Mildly Pleased

We’re not experts on a lot of things over here at T3, but we are good friends. Hmm, maybe that should be the disclaimer on every episode of this podcast. Regardless, we put our friendship knowledge to good use this week by discussing our favorite buddy movies in honor of Pain and Gain. If you […] The post T3 57: Top 10 Buddy Movies appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

There’s something about the Sixties. As a society, we still can’t shake it. As a podcast, we can’t escape it either. Now that Mad Men is back, and set in a new year, so have we returned to the deep, deep well of Sixties music. Particularly, albums released in 1968. Such as… Well, I don’t […] The post T3 56: Top 10 Albums of 1968 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Roger Ebert passed away last week and it hit us pretty hard. The man has been a role model for all us a critic and a promoter of the discussion of art. There might not be any individual who was more influential on this podcast or Mildly Pleased, except for perhaps his co-critics, Gene Siskel […] The post T3 55: Top 10 Siskel & Ebert & Roeper Reviews appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Hollywood sure loves a remake. I mean, it makes sense. Movies have to compete with YouTube, cable TV, on-demand, Netflix and God knows what tomorrow will have in store for our entertainment. So the filmmakers of the world have to leech onto anything we might possibly recognize. And sometimes, that doesn’t have to be a […] The post T3 54: Top 10 Remakes We’d Like to See appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Last year, we still had some hope. We did an entire episode dedicated to how the 2012 Mariners season was a thing we were capable of looking forward to… We were so naive. Not this year, no sir. We know the score now, we’re pretty used to being disappointed by the M’s. So we’re taking […] The post T3 53: Top 10 Reasons To Not Be Excited About The Mariners Season appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

With Sean ailing from a mysterious strand of super ebola, the rest of the gang was forced to improvise and settled on doing something that we all are good at, reminiscing. So to celebrate the tenth anniversary of our beloved band The Defenestrators, here’s a complete oral history of the band from it’s humble beginnings […] The post T3 52: Behind The Defenestrators appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

The ol’ switcheroo. We came into this, much like our boardgames episode, planning on talking about the absolute worst ideas for adapting fairy tales into movies. But after a little while, our ideas were either so obscure or so literal that they became rather appealing. Our proposed movies would never actually get made, but if […] The post T3 51: Top 10 Fairy Tale Movies We Want to See appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

This is a weird, self-indulgent episode (like that’s a change of pace for us). Three weeks ago, this blog turned five years old. We’ve come a long way, from a copyright-infringing mess to something that’s kinda, sorta actually cool. This podcast has been on a similar journey, having been a labor of love for over […] The post T3 50: Top Blog Memories of 2008 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

We’re so 2000-and late. For me, 2008 was the first year I really started looking for new music on my own. We had just started this blog and I was working at my college radio station and listening to a lot of stuff I didn’t like, and some that I did. I started reading music […] The post T3 49: Top 10 Albums of 2008 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Here at Mildly Pleased, Valentine’s is more than a day. It’s a whole weekend. Love weekend. That’s why we get Monday off, right? Anyway, we’re sorry we couldn’t be the third wheel on your lovefest all weekend, but as we say more often than we should, better late than never. Our love theme this year […] The post T3 48: Top 10 Power Ballads appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Here’s a treat for you! What, you think I could resist writing that? You think I’m so strong that I can simply not write the easy lead? No, I’m not. I found it so damned delectable I couldn’t help myself. It was just so sweet. You know, I try. I try to be better than […] The post T3 47: Top 10 Candies appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

How about that 30 Rock finale, huh? Pretty sweet. There are a few ways to end a series, the most popular of which is cancellation. But the few that do get to go out on their own terms have some tough choices to make: Do they dramatically end everything? Do they get sentimental, reflecting on […] The post T3 46: Top 10 Series Finales appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

The least anticipated podcast of the year! 2013 is doomed to be a disappointing year, this is known. It is probably going to be the year the public starts to turn against super hero movies and maybe sci fi in general. Not that that’ll stop us from looking forward to the movies we’ll get to […] The post T3 45: Top 10 Anticipated Movies of 2013 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Well, you’ve seen our individual lists. Now it’s time to see just who was the closest to guessing our overall top 10 movies of 2012. Now don’t worry, we tried to avoid getting to deep into spoilers and most of the movies in consideration are at least somewhat well-known. You shouldn’t have any hesitation going […] The post T3 44: Top 10 Movies of 2012 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

We go back from whence we came and do another best TV shows of the year list. A lot has changed in the year since we did in the first episode of this podcast, the top 10 shows of 2011. On NBC alone, Community went from cult phenomenon to a point of concern and longtime […] The post T3 43: Top 10 TV Shows of 2012 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

2013! The super future! No one planned for humanity making it this far. Instead of staring down into the scary void that is the unknown future, let us instead look back at the year that was 2012. What we’ve got planned is about a month of best of 2012 lists. Why? Because we don’t have […] The post The Mildly Pleased Awards appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

Oh, Christmas and its inescapable songs. The holiday that was all-too-perfect for a capitalist nation has grown into an oppressive force, gobbling up everything in its path. It started, innocently enough, with December 24th being turned into Christmas Eve, but soon the entire month of December was under control of ol’ Saint Nick. Not satisfied […] The post T3 42: Top 10 Christmas Songs appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

It’s a bleak and well-known reality that all of life on earth will be wiped out in a little more than a week. After all, that’s when the Mayan calendar runs out. And we all know how well the Mayans could predict the future. That’s why there are so many Mayans today, and our society […] The post T3 41: Top 10 Doomsday Scenarios appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

This week’s episode is such a tease. But don’t worry, we didn’t edit it down to just the best parts. No, no, we still don’t edit these things. But we did talk about our favorite movie trailers of all time. Or at least now. Since movie trailers keep getting better, we could probably do this […] The post T3 40: Top 10 Movie Trailers appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

He made a movie or two, now movies are made about him. That’s just how influential Alfred Hitchcock is to cinema. But if you’ve ever wondered if maybe Hitchcock was a quantity over quality man – after all, he did make what I believe is legally called a shitload of films – let us direct […] The post T3 39: Top 10 Alfred Hitchcock Movies appeared first on Mildly Pleased.