S8E37: Napoleon Complex with Matthew David Wilder

Gee... After listening this, hearing these opinions on film is really subjective. Ugh...

Quincy Battieste

Agree!

David Bell

I ❤️ Merrily We Go To Hell, great guest!!

hollywoodending

One of the best guests ever on the show. Loved his totally honest movie takes. While I did enjoy Poor Things, aside from the last thirty minutes of Stone getting endlessly shagged, I loved the criticism of it here. Absolutely bang on. I think Bret like me just found Ruffalo utterly hilarious…

David Willis

Mikey and Nicky takes place in Philly.....not everything is NYC

rbkhe

Great episode with a few recommended titles that I look forward to checking out, especially "Born To Win" (1971). Loved the shout out to "Cutter's Way," a thriller that always gets under my skin. Anyone interested in Juila Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty" should know it's a 2011 film, not the 2010 one that was directed by Catherine Breillat. I had the good fortune to see Julia Leigh's unnerving masterpiece with a packed audience at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Brilliantly directed. It's too bad Leigh never made another film after that.

Chris Beaubien

Great conversation about movies with Matthew. Adding more movies to my watchlist. Thanks guys!

Darren

yeah to each his own, i guess, but that movie was a total stinker. it's serious then comical then kind of serious again. sorry guys, i like spectacle as much as the next film nerd but "prometheus" is garbage. i hated it in 2010 and i still hate it. big questions/holograms/awful characters

Collin Myers

dont let that prevent you from seeing challengers. i finally got around to watching it on prime and it absolutely knocked my socks off. thought it was one of the best original movies i have seen in several years. im 38 now so i get easily creeped out/self-conscious watching younger people get freaky/sexy, but this was a really great movie from start to finish and made by an absolute master.

Collin Myers

dude late night with the devil was not very good. i mean, to each his own, but that movie was not scary; it was more like a sketch or an outline of a movie. terrible special effects that completely nullify its aesthetics. it was a great idea but not so much in the execution.

Collin Myers

Agree about ending and was obsessed with gore shock value. First half was great.

Alexander Quattlander

Some real Abe Simpson energy on this episode. Late Night with the Devil was the best movie of the year. You know someone is getting old, like legit old when they gripe about the details of a retro piece not being perfectly true to form and that prevents them from enjoying a kick ass flick.

BrienPiechos

The sleeping beauty is so hot

Happyhead

Ya it was definitely the correct film. It was good, don’t get me wrong, but Wilder says “the last 20 minutes had me watching through my fingers”…so I’m waiting for that moment..and then the credits roll…done. You’ll see what I mean.

Sonic Rebellion

Was it the one from 2011? Was searching on letterbox and its not the breillat movie right?

mia

Matthew needs his own show. Great recommendations; completely agree about Challengers - really hated it. But I do play a lot of tennis. So there’s that.

James__

I get what Wilder says about the actors in Challengers being too young to take it seriously. It’s why I haven’t seen it yet. Now I’m picturing it as an older movie with Kristofferson and O’Neal.

Sodaheiress

I hope Bret reviews The Substance soon. I saw it today, I thought it was very good minus the ending which went on too long, but otherwise solid script, acting, and directing.

Sodaheiress

I just finished Sleeping Beauty. I need answers. It’s obvious I watched the right film but the way it was described on the pod is NOT the same movie as what I just finished. So frustrating.

Sonic Rebellion

Resubscribed. I can't quit you Bret.

Brandon Clark

Heartbreak Kid was from a Bruce Jay Friedman story.

Morgan Hobbs

Forget Times Square, go back and revisit The Fabulous Stains featuring teenage Diana Lane and Laura Dern and a young and hot Ray Winstone. Great flick.

Brian James

I also hope Bret sees The Substance. Both the sound design and the nudity are excellent.

Thomas Davidson

It’s great.

N.M. Janice.

