Category: movies
Two Nerds have spent the last few episodes discussing time travel, repeating day, or otherwise timey-wimey narratives. Adjacent to that (and often overlapping) are stories that explore parallel worlds. In this outing, we discussthe movies Sliding Doors and Another Earth,…
Two Nerds were lovingly trolled by our listener, and ended up watching Knowing, a predestination wig-out starring Nicolas Cage, which was described by Richard as “Kirk Cameron’s screenplay and directorial adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard writing Childhood’s End.” It made…
In a very special episode, Two Nerds discuss the most recent (and possibly the last) MonsterVerse movie: Godzilla vs Kong. We decided to make a theme of it, so we also watched a movie called Colossal, which is about a…
After we thoughtfully examined three films with repeating day scenarios — Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things — in Groundhog Days, we found a fourth repeating day movie: Boss Level. This one is significantly shootier…
Two Nerds round up all the movies they watched on a lost Sunday, which include three timey-wimey narratives — Time Trap, Source Code, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time — and a slight detour to the Snyder Cut. This…
In a bonus episode, two nerds somewhat tipsily discuss Timecrimes and Time Lapse, two movies which mess around with the concept of predestination.For some godforsaken reason, the extremely silly film Final Countdown, in which the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz travels…
Continuing on with our exploration of narratives that use time as a device, we discuss three movies which take place in time loops, where the characters wake up and relive the same 24 hours over and over: Groundhog Day, Map…
Continuing with our time travel narratives, we discuss Hot Tub Time Machine, with a side of Back to the Future and Groundhog Day.We also discuss The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin, The Butterfly Effect, Primer, The Final…
Two Nerds Sitting on a Couch wrapped up our inquiry into teen dystopias last week with The City of Ember, which is kinda funny because the book is aimed younger than teen, and it’s not really a dystopia. After a…
For our final outing into teen dystopias, two nerds sitting on a couch watch The City of Ember.The City of Ember ended up being significantly different from the other young adult dystopias we watched, while still relying on some of…