Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast

THERE CAN BE ONLY THREE! (Or more...)Also known as Highlander: The Final Dimension. Neither title makes sense.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

On the latest Podcast Part 3, we pay a belated tribute to the great Catherine O'Hara by taking a look at 2003's A Mighty Wind, the third in Christopher Guest's mockumentary trilogy. Spoiler alert: It's very good. Another spoiler alert: She's great in it.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Turn up the Nine Inch Nails and/or Depeche Mode, because it's time for a third crack at making Tron a thing (the franchise, not the character... never the character). It's 2025's Tron: Ares, a movie that'll make you sad that Daft Punk broke up all over again.

Podcast Part 3 is staggering into the new year with yet another big beefy fantasy thing to talk about... this time it's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, a 2.5 hour adaptation of about 15 pages of Tolkein's original book.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

We interrupt our regularly scheduled bitch sesh about The Hobbit to bring you the newest, hottest threequel in town. That's right, the boys are talking Avatar: Fire and Ash and all the visually spectacular horny cat-alien weirdness you can handle!Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

We come back to you now, at the turn of the tide... because it's time to talk about the conclusion to the Best. Trilogy. Ever.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Happy Halloween! It's time to wrap up Shriek-quel Threequel season with the oh-so-very 2006 Final Destination 3. It's a literal and figurative roller coaster ride as the boys watch Mary Elizabeth Winstead and a bunch of kids in mid-2000s Bieber hair try to outrun death while clutching their digital cameras, iPods, CD players and flip phones. Will they live long enough to reach 2007 and the arrival of the iPhone? Strap in and find out!Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's time to talk about a f-cking movie star, 'cause Will and Sam are taking it back to 2024-slash-1985 with Ti West's MaXXXine, the conclusion to the blood-soaked Mia Goth-led X trilogy. Does this love letter to Hollywood stick the landing in the way most trilogy-enders don't? Does Sam have some hot takes about the White Album out of nowhere? The answers are mostly and of course.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Sam recently took Will and Podcast Part 3 by surprise when he instituted a three-star grading system for any threequels past or future. Now it's time to open up the podcast archives and assign one, two or three stars to the dozens of threequels we've enjoyed (or at least tolerated). Who will get the coveted three stars (Army of Darkness)? Who must suffer the shame of a solitary one star (Robocop 3)? Who will split the difference with two (I dunno... that Resident Evil we watched maybe)? Tune in and find out.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

We're shaking (but not stirring) things up at Podcast Part 3, as Will and Sam tackle Connery, Moore, Brosnan and Craig's respective third James Bonds... Goldfinger, The Spy Who Loved Me, The World is Not Enough and Skyfall. (Apologies to Lazenby and Dalton.)And to complete such a daring mission for podcast and country, they've brought in the host of the Tuesday Morning Screening Room podcast, writer/producer/Bond aficionado FM DeMarco. That's right, it only took 60-plus episodes, but the boys finally made a friend!Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Before Minecraft and Mario changed the game, video game movies were synonymous with failure, so mercifully very few became legit multi-movie franchises... with one notable exception. It's time to watch Resident Evil: Extinction, one of the very few video game movie threequels, and probably the best one to not feature a talking hedgehog.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Finally, a real superhero to end the summer! With Liam Neeson's fabulous new Naked Gun in theaters, Will and Sam are taking a look back at 1994's Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, the franchise's last installment starring Leslie Nielsen (and unsurprisingly, OJ Simpson). Warning: The words parody and satire will be used interchangeably throughout, so theater majors and film theorists be warned.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Superhero summer continues with the high-water mark of the post-Endgame MCU, 2023's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. In hindsight, James Gunn made a talking raccoon the best character in the MCU, so maybe we shouldn't be that shocked that he made Superman work.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's a superhero summer here at Podcast Part 3, and we're going way back to 2013 with one of the MCU's true threequels, Iron Man 3, aka the one with a Mandarin but not THE Mandarin. Also, Sam blindsides Will with the new official Podcast Part 3 rating system that he totally didn't make up on the fly!Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Jurassic World has rebirthed, so there's no better time to revisit its most recent threequel, 2022's Jurassic World: Dominion. And don't forget, Giganotosaurus is the largest carnivore the world has ever seen.Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Back in our day, we only had a Jurassic Park instead of a whole Jurassic World and we liked it that way! (Well, mostly...) Jurassic World: Rebirth is nigh, so it's time for a 90-minute speed run through Isla Sorna with 2001's Jurassic Park III, a movie made entirely of ideas they didn't use in the first two Jurassic Parks. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's time for another visit to the Universal Classic Monsters (excuse me, the Dark Universe), as we check in on Gill-man's one and only threequel, 1956's The Creature Walks Among Us. It's a sweaty Tennessee Williams melodrama about an abusive marriage and a toxic love triangle that just happens to feature a fish man living in the backyard. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Podcast Part 3 is back, rising like a phoenix from the ashes to talk about, um, crows. Specifically (and lamentably) 2000's The Crow: Salvation, a direct-to-video threequel so dull not even Walton Goggins can save it. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Shriek-quel Threequel season continues with Podcast Part 3's first visit to the shaky, spooky world of found footage with Paranormal Activity 3! As the low-budget, bajillion-dollar making demon possession saga takes us back to 1988, Will and Sam delve into the horror-heavy genre of found footage, pondering why it's so easy to make these movies but insanely difficult to make one that's actually good. Something about how it's hard to make a good movie look like a bad movie while still being a good movie at its core. It's complicated. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's October and Shriek-quel Threequel season is upon us once again! Sharpen up your Daggers of Megiddo because we're taking on the Antichrist himself in Omen III: The Final Conflict. Damien Thorn is Sam Neill now, and he's hellbent (har har) on destroying that pesky Jesus once and for all. While Damien recruits every evil little British boy he can find, Sam and Will compare this take on the Devil to The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and the original Omen (unfair), wonder why Satan is always vastly better prepared than God in these movies (fair) and lament that Jesus and the Antichrist don't have a John Wick-style fight to settle things (very fair). Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's Problematic Director Days here at Podcast Part 3 as Will and Sam continue their foray in to the dear departed X-Men franchise with X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Apocalypse, two threequels jockeying for worst superhero movie of all time. Thrill as the Phoenix Saga is woefully botched twice in one franchise, and marvel as Oscar Isaac and Jennifer Lawrence compete to see who can look the most bored! Also Sam nobly attempts to derail the episode by talking about Furiosa. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

