Episode 369: Things That Are Big and Things That Are Small
The Overthinking It Podcast tackles Marvel’s Ant Man, starring Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.
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Superheroes on Overthinking It
Daredevil and the Moral Value of Pain
Blind lawyer Matt Murdock beats up bad guys and they beat him right back. Is that pain worth anything in and of itself? Or is it just a means to an end?
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Episode 357: The Broken Windows Theory of Avenging
The Overthinkers tackle “Avegners: Age of Ultron,” directed by Joss Whedon and starring Robert Downey, Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Scarlet Johansson, and James Spader’s ominous voice.
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The Age Before Ultron: A Brief History of Super Hero Movies, Agony to Avengers
Before (or after!) you see Avengers: Age of Ultron, take a look back through X-Men, Spider-Man, and the history of superhero movies.
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Episode 341: It’s Nice That There are Films That are Ambitious
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, John Perich, and Matthew Wrather overthink contemporary prestige pictures, including “Inherent Vice”, “Birdman”, and “TAK3N”.
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Schizophrenia and Superheroes
The American Myth Factory as a production producing process.
The Dark Knight ROI’s
Was becoming Batman REALLY the best way to fix Gotham City? What’s the return on investment for “Being Batman?”
Have We Reached Peak Superhero? Part II: The Winter Statistician
A revised look at the statistics of superhero movies and if there’s any indication that they’ve hit their peak.
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Episode 302: Nobody Friend-zones Leonardo
The Overthinkers tackle the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Richard Rosenbaum’s book “Raise Some Shell”.
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With Great Power Comes… a TV Pilot
What does the premiere episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD say about the relationship between the franchise’s superheroes and their audience?