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[Sampsa_G]

Many of you know that Matinee Idles is a movie podcast that's hosted by Templar aka. Matt Burden, Joey Aulisio, Alec Berry and that one crazy Welsh guy.... Yes I know it's Vern Griffiths.

Anyhoo Popcandy is looking for some movie podcasts this time around and who among us doesn't love Matinee Idles ?
(That's rhetorical)

Show your love and appreciation and drop a recommendation to

[templar]

Well ain't you sweet?! Thanks bud.

[Sampsa_G]

Oh you know... Anything to spread the joy and create more pressure for Joey's editing... Which has been topnotch  you can hardly tell that skype keeps dropping people off all the time 

[Jon_Samuelson]

I agree, heap some love on it.  Hopefully it continues for a long time, because I'm sick of the movie podcasts that I really enjoy dying shortly after I find them (Scene-Unseen & Mondo Movie).  I really dig Matinee Idles because it seems more like guys who really love movies sitting around discussing them in rigorous detail, than dudes who enjoy the smell of their own farts thinking of any way they can to say that something isn't really as good as people think it is, unless it's made by some French or Swedish filmmaker that most people have barely ever heard of (I'm looking at you Filmspotting).

[Sampsa_G]

I agree, heap some love on it.  Hopefully it continues for a long time, because I'm sick of the movie podcasts that I really enjoy dying shortly after I find them (Scene-Unseen & Mondo Movie).  I really dig Matinee Idles because it seems more like guys who really love movies sitting around discussing them in rigorous detail, than dudes who enjoy the smell of their own farts thinking of any way they can to say that something isn't really as good as people think it is, unless it's made by some French or Swedish filmmaker that most people have barely ever heard of (I'm looking at you Filmspotting).

This !

I love how the guys always seem to be able to appreciate( or sometimes hate)  the movies for what they are, instead of trying to fit every movie into somesort of Good Movie/Bad Movie Categories.

[malpractice]

than dudes who enjoy the smell of their own farts thinking of any way they can to say that something isn't really as good as people think it is, unless it's made by some French or Swedish filmmaker that most people have barely ever heard of (I'm looking at you Filmspotting).

to be fair you get a little bit of that from me sometimes lol.

[templar]

I agree, heap some love on it.  Hopefully it continues for a long time, because I'm sick of the movie podcasts that I really enjoy dying shortly after I find them (Scene-Unseen & Mondo Movie).  I really dig Matinee Idles because it seems more like guys who really love movies sitting around discussing them in rigorous detail, than dudes who enjoy the smell of their own farts thinking of any way they can to say that something isn't really as good as people think it is, unless it's made by some French or Swedish filmmaker that most people have barely ever heard of (I'm looking at you Filmspotting).

Best review ever!! Are you available to be our agent?
 

[DoctorTeeth]

Submitted it for consideration in the first round, voted for it in the second round. Long Live Matinee Idles!

[Jon_Samuelson]

Best review ever!! Are you available to be our agent?
 

I freely release all arguments I make in this thread to be used on the behalf of Matinee Idles, and its subsidiaries.

And to be equally fair, I can be a little flabbergasted at the popularity of some movies too, but the number of calories that the Filmspotting guys burn to eviscerate popular movies smacks of elitism.  And for the record, I've really liked Ingmar Bergman, Fritz Lang, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, etc. films that I've seen, so it's not as though I'm some barbarian American, but being European alone does not make film good, which can certainly be taken as implication from Filmspotting.  I really don't want to bash on it too much though, there are aspects of their show that I really like, just not the main review portion.  Your show whips the shit out of it.

EDIT: Lars von Trier can blow me though, that guy's fucked in the head.

[templar]

Submitted it for consideration in the first round, voted for it in the second round. Long Live Matinee Idles!

Thanks Doc
There are rounds? I knew there were for the Noiseys. I'm new to this one though. .

[DoctorTeeth]

Thanks Doc
There are rounds? I knew there were for the Noiseys. I'm new to this one though. .

Because I completely misread the first post, the Noisys were actually what I was talking about. But I also e-mailed for Popcandy!

[templar]

Because I completely misread the first post, the Noisys were actually what I was talking about. But I also e-mailed for Popcandy!

Haha! Well thanks 2 times!

[Jeffrey Smith]

Matinee Idles?

Haven't heard of it, but will download and listen tonight at work.

Hope I'm a convert....let you know tomorrow

[templar]

Matinee Idles?

Haven't heard of it, but will download and listen tonight at work.

Hope I'm a convert....let you know tomorrow

I would skim through for a movie you like. Thanks for checking it out.

[malpractice]

And to be equally fair, I can be a little flabbergasted at the popularity of some movies too, but the number of calories that the Filmspotting guys burn to eviscerate popular movies smacks of elitism.  And for the record, I've really liked Ingmar Bergman, Fritz Lang, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, etc. films that I've seen, so it's not as though I'm some barbarian American, but being European alone does not make film good, which can certainly be taken as implication from Filmspotting.  I really don't want to bash on it too much though, there are aspects of their show that I really like, just not the main review portion.  Your show whips the shit out of it.

EDIT: Lars von Trier can blow me though, that guy's fucked in the head.

Wasn't a fan of my Antichrist review i take lol.

As for Filmspotting, i listened to an episode where they kind of bashed Manhunter and that was enough for me.

Matinee Idles?

Haven't heard of it, but will download and listen tonight at work.

Hope I'm a convert....let you know tomorrow

I'd check out the Shaun Of The Dead episode, that's my favorite one we have done.

[Jon_Samuelson]

Wasn't a fan of my Antichrist review i take lol.

As for Filmspotting, i listened to an episode where they kind of bashed Manhunter and that was enough for me.

I hadn't noticed that you've done a review of Antichrist, I'll go digging for it if only to hear why someone else dug it.  Sometimes the point of art is to sear something (an idea, an image, a sound, etc.) into your audience's brain, and in that respect I suppose Antichrist was successful, but to me it doesn't seem to require a great deal of skill to think up some of the most messed up shit ever though up and put it on film, which is largely what Antichrist seemed like to me.  I'll be the first to admit though that I'm terrible at seeing/understanding metaphor, my brain is a little too straight forward.

[Jeffrey Smith]

I'd check out the Shaun Of The Dead episode, that's my favorite one we have done.

Gave the RoboCop episode a listen.

Really enjoyed it and the movie though it's been years since I've seen it.

Will listen to the Shaun Of The Dead episode as it's one of my favorite movies.


Sold. You guys have a new listener and fan.


Thanks

[templar]

Gave the RoboCop episode a listen.

Really enjoyed it and the movie though it's been years since I've seen it.

Will listen to the Shaun Of The Dead episode as it's one of my favorite movies.


Sold. You guys have a new listener and fan.


Thanks

Hey Thanks! Sorry for the rapping. Joey keeps everything.

[Sampsa_G]

to be fair you get a little bit of that from me sometimes lol.

Yes, but someone has to be obnoxious snob in a show like this ....