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Ep. 599 - Wonder Woman 1984 (GUEST: Hoai-Tran Bui)

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4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

The Slashfilmcast is launching a Patreon! Support us at http://patreon.com/filmpodcast.

This week, David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Hoai-Tran Bui, Slashfilm writer and critic, to review Wonder Woman 1984. Tune in to hear Jeff’s passionate diatribe against the latest film directed and co-written by Patty Jenkins.

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Weekly Plugs

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What you’ve been watching (~15:00)
Hoai-Tran Bui - White Christmas, His House, Trial of the Chicago 7
David - (Heat, Gangs of London), Bacurau, Pieces of a Woman, Minari,
Devindra - We Can Be Heroes, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,
Jeff - Midnight Sky

Feature (~1:04:15)
Wonder Woman 1984
Spoilers (~1:23:30)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Slashroomcast. I am David Chen and with me are

0:24.3

Javindra Hardowar, Jeff Kanata, and joining us today she is a writer and critic over at Slashfilm.com.

0:33.3

Why Chen, we welcome back to the Slashroomcast. HD, how are you doing today? I'm good and I just want to say to all the

0:40.9

Slashfilm Daily listeners, hey everyone. Nailed it, Nailed it HD. On the first try too. I mean, this is a thing

0:52.7

over at Slashfilm Daily which is another podcast that HD is part of is they have a greeting that every

1:00.4

host gives every single time, right? And HD's greeting is hey everyone and I guess you know

1:07.4

missed opportunity that you guys don't have greetings. What are you talking about? We all have greetings.

1:13.9

What is your greeting, Jeff? And Jeff Kanata. Yeah, definitely.

1:18.8

And, but let's say, let's say we could really blue sky this thing. Let's say you could start,

1:25.2

we could start fresh from the ground up, give you a new greeting. Any idea what your greeting

1:30.1

would be Jeff. And the Jeff Kanata. Nailed it. Nailed it. Well anyway, welcome to the Slashfilmcast.

1:41.4

Today on the podcast, we're going to be discussing some what we've been watching. We got some weekly

1:46.4

plugs for you. We're going to conclude with an in-depth review. This week we'll be reviewing Wonder

1:51.1

Woman 1984, which by the way, I saw this theory on Twitter that the reason it's called Wonder Woman

1:59.1

1984 maybe is so that you couldn't you cannot abbreviate the movie W.W.2 which might sound a little

2:06.2

bit too much like World War II. What do you guys think of that? Huh? That seems like more thought

2:10.7

that went into this then this movie. All right. All right. We'll find that theory. Yeah. We'll

2:16.1

be sorry when we get to our 84th World War. You can find more episodes of this podcast at Slashfilmcast.com.

2:23.4

Email us at Slashfilmcast.gema.com. You know, this is Slashfilmcast episode 599. Can you believe it

2:30.4

599 episodes? Wow. On a recent episode of the podcast, Jeff Kanata asked, hey Dave, should we

2:36.8

try something special for the 600th episode because we didn't do anything special for the 5th

2:41.2

and your episode? Yeah. I'm a guy who, you know, who likes to put in a little something extra for

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