S8E3: I Am Become Convinced
Added 2024-01-30 07:34:05 +0000 UTCBret reappraises one of 2023's biggest movies after a second viewing and discusses other hits and misses from last year as he turns the page to 2024 with some help from Platinum listeners.
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I just watched Fair Play, very good, thank you for the recommendation
Gnome
2025-01-12 21:01:42 +0000 UTC"I LOVE HOW THAT LITTLE GIRL TOOK DOWN BARBIE; SHE TOTALLY TAKES HER DOWN" 😂😂😂😂...THAT LITTLE AOC TWAT IS A LITERALLY AN OVERBLOWN PARODY OF THE WOKE-TARDED SHIT YOU SAY YOU DESPISE...DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT IT EVEN IS, BRET???? HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY THINK THAT WAS A TRUE TAKEDOWN???? GRETA GERWIG DOES CAUSE SHE'S A DITSY TWAT, BUT SHE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO THINK...HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY THINK THIS????? 😂😂😂😂😂
Neil G.
2024-04-12 06:41:11 +0000 UTCBarbie has no idea what it is trying to be, and it thinks it can be both feminist & humanist, which makes no sense, and Greta (not at all a feminist -- just thinks she is cause she's a ditsy, naive, overly emotional twat) clearly has no idea of what she is doing or saying or what her beliefs are because she has none...but what she did do is unintentionally parody the pseudo/anti intellectual shitpile based on a basically false premise that falls on its obviously hypocritical ass all the time that is feminism (minus women's rights --- which really isn't feminism at all)...this is not complexity, Bret, this is incoherence & pseudo intellectualism, the kinda thing that literally ISN'T true complexity/nuance...and Bret's praise showcases his deteriorating mental state, as well as his failure to understand how woke is a pseudo intellectual bastardization of logic that goes back to the '60s...and with his praise of Lena Fucking Turdpile Dunham and even Judd Apatow (who's moronically mad that Barbie was nominated for Adapted, but that's the least of his deficiency problems), it's clear that he doesn't realize the West has declined over 50 years into retarded shit on THAT level gaining a voice...this "cancel culture" debacle we have right now exists BECAUSE we have allowed shit like feminists to speak without the fear of being brutalized...now they are the ones doing the cancelling & praising self-parodying, retarded shit like this...all we can do is bask in the glow while they scientifically embarrass themselves...but why does Bret have to go along for the ride? Same reason he kept Todd around for so long 😂😂
Neil G.
2024-04-11 06:34:22 +0000 UTCJaws isn't his best...neither is Se7en HIS best...Coppola peaked pretty much automatically, after his amateur late 60s bullshit...Not to mention: Se7en is Fincher's First, since Alien 3 doesn't count, and Jaws is Spielberg's third, after two masterworks: Duel & The Sugarland Express...Duel counts, even though it was a TV film...it's a great film...a testament to the GOAT that is Steven Spielberg
Neil G.
2024-04-11 06:16:50 +0000 UTC"Now I Am Become Convinced" 😂😂...at what, how much you are shitting on yourself, Bret mah Boi?? 😂😂 The fact that he had to "get around to" Oppenheimer, and still calls the scientifically incoherent, subhuman retarded shitpile that is that Barbie Shit that literally gives into all the woke-tarded shit (even though it's a confused mess anyhow) he despises not only good but a MASTERPIECE just shows you the level of drugs that Bret is taking that outweigh anything Blair or Bateman ever took 😂😂...kinda like how he still hasn't gotten around to just how fucked up Todd truly was 😂😂...and they both went to see that woke-tarded shitpile 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 "It's one of the most virtuosic American Comedies in a long time"...that "sophistication" is literally pseudo intellectualism with a pink outlook, making bullshit attempts to be smart with "oooo, look at my Proust Joke" look even faggier...Bret literally falls into their faggy, anti-intellectual, pseudo-intellectual retarded shitpile and un-ironically thinks it's smart...kinda like his defense of classical pseudo-intellectual shitpile Paul Schrader and his moronic, un-ironic ode to every pseudo intellectual breakdown of "Hollywood vs European Films" that have destroyed White (Euro-Centric) Culture over the last 50-100 years...but it's not this obvious, Bret...this Barbie shit blows the anti/pseudo intellectual decline of the white world in the last 50 years right up in your face, and you notice In a way, it all makes sense 😂😂...Sean Fennessey's assessment "this is a movie where the positives outweigh the negatives" sounds so much less retarded now 😂😂...doesn't make that fat, retarded Joanna Robinson turd-whore kike any less qualified for the gas chamber, however 😂😂...not to mention, her retarded kike sidekick (sidekike 😂😂) Mallory Rubin
Neil G.
