Here's something novel - a podcast where two white guys talk about science fiction movies. Matt and Luke start at the beginning with a little bit of good old fashioned Star Trek.
This was recorded a while before the first hints of the Marvel/ Sony news, so don't expect any discussion of that. Instead, you get some Spidey fanboying from Luke, some unexpected Sam Raimi trivia from Matt and lots of Willem Dafoe love.
Here's the film our podcast is kind of named after. Matt's watched it hundreds of times, but doesn't know what Tinder is. Luke watches it for the first time but has been rejected on Tinder many a time.
This was originally recorded as the first in our Firefly podcast, Brown Pants. Then we kind of gave up on making a Firefly podcast and made this podcast instead. Next week: We actually cover Serenity (the feature length movie.)
We're finally doing it. Skipping the foreplay and getting right into Joss Whedon's cinematic directorial debut: Serenity. Spoiler alert, we really bloody like it.
21 Years before Megan Fox and Shia Lebouf starred in Transformers, Leonard Nimoy and Orson Welles starred in . . . Transformers. Matt was alive in the 80s and Luke loves Transformers, so get ready for some dumb chat about a very dumb film.
This week, we're talking about legitimately one of the greatest films ever made, and a personal favorite of both Matt and Luke. Plus, it stars the greatest actor of all time: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
We're talking about a film released this year. We can occasionally be relevant when we put our minds to it. This one was pretty unanimously derided when it came out, but Matt and Luke think there's more discussion to be had than that.
Our newest film yet. This one is divided into three parts: first, there's totally spoiler-free chat about the film's quality. Then we get into the themes of the film. Finally, we deal with some specific moments and details.
Here's quite possibly the very first science fiction feature film. It's a classic, a masterpiece, a touchstone and lots of other words that mean it's very old and very important, but how is it as a film? Listen and find out.
We're having a bit of a Star Wars month, preparing ourselves for the end of the saga when the Rise of Skywalker hits us at the end of the month. For now we're . . . enjoying? . . . the most seasonal of the Star Wars films.
Okay, we covered a shit film for Star Wars month but now we're getting stuck into some legit, canonical, George Lucas Star Wars. This should be good, right? Right?
Star Wars Month Continues. We're gonna get controversial in this one because we're getting properly stuck into Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. Guess what: we bloody love it.
Oh Star Wars, Nothing but Star Wars, Give me those Star Wars, Don't let them end. Oh Star Wars, If they should bar wars, Please let these Star Wars Stay.
Matt thinks this is not only a solid sci-fi, but one of the best (defacto) Trek films. Luke thought this was just a comedy to quote, but now he's looking at geek fan culture then and now. Could you make this movie today?
It's the big daddy of the (non-Japanese) monster movies and Luke has been chomping at the bit to chat about it. Meanwhile, Matt watched it long ago in film school. Hear us beat our chests at the gates of Skull Island.
Matt and Luke get deep into the underpinnings of this very slow, but transcendental sci-fi classic by Stanley Kubrick. Do we let Dave in the pod doors, or just spin Pink Floyd on vinyl? Listen and learn.
We're digging the film, but let's be real, we're going for the jugular of the comic book mythos. Still, Luke was blindsided by the quality of the DC Animated Universe, and Matt thinks there is nothing better than RoboCop voicing Batman.
This is an oft forgotten, psychedelic colour blast of science fiction featuring some heavy hitters in the cast and some wild design. It is a good movie? That's up for debate, but it is undoubtedly an endlessly fascinating production.
How many podcasts are going on about Picard? Probably quite a few. Still, here's our fun-sized take on the first two episodes of the series. That's only like 20% of the candy bar - and that's all we've seen of this.
This fabulous, candy-coated sci-fi romp could have only happened at the time that it did. The Willis and Chris Tucker are in their prime, and Milla Jovovich definitely makes herself known. Gary Oldman's worth seeing as well.
In this very special episode, Luke teaches Matt to pronounce both "Jason Statham" and "zeitgeist," as Matt keeps mumbling the former and deranges the latter We also cover this spin-off, which has a sci-fi transhumanist bent.
It's one of those sci-fi chestnuts we've got to address. It may be serious, but don't call it Shirley. We get into the whitest crew ever to grace the cosmos, the electronic tonalities, and the Shakespeare interpretation inhabiting here.
A little more of that Picard you dig so much. Episodes 3 and 4 may move at a relaxed pace, but we've got plenty to say about the philosophy behind the show.
This one is still a bit of a thing in the UK, and it's certainly a cult classic in the US. Matt and Luke take a bite into this eight course cheese dinner and try to Queen as hard as we can. Spoiler - we may not be very good at it.
