Argo F#@k Yourself

Some Kind of Movie – Ep 1: Argo F#@k Yourself

I wanted to try something different with movie reviews here at Mildly Pleased. So here’s a podcast review I like to call “Some Kind of Movie.” You know, like Some Kind of Monster, but with more Ben Affleck. I am joined by my friend and fellow film aficionado Michael Sevigny. This week were talking about the latest political-thriller Argo from actor-director Ben Affleck. We’ll also be talking about Oscar gold, other Ben Affleck roles, and why David O. Russell is insane. Were still finding our footing with the format of this segment, but I think it’s nice change of pace from written reviews. The podcast runs about 30 minutes. Enjoy it or Argo F#&k yourself.

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T3 36: Top 10 Horror Movies

Are you prepared for a creeping, unsettling feeling? A feeling that leads you down a dark hallway of dread ending in a terror so sublime you’ll believe everything that is right and good in the world has been ripped away from you? Well, you’re going to have to get your fix somewhere else, weirdo. We generally keep things pretty light here at Top Ten Thursdays. Sure, this week you can expect a casual reference to the indiscretions of Catholic priests, but things aren’t going to be that far from the usual. We’re just talking about the greatest horror movies of all time, or at least our favorites. If nothing else, consider this a list of suggestions for your Hallow’s Eve.

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T3 35: Top 10 Concept Albums

Happy birthday, original Nintendo Entertainment System! At least, we think so. It’s actually kind of hard to pinpoint exactly when the console came out. But, actually, that’s not what we’re talking about. That would be concept albums, in honor of an album that comes out on Tuesday that we’re all so excited about we can’t remember what it’s called. You know, the new Titus Andronicus record. So we got to talking and decide we should focus on concept albums. You know, albums about something. Unlike this paragraph.

Listen, then look at this list after the break. If you’re taking diligent notes, your version of the list should match ours!

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T3 34: Top 10 Fictional Athletes

If we were going to post an episode late, you’d think it would have been last week’s show. Then I could have made jokes about how it traveled in time, which, while nothing’s coming to mind right now, I’m sure would have been fully amusing. But instead we’re a day late this week, meaning the best I’ve got is… Overtime? Here’s a buzzer-beater that didn’t beat the buzzer, our top 10 fictional athletes. Because, you know, the baseball season’s over, the NFL referee strike’s over, all sorts of stuff.

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T3 33: Top 10 Time Travel Movies

Do you believe in destiny? Were you fated to read this podcast description or did you truly arrive here of your own free will? If you could, would you go back and change your decision to be here? Would you change it all? Would you believe we found a way to talk about Back to the Future again? If Bruce Willis traveled back in time, and you were Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Bruce Willis said, “you grow up to be me,” wouldn’t you be pretty damn psyched about the rest of your life? If there’s anything I learned from the G.I. Joe 2 trailer, it’s that Bruce Willis is the coolest old man.

Top 10 time travel movies after the break, but you already knew that, didn’t you?

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Good Movie/Bad Movie: Drilling

And now for something completely different. With half of us scattering across the country, it seemed difficult and impractical to put together a whole show this week. But we didn’t want to leave you good people without anything this week, so we put together a special little show. With P.T. Anderson’s new film The Master out this week, we wanted an excuse to take a look back at the director’s last work: There Will Be Blood. So we watched it and invented a new feature were we compare two movies that have something in common to determine which one is the good movie, and which one the bad. This first time, it’s not really a shocker, as the other film is 2003’s The Core, which… I don’t want to write anything about The Core. Just listen.

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T3 32: Top 10 Mancrushes

The ultimate test of a man’s masculinity is defying everything it stands for and being able to live with yourself afterward. That’s the test we subjected ourselves to this week on T3, as we turned from our typical Tucker Maxian ways and admitted our mancrushes. You know, those men who we admire and respect and maybe care about just a little too much. What? It’s not a big deal! We’re just really comfortable with our sexualities. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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