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Merry Christmas everyone! We watched three of your picks for underappreciated Christmas movies as an end of the year thank you for supporting us on Patreon. On this episode, we discuss Blast of Silence (1961), The Silent Partner (1978), and Tokyo Godfathers (2003). Three really different movies set against a Christmas backdrop, but also ones that have some commonalities amongst them. Thank you for sending these suggestions our way as we had a lot of fun watching these movies and talking about them for you.On behalf of Ryan and myself, we also wish you the happiest of whatever holiday you celebrate. We are so proud of the community we've built here on Patreon and all of the engaging discussions that are had in the comments. We can't wait to create even more content for you in the New Year! We'll be back very soon for our special episode on the wicky, wicky, Wild Wild West

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Luke Gordnier

Merry Christmas Joe and Ryan. Can’t wait to get wickey and wild

Luke Gordnier

Joe at some point you should release a complination on pateron all of the harsh things Ryan has said that you had to cut out.

Thomas Bishop

For a W3 companion on Patreon may be time to finally do a few episodes of the old west comedy/adventure Brisco County, Jr. (think you guys mentioned was on the old radar). Also, one of my all-time favorite movies I've been looking for any excuse to shoehorn into conversation "Kin Dza Dza!" steampunk sci-fi comedy from our faithful friends the soviets!

Luke Gordnier

I remember when ryan said he wasn’t much of a anime fan in the problem child episode and now he’s fully into it.

Luke Gordnier

Rakin Bass did do the animated frosty

JokersJuicyAss

I'm kicking myself for not recommending the 1992 version of Christmas in Connecticut and 8 Crazy Nights

JokersJuicyAss

Also I'm sad you guys didn't cover the shit I sent ya

The One and Rory

Shame you didn't click with Tokyo Godfathers. I suggested it since I thought it'd be a grounded introduction to Kon's filmography (Which I guess I accomplished seeing how Ryan sold you on seeing his other films). I say "grounded" since it's the one film in his filmography that feels like it's taking place in reality. His other flicks tend to blur the line between reality and fantasy, taking a lot of influence from Gilliam.

Sidetracks

Nothing had arrived at the time of recording sadly

JokersJuicyAss

Really? Because according to Amazon they have been delivered since the 11th

Sidetracks

The mail center sends me an email whenever we get a package but didn’t say anything had arrived until last week. Sorry about that, I’ll make sure we open them for the next episode

Sidetracks

There was still a lot to like about it, even if the characters were too over the top for me. I’ll definitely check out some of his other work though and I really do appreciate your suggestion!

Trevor Poe

The Criterion Streaming Service has so much great stuff. Recommend the Adventures of Baron Munchausen as an Almost Cult Classic.

Ryan Lancello

The Sword of Ramonicles dangles precariously above my head…

Trembling Colors

You guys need to see the Elliott Gould and Robert Blake cop movie Busting (1976). It was the inspiration for the Starsky and Hutch show which was later the influence for Miami Vice (Michael Mann wrote several episodes of Starsky and Hutch). It's a good grimy 70s LA movie.

Trembling Colors

The best way to hack Tubi is to just connect your TV to your PC or laptop with an HDMI cable, watch Tubi through that with all the ad-blockers whatever browser you use has turned on and you have no ads.

Ryan Lancello

Ive seen it! Directed by Peter Hyams, I think I briefly discussed it in the Stay Tuned episode

Ryan Lancello

Joe is so politically correct he calls the post office a “mail center.” Joe’s gone woke!!! 😩

Mary and Steve

If I remember right, Ice Age also borrows the plot from/is inspired by 3 Godfathers. Maybe you’d enjoy listening to Ray Romano and John Leguizamo more 🤭 (animation’s not as good tho)

Mary and Steve

I’ve always been interested in Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress sounds dope, they are on the top of my Satoshi Kon to-watch.

Mary and Steve

Fun Fact for y’all: Rankin Bass is kind of anime 🙃 (Topcraft studios did a lot of the animation for the 2d stuff and later on a good chunk of the animators formed Studio Ghibli. MOM Studios did the animagic/stop-motion stuff. They’re also Japanese! P sure Rankin Bass also worked with Toei and Mushi Productions. Mushi Pro was Osamu Tezuka’s animation studio, so Astro Boy, Kimba, all that stuff.)

Salvador Pereira

Satoshi Kon's Opus was great also Magnetic Rose is a masterpiece, another film The Beast (1988) is a hidden gem.