It's the season finale of Season 4 The CineMeh Podcast! And on hand to go out with style is our biggest episode of the season! A movie so tremendously long, it felt like it went on forever! So incredibly lengthy, it seemed to never end! A movie that felt like... an eternity?

It's Marvel's Eternals.

That's right! This week on CineMeh, Josh and Ryan are delving into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with one of its most recent, and yet puzzlingly most forgettable entries, Eternals. An ensemble showpiece with a star-studded cast, featuring appearances by Rob Stark, Lara Croft, and Frida, we muddle our way through this ponderous, confused, meandering 160-minute mess.

With discussion topics like "what were they thinking?" "who is the hero?" "who is the bad guy?" we really go in deep on this one. Only, not so much, because Marvel did such a poor job creating anything even resembling a functional movie with Eternals, Josh and Ryan are largely left asking pretty basic questions about this film. When you can't tell what sub-genre your sci-fi superhero epic is (a whoddunit? a morality tale? an apocalypse story?), you are really in for a rough ride.

After a perplexing mix of gray morality, truncated character development, head-scratching cosmic events, badly executed scope, and 40 miles of bad road, we think you'll agree... Marvel's Eternals might be one best forgotten about.

Marvel's Eternals was released in 2021 and stars (in no particular order because holy shit is this cast long) Gemma Chan, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, Ma Dong-seok, Bryan Tyree Henry, Barry Keoghan, Lauren Ridloff, Lia McHugh, and Richard Madden.

Am I forgetting anybody? Do you think that was enough people for your movie, Marvel?!

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Welcome to this season's CAGE MATCH, Bangkok Dangerous and Other Films of Dubious Quality!

This week on The CineMEH Podcast, Josh and Ryan take on what might be, officially, the absolute peak of midness, the height of mediocrity, the zenith of 'it's fine,' the top of the mountain for 'meh' vibes... 2008's Bangkok Dangerous.

And yes, we almost immediately become distracted and talk about other films because there is painfully, AGONIZINGLY little to say about this particular movie.

An analysis of hitman movie tropes, other film mentions, sidebar conversations, and questionable motivations await you, dear listener. Because this one has more useless nonsense and overdone cliches than anything else we've covered so far. Burdened by a ponderous mood and pacing, and adding absolutely nothing to a worn through genre, Josh and Ryan find fun in Bangkok Dangerous by talking about anything but this movie.

Also! Join in the drinking game! Take a shot every time Ryan calls it 'Bangkok Dangerously'! Bonus points if you find references in last week's episode.

But don't worry, we're still here to thrill you, chill you and fulfill you, no matter how 'whatever' the movie at hand is.

Bangkok Dangerous was released in 2008 and stars Nic Cage, Charlie Yeung, and Shahkrit Yamnarm.

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What's the term for when a piece of media makes a meta-reference to its own inadequacies and then fails to correct those inadequacies? Like, say, theoretically, just for argument's sake, a movie makes a pointed reference regarding how women's ages in Hollywood are often and regularly cause for them to be marginalized, but then said movie tries to actively age down its female lead by twenty years? Is there a word for that?

Whatever that word is, that's what this movie is.

This week on The CineMEH Podcast, Josh and Ryan are taking on the 2022 album, er, film, Marry Me, starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson. We'll talk about the state of the music industry (again) and how pop culture has evolved over recent decades, why this movie does such a poor job at living up to its own ideals, and whether or not there is such a thing as a real version of Jennifer Lopez's personality.

Even more fun discussions include the second week in a row we take on a movie about a female rockstar whose tremendous fame is bizarrely inconsistent, whether or not a mid 50s Owen Wilson can actually pull of mid 30s as is implied by this film, and questioning the wisdom of coming up with an album concept and trying to reverse engineer a movie from that.

Plus! Stay to the end for a look behind the curtain at how much Josh and Ryan panic when they think they're about to lose a 90 minute recording session.

All this and more on this week's episode of The CineMeh Podcast.

Marry Me was released in 2022 and stars Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Sarah Silverman, and John Bradley.

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I'll take obscure 80's film for 500, Pat.

And the answer is: Streets of Fire

What is an action noir starring Michael Pare and Willem Dafoe?

Oh, I'm sorry, not quite, anyone else want to take a crack at it?

What is a romantic drama starring Diane Lane?

Mm, close, but we're looking for something different, one more try?

What is a musical comedy starring Rick Moranis?

Nope, that wasn't it either, we were looking for 'What is an action noir romantic drama with musical comedy elements starring Michael Pare, Willem DaFoe, Diane Lane and Rick Moranis?' No points this round.

This week on The CineMeh Podcast Josh and Ryan charge headfirst into The Battery district to review a film Ryan calls 'the most confused movie he has ever seen.'

Not quite an action noir, not quite a romantic drama, not quite a comedy, not quite a musical, not quite set in the 1950s, not quite set in the 1980s, not quite set in Chicago, not quite set in New York City, Streets of Fire isn't quite many things, but it is completely itself.

