The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast – Episode 492 – John Wick: Chapter 4, Scott Adkins, and Staircase Fights
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Mark and DJ Valentine (@TryingToBeDJV on Twitter) discuss the 2023 action epic John Wick: Chapter 4. Directed by Chad Stahleski, and starring Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins, Marko Zarar and about 40 other really cool actors, the movie focuses on what happens when dumb/brave/greedy people attempt to stop John Wick from achieving his goal of annihilating the High Table. In this episode, they also talk about Scott Adkins, kitchen fights, and the excellence of Keanu Reeves. Enjoy!
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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast – Episode 491: Prey, Amber Midthunder, and Mud Pits
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Mark and Megan discuss the 2022 action-horror film Prey. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, and starring Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, and an unlucky bear, the movie focuses on what happens when a Yautja hunter picks the wrong group of people to mess with. In this episode, they also talk about mud pits, Predator films, and how much they love the show Legion (which featured Midthunder beating up many people). Enjoy!
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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast – Episode 490: The Gentlemen, Bespoke Suits, and Guy Ritchie
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Mark, Erik and Marcos discuss the 2019 film The Gentlemen. Directed by Guy Ritchie, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant, Michelle Dockerie and about 40 other excellent actors, the movie is loaded with well-written monologues, bespoke suits, and some fun twists and turns. In this episode, they also talk about menacing Matthew McConaughey, super cheese, and the filmography of Guy Ritchie. Enjoy!
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MFF Data – Vin Diesel and His Sleeveless Shirts
Vin Diesel loves sleeveless shirts. He wore sleeveless shirts while bouncing, and if you check out his 1995 New York Toy Fair clips, or his 1995 short film Multi-Facial, you’ll see that long before he was rocking TWO sleeveless shirts at the same time in F9, he was all about the sleeveless life.
While watching F9 for another research assignment, I started wondering whether the amount of sleeveless shirts, or screen time in which Diesel wears a sleeveless shirt affect the overall quality of the movie. Thus, I went through all of his live-action films where he appears on screen (sorry Groot), pulled the minutes of sleeveless screen time, counted the shirts, and broke down the data to see if there is an optimal amount of sleeveless t-shirt wearing that Vin should adopt. Having done this before with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and jet ski action scenes I felt certain that I could mine his filmography and present some incredibly random and unimportant data that might make you chuckle a bit while you read this.
Quick Note – Since I’m not a total maniac I didn’t sit there with a stopwatch and count every second of his screen time. I count the scenes that he’s in where he could appear on screen at any time. For instance, this scene in Fast Five when he’s talking to Brian and Mia about putting a team together. The toughest film to crack was Pitch Black. Diesel’s character Riddick wears a sleeveless shirt during the duration of the film. However, he isn’t always around so I only counted scenes where his presence is felt and or he could pop up at any moment.
Also, I didn’t count the scenes where he’s wearing a sleeveless t-shirt underneath a shirt. The arms had to be out for the world to see.
He’s technically wearing a sleeveless shirt, but there’s a shirt covering it. No arms = No inclusion
Fun Vin Numbers, Facts and stats
- Overall Tomatometer Average – 47%
- Overall Rotten Tomatoes User Score – 64%
- IMDb User Score Average – 6.38
- Worldwide Box Office Average – $335.5 million
- # of Fresh Movies (Tomatometer score of 60% or more) – 8 – Saving Private Ryan, Boiler Room, Find Me Guilty, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7, The Fate of the Furious, F9
- If you’re interested in listening to me talk about how all the data came together, check out the podcast episode I recorded about my quest. You can listen to the Movies, Films and Flix podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.
Fun Vin, Sleeveless Shirt Facts and Stats
- He wears a sleeveless shirt in 16 of his 23 films.
- He averages 1.95 sleeveless shirts per film
- Percentage of Screen Time In Which He Wears a Sleeveless Shirt On Screen – 18.67%
- Total Minutes Spent Wearing Sleeveless Shirts – 503 minutes
- Average Amount of Minutes He Wears a Sleeveless Shirt in All of His Films – 21.89 minutes
- He wears a white tank top in 11 of his films
- The seven movies that feature him wearing a black shirt with no sleeves have the highest Tomatometer average with a Fresh 62% score.
- The five movies that feature him wearing a gray button up shirt with no sleeves have the highest worldwide box office average – $808 million
- The seven movies that feature him wearing a black tank top have the highest IMDb User Score Average with a average score of 6.45 (not bad)
- When it comes to the amount of sleeveless t-shirts worn in a Vin Diesel movie, four is the best number in regards to box office and critical/audience scores.
