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9ES315: Dysfunctional Insanity

by jorn on July 25, 2024 at 9:25 pm

Honestly all of the news surrounding the 2024 election cycle is equal parts exhausting and terrifying.

The pop-culture movie nerd in me kind of feels like in the trilogy of Trump running for president, the 2024 election is where the series is really going off the rails. It’s kind of like the Fast and the Furious, where so much crazy shit has gone down in the first two outings that they’re stuck sending characters into space at a certain point.

Is that where we’re headed? Are the presidential nominees going to fly into space in their cars? Would it really be that surprising if that happened?

Now that I’ve written about the 2024 election a little in this blurb maybe this episode will get censored by the algorithm. True story, if you do a Google search for “Kamala Harris” (at least here in Canada) you will see “Some results may have been delisted consistent with local laws.” at the bottom of the page. That’s a little weird, right?

Anyways, we talk a bunch about nerdy shit and movies and the Fantasia International Film Festival for the second half so if all this political stuff gets to you just move right along to the part where we start talking about Deadpool & Wolverine.

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time… Jon watched Batman Returns and that gets us all uppity about which of the first 4 Batman movies is the best. The answers may shock you! Also somehow Jono hasn’t watched “The Batman” yet so he should really get on that. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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└ Tags: best podcast montreal, biden drops out, fantasia festival, fantasia festival montreal, montreal geek, montreal geek podcast, podcast montreal, the flash, trump shooting

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9ES314: Also Never Reviewed On RT

by jorn on July 12, 2024 at 11:04 pm

Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

What can we say about Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars that hasn’t already been said? Apparently a whole lot.

Avengers of Justice literally does not have any ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. I am pretty sure that means it doesn’t actually exist.

It’s possible that we’ve all had a collective fever dream and somehow it manifested Avengers of Justice.

I can’t even find any news articles or anything about it beyond the casting announcement. The guy who produced it (Shaun Sanghani) seems to have produced legitimate films (you will notice on that list that Avengers of Justice doesn’t have its own Wikipedia page). Why did he produce this?

How did they get genuine actors to star in this? Steve Rannazzisi and Amy Smart are real actors you’ve seen in real films and television shows! We may never know how this got made, but Scott watched it so there’s that.

We close off the back half of the show by talking about a quote that I believe originated in this article.

“Software developers are the wizards and shamans of the modern age. We ought to use our powers with the austerity and integrity such power implies.”

How do you feel about that statement? Well, we will tell you how we feel about in this episode.

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time… by some happy accident both Scott and Keith watched Total Recall in the last two weeks and Jon has watched it pretty recently. So this episode of Garbage Time is really mostly about Total Recall. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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└ Tags: avengers of justice, avengers of justice farce wars, best podcast montreal, montreal geek, montreal geek podcast, podcast montreal, software engineering hippocratic oath, software engineers, the flash

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9ES 291: The Sexiest Men Alive

by keith on August 10, 2023 at 6:19 am

Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal geek and pop culture podcast that is definitely hosted by the Sexiest Men Alive returns to talk about Last One Laughing, that Flash movie, John Wick 4, Taskmaster and more.

Seriously though – Nick Nolte was once considered to be The Sexiest Man Alive. There’s something very strange about that list that People magazine does, and not just because they once thought Nick Nolte was the winner. If you’re the sexiest man alive, and then the next year you are not dead – how did you lose the title? Are we to believe that each consecutive year the newly crowned man is even sexier than the previous year? If so, are we approaching some kind of nexus level sexiness that might end the world? And what about those men who have held the title for more than one year? Did they stop being sexy for a while and then regain their sexiness?

This is a very serious train of thought you guys.

Meanwhile, Scott saw The Flash so you don’t have to.

Over on Garbage Time we take a look at Montreal wrestler Lufisto’s account of the backstage situation at AEW and Scott and I talk about the various festivals we went to last weekend. He was at the Highland Games and I was at Osheaga. Only one of us ended up in the medical tent but you will have to subscribe to our Patreon to find out which one! If that sounds cool then show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time!

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└ Tags: hockey podcast, last one laughing, montreal geek, montreal geek podcast, montreal podcast, sexiest man alive people magazine, spiderverse, taskmaster, the flash

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Quick Comic Rewind: No Comics?

by scott on March 27, 2019 at 6:27 pm

Posted In: Homepage, Scott

My comic shop closed last year. I’ve spoken about that before, but it happened and I’ve not gone out to find a new one.

My kid is almost six years old now, and he’s only shown a passing interest in superheroes as a genre. He can take or leave most hero cartoons, preferring entertainment that creeps towards the supernatural than the super. Scooby-Doo, Haunted House and Ghostbusters all get frequent play in our place, while there is pushback to The Brave and the Bold and Spider-Man.

It is what it is, but the side effect of all of this is that it’s nearly the end of March I’ve not read any comic books in 2019.

I know. I think it’s weird too.

On the other hand, because of the times we live in, I am still immersed in comic book culture, through the movies and television that is constantly flooding the market. Some may worry about hero-fatigue, but I’m actually quite happy that there is enough out there that I no longer feel the need to have to support every show in the genre just to show that there is an audience for the material. If something doesn’t grab me, I can let it slide.

So former mainstays like Agents of SHIELD, Gotham and even Arrow have slipped off my radar and have been replaced by The Umbrella Academy and Titans. I’ve not seen Captain Marvel or Shazam yet, but I have adored Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

If you haven’t seen Into the Spider-Verse yet, make sure you make it next on your list. We’ve spoken about it on the podcast a few times, but I cannot stress enough how much I enjoyed this movie. It’s smart and fun and gorgeous to look at. It won the Academy Award for best-animated feature up against Pixar and Disney offerings, and it wasn’t even close. Black Panther was up for best picture, and in my eyes, Spider-Verse was a superior offering. Jake Johnson and Shameik Moore deliver top-notch performances and the supporting cast includes Nic Cage, Hailee Steinfeld, Lily Tomlin, John Mulaney, Chris Pine and Liev Schreiber all bringing their A-game. Do you know how rare it is that Keith, Jon and I all agree that a movie is great? Pretty damned rare.

I have a huge watchlist as well. I want to see season two of The Punisher, The new Doom Patrol show, the third season of Young Justice. I have Aquaman, Teen Titans Go to the Movies and I Kill Giants queued up. I am trying to catch up on The Flash. Avengers: Endgame is coming out soon, and I’m looking forward to it. I need to check out Justice League Action and the new Harley Quinn animated series. I’m sure there’s more out that that I haven’t even heard about yet that would be right up my alley, especially since DC pumps out animated straight-to-video features all the time, and with their new streaming service out in the United States, they’ll surely be looking to produce more content than ever.

It’s an embarrassment of riches for me, and I love it.

–Scott is a writer and founder at 9to5. He’s a host on The 9to5 Entertainment System and does a lot of the graphic design around these parts.

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└ Tags: comics, flash, into the spider-verse, netflix, spider-man, superheroes, the flash, titans, umbrella academy

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9to5 Entertainment System 87: Cut Everybody!

by keith on June 11, 2015 at 5:13 pm

Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

In a combo that hasn’t happened in a while, 9ES is manned by myself, Scott and Sophie this week. It’s all very exciting. Yes, we talk about Mad Max, I really think for the last time. Enjoy the show kids!