Jason Squared

Come with us if you want to listen… to a podcast about Terminator 1, 2, and 3.   The Jasons discuss the original Terminator trilogy, in preparation for the upcoming Terminator: Genisys! They discuss the original movie, James Cameron's filmmaking style, revolutionizing special effects, the importance of character and story in your action movie, the ending of Terminator 3, the series' need to constantly redefine the previous movie, and more!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

The Jasons go back in time to visit Steven Spielberg's seminal Jurassic Park, and take a day tour through the less famous parks - The Lost World, Jurassic Park 3 and Jurassic World! They discuss the original films' continuity errors, special effects, Hollywood dealmaking, creating interesting characters (or not bothering), Jurassic Park 3 as a big, dumb monster movie, making a dinosaur Disneyworld, various attempts at auto-critique, big sloppy love letters to the original, giving the audience what they "want," and more!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

This year at E3 Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Square Enix and more held press conferences to tell us about games we can’t play until next year. Or maybe the year after that. Actually, no, it’s the year after that. Or… well, you get the idea. But hey, at least Final Fantasy VII Remake is one of the games in that nebulous timeline.   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

We set out to record a nice mini-sode on Nintendo’s newest inky mess of a game. An hour later, the only reason we finally stopped talking about it was so that we could go back to playing it.   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

What a lovely day! The Jasons tackle the original Mad Max trilogy before discussing - read: gushing over - George Miller's incredible Mad Max: Fury Road!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

The Jasons kick off Summer Movie Season 2015 - in May - by discussing the continuation of Marvel's Cinematic Universe, Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron! They discuss the fracturing team, all the future setup stuff, robots robots robots, the Reader's Digest version of your favorite characters, increased violence, Ultron's stupid plan, the Vision vs Adam Warlock, connected universe fatigue, and more!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

  We double team Year of Ernest movies. First we talk Slam Dunk Ernest, a basketball movie that Jim Varney randomly stumbled into for no apparent reason. Then we dig into sands traps of Ernest in the Army.

The Jasons - and special guest Vincent Kirk - continue their trek through the The Fast & The Furious franchise! Special topics include ridiculous stunts, character redefinition, family first, Jason Statham vs. The Rock, Vin Diesel's character class, and more!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

7 movies later the Jasons decided it's finally time to see what all the fuss is about with these Fast and the Furious movies. Special Guest Vincent Kirk joins us as we get Fast 1 and 2 Furious, plus Tokyo Drift.   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

The Jasons take on Neil Blomkamp's third sci-fi/action/political thriller, Chappie (2015). They discuss the film's various influences/rip-offs, Die Antwoord's "starring roles", Chappie vs. Johnny 5, the film's muddled political messages, wasting Hugh Jackman, Blomkamp's upcoming "Alien 5" project, and more!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

Achievement Unlocked: Why, God, why? We successfully completed 100 Episodes and 2 years of podcasting. For this "momentous" occasion we have decided to continue our "Year of Ernest" with Ernest Goes to Jail. 

"Grim Fandango," famous adventure game from the late 90s, was recently remastered and brought back into the public eye for the first time in 15 years. The Jasons ask the age-old question, "Does This Hold Up?" and the answer is... kinda-sorta. They discuss the game's narrative- and gameplay-structure, adventure game tropes, the passage of time affecting your relationship with the characters, fancy remastering, bad habits of old games, and more!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audible.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

With the recent(ish) release of Taken 3, the Jasons discuss the entire Taken Trilogy. They discuss the series' emphasis on character coupled with its bizarre mid-80s mindeset, Liam Neeson as a cottage industry, trying to graft a straightforward villain into the second chapter, Taken 3 as a big budget reboot of The Fugitive, and more!    This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

  Sony and Marvel just made a deal that will finally allow Spiderman to join his Marvel cousins in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! With details on the deal vague, we don’t quite know if we will we see another Peter Parker, or something new like Miles Morales or Spider-Gwen. Perhaps something even crazier? We speculate wildly about the possibilities.

  It’s the Year or Ernest! The Jason’s are dedicating this year to the late great Jim Varney’s character, Ernest P. Worrell. Why? Basically, because they felt like it. To kick off this fine endeavor the Jason’s discuss “Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam”. With this episode clocking in at about an hour, it’s clear they spent more time discussing the plot of this movie then anyone making it ever did.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year... and only a month late, to boot! The Jasons tackle last year's "Doctor Who" Christmas Episode, "Last Christmas." They discuss the episode's multi-layer setup, defying audience expectations, the Clara Epilogue That Wasn't, future expectations, Twelve vs. Six vs. Seven, Peter Capaldi, and more!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

Happy Holidays! The Jasons decide to celebrate by returning to the Remake Roundup well, this time with 1966's holiday classic "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and the bombastic Jim Carrey remake from 2000. They discuss the problems of adapting such scant material, padding, reimagining the Dr. Suess drawings in different mediums, adding a tragic backstory to the Grinch of all people, and more!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

  There are so many video games in time for the holidays! and the Jason's are enjoying a lot of them, which is why they spend almost 2 hours complaining about how terrible everything is right now.

With Series 8 of "Doctor Who" now over, the Jasons go back and re-examine the remainder of the season. They discuss Peter Capaldi and the Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald and the Doctor/companion relationship, the Clara/Danny Pink kind of relationship, story arc planning, character arcs, Stephen Moffat vs. Russell T. Davies, the Sixth Doctor connection, Missy and more!   This episode is sponsored by Audible! Visit audibletrial.com/jasonsquared for a FREE 30-day trial and FREE audiobook download!

  Fist bump added to health care matrix.