Socially Distanced 171: The Future of Summer Blockbusters, Barbenheimer, The Flash & More

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The Summer Movie Season of 2023 was a wild one. It saw the rise of Barbenheimer and the fall of many a vaunted piece of IP — and we’re here to discuss it all…and give out some awards!

Hosts Bill Bodkin and Amanda Rivas are joined by Ben Murchison to discuss their return to theaters, the flops that were Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the juggernaut that was Barbenheimer, Paramount’s miscue with the latest Mission: Impossible, end of summer sleepers and are the days of big summer blockbusters over?

We also hand out “summer movie superlatives” to our favorite performances, movies, scenes, celebrity crushes, as well as the worst of the summer who all deserved a steaming hot bowl of butt soup. The Awards are as follows…

• The Harrison Ford Thirst Trap Award For Performer We Swooned for This Summer:
• The TK42Woof Award For Best Animal in a Summer Movie:
• The Alex Marcus Award for the Movie that Made You Cry the Most:
• The Owen Wilson “Wow, Wow, Wow” Award for Best Surprise in a Good Way Film of the Summer:
• The Lives Rent Free in My Head Award for Best Scene from a Movie This Summer
• The Butt Soup Award for Worst Scene from a Movie This Summer:
• The Well, We Don’t Hate it as Much as Amanda Hates Her Sister Award for Worst Movie of the Summer:
• The Barbenheimer Awards…
  • The Oppenheimer (Best Performance)
  • The Barbie (Best Film)

Finally, we discuss the breaking news of the studios wanting to sit down with the striking WGA and Bob Iger’s sudden diplomatic tone in regardless to SAG-AFTRA strike.