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In this (currently a bit sporadic) podcast, Kiyan and Dylan bring their "expertise" in film and television into the world of movie trilogies. Each episode centers around a trilogy that the duo watched in one sitting, and features behind the scenes information, a brief summary of key plot points, and…

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    • Sep 3, 2023 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 54m AVG DURATION
    • 76 EPISODES


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    Finale

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2023 71:56


    Dylan here. While editing this I remembered that we recorded this while I had covid. Yep. A year ago I had covid and I still sat down to  record and now I can’t even edit one episode on time. How the mighty have fallen. I dunno man, we watched Atlantis, Treasure Planetand Princess Bride.  AlsoContinue reading →

    Star Wars (The Sequel Trilogy)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2023 114:42


    This episode was originally intended to be the conclusion of Triple Play, but as you’ll see, not everything goes the way you think. We watched these in person, and frankly even though it was so long ago I sill remember that it was some of the most fun we had doing these podcasts. Just hangingContinue reading →

    Post-Matrix Wachowski Movies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2023 83:40


    The Wachowski Sisters are one of the most accomplished directoral duos of our time. Their works include…. This week we watched a fake trilogy, because for some reason we both really wanted to watch more stuff by the Wachowskis. That’s right, we watched Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending. Why did we do this?Continue reading →

    Eastrail 177 Trilogy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2023 72:07


    “Unbreakable? more like unbearable” Lots of places refer to this as the Eastrail 177 trilogy since it’s based heavily around that train, so that’s what we’re going with here today. 2:50: Anyone claiming Glass to be worse than Beverly Hills Chihuahua is just lost in my book. Good thing Kiyan left the podcast so IContinue reading →

    The Addams Family Trilogy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2023 72:46


    Badadadum *snap snap* Yeah, I bet you’re wondering how I got that text to sound exactly like the Addams family song. It’s because I’m a professional sound writer. I bet you didn’t even know that was a thing. Well, it is. I needed a job after the podcast died, and that’s what I ended upContinue reading →

    Naked Gun

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2023 55:42


    Aren’t all guns naked? I don’t really know what to write for this description in all honesty. I dunno. These movies were pretty funny, I guess, well the first one was anyway. After that I don’t think they were that great, and I don’t really know how to be funny about them here because it’sContinue reading →

    The Animated Netflix Godzilla Trilogy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2023 81:05


    Something something Blue Oyster Cult. This week we watched those random animated Godzilla movies that were released on Netflix. I feel like they flew under the radar, a bit, but here we are, Triple Play, the biggest podcast in the world, shining a light on it. That’s right, if it blows up tomorrow you knowContinue reading →

    Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2023 85:56


    I like ice cream actually. Triple Play returns from the dead (ironically) to shamble (unironically) towards a middling and mediocre conclusion followed by a spectacle no one will soon forget. Man it was so weird getting back into editing this. Felt like having to relearn a skill I had long since forgotten. Anyway, this wasContinue reading →

    The Robert Langdon Trilogy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2021 61:52


    Here it is, our crowning achievement, obviously. I honestly didn’t think these movies could be that bad. Hoo boy was I surprised then when we actually watched these bad boys. And when I say bad boys I mean bad. Tom Hanks, the absolute opposite of whatever the hell Dan The Man Brown had in mindContinue reading →

    How to Train Your Dragon

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2021 73:26


    I love it when we do animated trilogies, don’t you? I hope you like us referring to the director by his first name and first name only for the entirety of this 1 hour 15 minute podcast episode. No, he’s not a personal friend of ours, we just don’t want to keep having to pronounceContinue reading →

    Fifty Shades of Grey

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 78:31


    For some reason I never started this draft beforehand. Normally I start a draft for each of these episodes to store all my sources in. And for some reason I just… didn’t for this trilogy. I’m not really sure why. I know I had a bunch of links. I know I put them somewhere. MaybeContinue reading →

    The Dark Knight

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2021 81:50


    Yes, we did watch these great masterpieces of cinema history. So this episode is late because guess what? I went into my little folder, with all of this season recorded, and edited “Episode 4.3”. Seems correct, right? Turns out I had misnumbered the episodes, and so I actually edited episode 4 of this season, thatContinue reading →