This week on Podcast Part 3, we don't got a podcast... we got a family. But only slightly, because this is The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the Season of the Witch of the Fast franchise! Join not-quite-Paul Walker as he traverses the mean streets of Tokyo in this threequel that's also canonically the seventh movie in the franchise. Did you know that this franchise that's basically the MCU with muscle cars had a sequel that was actually about racing?! We were just as surprised as you! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

The most consistently good franchise in movie history is back and grimmer than ever with 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes! As the saga of Caesar draws to a close, Will and Sam discuss whether this is the rare trilogy where the third movie is the best one, how a campy big-budget Twilight Zone episode managed to yield an 80% great series of sci-fi movies, and why the hell Steve Zahn isn't getting more work in Hollywood. (Bad Ape!) Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Get ready for 1.21 Gigawatts of fun (and respectful film discourse) as Will and Sam revisit Back to the Future Part III, aka the one in the Old West, aka the one with the random ZZ Top cameo, aka the one with Mary Steenburgen on the poster. There's no Johnny B. Goode and very little hoverboard as Marty and Doc embark on a passable Western comedy that happens to feature time travel. It's still a Back to the Future movie though, so expect some warm Amblin fuzzies from our two Millennial hosts... even if the movie itself is, like your average McFly, kind of a slacker. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Sam and Will are taking the law into their own hands! On this episode, Podcast Part 3 visits the seedy underbelly of 80s cinema with Death Wish 3, a high-water mark for the infamous Cannon Films (if such a thing is possible). As Charles Bronson delivers his wooden brand of vigilante justice, the boys muse on the prolific schlock output of Golan and Globus, compare Chucks (Bronson v. Norris) and wonder if maybe it's for the best that this sleazy action movie really isn't trying to do or say anything profound about the justice system of 80s NYC. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

