HeyJaredThe Postscript Podcast
Chris Hall and Mateo Javier Acosta revisit films of recent memory whose discourses were left unsettled—where the conversation ended with an ellipsis rather than a period.
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Super 8 (2011) Post-Watch with Dylan Smith (opens the original)
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We have returned from Ohio to discuss the alien that supposedly goes by “Coop.” Is Super 8 quietly proto-Disclosure Day? Does this movie fall apart in its third act? Why was Joe’s mom working at a steel mill? What if Sammy Fabelman was the one who filmed the train crash? All is discussed in our post-watch of Super 8!
Super 8 (2011) Pre-Watch with Dylan Smith (opens the original)
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With the release of David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, we’re taking a slight detour in our Summer of Spielberg to dive deeper into Spielberg-adjacent cinema. We are covering one of the most overt Spielberg homages of this century, J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 (2011). What constitutes a successful Amblin homage? Is J.J. Abrams as much of a hack as Film Twitter would like you to believe? Did Stranger Things re-heat this movie's nachos? Is Chris Nolan the Special K Fruit & Yogurt of filmmakers?
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Post-Watch with Owen Ward (opens the original)
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We have returned from San Diego to share our post-watch thoughts on The Lost World . Did this movie end up being more akin to Temple of Doom or Crystal Skull ? Is Roland Tembo the greatest movie name ever? What was the mysterious cut of the film Chris saw on a restaurant TV two months ago? How many times can Owen rage bait Mateo in a single ep? Listen and find out!
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Pre-Watch with Owen Ward (opens the original)
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While still one of his highest-grossing films, The Lost World has become one of the most neglected films in Steven Spielberg’s filmography. One of the few sequels he ever made, Spielberg’s Jurassic Park follow-up is an odd entry in his catalog. The original was beloved and became the highest-grossing movie of all time upon release, and nearly the entire team returned for the sequel, so where did things go wrong? Chris and Mateo are joined by Jurassic Park 1 and 3 enthusiast Owen Ward to investig
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