Welcome to a special ladies all over Patreon exclusive. I am Drew McQueenie, and I am joined by my esteemed co-host, Scott Weinberg, for what I am so excited about, and I am joined by my esteemed co-host Scott Weinberg for what I am so excited about and I hope will be an essential commentary for the Robert Altman film, Popeye.

I think it's safe to say that Drew and I both come at this film with a good deal of nostalgic love and what we're going to try and figure out over the course of this commentary is if

if there is also still practical, modern, pragmatic love.

And I think it really is an underrated movie.

I want to make the case for why this is 100% a Robert Altman movie.

And why that is the reason it works, not just coincidentally, it's also...

I'm going to make the argument that it's also one of the most visually arresting, well-cast, and unique comic book adaptations ever.

And even those who don't appreciate or don't love the film would probably be hard-pressed to disagree with that.

One of the things that's exciting about today is that there is no

filmmaker's commentary for Popeye.

Albin didn't do a lot of them, and this is a film that he never got around to, and at

this point we won't get that commentary from him.

So what we did was I tracked down a book called The Popeye Story by Bridget Terry, which is a behind the scenes book that came out in the early 80s right when the film came out, as well as Richard Anabiles movie novel, which contains extra material and a couple of other sources. And we've compiled some things. Scott reached out to filmmakers. Can you talk about some of those people that you talk to? Yeah, I, uh, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, uh, I, I, I, uh, what, what, what filmmakers of our

approximate generation, uh, feel about the film. And I wanted complete honesty. If, uh, you know,

somebody thinks it's, you know, just bad, bad. I wanted that opinion, too. You know, we don't want it to be all just, you know, sunshine and light.

If somebody has legitimate criticism about this movie, I wanted to hear it.

But, turns out most of the filmmakers I asked really dig this movie, and I will pepper those little comments throughout the commentary.

If you're listening to this audio commentary, it's because you are a member of our

portray-on subscriber base, and we are ridiculously grateful, A, that you listen to the show, and

B, that you are an additional subscriber. Hopefully, you love this commentary, you enjoy listening

to it. We're going to try and make it so that you can either watch the film along with it,

or if you don't have access to the film, then hopefully it'll still be fun if you're just listening in your car or jogging

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