Boulder Punch Watchparty

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...

"LET THEM FIGHT." In 2010 -- 12 years after America's last failed adaptation and 6 years after Japan's final entry -- Legendary Pictures (and by extension Warner Bros.) proudly announced that they had acquired the rights to make a new Hollywood adaptation of the King of the Monsters, releasing a faithful piece of concept art in tandem. However, what started out and was advertised as a film seeming...

TO THE MEETING ROOMS WE GO! Our ATLA intermission is over, back to the Godzillathon ! It's been a while since we visited our good friend Hideaki Anno, and now it's finally time to take a look at what he cooked up during the lost years between Eva 3.0 and 3.0+1.0 . As Anno struggled with his mental health while trying to get his final Evangelion movie into production, Toho approached him and direct...

"I'M A LITTLE TEA! POT! SHORT! AND! STOUT!" The boys decided to take a quick intermission from the Godzillathon in light of a very special occasion: yet another (likely) bad live action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender has arrived! And what better way to lament the mistakes of the present than to dwell on the mistakes of the past? The 2010 film adaptation of one of the most acclaimed TV se...

INTO THE INFERNO! After sitting through The Last Airbender for the sole purpose of synergy with the new adaptation, we had to desperately wash the taste out of our mouths. Luckily, we had both caught up to the series finale of Avatar , so we figured, why not go all-in for a double feature this week? The show's finale is highly acclaimed and has a lot to love, but will certain critiques that have c...

THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE. Despite it bringing about some of the best films in the whole franchise, the Millennium Era of Godzilla had already lost steam at the box office a short four years after it started. So, with the King of the Monsters' 50th Anniversary only one year away, Toho decided it was time to mark the occasion by closing the book on him once again. However, they wouldn't go quiet...

BRING BACK TACHIBANA, COWARDS! We have now arrived at the Millennium Era of the Godzillathon, and we're kicking it off with a classic that neither of us have seen in full! The film dubbed GMK by the fanbase has usually circled the upper echelon in peoples' rankings, but what do the boys think of it? Come watch with Brian and Alec to find out as they take a look at the wildly-different Godzilla, Mo...

"THAT'S A LOT OF FISH!" * AUDIENCE CLAPS, CRIES, AND THROWS UP* Near the end of the Heisei Era -- and supposedly Godzilla in general -- Toho decided to see what Hollywood could do with the King of the Monsters, selling the filmmaking rights to Sony's TriStar Pictures. What started off as a promising and faithful project helmed by Jan de Bont soon spiraled and degraded over the course of five years...

THE WORLD'S MOST CATASTROPHIC CASE OF HEARTBURN. After 40 years and two distinct eras of nonstop Godzilla, Toho decided that 1995 would serve as the character's final curtain call. They wanted to give the King of the Monsters a fitting conclusion, and what would be more fitting than tying back to where it all began? So, come watch with Brian and Alec as they revisit the end of the Heisei Era and w...

YOU SHOULD BRING BACK M-11... NOW! We have now moved into the Heisei Era in our Godzillathon, and the one we've picked out for today was an absolute no-brainer. King Ghidorah had been revered as Godzilla's greatest adversary for years, but how did his reinvention for a new era fare? Come watch with Brian and Alec to find out as they revisit a tale of time travel, dinosaurs, and Terminators in 1991...

HAHA, NICE . Continuing on with our Godzillathon, we take our last look at the Showa Era with one of its most iconic entries. For nearly fifty years, Mechagodzilla has been one of the most popular kaiju ever created, as well as one of Godzilla's greatest adversaries, but how did his debut fare? Come watch with Brian and Alec to find out as they revisit the original Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla !

OUR FIRST MARATHON OF 2024 BEGINS! Happy New Year everyone! We're finally back from our holiday hiatus, and to kick off 2024, we decided it was time to start our first marathon of the year. The boys have been fans of the King of the Monsters ever since they were kids, and with the recent release of Minus One and the looming release of The New Empire , they figured it was high time to look back at...

"PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN! NOW!" Happy Holidays, everyone! We're at our last (albeit pre-recorded from weeks in advance) commentary track of the year, and we figured it's finally time to dive into some Christmas flicks! While we don't have time to do more than one, we have landed on an underrated Arnie classic, chalk full of consumerism, psychotic fever dream sequences of comedy, and the greatest supe...

"SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!" After the controversial reception to Chris Chibnall's Thirteenth Doctor era of the show, Russell T Davies returned to helm the next one, beginning with the 60th Anniversary specials as a buffer before going into full swing with a brand new Doctor. This heralded the return of David Tennant, not as the Tenth, but as the Fourteenth Doctor, alongside f...

"DOCTOR... I LET YOU GO." The 60th Anniversary Specials of Doctor Who are finally in full swing, so before November ends, we have one last trilogy to revisit. Despite various circumstances stacked against him, such as unfair preconceptions and people growing tired of Moffat's storytelling style, Peter Capaldi had made his mark as a truly fantastic incarnation of titular Time Lord, and has only gro...

"I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHEN THE DOCTOR WAS ME." Despite having a few more critiques from fans than Tennant's run, Matt Smith's tenure as the Eleventh Doctor took the show to previously unseen heights. The first to broadcast simultaneously in numerous countries alongside the UK, Smith's fairy-tale-esque era brought the show even deeper into the mainstream, and despite initial hostility, his Doctor...