Macintosh & Maud Haven't Seen What?!
298 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe podcast where Macintosh & Maud force each other to watch the movies they should've already seen.
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BONUS: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
April 13, 2020 16:38 - 68.2 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of sexual relationships with a minor, trauma, sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse, transphobia and transmisogyny, drag, medical abuse and malpractice. This week, Angel, the creator of Finding Atlas (To Have and to Hold), joins us for a crossover with The Doghouse: A Riverdale Podcast to watch and review the 2001 film version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch before Riverdale comes back this week for their Hedwig musical epi...
BOND PART III: Quantum of Solace (w/ Kate!)
April 07, 2020 06:00 - 76.4 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of a cast member in brownface, racism, sexism, violence, drunkenness and drinking, grief, trauma, murder, revenge. This week, long-time friend of the pod Kate Harlow of The Space-Agers is here to rein in our expectations with the messy, lesser sequel of Casino Royale that is still seen as a relative low point in the Craig era. Nothing about this movie is particularly bad or patently ridiculous, but the sum of its parts don’t a...
BOND PART III: Casino Royale (2006) [w/ Andrew!]
March 31, 2020 15:27 - 101 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Sexism, misogyny, violence, murder, assassination, trauma, language. This week, Andrew of the incomparable Keanu-cast Cool Breeze Over the Mountain is here to praise the biggest game-changer in the entire Bond franchise. Like, no one was ready for what Barbara Broccoli was planning in 2006 when she finally got the rights to tell James Bond’s origin story. We’ve already talked about the travesty of the 1967 screwball comedy disaster, but ...
BOND PART III: Die Another Day (w/ Becca!)
March 23, 2020 05:00 - 73.5 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of whitewashing, racism, sexism, misogyny, violence, torture. Also, one clip that contains the sound of gunshots and breaking glass [7:32-8:09]. This week, Becca of Magic Folk is here to talk about the most wild, weird, so-bad-it’s-kind-of-amazing entry in the Bond franchise. I mean, this movie is bonkers, bouncing back and forth between a cartoon villain plot and some real dark struggles for Bond after being, let’s see, impr...
BOND PART III: The World is Not Enough (w/ Kayla!)
March 16, 2020 05:24 - 63.6 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of misogyny, sexism, violence, psychosexual relationships, abuse and codependence, "Stockholm Syndrome". This week, Kayla of Gates of Orchid and Iris and DM Dalliance joins us to go through a real low point for Bond. This probably isn’t the worst Bond movie we’ve seen, but it’s definitely in line to be the most mediocre Bond film we’ve seen. In fact, this movie has the unfortunate distinction of being the only time in our memo...
BOND PART III: Tomorrow Never Dies (w/ James the Librarian!)
March 09, 2020 12:37 - 61.7 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Murder, dead bodies, gaslighting, manipulation, paranoia, suggestions of dissociative identity disorder, drugs, memory loss, death, underage drinking. This week, our librarian friend James Wilcox joins us for a Bond film that really had no right being as good as it was. I mean, they started shooting a Thanksgiving release in April and had no completed script at that time. The whole set seemed chaotic and frantic, yet somehow, Canadian di...
BOND PART III: GoldenEye (w/ Jen & Micah!)
March 03, 2020 06:44 - 77.4 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of misogyny and womanizing, sexual harassment. This week, Jen and Micah of I Never Saw That join us for a movie on their timeline and on our radar from 1995! It took 6 years to make the next Bond film after Licence to Kill, but the wait was most definitely worth it. Pierce Brosnan is hooooooottttt and yet also fun, charming, and roguishly dangerous. New writers and a new director are also in the mix and IT SHOWS, from top-notc...
BOND PART III: The Living Daylights / Licence to Kill
February 24, 2020 07:06 - 103 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, violence, specific acts of violence in the film, sex, misogyny. It’s officially season 4 of Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?! but instead of taking a break, we’re already on the clock to finish our James Bond film watch before we see the 20th Bond film, No Time to Die. So we’re kicking things off with an epic double-feature of the Bond that time forgot, the man who could have been Bond as early as 1968. That, of...
