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The Man from Earth (2007)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Thanks go to Dan G, perhaps better known as the forum denizen DancesWithWookies, has selected the 2007 minimalist sci-fi/philosophic film "The Man from Earth" for his commissioned podcast. Directed by Richard Schenkman and written by the late Jerome Bixby, it asks us to entertain the idea of a 14,000 year old paleolithic man who has managed to adapt and survive to our modern day. His winding tale through history may intrigue or infuriate you, depending on your appetite for detail or willingness to engage with the ideas and concepts of the film, and move beyond the limitations of it's budget and construction. A.Ron thinks that if you find the film intriguing, you man enjoy Christopher Moore's "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff", which is a more lighthearted, yet deeper dive into one of the film's core theories. Thanks again for sharing your movie with us, Dan! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Welcome back to another Commission podcast. We've got a pretty

0:07.4

interesting one, a different one than what we're used to this time. It's called

0:11.8

the Man from Earth.

0:12.8

Came out in 2007, and it was commissioned by Dan G, who goes by Dances with

0:17.8

Wokeys on the forums.

0:19.6

And he says he really likes this movie a lot.

0:22.4

We both watched it yesterday. I don't know about you,

0:25.6

Iran, but it's been kind of marinating in my brain for a day or so. No, and I'm trying to see exactly where I shake out on it because I came to, for the people who don't want spoilers and I think, you know writes in and he says hey this movie is best without

0:45.2

spoilers I think that's true if you know the premise I don't think it's nearly as

0:50.9

interesting going in yeah and seeing kind of it it all unravel so if you

0:55.3

want to watch this I suggest you just turn this off and go watch it and then come

0:58.1

back but here's the thing I can't recommend this as a piece of entertainment.

1:03.2

Sure, sure.

1:04.1

So know when you're going in that you're going into a movie that's got relatively low production

1:08.8

values, not because it's like some crazy size it's just low budget

1:14.8

people in a room talking to each other and that it is it's it's completely carried

1:20.4

by long conversations about politics, science, and religion.

1:25.1

The whole movie is one conversation.

1:28.5

It's like if the scene in Reservoir Dogs at the beginning never ended and that was the

1:32.0

entire movie. Yeah yeah. But I imagine

1:35.8

given like the people's reaction through our contact podcast and some of the others

1:40.3

we've done that that's going to float a lot of people's boat yeah probably

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