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We're Dan & Heather, a couple of movie lovers (and a couple, too). Each episode, we're going to be looking at a movie that one of us hasn't seen (probably Heather): from some classics you'd be astonished that someone hasn't seen (again, probably Heather), to some of our more obscure favorites. We'll be talking about what we know, or at least, what we *think* we know about the movie. Then after watching it, we'll recap the movie, discuss what we thought, find out if the movie has withstood the test of time, and hopefully have a few laughs along the way.Copyright 2025 Blind Spots & Second Thoughts Kunst Sozialwissenschaften
  • Star Trek Generations
    Mar 26 2025
    Heather hasn’t seen Star Trek Generations

    Set your podcast players to “stun”, as we dive into the first cinematic outing of Captain Picard and the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew in 1994’s Star Trek Generations. We discuss Heather’s journey from being clueless about Star Trek to fandom, how the movie got made in a rush, nepo babies in Starfleet, and French captains with Victorian British Christmas fantasies. If you’re a long time Trekker or you don’t know a Tribble from a Tellarite, this episode has something for everyone — and is quite possibly our funniest episode yet. Engage!

    00:00 Intro

    03:23 Rushed production

    05:57 Film Clip

    08:09 Initial Reactions

    17:31 Who turned out the lights?

    20:51 Recap

    24:21 Captain Harriman was interested in politics from a young age

    28:10 Kirk’s heroics

    32:43 This movie does not care if you’ve never seen a Star Trek

    36:13 Picard’s family died in a what now?

    40:58 Android existential crisis

    46:22 Still not over that fire thing

    49:21 Guinan does not have a hat

    54:07 Why do Klingons want to destroy the Enterprise? Also unclear.

    58:09 Troi gets to fly the ship

    1:00:21 Most British Frenchman ever

    1:03:57 Meeting of the Captains

    1:07:59 RIP Kirk (for real this time)

    1:12:33 The anticlimax of it all

    1:14:57 Final thoughts

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    1 Std. und 19 Min.
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Mar 12 2025
    Heather hasn’t seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Clear your mind and meet us in Montauk, because we’re going to be discussing the 2004 classic mind-bender of a film starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, written by Charlie Kaufmann, and directed by Michael Gondry. Does the cerebral examination of love and relationships hold up 20 years later? And what connection do Napoleon Dynamite and The Holiday have with this film?

    00:00 Intro

    00:42 Preconceptions

    05:00 Film Clip

    06:45 Initial reactions (spoilers)

    16:32 The look and feel of the film

    19:34 Is it a horror film?

    23:02 A very British orange

    25:10 Recap

    28:25 The questionable ethics of memory erasure

    33:35 Insecurities and accusations

    38:12 Lord of the Creeps

    43:29 Lack of likeable characters

    49:47 I am not a concept

    52:00 On trauma, memory, and nature

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    Thanks so much for listening! Blind Spots & Second Thoughts will be back with more new episodes in summer of 2025. Stay subscribed, keep sharing, and please take a moment to rate and review us if you can. We'll be back soon!

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    58 Min.
  • Iron Man
    Feb 26 2025
    Heather doesn’t remember Iron Man

    We take our first steps into the wide, wide universe of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 2008’s Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the titular hero. This movie, directed by Jon Favreau, kicked off the entertainment juggernaut that is the MCU, so even though Heather has technically seen the movie before, we’re going to revisit it to start our Marvel superhero journey. Fortunately, she doesn’t remember any of it.

    We’ll discuss how RDJ’s charm offensive makes an offensive character likeable, if there’s chemistry between Tony Stark and his executive assistant Pepper Potts (played by Gwyneth Paltrow), and if the movie still holds up over fifteen years later.


    00:00 Intro

    00:36 Preconceptions

    04:38 What exactly is the MCU, anyway?

    06:02 Indie film cred

    10:18 Movie clip

    12:56 Reactions

    16:50 Grounded in reality

    20:00 Stan Lee's challenge

    21:41 Charm offensive

    24:19 Recap

    26:49 That weapons factory really tied the room together

    28:38 Terrence Howard was fired for being Terrence Howard

    30:05 Writer-director-actor-bodyguard

    30:57 JARVIS!

    31:54 Hot sake and ethical flight attendant strippers

    34:22 International date line

    35:20 The Ten Rings

    36:54 Escape and goodbye

    39:26 Have it your way (rock bottom)

    40:58 No longer man-ooo-facturing weapons

    42:32 SHIELD is kind of a big deal

    45:06 Science-based (just not physics)

    47:55 Chemistry is a science

    49:07 Gwyneth Paltrow has never heard of Operation

    49:48 Masking done right

    51:58 Would you kiss your boss at a work event?

    57:29 Terrorism is terrifying

    01:00:37 Why does Dan know what Louboutins are?

    01:01:22 The big bad (not really a surprise)

    01:05:57 Drink more Ovaltine

    01:09:03 Crucial to make voice scary when being a bad guy

    01:12:31 I am Iron Man

    01:13:30 Post credits!

    01:18:11 Closing thoughts

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    Thanks so much for listening! Blind Spots & Second Thoughts will be back with more new episodes in summer of 2025. Stay subscribed, keep sharing, and please take a moment to rate and review us if you can. We'll be back soon!

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    1 Std. und 24 Min.

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