Sword and Bored

Our first episode of the Year!  We talk about our experiences with Disney and how close we've been to Disneyworld, SWORD IN THE STONE and how it's weird but okay, office sitcoms and what's good about them, and the beautiful and amazing ENCANTO!

And 2021 ends with 2008 THE CLONE WARS!    As always, this isn't a traditional podcast, rather an alternate commentary track, so if that's not your thing, totally understand!

Our last podcast episode of 2021, to close out this shitball year!  We talk about the nature of potato based snacks, what makes a Christmas Movie, JINGLE JANGLE and how loud and bright and pretty good it is, and how A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS is sort of a random events movie that isn't good!

Hello and welcome!  We are back with ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, our first change of Bond's occurs as we switch to George Lazenby's first and only outing!  We're a bit short today, but we talk about what's good and weird about it, and the shocking fact that we all sort of loved this?

TBWBWYA Is back with 2002's ATTACK OF THE CLONES!  Once again this is an alternate commentary track for one of the Star Wars films, so if that's not your cuppa we totally understand.     Matt and I talk about how this was one of the few movies he owned on DVD, various tangents, and our love of the series continues!

Our strange surge of updates continues marginally abated!  Losing huge chunks of recording will not stop us!  On this bout we talk about the awful SEVENTH SON and how completely unmemorable it is, the ups and downs of BEASTMASTER and reminisce about a childhood friend, we stop to talk for a long time about The Synder Cut, and Lars' stops to think about how good THE THIRTEENTH WARRIOR is!

What's this?  Another update in a semi timely manner?   Bored. James Bored. is back with YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, a movie featuring a gigantic Romulan, possibly Q's coolest gadget ever, and massive amounts of problematic stuff in a surprisingly good movie!    On a personal note, this has been a very tough year on me, and us, so we really appreciate anyone who's stuck around for all of the ups and down...

Hey guess what, we've got another project going!  This is a bit different from our usual fare, this is a commentary track I recorded with my best friend Matt, meant to be played along with Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace!   This will be a longform retrospective of each theatrical release Star Wars film, from the two of us reminiscing about how we became friends because of Star Wars, how it...

And we're back to our usual standard of terrible films with 1967's CASINO ROYALE!  We talk about the very, very few high points, how people got paid to be in it, the missed opportunities of multiple Bonds and how that could have affected the rest of the series, and what makes better parodies work!

Hello and welcome to Sword and Bored: Sidequest!  This week I am joined by Evan McDevitt, my best friend in the world, and we are talking about MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!  We touch on the toy line multiple times, music and what this movie wants to be, how Frank Langella's Skeletor is one of the all time greats, and acts of Fatherly Love!  Check it out!

THUNDERBALLLLLLLLL The fantastic theme by Tom Jones comes up on this one, we talk about what it means compared to Goldfinger, how it's kind of a big movie, and whether or not we actually like it!

THE DEAD SPEAK!  We are back after too long a hiatus, talking about maybe our most solid slate of movies ever!  We go back to the House of Mouse for our three!  We once again talk about ALADDIN...the animated classic this time, how Robin Williams was a genius, how SLEEPING BEAUTY defines and determines the formula for Princess movies, and how ROBIN HOOD is easily the best Robin Hood movie for a va...

Hello and happy new year!  After an extended hiatus we are back with GOLDFINGER, my favorite Bond movie. We discuss how it's the one everyone thinks of as Bond, how it sets the stage for most every piece of Bond media afterwards and how we have a Formula finally, interesting tidbits about actors and inspiration, and dance around who Goldfinger himself reminds us of!

To close out 2020, we talk about the surprisingly good DAWN OF THE DRAGON SLAYER, the absolutely atrocious ERAGON and how it's more or less STAR WARS, and the still fantastic, heavily dwarven REIGN OF FIRE!   See you all next year!

James Bond is Back! This time around we are talking about the classic FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE, considered by two thirds of the hosts to be the best Bond!  We gush about the late Sir Sean Connery, talk about his career and his one character that he made work in every movie, about how Bond is starting to take shape and how we have almost all the pieces of what makes a Bond movie!   BORED, JAMES BORED...

Hello! On this special spooky spooky Halloweenish episode, Lars is off, so filling in is the amazing Lillian Boyd of Rank and Vile!  The show we shamelessly ripped off for this!  We talk about LEGEND(1986) and how it's certainly movie shaped, how we all have a cultural memory of THE WITCHES, Great British Bakeoff and our favorites taken too soon from us, rambles about video games and other things,...

Episode 2 of our side quest deep dive into every James Bond is here.  DR. NO, the first official Bond movie is on the docket.   We talk about how it's still a bit odd but they are finding their feet, iconic bits of cinematic history,  60s kitsch,  and how big a step up it was from Casino Royale!

And we're back after a short break!  We take a breather from traditionally fantasy movies to talk about THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD and how every scrap of Robin Hood media is directly influenced by that movie, how THREE MUSKETEERS(1993) is such an inexplicable movie, how it stacks up against Prince of Thieves, I make way, way too many Star Wars comparisons, we both neglect to realize that they ha...

Here we go!  A little Side Project we have going with Dad, talking about every James Bond put to film, in chronologically order.  We're starting with the 1954 made for TV Drama, staring American Barry Nelson as James "Jimmy" Bond.  Yeah.  But Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre is pretty good!  Along the way we talk about why we're doing this, what is in store, and Dad's history with the franchise.   Farmin...

Hello again!  We're here talking about THE OLD GUARD and how we want Charlize Theron to have a long career, the abysmal AMAZONS and how we love and hate Roger Corman, Halloweens past and how it had better sound, FIRE AND ICE and adult cartoons looking the same, and the awkwardness of movies with families!  Hope you enjoy!

On this episode we are joined once again by our dad Bill Farabee!  We talk about animals in the wild, how pretty okay BULLETPROOF MONK is, how godawful AGAINST THE DARK is and the power of spite, and how utterly, utterly astounding HIGHLANDER continues to be!

The funeral march of 2020 continues!  THE LAST WITCH HUNTER kind of rules and we love it!  We talk about the police protests and how we grew up and our own experiences related to that!  How LANCELOT: GUARDIAN OF TIME is just the most boring thing possible and terrible hair!  

Kids Running!  Quarantine Stories!  ALICE IN WONDERLAND's mediocrity!  THE BLACK CAULDRON and the path of Disney!  Discussion of Music and Emotion in Fantasy!  WILLOW's utter charm!  Check us out!

Our 20th Episode!  Lars opens so many bags of chips!  We talk about the unearned emotions of ONWARD, boredom of quarantine since we're all experiencing that in some form, how LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN is kind of okay, and how BABES WITH BLADES is a very strange piece that doesn't make sense in a lot of ways! 

On this very special LIVE episode, live because children run back and forth and we only use minimal edits, Lars and I talk about life under Coronavirus, how ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES was a staple of our childhood, Lars steals a Bill Murray speech, how FROZEN 2 was a better sequel than we ever got, the strange things that we've been going through not going anywhere, and how THE ADVENTURER: CURS...