Quick Note – In Fast & Furious 6, Diesel wears a white tank top and a black tank top. I counted this as two sleeveless shirts despite the fact that there are three scenes in which he wears sleeveless shirts (2 white / 1 black). I was looking for overall sleeveless shirt variation, not scenes involving sleeveless shirts.
Here’s a look at Vin’s sleeveless T-Shirt Timeline Since 1997
Can anything be figured out about his career by the number of different sleeveless shirts he wears in his films?
- 0 – Between Saving Private Ryan, The Pacifier, The Last Witch Hunter, and Billy Lyn’s Long Halftime Walk , Vin doesn’t play a villain or anti-hero – which is interesting because he mostly plays villains or anti-heroes. Also, in Boiler Room and Find Me Guilty he takes part in white-collar crime and general criminal shenanigans (not world exploding action). Also, 5 of the 7 take place between 1998 and 2007, and Billy Lyn’s was released almost six years again. He rarely goes sleeveless, and not lately.
- 1 – It’s been 10 years since Vin Diesel only wore one sleeveless shirt in a movie, and he went out with a bang with Fast & Furious 6 (the most fast and furious of the franchise). It’s worth noting that his foray into gritty cop dramas and gangster films saw him wearing only one sleeveless shirt. Also, Pitch Black and Riddick, the two movies that feature the most sleeveless shirt wearing of all his movies only involve one sleeveless shirt.
- 2 – Early Vin was all about two sleeveless shirts. Between The Fast and the Furious, xXx, and The Chronicles of Riddick, he was all about the double. I’m thinking Chronicles of Riddick halted the momentum.
- 3 – I love this fact – Vin Diesel wears three sleeveless shirts in Fast and Furious and Fast Five which are the two Fast movies that transitioned The Fast & Furious world from movies about racing and cars, to movies that blow up lots of cars while they are racing away from nuclear submarines.
- 4 – Diesel has only worn four shirts in two movies, those two movies both made over a billion at the worldwide box office. Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious made bank.
- 5 – It makes me happy that Vin’s movies are bookended by movies (Strays, F9) that feature him wearing five sleeveless shirts. Also, between xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Bloodshot, and F9: The Fast Saga, the dude has gone sleeveless t-shirt crazy
Here are some fun stats
Average Amount of Sleeveless Shirts He Wears in his Fresh (Tomatometer Score Above 60%) and Rotten (Tomatometer Score Below 60%)
- Fresh – 2.14
- Rotten – 1.92
Average Percentage of Screen Time in Which Vin is Wearing a Sleeveless Shirt in His Fresh and Rotten Films
- Fresh – 11.29% – This is partly down to Saving Private Ryan (0%), Boiler Room (0%), and Fast & Furious 6 (6.15%) featuring very little sleeveless t-shirt work.
- Rotten – 22.61% – This is high because in the Riddick Trilogy there is a lot of sleeveless shirt work. Riddick hates sleeves.
Quick Note – I counted every scene involving sleeveless shirt wearing towards the percentage.
Average Amount of Sleeveless Shirts He Wears in His Movies That Have Made More Than $500 Million at the Worldwide Box Office
- More than $500 million – 3.14 – Furious 7 ($1.5 billion) and The Fate of the Furious ($1.23 billion) feature him wearing 4 different sleeveless shirts in each film. Dom loves a variation.
- Less than $500 million – 1.35
Conclusion – When it comes to a critical and box office sweet spot, the best option for Vin is to wear 3-4 different sleeveless shirts and he needs to wear a black shirt with no sleeves and a button up gray shirt that also has no sleeves. If he does this, a huge box office is sure to follow, and the movie has a chance of being Fresh.
Also, despite the fact that he wears four different sleeveless shirts, the sleeveless screen time needs to be limited. This is why Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious work so well, because they’re like “Alright Vin, you get your sleeveless shirts, BUT, you gotta wear some sleeved shirts as well.”
More sleeveless shirt variation + limited screen time dedicated to them = $$$$$$$
Proof of all the shirts with sleeves that Dom wears in F7 and F8
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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast – Episode 489: Malignant, James Wan and Fun Horror Films
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Mark and Norbert (@eddiecaine on Twitter) discuss the 2021 horror film Malignant. Directed by James Wan, and starring Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young and a throwable chair, the movie is absolutrly beautiful and showcases what happens when James Wan is given $40 million to make whatever he wants. In this episode, they also talk about chair throws, horror tropes, and the excellent directing and producing run of James Wan. Enjoy!
