50 First Films

We're Sylvia and Steven, and this is our podcast! We show each other movies one of us hasn't seen before but the other has, and then have a fun conversation about it. Come join us! Podcast Episodes

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 In this episode, Steven shows Sylvia a quiet thriller classic. Topics include cochlear implants, angry signing, cinema sins, and quiet sex.

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[shanastoryteller]

i want people to feel about my writing the way roger ebert feels about the mummy

[shanastoryteller]

“There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased.”

[tesb]

A Quiet Place (2018) dir. John Krasinski

[eggogorgon]

Who are we if we can’t protect them?

A Quiet Place (2018) dir. John Krasinski

[afloweroutofstone]

Go see “A Quiet Place.”

[gallifreystands]

The effect that A Quiet Place had on the theater was so unreal. People were afraid to eat. Half the people, myself and the guy beside me included, spent tense movie moments covering their mouths as to not make a sound, one time somebody stepped on a nacho container during a VERY tense moment and the entire theater lost their shit. People were gasping, one woman screamed, everyone chatised the individual quickly and hushedly before returning to the movie. When the lights came up everyone was still whispering. People were tiptoeing out like everyone was fucking silent and to have THAT effect on your audience shows something.

[junkfoodcinemas]

A Quiet Place (2018) dir. John Krasinski

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Listen to this episode from 50 First Films on Spotify. SPOILERS - We discuss the entirety of A Quiet Place Part II, so keep that in mind before listening! Steven and Sylvia went to the movies! This isn't our normal format, so things go a little off the rails in this special episode. Topics include moviegoing experiences, copaganda, survival genre tropes, and more things I don't want to talk about here because they're spoilers!

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A Quiet Place Part II – A Return to Normalcy – by Sylvia.

This isn’t a movie review, but rather a reflection. There are no spoilers.

Excerpt:

“Watching A Quiet Place Part II is a movie-going experience unlike most. There are so many scenes where there is no sound at all. Where even your breathing can be heard by your neighbors, let alone the crunch of popcorn, or the swishing of your ice in it’s cup as you go for a drink of soda. You become so conscious of all the little sounds simply existing makes, which I think is a brilliant tactic for the movie. It places you directly into the bodies of the characters on screen, and it winds up the tension even more. You hold your breath when Regan does, your body tenses as she tries to so carefully pick something up without making a noise. It’s intense in the best way. ”

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Bee Movie (2007) dir. Simon J. Smith & Steve Hickner

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In this episode, Sylvia and Steven talk about the Seinfelds and the Bees... And capitalism... And Marxism...  And the inevitable overturning of humanity... but mostly, bees... We think.

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Listen to this episode from 50 First Films on Spotify. In this episode, Steven shows Sylvia an animated classic that she liked more than she realized.

Topics include: Master Builders, Renting Movies from the internet and in stores, Lego Facts, and Everything is Awesome. 

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Movies that Shape Us - Bee Movie

By Sylvia.

When I share movies the goal isn't to expose someone to the greatest movies ever made. It doesn't honestly matter to me if a movie is objectively good. Because really, who can actually be objective when consuming media? Everything about ourselves dictates whether or not we enjoy a movie, whether or not we think it's worth sharing. To me, all a movie has to do is garner some kind of reaction for it to be worth sharing.

This week I made Steven watch the absurd 2007 animated film "Bee Movie," and I will say there were multiple times where the look on his face said, "Why are you making me watch this, you lunatic?"

I'm not laboring under the delusion that Bee Movie is good. Because honestly it isn't. It's loses the thread of it's own plot too many times, makes questionable decisions about humor style, doesn't understand who the audience is supposed to be, etc... It's not an "objectively" good movie. But, it is definitely something that sticks with you, something that you remember and maybe even laugh about later. It has a few good one liners, a weird romance plot between a bee and a human that to this day still has people scratching their heads, and a really fumbling attempt to say something about capitalism and communism that leads to some interesting thoughts about the working class and their place in the social hierarchy.

Not to mention the meme culture, the fan fiction, the weird inside jokes that the absurdity in this movie inspired are something that could be looked at through quite an interesting anthropological lens (but I'll leave that for the scientists among us).

All this to say, this movie did have some kind of impact on me, on my sense of humor, on the way I interacted with people online in the early 20-teens. So, of course I wanted to share it with my partner. I won't say something like Bee Movie is a big part of my personality, but I like to think of myself as a multifaceted person, and if one little sliver of a glinting facet was put there by a ridiculous movie from 2007, then I'd like to share that with someone who cares to know every part of me.

How about you? Any weird or "bad" movies that contribute to the overall you?

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Our Podcast Episode for Bee Movie will drop 6/9/21. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify and 14 other platforms.

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Spotify Link

In this episode, Sylvia shows Steven a movie about swappin' sperm in your best friend's pregnancy! Oops!

Topics include: The 1996 Jeffrey Eugenides short store "Baster,” IVF mistakes as a romance genre, Autistic-coded characters, and the Friend Zone.

[itslexieforteza]

Look at us, running around, always rushed, always late. I guess that’s why they call it the human race. But sometimes, it slows down just enough for all the pieces to fall into place. Fate works its magic, and you’re connected. Every once in a while, amid the randomness, something unexpected happens that pushes us all forward. And the truth is, what I’m starting to think, what I’m starting to feel, is that the human race isn’t a race at all.

Wally Mars, The Switch

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The Switch (2010)