After Dark: Defy Wrestling, Rain City Jacks, Favorite Sports Movies, Movies That Touch on Personal Issues
Added 2025-02-14 16:31:01 +0000 UTCThe Filmcast: After Dark is the bonus show where we talk about a variety of random topics that didn't make it into the main podcast - including your questions and what's going on in our lives.
In this episode, David has an eye-opening week learning about sub-cultures in Seattle. Then, David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss their favorite sports movies, and what happens when a movie gets too personal.
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No one has a problem calling Field of Dreams a sports movie and there is less sports in it than Jerry Maguire
Aaron Pinkston
2025-03-04 02:24:45 +0000 UTCIn this vein, another one of my favorite baseball movies is Moneyball, even though that's really about the front office of a team rather than about the on field action itself (except very sparingly here and there). I would also submit both The Hustler and its sequel The Color of Money as all time great sports movies, even though they're more about pool hustling than actually winning the games.
Stranger2Reality
2025-02-17 23:22:34 +0000 UTCThat’s hilarious. 😂
David Jones
2025-02-17 23:20:17 +0000 UTCBill Simmons, is that you? All that's missing is the White Shadow 😂 Kidding aside, if you ever watch the movie Swimming With Sharks from 1994, Frank Whaley plays a huge movie buff who seemingly knows everything about film history but conflates The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh with Fast Break, as he says The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh came out the year he had his first kiss, and while he can't remember the name of the girl he kissed, he thought Gabe Kaplan's hair in that movie was amazing.
Stranger2Reality
2025-02-17 23:19:12 +0000 UTCLet me toss in a couple niche and older ones. The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh starring Dr. J. Complete 70s disco era fun. Also Fast Break starring Gabe “Mr. Kotter “ Kaplan. Down and gritty with hints of comedy.
David Jones
2025-02-17 17:30:12 +0000 UTCYou can argue certain movies are merely set in the old west, but film scholars would argue the western is a genre. It’s not just the setting, but the fact that the setting and historical context have been consistently useful for exploring a certain subset of themes. Themes in common along with consistent methods/vehicles for expressing them is what makes a genre. At least that’s what I learned in Intro to Film Studies
DarmineDoggyDoor
2025-02-17 02:31:37 +0000 UTCI was surprised Devindra, the podcast’s designated ex-NYC resident, did not defend the idea of straight men in a jackoff club. If there is one thing living in NYC taught me it is that some dudes just love going for it in public. If those guys can find a place where others actually consent to be that public, we all win.
Don Wood
2025-02-16 22:20:19 +0000 UTCIn the vein of actors from sports movie classics who wrote themselves a part to help jump start their career, I'd like to submit that Jon Favreau is another such actor. After starring in movies like Rudy and PCU, he wrote Swingers with himself in the lead and this really launched his career. From there he got a bunch more acting gigs (Deep Impact, The Replacements, etc), but it allowed him to go on and write and direct Made, which led to him directing bigger budget stuff like Zathura and eventually Iron Man, and now he's a major creative force in Hollywood. That all started with his script for Swingers.
Stranger2Reality
2025-02-16 19:18:21 +0000 UTCSports movie isn’t a genre, it’s a setting. Bad News Bears is the genre of comedy, Jerry Maguire is a romantic comedy, Field of Dreams is a drama. Lots of subgenre - underdog, comeback, redemption. But like westerns or comic book movies, it’s a setting, not a genre.
David Stripinis
2025-02-16 18:32:24 +0000 UTCJoy, it’s an honor 🫡
Brian
2025-02-15 23:44:52 +0000 UTCI was sad no one said anything
Brian
2025-02-15 23:44:14 +0000 UTC☠️
Joy o Napping
2025-02-15 22:30:21 +0000 UTCI won’t watch About Time again. It’s one of my top 10 of all time but I can’t bring myself to watch it. Spoilers ahead. It’s a weird choice on the surface but I watched it 6-12 months after my dad died so when Bill Nighy gets sick and dies in the second half it destroyed me. It released all these emotions I wasn’t really dealing with at the time. I watched it again a year later and it got me even worse. I will still watch some YouTube clips of it from time to time because it’s therapeutic for me but I don’t think I’ll ever sit down and watch the whole thing.
Jeff May
2025-02-15 08:33:19 +0000 UTCI hope I'm not the only degenerate who raised an eyebrow at Devindra's mention of Goon (2011).
I like drawing pigeons
2025-02-15 07:23:01 +0000 UTCI laughed out loud several times during this podcast. Truly one of the best
Eric Page
2025-02-14 22:24:22 +0000 UTCReally earned the “after dark” name this time.
Chris Cameron
2025-02-14 21:46:40 +0000 UTCOn the question of what makes a sports movie, in my opinion one of the best baseball films ever made is Everybody Wants Some, a movie with exactly one sequence where the sport is shown, but where the team dynamic hangs over nearly every frame. No baseball movie has ever nailed the wide array of personalities that make up a college baseball team like EWS did. All this to say, to me a “sports movie” is defined more by the overall tone and vibe, and less by strict requirements of screen time, plot, etc.
Brian Priestley
2025-02-14 21:12:14 +0000 UTCThis after dark is an instant classic.
Alex Ferrer
2025-02-14 21:01:20 +0000 UTCPetition to make all After Dark episodes R rated going forward. I mean the name sorta suggests it. This is the hardest I've laughed at the Filmcast in a long time
Russell Hull
2025-02-14 19:08:04 +0000 UTCI was wondering if Jeff was going to bring up ‘Mass,’ a movie that if he wasn’t an Unsullied and if it wasn’t recommended to him, I’m not sure he would have seen.
J.S.
2025-02-14 19:00:32 +0000 UTCOof the natural. That movie is comically full of hokum. It looks great but otherwise oof. Especially the way it treats women.
Reynaldo K. Cruz
2025-02-14 18:33:36 +0000 UTCDave should watch Wrestlemania in April
Foxhound
2025-02-14 18:20:22 +0000 UTCIn the Jack-off Club, we all Fam
Marcus Swan
2025-02-14 18:17:31 +0000 UTCWell that was not what I was expecting. Thanks for sharing it tho!
hexum311add
2025-02-14 16:58:30 +0000 UTCPetition to add a “Jack-off Club” tier to the Patreon!
Brian
2025-02-14 16:53:45 +0000 UTC