WE HAVE RISEN, BABY GIRL! Podcast Part 3 is back, just in time for the most improbable threequel of all: an R-rated third Deadpool, fully authorized by Disney and fully canon in the MCU! Join Sam, Will, Wade and, oh yeah, f-cking LOGAN in a blood-soaked tribute to the mid-00s era of superhero movies. It'll somehow make you nostalgic for the Fantastic Four, Elektra and even a Gambit movie that never actually got made. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an all-new episode of Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast! And it's a DC Comics double feature as Will and Sam take on the very silly Superman III, aka Superman meets Richard Pryor. And if that's not enough, they're also talking about the deeply frustrating and problematic Superman Returns. While the Man of Steel takes on Brainiac (kind of), Bizarro (not really) and Lex Luthor (canceled), the boys discuss the bumpy cinematic journey of the most iconic superhero of all time, question the damage Five for Fighting has done to the Superman brand, and Sam offers his recasting of Superman Returns with the best that 2006 Hollywood has to offer. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Together again! It's a new year and a new season of Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast, and we're taking the show to Broadway with 1984's The Muppets Take Manhattan, an honestly kind of bland entry in the Muppets pantheon... turns out you need a pretty strong story to make the Muppets work, and failing that you need a Charles Grodin or a Michael Caine to bring the gravitas. Sadly, like Jason Voorhees, the Muppets just simply aren't up to the task of taking Manhattan. But we love them anyway. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Happy Halloween! It's the end of Spooky Threequel Month, but there's nothing new from Michael Myers to talk about, so instead we're renting a cabin at that little motel off the highway to talk about Psycho III. Oh yeah, they made sequels to Psycho, and they're surprisingly not bad! While Norman Bates deals with his mommy issues, Will and Sam discuss the perils of remaking and sequelizing Hitchcock, the various cinematic influences that made their way into actor Anthony Perkins' directorial debut, and speculate on whether Jeff Fahey's sleazy/friendly/crazy character was originally two or even three separate people in the original script. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Spooky Threequel Month continues as Will and Sam dare to f*ck with the Chuck by watching Child's Play 3, the unfortunate low point in the otherwise surprisingly consistent, long-running, never retconned Child's Play/Chucky franchise. While following cinema's greatest killer doll on yet another rampage, the boys discuss the 90s trope of military schools, sing the praises of Brad Dourif, and Will repeatedly confuses Mena Suvari and Thora Birch (neither of whom are in this movie). Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Hope you came to the podcast hungry, 'cause Will and Sam are sitting down for a Texas-style barbecue with the Sawyer family in Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, a movie that sort of has Leatherface in it. Between courses, Will watches the original two TCMs for the first time, Sam unpacks the franchise's FOUR continuities, and they discuss whether or not this threequel lives up to the bugnuts legacy of Tobe Hooper's first two massacres. Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Spooky threequel season is back and it's time to go iceskating uphill because we're watching Blade: Trinity, the final nail in the Daywalker's cinematic coffin. You would think that Blade vs. Dracula (excuse me, "Drake") would be at the very least dumb fun, but like many mid-2000s superhero movies, it's got plenty of dumb but comes up woefully short on the fun. Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

He said he'd be back, but he didn't say how many times. It's a bulked-up triple dose of Arnold Schwarzeneggar as Will and Sam take on a franchise that keeps going back in time and changing its future. First it's 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, then 2015's Terminator: Genisys, and finally 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate. Three Judgment Days for the price of one! Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Meet the cop who can't be stopped... It's time for a delicious, nutritious helping of Hong Kong martial arts madness as Sam and Will take on Jackie Chan's Police Story 3, better known as Supercop! In between train fights and helicopter chases and lots of guys on fire, the boys look at Hollywood's many attempts to import martial arts stars, talk about Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever more than anyone has in 20 years, and just generally gush about Michelle Yeoh, as one should. Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

On this episode (should you choose to accept it), Will and Sam take on Mission: Impossible III, the sequel that revived Ethan Hunt and his stunt-heavy career in espionage. As they break down J.J. Abrams' best threequel, the boys track the twists and turns of Tom Cruise's career since the original Mission: Impossible, 27 years ago (jeez...). They also spend a lot of time reminiscing about disposable cameras. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Will and Sam ARE supposed to be here today, because it's time to talk about Kevin Smith's Clerks III, from the distant past of 2022! Things get meta as long-time Quick Stop employees Dante and Randal decide to make a movie about working in a convenience store, all while dealing with Dante's immense personal trauma, Randal's raging ego and yet another cinematic friendship steeped in toxic co-dependency. But all that bleakness aside, it's actually a very sweet movie. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Case study: You blew up the entire planet and killed everyone in your second movie, but that movie made money so now you want to make a Part 3. What to do? Why, time travel to groovy 70s Los Angeles, just like Cornelius and Zira in Escape from the Planet of the Apes! Don't worry... there's only one fun shopping montage and then the movie gets right back to the Planet of the Apes bread and butter: Twilight Zone-style pontificating and bleak bleak bleakness. Now with 100% more Ricardo Montalban! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's time to travel back to the dark ages of 1993, as we tackle Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, aka the one where they go back in time, aka the one they made so they could sell toys of the turtles dressed as samurai. And since this movie doesn't have much to offer, Will and Sam delve deeper into the Ninja Turtles as a multimedia phenomenon that endures to this day, despite the franchise-killing efforts of its only threequel. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Our prediction for this episode? PAIN. But not really, because it's Rocky III and Rocky III rules. Join Will and Sam as they witness the iconic underdog story of the 70s makes its triumphant entry into the 80s, borne on the beefy, oiled up shoulders of Stallone, Weathers, Mr. T and Hulk Hogan. Along the way, they talk about how a simple sports movie somehow became a nine-chapter franchise, and how Rocky and Rambo are forever at war for creative control of Sylvester Stallone. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Yeah... I'm thinking we're back. Podcast Part 3 awakens from its long slumber, as Will and Sam crawl under the High Table to discuss the third adventure of Keanu Reeves' gun-toting, ass-kicking, dog-loving Baba Yaga, John Wick! Along the way, we'll dig into what makes this series such a wonderful action gumbo, and pick our dream cast members for future movies. Also, Will hates Ana de Armas for some reason. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Strap in for non-stop thrills as Sam and Will spend the holiday break with 1992's Lethal Weapon 3, aka "the one where Joe Pesci's sort of peeking over the other guys' shoulders on the poster." It's high-octane action as we unpack Riggs and Murtaugh's toxic codependency and ponder if maybe they'd be better off with other people. Also Will pronounces Murtaugh with a hard G, but Sam doesn't give him crap about it because they have a healthy relationship. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

