Episode 67, ‘The Moneyball of war movies’, on War movies
While The Style Guide is still technically on hiatus, it returns for yet another week. This time, Dave and Steve talk about what makes a modern war movie.
Despite the fact that Dave and Steve are regularly recording One Offs, does anyone else get the impression that they are really out of practice at this whole podcasting thing?
Dave and Steve are good at history.
Platoon would have been a very different movie with Tom Bergeron, best known for his role as the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos.
Dave does a callback to what must be the most popular episode of The Style Guide, the actor profile of Jodie Foster.
It’s “losing Privates Ryan”, Dave. Like Surgeons General or iPads Pro.
iPad Pros sounds funny when you say it out loud.
Dave really wants to talk about Braveheart.
Steve and Dave have a radical take on The Sound of Music.
Dave likes being lied to.
Dave snickers at the idea of a fire near Steve’s house.
Dave is a master of smooth transitions.
Dave courageously said “no” to drugsBand of Brothers.
Is Steve doing a product placement for CraveTV?
Dave and Steve think boot camp is a waste of time.
If you like Dave, war films, or improvisational theatre, Paper Street Theatre is in the Victoria Fringe with WAR: Improv Is Hell. And tickets are still available.
Is The Style Guide back or did Dave and Steve just really want to talk about Logan? Probably the latter, given that One Offs has launched and they’re busy talking television (and you should all check that out). So appreciate them while they’re here folks. This week, the gang join almost everyone on the Internet to talk about Logan and how awesome a film it is.
While normally The Style Guide isn’t in the habit of pointing its audience elsewhere before the podcast has even started, both Movies with Mikey and Nerdwriter offered great takes on Logan.
Dave offers the smoothest topic segue ever.
As you have all missed, Steve is quick to drop a terrible joke.
Has Steve always pronounced “for” as “fur”? Really?
Orr is on a last name basis with Xavier, whereas Dave respects the office enough to call him Professor X.
Oh sure, guys, ignore the importance of the Blade series, just because you’re racist against daywalking vampires.
Does Dave really really not care that Steve calls Tobey Maguire “Superman”?
Episode 65, ‘We know how television works’, on cliffhangers
This week, Dave and Steve return with an episode dedicated to cliffhangers throughout cinema, television, and literature. In doing so, they also take a bit of a journey through a wide range of past episodes of The Style Guide. Perhaps fittingly, because our intrepid hosts are going to go on a hiatus for a while and leave what happens next a cliffhanger of their own. Don’t worry, constant listeners. Dave and Steve will be back soon enough, bringing their usual charm and style to your eagerly awaiting ears — although maybe it won’t all be quite so stylish… Cue the suspenseful music.
Intro Clip: Batman, Marsha, Queen of Diamonds 01×57.
This episode has more spoilers than your average outing from The Style Guide.
For no particular reason, here’s a Buzzfeed article on why telenovelas are better than soap operas.
Is the Harry Potter series so fundmental that you don’t even need to use the title when talking about them? Is saying “Book Four” without any context really sufficient for people to understand what you’re ranting about, Steve? People might have thought you were talking about The Silver Chair or Breaking Dawn.
Yes, The Silver Chair is the fourth book in the Narnia series. We here at The Style Guide will not abide chronological-order-truthers.
Steve misremembers Battlestar Galactica.
In a shocking development, Steve admits to a lack of knowledge about something. Dave enlightens him.
Because Steve’s so on fleek, he talks about Jay Leno.
Theo is intensely disappointed in Steve.
Maybe “The Best of Both Worlds” wasn’t Steve’s earliest cliffhanger memory because he was only three years old when it aired.
Supermans? Supermen?
Steve writes off the entire rom-com genre.
Clearly Dave and Steve need to rewatch the original Star Wars trilogy. Episode 66, anyone?
“Superbad for vampires” seems like the saddest possible conclusion to Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s careers where they try desperately to relive the glory days by putting a supernatural twist on their old films.
Suprebad, on the other hand, as a retelling of Superbad but with white supremacists seems like an awesome idea.
It sounds like Dave and Steve have an important lesson to learn for the future of The Style Guide from the last fifteen minutes of this episode…
Episode 64, ‘Furious Kane’, on Citizen Kane vs. Furious 7
This week, Dave and Steve invite special guest Dominik Buconjic to join them for a discussion about the alpha and the omega of cinema, Citizen Kane and Furious 7. You would think that these two films cannot be compared. You might be right, but your hosts do their darnedest to make it work. Do they succeed? You be the judge.