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    Beverly Hills Chihuahua

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 58:40


    “Kill me now” – Me, apparently 6 months ago. Honestly, in hindsight, I have absolutely no reasonable clue as to why we covered this trilogy. Literally none at all. But at some point we decided, hey, let’s sit down and watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua and that’s gonna be a good time. So we did, weContinue reading →

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    Mad Max

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2021 84:49


    Don’t you get it? He’s MAD! We start off season 4 of Triple Play off with a quite extensive discussion about the merits of Australian Cinema. We also completely change the format. That’s right, we’ve regenerated. Everything is different, and nothing is the same. Can you believe it? I can believe it. For this newContinue reading →

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    Qatsi

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2021 58:39


    If we could have made this episode a tone poem we would have. The audio quality in this episode is a little worse than normal because it was recorded quite early in quarantine (nearly a year before release) before we had figured out how to properly record these things via skype. Because of that Kiyan’sContinue reading →

    Robocop

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2021 69:24


    Dead or alive you’re coming with us. So this time we decided to watch an action movie that turns out to have actually quite complex societal implications. We also watched two other pieces of crap, so it wasn’t really just the one movie. But we did watch that movie. Did you know Paul Verhoeven respondedContinue reading →

    xXx

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 93:45


    No not that kind of xXx. I used to be an extreme sportsman. Did you know that? Yeah it’s true, I used to do extreme podcast editing. One time we were releasing an episode of Trust Your Doctor but I Was busy skydiving, so while skydiving I took my laptop and edited while skydiving. SetContinue reading →

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    Cars

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 66:51


    Remember how All-Star became a meme? So did Life is a Highway. When I saw the first movie in theatres I was in 4th grade. I know that I’m sort of in way giving away how old I ma, but hey. And then I actually saw the second one in theatres too. The third CarsContinue reading →

    Taken

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 53:27


    Taken’s first moment of relevance since 2008. Ok so here’s where the schedule for this season gets really crazy because for some reason we had to find the least logical way to record these episodes. Yeah. But you know, given the current status of the world, I would actually really like someone to just… takeContinue reading →

    The Godfather

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2020 62:36


    It’s Ca-POLE-ah and not COP-a-la. We recorded this in January of 2020 which means basically all of the cultural references are outdated. Also just listen to how optimistic we sound! This was also, fun fact, one of the very last episode we recorded both in person and in the old office we used to recordContinue reading →

    Once Upon A Time…

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2020 71:37


    Both Kiyan and I are upstanding citizens, I swear. Sergio Leone returns to Triple Play with a vengeance!  With this, both Kiyan and I can officially say we’ve seen every Leone movie except for that one that no one really knows. So really we’re basically Leone experts now. I’d suggest we just shut the podcastContinue reading →

    Fred

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2020 46:48


    Take a trip down YouTube memory lane. This week we decided to give Lucas Cruikshank some money. I’m sure he’s really hurting in this time, probably nearly broke, probably has no idea what to do with his life. And now he’s stuck at home, not much to do. Oh god is Fred gonna come back?Continue reading →

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    Despicable Me

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 40:15


    Surrealism is making a come back. I know we joke a lot in this episode as well as this description about this franchise being surrealist and also a masterpiece, but go back and watch it. Seriously, go back and watch it through the lens of them being a compilation of surrealist movie experiments and suddenlyContinue reading →

    Men in Black

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2020 43:49


    You won’t even remember this episode when it’s done. I tried to dress up like the men in black once. Unfortunately I didn’t have a tailored suit so it looked pretty shitty, you know, but at least I tried. I’m not actually sure if this story is even true anymore because I’m pretty sure IContinue reading →

    Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky VI

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2020 66:30


    So this week we’re dressed up in America shorts while recording. You’ll just have to trust me on the America shorts, I swear to god we were wearing them when we recorded. Rocky IV is basically the closest America has come to having legitimate propaganda, or at least until Fox News started. Is that jokeContinue reading →

    Lord of the Rings

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2020 59:40


    The biggest trilogy ever attempted for this podcast… for a long time. This was a serious slog. Now the real question is am I talking about the editing or the watching of these movies? I could be talking about both, it’s really late at night and I’ve been up for nearly 15 hours at thisContinue reading →

