Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

A critical and comedic look at the bleak landscape of the modern IP-driven Hollywood franchise blockbuster. Hosted by Tyrell "Discourse Stu" James, Nicole Veneto, and Cole Netscape. Audio production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoey Woolley and Johanna Hermeer.
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A critical and comedic look at the bleak landscape of the modern IP-driven Hollywood franchise blockbuster. Hosted by Tyrell "Discourse Stu" James, Nicole Veneto, and Cole Netscape. Audio production by Miguel Tahni. Art by Kly, Zoey Woolley and Johanna Hermeer.
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/7vRmbRJDgs
Support us on Patreon for biweekly bonus episodes and more: https://www.patreon.com/marvelousdeath
Episodes
Episodes
May 16, 2024
May 16, 2024
1hr 47 min
We're going international baby to see how other countries do their blockbusters! (Super producer and editor Miguel) picked, you (paying Patrons) voted: 2016's Train to Busan, South Korea's hit zombie flick . You're probably more than aware that South Korean movies (and a lot of their recent cultural exports) have been dog walking the slop America's been putting out recently, and for good reason. We talk a little bit about that, but mostly we go off the rails a lot talking about trains.
Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Owen2, bernventers, Lohik, jprestonpoole, and PineappleRevy.
Cole's Watch Something Else, Seth's Dominion.
Link to donate to bail funds student encampments in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
If you can, also consider supporting these organizations in Palestine:
ANERA (American Near-East Refugee Aid)
PCRF (Palestinian Relief Children's Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
Thank you for listening! Please consider rating, reviewing, and subscribing to our Patreon where you can enjoy special bonus content, exclusive Discord community events, and have your name added to our Credits Page. Production by Miguel Tanhi. Art by Zoe Woolley and barf. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024
3 min
This anime bullshit is actually giving us a real political discussion if you can actually believe it. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.
May 2, 2024
Spider-Man: Far From Home, or Batalon Royale
May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024
1hr 51 min
Right off the back of the milestone of watching/shitting on Avengers: Endgame, followed it up with another Spider-Man movie, and to nobody's surprise it literally doesn't matter. This is an anime beach episode that has no bearing on anything else that happens in a cinematic universe. Spider-Man accidentally drones a school bus driving through the Czech Republic to get back at fakeass Charles Melton for taking revenge porn of him, and somehow it doesn't feel as insane as it should be. Everyone is so fucking tired here! Except for Jacob Batalon. Love that guy, let him be James Bond.
Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Owen2, bernventers, Lohik, jprestonpoole, and PineappleRevy.
Cole's Watch Something Else, Seth's Dominion.
Link to donate to bail funds student encampments in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
If you can, also consider supporting these organizations in Palestine:
ANERA (American Near-East Refugee Aid)
PCRF (Palestinian Relief Children's Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
Thank you for listening! Please consider rating, reviewing, and subscribing to our Patreon where you can enjoy special bonus content, exclusive Discord community events, and have your name added to our Credits Page. Production by Miguel Tanhi. Art by Zoe Woolley and barf. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
Apr 18, 2024
Avengers: Endgame, or This is (Not) the End
Apr 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
2hr 30 min
It's all led to this. 21 movies, tens of billions of dollars made at the box office, a movie going public willing and hungry to return to the trough to see even more purple Josh Brolin. It's the second highest grossing movie of all time (unadjusted for inflation) and the episode you've all been waiting for since the very beginning: Avengers: Endgame. Has enough time passed now to say it sucks?
Extra special thanks to Seqarts, our $100 Kevin Fiege tier supporter for April!!Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Owen2, bernventers, Lohik, jprestonpoole, and PineappleRevy.
If you can, also consider supporting these organizations in Palestine:
ANERA (American Near-East Refugee Aid)
PCRF (Palestinian Relief Children's Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
Thank you for listening! Please consider rating, reviewing, and subscribing to our Patreon where you can enjoy special bonus content, exclusive Discord community events, and have your name added to our Credits Page. Production by Miguel Tanhi. Art by Zoe Woolley and barf. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
Apr 12, 2024
TEASER: Cara Loft - Womb Raider
Apr 12, 2024
Apr 12, 2024
2 min
It's exactly what you think it is. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.
Apr 4, 2024
Apr 4, 2024
2hr 14 min
A $4 billion dollar Disney acquisition, Reddit internet flamewars, and three film trilogies of the so-called “Skywalker Saga” have finally led to this: a movie so desperate to backtrack on The Last Jedi and meet its 2019 release date that the end result is something akin to a term paper written half an hour before you’re supposed to turn it in. Rise of Skywalker isn’t so much a film as it is the apotheosis of every single horrible trend in IP blockbuster filmmaking this podcast has discussed since our very first episode, a movie that set out to please everyone and in turn satisfied absolutely nobody save for your dumbest co-worker and children with the attention spans of goldfish. JJ Abrams’ mystery box collapses in on itself in a jaw-droppingly stupid way that leaves you asking one question: how did anyone think this was okay to release?
Shout out to the lovely seqarts for upgrading to the $100 Kevin Feige tier on our Patreon!
And thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Owen2, bernventers, Lohik, jprestonpoole, and PineappleRevy.
If you can, also consider supporting these organizations in Palestine:
ANERA (American Near-East Refugee Aid)
PCRF (Palestinian Relief Children's Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
Thank you for listening! Please consider rating, reviewing, and subscribing to our Patreon where you can enjoy special bonus content, exclusive Discord community events, and have your name added to our Credits Page. Production by Miguel Tanhi. Art by Zoe Woolley and barf. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
Mar 21, 2024
Mar 21, 2024
1hr 15 min
Comedian and friend of the show Ty from TGOF(V) joins us to discuss the most well adjusted and normal practitioner of the greatest art, and its greatest artist: noted non-rapping Insane Clown and sometimes Bats-men pesterer, The Joker. A role now more prestigious than Macbeth, it both won an Academy Award and turned every lonely man that saw it into a spree shooter. Join us as we dive into the sick n' twizted origin story of the clown prince of crime, and maybe crack a few jokes of our own along the way.
If you can, also consider supporting these organizations in Palestine:
ANERA (American Near-East Refugee Aid)
PCRF (Palestinian Relief Children's Fund)
MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians)
Thank you for listening! Please consider rating, reviewing, and subscribing to our Patreon where you can enjoy special bonus content, exclusive Discord community events, and have your name added to our Credits Page. Production by Miguel Tanhi. Art by Zoe Woolley and barf. Follow @MarvelousDeath for updates.
Mar 14, 2024
TEASER: Anti-Rape Super Saiyan
Mar 14, 2024
Mar 14, 2024
58 sec
We ended up talking a lot about Dragon Ball Z in our discussion of Bitter Moon and the many sex crimes of one Roman Polanski. If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon for exclusive episodes, commentary tracks and Discord community events at patreon.com/marvelousdeath.