2024-04-11 06:11:00 +0000 UTCAmerican Fiction is based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett.
D Michael Hardy
2024-03-15 18:38:26 +0000 UTCIsn't American Fiction kind of an adaptation of Bamboozled by Spike Lee?!!
Laura B. Farrugia
2024-03-05 21:44:08 +0000 UTCExcellent épisode thank you….
PETER GREER
2024-02-15 11:11:19 +0000 UTCAnatomy of a fall is incredible!
Rachel O'Connor
2024-02-13 22:39:57 +0000 UTCAdam you have to watch Saltburn. Funny to see you squirm during that infamous bath tub scene. But i think youd actually like movie too. Its pretty good.
Alexander Quattlander
2024-02-07 05:41:56 +0000 UTCBret got Opp right the first time. Boresfest with tricky editing and non-stop score. And yet he couldnt get thru Memento a second time?? Wtf.
Alexander Quattlander
2024-02-06 21:23:15 +0000 UTCNail'd it.
Alexander Quattlander
2024-02-06 21:21:29 +0000 UTCLolz
Alexander Quattlander
2024-02-06 21:19:33 +0000 UTCIll take Fincher over Nolan anyday.
Alexander Quattlander
2024-02-06 21:14:22 +0000 UTCI found it somewhere months ago, but now can’t remember just where. Maybe YouTube? Regardless, I was pretty disappointed, given how much I love the show. Maybe he’s just a stiff interviewee, idk.
Luke B.
2024-02-06 05:40:42 +0000 UTCTotally, I would add Fight Club and Girl with Dragon Tattoo as well. I even really like Benjamin Button
Alex Waller
2024-02-05 23:17:06 +0000 UTCBret was really on fire on this one.
Vin Bravo
2024-02-05 23:04:40 +0000 UTCCalling Fincher “a great director in search of a great movie” is preposterous. The social network, zodiac, and se7en are all great films - even if Fincher “the director” takes a back seat to writing, acting, ambience
Alexander Schultz
2024-02-05 22:09:59 +0000 UTCOfftopic: Anybody knows if the Matthew Weiner (*Madmen) intie is to be listened to somewhere here? Unfortunately couldnt find it in the Golden Classics where I hoped it would be...
Twan Van Geel
2024-02-05 17:16:59 +0000 UTCThis episode title is total genius
James Wright
2024-02-05 17:08:42 +0000 UTCI recall Bret briefly mentioning he had turned Infinity Pool off within 30-45 mins. Something about he didn’t buy the concept of the movie.
Charlie C
2024-02-05 15:24:32 +0000 UTCAs a semi failed novelist married to a rich woman, that one hit a little too close to home for moi
Happyhead
2024-02-05 15:14:26 +0000 UTCI’m blown away that he’s a Swiftie.
Happyhead
2024-02-05 15:13:06 +0000 UTCLove a rare “sunny mood Bret” episode
Happyhead
2024-02-05 15:12:41 +0000 UTCTakes two to cheat…the husband and the other woman. She had to be complicit…
Philip Huntley
2024-02-05 07:53:53 +0000 UTCI read The Killer as being about Fincher himself. He blew the last assignment & went back to basics. Saltburn is more Highsmith than BEE. Talented Mr. Ripley with some Teorama for good measure. Enjoyed it, but the swerve was so very obviously coming, and the film seemed so unbelievablely pleased with having pulled it off - so it kinda gets caught jerking itself off...
