Mildly Pleased

What’s that? It’s too early to talk about Christmas movies? Well, you’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch. It’s less than two weeks away from the biggest holiday in the world, and once it’s come and gone, we’ll have to wait such a long time until it comes again. Let’s enjoy it. Let’s all enjoy it. […] The post T3 70: Top 10 Christmas Movies appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

We didn’t really know what to talk about this week, so we got real and decided to talk about how much of a shit year it’s been. This episode is a real downer, I’m not going to dance around it. Maybe we just needed to vent about how bad things have gotten, but it should […] The post T3 69: Top 10 Reasons 2013 Sucked appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Some of the best movies of all time were sequels, like The Godfather Part 2, The Empire Strikes Back, and… uh… Ghostbusters 2? But also sometimes sequels are a dumb idea that only manage to tarnish the legacy of a good first movie. And that sucks. So this week, we’ve put together a list of […] The post T3 68: Top 10 Sequels We’d Like to See appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

I certainly hope everyone is having a spooktacular Halloween! I know we were, because up until the last minute, I had no idea what to pitch. It’s so hard coming up with a new idea for a horror movie, there are just so many of them! Basically anyone you can possibly think of has tried […] The post Pitching Tents 02: Halloween Special appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

When you were a little kid, did you ever imagine you got to join your favorite characters on their adventures? Obi Wan would teach you in the ways of the force, maybe, or Indiana Jones would need your help to secure a precious artifact, for example. Well, the filmmakers behind those films thought you had […] The post T3 67: Top 10 Annoying Children in Movies appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Here’s something a bit different. You know how sometimes they make movies? Do you ever wonder how executives and screenwriters come up with the ideas for those movies? Well, here’s our best approximation of what it’s like. It’s a new show for a growing network of podcasts for the smallest audience possible, Pitching Tents. It’s […] The post Pitching Tents 01: Isolation appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

As implied by my Dexter finale review, “Felina,” Breaking Bad‘s final episode, was actually not disappointing somehow. And while sure, you could argue the merits of focusing criticism on one episode of a serialized story like this, we felt it was meaty enough to talk about for 45 minutes or so. After all, something like […] The post T3: The Breaking Bad Special appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

We end our late summer hiatus by spending this week talking about the thing everyone was talking about last week: Grand Theft Auto V. But can you blame us? It’s the biggest franchise in gaming, with massive appeal outside of core gamers. And it made like a billion dollars in three days. That’s Justin Timberlake […] The post T3 66: Top 10 Things We Love About GTA appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Bryan Cranston was recognizable, if not an outright star. He was Snizard on Power Rangers, Dr. Whatley on Seinfeld, Hal on Malcolm in the Middle. He was a known quantity, a fun, goofy guy. His niche was carved. And then he started playing a chemistry teacher with cancer and revealed to the world that he […] The post T3 65: Top 10 Against-Type Performances appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

What if you had one shot to summon history’s greatest heroes …And then just hang out with them for a bit? Like, you know, do whatever it is you wish you could with them. Not like sexual stuff. Gross! They’re dead people. They have a word for that, you know. Necrophilia. It’s not cool. Not […] The post T3 64: Top 10 Dead People with Whom We’d Like to Hang appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

If you had been foolish enough to buy The Cannonball Run on DVD, you’d want to make something of it too. But you’re not that foolish, are you? No, you’re a smart, savvy Internet browser/podcast listener/sex machine. Look at you, you emblem of perfection. You pillar of the community. We should be thanking you, for […] The post Good Movie/Bad Movie: The Cross-Country Run appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Hey, so, the last episode got lost… Sort of. It sounds bad, and it’s kind of hard to fix it, and maybe someday it will be out as a bonus lost episode. But instead we push on! And by push on, I mean continue to focus on things somewhat related to Pacific Rim. Because that […] The post T3 63: Top 10 Giant Movie Monsters appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

This week we play judge, jury, and executioner for the two Judge Dredd movies that have been made thus far. The first, starring Sylvester Stalone, tries to be the ultimate story for the character, full of massive reveals and incredible consequences for the rest of the franchise. The second, starring Mildly Pleasedman Karl Urban, is […] The post Good Movie/Bad Movie: Dredd appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

2013, man. Shit’s half done. All we are is dust in the wind. This week we wallow in the fragility of mortality by talking about our favorite stuff so far this year. That means video games, TV shows, music, and movies. Consider it a preview of sorts for the big deal lists we’ll be doing […] The post T3 61: Top Stuff of 2013 So Far appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

We only get one shot at Super Smash Bros. in a generation. The franchise-mash-up fighting series, which has already appeared on N64, Gamecube, the Wii, was recently officially announced to be coming to both the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U. More importantly, the confirmation of Mega Man joining the fray means that Solid Snake […] The post T3 60: Top 10 Smash Bros. Characters We’d Like to See appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Supes. The Big Blue Boy Scout. The Last Son of Krypton. The Man of Tomorrow. The Metropolis Kid. The Man of Steel. There were a lot of options to with when titling the new Superman movie, based on the trend of using nicknames instead of actual names for DC films. They went with probably the […] The post Some Kind of Movie – Ep. 4: You’ll Believe a Man Can Cry appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Sometimes things don’t work out, for a lot of reasons. Good ol’ fashioned creative differences, tragic deaths, that sort of stuff. Sometimes they don’t work out for bullshit reasons. Like in the case of Arrested Development, which was cancelled because it was too good, I guess. But now it’s back, so that’s weird. Anyway, in […] The post T3 59: Top 10 Short-Lived TV Shows appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Another week, another episode of something that’s not Top Ten Thursdays. This week, join Colin and I as we compare another two movies with very little in common in another episode of Good Movie/Bad Movie. Our focus this time? The summer action showcase that is Fast and Furious 6, and the significantly more down-to-earth indie […] The post Good Movie/Bad Movie: Bromances appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

By now you’ve hopefully read my review of Star Trek Into Darkness, or at least someone’s. But maybe you were craving a little more. Maybe you wanted a spoiler-filled discussion of the film’s merits. Well, here you go. Here it is. The four of us talking about how well Into Darkness compares to the rest […] The post Some Kind of Movie – Ep. 3: Boldly Going Where We’ve Gone Before appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Sorry there wasn’t an episode last week, we had some plans and then they fell apart and we just, kind of, gave up. We’re pretty good at that, actually. You see, in life, you have to make choices. Choices about how you feel about yourself and how you present yourself to society. And we’ve all […] The post T3 58: Top 10 Ways to Give Up appeared first on Mildly Pleased.