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

544 – Mandalorian and Grogu, Backrooms, What’s Wrong With American Dramas?

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

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary






This week, everyone is back in the war room and the numbered episodes resume! David, Patches, and Katey took the families to Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu, so the show must finally give it a full review. We swear we’re done talking about this movie, David’s son didn’t even want to stay to the end of the movie. Then, Da7e reports from having seen Backrooms and doesn’t spoil anything, if the movie explains anything, and if you know what Backrooms is at all. Finally, Patches has a big overarching question I have decided to summarize as “What’s Wrong with American Dramas?” because that’s a provocative part of it.



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FORMAT



00:00 – Lightning Round: movie WITH Found Footage



02:30 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 544! E-Mail!



15:50 – Tidbit – Mandalorian and Grogu



37:26 – Mini-Segment – Backrooms



51:20 – Segment Three – What’s Wrong With American Dramas?



51:16 – Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

A haunted file will never be as scary as a haunted tape. In honor of the backrooms in theaters this weekend, what's your favorite movie that includes some found footage?

0:10.3

I'm Katie Rich. Questlove's documentary Summer of Soul really is incredible. It's got all this footage of a concert in Harlem that everyone had forgotten existed. And now everyone forgets it at won an Oscar because it happened minutes after the slap.

0:24.1

Is that why we don't remember it?

0:26.1

I am...

0:26.6

No, we don't remember it because it was a direct streaming movie. I understand there was

0:31.3

extended instances.

0:32.6

There was a literal pandemic happening, but okay.

0:37.0

I am Matt Patches. I guess I took

0:39.2

some found footage to mean found footage,

0:41.8

narrative found footage, device. And I'm going to

0:45.0

go with a movie. I don't feel as disgust enough.

0:47.7

Europa Report, which is this

0:50.5

2013 sci-fi movie that takes place

0:53.0

inside of a mission to Europa,

0:54.6

and they built the whole spaceship and put all the cameras around.

0:57.0

It's really cool.

0:59.6

I'm David the Seven, and I'm going to use this opportunity to remind everyone

1:03.0

I've been a Blair Witch Project fan since 1999, which is now a long time ago.

1:08.4

I feel like that used to be sooner.

1:11.4

Yeah, it used to be that 1999 wasn't long time ago. I feel like that used to be sooner. Yeah, they used to be that 1999. And I wasn't that long ago. And now it was long ago. It's weird. That will always be 12 years ago. It's a weird bit of spatial temporal relations. Don't just roll with it. Anyway, I'm David Ola. It's true. I going to go with. I don't know if it's eligible.

1:32.8

I tend to doubt that Chris Marker would have considered LaGitee to be found footage.

1:37.7

But it is, you know, it does consist of photographs he took.

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