Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast

Nothing we like better than lovelorn fish men here at Podcast Part 3, so much so that we made it through nearly three hours of complicated maritime backstabbing with 2007's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode )

THERE CAN BE ONLY THREE! (Or more...) Also known as Highlander: The Final Dimension. Neither title makes sense. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode )

On the latest Podcast Part 3, we pay a belated tribute to the great Catherine O'Hara by taking a look at 2003's A Mighty Wind, the third in Christopher Guest's mockumentary trilogy. Spoiler alert: It's very good. Another spoiler alert: She's great in it. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3....

Turn up the Nine Inch Nails and/or Depeche Mode, because it's time for a third crack at making Tron a thing (the franchise, not the character... never the character). It's 2025's Tron: Ares, a movie that'll make you sad that Daft Punk broke up all over again.

Podcast Part 3 is staggering into the new year with yet another big beefy fantasy thing to talk about... this time it's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, a 2.5 hour adaptation of about 15 pages of Tolkein's original book. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode )

We interrupt our regularly scheduled bitch sesh about The Hobbit to bring you the newest, hottest threequel in town. That's right, the boys are talking Avatar: Fire and Ash and all the visually spectacular horny cat-alien weirdness you can handle! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legal...

We come back to you now, at the turn of the tide... because it's time to talk about the conclusion to the Best. Trilogy. Ever. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode )

Happy Halloween! It's time to wrap up Shriek-quel Threequel season with the oh-so-very 2006 Final Destination 3. It's a literal and figurative roller coaster ride as the boys watch Mary Elizabeth Winstead and a bunch of kids in mid-2000s Bieber hair try to outrun death while clutching their digital cameras, iPods, CD players and flip phones. Will they live long enough to reach 2007 and the arrival...

It's time to talk about a f-cking movie star, 'cause Will and Sam are taking it back to 2024-slash-1985 with Ti West's MaXXXine, the conclusion to the blood-soaked Mia Goth-led X trilogy. Does this love letter to Hollywood stick the landing in the way most trilogy-enders don't? Does Sam have some hot takes about the White Album out of nowhere? The answers are mostly and of course. Music: Backbeat...

Sam recently took Will and Podcast Part 3 by surprise when he instituted a three-star grading system for any threequels past or future. Now it's time to open up the podcast archives and assign one, two or three stars to the dozens of threequels we've enjoyed (or at least tolerated). Who will get the coveted three stars (Army of Darkness)? Who must suffer the shame of a solitary one star (Robocop 3...

We're shaking (but not stirring) things up at Podcast Part 3, as Will and Sam tackle Connery, Moore, Brosnan and Craig's respective third James Bonds... Goldfinger, The Spy Who Loved Me, The World is Not Enough and Skyfall. (Apologies to Lazenby and Dalton.) And to complete such a daring mission for podcast and country, they've brought in the host of the Tuesday Morning Screening Room podcast, wri...

Before Minecraft and Mario changed the game, video game movies were synonymous with failure, so mercifully very few became legit multi-movie franchises... with one notable exception. It's time to watch Resident Evil: Extinction , one of the very few video game movie threequels, and probably the best one to not feature a talking hedgehog. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmm...

Finally, a real superhero to end the summer! With Liam Neeson's fabulous new Naked Gun in theaters, Will and Sam are taking a look back at 1994's Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, the franchise's last installment starring Leslie Nielsen (and unsurprisingly, OJ Simpson). Warning: The words parody and satire will be used interchangeably throughout, so theater majors and film theorists be warned. M...

Superhero summer continues with the high-water mark of the post-Endgame MCU, 2023's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. In hindsight, James Gunn made a talking raccoon the best character in the MCU, so maybe we shouldn't be that shocked that he made Superman work. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses...

It's a superhero summer here at Podcast Part 3, and we're going way back to 2013 with one of the MCU's true threequels, Iron Man 3, aka the one with a Mandarin but not THE Mandarin. Also, Sam blindsides Will with the new official Podcast Part 3 rating system that he totally didn't make up on the fly! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons licens...

Jurassic World has rebirthed, so there's no better time to revisit its most recent threequel, 2022's Jurassic World: Dominion. And don't forget, Giganotosaurus is the largest carnivore the world has ever seen. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode )

Back in our day, we only had a Jurassic Park instead of a whole Jurassic World and we liked it that way! (Well, mostly...) Jurassic World: Rebirth is nigh, so it's time for a 90-minute speed run through Isla Sorna with 2001's Jurassic Park III, a movie made entirely of ideas they didn't use in the first two Jurassic Parks. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via...

It's time for another visit to the Universal Classic Monsters (excuse me, the Dark Universe), as we check in on Gill-man's one and only threequel, 1956's The Creature Walks Among Us. It's a sweaty Tennessee Williams melodrama about an abusive marriage and a toxic love triangle that just happens to feature a fish man living in the backyard. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.fil...

Podcast Part 3 is back, rising like a phoenix from the ashes to talk about, um, crows. Specifically (and lamentably) 2000's The Crow: Salvation, a direct-to-video threequel so dull not even Walton Goggins can save it. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ ) via Creative Commons license. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode )

Shriek-quel Threequel season continues with Podcast Part 3's first visit to the shaky, spooky world of found footage with Paranormal Activity 3! As the low-budget, bajillion-dollar making demon possession saga takes us back to 1988, Will and Sam delve into the horror-heavy genre of found footage, pondering why it's so easy to make these movies but insanely difficult to make one that's actually goo...

It's October and Shriek-quel Threequel season is upon us once again! Sharpen up your Daggers of Megiddo because we're taking on the Antichrist himself in Omen III: The Final Conflict. Damien Thorn is Sam Neill now, and he's hellbent (har har) on destroying that pesky Jesus once and for all. While Damien recruits every evil little British boy he can find, Sam and Will compare this take on the Devil...

It's Problematic Director Days here at Podcast Part 3 as Will and Sam continue their foray in to the dear departed X-Men franchise with X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Apocalypse, two threequels jockeying for worst superhero movie of all time. Thrill as the Phoenix Saga is woefully botched twice in one franchise, and marvel as Oscar Isaac and Jennifer Lawrence compete to see who can look the most...

This week on Podcast Part 3, we don't got a podcast... we got a family. But only slightly, because this is The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the Season of the Witch of the Fast franchise! Join not-quite-Paul Walker as he traverses the mean streets of Tokyo in this threequel that's also canonically the seventh movie in the franchise. Did you know that this franchise that's basically the MCU wi...

The most consistently good franchise in movie history is back and grimmer than ever with 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes! As the saga of Caesar draws to a close, Will and Sam discuss whether this is the rare trilogy where the third movie is the best one, how a campy big-budget Twilight Zone episode managed to yield an 80% great series of sci-fi movies, and why the hell Steve Zahn isn't getti...

Get ready for 1.21 Gigawatts of fun (and respectful film discourse) as Will and Sam revisit Back to the Future Part III, aka the one in the Old West, aka the one with the random ZZ Top cameo, aka the one with Mary Steenburgen on the poster. There's no Johnny B. Goode and very little hoverboard as Marty and Doc embark on a passable Western comedy that happens to feature time travel. It's still a Ba...