Boulder Punch Watchparty

THE TOMORROWTHON BEGINS... A few months ago, Alec and Brian made a deal. If Brian managed to watch all of Future Diary for an episode of the main show, Alec would agree to doing a marathon of DC's maligned Tomorrowverse of animated films, ending with the Crisis on Infinite Earths trilogy. Brian held up his end of the bargain, and now Alec must pay the piper. The introduction to this weird little u...

"THERE ARE NO SIDES." After the uphill battle toward success proved fruitful, Denis Villeneuve and co. announced that the second half of Dune was on the way, alleviating the fears of many moviegoers. Despite delays due to Hollywood refusing to pay actors and writers, the film finally made it to the silver screen this past March. So, after all the set-up of the first film, how does the rest of the...

"MY DESERT. MY ARRAKIS. MY DUNE." Onto the next hundred tracks, and what better way to start off than a two-parter? Frank Herbert's Dune is considered to not only be one of the best sci-fi novels of all time, but one of the most influential pieces of storytelling, influencing the likes of Star Wars and countless others. For many years, Hollywood has tried and failed to bring this deconstruction of...

HAPPY 100th TRACK EVERYONE! Hard to believe we've already reached our one-hundredth commentary track on the show. The past two years have been a crazy journey, and we thank you all for sticking with us. To celebrate, it's time to cover a movie we've been waiting eight months to dive into. The latest outing of the King of the Monsters from Toho has been one of their most widely acclaimed and succes...

EVERYONE'S FAVORITE TOXIC YAOI RETURNS! After the release of Godzilla vs. Kong managed to exceed the tempered expectations of a pandemic release back in 2021, many wondered when -- or if -- we'd see the MonsterVerse return. After a dry spell of news, the masses finally heard that Godzilla and Kong would indeed return to team up against new foes in a brand new entry. So, after three years of waitin...

DUBSTEP NEVER DIES! After the monumental success of the first film, a Deadpool sequel was quickly put in development. Set to be bigger, bolder, and louder, this film marks the first live-action appearances of characters such as Cable and Domino, as well as a shift toward the "Sad Clown" aspect of Wade's character in the comics. While the film still did well critically and commercially, people had...

MAXIMUM EFFORT After the failure of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and five years of development hell, test footage for Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool film leaked online in 2014. Unable to ignore the overwhelmingly positive reception, the film was finally given the greenlight, with all the bells and whistles it asked for - a bloody R-rated comedy more faithful to the comics. Upon release, it was a monumental s...

NEVER ASK A WOMAN HER AGE, A MAN HIS SALARY, OR JOSH BOONE WHAT HE THINKS OF MINORITIES. As they started winding down on mainline X-Men films, as well as noticing the success of spin-offs such as Deadpool and Logan , Fox decided the next era to pivot towards would feature none other than the ragtag team of superpowered youths, the New Mutants. What seemed like an easy slam dunk turned far more int...

HE HAD A CHANGE OF HEART! Despite Apocalypse positioning itself as the end of the mainline X-Men films, closing the loop and establishing the team in full, certain people were keen on scratching a certain itch to perform one last magic trick -- rectifying The Last Stand and making an accurate adaptation of The Phoenix Saga . Amidst year-and-a-half long road to Disney buying out Fox, futures being...

"DON'T BE WHAT THEY MADE YOU." In 2015, Hugh Jackman announced that the third Wolverine movie would be his last ride as the mutant (obviously this particular comment hasn't aged well). Many didn't know what to expect, but excitement grew as it came out that not only would it be loosely based on the Old Man Logan comic -- but that it would finally go all-out brutal with an R-rating. While the movie...

"CHECK OUT THOSE SUITS-- AAAND THEY'RE GONE." Months before Days of Future Past released, the third film in the trilogy was set for May 2016 -- and confirmed to center around Apocalypse, the oldest and most powerful mutant. After DOFP 's massive success, reports that this would be the biggest and most destructive X-Men movie yet, a whole new slate of spin-off films on the horizon, and beloved char...

"WE NEED YOU TO HOPE AGAIN." After the success of First Class , Matthew Vaughn and Fox reached an impasse in regards to adapting one of the most iconic X-Men stories of all time: Days of Future Past . While he wanted to wait and do it in the third movie, Fox wanted to fast-track it for the second, resulting in him walking. Sure enough, as they wanted, the movie got made -- to mass acclaim and succ...

