We're coming up fast on The Batman, the latest film centered around pop culture's famous insanely rich business mogul, Bruce Wayne. I am given to understand he also dresses as a bat. But that's not what we're here for, we're here to take a deeper dive into the Waynes of the world, the ultimate winners of late capitalism: captains of industry, movers and shakers, power brokers, the people whose exact work is a little hard to pin down, exactly, but by golly it sure does seem to be lucrative. In short, we're looking at our top 5 moguls in the movies (though not our top 5 movie moguls), to see just what it is they do with all that money and power. Besides dressing up as bats, that is.
The episode gets a little off the rails. If we had known the direction it was heading, we would have included a whole other list of criteria above for what qualifies as a "mogul," but I guess you've come to expect that now.
Tune in and we hope you enjoy!
Rob Top 5:
- Ri¢hie Ri¢h
- Iron Man
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
- Batman
- The Wolf of Wall Street
Tim Top 5:
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
- The More the Merrier
- Sabrina
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- Mildred Pierce
Carrie Top 5:
- The Ten Commandments
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Phantom Thread
- The Social Network
- Citizen Kane
Audience Top 5 Moguls:
- Citizen Kane
- There Will Be Blood
- The Big Lebowski
- It's A Wonderful Life | Iron Man
- Batman
This week's winner - Lebowski!
- Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane)
- President/Lord Business (The Lego Movie)
- Jeffery Lebowski (The Big Lebowski)
- Noah Cross (Chinatown)
- Scrooge McDuck (Ducktales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp)
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We’re still covering multi-part sequels thanks to a request from Patreon member Brian Fowler! Today we’re talking about Netflix’s new film TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, which is the ninth Texas Chainsaw film, the third film with that basic title, the third or fourth film to position itself as a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original, and the first film where Leatherface is put on Instagram Live. In between digressions, we try to break down what on Earth is going on with the bizarre group of hipsters at the center of the film, share our assessment of the kills, and break down the return of the legendary Sally Hardesty!
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It’s Brennan’s first official week hosting Pass the Popcorn, and the whole gang joins him for this episode!
First, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan talks Annie (1999), Rob brings Uncharted, Tim discusses Teacher’s Pet (by Patreon Harold’s request), and Carrie discusses The Long Good Friday (by Patreon Jack’s request).
Then, we dive into a spoiler-free discussion of the HBO Max series Peacemaker, which just aired its season finale, as well as the James Gunn superheroverse in general.
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This episode comes courtesy of Patreon subscriber Jack Chivers, who's asked us to carefully select and discuss our top 5 movie endings. As you can imagine, our opinions on what makes a story complete, vary greatly (don't be deceived by a bit of overlap). The episode might feel a bit chaotic, as our recollections of the actual endings of movies...differ. The mind is a funny thing and it has an interesting way of seeing what it hopes to see, I guess.
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Rob Top 5:
- Se7en
- Inception
- Call Me By Your Name
- The Graduate
- La La Land
Tim Top 5:
- City Lights
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- The Searchers
- The Nights of Cabiria
- The Third Man
Carrie Top 5:
- Titanic
- City Lights
- The Sixth Sense
- Parasite
- Casper
Audience Top 5 Movie Endings:
- The Graduate
- The Wicker Man | Some Like it Hot
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Night of the Living Dead | Dr. Strangelove
- City Lights | Casablanca
This week's winner - Julian!
- Spoorloos, aka The Vanishing
- Only Yesterday
- The Passenger
- A Clockwork Orange
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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This month, Bride of Alternate Ending is covering multi-part sequels thanks to a request from Patreon member Brian Fowler! The people have spoken, and they have chosen for Tim and Brennan to discuss 1988's POLTERGEIST III! The pair break down the tragic backstory of the film and how that informs the project, as well as what works and (mostly) what doesn’t. Is there a very long digression about biology? You’ll just have to find out for yourself.
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There are so many exciting parts of the our Oscar Nomination Reactions episode, the least exciting part being the Oscar nominees. Ha! This episode, we're joined by Alternate Ending contributors Mandy Albert and Chris Trengove, to share our reactions to the nominees and the biggest snubs. I had a feeling with this crew I might get a little lost in the shuffle of cinephile-speak. And that did happen. BUT! It was absolutely invigorating to see the group light up and commiserate on mutual film feelings, with some joy and a healthy dose of disdain.
In other exciting news, the team also tried their hand at predicting the Oscars and we get a chance to talk about a bit of an unexpected upset, in their rate of success.
If there was any doubt of how much fun we had, you can just take a look at Chris. This might have been when we were talking about House of Gucci.
We hope you enjoy this extra special episode. We'd love to hear about your Oscar Nomination Reactions too, did we hit the mark? What did we miss? Did the Academy get it right?
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**90 mins later**
It's spit preferences, strategizing how to simplify dissertations, silicone education, new theme song reactions and god only knows what else. Oh, movies!
This episode, Carrie and Rob bring Tampopo (by Patreon Travis N's request) and Temple of Doom. Tim brings Soldier of Orange (by Patreon Laurel & Michael's request).
From there, we all take a deep dive into our thoughts on the newly released movie about a moon falling, Moonfall.
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