Ep. 803 - Kraven the Hunter (FIXED)
Added 2024-12-17 17:00:13 +0000 UTCUPDATE: This episode originally went out with last week's audio. The audio should now be correct. In your podcast app, if you delete and redownload the episode in a few hours, the audio should be correct. Apologies for the inconvenience.
David, Devindra, and Jeff go wheels up with Carry-On, dive into the animated worlds of Secret Level, and take a hard look at Hard Truths. Then they go on the hunt with the latest Spiderman adjacent film, Kraven the Hunter.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: The Agency
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on Apple’s Genmoji + Xbox Series X re-review
Jeff - DLC 578 with Rebekah Valentine
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:15:20)
David - Carry-On, Hard Truths, Flow
Devindra - Secret Level, Arcane S2, Pantheon
Featured Review (~00:58:32)
Kraven the Hunter
SPOILERS (~01:17:51)
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Comments
Madam web is the worst of all of them. This is madness!
Wil Johnson
2025-04-27 14:28:23 +0000 UTCI really wish Devindra would mute his mic unless he is actually speaking, as he is constantly making all kinds of noises while others are speaking. If it's not the noise you're referencing then he's constantly saying "um hm" and just grunting in agreement. He's the only one that does this, so I don't know if it's just a series of audible tics that he has or if the other hosts mute themselves when they're not speaking.
Stranger2Reality
2024-12-30 09:34:20 +0000 UTCProbably the right decision, but I watch all the movies they review.
BananaJoe
2024-12-20 11:43:40 +0000 UTCI can’t believe you even saw all of them to rank them! I’ve only seen the first two Venoms in their entirety. I watched about 30 (non consecutive) minutes of Madame Web, scanning through it on streaming until I went “ok, I get the gist” and turned it off. The others I can’t be bothered with.
Cameron Stewart
2024-12-20 09:16:09 +0000 UTCDamn, we were all waiting for your ranking
Mark P
2024-12-20 03:03:17 +0000 UTCYeah it’s Devindra, he generally does it as a forewarning he’s about to interject on the conversation
Mark P
2024-12-20 03:01:48 +0000 UTCAm I the only one who gets really perturbed/distracted by the constant laughing through the nose into the mic (not 100% sure which of the hosts is doing this, but think it may be Devindra)? Been bothering me for a while now. Once you start hearing the nose-laugh, you can't stop hearing it. :-/ Petty, I know... Still, love you guys! Listen to every episode and the AD's
Iain
2024-12-20 00:15:53 +0000 UTCSo much nonsense spoken on this episode. Someone who checks a bag that could be carried on his wasteful with their time and money. Also, coats in the overhead are totally fine if they fit on top of bags (which they often do). Storing a coat inside a bag instead of carrying on top is a giant waste of space. And I guess Devindra doesn’t ever travel to cold places where you actually need a coat for more than the trip to the airport. Absurdity!
Bobby Simpson
2024-12-19 15:01:55 +0000 UTCI don't know crap about comics so I might be wrong about some of these, but here's some unfulfilled promises made at the end of some Marvel movies from before Phase 5: At the end of X-Men Apocalypse they alluded to introducing Mister Sinister, but that was never paid off. At the end of Doctor Strange Karl Mordo takes away Jonathan Pangborn's magic, stating that there are "too many sorcerers". They never do anything with this, at least on this version of Earth. In Spider-Man Homecoming at the end Vulture and Scorpion meet up in prison to discuss Spider-Man's true identity, and this is never dealt with again. In Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, at the end Clea shows up and Strange follows her (with his 3rd eye open) into the Dark Dimension.
Stranger2Reality
2024-12-19 11:41:09 +0000 UTCExactly. Comics just move on.
Mountain of Conflict
2024-12-19 11:21:12 +0000 UTCAlso, I feel like most people have largely forgotten about this show, but a main plot point in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was about people displaced when the snap was undone (the "Flag Smashers") who were now outcasts and were forming a terrorist network to fight nationalism because they thought things were better during "The Blip". I agree though, how would Marvel deal with the snap in a way that's satisfying to Dave? Some kind of Leftovers-esque drama series that doesn't involve superheroes at all? Not exactly a bunch of demand for that there, I'd wager.
Stranger2Reality
2024-12-19 11:19:49 +0000 UTCWho wants the MCU to deal with the snap in earnest. That's not how these movies work. And Endgame had a lengthy sequence of people being sad.