OSCARS '67: The 40th Annual Academy Awards
February 14, 2020 14:06 - 29.3 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon We’ve seen all the films, now it’s time to hear the awards. We wrap up Oscars ‘67 by discussing the 40th Annual Academy Awards with all the winners, surprises, and big moments. And, we even spend a little time wondering why the Academy doesn’t take a page from its past and re-introduce some elements from this broadcast that would work really well today. It’s a time-traveling Oscars-sode this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?! You can email us w...
SPECIAL: 2020 Oscars Wrap-Up
February 11, 2020 06:06 - 22.1 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon We’re here with our review of the 2020 Academy Awards, where the show is so self-congratulatory you can almost smell the collective heads up posteriors. Seriously, it was a boring mess of a ceremony, but that didn’t stop us from shouting with delight at Parasite taking home 4 Oscars, including Best Picture. In a year in which the Academy once again showed its uncanny ability to have no clue how movies work or what makes them good, it nevertheless honored ...
SPECIAL: 2020 Oscars Predictions
February 08, 2020 20:32 - 38.7 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon The Oscars are forthcoming and we’re here to talk about our predictions, along with our takes on the Best Songs! Spoiler: it’s not a great category! You can email us with feedback at [email protected], or you can connect with us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. If you like the podcast, make sure to subscribe and review on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcatcher, and tell your friends. Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwi...
OSCARS '67: In Cold Blood
February 04, 2020 03:34 - 53.3 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, abusive husbands, abuse of power, abuse against women, violence, hanging, death penalty, true crime. For our final film in the Oscars ‘67 series, we’re tackling a movie that’s both ahead of its time but also not artful enough to make its point in a solid way. Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel invented the true crime genre, and this film brought it, along with neo-realism, to the big screen. But the closer this movie ...
OSCARS '67: The Dirty Dozen
February 01, 2020 22:37 - 53.4 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of war crimes, rape, murder, misogyny, violence toward women, hanging, WWII executions, war, mentions of racism. We don’t watch a lot of war films here at Mac & Maud HQ, but as we worked through 1967, we couldn’t help but watch one of the most iconic action films of all time. It’s hard to enjoy this movie on its own merits, since so many other movies have used this premise since. At the time, though, this film was working on a...
OSCARS '67: Thoroughly Modern Millie
January 27, 2020 09:30 - 32 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon STRONG CONTENT WARNING: Racism as a plot point, and the use of two terms in the bio and description of two cast characters. Also, misogyny, discussion of anti-semitism, and abduction of women. We went into this one expecting a fun, whimsical romp of a musical to cleanse the palette after several serious films in a row. Instead, we got a fun, whimsical romp of a musical that just so happened to lean into racism in a truly awful way. About 75% of this movi...
OSCARS '67: In the Heat of the Night
January 25, 2020 15:13 - 57.7 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon STRONG CONTENT WARNING: Racism and discussions of racism in the deep south. Also, violence, murder, misogyny and abuse of women. Last year, the Academy championed a film that explicitly whitewashed Southern racism by centering an amazing black story on his white chauffeur. It’s not the first time they would do this, and it certainly won’t be the last. But the bitter taste that Green Book left has colored most films dealing with racism and the South that ...
OSCARS '67: Doctor Dolittle
January 20, 2020 11:00 - 53 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of incdeints of animal cruelty and negligence, mtions of racism and anti-Semitism. Well, we did it, everyone. We found the worst movie. Literally, this is now our worst rated film of all time, and it’s not even close. The entire production was a fiasco of epic proportions, and that’s before Rex Harrison’s complete and utter lack of energy in the role. Seriously, there’s nearly two hours of movie before anything of consequence ...
