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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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01:17

TEASER: Nicole Does an English Accent

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/02/02

Enjoy Nicole's impeccable posh English accent in this excerpt from our Patron-exclusive episode about the recent 'indie' hit Saltburn and writer/director Emerald Fennel. 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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02:13:24

Hellboy (2019), or The Right Hand of Goon (feat. Graham)

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/01/26

In 2019 they rebooted Hellboy. Remember that? They rebooted Hellboy. They made a new Hellboy movie. With David Harbour! Remember him? The stranger things guy? No you don't. Be glad! They really messed this one up. The guy who made "The Descent" then nothing else for 15 years was in way over his head. The producers kept trying to make this a Marvel movie. They turned Hellboy into Butthead. All the gore is CGI. It was edited by a a young child with meat cleavers for hands. Eddie Meatcleaverhands

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02:30:28

Captains Marvel: The Twin Fakes

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/01/12

We open 2024 with a deluxe-sized double feature episode as we compare two titanic 2019 superhero releases: Captain Marvel and... Captain Marvel!? Ok, it's Shazam, but realheads know. If you don't, listen to this episode, and find out all about the Captains Marvel, phony pheminism, corporate cuckoldry, bad relatable teen writing, bad relatable grown woman writing, golden age comics, gay wizards, space goblins, and what happens when your endearing superheroic lead is light-bending black hole of

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01:11:21

Spider-Man 2 (The Game), or, Cookie Monster Symbiote...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2024/01/05

We're taking a little extended holiday break before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming (talking about capeshit movies). To tide you all over, Cole talked about Spider-Man 2 (the game) with Ty from Those Good Old Fashioned Values along with Gus and Charlie from Most Controversial in a Stu and Nicole-less episode. If you can, please help Palestinians in need by donating to these reputable organizations: ANERA (American Near-East Refugee Aid) PCRF (Palestinian Relief Children's

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01:26:41

Black Christmas, or The Pod is Coming from Inside the...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/12/22

Merry Christmas everyone (or Happy Holidays if you're on that liberal anti-Christmas bend)! It's the two year anniversary of the pod, and rather than wasting our time watching Deadpool 2 retrofitted into a PG-13 Christmas edit with Once Upon a Deadpool, we let our Patrons pick what our Christmas/anniversary episode would be about from a curated list of four movies. Beating out Cole's pick for Bon Voyage Charlie Brown by one vote was Stu's choice: 1974's groundbreaking proto-slasher Black Christmas,

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03:30

PATREON PREVIEW: Cole’s Rant

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/12/15

Cole loses their mind in this excerpt from our Patreon exclusive book report on the recent hagiography MCU - The Reign of Marvel Studios. Like what you hear? Subscribe to our patreon for exclusive episodes, fan-pick raffles, VIP discord events and more!

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02:13:53

Alita: Battle Angel, or Cyberbodies and Spaces (feat....

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/12/08

Esther Rosenfield (@capybaroness) from Get Cynical joins us to discuss a movie... we all actually quite liked! The Robert Rodriguez directed, James Cameron produced manga adaptation of Battle Angel Alita (aka GUNNM). In this episode: Earnestness in adaptation, good action, big dick jimmy, modifiable and interchangeable bodies, trans and queer themes, differences between the film and the manga, what seperates 'good' and 'bad' CGI, and much more! Performance and Selfhood in 'Alita: Battle Angel' If

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01:56:06

Solo: A Star Wars Story, or L3R34

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/11/24

In this episode: Solo, a film cobbled together from memberberries and reshoots. An annoying bisexual 'sjw' robot. Pansexual Lando. A plot driven around space gasoline. It's a film less interesting than it's troubled production. They fired the Lego movie guys and hired the kid from Andy Griffith, who is too old to understand how digital cameras work so you can't see shit. Seriously, I thought there was something wrong with my TV, but the movie is just Like That. Also: Explicit human on droid sex. Is

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01:33

Patreon Teaser: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/11/20

We launched the podcast in 2021. Since then, thanks entirely to our efforts, the MCU has taken loss after loss. Diminishing box office returns, declining critical support, plummeting audience enthusiasm. Under-performers have given way to flops have given way to fiascos. On the eve of 'The Marvels' disastrous box office returns, we take to the mics to discuss where we are, how we got here, and take a lap in the afterglow of our assured victory over the forces of evil. Ladies and gentlemen: We got

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01:42:26

Bumblebee, or Birds In the Trap Sing Travis McKnight...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/11/10

Special guest and Transformers scholar Liz (@liz_irl) enters the graveyard to discuss 'Bumblebee', the moderately successful and unexpectedly likeable spinoff of the Michael Bay Transformers franchise. In this episode: Franchise refreshes: the softest of reboots and how they try to shed their skins without losing their audiences. Fullmetal Fujoshi: Do girls like transformers? How a background in animation can help make better use of CGI. Is this movie just The Iron Giant + Christine? McKnight