    Inevitable: Episode 0

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2019 5:39


    This week we have something new for you. This is Episode 0 of our new podcast, Inevitable. Because, as we all know, we’re basically suckers for attention and so as soon as someone mentioned we should watch even more sci-fi everyone has to have known that this would be inevitable. Inevitable will be available onContinue reading →

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    Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2019 24:26


    This seems somewhat fitting actually. If you’ve made it this far, you’re one of like 6 people who have. Somehow I’m pretty sure Triple Play has only roughly 6 subscribers. It’s actually probably 5, since one of those subscribers is me, since I test that the episodes release correctly on my own phone. So yeahContinue reading →

    Toy Story

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2019 78:24


    Number 10 will shock you! One day, when we have a big following, we can get clips of our podcast animated like all the big podcasts do. Then we can pay someone to animate clips from three consecutive episodes, which then would mean we would have our own animated trilogy. And then we could watchContinue reading →

    Iron Man: Armored Adventures

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2019 29:12


    The age old conundrum. Coming soon to your television screens: Trust Your Doctor: Animated Adventures. We’ve hired an obscure animation studio from Trenzalore, who specialize in 3-D hand drawn animation. We’ve reimagined ourselves as high school students just setting out on a podcasting adventure, which is weird, because that’s actually what happened. So it’s notContinue reading →

    Iron Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2019 66:25


    Well this is the biggest plot twist of our lifetime. Last time we got stuck in a cave we were forced to start a podcast, and that’s how we got Zenith. Frankly we all know how that turned out. Pretty well actually. All the best things are made in caves at gunpoint. It’s Iron Man,Continue reading →

    Best Worst Movie

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2019 29:49


    And introducing, the one, the only, TROOOLLLLLLL 2! Unsurprisingly there was very little expanded universe, well, “stuff” to do for the Troll “trilogy.” Perhaps that’s because Troll isn’t even really a trilogy, and not only that these movies flopped so badly when they came out pretty much every studio within a million years didn’t wantContinue reading →

    Troll

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2019 49:53


    Not overwhelmed. Not underwhelmed. Just whelmed. We made an extremely poor decision on what to watch this week. Extremely poor. The Holy Grail knight might tell us that we had chosen “poorly.” I’m actually running out of things to say to describe just how bad of an idea this was to even attempt at all,Continue reading →

    Chuck

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2018 49:34


    I’ve got a delivery here for Mr. Schreiber? Well this is a little unfortunate. This movie was pretty lackluster at best, and outright bad at worst. Which is a shame because you’d think the “real life Rocky” would have a much much better movie. Something on the order of, oh I don’t know. Rocky. It’sContinue reading →

    Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2018 60:24


    I would not appreciate being called a Paulie apologist, frankly. This week we watch one of the biggest underdogs in history. Much like how our podcasts happen to be the biggest underdogs in movie podcasting history. Which is great, because now we know exactly what we need to do to become the biggest podcast inContinue reading →

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    The Predator

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2018 56:21


    By which I mean, the Predator franchise killer is this movie. I think it’s about time to give up on the Predator franchise. If The Predator shows the direction of the franchise, then we should really just. Pack it in. I’m not really exaggerating here. Go and watch it if you don’t believe me. NoContinue reading →

    Predator, Predator 2, Predators

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2018 75:52


    Pew pew check out these guns. In space no one can… wait. No sorry wrong 80’s action/horror franchise. What’s the slogan for the Predator movies? Honestly don’t even know. Get to the chopper? If it bleeds we can kill it? Wow these suck. It’s Predator, released in 1987, 1990 and 2010. How does that makeContinue reading →

    The First Purge

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2018 57:48


    Honestly surprised Hollywood hasn’t made a gritty Pooh reboot. This week we purge our bad feelings about podcasting. We just kind of vomit it all out into the recording and then boom it kind of just happens. You know. We purged, so all our episodes should be good for the next year now I think.Continue reading →

    The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy, The Purge: Election Year