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MY CALL: This is fun, feisty, violent Sci-Horror and still a finely made film overall with strong performances. Strongly recommended. MORE MOVIES LIKE M3GAN: The reboot of Child’s Play (2019) and Ex Machina (2015) spring to mind. Then maybe Child’s Play (1988), Child’s Play 2 (1990), and then I might skip all the way to Curse of Chucky (2013) and Cult of Chucky (2017)—not that I didn’t enjoy them all to some degree. Other quality evil doll films include The Boy (2016), Annabelle: Creation (2017), Dolly Dearest (1991), Dolls (1987) and Puppet Master (1989).
A tragic accident leaves Cady (Violet McGraw; The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep)bereft of her parents and in custody of her aunt Gemma (Allison Williams; Get Out, The Perfection), who isn’t the most maternal type. Their relationship is strained, they were never close, and we feel that. We sympathize for both of them. But eventually they connect through Gemma’s work with advanced robotic toys. An up-and-coming AI engineer, Gemma has developed M3GAN, the next generation of AI companion toy.
Cady’s introduction to M3GAN is disarming, provocative and sincere. The more time they spend together, the more effective a companion M3GAN becomes. M3GAN teaches Cady about basic science and it couldn’t be more adorable. There’s a demonstration of M3GAN before a group of investors which was truly throat-tightening and emotionally powerful. The social development of M3GAN makes sense, and nothing ever feels overly far-fetched… given the premise.
As for her programming, M3GAN’s main directive is to protect Cady from all harm, physical and emotional. Sounds ideal, right? As if we’ve never seen this go wrong before in movies. So, of course, M3GAN becomes increasingly protective, and things go increasingly wrong. The neighbor’s mean dog, a mean boy at school, Gemma being stern with Cady—all become triggers for M3GAN. And accordingly, it gets violent.
I saw the unrated version. So I wonder how graphic these deaths would be in the PG-13 version. But let me tell you, I saw the movie we were meant to see, for sure! The “ear scene” is wonderfully over-the-top gross, with somewhat silly but still great effects. The “tool shed” death scene was another gory delight. There’s some serious blood-gushing stabbery to be enjoyed.
And then there’s her movement. Her cold expressions, her creepy dancing, and her awkwardly creepy aimalistic running. When this murderous robot is doing her thing, she is smooth and calculating, like the T-1000 but with modern highspeed wi-fi. When she blows a short circuit, she goes into full twitchy Exorcist (1973) mode. And by the finale, we wander into some wild shots reminiscent of the end of The Terminator (1984). A lot of the visuals and plot points will feel very familiar to well-seasoned fans of Sci-Horror. But I’d contest that director Gerard Johnstone (Housebound) keeps the execution of these familiar and satisfying beats fresh! Strongly recommended!
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MY CALL: While far better than anything I’d call unwatchable, this is the CotC movie I could throw away and forget. You might be entertained (at least just enough), but it does disservice to the franchise and fails to deliver the bizonkersly satisfying death scenes of CotC 2-3. MORE MOVIES LIKE Children of the Corn IV: Children of the Corn (1984)spawned many video-era sequels over the years (1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2011, 2018) leading to the most recent remake (2020). Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992) was dumber but funner, and Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995) seems to follow this yet dumber and yet wildly funner pattern to delightful “bad movie hidden gem” perfection.
TIMELINE: CotC 1 ended with the cornfields of Gatlin burning with the defeat of an ancient Corn God. But of course, many of Isaac’s disciples remained alive remain devout to “He who walks behind the rows.” So yeah, sequels. CotC 2 transpired in the week following Vicky and Bert’s escape from the town. In CotC 2, the evil is defeated with the death of possessed Micah. Similar to CotC 2, CotC 3 ends when Eli and his corn Bible are destroyed. However, his urban harvest would then be spread around the world in the commodities market. Given how CotC 3 ignored the previous two films, I’m guessing this will be of no consequence to whatever sequel plot should follow here in CotC 4.
So here we are in yet another small Nebraska corn town apparently paying no more mind to the previous four movies than a faded husk of the original premise. As such, this film functions very much as a standalone story. We open with some weak zombie gag followed by an “oops, I’m eating bugs” gag. Things feel pretty weak and contrived right away. But the good thing is that there are a lot of these horror gags right away delivered in tandem—so at least the movie is trying and isn’t devoid of budget. A farmer is then impaled by several barn tools by a preachy half-burned zombie kid who conjures fire, telekinesis, and some Old Testament. Perhaps this is the bespoke chosen one that Isaac, Micah and Eli weren’t. But alas, this is the least effective ‘big bad’ of the franchise so far. We are meant to fear his eventual “full” resurrection, but he really doesn’t pass as very menacing.