We're serving up a big bowl of Spaghetti Westerns this week on Podcast Part 3 as Will and Sam take on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the final installment in Sergio Leone's classic Dollars trilogy. While Clint Eastwood and his buddies quest for Civil War gold, the boys discuss the evolution of the Western genre, and for some reason talk about 1990s virtual reality for longer than you'd expect on an episode about an Italian war epic from 1966. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's the King of the Monsters versus the other King of the Monsters this week on Podcast Part 3, as Will and Sam talk about 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla, the trend-setting, game-changing third installment in Toho's Godzilla franchise. While the big boys battle, the little boys discuss Godzilla's importance to Japanese pop culture, King Kong's importance to Godzilla, and how two rather serious black & white movies from 1933 and 1954 led to this colorful slap fight between a radioactive lizard and a possibly inebriated gorilla. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Sorry, we got the date wrong. Evil dies tonight! Just in time for Halloween, it's yet another, um, Halloween. Will and Sam watch Halloween Ends, the 3rd/4th/13th chapter in the endlessly retconned saga of Michael Myers. Can this final showdown between Michael and Laurie top all the other final showdowns between Michael and Laurie? Pull on your burned and beat-up Shatner mask and find out! Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

"It's the smiles that keep us going, don't you think...?" Spooky Threequel season continues as Will and Sam talk about 1990's The Exorcist III, a movie that is by design not a Part 3 and only barely a sequel to The Exorcist. But there's still plenty to talk about, including the brilliance of Brad Dourif and George C. Scott, the greatest jump scare in horror history, and how we maybe have Groucho Marx to thank for the entire Exorcist franchise. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Call up the CD-throwing and cocktail-shaking Cenobites, 'cause it's time to party like it's 1992! Will and Sam unlock the oh-so-early-90s gorefest that is Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, a movie that is incredibly dumb yet somehow still one of the better Hellraiser movies. It's a low bar. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

October is here, but before we can get to the scary threequels, we're watching 2010's Toy Story 3... which honestly is a pretty intense experience. Fortunately, you've got a friend(s) in Will and Sam, as they muse over the movie's timely message about passing our toys (and beloved IP) on to new generations, as well as their own hopes and fears about parenthood and whether or not their kids will like all the same nerdy crap they liked. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

This week, Podcast Part 3 is venturing out into the wasteland for a visit to Bartertown. It's time for 1985's Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, George Miller's not-final-anymore entry in the absurdly influential post-apocalyptic Mad Max saga. Spoiler alert: Any movie stuck between The Road Warrior and Fury Road is gonna have a hard time, no matter how much Tina Turner it's got. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

Remember those movies from the mid-2000s where Kate Beckinsale wore a lot of skintight leather and fought werewolves? (The correct answer is "sort of...?") Turns they made five of them and we're watching the third one, 2009's Underworld: Rise of the Lycans! It's a prequel movie, so no Kate Beckinsale, but instead we get Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen taking bites out of the scenery as we learn the origin of the centuries old blood feud between vampires and werewolves. Be prepared to take notes, because this franchise has A LOT of world-building. Unfortunately, it doesn't have much else. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

It's time for a look at the Alien saga's gloomiest and most divisive chapter, 1992's Alien 3, a movie that boldly doesn't care if you liked the ending of Aliens. Spend an hour with Sam and Will as they break down what works (Sigourney Weaver, David Fincher) and what doesn't (pretty much everything else). Then stick around as they talk about other random stuff for like 15 minutes! (Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)