Mountain of Conflict
2024-12-19 08:53:17 +0000 UTCSimilar stuff has been said for years but for some reason Dave doesn't want to do it.
Mountain of Conflict
2024-12-19 08:50:15 +0000 UTCSince David shouted out Daniel Espinosa in the show I feel that I have to suggest his Netflix mini-series The Helicopter Heist, which I hope is available in the US!
Linus
2024-12-19 06:06:39 +0000 UTCDid Devindra just say that Donald Trump’s hair always looks good? What?
Brad Arnold
2024-12-19 01:32:43 +0000 UTCI haven't seen Kraven, Madame Web and Venom 3, and honestly I couldn't really tell you much of what happened in the first two Venom movies or in Morbius, so I can't really do a ranking here.
Stranger2Reality
2024-12-19 00:32:40 +0000 UTCSomeone tell Devindra that Chris from Chris & Jack played Sokka from Avatar
Yochai Gal
2024-12-18 22:52:54 +0000 UTCMaybe it’s just me, but when I hear one film is bland and the other is offensively terrible I’d rather watch the latter
Bmac
2024-12-18 22:41:59 +0000 UTCMy Sony-Spiderman Ranking: Venom 2 Venom Kraven Venom 3 Morbius Madame Web Venom 2 was the only movie that was so bad it was good and it was 90 minutes long. The rest were bad and boring.
BananaJoe
2024-12-18 21:43:10 +0000 UTCI'm a fan of the Chris and Jack youtube channel David mentioned. And it was fun to find out Jack De Sena was the voice of Sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender.
Nick Clemente
2024-12-18 21:16:03 +0000 UTCEven in the description would be handy just a next week: _____)
Jacob Chimilar
2024-12-18 20:01:15 +0000 UTCI am having a good time with it. Some really great performances and gorgeous cinematography that gets me through the occasional hand-wavey silliness it occasionally dips into. (I don’t mean that as a real dig to the show, all shows of this type have to do that.)
Don Wood
2024-12-18 16:54:30 +0000 UTCI look forward to the guys turning Unhinged (2020) into a minor inconvenience cinematic universe
Nice Guy Eddie
2024-12-18 15:16:12 +0000 UTCThis got fixed this morning I saw someone else was having the same issue, thank you Dave
Iker Maruri
2024-12-18 14:40:10 +0000 UTCJustice for Roy Kent as Hercules (not a villain, but a major unfulfilled promise).
Kyle Smith
2024-12-18 13:22:16 +0000 UTC6 months ago I predicted the downfall of Jeff's dad jokes.
Cardassian Vexillology
2024-12-18 04:55:50 +0000 UTCI’m listening here cos somehow it is screwed up in my normal podcast app 😢
Alex Ooi
2024-12-18 04:31:44 +0000 UTCSorry Phil - I'm experiencing the same issue in Pocket Casts. And yes, lesson learned. Next time, will make a new post rather than try to resolve the previous RSS feed. -DChen
Slashfilmcast
2024-12-18 03:22:13 +0000 UTCNot fixed.. pocket casts is still loading the wrong one. Even after writing and restarting and on different devices. this is why you should always post a new item for a fixed link
Phil Wu
2024-12-18 03:03:19 +0000 UTCMy podcast feed is still downloading the wrong file somehow
Iker Maruri
2024-12-18 02:23:57 +0000 UTCFirstly, is it me or does the entire Sony Marvel enterprise feel like the work of someone in Hollywood, in power, with a vendetta. It’s just so purposefully ruined, one can only imagine a person with supreme influence who has decreed “we shall destroy all chance of success for any and all of these films. Fuck that guy who tried to fuck me!” Also the embedded dad joke punchline is just pure genius in both concept and execution. Time to crowdsource material. I’ll go first: Q: What did the cheese say when it saw itself in the mirror? A (high and sing songy): halooooumiii!
Kess Broekman-Dattner
2024-12-18 01:20:10 +0000 UTCWhat chumps are skipping the weekly plugs?
Nicholas Ewers
2024-12-18 01:03:33 +0000 UTCCan you imagine being unsnapped and then finding out your family died bc you were snapped while driving your kids to school? Horrifying. I agree that the unsnappening was not a neat solution and those kinds of situations aren't really addressed to my memory.
Amanda
2024-12-17 23:27:13 +0000 UTCIt really, really is. I thought David mentioned it though? Maybe re decoding tv coverage
Joy o Napping
2024-12-17 23:02:14 +0000 UTCDevindra's recap of the premise of Pantheon and Logarithm sounds eerily similar to the concept of Soulkiller from Cyberpunk 2077.