SPECIAL: 2020 Oscar Nominations
January 15, 2020 09:00 - 30.9 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon The 2020 Oscar nominations have been announced and…well…it happened. David’s full of hot takes and huffiness, while Diana’s utterly nonplussed. Yet both agree that Parasite is amazing and Todd Phillips deserves to get detained by security for the entire ceremony instead of watching the show on camera. Ugh. Here’s hoping the winners are more interesting than the nominees this year… You can email us with feedback at [email protected], or you can c...
OSCARS '67: Cool Hand Luke
January 13, 2020 05:53 - 52.3 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of violence, torture, prisons, labor camps, sadistic wardens, death of a loved one, prayer and Christian iconography. 1967 was a year of change, with the growth in revolutionary ideas, escalation of the war in Vietnam, and the “Summer of Love”. So it’s fitting that one of the real big award contenders that year was a prison chain-gang movie about refusing to conform with societal standards. One that just so happened to have th...
OSCARS '67: Bonnie and Clyde
January 09, 2020 05:08 - 74.3 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon We’re embarking on our most ambitious series yet for this movie review show - the major Oscar nominees of 1967. The year is loaded with classic movies that truly challenged the idea of what stories Hollywood could tell and what audiences wanted to see. And no movie embodies that more than this week’s entry, a dizzying, unpolished, proto-indie gangster movie about two of Texas’ most notorious bank robbers. This movie has some amazing technical feats and on...
2019 - Year in Movies
January 01, 2020 06:08 - 54.5 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon 2019 is coming to and end, so this week we’re here to talk about the rest of the new movies we watched this year, our overall show ratings and trends, and our Bottom 3/Top 5 movies of the year! Come enjoy our wrap session before we hit the ground running in 2020!! Macintosh & Maud have started a Patreon! Any little bit you can contribute helps, and we have special contributor-only content if you donate at the $2 level, including our review of Patrick Sw...
SPECIAL: Babes in Toyland (1986) w/ Cool Breeze Over the Mountains!
December 24, 2019 14:52 - 41.6 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon Santa’s come for all of us this year as we team up with the amazing hosts of Cool Breeze Over the Mountains for a crossover event of epic proportions. We knew when we picked Babes in Toyland this year, we’d need to cover the 1986 version as well. But that version happens to star a then-unknown Keanu Charles Reeves, a cultural icon and phenomenon that our cohorts have been studying, film-by-film, for quite some time. So we watched it, this 90-minute horror...
HOLIDAY 2019: Christmas Streaming!
December 23, 2019 06:02 - 17.9 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon We're here with some reviews of the best (and worst) of streaming holiday movies this year with some choice holiday selections you can watch on various streaming services this holiday season: Noelle (Disney Plus) The Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (Netflix) A Knight Before Christmas (Netflix) The Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (Netflix) Let It Snow (Netflix) Holiday in the WIld (Netflix) Macintosh & Maud have started a Patreon! Any little bit you...
HOLIDAY 2019: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
December 17, 2019 16:47 - 56.9 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of racism and antisemitism, along with problematic elements of this film. It’s been so, so long since we watched a solidly good movie, and this week we’re back on track. Vincente Minnelli Found a muse in Judy Garland and took her from cute little girl roles to powerhouse talent over the making of this movie. Not that Judy didn’t act like the star she was, but it doesn’t hurt the performance on screen. But it’s not just Judy w...
HOLIDAY 2019: Babes in Toyland (1961)
December 09, 2019 12:00 - 37.1 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: The synopsis of this film contains a slur directed at the Romani community, used for a significant plot point in this film. As well, discussions of gaslighting, manipulation, and emotional abuse of women, and misogyny. We were prepared for a good, old-fashioned family Disney musical this week as we ventured into our film. What we got instead was buck wild, convoluted, and really, really problematic. And not in a “gee, it was 1961 way,” b...
HOLIDAYS 2019: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
December 02, 2019 12:00 - 39.8 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions ofemotional abuse, neglect, and gaslighting of women and female characters; poor representation; horror themes and fears of children. We’re rounding out 2019 with holiday and Christmas(ish) movies this year, starting with this recent classic that one of us (cough David cough cough) hadn’t already seen. It’s not for lack of trying either - he’s probably seen the first half several times, but just never made the time to watch t...
