Two Nerds Sitting on a Couch

In a very special episode, Two Nerds discuss the most recent (and possibly the last) M onsterVerse movie: Godzilla vs Kong . We decided to make a theme of it, so we also watched a movie called Colossal , which is about a giant monster who appears randomly in Seoul, Korea, and whose motions are tied to a young woman in the States. Colossal ended up being considerably more intense than we expected.&...

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 than those other three!  This is a tiny bonus episode where we somewhat giddily talk about this ridiculous movie. 

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 episode marks the end of our inquiry into time travel narratives. 

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 back in time, comes up again.   CW: sexual assault. 

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 of Tiny Perfect Things , and Palm Springs . This episode is slightly super-sized, because apparently we had a lot to say about this narrative conceit.  CW: suicide,...

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 Countdown and the latter two Back to the Future movies.  Mistakes I could use a time machine to correct: A movie about the last mortal person on Earth is incorre...

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 period of despondency, we decided our new theme is going to be time travel! Rather than go through the travels in time one by one, we've aggregated the last five movies into one podcast. S...

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 the same tropes. Plus star-nosed moles and Bill Murray. 

Continuing our streak of young adult dystopias, two nerds sit on a couch and discuss the movie version of Lois Lowry's The Giver.  

Two nerds sitting on a couch discuss the third and ultimately final Divergent movie, Allegiant . The Divergent series, both the books and movies, is contemporary with a whole bunch of other teen dystopias, most notably The Hunger Games . They're set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago with a rigid caste system based on personality. We thought even less of this installment. 

Two nerds sitting on a couch discuss the second Divergent movie, Insurgent. The Divergent series, both the books and movies, is contemporary with a whole bunch of other teen dystopias, most notably The Hunger Games. They're set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago with a rigid caste system based on personality. We didn't think much of this installment. 

Two nerds sitting on a couch discuss the first of the Divergent movies.  The Divergent series, both the books and movies, is contemporary with a whole bunch of other teen dystopias, most notably The Hunger Games. They're set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago with a rigid caste system based on personality. There are spoilers galore for Divergent, in addition to other Young Adult dystopias and rela...

In which two nerds sit on the couch and discuss the third and final of the Maze Runner movies: The Death Cure . We do not recap the first two movies, so this is best listed to after our recaps of The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials . The Maze Runner series, both the books and movies, is contemporary with a whole bunch of other teen dystopias, most notably The Hunger Games, and follows a gro...

Two nerds sitting on the couch discuss the second of the Maze Runner movies: The Scorch Trials . We do not recap the first movie, so this is best listened to after our recap of The Maze Runner . The Maze Runner series, both the books and movies, is contemporary with a whole bunch of other teen dystopias, most notably The Hunger Games, and follows a group of teens in a survival situation . As alway...

Two nerds sitting on a couch discuss the first of the Maze Runner movie trilogy.  The Maze Runner series, both the books and movies, is contemporary with a whole bunch of other teen dystopias, most notably The Hunger Games, and follows a group of teens in a survival situation . There are spoilers galore for The Maze Runner , in addition to other Young Adult dystopias and related media. ...