572: Selfie in the Weed Room

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Get out your ice skates, baseball bats, kitchen knives, and samurai swords—pretty much any weapon at hand, because we’re watching 2011’s “Attack the Block”! While not officially part of the Cornetto Trilogy, this British alien-invasion film shares a lot of DNA with those movies, and it’s about as close an analog to “Shaun of the Dead” as you’ll find—but with the comedy dial turned down a bit. It features career-making performances by John Boyega and Jodie Whittaker, who went on to become the faces of famous sci-fi franchises. And after the last 10 years, some of the social commentary in...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 572, July 2021.
0:09.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and we're going to be talking this week about a film that was released about 10 years ago, almost exactly.
0:19.0	It is a British science fiction, comedy, horror, gunplay,
0:27.0	drug dealer, body horror, all sorts of. It's Attack the Block, starring Star Wars and Doctor Who.
0:35.3	Joining me to talk about Attack the Block, which I'm going to
0:38.8	just lay my cards on the table right now.
0:41.0	I got to the end of this movie and I thought, yeah, this is my kind of movie.
0:45.7	Are the following people.
0:46.9	We'll see if it's their kind of movie too.
0:48.5	James Thompson.
0:49.4	Hello.
0:49.9	Hello.
0:50.4	This is too much madness to explain in one podcast.
0:55.5	Anthony Johnston. Hello.
0:57.8	Hello. I will allow it.
0:59.3	And Lisa Schmeiser.
1:02.3	This is my kind of movie, too. I'm so happy to be here.
1:04.3	This is a podcast, bro. Believe it.
1:12.0	Yeah, I've already decided I am not going to attempt any sort of South London accent at any point during this.
1:12.5	No.
1:22.9	So we watched this with my son and he said what's really funny about it is that, so it's 10 year old London slang, right?
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