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Mark's Movies

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Join Mark D, amateur movie fan, on a journey through his not insignificant movie collection. Mark thought that he could just have a lot of movies until *record scratch* one day it all changed. BWAAAAAAHHHHH No it's not about trailers. I legitimately didn't know what to put here. Let's talk about movies. markd20 on Letterboxd!
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Mark's Movies - Tango & Cash

Tango & Cash

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07/27/21 • 25 min

1989 saw Stallone and Russell team up as Tango & Cash. Let's talk about this movie as there is a lot of hidden depth here. Sounds intriguing, yes? That's how I get you. Description bait.

If you want the link for the Kevin Smith video I mention it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2KB1dEDdk

@coolmarkd on Twitter (best way to reach me) MarkD20 on Letterboxd

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Mark's Movies - The Mel Brooks Collection: A Retrospective
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09/18/20 • 32 min

Hey, everyone! In this episode I rank things! That's what people like, right? Rankings? Well, I do that here. This is also the Season 2 finale. I didn't really think about that until now but that's what it is. So there you have it. Season 3 coming at some point.

Thanks for listening

@coolmarkd on Twitter @markd20 on Letterboxd

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Mark's Movies - Gone In 60 Seconds (1974)
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02/03/19 • 46 min

If you ever wanted to watch a movie about stealing cars and running from the cops you probably came across GISS '74. You probably didn't learn a whole lot about stealing cars or running from the police but you may have realized that you came across the inspiration for Need For Speed:Most Wanted and countless of other movies.

Meet Eleanor and check out this crazy indie film for free on Amazon Prime and go ahead and listen to the episode. This isn't an affiliate link--I'm just trying to make it convenient for you to follow along. That's why I release on Sundays, you know. Give you a chance to watch the movie.

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Mark's Movies - Two-Lane Blacktop

Two-Lane Blacktop

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05/15/20 • 95 min

"Let's make it fifty" is a phrase that screen writer Rudy Wurlitzer, billed as Hot Rod, says right before he gets one-upped and gets his ass handed to him by James Taylor's The Driver and Dennis Wilson's The Mechanic when he races against The Car in Monte Hellman's iconic 1971 art-house road movie Two-Lane Blacktop.

This is a hell of a movie and most obnoxious film fanatics, yours included, have seen it and somewhat studied it. I came about it a little more organically, through the car angle. I had friends that were almost just like The Driver and The Mechanic in my life. This movie isn't really a documentary however.

Internet Car Movie Database link http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=67893 So let's get the car stuff out of the way. I'm deeply in love with this car and like Three-Six Mafia I'm about Ridin in the Chevy. That's definitely one hook. But looking under the hood, pun very much intended, this movie is much deeper than just a road race. The characters are archetypal, maybe. Various aspects of screen writer Rudy Wurlitzer and directory Monte Hellman, perhaps. The circumstances are allegorical--a tension between Warren Oates' character GTO and the Driver/Mechanic team. I very strongly suggest watching this movie and, if possible, watching the Criterion version which does have a 5.1 mix that doesn't sound half bad. It's a good transfer but it doesn't seem to be terribly high res due to the Techniscope ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techniscope ) cameras it was filmed on but it does provide massive panoramas of America to set this story up against.

Stick around and I'll talk at ya a while about this movie in an underproduced podcast because I'm a barely functional human being. As always @coolmarkd on Twitter markd20 on Letterboxd

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Mark's Movies - High Anxiety

High Anxiety

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08/24/20 • 15 min

Let's check out Mel Brook's take on a spoof of a riff on a Hitchcock paranoia thriller. It was definitely A Choice.

@coolmarkd on Twitter. @markd20 on Letterboxd.

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Mark's Movies - Bonus April 28th

Bonus April 28th

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04/29/19 • 9 min

It's been wild. It's been nuts. It's been crazy. It's been insane. Mark is guesting on Play Comics (playcomics.com) TODAY the 28 of April 2019. Timecop. Jean Claude Van Damme. The Muscles from Brussels. Check it out.

It hasn't been awful, though, but this episode originally was. I cut about 75% of it down to what you'll hear here but this is ultimately just a setup for Chinatown. Definitely watch Chinatown if you haven't already. Any discussion is a spoiler.

As always you can tweet @coolmarkd

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Rip and tear with the Doom-inspired remake of the Doom-inspiring original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That stuff about Doom? I made it up. Seems legit, though, right? There's definitely some corrections and things I want to make so I'll make there here. Also, some weird stuff going on so there may be a couple of sound issues. Not sure what that's about just yet but I'll be working those out as I go.