One of the most unique and uniquely strange films of the season, there isn't much to save the atrocious script, unlikable characters, nonsensical plot and inconsistent tone. But it's banging soundtrack and relentless swagger make this one worth a watch, even if only once.

Streets of Fire was released in 1984 and stars Michael Pare, Diane Lane, Willem Dafoe, Rick Moranis and Amy Maddigan with appearances by Bill Paxton, Rick Rossovich and Lynne Thigpen.

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It's a well worn trope, but this week we're doing the ol' "never be a hitman with a girlfriend and a fiance who participates in an unsanctioned kidnapping and accidentally steals the goddaughter of his hit boss and falls in love with her too," story.

A tired chestnut, perhaps, but a reliable one.

This week on The CineMeh Podcast Josh and Ryan are going hardcore 90s with this Mark Wahlberg vehicle about a charmingly conscientious, and maddeningly morally nebulous hitman who finds himself pulling the wrong job with the wrong people on the wrong target.

1998's The Big Hit is a head scratcher of an entry in Mark Wahlberg's larger acting library, but it comes at a period where he was still fabulously unserious and willing to take a risk. And what a risk this one is.

With an absolutely unhinged performance by Lou Diamond Phillips, more masturbation jokes than an 8th grade boy's gym class, and enough infidelity to make a daytime soap opera jealous, The Big Hit is the most cartoonish action movie we reckon you'll ever see.

Last week, we reviewed an actual cartoon. This week an assembly of caricatures. Nothing is serious, the rules of physics need not apply... let's have a stupid, rollicking good time.

The Big Hit was released in 1998 and stars Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Avery Brooks, Bokeem Woodbine, and Christina Applegate.

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Nope, sorry, listeners, it's not THAT Lord of the Rings... it's the other Lord of the Rings. Oh, you didn't know there was another Lord of the Rings? From the 1970s? Well, come into our Hobbit hole and lend an ear!

J.R.R. Tolkien did a lot of things brilliantly, naming the homes of Hobbits 'holes' was not one of them.

Moving on.

This week on The CineMeh Podcast, Josh and Ryan take on the rotoscoped animated classic The Lord of the Rings as presented by Ralph Bakshi, the godfather of adult animation. And that's important, because this is one weird cartoon.

We'll go into the actual animation process, why this film remains a 'must see' for fans of the later productions, and how its enduring influence has given us the beloved Peter Jackson versions we know today. At once far ahead of its time and delightfully anachronistic, this is one of those forgotten time pieces that deserves a nod, but maybe not much more than a nod.

For fans of the books, fans of cinema, fans of animation, and fans of unbelievably weird things, this movie has something for almost everyone!

The Lord of the Rings was released in 1978 and stars the voice talents of John Hurt, Anthony Daniels, and William Squire

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When the skies are filling with black, apocalyptic clouds and locusts, what do you do?

Well, if you're Jeep Hanson in 2010's dark modern fantasy Legion, you stare at it blankly for a moment before casually going back to whatever you were doing before and telling absolutely no one.

This week on The CineMeh Podcast, Josh and Ryan puzzle their way through an astonishingly inept tale of good versus evil, angels versus demons, the end of the world as we know it if not for the coming of a second christ child, and what happens when you put Paul Bettany into a movie that badly... BADLY wants to be Terminator.

Come for the dogmatic discussion, stay for the absolute absurdity of writing, clunkiness of dialogue, and derivative nature of almost every single move this film makes.

With a cast that can be enthusiastically described as B-, except for a few standouts like Vision and Lt. Tuck Pendleton (that's right 80's fans, that's an Innerspace reference!) and a writing team that clearly wanted to be making a different movie, Legion aims to please no one and succeeds.

Legion was released in 2010 and stars Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Adrianne Palicki, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Durand, and I guess kinda Lucas Black, but he's not really sure most of the movie if he should be acting or just staring at things.

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Life is nothing but a slap in the face, so goes the song. So goes the race.

The rat race, that is to say.

As in the 2001 ensemble slapstick comedy loosely based on a 1963 ensemble slapstick comedy, Rat Race.

Except Rat Race isn't almost four hours long. And yet, somehow, it's still far too long.

This week on The CineMEH Podcast, Josh and Ryan are discussing the nuances of this blistering critique of the ultra-wealthy one percent and the twisted, sadistic ways they play with regular people's lives. We also chat about where the heck are Amy Smart and Breckin Meyer, whose stars were on the rise when they made this film but have since flamed out. The candle that burns twice as bright truly burns half as long.

Join us for a conversation about how the first act of Rat Race is a master class in character introduction, followed by nearly two more hours of non-sequitur scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with advancing the plot or moving characters along an arc. It's just a movie full of scenes. That's it.

And, if your bingo card has "Ryan defends Top Gun again and Josh rages at him for it," mark your board because we've got a doozy at the end of this episode!

In a surprisingly nuanced chat considering the subject matter in question, this week's episode of CineMeh will have you chasing the cheese and tucking the taters.

Rat Race was released in 2001 and stars Breckin Meyer, Cuba Gooding Jr, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimi, John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson.

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