After Dark: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, Movies That Made Us Feel Seen
Added 2025-02-21 17:00:13 +0000 UTCThe Filmcast: After Dark is the bonus show where we talk about a variety of random topics that didn't make it into the main podcast - including your questions and what's going on in our lives.
In this episode, David, Devindra and Jeff discuss their hopes for Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, and movies that made them feel seen. Plus, this video by the vlogbrothers.
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Having watched it recently, I can say ... there are actually quite a few baseball scenes in the film. A major plot point is that the new strategy does not seem to initially be working ... this is portrayed via ... baseball scenes.
Richard Doyle
2025-02-26 14:42:40 +0000 UTCWill you guys review Nezha 2? It’s out in the US and is only the highest grossing animated in history. I watched it with the family and it was awesome! That’s saying a lot to someone who really liked an animated film since Princess Mononoke
Wensi Zhou
2025-02-26 06:22:17 +0000 UTCThe Replacements! Sports movie with Keanu Reeves. A twofer!
Brittany Johnson
2025-02-25 14:34:31 +0000 UTCIdk, maybe that’s why she ended up in Nightbitch
Mark P
2025-02-24 21:19:03 +0000 UTCAt around 24:50, I literally turned into the Zach Galifianakis doing maths meme. FFS
Wensi Zhou
2025-02-24 14:03:25 +0000 UTCShe was in J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. She survived other stuff.
Mountain of Conflict
2025-02-24 09:55:18 +0000 UTCFunny you say that, I’m not on tik tok but my television’s user interface continually recommends it to me as a show to watch though I’ve seen it all the way through
Mark P
2025-02-23 01:15:07 +0000 UTCI just wanted to say that I feel sad for Devindra that the only times he's felt "seen" in a movie were early films in his life where there simply wasn't a white person in a role. Hopefully some movie in the future has a character or storyline which he feels reflects his experience as a person beyond just the casting choice made and what the character looks like. Also, I feel like the hosts may need to revisit or at least read the Wikipedia plot summary for Better Luck Tomorrow if their memory of that movie is that it's just about a bunch of Asian characters "doing normal stuff". If that's what qualified as "normal stuff" from their high school years then I feel like they have really been holding back some tremendous stories about their childhoods from us! Better Luck Tomorrow is a great movie, but those guys were into some extremely wild shit in that movie.
Stranger2Reality
2025-02-23 00:30:06 +0000 UTCI see ads for it on TikTok all the time from Disney plus
April Reid
2025-02-23 00:22:15 +0000 UTCThey also treat their staff like shit from what I’ve seen of TikTok. Solidarity with their workers.
April Reid
2025-02-23 00:21:16 +0000 UTCThe director produced The Full Monty. He probably wanted those dudes to hang dong back in the day. He’s also a Pasolini, but alas no relation to the Salo guy.
BENJAMIN SHULTZ
2025-02-22 22:48:27 +0000 UTCNightbitch sure was dreadful. It might’ve been a career ender for Amy Adams if they weren’t smart enough to bury it
Mark P
2025-02-22 22:06:00 +0000 UTCI think I heard Jeff remark about the hypocrisy where they demand silence from the audience and yet make a disturbance in delivering food to people.
BENJAMIN SHULTZ
2025-02-22 21:37:26 +0000 UTCQuestion for you guys: what exactly is your beef against Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas? I’ve heard you make a couple off-handed, disdainful remarks about Alamo, but I’m unsure why you think they’re awful. My experience at the Boston location has generally been positive, and certainly better than some of the AMC theatres here, though I have my gripes. (Sadly, my location doesn’t show actual 35mm or 70mm *films*, only digital.) I’m curious about what you find objectionable.
CDMatthew
2025-02-22 12:53:49 +0000 UTCWelp, another reason for me to see The Return, I reckon. (One of those I missed, somehow.)
CDMatthew
2025-02-22 12:38:45 +0000 UTCOne more sports movie recommendation: ‘Slapshot’ from 1977 contains a terrific Paul Newman performance and a bunch of great actors such as Strother Martin, Melinda Dillon, Paul Dooley, M. Emmett Walsh, and more. The movie is violent, funny, and sentimental all at once. Also, related to Jeff’s comment about Martin Luther and various technologies’ impacts on public discourse, I highly recommend the book ‘Technopoly: How Culture Surrenders to Technology’ by Neil Postman. Postman was an important, prescient thinker and a superb writer, and his books (deeply thoughtful yet also quite witty) are all about the theme that Jeff touched on. (I’m guessing that Devindra has read at least some of Postman’s work.) This episode was enjoyably “loose” and chock full of goodies…thank you, I really appreciate you guys!
CDMatthew
2025-02-22 12:23:52 +0000 UTCI have seen The Return and my main takeaway from that movie is that RALPH FIENNES HANGS DONG. It’s not subtle or brief either. Full frontal, bright lighting, the camera lingers.
ak
2025-02-22 06:56:11 +0000 UTCMubi recommendation- Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. It's a fun, sweet twist on a vampire movie mixed with a coming of age story.
Celine
2025-02-22 05:05:45 +0000 UTCHey thanks for reading my comment! Let me just add on Everybody Wants Some, as a rebuttal to Jeff’s point, I played four years of college baseball and a HUGE aspect of what makes a college baseball team function is the relationship between teammates on and off the field. Yes, there is a lot of “hanging out,” but I disagree with the notion that the hanging out isn’t part of the sport or the team dynamic. It is the essence of it. Linklater played baseball in college, too, and it’s clear he intimately understands this. I know those characters, those personalities. I have spent time in shared living rooms with those people, talking about baseball, the next game, the next road trip, etc. From my (admittedly) very specific perspective, it is a masterpiece of team psychology.
Brian Priestley
2025-02-22 03:34:27 +0000 UTCIMO the criteria for what makes a sports movie is the same as what makes a Christmas movie - does the crux of the movie’s plot revolve around the playing of the sport/does the crux of the movie’s plot revolve around Christmas? This makes Die Hard a Christmas movie because it’s set at a Christmas party, and Moneyball a sports movie because the plot revolves around building a winning baseball team. On the contrary, Everybody Wants Some is about a bunch of college bros hanging out and the baseball scenes are incidental, so it’s not a sports movie.
Rob
2025-02-21 20:00:42 +0000 UTCA tip for the next time that you are bouncing among the different “Before“ movies, maybe just refer to them as the first one, the second one and the third one?
Luke Johnson
2025-02-21 19:47:56 +0000 UTCAnd it is assuredly a sports movie, no question. It’s about management but still sports movie.
Reynaldo K. Cruz
2025-02-21 19:44:05 +0000 UTCThere are baseball scenes in moneyball
Reynaldo K. Cruz
2025-02-21 19:43:19 +0000 UTCExtremely disappointed this episode didn’t start with David doing a “Hello, my name is David Chen and you are about to listen to a podcast we worked really hard on and I personally thank you for listening. Now, on with the episode.” FWIW I took my 12 year old daughter to see the Buster Keaton/REM mashup movie at a local Cinemalab theater and she was impressed when Richard Curtis did a little preamble about Cinemalab and independent movie theaters. It led to a Four Weddings and a Funeral watch which holds up!
Don Wood
2025-02-21 18:05:31 +0000 UTCQuestion for next After Dark- why do people suck so much at cooking in movies? There are countless scenes where characters burn or ruin food, and they make it look so easy. It’s not that hard to set a timer. Movies have ruined people by convincing them that cooking is a disaster.
Tyler Sexton
2025-02-21 17:51:54 +0000 UTC
