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Foster Harlfinger

Foster Harlfinger

Co-host of the film podcasts Franchise Paradiso and Also See, and a contributor to the film site Knock on Wood.

Nov 2, 2026

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474: Wildwood

Nov 2 · 1h 25m

63:33
it is i wondered the same thing um but as many know i don't read so i will never know this is true any other thoughts foster we haven't heard from you in a while
63:44
Well, I mean, just responding to some of the things you were saying, obviously I loved the movie, so I didn't have quite the same experience or hang-ups, I suppose.
63:54
I think for me, why it doesn't bother me personally is I feel...
63:59
if there is a gleefulness to the violence or to the war, I think it's less coming intrinsically from the characters and more so just coming from the spectacle of, of the fact that it's a movie and it's like, Whoa, look at all this, you know, destruction.
64:13
Um, but I did feel like from the characters, there was quite a lot of resistance to the idea of, of war or to battle.
64:20
And, you know, it even takes convincing, you know, uh, a mystical sort of convincing, you know, for them to agree to it.
64:27
And I do feel that character we've been describing to with his reaction to his weapon.

14 MINS LATER

78:27
Foster, what's your buried treasure?
107:12
No one taking it away from us.
107:14
All right.
107:15
I also feel like just the spirit of Nope is so in line with horror just in terms of the genre mishmash and the, like, group of outcasts coming together, you know, to, like – for common purpose sort of thing it fits so in line with horror in so many so many ways and there's like a few really now to me iconic scenes that are very horror okay so i saw this movie twice in theaters the first time i saw it in theaters i liked it but i wasn't necessarily it wasn't like the get out kind of reaction where it's like oh my gosh i just watched like you know, cinema being changed before my eyes.
107:51
I got to read everything about it.
107:52
It wasn't like that kind of reaction.
107:53
I was like, huh, that was really good.
107:56
I'm not sure I get everything about this movie yet, but I'd like to, you know, like that was my feeling the first time.

13 MINS LATER

121:04
You can give me more than one.

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