498 – Nickel Boys, Best TV 2024, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim

Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews

4.6 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, everyone’s back in the War Room at the same time for the final episode of 2024. Since Nickel Boys is out on the coasts, Katey, David, and Da7e dive in with a review. Each host brings their favorite TV show from 2024, then Patches leads the conversation about the Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, in theaters now.

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Villanous Backstory

1:45 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 498!! Reviews! E-mails!

18:24- Tidbit – Nickel Boys

41:24 – Mini-Segment – Best TV 2024

49:28 – Segment 3 – Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim

1:09:05 – Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	Considering Taka had a name this whole time, calling him Scar seems reductive.
0:06.4	In honor of Mufasa, the Lion King, coming to theaters this holiday season, what animated
0:11.4	villain deserves a prequel backstory?
0:14.5	I am Katie Rich, and I'm thinking that now that Coraline is just getting re-release in theaters
0:18.1	every year and making more money, it's a time to catch up with other mother and find out how she got those button eyes.
0:24.1	I met patches.
0:24.9	And I don't think any Miyazaki film really needs an expanded universe.
0:29.8	But I want a little more Princess Monanoque.
0:32.9	And I'd be okay with the young lady Aboshi Chronicles.
0:35.8	How'd she get so into iron?
0:37.3	We all want to know.
0:39.4	I want mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad.
0:42.9	And I'm Dave with a seven here, love and sword and the stone.
0:48.7	And I am going to go with Anton Ego from Ratatouille because we all need to see the life story of the world's most pompous critic, exactly.
0:59.4	Didn't we get the prequel?
1:02.3	It's just that one shot.
1:03.6	And that's good.
1:04.7	I surely have a story.
1:07.1	Do you really doubt Pixar's ability to stretch that one shot into a 12 episode series of some kind?
1:14.5	No, not whatsoever. Coming next year to Disney Plus.
1:19.2	Hello and welcome to... Oh, wait. No, there's music here.
1:21.2	That's right.
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