This Could be Bad

Recorded: 10/27/26

Picked by: Carlos

AARON: "The nation of Chile is officially out of masking tape."

CARLOS: "Pinochet's ripples are still felt today."

MOLLY: "Little fish, big fish swimming in the water. Come back hear and give me my daughter" -PJ Harvey

Recorded: 9/29/26

Picked by: Carlos

AARON: In a world of indecisiveness we find a character challenged by over-decisiveness.

MOLLY: Other people can't solve what you have not figured out for yourself.

CARLOS: I actually think she is the worst person in the world.

Recorded: 9/22/26

Picked by: Aaron

MOLLY: Male friendships can be the very best thing or the very worst thing for men. You never know how it's gonna go.

AARON: This movie features a montage of drunk politicians, two of which are named 'Boris'.

CARLOS: No, bro... I think I can handle it actually.

MOLLY: It's possible to lose yourself so completely you can't find your way back.

Recorded: 9/8/26

Picked by: Carlos

MOLLY: Love means never having an insulting nickname thrown at you ever again

AARON: What is the cumulative psychological effect of continually seeing your fantasies become nightmares?

CARLOS: Is it prescient that teenagers think the world is always ending?

Recorded: 9/1/26

Picked by: Aaron

CARLOS: Do kids even know, or would they care about this sort of thing?

MOLLY: A loved and loving child discovers the bigotry inculcated in children at a very young age.

AARON: If this movie was set in Denmark, would Mikhael have made a Lego penis?

Recorded: 8/4/26

Picked by: Molly

AARON: Any criticisms will be stomped out by Dick Van Dyke dancing.

CARLOS: Is the Child Snatcher a Hans Landa inspiration?

MOLLY: If you scrape away the child catcher with a meat hook, the chauvinistic xenophobia, an original author with serious Madonna-whore issues, the repeated attempted spousal murder, a dog that falls to his death during a dance number about candy, and about five songs too many by characters you don't care about, it's a pretty decent Mary Poppins stand-in with, let's face it, one of the catchiest earworms of a theme song in any kid's movie.

Recorded: 7/28/26

Picked by: Carlos

AARON: What's scarier?: A greasy little croaking alien or a single mom leaving her 5-year old home alone so she can go pick up her drunk 10-year old from school?

CARLOS: Climate change never happened if he stayed.

MOLLY: A lonely boy in California meets some G-men in the forest and ends up living on Sesame Street.

Recorded: 7/15/26

Picked by: Molly

CARLOS: The highs are high and the lows are low concerning rockstar haircuts.

AARON: About 8 seconds into Superfly you realize the target audience is black people. About 8 seconds into this movie you realize the target audience is white people.

MOLLY: This is a perfect movie!

Recorded: 7/7/26

Pick by: Carlos

MOLLY: This particular movie is a comprehensive occult education as transmitted through heavy metal t-shirts. Conveyed through the slow motion, heavily color saturated catechism of 40-tab acid trips.

AARON: This could have taken place on an alien planet or in medieval times or in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but it took place in 1983.

CARLOS: 80's and hippies and comics and fantasy novels and metal and bikers and drugs and revenge and shit. We're throwing it all in. Figure it out.

Recorded: 6/30/26

Picked by: Aaron

Theme: Soundtracks & Scores

Part 1 of 3

AARON: I bought the soundtrack decades after the movie came out and didn't actually watch the movie until decades later. The movie plays like the songs, taking itself seriously, but not too seriously.

CARLOS: One last job to Groovy Funk soundtracks. So it's like fun 'Heat', basically.

MOLLY: The most culturally influential texts of the 20th century: The Great Gadsby, Childhood's End, The Heart of Darkness, and Superfly.

Carlos, Molly & Aaron give a taste of things to come in their new podcast, "This Could Be Bad". Each of us will take turns picking a movie based on a randomly selected theme in 3-episode cycles.

*All of the previous podcast (What Else Did You Watch) episodes are still available. See link in the description.