HeyJaredThe Movie Makeover
In The Movie-Maker Podcast, we dissect a film that we believe showed great promise and had some excellent ideas and elements, but the execution fell short of its potential.
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Batman & Robin (opens the original)
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Batman & Robin: Holy Franchise Killer! Ice puns, rubber nipples, neon Gotham, and one very disappointed Bat-family. In this episode, The Movie Makeover Podcast crew tackles 1997’s Batman & Robin —what went wrong, what still works, and how we’d rebuild this infamous superhero spectacle into the Batman movie it should have been.
The Thing (opens the original)
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Most remakes get it wrong. John Carpenter’s The Thing shows everyone else how it’s done. This episode, we flip the script and look at a remake that got it right. From Kurt Russell and the creeping paranoia to Rob Bottin’s legendary practical effects, The Thing turned a 1950s sci-fi classic into something darker, smarter, and terrifyingly unforgettable. What did Carpenter change—and is there anything we’d change back?
Lightyear (opens the original)
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What happens when Pixar takes one of its most beloved characters, removes everything we love about him, and turns him into the star of a surprisingly serious sci-fi movie? You get Lightyear . In this episode of The Movie Makeover Podcast , we go to infinity…and then straight back to the writers’ room. We break down what worked, what didn’t, why Zurg deserves better, and the bizarre question at the center of it all: Who exactly was this movie made for? Then we pitch our own makeover of Lightyear
Madame Web (opens the original)
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Madame Web can see the future. Unfortunately, she didn’t see this movie coming. In this episode, we untangle Sony’s spectacularly weird Spider-Man-adjacent disaster starring Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney. From baffling dialogue and a villain who sounds dubbed in from another movie to enough Pepsi product placement to cause a sugar coma, Madame Web needs serious help. Can we fix it? Or is this web too tangled to save? Fire up the ambulance. It’s makeover time.
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