The Letterboxd Show8 Maalis 2022

Four Favorites: Gemma & Slim on Pee-Wee, Austin Powers and machismo

The Letterboxd Show returns with more movie-lovin’ conversations about our four favorite films. In this season 3 premiere, hosts Gemma and Slim discuss their childhood faves: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Superman the Movie and Bloodsport. Was Christopher Reeve the most handsome human in history? How many times can Slim say “machismo” in one episode? Why does Bloodsport fall into Gemma’s female-gaze good books?

Plus: our hosts’ nanogenre personalities, journalistic ethics in action movies, the missing contours of The Batman, ’80s movie censorship, and Letterboxd Twitter poll winner Lewis on his two childhood faves (Toy Story 2, The Dark Knight).

Links:
The Letterboxd list of films mentioned in this episode

Letterboxd lists mentioned:
Best Blazin’ Films, letterboxd trans femme vibes, movies which searching their titles will result in porn, movies where the protagonist looks directly in the camera at the end, Official list of gay subtext in film, man ass, The Sequel Was Better, Movies that Have Been Meme’d to Death, Movies that destroyed me, in which I replied by saying to them love me, red flag for men white flag for women, movies which would be better if jack black played the main character, when guys turn 20, they chose one of these movies to base their entire personality on.

Reviews mentioned:
Robyn’s Pee Wee review; Austin Powers reviews by Juliet and EvilParsley; Superman by tyler, Vinny and Mark; Bloodsport by Ethan Colburn; Toy Story 2 by aaaaaa!, ksenija, Leighton; The Dark Knight by Joe Lynch.

Credits:
This episode was recorded in Auckland, Manchester and Pennsylvania, and edited by Slim. Facts by Jack. Booker: Linda Moulton. Transcript by Sophie Shin. Theme: ‘Vampiros Dancoteque’ by Moniker.

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