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01:47:55

Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, or Baby Talk

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/10/27

Cole (zoomer with attention deficit disorder) somehow talked us (Nicole and Stu, aging millennials) into watching the Teen Titans Go! movie. Not sure why we did this because we all maybe talked about the movie itself for a total of twenty minutes and somehow milked the conversation to almost two hours? Lotta cartoon talk, some debate over whether a joke can just be "it's a butt," and Cole explains Teen Titans comic lore. If you can, please help Palestinians in need by donating to these reputable

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01:24:22

The Book of Henry, or American Mishima

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/10/13

Why did we buck our own regularly scheduled programming of Funko Pop capeshit and IP pig slop to watch The Book of Henry, from the twisted mind of the demon Colin Trevorrow? Well, because it more or less killed his chances at what would become Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and effectively nuked a totally separate film franchise than the one he was already dragging through pigshit. Also because this movie is batshit crazy. A "so bad it's good" cult hit in the making? Or, as Cole claims, "the smartest

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01:34:31

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, or Sexual Tyrannosaurus

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/09/29

It might be the dumbest movie about dinosaurs ever made. Too bored (and, in Nicole's case, incensed) by the first one to bother talking about it, we parachute into the second entry in this ur legacy-franchise-sequel-reboot for all the adult babies that never let go of their childhoods. The dinosaurs are your friends. Your pals. They're literally puppies. They're pedophiles. They're living things just like us, and deserve to live (and exterminate various other species in the process). Come for the

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01:36:28

Ant Man and the Wasp, or Small Soy-diers

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/09/14

It's another Marvel movie, and like most sequels in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant Man and the Wasp doubles down on everything that was irritating and boring about its admittedly okay predecessor. It doesn't stand on its own as a film because it's just a prolonged set up for a plot mechanic in a future Avengers movie. Not too much to say here aside from the usual complaints, so for the first half of this episode, Nicole, Cole, and Stu go back to basics for anyone just joining in on the ride that

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01:53:29

Aquaman, or The Water Boy (feat. Graham)

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/08/31

Friend of the show and comic artist Graham joins the crew for a thorough filleting of one of the DCU's post-Justice League successes, the gleefully dumb light-hearted sci-fantasy romp "Aquaman." We discuss the origins of the character and his comic iterations, his nemesis Black Manta, the affable screen presence of star Jason Momoa, gestural environmentalism, bad wet-for-dry, big dick willie d, and how Black Manta in the comics has autism. All this and more in this episode jam packed with nautical

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01:35:27

Deadpool 2, or The Cable Guy

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/08/18

We're heckin back again with another freaking awesome Deadpool movie you little epic piggies to listen to. Just kidding, it's a step-down from the really just okay first one in literally every way possible. The jokes aren't very funny, the action sucks (and got a stunt person killed), all the meta-stuff you're supposed to point at is lame, and the writers were too dumb to realize they pulled a Women in Refrigerators by killing off one of the hottest women to ever do it to even parody the idea into

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02:06:28

Avengers: Infinity War, or Oh Snap!

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/08/06

Sorry for the delay on this one everyone, but on this super special episode of Marvelous!, we finally reach the moment Kevin Feige and his murderers row of enablers and sycophants have built up to since 2008. Hailed by critics and audiences alike and celebrated for its "complex" sneaker-faced purple villain/having the audacity to kill half its cast before the next one (or subsequent movies) revives them anyways, Avengers: Infinity War is the biggest movie EVER until Endgame or any other Marvel movie

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01:25:06

UNLOCKED - Patreon Raffle #1: Valerian and the City...

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/08/04

For our inaugural Patreon Raffle, Nicole's friend Jack* won and mercifully gave us the option of watching either the defanged RoboCop remake or European mega-bomb Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets starring two of the worst actors we've watched on the pod thus far: sick and dying actor Dane Dehaan from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Cara "Peg the Patriarchy" Delevingne from Suicide Squad. It's also directed by notorious French pedophile/former good movie maker Luc Besson, the man behind Léon:

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02:01:58

Ready Player One, or ”Nerdgasm”

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/07/21

Steven Spielberg. Colossus of film. Father of the modern blockbuster. Gamer. Ernest Cline. Author. Dreamweaver. Redditor. United, these two titans bring us the ultimate in entertainment product, that last movie ever made, the one where a guy jumps Doc Brown's DeLorean over the Iron Giant while RX-78 Gundam Fights Mechagodzilla. This week, the gang tackles the film that defines the death of cinema: Ready Player One. Nicole has an unprecedented meltdown over the abuse of Kubrick, Stu dissects the

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01:19:39

Venom, or Tom Horny’s Wild Ride (feat. Andy)

Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema ·

2023/07/07

Venom. He's a slime guy, he has big teeth, a Spiderman villain without a Spiderman, cast adrift into the seas of franchise uncertainty. In this appropriately amorphous, wide ranging episode we discuss the Venom character in comics, Tom Hardy's weirdo performance, Sony's jockying for position in it's tense shared-franchise relationship with Disney, the economics of modern franchise blockbusters, Cole gets so high they invent an entirely different movie, and Nicole makes Stu read some depraved fan

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