Joseph Cornelius Hallenbeck
2024-02-05 07:15:12 +0000 UTCI’m blown away that Bret liked Barbie. The last scene of the movie where the little girl says “that’s appropriation daddy” made me want to throw up in my tub of popcorn
Matt Wall
2024-02-04 22:23:23 +0000 UTCYou’re weird, chris
Nikki Ferrari
2024-02-04 01:31:56 +0000 UTCTake a sleeping bag.
Romeo Delta Charlie
2024-02-02 21:52:46 +0000 UTCIt’s funny. This is the most muted positive review. He doesn’t sound totally convinced. He sounds like someone talked him into it, and he relented.
N.M. Janice.
2024-02-02 21:30:47 +0000 UTCI was a bit bewildered by the mention of DC's Flash....it was imo unwatchable
Brad Susral
2024-02-02 19:38:16 +0000 UTCDid anyone else's podcast stop around the 1hr mark? I can't seem to get it to play
Nick
2024-02-02 18:44:17 +0000 UTCA great episode!! Made me nostalgic for the old film review days of the podcast
Harold B
2024-02-02 17:02:50 +0000 UTCI like the Bret that hated Oppenheimer.
Jonathan Davis
2024-02-02 10:56:30 +0000 UTCJohn Carpenter on Barbie: " I mean, I can sum it up. She says, ‘I don’t have a vagina,’ and then at the end, ‘I’m going to go to a gynecologist!’ That’s the movie to me.”
Joseph Cornelius Hallenbeck
2024-02-02 05:08:14 +0000 UTCThought Barbie was too claustrophobic - the America Ferreira overt GM hard reality was a gloomy bore that could not suspend my disbelief - though I love and appreciate Bret’s review and take
Seneca Garcia
2024-02-02 03:44:09 +0000 UTCWhat about Infinity Pool? It was refreshingly original, stylish and funny. Seems like Bret would dig it, but no mention on the pod.
Brian James
2024-02-02 03:23:03 +0000 UTCGetting it’s act together? What?
Moz
2024-02-02 02:26:35 +0000 UTCShe threw Woody Allen under the bus, after she worked with him, to satisfy the mob. That alone tells you all you need to know about her.
Christopher Ward
2024-02-02 00:46:17 +0000 UTCdo u have transcripts? do i need a higher tier plan for that?
Alex Holt
2024-02-02 00:30:14 +0000 UTCI don't think Greta's ever been much for gender politics. I've heard interviewers blatantly try to goad her into a juicy soundbite about me too, no women directors being nominated for Oscar's, etc. She has always resisted. Greta is interested in raising her profile as a director, and gave the people what they wanted. No more A24 for a while.
Alex Waller
2024-02-02 00:00:45 +0000 UTCWhy does she need to be loyal to every woman alive? That isn’t feminism. At all.
Nikki Ferrari
2024-02-01 22:36:45 +0000 UTCI love BEE but why does he take such glee in recounting every single fucking plot point of a movie? I understand people can get a little nuts when it comes to wanting to avoid spoilers but there is such a thing as the joy of seeing a movie for the first time before you know THAT much about what’s gonna happen. I wonder if he was one of those kids I remember being friends with in my youth who’d make you sit thru every supposed detail of the previous night’s epic dream.
Jack Wheatley
2024-02-01 22:14:02 +0000 UTCOppenheimer is a fucking bore-fest and a shallow telling of a fascinating story with a deeply strange protagonist. Good luck watching it a third time, Bret! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The 1981 doc ‘The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb’ is excellent. I also recommend The Rest Is History podcast Oppenheimer episodes: ‘The Father of The Atom Bomb’ and ‘The Witch Hunt’ from June 2023.
