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Canned Air #539 The Movies of 2024 in Review with David J. Fielding (Zordon of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)

·1 hr 23 min·5 clips

Fielding says Joker was well-made and well-acted, but he did not see the necessity of it.

1. Canned Air: A Tribute to Pop Culture uses this episode to review movies from 2024 with David J. Fielding. 2. Jeremy Colley and Jack Doherty host Fielding, an author and actor best known as Zordon from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. 3. The episode asks which recent films were worth seeing, which were skipped, and why release strategy matters. 4. Fielding starts with The Fall Guy and says he saw it in theaters around March. 5. He connects The Fall Guy to Lee Majors, stunt work, and the idea of an Oscar category for stunts. 6. He says Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt had strong chemistry in the movie. 7. He also says the movie is based on the TV series and includes a Lee Majors cameo after the first credits. 8. The conversation moves to how studios are shifting content from theaters to streaming after short theatrical windows. 9. Fielding brings up Warner Bros. and the canceled Batgirl movie as an example of those decisions. 10. He says The Fall Guy felt like a movie within a movie because it follows a stuntman on a production. 11. Fielding then discusses Civil War and calls it bleak in a good way. 12. He describes the film as a set of small vignettes that build toward the White House. 13. He focuses on Kirsten Dunst, the young female photographer, and the line that the shot is everything. 14. He reads the ending of one scene as opportunistic, with the photographer acting to get the image of her mentor. 15. He says the film raises the question of how Americans would react to a civil war on home soil. 16. Fielding argues that Civil War avoids obvious sides and leaves the audience to decide who the good guys are. 17. The discussion later turns to Joker and Joker: Folie à Deux, with Fielding saying the first Joker was well-made but unnecessary. 18. He says Joaquin Phoenix's performance, mental health focus, and villain framing made him think about what fiction teaches people about good and bad. 19. The episode sounds like a casual, opinion-driven movie chat with side trips into nostalgia, streaming services, and actor filmographies. 20. Listeners who want movie talk about 2024 releases and genre films may enjoy it, while viewers looking for a tight review of one title may skip it.

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