Meanwhile Grace (Naomi Watts;The Ring 1-2, Dream House, Funny Games, Goodnight Mommy) returns home to help her mentally unwell mother June (Karen Black; Children of the Night, It’s Alive III, House of 1000 Corpses, Mirror Mirror, Night Angel) just as an outbreak of fever afflicts all the town’s children at once. Just as frighteningly quickly as all the kids fell ill, they are better the next day. Better, but different. The kids identify themselves by the names of kids killed long ago once part of some cult.
Imagery of our preachy leader and child afflictions continue in the form of quite contrived zombie-ish, Satanic and Exorcist (1973) themes. We also have a lot of blood-splattering as possessed kids with bags under their eyes start killing the adults, impaling them with scythes and whatever else they can get their stabby little hands on. Again, I’ve seen better… like at least three times. A squeamish syringe and scythe impaling scene and a cartoonishly silly “gurney death” slicing a doctor in half amount to the highlights of this mediocre sequel. Ranked from most zany bonkers deaths: 3, 2, 4, 1. The child actors in this sequel do a decent enough job being creepy and dire. But the writing and direction are woefully uninspired, readily making this my least favorite sequel. Still, it’s entertaining. Just far less so than CotC 2-3 and doing much disservice to the ever more bonkers franchise.
Like CotC 3 before it, CotC 4 seems to happily ignore that CotC 1-2 ever happened. The backstory is now completely different—that of an amazing boy preacher Josiah who never seemed to age. This could have made for some great scenes cultivating gravity to the premise… but the movie settles on just “telling” us this elaborate back story.
Josiah never amounts to much of a villain. He makes me miss Isaac, Eli and even Micah of the previous films. With the kids more leaderless, this sequel just feels like an ‘evil kids’ movie most of the time. Grace faces off against Josiah in the end. But this finale is reduced to a few shotgun blasts and a messy melty-face scene that’s just okay (but with decent visual effects). The finales of CotC 1 and CotC 3 were far better; 3 especially. I’m inclined to call this the worst of the sequels by far. But I’ll give it this much—it’s really not that bad and it’s much better than its lame movie poster would suggest. Seeing this makes me more appreciative of the solid gold B-movie that is CotC 3.
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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast – Episode 488: Rounders, Teddy KGB, and the Bestselling Cookies in Canada
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Mark and Phil discuss the 1998 cult classic Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, and starring Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Malkovich and some Oreo cookies, the movie focuses on what happens when you have a friend whose nickname is Worm. In this episode, they also talk about poker movies, Russian accents, and which cookie they’d pick if they had an obvious cookie tell. Enjoy!
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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast – Episode 487: The Movie Posters That Feature Characters in Terrible Predicaments Draft
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Mark and Nicholas Rehak (@TheRehak on Twitter) talk about their favorite movie posters that feature characters in terrible predicaments. In this episode, you’ll hear them discuss the Midsommar, Fright Night (1985), Tentacles, In the Heart of the Sea, The Shining and Jaws posters that all showcase someone about to have a horrible day. Enjoy!
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John’s Horror Corner: Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995), stop what you’re doing and watch this bonkers 90s goretastic gem!
MY CALL: I love this movie. LOVE IT! It starts horrendously slowly, but oh my Dark Corn Lord does it amp things to new levels for the franchise. The ending is full-tilt amazeballs. If you’ve ever enjoyed a gory bad movie, please make this one a priority. This infernal corn sequel gets a USDA stamp of approval. MORE MOVIES LIKE Children of the Corn III: Children of the Corn (1984)spawned many video-era sequels over the years (1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2011, 2018) leading to the most recent remake (2020). Given that the original was a “loose” adaptation of King’s story, the sequels would likely be yet “looser.” Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992) was dumber but funner, and CotC 3 seems to follow this yet dumber and yet funner pattern.
TIMELINE: Part 1 ended with the cornfields of Gatlin burning with a ghostly evil face screaming in the smoky cloud. Presumably, that ancient Corn God was defeated. But of course, many of Isaac’s disciples remained alive and, even though they turned on Isaac, many may remain devout to “He who walks behind the rows.” So yeah, sequels. CotC 2 transpired in the week following Vicky and Bert’s escape from the town. In CotC 2, the evil is defeated with the death of possessed Micah. Far simpler and less grand of a finish than CotC 1’s crop burning and zombie Isaac coming to drag Malachi to Corn Starch Hell.
Having never before left the farm, Eli (Daniel Cerny; Demonic Toys) and Joshua (Ron Melendez; The Unborn II, Voodoo) are placed in foster care with a couple in Chicago. The couple is nice and affluent, with a big house near an abandoned factory where Eli plants corn he brought from home as a direct offering to “He who walks behind the rows.”