GRISWOLDS-GIVING: Vacation (2015)
November 25, 2019 16:50 - 46.3 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of insensitive jokes about pedophilia, fighting between siblings, excessive drunkenness, vomiting, collegiate drinking, poor depictions of suicidal characters. We finish up our road trip this week with the final film in our little Griswold excursion, and this time, it’s Rusty taking the family on a cross-country adventure. Automatically, though, there’s a shift for the better in this movie, which owes far more to Adam McKay, ...
GRISWOLDS-GIVING: Vegas Vacation (1997)
November 18, 2019 06:01 - 36.6 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of misogyny, gambling addiction, sex workers, teen gambling. Our movie this week is often thrown out as an absolute low point for Chevy Chase’s career. After a pretty dull run through the late 80’s and a disastrous attempt at a late-night talk show, Chevy clearly made a money grab for the character that made him America’s most oblivious dad. This time, though, the adults take a backseat to the kids, and Rusty and Audrey get m...
GRISWOLDS-GIVING: National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
November 11, 2019 13:07 - 42.7 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of fatphobia, sexual harassment, sexual harassment of underage teens, sexism, misogyny. This week’s Griswold adventure is a true cable classic, and honestly, it’s earned that title. Amy Heckerling, a director we just cannot escape on this show, manages to punch up the funny and puts Clark and Ellen on equal footing. Which is good, because Beverly D’Angelo is kind of awesome. It’d just be nice if they could make the kids inter...
GRISWOLDS-GIVING: National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
November 04, 2019 12:31 - 52.2 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of infidelity, womanizing, racism, death of an animal, anxiety, stress, threats of violence, family dysfunction, strong language. We’ve gassed up the Wagon Queen and we’re headed across country with the Griswolds to kick off this holiday season. Diana hadn’t seen any of the Vacation series except for Christmas Vacation, so what better time to revisit these comedy classics? Although we might have spoke too soon - perhaps class...
SHYAMALAN-TOBER: Split (2017)
October 28, 2019 05:00 - 37 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon STRONG CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and this film’s exploitative portrayal of that disorder. In the course of researching this episode, we learned that this film had a strong negative impact on the DID community, and that it has and could cause trauma for individuals with DID. As well, the film deals with child sexual abuse, kidnapping, violent murder, biological horror, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and ca...
SHYAMALAN-TOBER: Lady in the Water (2006)
October 22, 2019 15:00 - 54.3 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING:In our discussion of Joker, discussion of mental illness, representing illness in film, brutal violence, and abuse. Please don’t see that movie. We continue Shyamalan-Tober this week with the movie that nearly tanked M. Night’s career for good. I mean, what do you make of a horror-thriller filmmaker who suddenly decides to write and direct a grown-up fairy-tale based on a bedtime story he told his kids? How do you market that? Not very we...
SHYAMALAN-TOBER: The Village (2004)
October 14, 2019 19:04 - 54 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of mental illness, violence, cults and harmful communal living, disabilities and neurological issues, bad depictions of mental illness, performers Joaquin Phoenix and Adrien Brody. This week in our M. Night Shyamalan series, we’re examining a film that many consider his masterpiece, but in reality is both messy and problematic. There’s obvious missteps with a specific character that needed far more nuance than this movie allo...
SHYAMALAN-TOBER: Unbreakable (2000)
October 07, 2019 05:30 - 38.9 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of disabilities and disabled people, male privilege, patriarchal attitudes. This year we’re celebrating the Halloween season with a review of the films of the polarizing master (?) of suspense, M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan’s always been a bit of a disputed figure in movies, and his track record has been mixed, but is that just critical opinion or is it reality? We’re starting things with a superhero movie that revels more in...
