Patron Podcast for August

Yeah i will admit i went through a Nolan phase. A lot of his movies seem to centre around a particular gimmick. Remove that gimmick and its a pretty run of the mill film. Memento, for example. If you were to watch the movie in order (instead of the jumpy backwards and forwards structure)... its a shit film lol. And The Dark Knight Rises... i don't care what anyone says. Chris and his brother looked at each other and said "should we just do A Tale of Two Cities" and then high fived each other and that was that.

Flying Buttress

lol yup, Lucifer started off in Sandman, and most of Sandman S2 will be a full on broody gods story, very much like Lucifer. Yeah its always Gaiman, I was mostly just teasing you, but I have loved Sandman for 30 years so its hard to even percieve what its like to outsiders. I'm all for brain dead viewing at least half the time. For me it seemed to be Inception that made the whole 'look its needlessly complex, therefore its clever and deep and wise and wonderful' genre, and since then there's been a new one every few weeks. I know there were some before Inception but that really seemed the watershed. Complicated can often just be tiring and boring, I agree. And Gaiman is sometimes guilty of that, for sure. But he also did Stardust :) I dunno about 'my team' stuff though, seems like many a Guardians of the Galaxy fan who thinks their team is better than the other shower of pillocks ;)

Is it always the same story with Gaiman, though? Cos... isn't that the entire premise of Lucifer as well? lol. But yeah - Marvel films kinda are like sports, I guess. Although minus the... "my team is better than your team" stuff. Or the 'man in pub refers to team as WE and acts like he personally scored the winning goal'.

Flying Buttress

Sandman was very much 'Neil Gaiman can't do a superhero story', but he can do a Gods story. Its not immediately obvious that its not about 'beat the bad guy' or 'save the day', but how a broody moody godlike is forced to change and also how he can't change. Its pretty gruesome at times but only incidentally. 5 and 6 really were the best eps though, after that did get weak. Its really deep intellectual stuff clearly reserved for the teens I guess, leaving adults to stick to the Marvel films. Those types who just want easy, lightweight, chewing gum for the eyes style films, and then spend 3 minutes over-examining one nuance of one fraction of the franchise. :P Lets face it, Marvel films are like sports. They exist to be pig-simple but allow fans (And I do mean 'men') to ramble what they'd do if they were Thanos, a gauntlet, or the off-side rule :D