Hate Watching Marty Supreme: We Could Play Ping Pong

About this episode

The hosts analyze the film 'Marty Supreme', discussing its plot, directing, performances, and soundtrack choices.

Send us Fan Mail Marty Supreme looks like a prestige movie, sounds like three different movies at once, and plays like a sports film that refuses to give you the one thing you came for: a reason to care who wins. We walk through the plot beat by beat, then stop and argue about why it feels so strange when the directing and performances seem competent, yet the story keeps slipping out of our hands. We get into the loud, anachronistic soundtrack choices (80s and 90s thriller cues crashing into...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dan Goodsell, Tony Czech

Topics covered

• film review
• sports film
• storytelling
• soundtrack analysis
• prestige movie

Keywords

• Marty Supreme
• film analysis
• sports movie
• soundtrack
• story structure

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Books & works: Marty Supreme

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