AKA "X-MEN ORIGINS: WEABOO." Despite the historical failure of X-Men Origins: Wolverine , 20th Century Fox had a plan in their back pocket -- taking what was supposed to be the original film and producing it as a sequel. This film had its own developmental hell, for a while it was going to be helmed by auteur Darren Aronofsky, while still being yet another prequel. However, once the ball got rolli...

"PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION." After the colossal failure of X-Men Origins: Wolverine , Fox was stumped as to what to do with their next project in the XMO pipeline that centered around Magneto. Since the original script heavily featured Xavier, as well as the fallout between the two former friends, the studio decided to scrap the subseries entirely and begin a new trilogy of prequels -- starting wi...

ONE OF THE MOST INFAMOUS CBMs OF ALL TIME! After the original trilogy puttered out with the disappointment of The Last Stand , Fox decided the best course of action was to start a new series of solo films about significant X-Men characters, and who better to kick them off than the ever-popular Wolverine? Well, with the original Japan-based project getting scrapped, the decision to extend the Weapo...

THE DARK TIMES BEGIN! After X2 teased a high-budget adaptation of The Phoenix Saga for the end of the trilogy, fans waited eagerly to see how this trilogy would stick the landing. Well, between another horrible person stepping in as director, a complete lack of interest in the Phoenix, full-focus on another storyline entirely, and nearly all of it revolving solely around Wolverine? You got a catas...

"ONE DAY! SOMEONE WILL FINISH WHAT I STARTED WOLVERINE! ONE DAY!" After the surprise success of the initial X-Men film, it was full-steam ahead toward its inevitable sequel three years later. During the gap, the superhero genre hit some pretty significant lows like Daredevil , yet found itself completely reinvented with the release of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man just one year prior. Despite the pressur...

THE X-MENATHON BEGINS! With the return of Deadpool, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, and the Fox-Verse looming on the horizon, we figured it was high time to revisit where it all started -- not just for them, but for what the superhero genre became as a whole! In their latest marathon, come join Brian and Alec as they take a look at the movie that carried the torch that Blade lit into the new millennium...

"LIGHTNING BLAST!" It's our last free week before our next marathon, so we figured it was time to venture into uncharted territory: the world of anime stage play adaptations! More get produced than you'd think, for IPs such as Tokyo Ghoul , Ace Attorney , and even Chainsaw Man recently. However, one franchise in particular that's found massive success in front of live audiences is the PERSONA fran...

"I BELIEVE WE DID." As you all have seen, the movies and shows we've done tracks for thus far have been ones you'd expect to see a pop culture show do. Comedies, superhero films, sci-fi, horror, IPs of various kinds and the like, ones that are easier to talk over the way we do. This movie's an entirely different, awe-inspiring, and terrifying beast. Christopher Nolan's depiction of the life of the...

"HAVE FUN, FRIEZA!" After watching the cataclysmic anesthesia that is Dragonball Evolution , Brian and Alec looked to heal themselves with an actual good piece of Toriyama's decades-spanning epic. The pick today is a movie that fans had been hoping and clamoring forever for, one that would finally fully-canonize a fan favorite character. The catch is, it's in the absolute thick of it in the Dragon...

THE CINEMATIC VERSION OF ANESTHESIA! Live action anime adaptations make up some of the most infamous Hollywood projects of the past 15 years, and it's a genuine miracle they're still getting made (and, to be fair, slowly improving) despite their endless failures. While other adaptations definitely existed beforehand, it's easy to look back at today's film as the lynchpin for Hollywood's golden goo...

THE GODZILLATHON NEARS ITS END... Well folks, after twelve weeks and twelve films we've now reached our final destination for the first marathon of 2024, and it's time to go out with a bang. With the fifth entry in the MonsterVerse hitting theaters this weekend, it's only fitting to look back on it's predecessor that was built up for decades. Audiences around the world had been waiting to see a re...

THE ONE MOVIE YOU CAN USE THE "FOR THE FANS" ARGUMENT FOR! Legendary kept us all waiting with baited breath to see what would come next for everyone's favorite irradiated lizard after the monumental success of Gareth Edwards' 2014 reboot. Unfortunately, it would take another five whole years to see the fruits of their labor, especially with Edwards stepping off and longtime Godzilla fan Michael Do...

AKA "ONE MAN INSISTS HE'S NOT OWNED FOR 90 MINUTES." After the monumental release and success of Godzilla (2014), everyone wondered what would be next for the King of the Monsters. With its sequel still years away, Legendary decided to kick its new Cinematic Universe into overdrive with the introduction of its second lead character: America's own original giant monster, King Kong. With a new reima...