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Movie Meltdown - Episode 174

This week we have the mandatory discussion every movie geek has to have about... The Avengers. Once we\u2019ve fulfilled the Marvel/Joss conversation quota, we move into this week\u2019s installment of The Grind. There we address the topic "Disappointments", and what happens when you get your hopes up about a movie, and it doesn\u2019t deliver. \xa0

And for one reason or another we get around to... The Hunger Games, Wes Anderson, Congo, Rubber, Twilight, singing for bears, Spun, The Wolfman, Jarhead, Pete Postlethwaite, mission-based movie, Meatloaf on a saxaphone, media and relationships, the Mission: Impossible series, Charles Dance, James Bond, Jim Carrey, Sucker Punch, loved 35mm prints, darker superheroes, Indiana Jones, The Blair Witch Project, War of the Worlds, Melancholia, Super Mario Bros., Revolutionary Road, the Alien series, movie fever-dreams, Men in Black, Werewolf Lawyers, Series 7, Steven Spielberg, Beginners, Superman Returns, ape movies, Spider-man, The Bread My Sweet, Frankenstein, Harry Potter, The Clone Wars, a gaggle of girls in the lobby, Jack Bauer, American Beauty, Paul Thomas Anderson, Dan Hedaya, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The X-Files, shaky camerawork, hang around after the credits, Huck Finn, werewolves with fanny packs, YA Lit., Road to Perdition, Drive, I know I had a Zappa record and... do you wanna see my probe droid?

\u201cEveryone\u2019s logic was... well it wasn\u2019t that bad. I\u2019m like... but it wasn\u2019t that good.\u201d