Joseph Cahill
2024-12-17 22:31:59 +0000 UTCFun to hear Jeffs journey with the power lifting from from the DLC Patreon episode 😅
Lars Aass Olsen
2024-12-17 22:23:15 +0000 UTCI always listen to the weekly plugs
Bram Welch
2024-12-17 22:11:17 +0000 UTCI cannot believe that no one has mentioned The Agency…is phenomenal
Wil Johnson
2024-12-17 22:07:42 +0000 UTCI feel like Sony should just go ahead and make a Sinister Six movie, now that they've spent so much time and effort introducing us all to these characters we mostly dislike. Feels like it would be a good bit of hilarity to assemble the Avengers version of the people you love to hate. Morbius, Kraven the Hunter and Madame Web all in the same movie together would be peak silliness.
Stranger2Reality
2024-12-17 21:50:20 +0000 UTCNo Devindra coat in the suitcase is a waste of space. Can also be used as a pillow or blanket. Shoe space taken up by coat in suitcase? Never!
Reynaldo K. Cruz
2024-12-17 21:34:28 +0000 UTCThat Kansas joke. Top notch.
Nervous_NRG
2024-12-17 21:27:25 +0000 UTCOn another note, a Chameleon movie could be really interesting. It obviously works for Venom to carry his own franchise. But there are very few Spider-Man villains who it makes sense for.
Timothy Mably
2024-12-17 21:12:41 +0000 UTCThe Sony Spider-Man villain movies always felt like them throwing everything against the wall for cringey IP cash grabs. It's more surprising that Spider-Man isn't a big part of marketing - "Before Kraven fought Spider-Man..." etc
Timothy Mably
2024-12-17 21:11:37 +0000 UTCI plead that the Next On be added to the Weekly Plugs section instead. It’s a thing I miss out on listening to often because I bank the movies I haven’t seen for a later listen.
Dan Cameron
2024-12-17 20:10:08 +0000 UTCThey do crap on it
hexum311add
2024-12-17 20:05:29 +0000 UTCNo spoilers, but in a future Marvel film you WILL see reference/explanation to the giant hand in the ocean from Eternals. It isn't being ignored.
Papool Chaudhari
2024-12-17 19:52:36 +0000 UTCLiam Neason in…. TWEET
Maddox Finkel
2024-12-17 19:50:02 +0000 UTCThe carryon inconvenience thriller talk reminds me of that moment we had Cellular and Phonebooth. Remember that time yall? We need one of those again but for TikTok or Twitter.
Maddox Finkel
2024-12-17 19:49:41 +0000 UTCPotential “Carry On” sequel titles… “Carry On 2: Gate Check”… or go Live Free or Die Hard style with “Keep Calm and Carry On” … My personal favorite sequel title game to play is based on Fast and Furious… “2 Carry 2 On”
Chris Cameron
2024-12-17 18:54:06 +0000 UTCBut is ‘Carry On’ a Christmas movie?
Graham
2024-12-17 18:12:24 +0000 UTCDisappointed no one took the opportunity to use “the titular carry-on”. Thought Dave would be all over that.
mepotts
2024-12-17 18:05:41 +0000 UTCsigh... can't escape DFADs even in my podcast consumption... (jk you know I love you guys!)
Harish Narayanan
2024-12-17 17:51:19 +0000 UTCIt’s fixed!
Shaun Colón
2024-12-17 17:36:05 +0000 UTCWas excited to hear Jeff and Devendra absolutely crap on Kraven - I wonder what happened, David must’ve uploaded something wrong
AJ Karim
2024-12-17 17:27:07 +0000 UTCIt's all funkopops now
Luke Johnson
2024-12-17 17:22:33 +0000 UTCCame here to say this too. Last weeks Afterdark for me
Shaun Colón
2024-12-17 17:10:03 +0000 UTCI dunno what you guys are talking about, it works fine for me? Nah just kidding
Cameron Stewart
2024-12-17 17:07:52 +0000 UTCUh oh spaghetti oh!
Calvin Jones
2024-12-17 17:06:18 +0000 UTCThis is the after dark lol
Foxhound
2024-12-17 17:04:40 +0000 UTCThis is last week's after dark FYI.
Paul Landriau
2024-12-17 17:03:30 +0000 UTCOops, this file is last week’s after dark!
Mitch Ringenberg
2024-12-17 17:02:38 +0000 UTC
