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**Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b**

The good news: The internet has made it easier than ever to watch, read, play, or listen to just about anything ever made. The bad news: Same. It’s easy to get buried, even for two of the biggest pop culture geeks we know: Ourselves. Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b is what happens when we try to make each other — and everyone who wants to listen along — discover the good stuff. Join us! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) May 01, 2015

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Topic: Four Weddings and a Funeral

Geek: Emily

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This Week: Four Weddings and a Funeral Apr 28, 2015

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Hello again, fearless listeners, and sorry for the slight delay on this week's podcasting!

For our latest episode, Eric ventures into territory he's not super into while Emily gushes endlessly about Hugh Grant. Have you guessed it yet?

It's Four Weddings and a Funeral! This is also known as the best Hugh Grant movie of the very Hugh Grant-heavy 90s (disagree? I'll fight you.) And yes, sure, Andie McDowell is also in it, so huzzah for her if that's your thing.

In any case, you have no excuse not to watch this film, because it's a. delightful and b. now on Netflix. If you'd prefer, you can also find it on Amazon. So that's helpful.

Enjoy, and see you in a couple days for the full episode!

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The Cabin in the Woods (2012) Apr 22, 2015

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Topic: The Cabin in the Woods

Geek: Eric

Believe it or not, that title doesn't refer to yours truly. At least not in this context.

To understand what it does refer to, please go watch The Cabin in the Woods before listening to this episode. We will spoil everything about it!

I saw this movie in theaters right after it came out in 2012, and loved it so much that I went back three days later. I enjoyed Cabin in the Woods even more on another viewing, but that second trip left me fuming mad.

(Rant incoming!)

After the movie, I eagerly asked the person sitting next to me what they had thought. They had to have loved it, right?

"I mean, it was good, but I'm not sure if it was 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes good," this person said.

Why does this make me so mad? Because, and a lot of people don't realize this, that 93 percent is not a grade for the movie. It's the percentage of reviewers surveyed by Rotten Tomatoes who were "fresh" rather than "rotten" on it. It's how many people said "yes," not an average of their total grades.

For weird films like this one, in particular, I hate when people bring a lot of mental baggage into the theater with them. It's one thing to check a reviews site (or a review aggregator) to figure out whether you want to see something, but fixating on whether that movie deserved a certain score, or if that video game deserved a certain grade -- that sort of thing drives me up the wall. All that matters is what you thought of it.

(Rant over.)

So, see the movie, listen to Emily and I chat about it and maybe drop us a line at geekvsn00b at gmail dot com, to let us know what you thought!

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This Week: The Cabin in the Woods Apr 20, 2015

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Also, don't watch the trailer for this week's movie, The Cabin in the Woods. It's super-spoilery and we strongly recommend going in to this 2012 horror flick cold, knowing as little as possible about it.

That said, if you're anything like us you may care to know that it shares some creative DNA with Buffy the Vampire slayer; it was written by Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon, and directed by Goddard. For fans of the Whedonverse, there's also more than a few actors you'll recognize.

Here's where you can find The Cabin in the Woods online. Make sure to watch it before listening to the episode that comes out on Wednesday, because we will spoil everything.

See you on Wednesday!

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The Sopranos (1999) Apr 15, 2015

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Topic: The Sopranos

Geek: Emily

Oh, the Sopranos. We (here defined as "the TV-obsessed population of the internet) are so caught up in the last set of Mad Men episodes at the moment, or the latest season of House of Cards, or how Breaking Bad ended, or whatever prestige show we're focusing on at the moment. It's easy to forget how much we used to focus all this energy on this one amazing show about the modern-day mafia in North Jersey.

Or maybe - if this week's hubbub about that infamous final scene is any indication - we don't forget at all; we're just waiting for it to come up again.

Anyway, I'm being melodramatic when the real point is: this was a damn great show. And Eric's relative ignorance about it is as good an excuse as any to revisit why.

The Sopranos was extremely present in my life well before I started watching it, because it was EVERYWHERE. But I didn't have HBO, so it was one of those things where you hear someone talk in great detail on Fresh Air about a club you're not a part of and you, yet again, wish you were as cool as Terry Gross and her brilliant guest and all the other listeners.

