Ep 69.5 - The Letterboxd Games

​Zach and Lexi dive down the rabbit hole of their favorite movie review/comedy gold site, and it gets quizzy.

SPOILER WARNING: If you read this post now, you will know the answers for the trivia games played in the episode. So, if you want to play along, I'd wait before you read this!

As mentioned in the episode:

"The Future of Film Talk Is on Letterboxd," that Ringer article Zach mentioned.

Lexi's Follow Recs

• Dril
• Kevin T. Porter
• Gabriel Gundacker
• David Zavala
• Demi Adejuyigbe (i know we didn't actually mention demi until later in the episode but i'm including him here anyway deal with it)

Mentioned Lists (Not During the Game)

• “movies where the director can’t be fucking bothered to show us a character is dying properly so they just have them cough some blood into a hankie or have a nosebleed”
  “films containing a scene where a charming psychopath dances to an incongruously upbeat song whilst commiting violent acts”
• “Movies My Wife Is Routinely Surprised/Dismayed I Haven’t Seen Yet”

The Jake Hyllenhaal Section

• Interested in Jake Gyllenhaal
  • ​“jake gyllenhaal movies ranked by how much i think his character likes mozzarella sticks”
  • “jake gyllenhaal ranked by how much I think he smells”
  • “jake gyllenhaal movies ranked by how much i think he owes me an apology”
• Horny for Jake Gyllenhaal
  • “Jake Gyllenhaal Characters ranked by if I would take him home to meet the folks”
  • “jake gyllenhaal movies ranked by how much i’d want to date him”
  • “jake gyllenhaal ranked by how much i want to start a moose farm in sweden with him”
  • “jake gyllenhaal films that i rated 3/5 because he was hot in them”
  • “Jake Gyllenhaal films ranked by how much I, personally, want to bone him”
  • “jake gyllenhaal ranked by how red my knees are”
  • “jake gyllenhaal ranked by how much i want him to spit on me”
  • “jake gyllenhaal ranked by how much i want him to pistol whip me”
  • “jake gyllenhaal ranked on how much i want him to plow me into the ground”
  • “jake gyllenhaal’s movies ranked on how much i wanted to suck his dick” (TWICE)
  • “Jake Gyllenhaal ranked by how much I want him to fuck me so hard I can’t walk for a week”

Guess! That! List!

• The Movies:
  • Clueless (Jane Austen's Emma)
  • She’s The Man (Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night)
  • Easy A (The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.)
• The List: classic literature, but with ~teens~

 

• The Movies:
  • Midsommar
  • Mulan
  • Hustlers
  • Bonus: Kill Bill
• The List: Women ending men genre ranked

 

• The Movies:
  • Ant Man
  • Austin Powers: Goldmember
  • Predator 
  • Bonus: Rampage starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson
• The List: Films with exploding helicopters

 

• The Movies:
  • Without A Paddle
  • Werner Herzog’s documentary “Grizzly Man”
  • Doctor Dolittle 2
• The List: Best Movies With a Bear as a Supporting Role, but NOT the Main Character (Sorry Open Season)

 

• The Movies:
  • James and the Giant Peach 
  •  Call Me By Your Name
• The List: guys inside peaches

 

• The Movies:
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
  • Eragon
  • Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker 
  • (Also includes: Maximum Ride, The Clique (2008), Mortal Engines, A Series of Unfortunate Events, etc. There are 40 films)
• The List: all the times hollywood made film adaptations of the first instalment of a beloved young adult book series except the film was so poorly received that they gave up on adapting the rest of the books despite foreshadowing and cliffhangers in the first film

 

• The Movies:
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
  • The Cat in the Hat
  • Parasite
• The List: Movies where the protagonists are left alone in a nice house for the weekend and they trash it, but then the homeowners have to come home early because of unforseen circumstances involving their youngest kid, so the protagonists have to hurry to clean…

 

• The List: Third installment of a movie series featuring a blonde guy and his big green companion trying to save their kingdom from being destroyed with an awesome fight scene set to Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song
• The Movies:
  • Thor: Ragnarok
  • Shrek the Third