Romeo Delta Charlie
2024-02-01 20:54:46 +0000 UTCIt was more Noah Baumbach cheated on his wife
reed
2024-02-01 19:48:15 +0000 UTCThis year in movies actually inspired hope for the first time in a long time. Seems hollywood is starting to get its act together again
Chris De Burgha
2024-02-01 14:01:12 +0000 UTCWow! Did not know that feminist Greta Gerwig stole a pregnant woman’s husband. So much for loyalty amongst the sisterhood.
Christopher Ward
2024-02-01 13:33:02 +0000 UTCAs someone who grew up playing obsessively with Sun Lovin' Malibu and Sparkle Eyes Barbie with some Stacies and one single Ken, the Barbie movie landed where it was intended to. I appreciate Bret's sensibility and empathy towards the geriatric millennial female experience (with Barbie) and Greta's ability to translate it. It was a visual treat, cheesy at times, but at a certain age sentimentality is highly appreciated. But the true star of the movie was Ken. Love Ken. I wish I understood him at 7, but hey, never too late.
Sértő-Radics Sarolta
2024-02-01 11:16:58 +0000 UTCHappy that Bret got out to the theater and enjoyed some movies. It's been a solid year for the cinema and was great to hear an episode that wasn't all doom and gloom. I really enjoyed Oppenheimer. I still think Dark Knight, Inception, and Dark Knight Rises are Nolan's best but still really enjoyed it. Was great to see Nolan inject a film about normal life with no action with his style like Michael Mann with The Insider or Fincher with The Social Network. I didn't think Barbie was all that great, by far the weakest film Greta has directed or written. The real story was Margot Robbie, her career as a headliner seemed on the ropes a bit after Amsterdam and Babylon both tanked. I don't think she had really had a hit since I, Tonya. I enjoyed aspects of Poor Things but didn't understand the constant sex scenes. I know people think having them there somehow makes the movie more edgy and substantive, but I think they were just there to cover up for a lack of a coherent story. They're basically like the CGI superhero fight for the artier crowd. The same goes for Saltburn, those 'shocking' scenes are just there to distract you from the fact there just isn't much to the story being told.
Alex Waller
2024-02-01 05:37:05 +0000 UTCI would love to see the Barbie movie Bret saw…the version I watched was 45mins too long and could never land the plane
Elizabeth
2024-02-01 01:44:52 +0000 UTCYou’re a sellout, Bret!
Harold B
2024-01-31 23:14:53 +0000 UTCTiming a day or so after the Netflix WWE deal came out seemed pretty coincidental. Not to say he didn’t do all of that.
Harold B
2024-01-31 23:14:35 +0000 UTCI am shocked Bret loved Barbie. Movie is hot garbage. Would've been better if it was just a romance about Barbie and Ken. Maybe a fish out of water movie ... not the academic, ideology obsessed crap we got. Oppenheimer was basically a Wikipedia entry for the first two hours and finally becomes interesting in the last hour.
Chase
2024-01-31 22:49:48 +0000 UTCNice to hear Bret discuss movies again.
Justin
2024-01-31 22:06:00 +0000 UTCI agree with this Barbie take! I was pretty surprised at Bret’s praise of it too! I watched at home, maybe that’s part of it, but I thought it was pretty much a Snoozefest, not that funny and the plot left me mystified! What is Bret is thinking?! 🤔😂
Ashley
2024-01-31 21:50:06 +0000 UTCI’ve seen worse.
Jonathan Davis
2024-01-31 21:19:50 +0000 UTCI found it very average. I wouldn’t rewatch it.
Justin
2024-01-31 21:08:09 +0000 UTCOK, OK - you’ve convinced me. I’ll go watch Oppenheimer!
Dave
2024-01-31 21:05:42 +0000 UTCNOOOOO! Your initial instincts were right. Opp sucks because the screenplay sucks. CN needs his brother Jonathan on board when it comes to writing.
