Episode 888: Movie Icks
David and Scott Nye discuss movie premises and plot points that turn them off as well as the scary future of Argentine cinema.
Movies that give David and Scott the ick include A Time to Kill and more.
Battleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in 2007 by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Since then, we’ve done live comedy shows, written reviews, commentaries and more.
Battleship Pretension is a film discussion show and a film review website founded by Tyler Smith and David Bax. Beginning in March 2007, Battleship Pretension the show (known to fans simply as “BP”) embodies the type of laidback, free-flowing conversations had by lovers of film around the world. Battleship Pretension the website is dedicated to being a destination for those seeking worthwhile opinions on current releases, be they foreign, independent, studio pictures, theatrical, home video releases, etc. From its meager beginnings in Los Angeles, Battleship Pretension has amassed a worldwide audience and readership. From Germany to Korea to Australia, people have tuned in to share in Tyler and David’s love of film. As Battleship Pretension’s following continues to grow, the purpose remains the same: Reach out to the international cinephile community, invite them to join in the discussion and perhaps even start one of their own.
I hesitate to get too political, but Milei is quite different from Trump. He’s an economist ideologue enacting austerity in order to overcome inflation and the national debt. Trump’s “economic nationalism” (I don’t think he himself actually had much in the way of ideas but he had some hangers-on who did) rejected such ideas which they would associate with Reaganism, and his policies expanded the deficit & inflation.
PTA based Licorice Pizza on stories his friend Gary Goetzman told him about that time.
District 9 isn’t about apartheid. It’s about immigration in post-apartheid South Africa.
Roger Ebert was aware Starship Troopers was satire. He just thought it was bad satire (I agree).