Lots of great things to admire about The Substance. Ending dragged on though. Hope Bret sees it.

Mark DeCaro

These guys ought to do a regular pod together.

Paul Richardson

I hope Bret doesn’t let his Dune 2 experience put him off seeing The Substance at the cinema. Needs to be seen on that big screen, particularly the gross-out ending!

GC

loved hearing the “somewhat” shoutout of RED ROOMS - hands down one of the better thriller/horror movies of 2024

Normaling

I saw this around the time it came out. Do watch it. Very good.

Sértő-Radics Sarolta

Cutters Way is ‘81. A decade after Born to Win. Just BEE said “two Ivan Passer movies from the 70’s. Also Times Square is an almost perfect teen movie. Right down to its epic final shot, one of the greatest of all time. Some kind of heaven among the 42nd Street movie marquees .

Matthew Moss

The love for Napoleon was mind boggling tho. "Several times in theatre.."

Alexander Quattlander

Furiosa was pretty damn good I dont get all the hate. Best thing i ever seen Hemsworth in. The Monster truck stuff was great. Ending coulda been better tho.

Alexander Quattlander

Very intrigued and disturbed by Wilder’s description of Sleeping Beauty- need to check it out

Patrick Crowley

I thought this guy sounded great then i saw he wrote 'Dog Eat Dog' and I was like 'DUDE'!

Steven Hamilton

He’s a hot take dispenser

Someone Else

Their point was that the core idea clearly was red state vs blue state but the filmmakers got cold feet and implausibly put Texas and California on the same side so that no one would feel like they were taking a side in real world politics. They are saying that it was bad because a movie in 2024 called Civil War that isn’t about Democrats vs Republicans is a cop out.

Someone Else

Trezerand

Always love me some Sam Wasson.

John Q. Thompson

Got that disc, they're a great label.

John Q. Thompson

Would be great to have Sam Wasson back on to have him and Bret do a deep dive on Megalopolis. Bad, good, or somewhere in between, FFC being perceived by most as going out like Neil Breen is maybe the most interesting thing happening in film at this particular moment.

Ian Chaffee

Challengers was horribly miscast ! And the ginger dudes feet were repulsive !!!!

David Hardin

Napoleon and Unfrosted? You sir have lost my respect.

Harold B

Born to Win has a fantastic blu ray release from FUN CITY EDITIONS.

Bill Banse

I was going to ask BEE about that Elaine May book. Although I love the subject—I just can’t manage the writing style. It’s so distracting, the language lacks color, it’s hard to consume any of the info. Indirectly related: I liked the book about the making of Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf. Great discussion.

M. Nero Nava

am going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.

richard owain roberts

Napoelon was worse than BARBIE, MATHEMATICALLY/SCIENTIFICALLY one of the worst movies ever made, and in your top 2023??? Bret, that's embarrassing

Neil G.

Fantastic episode…thank you.

PETER GREER

Bret saying that Ashby's "8 Million Ways to Die" is good or "holds up" is rather baffling. I just finished watching it myself and it really doesn't work for me. It starts out interesting, but as soon as Bridges arrives at the party where he meets Garcia the movie goes right down the drain and never recovers.

John Q. Thompson

I love Cutter’s Way. Excited to check out Born to Win.

N.M. Janice.

One of mine too!

N.M. Janice.

As a Philly boy gotta check that out!

Patrick

Don’t know how I missed A Rainy Day in New York during the pandemic! Watching now. Delightful. Mikey and Nicky next up. This is why this podcast rules. 🙌

Patrick

Yep, Mikey & Nicky is a Philadelphia movie.

Shawn Kilroy

I guess I'm gonna havta go back and watch "Unfrosted." I started it, but never finished it. He sold me on it.

John Q. Thompson

"Mikey and Nicky" is one of my favorite movies. As Brett says it has a 70s New York feeling, but it was shot in Mays hometown, Philadelphia.

Michael Madonna