FEMALE DIRECTORS: Clueless (1995)
September 30, 2019 05:30 - 61.5 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of sexual harassment, a story choice involving step-siblings being romantically involved. We’re wrapping up our female directors series with the ur-teen comedy that helped kick off movies that defined a generation of high school teens - except maybe David, who hasn’t seen any of them. We’ve tackled some big movies on that list, but possibly none more formative and important than this 1995 film from Amy Heckerling, the directo...
FEMALE DIRECTORS: I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) + New Movies!
September 23, 2019 12:22 - 47.7 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of transphobia and trans-exclusionary ideology, sexual and physical abuse, drugs, sex work, mental illness, attempted murder, shooting. This week’s film might just be the least well-known on the list, though it packs a decent amount of creative firepower. Mary Harron helms this biopic/docudrama/ideological exploration of Valerie Solanas, creator of the S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto and shooter of Andy Warhol...
FEMALE DIRECTORS: The Kids Are All Right (2010)
September 16, 2019 05:14 - 55.2 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Discussions of sperm donation, family strife, marriage, affairs, marital strife. If you remember the 2010 Oscars, you remember the giant buzz this little-indie-that-could generated. It had a powerhouse cast, relatable family struggles and dynamics, an LGBTQ+ couple presented with no real complications, and a healthy dose of humor. After all the buzz for this movie, we had high expectations…and then we actually watched it. Turns out this is a true ind...
Monster (2003)
September 09, 2019 06:02 - 38.9 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon STRONG CW: Discussions of rape, child abuse, sexual abuse, violence against women, murder, mental illness, serial killers. This week, we take a hard turn into true crime with a then-rising-star Charlize Theron and true blue movie star Christina Ricci. Theron donned prosthetic makeup and a dark persona to portray Aileen Wournos, a sex worker-turned-murderer whose story is complicated, tragic, and unique in true crime. Director Patty Jenkins, who went on t...
Orlando (1992) / New Movies!!
September 02, 2019 05:00 - 56 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of misogyny, gender roles, gender switching. We’re starting a new series of watching films made by female directors discussing Sally Potter’s 1992 art-house hit, Orlando. Tilda Swinton gives a tour-de-force performance as the Count Orlando, living eternally through hundreds of years of English history, first as a man, and then as a woman. Swinton is masterful in the movie, at once reserved yet also coy and sly in the camera. ...
SUMMER OF SWAYZE: Road House (1989)
August 26, 2019 05:17 - 44.9 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of violence, violent masculinity, sex scenes, mention of a homophobic line used in the film. We're closing out our Summer of Swayze with quite possibly the single greatest bad movie ever made. Nine total bar fights, two smoking hot male leads, a monster truck crashing through a building, introspective male bonding and speeches…this movie really does have it all. There's a reason this is now a cult classic - because despite it...
SUMMER OF SWAYZE: Dirty Dancing (1987)
August 21, 2019 06:06 - 76.8 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of abortion, class issues, misogyny. This episode is a huge, epic celebration with guests Jen and Micah from I Never Saw That because a) it's David's 32nd birthday, b) it's our movie's 32nd birthday, and c) this is Jen and Micah's Patreon pick for us to watch. Oh, and this film is possibly still the best dance movie ever made. Some of it's Kenny Ortega's choreography, dripping with sex and sweat but never overt enough to raise...
SUMMER OF SWAYZE: Red Dawn Double Feature
August 14, 2019 05:31 - 95.9 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon MAJOR CONTENT WARNING: This episode was recorded prior to the recent wave of shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, and the ensuing wave of white nationalist violence. Our discussion touches on issues of white nationalism and armed insurgency, which may be harmful to some listeners. Please stay safe and avoid this episode if you need to. This week's movie is…complicated. First of all, it's a double feature that literally no one asked for, except maybe...
