thank you! we're still working on it, let us know if you have any feedback...we're still workshopping this. the next ep is tmr, we plan to release every tuesday
I liked the podcast too. You avoided the common podcast pitfall of having no structure at all. You had a pre-movie talk, then played sounds of the movie, then talked about it with some questions that seemed prepared. Just stuff like predicting 1 to 10 rating, then saying an actual rating afterwards kept the conversation from meandering. A lot of podcasters wouldn't bother having that amount of structure and it really makes it much easier to listen to. My only suggestion is that you start off the post-movie talk by having someone recap the plot of the movie in ~60 seconds.
My only Texas Chainsaw Massacre contribution is that it's rumored to be partially inspired by Christina's World, the painting by Andrew Wyeth. I can only trace that to weird tumblers or dead blogs but I'd still probably smugly drop that if I'm ever on a date at MoMA. I had never seen the movie before, but kind of felt like I was familiar with it just through cultural osmosis. I watched it last night after the bar because of your podcast. I always had the impression that it was blood and jump scares and wasn't expecting it to be so unsettling. A lot of ominous walking around.
thanks so much for the feedback! we will definitely incorporate the short recap going forward, that's a v. good idea. can totally see it in the wyeth painting. and yeah, there's only a few jump scares in TCM (though they are super effective)...it's a super ambient film, glad you re-watched it and hope u keep listening!
I really enjoyed this podcast. I figured I'd comment because you mentioned multiple times that no one would listen. I listened. My parents weren’t super strict with what I watched as a kid. I saw the Alien movies way younger than I probably should have for example. I also had a series of chainsmoking babysitters. One of them had all these VHS tapes a friend had dubbed her from premium channels like HBO. I was literally the only boy there for a few years so she usually just plopped me down in front of the TV while she smoked. I vividly remember watching Ghost in the Machine like this, which was about a serial killer who gets reincarnated as electricity and uses machines to keep murdering people. One of the protagonists is an adolescent boy, so you know whoever put the film together 100% intended it to be viewed by adolescent boys younger than an R rating would allow (just like John Connor in Terminator 2). I also had a few friends whose parents paid precisely zero attention to which movies they watche. By 8th grade we were already getting ahold of extreme metal records and one of those same friends knew a line from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre that you had to recognize to get a free CD through a magazine. That was my introduction to the movie. I thought the movie was great as a teenager and still think it’s a classic horror film.
I started reading your posts on Reddit, and they captured a certain time in NYC extremely well. A time in which I was also living there (I no longer do). I came from Iowa instead of West Virginia, but so much of it rang true. The stories about New York are accurate to the point of being uncanny.
This is all a long way of saying keep up the good work.
hey thanks for the thoughtful (and nostalgic) comment, esp. since this was kind of a "first pancake" test episode. ghost in the shell is great., saw it around that age as well. hope you stay tuned
Love this film and loved the first episode. When’s the next?
thank you! we're still working on it, let us know if you have any feedback...we're still workshopping this. the next ep is tmr, we plan to release every tuesday
I liked the podcast too. You avoided the common podcast pitfall of having no structure at all. You had a pre-movie talk, then played sounds of the movie, then talked about it with some questions that seemed prepared. Just stuff like predicting 1 to 10 rating, then saying an actual rating afterwards kept the conversation from meandering. A lot of podcasters wouldn't bother having that amount of structure and it really makes it much easier to listen to. My only suggestion is that you start off the post-movie talk by having someone recap the plot of the movie in ~60 seconds.
My only Texas Chainsaw Massacre contribution is that it's rumored to be partially inspired by Christina's World, the painting by Andrew Wyeth. I can only trace that to weird tumblers or dead blogs but I'd still probably smugly drop that if I'm ever on a date at MoMA. I had never seen the movie before, but kind of felt like I was familiar with it just through cultural osmosis. I watched it last night after the bar because of your podcast. I always had the impression that it was blood and jump scares and wasn't expecting it to be so unsettling. A lot of ominous walking around.
Anyways, good show.
thanks so much for the feedback! we will definitely incorporate the short recap going forward, that's a v. good idea. can totally see it in the wyeth painting. and yeah, there's only a few jump scares in TCM (though they are super effective)...it's a super ambient film, glad you re-watched it and hope u keep listening!
I really enjoyed this podcast. I figured I'd comment because you mentioned multiple times that no one would listen. I listened. My parents weren’t super strict with what I watched as a kid. I saw the Alien movies way younger than I probably should have for example. I also had a series of chainsmoking babysitters. One of them had all these VHS tapes a friend had dubbed her from premium channels like HBO. I was literally the only boy there for a few years so she usually just plopped me down in front of the TV while she smoked. I vividly remember watching Ghost in the Machine like this, which was about a serial killer who gets reincarnated as electricity and uses machines to keep murdering people. One of the protagonists is an adolescent boy, so you know whoever put the film together 100% intended it to be viewed by adolescent boys younger than an R rating would allow (just like John Connor in Terminator 2). I also had a few friends whose parents paid precisely zero attention to which movies they watche. By 8th grade we were already getting ahold of extreme metal records and one of those same friends knew a line from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre that you had to recognize to get a free CD through a magazine. That was my introduction to the movie. I thought the movie was great as a teenager and still think it’s a classic horror film.
I started reading your posts on Reddit, and they captured a certain time in NYC extremely well. A time in which I was also living there (I no longer do). I came from Iowa instead of West Virginia, but so much of it rang true. The stories about New York are accurate to the point of being uncanny.
This is all a long way of saying keep up the good work.
hey thanks for the thoughtful (and nostalgic) comment, esp. since this was kind of a "first pancake" test episode. ghost in the shell is great., saw it around that age as well. hope you stay tuned