Matt
2024-01-31 20:15:51 +0000 UTCI’m glad that barbenheimer brought people to the movies in droves and proved that people will still go to the theater for movies they actually want to see and that spectacle still matters. However, I’m baffled by Bret’s love of Barbie and its script?? I was very excited for the movie and was shocked at what an incoherent mess it was. I was expecting a little feminist drivel here and there, but figured I could live with it. But the movie seemed so confused on what it was trying to say (and it was desperately wanting to say something) or what it was even about that I’m continuously stunned by the praise it received. I didn’t need or want it to be anything more than a really fun movie and it couldn’t even deliver that.
Bee
2024-01-31 20:06:34 +0000 UTCMan, I liked Oppy even less on a second viewing. I really don't get Nolan, and I have tried several times. He is talented as a technician sure, but as a writer and artist? I don't know, I find him boring to sometimes silly. I always find his films very safe and sterile. Same thing with Oppy. Always have felt that Nolan basically just makes big budget, mainstream populist fair that he tries to elevate by throwing on a thin veil of intellectualism. I think he's too tethered to his 100M dollar budgets and box office returns to ever truly make a daring, subversive or challenging film.
N.M. Janice.
2024-01-31 19:44:24 +0000 UTCGlad Bret came around on Oppy. I had to see it 3x before I really loved it. First few times I was just so taken by aback by the direction and music. Nolan and Ludwig are the primary stars of the film imo, before you even factor in the stacked ensemble cast anchored so perfectly by CM.
Jon A.
2024-01-31 18:53:15 +0000 UTCShocked Bret doesn't like Memento, which I still think is his best film. Like Tarantino's sophomore effort Pulp Fiction and PT Anderson's sophomore Boogie Nights, Fincher's Se7en, Spielberg's Jaws... there's something about a great director's 2nd film that tends to be his/her best that is never really topped. Although some directors (like Kubrick, Scorsese, Coppola, DePalma) peak later.
Cine-Mechanic
2024-01-31 18:36:09 +0000 UTCGiving Danny Thomas the runs for his money
Max
2024-01-31 17:57:52 +0000 UTCExact same feelings with Oppenheimer on the rewatch. Learning that in some cases - rewatching is important. First viewings are just to follow story & see what happens next. The rewatch is for the details, aesthetic & tone
Normaling
2024-01-31 17:34:20 +0000 UTCCan you imagine sitting in a theater while a man is pacing back and forth in the back row 😂
Dave Mason
2024-01-31 17:29:01 +0000 UTCI just resubscribed after more than a year and I have lots of episodes to go through. Is there a place (on here, on the web?) where someone has listed which movies Bret talk about in each episode?
Giulio Rasi
2024-01-31 17:27:54 +0000 UTCam going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
richard owain roberts
2024-01-31 17:20:16 +0000 UTCLet's keep in mind we're talking about a nearly 80 year old man.
John Q. Thompson
2024-01-31 17:10:32 +0000 UTCNow I am become convinced The destroyer of worlds...
Jimjam Magoo
2024-01-31 17:07:50 +0000 UTCPoo Patrol
Jonathan Davis
2024-01-31 17:04:33 +0000 UTCAuthorities are seeking the stool pigeon.
Thomas Edwards
2024-01-31 12:23:25 +0000 UTCholy crap
Poetical Gore
2024-01-30 20:22:02 +0000 UTCI know this isn't really Bret's "world", but I'd love to hear Bret's thoughts on Vince McMahon's corporate sexploits. Most certainly now a "cancelled" man. According to the new lawsuit, he defecated on a woman's head or face during a threesome.
John Q. Thompson
2024-01-30 18:56:18 +0000 UTC“Cah-pola” “It’s Cope-ala” 💀
Brad Turner
2024-01-30 16:54:34 +0000 UTCI was hoping for a new one soon!
Riley
2024-01-30 07:37:51 +0000 UTC