Then one time I was on vacation with my family, and the hotel DID have HBO, and we saw a rerun of the season five episode where Tony gets Finn a construction job and he sees...things happen no one was expecting to see (you know the things and you know the one - Unidentified Black Males). WE WERE HOOKED.

Thus began what must have been my first-ever bingewatch: in the three- and four-episode sprees allowed by Netflix DVDs, working around the insane schedules of two working adults and two over-committed high school kids trying hard to get into college, my family blazed through all of that glorious show.

Guys, it's so much easier to watch the whole thing now. We should all just do so immediately.

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This Week: The Sopranos Apr 14, 2015

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All right, all right, so that's from The Godfather. But they idolize those movies SO MUCH on this show that it makes it ok to use the world's most overused mafia cliche, right?

Right.

So in case you haven't gotten this, we're watching The Sopranos this week. Specifically, we're watching Season 1 - Episodes 1, 2, and 5. It's ok, you can start nodding along with the theme song...now.

For the somehow uninitiated (do you exist?), this HBO series starring James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, and basically anyone who's ever been in a mobster movie before or since premiered in 1999 and is widely credited with ushering in our current Golden Age of Television. Tony Soprano is also the TV antihero that spawned a million successors and imitators.

So get watching, or Paulie might come visit you.*

Where to find it:

*No one involved in this podcast is "connected" in any way and we are not actually threatening you. Geez.

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In the Loop (2009) Apr 08, 2015

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Topic: In The Loop

Geek: Eric

I went back and forth on whether or not to star-star-out the swears in that title, but I don't want to risk getting in trouble with iTunes. So, here we are: You win, Linton Barwick.

If you don't know that name or what it has to do with censoring swears, you should go watch In The Loop. That's the topic of this week's podcast discussion, and we do spoil several of the best jokes!

OK, enough nagging. Hat tip to the /Filmcast (which is an excellent podcast, by the by) for introducing me to this film back in 2009. I went into the theater not quite knowing what to expect and walked out with a new favorite political satire.

Any Kubrick fans reading this might be wondering after that last sentence if I've never seen Dr. Strangelove. Don't worry, I have, and I really enjoyed it. But movies like it and In the Loop are always more powerful when their audience has lived through the events they send up, and by the time I entered preschool the USSR had been dissolved.

To share what you thought of In The Loop, email us at geekvsn00b@gmail.com. And don't forget that it only costs $2 per month to support this podcast via a pledge at Patreon.com. Starting at $5 per month, you'll also get access to Patreon-exclusive mini-episodes; this week's minisode, which comes out on Friday, is about bizarro genre-flipping twists on our favorite pop culture.

See you next week!

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This Week: In the Loop Apr 06, 2015

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Although this podcast is rated "explicit" for our occasional swearing, most of what we watch here on Giant Geek vs. Mega n00b is relatively all-ages-appropriate. This week's movie, In The Loop, is very not family friendly, and gloriously so.

In The Loop has no nudity or violence (sorry), but achieves that "glorious" label entirely through words. To see what I mean, you really should watch the movie before you listen to our discussion, which comes out on Wednesday.

Here's how to find it:

Netflix - Streaming
Amazon (Digital) - Rent for $3-4 or Buy for $6-10
Amazon (Disc) - DVD for $5 or Blu-Ray for $12
iTunes - Rent for $3 or Buy for $6
Google - Rent for $3 or Buy for $10

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The Bourne Identity (2002) Apr 02, 2015

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Topic: The Bourne Identity

Geek: Emily

What can I even tell you about the Bourne Identity? As I’ve said 1,000 times if I’ve said it once, what’s remarkable here isn’t that I think these movies are great; it’s that Eric has somehow avoided seeing them. They’re so ubiquitous. Seriously, turn on your TV. If you have cable, one of these movies is probablyplaying somewhere. They always are.

I think I saw all of them when they came out or shortly thereafter, and obviously immediately loved them – how could you not? They’re just so well-done, so engrossing, so AWESOME. For more of my gushing – and my one quibble with the franchise – just listen, already!

The only thing I’ll add, since our discussion is mostly limited to the first film, is that I love how strong this trilogy is. The sequels don’t feel like action movie sequels, churned out to capitalize on the first one’s success but quickly becoming shells – or mockeries – of what made the original great. They’re all excellent. They all work.Jason Bourne is the coolest, guys.

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This Week: The Bourne Identity Mar 31, 2015

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