T3 94: Top 10 Most Annoying Movie Franchises

As we established last week, right now we’re in film’s age of the franchise. Depending on who you ask that could have started as far back as the late seventies or as recently as the advent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the serialization of cinema. Previously, we focused on the positive aspects of that – the franchises that grew and delivered sequels better than their originals or became as a whole greater than any one movie. Now we turn our gaze to the shadows. The dark side of franchise filmmaking is seriously disturbing, so come with us now, as we enter the month of October, on this terrifying ride.

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T3 93: Top 10 Movie Franchises

Can you feel it in the air, when the music’s playing? People everywhere are saying franchises, franchises. This year was and will go on to be one of the biggest franchise years ever, with Jurassic World making all the money, Marvel putting out a hit and a half, Terminator, Mad Max, and a million other things. But which movie franchises are the best? No one knows, but here are our favorites, in on nice 2 hour conversation.

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Pitching Tents 13: College (Featuring Paul Otteni!)

Soon summer will be over. The college kids will return to their campuses, after PAX and Bumbershoot we won’t have big events to worry about, the children will spend their days in schools. Oh, and it will stop being hot and sunny. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Join us this week on Pitching Tents as we celebrate the fact that a lot of people’s lives are changing right now, but our’s sure as hell aren’t.

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T3 92: Summer Songs

Hot damn! I can’t believe we are already the amount of days into August we are when this was posted! It’s basically back-to-school time already. But don’t fret, old buddy, there’s still some summer left. Let’s not treat it like one long Sunday and instead try to have some actual fun. Yeah! And you know what’s fun, don’t you? Talking about mostly old music and then trying to put it into a ranked list as if it really means something. That’s right, it may be summer but we certainly aren’t on break here at Top Ten Thursdays!

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T3 91: Atari Games

First Pixels, now the Fantastic Four… Man, it’s been a bad few weeks for movies that sound like a bad idea. Hey, speaking of Pixels, that was a movie about video games. You know who likes video games? We do, to varying degrees. You know what would be fun is if we did a podcast about video games that are like super old. Like, our dads played them in college old. That would be fun and a good idea and not totally out of our depth. So check out our top 2600-era Atari games right now!

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Pitching Tents 12: Super Heroes

Something I heard about Age of Ultron that I liked was that Joss Whedon had done a great job putting the “hero” back in “super hero.” That’s referring to how the Avengers actually spent their time trying to save people, instead of just trying to stop bad guys. That’s what makes these characters great, right? They don’t just use their powers to do sweet stunts and beat people up, they make a positive difference in society. Well, don’t expect a lot of that type of thought this week on Pitching Tents, in which we come up with out own ideas for super hero movies. Hey, this is the hardest topic we’ve tackled yet, check it out.

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