Now I know what you’re thinking. Why are we sending these kids to some metropolis and forgoing our rural kid cult charm for this sequel? But around this time a lot of horror franchises were absconding their secluded cabins in the woods and summer camps to try their hand at horror in the big city. It was seldom successful. Carol Anne moved downtown only to be followed by her haunting in Poltergeist III (1988); Jason takes Manhattan (just five years after the Muppets) in Friday the 13th part VIII (1989); evil tribbles hit Los Angeles in Critters 3 (1991); Pinhead hit the downtown club scene in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992); Candyman (1992) brought dark folklore to Chicago; and Leprechaun 2 (1994) took its diminutive rascal to Las Vegas and then the Hood twice (2000, 2003). This was just the logical next step to give franchise fans a break from Nebraska cornfields for at least one sequel and bring our farm boys to Chicago where they are fostered by Amanda and her husband William Porter (JimMetzler; 976-Evil, Circuitry Man, Waxwork II), a corn commodities trader. Watch out for how that plays into the story.
Our big city theme comes with fish-out-of-water tropes and hokier deliveries—probably even more hokey than CotC 2. Basketball scenes, religious taboos, racial conflicts and Amish jokes abound. If CotC 2 was a fun bad movie, CotC 3 is an awesome solid gold bad movie. This features the weakest acting and writing of the three movies by far. But the death scenes and supernatural antics are oh so fun! Just be warned, for the first 30-40 minutes you will swear I’m lying and think this movie sucks. It doesn’t. Just give it time. The kills in CotC 3 are by far the best, bloodiest, most wild and most inspired. Sad that the overall movies get “cornier” with each sequel. But I’ll take them for the supernatural death scenes alone.
CotC 2’s Micah was no Isaac; and at first glance, Eli is no Micah. Or is he…? Our child cult leaders seem to be getting initially more innocuous while also gaining more supernatural power with each sequel. Case in point, Eli has an ornate corn-bejeweled Bible and conjures evil, prehensile corn plants draw and quarter his abusive father, ripping his limbs from their bloody sockets and stitching shut his eyes and lips. It’s mean. To the contrary, Micah looked and sounded more menacing, but didn’t brandish most of his magical powers until the end; and Isaac was the creepiest and most convincing leader, but never flexed a single supernatural muscle until he was undead against his will.
But supernatural deaths populate this sequel. A deliciously hokey death scene befalls a hobo that stumbles across Eli’s urban harvest; watch out for when someone spits a distinctly plastic roach from their mouth and vomit pestilence to death; there’s an utterly bazonkers-dumb face-melting death scene; we have an undead cornfield scarecrow; and every scene with a “corn attack” gets more bloody, more intense, and more awesome than the last. By the finale the corn has graduated to full Evil Dead tree status (yes, in EVERY way you might imagine). Yup, Charlize Theron (you read that right) gets violated by an evil plant. I doubt she’ll be reminiscing her “start in the film industry” for her Oscar speech.
The killer corn “decapitation scene” is 90s epic goretastic awesomeness as a kid’s head is slowly and brutally “pulled” over ten feet into the air with his spine forming a bloody elongated stalk. As of this moment, I love this movie. Again, the first 30-40 minutes were a slog, but this has proven to be well worth the wait!
We learn that Eli was somehow a foster child as far back as the 1960s. Eli implies that he might be the actual devil, which seems to disregard the first two movies. I also wonder why the devil (or some other Biblical fiend) would be tied to a corn harvest unless we’re tying to the Native American folklore from CotC 2 (which goes totally unmentioned here in CotC 3). But the events of CotC 1-2 occur in 1984… so was Eli another corn cult leader operating in the 60s as well as at the same time in 1984? Eh, probably not. More realistically, CotC 3 isn’t paying much attention to canon or franchise continuity.
The finale treats us to a long montage of crazy “evil assault corn” death. Kids are getting strangled and impaled left and right by prehensile corn vines all under the control of a huge hulking malformed, fleshy aberration of a “He who walks behind the rows” Hellbeast! This thing looks awesome. Some shots are stop-motion, including when it is eating a girl represented on-screen by an action figure! YES. An obvious ACTION FIGURE!. OMG I love this movie. It starts slow but oh my Dark Corn Lord does it amp things to new levels with every 30-minute block. The ending is full-tilt amazeballs.
Did I mention that I love this movie? If you’ve ever enjoyed a bad movie, please make this one a priority. This infernal corn sequel gets a USDA stamp of approval.
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