Getting onto the next few episodes of Picard. How do Luke and Matt feel about unnecessary eye surgery and MK Ultra triggering. Have a listen and find out.
Doctor Who mania quickly stoked this feature film, now on the big screen in colour and starring classic actor Peter Cushing as a man named, uh, Dr. Who. What could go wrong? What could go right?
You can't really have a Sci-Fi Sanctuary if you're not gonna invite Morpheus into it. Matt goes headfirst into the Gnosticism, while Luke serenades you with excerpts from the Matrix/Pokemon fan-fic he wrote when he was twelve.
The existential dread of "Star Trek: Picard" meets the warm fuzzies of TNG. How does that all work out? We stopped even trying to weed out our own colorful metaphors talking about it, because "Star Trek: Picard" certainly doesn't bother.
This indie flick takes an unflinching look at some dark, mature subject matter. Matt and Luke aren't really qualified for that, so we mostly prattle on about space dildos and Robert Pattinson's career choices.
Guillermo del Toro's 2012 film shows us a 2020 where the world must unite to fight monsters. So pop open a Corona Beer, sit back, and see if Matt and Luke can find any way to relate this fantastical film with the real 2020.
Did "Star Trek: Picard" land with our intrepid podcasters? Listen and find out. We take a deep dive into this synthetic future and Matt romantically serenades Luke, and you, with the Picard theme on a cello Matt doesn't actually own.
Matt and Luke, joined by Andrew Shearer from GOnZoRiFFiC, bop this train wreck of a film over the head with a shovel, toss it in the boot of a '79 Oldsmobile, and sink it in the cold waters of Lake Erie.
This week, our latex-rubber nipples firm up for a discussion about Joel Schumacher's magnum opus. Matt is still pissed about his opening night impressions, while Luke is blinded by the Schwartz. But it's all in good gay fun.
Matt doesn't like this reference-heavy dystopian fantasy. Luke profanely rages against this movie. We didn't know this one about people in a crumbling world escaping into the digital would end up being quite this relevant and timely.
The sci-fi geek who would besmirch the name of Khan is a rare breed indeed, and none of the four fellers in this discussion would dream of doing that. John and Norman get under the hood of this classic with us and do Shatner impressions.
Maybe this bit of Monkey Magic isn't so much bad, but horribly misguided. It's like a puzzle where none of the pieces fit, but a few of them are still quite pretty. Is it enough to finally make monkeys out of Matt and Luke?
We is getting ballz deep in these Dragonballz. Should I have used those Z's? You'll find that our view is that a few rectified mistakes might have made this a charming film, but those few mistakes made a lot of poopy in the bed.
Bruce Dern pulls off the greatest social distancing, self-isolating hat trick ever. How will Luke and Matt take on this philosophically deep movie with visionary design from sci-fi effects legend Douglas Trumbull (who also directs here)?
Is he mad because he's angry?. - crazy? Probably because he's both? But hey, Matt and Luke are here to compare this film about a slow apocalypse in progress with your current experience living a slow apocalypse in progress.
It's like the color, maaannn. And the space. And crazy Nick Cage having a go with Lovecraftian sci-fi horror. The movie pretty much came out of nowhere, but Matt and Luke find it a great jumping of point to talk about the weirds.
Matt and Luke take on this monster of a flick from atop a rugged Japanese mountaintop. Be warned, the original is not one of the fun Godzilla flicks, but it happens to be the legitimately great one.
Everyone loves this one, right? It's like a Platonic solid of a movie. Luke and Matt needed some heavy artillery to do this one justice, so we are joined by Dave Turner of "The Computer Game Show" and "Star Call's" podcasts.
We rolled tape on this Blaxploitation, Afro-Futurist jam on May 24th, not knowing that the next day the whole world was gonna straight up open that putrid can of worms called "racism," that had been taking up too much space on the shelf.
This week we chat about what is arguably the template for the 2010's blockbuster. We've brought in Stuart Webb, who wrote "Transformation: A Personal Journey Through the British Transformers Comic," and co-hosts "Podcast Maximus."
Luke is British and watches this every Independence Day. Mark is American, got sick in the theater watching this, and would definitely not vote for Bill Pullman. Matt mostly just giggles like a loon.
We've made it clear that this is an Arnold positive podcast, and this one is about as Arnold as you can get. Director Paul Verhoven went as ultraviolent as possible in this Martian-civilizing, blood-squib-blasting, mind-fragger of a film.
Luke loves Pokemon and is an expert on the topic. Matt played a few minutes of HeartGold ten years ago. Thus, we enter the world of Detective Pikachu with wildly different perspectives.