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3: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Jul 25, 2022

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The aliens have arrived, and so has The Nextlander Watchcast! Join Alex, Brad, and Vinny as they experience Steven Spielberg's extraterrestrial extravaganza and ponder the big questions about life, space, and what ever became of Roy Neary's poor family.

CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate in versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:15) - Intro
(00:01:24) - We're watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind!
(00:04:22) - Alex's highly controversial belief about Close Encounters, and some early impressions.
(00:10:20) - The aliens' actual motives are somewhat unclear, also some of Spielberg's best, tensest scenes.
(00:11:27) - The believability of these characters and their lives.
(00:13:51) - Vinny doesn't like the abandoning of the family.
(00:18:00) - Roy falls apart, and Teri Garr has had enough.
(00:24:16) - A sidenote about subtitles.
(00:25:22) - Back to the plot, and talking Roy's discover of what Devil's Tower is.(00:27:06) - Is Barry going to remember any of this?
(00:29:04) - Break!
(00:29:21) - We're back, and talking Roy and Jillian crashing the Devil's Tower party.(00:33:24) - Some production history, and Paul Schrader's "embarrassing" script.(00:37:08) - Back to Roy and Jillian climbing that mountain.
(00:39:25) - Daft Punk is playing at my mountain.
(00:44:32) - Talkin' ship designs and special effects.
(00:48:02) - A couple of things Vinny completely misremembered about this movie.(00:50:11) - Everybody's back and feelin' fine!
(00:55:48) - Again, what happened to Roy's family after all this?!?
(00:59:55) - Answering the most important question: would cell phones affect this story?(01:00:39) - Brad wants to effects nerd it one more time, and how the film feels today in 2022.
(01:03:21) - Is this the greatest movie we have ever seen (on this podcast)?
(01:05:41) - Rapid fire question time!
(01:11:47) - Outro

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2: Star Trek: The Man Trap and Charlie X Jul 18, 2022

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It's time for the Nextlander gang to begin their five year (if they're lucky) journey into their first series rewatch in Star Trek: The Original Series. We kick things off with a pair of episodes about lonely beings with terrifying powers.

CHAPTERS

(00:00:37) - Intro

(00:01:40) - Our histories with Star Trek

(00:03:35) - Why we opted not to watch The Cage as of yet, and some early history of the series.

(00:07:28) - The series' progressive bonafides, and some lore history.

(00:12:58) - Launching into The Man Trap.

(00:16:41) - The perception of James T. Kirk.

(00:19:55) - The Man Trap's monster of the week.

(00:24:40) - Janice Rand deserves better.

(00:25:29) - Back to the salty monster, and some Federation lore discussion.

(00:28:46) - It's like Mad Men in space (derogatory)!

(00:31:17) - The hand plant (and a shithead puppeteer).

(00:32:36) - Vulcan blood, bulky communicators, and the original bridge design.

(00:36:31) - Wrapping up The Man Trap.

(00:38:00) - Spock and Uhura.

(00:41:51) - Not a great first go at first contact!

(00:43:53) - Break!

(00:44:07) - Onto Charlie X

(00:45:46) - Thasians? Thasians!

(00:47:50) - A couple of early Vinny observations.

(00:50:03) - Charlie was bad, even as a child everyone could tell.

(00:52:03) - This ship needs an HR department, and nobody wants to be Charlie's father figure.

(00:54:12) - You really suck at this parental guidance thing, Kirk!

(00:55:48) - A legendary scene (no, not that one, the other one).

(00:58:29) - And now for the OTHER legendary scene.

(01:02:30) - Things escalate quickly.

(01:06:02) - How the hell does this sensory overload trick even work?

(01:07:18) - And heeeereeeee coooooome the Thaaaaaaasians!

(01:10:18) - Are the Thasians like a Q?

(01:13:16) - This was a dark one! Sometimes Star Trek throws dark.

(01:14:58) - How's Vinny feeling after these first two episodes?

(01:17:10) - Outro

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1: JAWS (1975) Jul 10, 2022

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Alex, Brad, and Vinny have begun their journey into the wild world of media you watch instead of playing, and we're kicking things off with one of Brad's blockbuster blindspots in Steven Spielberg's JAWS!

CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate in versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:38) - Intro
(00:03:38) - It's JAWS!
(00:06:23) - Brad's historical factoid, and Vinny's first time with JAWS.
(00:09:26) - A little bit about the novel.
(00:10:06) - The invention of the modern blockbuster, and some trivia.
(00:14:22) - Vinny thought that opening scene was gonna be goofier.
(00:17:40) - Brad's initial impressions, talkin' about the first half and the main characters.
(00:21:27) - The politics of JAWS.
(00:23:20) - How many people does JAWS kill?
(00:25:15) - A few more things about that first half of the movie.
(00:32:15) - A couple of Vinny's favorite lines.
(00:34:01) - The undoing of Roy Scheider.
(00:36:17) - The tiger shark red herring.
(00:37:54) - Break!
(00:38:13) - We're back and talking the killer second half.
(00:42:12) - Just guys being dudes out on the water.
(00:47:02) - The horror of the shark.
(00:47:53) - It all goes to hell.
(00:51:09) - Brad didn't know how the shark gets got.
(00:54:00) - A couple of bits Vinny wanted to touch on from earlier and the ending.
(00:59:17) - If you made JAWS today.
(01:00:20) - Is JAWS still a classic?
(01:02:33) - Vinny asks the most important question.
(01:06:18) - Bold statements are made!
(01:07:40) - Will JAWS ever be remade?
(01:08:37) - Brad's final critical opinion.
(01:11:24) - Taking us out!

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