  1. Something good The feeling of absolute isolation and a fucked up backwater ass Texas town does work. That type of thing scares the shit out of me. I went to Alaska and that was singularly one of the most remote locations I've ever been to and driving out to see a glacier was terrifying. It was like this movie in some ways but with the addition of the terrain actively being antagonistic and posted signs warning of such antagonism.
  2. The editor on the movie was Glen Scantlebury. He was the editor on Dracula ('92), Con Air (this movie makes me laugh every time it's mentioned), and Transformers among other things. Think about that. I didn't even find his name and I was like "this is some Transformers-ass shit". He's done a bunch of other stuff, too.
  3. The screenwriter was Scott Kosar. I just couldn't come up with his name. This was his first movie iirc and I'm not trying to shit-talk him I just didn't love the majority of the screenplay and can imagine that there was a lot of "influence" from a certain someone. He was a writer on The Haunting of Hill House which I really liked and really lives in the "horror" space having written on Bates Motel and The Machinist and Amityville Horror ('05) among others.
  4. There are some gnarly practical effects in this movie and I would have loved to have seen some special features on them but I have the Blockbuster rental-version of the movie so it's just the movie disc--no special features at all.
  5. I'm sure there's something else I forgot to talk about.

As always, @coolmarkd on Twitter. Mard20 on Letterboxd.

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Mark's Movies - Season 5 Update

Season 5 Update

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07/30/24 • 10 min

Quick update on Season 5 which is.... a year overdue.

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Mark's Movies - Marnie

Marnie

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07/07/21 • 39 min

Sometimes you're looking for the heat but you get the breaking ball. This was one of those times. Marnie was not what I expected and this episode travels down some roads that may be upsetting to some people. Sometimes The Greats aren't all that great. Sometimes they just don't show up. It can be attributed to a variety of things, both personal and/or professional. Creative or practical. You name it. We can never truly know the people we look up to. New microphone, who dis? I don't think I'll keep using it long term but I'm also still in the feeling it out phase.

The difference between suspecting and knowing is... wide. It's a gulf. I'm not going to lie--I'm still mulling over what I'd learned for this one. So the first impulse might be "yeah there's all these people coming out with stories now" but, to put that into perspective, many of those instances happened years ago and, furthermore, it has been happening for years longer than that. It's not a "right now" or "trend" thing--that is just the public become aware of it at scale. But it has happened. In isolation. Or not in isolation but under the shroud of a "powerful director" who could and would (and did) ruin a career if denied or crossed. It's happened for years. To all types of people. So many people knew and many probably weren't quiet about it but nothing was done. At most the people talking about it were threatened into silence. Maybe that's how you get "open secrets".

It's really telling that there are people who are distinctly not like this. There's a wide gamut as to how people are treated and it's explored in this really great video by Maggie Mae Fish (who is super great you should watch her stuff). But that's always been one thing that I did think to be true for some time--that art and genius is suffering and causes suffering. I don't know that this specific situation is that more than it's the inverse--a man trying to live out his dreams through movies while also trying to live out his dreams with the cast of said movies--but it deserves to be examined.

@coolmarkd on Twitter MarkD20 on Letterboxd

And what the fuck is a "sex mystery" anyway? The fuck outta here with that shit.

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Mark's Movies - Silent Movie

Silent Movie

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08/22/20 • 21 min

It's not a description, it's the title of Mel Brook's 1976 film which is, more or less, a silent movie. Perhaps is was a case of creative stagnation. Or perhaps it was a case of creative excellence manifested in will imposing it's untamed and dark desires upon a major motion picture production. Stay a while and listen. Not forever, though. This one is short.

@coolmarkd on twitter. @markd20 on letterboxd.

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How many episodes does Mark's Movies have?

Mark's Movies currently has 81 episodes available.

What topics does Mark's Movies cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Arts, Tv & Film and Performing Arts.

What is the most popular episode on Mark's Movies?

The episode title 'Tango & Cash' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Mark's Movies?

The average episode length on Mark's Movies is 43 minutes.

How often are episodes of Mark's Movies released?

Episodes of Mark's Movies are typically released every 9 days, 22 hours.

When was the first episode of Mark's Movies?

The first episode of Mark's Movies was released on Aug 6, 2018.

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