career of writer/director Simon Kinberg, and discuss the source material, how commercially oriented film production strips it of everything weird, exciting or interesting, and put two more Xs into the X-Men.If you can, also consider supporting these

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01:08

TEASER: Our Idea for Big 2

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2024/03/01

We came up with not one but two pitches for legacy sequels over the course of our discussion about Bound. This is one of them.If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.

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01:37:28

Godzilla: King of the Monsters, or Boston Strong...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/02/23

In our first stab at Legendary's Monsterverse, we tackle 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which is really just a shiny American remake of Invasion of the Astro-Monster, Destroy All Monsters, and All Monsters Attack except there are no aliens dressed like a New Wave band and nuclear radiation is net positive for the environment. We've got our favorite Godzilla autist Andy from Those Good Old Fashioned Values back to talk all about our big favorite guy and why this movie isn't good. At least

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01:42:55

Detective Pikachu, or Adult Baby Consent Machine

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/02/09

We discuss a pokemon movie that a lot of people where tricked into liking because it had cinematography and a cute little guy. Along the we cover the (mis)casting of Ryan Reynolds, the growing synergy between American and Japanese entertainment industries, adapting anime characters to live action, childhood memories, childhood atavism, Drake, Roger Ebert: Southern Gentleman, and much more in a free-ranging tall-grass episode with some of the weirdest and wildest bets yet recorded.Please support

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