The Dive: Recent Episodes
William Moessinger
Every week roommates Will and Romel take a look at two movies that could be viewed as companion pieces.
I think this is probably the last one? Never say never!
We talk about everyone's two favorite marital action comedies. Romel solves America's marriage crisis. We end on a brand spanking new segment!
Citizen Kane holds up as one of the greatest movies of all time and still feels fresh and groundbreaking today. Mank is a very enjoyable, very gorgeous movie about the making of Kane, however suffers from the same tropes as other How-It-Got-Made biopics (The Disaster Artist, Dolemite is My Name, etc). Enjoy!
In this one we:
- Dunk on NERDS
- Discuss why I am NOT TO BE FUCKED WITH
- Mid 2000s prequel tropes
- Rob Zombie's Bad Motherfucker Heavy Weight Championshipâ„¢
- We spend like 10 minutes trying to figure out what happens at the end of Zombie's Halloween
- Then spend another 10 minutes trying to figure out what happens at the end of Batman Begins
"All of y'all out there who aren't heroin addicts, hey, you guys made it" - Romel Tamez
Mandy is the doomer meme and Midsommar is the chad/virgin meme. I get super melodramatic talking about Mandy. I don't think Christian deserves his fate at the end of Midsommar unless you're my future girlfriend reading this in which case Christian was a bad bad man who probably got off easy if you ask me!
Here's the link for the opening mural in Midsommar: https://i.redd.it/l0sa4b813up31.png
Two movies that vividly illustrate the issue with a nuclear program built on the premise of mutually assured destruction. We also discuss the future of the pod, and uh, oh yeah, apparently Chris Kyle had dirt on Hillary Clinton on his hard drive?!
AIRHORN SOUND This week brings our first guest and resident musical/movie-musical expert, AND my very own sister Taylor Klein!!! We share our thoughts La La Land & Rock of Ages. Taylor explains why she thinks there haven't been any truly great modern movie musicals, and we all wax about who we'd like to see direct a movie musical.
One of these is a cartoonish, militaristic fever dream...and the other is Starship Troopers 😎
Today on the agenda we're talking:
- Different British accents
- British spy cucks
- Yelling at teenage gamers
- Romel's views on trains
- Korean John Belushi
- Social commentary in action movies
And much more!
It's another exposé on the lyin' news media..only this time..It goes all the way TO THE TOP!
We discuss two movies that I think brilliantly illustrate the intersection of American capitalism and the news media. Romel goes OFF on Cuba and Venezuela.
It's the end of an era! PTA and Tarantino both burst on to the scene around the same time and went on to make bittersweet movies about the end (or should I say, THE DEATH) of the 60s! I said I was going to cut the part where Romel tells women to DM me and send "pictures of their hummus" but I don't know what that means so I guess I'll keep it in!
It's a time travelling Jake Gyllenhaal double feature! Romel tells a skeptical me about John Titor, one of the internet's earliest sensations! He also makes the case for a shared Gyllenhaal universe! Hold on to those tin foil hats, ♪it's the dive podcaaaaast. It's the dive podcaaaaast. Intro guitar solo.♪
In this episode of the pod Will and Romel look at two installments in the cosmic horror genre and debate which one is better (it's The Thing c'mon folks).
It's the punk episode...or should I say anti-punk? We talk about how punks are cool, until we decide they're not. Repo Man is an irreverent cult masterpiece that lightheartedly reflects the bored suburbanite adolescence punk was born out of. Green Room is a movie that made me queasy when I first saw it in theaters that only becomes even more terrifying when Romel explains why exactly it's so "of its time." Tune in to find out why!
Alright folks, let's kick this off. It's ya boys Will and Romel and uh, yeah. Pretty sure we're giving it to you raw. That's right, no script baby! On the first episode, we talk about Oliver Stone's classic war movie Platoon and Romel waxes about his love for John Travolta's From Paris With Love and its unbridled exuberance. It also manages to be more overtly jingoistic than Platoon, and that's an actual war movie! Tune in to find out why!