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Talkie Talk #148 – Year End Lists Part 1 (Video Games/Worst Movies/Best TV)

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Talkie Talk #148 - Year End Lists Part 1 (Video Games/Worst Movies/Best TV)
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For this podcast, we are wrapping up 2018 with our first set of year end lists. In this hour, we share some of our favorites, as well as some of our least favorites. Check a look at those lists below! Timestamped in case you just don’t care how many times Chris calls a game a “great little game.” Also, all lists in descending order… for suspense?

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Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.

Favorite Video Games of the Year (1:36):

  Brent
Red Dead Redemption 2
  David
#3: Paradox
#2: Timespinner
#1: Florence
  Chris
#5: Slay the Spire
#4: Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
#3: Super Smash Brothers Ultimate
#2: Into the Breach
#1: Celeste
Honorable mention to: God of War & Octopath Traveler

Worst Movies of the Year (29:48):

  David
#5: Dumplin’
#4: Super Troopers 2
#3: Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
#2: Hold the Dark
#1: The Cloverfield Paradox
  TJ
#5: The Cloverfield Paradox
#4: Fahrenheit 451
#3: A Wrinkle in Time
#2: The Meg
#1: Game Over, Man
  Chris
#5: The Rider
#4: Ibiza
#3: Fifty Shades Freed
#2: Bad Samaritan
#1: The Titan
  Brent
Solo: A Star Wars Story

Favorite TV Shows of the Year (1:01:54):

  TJ
#2: Bodyguard
#1: Maniac
  Brent
#3: Sharp Objects
#2: Haunting of Hill House
#1: Survivor: David vs. Goliath
  David
#5: Forever
#4: Succession
#3: Homecoming
#2: Killing Eve
#1: Atlanta

Stay tuned for our Top Ten Movies of the Year, dropping shortly!

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> Outro song “Extemporaneous  Birth” courtesy of Boo Reefa 

The Meg (2018)

[currently available On Demand, iTunes, Amazon Prime Rental]
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson

Sometimes movies change the way you live your life. Think about how Blair Witch Project made you refuse camping trips for a few years. Or how Alien forced you to reconsider your life as an astronaut. Hell, The Shining gave me a fear of being alone in hotel hallways. Ladies and gentleman, you can add The Meg to that list. Then cross it off, rip that tiny peace of paper from the list, burn it, use the energy from the fire to charge your remote control and watch Dam Sharks, a film about sharks that use human bodies to create dams. I have not seen Dam Sharks, and therefore can’t endorse the movie, but I can confidently say it is better than The Meg.

Jason Statham and Bingbing Li in The Meg (credit: imdb)

The Meg is about a shark. The shark is big. Huge even. It swims around killing people for a while and then it is killed. The movie, however, realizes that it’s killed the only villain it’s got, so it decides to make more megs. Three to be exact. And they all die in a series of boring ways.

Now I know what you’re saying. “TJ, this movie was supposed to be dumb. You went in expecting Carrie and are upset because you got Scary Movie.” WRONG. This movie makes Piranha look like Citizen Kane. You see, Piranha knew what it was doing. It embraced the camp. The Meg tried to take itself seriously. They tried to give you Jaws Dreyfus, but failed, and instead you got Piranha Dreyfus. Piranha Dreyfus is fine if you know you’re watching a comedy, but if he’s just randomly inserted into a drama(?) it all feels lost. There’s no good one-liners. There’s no good laughs. And honestly I don’t even see where the laughs were supposed to be.

I was looking for pictures to use for this review and came across the following fun fact on IMDB. The last quote in the quotes section is the following:

Mac: “What’s that?”

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That one sad person thought that quote was interesting. All it took was a “What’s that?” to make the guy watching The Meg think for a minute.

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