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Ep. 722 - Beau Is Afraid
🕑 Added 2023-05-16 13:00:00 +0000 UTCDavid, Devindra, and Jeff react to the news that director Louis Leterrier might listen to The Filmcast (check out Germain's io9 interview here). Then, they discuss the new Blackberry film, the second season of Yellowjackets and whether Baby J is a great comedy special or a canny PR exercise (or both). Finally, we discuss Ari Aster's latest film, Beau Is Afraid.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: The Blackberry movie is about the Innovator’s Dilemma
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on Google I/O and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Jeff - DLC 495 with Ash Parrish
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~25:11)
David - Blackberry, Still
Devindra - Yellowjackets S2, White House Plumbers
Jeff - Baby J, Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game
Featured Review (~1:11:45)
Beau Is Afraid
SPOILERS (~1:23:38)
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Comments
Dianae Weeks
Just saw Blackberry and man I’m glad I did! It not only answers a lot of questions as to how Blackberry imploded but is an adrenaline rush of the highest nerd tech degree. David Chen’s enthusiasm for this movie, based on a true story, put it on my must see list. Although claiming to be fictionalized I think it stayed pretty close to the truth. Oh and Hamilton Penguins never did sound right…
Stranger2Reality
I wanted to say that Beau Is Afraid reminded me a bit of the Pink Floyd film The Wall. I don't know if Dave has ever seen that, but if not he might like yet another exploration into a person who's mother instilled a bunch of anxieties into him that impacted his entire life (complete with a trial about it!).
