Welp, the blog is back, now this time doing a companion post for each podcast episode. And let's be real, the guests aren't looking at these, so I can say whatever I want about them.
Dylan and Kate haven't seen THAT many Irish movies, it was wrong for them to yell at me for so long about it. You guys get it.
Part of what I'd like to do with the podcast is get some sort of feedback not just on podcast episodes, but just in general with movies that you liked (particularly from new parts of the world for you), experiences you've had with film while traveling, or if you live outside the U.S., I would LOVE to know about movies you feel really capture your community.
I'll go first:
I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and the best recent Atlanta movie is Triple 9 (the second is the Superfly remake). There's something to how sweaty everyone is, plus they nailed the parts of the city that all these characters would be in. I got very excited when the movie opened with characters sitting in a van under the street, because a LOT of downtown Atlanta is actually built like 30 feet above the ground, so there's like a giant crawlspace underneath the city that trains and industrial stuff use (this is my understanding of what they use it for- I could be very wrong but it FEELS right). It got all the little things right, as opposed to Baby Driver, a movie that actively infuriated me by constantly getting little things about Atlanta wrong. You can't have a car chase in Dunwoody. Nothing exciting would ever happen in Dunwoody.
The reason I want to do this podcast is because I really love a handful of things: film, history, travel, comedy and learning about other cultures. I am a history major, I do comedy in New York, I've been to Spain TWICE- this is the stuff I'm really into and I want to combine it all into one gigantic, unwieldy mess that no one is asking for and only I like.
This companion blog has already gone off the rails, but it's okay, I'm easing my way back into it. The point is, my favorite thing about the world is that there is so much more out there than could ever fit in a lifetime. Which means that from today till the day I die, I can learn new things about people. And that's all I want to do. And this podcast is an excuse to do it. Thanks for tolerating listening to me do that, I promise I'll never make you watch Full Metal Jacket.