Episode 63, ‘Wesley Snipes is no Al Pacino’, on Wesley Snipes
You’re telling me that this week Dave and Steve did an actor profile on Wesley Snipes? Like, the dude from the Blade movies, Demolition Man, and a bunch of direct-to-DVD flops who has recently spent three years in prison for income tax fraud? Is there any rhyme or reason to who The Style Guide will profile or have you just thrown every actor’s name into a random number generator? I don’t even know who you guys are anymore.
The lie that emerged at the end of episode 61 continues.
Okay, so I can believe Blade is a Marvel superhero, but how did he get his motorcycle here?
“Super eclectic”? Looks like someone’s been hitting the thesaurus pretty hard.
Now that Dave and Steve mention it, the sheer number of vampires in the Blade universe does seem improbably high. Thanks a lot for ruining those films for the audience, guys. Now nobody will be able to take them seriously anymore.
The tone of this episode consistently lapses into that of two outcasts sitting on the edge of the playground talking about how cool the cool kids are.
Is White Men Can’t Jump a modern day Vaudeville show that is grounded by a common theme of toxic masculinity rather than the plot of a more traditional 90s-era basketball film? The answer might surprise you. (No, no it is not.)
Dave talks about his manly urges.
Does Steve make a very (very) subtle dig at the inadequacy of Snapple as a thirst quenching beverage?
Dave is terrified by nudity whereas Steve just blocks it out.
Steve worries that Dave is going to make fun of him.
Boyz N the Hood and New Jack City: sibling projects or kissing cousins?
Steve sure sounds like he’s overcompensating for something with how much he loves Blade and Blade.
Blade receives a 6/10 for profanity use according to the IMDb parental guide. Six out of ten. Six. Out. Of. Ten.
Dave hates the future.
Summer Glau > Wesley Snipes > Scarlett Johansson > Matt Damon.
Episode 62, ‘They’re not acting, they’re talking’, on Aaron Sorkin
This week, Dave and Steve depart from what has become their standard fare of making people angry by having opinionsbeing wrong about Disney, and delve into a topic that is never even remotely contentious: politics. That’s right, Aaron Sorkin is getting The Style Guide treatment. It’s kind of like that time he gave Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs the Sorkin treatment, but with 80% less Michael Fassbender. You can’t tell because it’s just audio, but Dave and Steve are walking and talking in the hallways of the West Wing for the entirety of this episode.
Dave and Steve ended last week on a lie that is only now being realized as such. The Editor feels just as betrayed as you all do.
Steve is super enthusiastic to start the episode off and it is okay to admit that it makes you rather uncomfortable.
Dave assumes that the audience remains excited for The Style Guide, even after he and Steve trampled all over people’s childhoods with the series on Disney.
Wikipedia disagrees with Dave (but only until he reads the shownotes and edits it).
Maybe Steve just has no idea how to pronounce anyone’s names.
Yes, Dave. The West Wing became a much more “grammatic” show.
Josh doesn’t quit, you guys. He’s on a leave of absence from his White House duties, similar to the leave Annabeth Schott goes on in Season 6. And Sam doesn’t go to Mandyville, because he shows up at the end of Season 7 and the show firmly establishes that he went back to practicing law. Amateurs.
You, constant listeners, will never have to hear Steve’s ill-advised tangent about the dangers of cocaine, because the Editor has saved you from it. You’re welcome.
Steve shows that he clearly isn’t a real Firefly fan.
“Just” an assistant, Dave?
The baby has a name, you two. He’s more than just his age.
A cricket bat isn’t a theme, Steve.
Someone mentions Aristotle in this episode and we are all shocked to discover that it isn’t Steve.
To end the episode, Dave and Steve wander into dangerous territory.
Episode 61, ‘Treat you like Pixar’, Part III on Walt Disney Animation Studios
This week, Dave and Steve finish cataloguing their thoughts on Walt Disney Animation Studios, chatting about the rest of the films from The Little Mermaid to Moana. For some, this is a somber episode as The Style Guide moves on from a long list of well loved and important films from childhood. For others, we received your hatemail, and we read you loud and clear: no more saying anything bad about your childhood. We get it, Nicole, but you didn’t have to send us death threats. Geeze. They’re only films.
