Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast

Happy Halloween, everyone! Will and Sam are pleased to give you all a glimpse of their brand-new series, The Dark Universe Variety Hour. It's a foray into one of our favorite genres, the Universal Classic Monsters. In the premiere episode, we compare 1931's Dracula to um... 1931's Dracula. One's in English, one's in Spanish. One has Bela, the other doesn't. Which one is better? Listen in to find out.

We bid you welcome...

Starring Charlize Theron.

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Shriekquel Threequel season is back, and you need to choose a side... are you Team Edward (vampire who never leaves high school and doesn't believe in premarital sex) or Team Jacob (only wears jorts and wants to date a baby)? It's time to head back to Forks for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse!

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Blessed are the cheesemakers (and all manufacturers of dairy products), and blessed are Podcast Part 3's listeners because Sam and Will are talking about Monty Python's legendary third feature film, The Life of Brian!

And since any good biblical epic needs three kings, they've brought back FM DeMarco of the Tuesday Morning Screening Room to provide the gold alongside their usual frankincense and myrrh.

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It's called The Last Dance because An Extremely Goofy Movie was already taken.

Spoiler alert for Spider-Man: Brand New Day because Sam and Will couldn't stay on topic.

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70s grindhouse meets Criterion arthouse in 1972's Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades. Basically it's The Mandalorian and Grogu with an excessive amount of sexual violence in the first act.

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Nothing we like better than lovelorn fish men here at Podcast Part 3, so much so that we made it through nearly three hours of complicated maritime backstabbing with 2007's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End!

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THERE CAN BE ONLY THREE! (Or more...)

Also known as Highlander: The Final Dimension. Neither title makes sense.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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