#12302 Reviewing Summer Movies – Jaws, Superman, and Fantastic 4 - Andrew Petiprin
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Did the woke agenda destroy Superman?” This episode dives into the impact of contemporary cultural shifts on iconic characters and narratives, exploring themes of masculinity and femininity in film. Additionally, we touch on the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the evolution of summer blockbusters, and a discussion about the Fantastic Four.
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Questions Covered:
- 00:45 – Jaws 50th Anniversary, Spielberg, Summer blockbusters
- 08:45 – Did the woke agenda destroy Superman?
- 38:00 – Masculinity and femininity in film
- 45:34 – Fantastic Four
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| 0:31.7 | I am Cy Kellett, your host. |
| 0:35.1 | And Andrew Pettoprin is our guest. |
| 0:39.1 | He's one of the authors of Popcorn with the Pope. |
| 0:42.8 | A fun book of looking at the hundred. |
| 0:47.8 | It's 100, right? |
| 0:49.2 | 100 movies? |
| 0:50.0 | No, just 45 movies. |
| 0:51.6 | Oh, 45. |
| 0:52.5 | It's not as good a book as I thought then. |
| 0:54.1 | All right, never mind. Don't buy it. Oh, no. It's not as good a book as I thought then. All right, never mind. |
| 1:10.9 | Don't buy it. Oh, no, my bad. It is a good book. And the Vatican, these are a book, these are movies that I think it's a great idea for a book. The Vatican said, hey, these are laudable movies. These are good movies. And so you said, |
| 1:17.6 | well, let's get a book out and introduce people to these laudable movies. Yeah, and the list came out in 1995, actually. So it's been out for a long time, but nobody, at least in English, had ever |
| 1:23.8 | written a full study of all the movies in the list. And so my colleagues and I, David Paul Baird and Father Michael Ward, got together and we put it out. |
| 1:33.8 | And it's been really well received. |
| 1:35.3 | And I think it's a really good book. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.3 | I will say this, this is the 50th anniversary, I think, of Jaws this summer. |
| 1:41.3 | And do you remember the summer of Jaws or are you too young to remember that? Are you not 50 yet? I'm not 50 yet. But so no, I don't remember the summer of Jaws, but I have seen Jaws. Yeah? Yeah. And what was it like? You couldn't. This is the way it was in the old days. You had, if you wanted to see a movie on Saturday, you got the morning paper and you looked on the movie page and it had the ads for each of the movie theaters. |
| 2:06.0 | So then you, you had to see what was playing. And Jaws kind of ruined the summer because it was always Jaws that was playing. |
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