Episode 60, ‘Renaissance kids’, Part II on Walt Disney Animation Studios
This week, Dave and Steve continue their journey through the feature films of Walt Disney Animation Studios. With proper microphones and a whole new batch of films to talk about, the dynamic duo start to work their way through the next set of Disney films, starting with Cinderella and ending with Oliver and Company. If you don’t remember some of those films, don’t worry about it. As it turns out, Dave and Steve forgotten more about this era of Disney films than anyone ever needed to know in the first place.
Dave refuses to make meaningful enhancements to his life because he fears change.
Steve and Dave figure out what “Silver Era” means — allowing Steve to make a bad pun about the ages of technological development towards urban civilization.
Dave owns Cinderalla.
Just to clarify, Dave appears to be talking about the person, not the film. She belongs to him. Which is weird for us all.
Episode 59, ‘Books are great. Moving books are even better.’, Part I on Walt Disney Animation Studios
After last week’s debacle with what is most certainly their least listened to episode, Dave and Steve return to reasonable episode lengths. That’s right. They are not insisting that you dedicate a significant portion of your life to listening to the podcast. Instead they begin their series on Disney’s animated films. Eventually they’ll work their way to the latest efforts like Moana, but for now they discuss Walt Disney himself, DisneyLand, and the Golden Age of Disney (from Snow White to Bambi).
Episode 58, ‘The sounds of Matt Damon’, on The Martian
This week, Dave and Steve take on the latest “it’s time to rescue Matt Damon” movie (unless you count Jason Bourne as Matt Damon saving himself from the decisions of past-Matt Damon), The Martian. But instead of giving you the usual fare of The Style Guide, they’ve decided to try and record a commentary track for the film. So enjoy two hours and twenty minutes continuous of Dave and Steve working their way through Matt Damon’s fourth greatest movie. Good luck trying to sync up your copies of the film with theirs.
Also: please don’t sue us 20th Century Fox. Or ABBA.
Dave and Steve decide to do an episode with absolutely no regard for how difficult it will be for The Editor to deal with. Thanks guys.
Steve says Dave is going to say something and then Steve says it.
Steve assumes that you need a PhD to go into space. This is probably because he’s grasping at reasons why NASA would accept him into their space program.
Dave doesn’t think very highly of Computer Science degrees.
To protect Dave’s ego, Steve politely suggests that he is not sure about a fact that he seems awfully sure abou.
Steve says “less” when he means “fewer”.
We all heard you say “NASHA”, Steve.
Steve says “Yeah” a lot. A lot, a lot.
Technically, Mark Watney is both emancipated and emaciated.
Hey look, swearing!
Cast Away would have been a very different movie if Tom Hanks had a beach ball instead of a volley ball.
Dave, as someone who once lived near a potato garden, speaks for all botanists.
Things that would have been cut from a normal episode, but can’t because of the nature of a commentary episode: an extended discussion of astronaut poop.
Steve, you guys did an entire episode on Julia Roberts. AN ENTIRE EPISODE. You shouldn’t be confusing her with Sandra Bullock anymore.
It sure sounds like Steve thinks he could do as good a job surviving on Mars as Matt Damon.
Happy Days ran from 1974 to 1984 and disco music “achieved popularity during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s”. Citation.
This episode really gives you a sense of how much Dave loves “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees..
The next commentary episode is going to be about American Sniper. Just kidding. There is never going to be another commentary episode. Never ever.
Nobody will ever mistake Dave and Steve for scientists.
No, Steve. A political scientist doesn’t count.
Is anyone else uncomfortable every time Steve talks about “government porn”?
Dave shuts off his microphone and forces Steve to stumble awkwardly through talking to himself. In the background, you can hear Dave getting a soda.
“Vincent Parkour” and “Mindy Parker”.
Steve compliments himself.
Steve discovers how deep Dave’s love for him is.
Dave discovers how shallow Steve’s love for him is.
Steve talks some nonsense about sols. It sounds right, but is super wrong. Unfortunately for him, Dave believes him and thus there is an extended discussion about it.
Dave almost says that David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust are two different artists — which is confusing for a bunch of reasons.
At an hour and a half, Dave and Steve desperately need to find a second wind. It turns out doing film commentary is exhausting.
Dave and Steve cheat for a bit and let ABBA briefly take over commentary duties.
Unlike when Steve was talking about sols, he is not a total liar when he talks about Jupiter.
Dave does something that makes the last twenty minutes of the podcast very difficult to edit…
Thanks to Dave, Steve’s probably now on a government list somewhere.