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2018 53:45


    Well, yes. In a sense of the word it is cheese. Triple Play is  back, one week later, but better late than never really in my opinion. And we’re watching basically the greatest movies we have ever watched for this podcast, it’s The Purge. What would you do during the Purge? I’d pirate The PurgeContinue reading →

    Ocean’s 11 (1960)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2018 32:40


    This podcast has really taken a dive if you know what I mean. This week we kind of mildly tortured ourself with the original Ocean’s 11. Like, the one that was released in 1960. Not the new one, the good one, the Steven Soderbergh one. We watched the old one, the Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin/Sammy DavisContinue reading →

    Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2018 56:45


    Well, at least I can read the movie and watch the book. This month we watched something that’s been on my list for a long time. They’re pretty different from anything we’ve watched before actually, these are the first proper “heist” movies that we’ve watched for this podcast. We’ve run through quite a gamut ofContinue reading →

    Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2018 32:58


    Well, here I go adopting communism again. It’s been panned by fans and newcomers alike, it’s Triple Play! No, wait. It’s Indiana Jones. That’s right, I’m sorry. Who can really tell the difference with that reaction though? It’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, written by David Koepp and released on MayContinue reading →

    Indiana Jones

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2018 59:08


    Kind of like bring your kids to work day: bring your kids to cult day! This is a classic 80’s trilogy, and if you’re wondering why we did it now, well Steven Spielberg has that movie coming out. You know, Ready Player One. And that was the only thing we could come up with inContinue reading →

    Insidious: The Last Key

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2018 36:32


    Beep boop activate scare mode beep boop. This month we covered the only thing that we really could for this movie trilogy. I’m being serious right now, there’s surprisingly, absolutely nothing else we could do for Insidious unless we watched something else that James Wan or Leigh Whannell has done. It’s Insidious: The Last Key,Continue reading →

    Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2, Insidious: Chapter 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2018 45:55


    This is the greatest conclusion we’ve ever come to. I think this is the first horror trilogy we’ve done. Well actually I don’t think, I know, I’m just thinking because, man we’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel for finding tenuous connections to movies coming out in the months these episodes come out. It’sContinue reading →

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    Star Wars: Clone Wars

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2017 30:38


    Being stabbed hurts, from what I’ve heard. This month we watched Star Wars: Clone Wars, where the clones like actually attack, you know? They should have called this Attack of the Clones, and renamed Episode II, I don’t know, “The Clones Exist.” Clone Wars was aired between November 7, 2003 and March 25, 2005. SubscribeContinue reading →

    Star Wars (the prequel trilogy)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2017 51:10


    If he’s the key I don’t want to see what the lock looks like. This month we tortured ourselves with the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. Unless you’re Kiyan, then you discovered a newfound appreciation for actual trash. This is George Lucas’ magnum opus. Or as close to it as he’s ever going to get. TheContinue reading →

    Alien Resurrection

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2017 56:07


    Stone, the womb from which man was born. I think. Time to round out the original Alien quadrilogy with everybody’s favorite Alien movie, Alien Arrival. The 2016 one. Just kidding, I don’t think we’d survive that ordeal. It’s Alien: Resurrection written by Joss Whedon, directed by Jean–Pierre Jeunet and released on November 26, 1997. SubscribeContinue reading →

    Alien, Aliens, Alien 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2017 65:11


    Don’t know how I did that, considering we set aside like 9 hours to watch these. This month we delve into a science fiction classic. No not Star Wars. No not Back to the Future. No not… ok you get the point. It’s Alien, Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi horror classic. We also watched Aliens andContinue reading →

    Hercules and the Arabian Night

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2017 23:26


    You know, just those damn trolls living under internet bridges. Amazingly there’s barely anything expanded universe for Aladdin. In fact we had to go and dive into completely other properties just to find something to squeak out a 20 ish minute episode. It’s Hercules and the Arabian Night, written by Bill Motz and Bob Roth and airedContinue reading →

    Aladdin, The Return of Jaffar, Aladdin and the King of Thieves

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2017 60:00


    Aladdin made zero dollars because zero people saw it. This month Kiyan and Dylan made the decision on what trilogy to watch solely based on how long it was. In hindsight, probably not the best idea. On the other hand, we almost ended up with Lord of the Rings one time, and that’s the completeContinue reading →

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