23: Origin Story

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2011

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Don your mask and cape and join us for a discussion of the good, the underrated, and the overrated in the realm of superhero movies. And you think we’re going to praise “The Dark Knight” you might be in for quite a shock… No, seriously, we rip it apart. We also discuss “Superman 2,” “Darkman,” “Iron Man,” “Megamind,” “The Incredibles,” “Unbreakable,” “The Rocketeer,” and many others.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Podcast, number 23, February 2011.
0:14.3	We're back on the incomparable podcast.
0:17.1	The topic today is movies, and we're going to talk about superhero movies.
0:23.1	There was a time when there were not very many superhero movies at all.
0:27.3	That time is not the last 10 years when there's been a horrible, horrible glut of them.
0:31.8	We're going to talk about superhero movies that we love, the ones that we hate,
0:35.6	ones we think are overrated and underrated, and to
0:38.6	help me down this path to the land of Metropolis and other strange fictional superhero cities.
0:47.4	I am joined by my guests, Ben Boychuk.
0:51.7	Coming to you live from my secret layer somewhere in Southern California.
0:56.2	Nice.
0:57.0	Nice.
0:57.7	John Syracusa.
0:59.4	I am ready.
1:00.9	You are ready.
1:01.8	Are you wearing an outfit?
1:04.5	My superhero pajamas, yes.
1:06.1	All right.
1:06.5	Excellent.
1:06.8	And Serenity Caldwell.
1:09.6	Who is not wearing a cape because capes are terrible.
1:11.8	No capes.
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