351. Frame Rate - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Feat. Sarah Griffith)
Added 2021-01-19 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
Oh, behave. Sarah has joined the boys to discuss the 1997 Michael Myers film and its cultural impact on the United States, baby. Does it hold up after 24 years? Is it as horny as we all remember? Abe ruins the mood by bringing up the history of satirical espionage films.
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Sarah Griffith: https://twitter.com/sk_griffith
Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty
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Comments
Great pod as always, but also, I would absolutely listen to a Star Wars podcast with Sarah and Bridgett, that sounds delightful.
Zac Schwartz
2021-01-24 23:30:07 +0000 UTCWhat if you did a podcast series going through every A24 film (or every Neon film, basically going through an indie/art-house distributor's catalogue). All A24 films - after a certain initial window - are available on Kanopy, a streaming service that a lot of libraries have an agreement with to provide free subscriptions.
Patrick Sullivan
2021-01-22 19:33:50 +0000 UTCI saw the first two Austin Powers movies back-to-back at my friend's 12th birthday party. I remember finding it very funny - but also being scandalized and aroused by the hot tub scene.
Patrick Sullivan
2021-01-22 19:21:41 +0000 UTCI could listen to the three of you talk shop about movies and the ins and outs of them forever. Always enlightening to hear how things that would otherwise go unnoticed explained so throughly and profoundly.
frankleeamish
2021-01-22 02:58:53 +0000 UTCI too saw this terribly quotable movie at way too young an age. At the time, l had only a vague, fuzzy concept of what sex was or entailed. So you can imagine the look on my friend’s mom’s face when I asked her “Do l make you ~horny~?”
Mat Brady
2021-01-20 16:08:27 +0000 UTCAnd see, when I first watched The Spy Who Shagged me at age 13 I was so upset that they wrote off Elizabeth Hurley as being a Fembot because they had given her so much backstory. I actually really liked her at that point, and I’d rather have seen the typical sequel trope of a character just explaining her away as “she chose her career” or “Austin couldn’t be the 90s man she needed” or “she ‘literally anything other than she’s a killer robot all of the sudden.’”
Drew Mancini
2021-01-20 03:17:14 +0000 UTCI didn't wanna hold up the proceedings to sort it out, but I figured it out later. I was upset upon watching Goldeneye and seeing James end up with Natalya after I had thought he and Wai Lin were "in true love" at the end of Tomorrow Never Dies.
Small Beans
2021-01-20 02:43:21 +0000 UTCWas anybody else bothered at Swaim’s claim that James Bond’s wife (Diana Rigg as Tracy) dies at the BEGINNING of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service? I’ve seen that movie a lot, Bond gets married at the end, and the scene that immediately follows is when she gets gunned down by Blofeld. They meet, he goes on his mission, he bangs a bunch of women, she’s reintroduced to the story, they win, they get married, she gets killed, credits. I just found Swaim’s story confusing. Sarah’s an amazing guest, I love Cast & the Curious. I’m all over all the Beans. Great episode.
Drew Mancini
2021-01-19 22:09:38 +0000 UTC