Patreon Unlocked: Apocalypse Now (1979)
August 06, 2019 04:32 - 62.1 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Discussion of war, violence, intense stress and mental breakdown, racism. As a tie-in to our review of the documentary Hearts of Darkness, Macintosh makes Maud watch 1979's war epic/living nightmare, Apocalypse Now. We gush over Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall, agree that Marlon Brando is an overrated asshole, get a crash course on the history of the Vietnam War, and have a heated discussion of whether past episode topic Kramer v. Kramer deserved to w...
SUMMER OF SWAYZE: The Outsiders (1983)
August 06, 2019 03:34 - 56.6 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Murder, child abuse, severe burning, children in distress, bullying. We’re kicking off a huge series, the Summer of Swayze, with Patrick’s first big role alongside the first breakout performances for some of the biggest names in acting from the 80’s and 90’s: Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, and Ralph Macchio. Francis Ford Coppola himself took on this project and wound up launching some of the biggest s...
A View to a Kill (1985)
June 24, 2019 13:57 - 54.9 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Violence including violence against women, casual sexism, sexual harassment. This week we say farewell to, officially, the horniest James Bond, Sir Roger Moore. And what an incredibly bland sendoff it is. Roger Moore was 57 years old when this movie was made, and despite his ever-present charm and wit, Moore's missing the spark and energy that was desperately needed. We do get two of our biggest-name villains, with Christopher Walken and Grace Jones,...
Octopussy (1983)
June 17, 2019 13:02 - 39.3 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Violence including violence against women, casual sexism, sexual harassment This one was a little weird. Roger Moore’s definitely too old for this role, but he’s also in good shape and has some good twinkle in his eyes. We get to spend a lengthy chunk of time in India, but also in East Berlin, and then also we’re kind of in both? In a movie where James Freaking Bond gets put in a clown suit while trying to defuse a NUCLEAR BOMB, the jokes are super l...
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
June 03, 2019 05:59 - 61.5 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Violence including violence against women, casual sexism, sexual harassment, murder, public outing of transgender people Full disclosure - this movie was so boring at spots that at least one of us was falling asleep in the climactic scene. I mean, there’s good action and a darker, tougher James Bond, but there’s something so inescapably mediocre about this very boilerplate 80’s action film. Maybe it’s the fact that there’s so many similar plot points...
Moonraker (1979)
May 27, 2019 13:09 - 45.7 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Violence including violence against women, casual sexism, and sexual harassment, murder, mild mention of genocide. This used to be one of David’s favorite Bond movies. We emphasize the used to, because after the real promise of The Spy Who Loved Me, this movie…is a total dud. It’s almost a remake of its much better predecessor, and after watching about half the film you start to realize you’ve already seen this before. No one in the movie is giving a...
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
May 20, 2019 18:15 - 62.6 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Violence including violence against women, casual sexism, and sexual harassment. Roger Moore…in a good Bond film? Who knew? Well, most Bond experts, but also Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!, now that we’ve seen this arguably classic spy film. There’s giant boats and nuclear submarines, a car that goes underwater, a gorgeous KGB agent and THE HORNIEST JAMES BOND OF ALL TIME. Not creepy horny, just HORNY HORNY. It’s adorable, and we love it. So jo...
The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)
May 14, 2019 00:15 - 54.9 MBharassment. This week, Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?! returns to the relatively safe harbor of mediocre Bond films. ‘Cause let’s be honest, anything would have been an upgrade from the garbage pile we witnessed last week. Roger Moore is really making his own space as Bond, and Christopher Lee really sells Scaramanga as a classic villain of the franchise, third nipple and all. On the other hand, both our Bond ladies are thoroughly one-dimensional, either the butt of jokes or the subject...
Live and Let Die (1973)
May 06, 2019 05:03 - 53.5 MBFind us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon CW: Racism and frank discussions of race. Like A LOT. Plus violence, some discussion of diseases, casual sexism, and sexual harassment. It's time to get back to Bond, and that's great, right? Like, it's James Bond, he's always fun and we get a new Bond to talk about. Oh, except that whole issue of "we the super white producers of this British spy thought it'd be cool to make a blaxploitation film and have all the villains be black." This movie's just dri...