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Intermission #4: Maclunky, Walkie-Talkies, and the Death of Movies

6/1/202643 min

The fourth Intermission finds the hosts debating film preservation, 4K restorations, AI upscaling, George Lucas's Star Wars revisions, Spielberg's E.T. walkie-talkies, and whether modern transfers are preserving movies or changing them. Plus, Jason completes a year-and-a-half watch-through of the entire Kristy Swanson filmography, Arnie revisits 1995's Mortal Kombat, listener Tom Ross hosts a trivia challenge, and the conversation wanders through Darth Maul, The Boys, Project Hail Mary, and more.

Clips

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Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Arnie· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Woo. Uh. We gonna watch a movie.

  2. Stuart· Host0:05

    A movie.

  3. Arnie· Host0:06

    Lights, camera, explosion.

  4. Stuart· Host0:07

    Explosion.

  5. Arnie· Host0:07

    Get ready for the reel. Now Playing Podcast in motion. Yeah.

  6. Stuart· Host0:11

    Yeah.

  7. Arnie· Host0:12

    Hello, and welcome to Now Playing's fourth intermission. Thank you for downloading us. I'm Arnie.

  8. Stuart· Host0:21

    And Stewart.

  9. Marjorie· Host0:22

    Marjorie.

  10. Jason· Host0:23

    And I'm Jason.

  11. Justin· Host0:24

    And this is Justin.

  12. Arnie· Host0:25

    So guys, what have you been up to? Justin, what about you? What have you been listening to, reading, watching, doing? Hockey again?

  13. Justin· Host0:33

    It's still hockey. Um, other than that, you know, I mentioned before I've been watching the Darth Maul show. That wrapped up and- What's the premise?

  14. Stuart· Host0:42

    Darth Maul, what era of his life? What's he doing?

  15. Justin· Host0:45

    Darth Maul pretty much directly after Revenge of the Sith. So he's already gone through the spider legs, messing around with Crimson Dawn a little bit. So this is almost like a prequel to the Solo movie, where we see Darth Maul at the very end in a hologram. But this is more of like a crime drama. We're dealing with a local police force, and Darth Maul is on this planet.

  16. Stuart· Host1:10

    Are you rooting for Darth Maul? Uh, is he like the hero?

  17. Justin· Host1:13

    Kind of.

  18. Stuart· Host1:13

    Okay.

  19. Justin· Host1:14

    He's a bad guy still, but like, yeah, that's what makes this interesting, is he's kind of an anti-hero type of thing. They wrapped up the first season. They did pretty good. I'm looking forward to the second season. And as we record right now, we are in the final week of the final episode of The Boys. So by the time most people are

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