EPISODE 195: 2008’s Box Office Countdown (10–6) – Iron, Espionage, Penguins, and Robots (ft. Robert Yaniz Jr. & DW Lundberg)

Episode Description:

The countdown continues! Jason is joined by returning guests Robert Yaniz Jr. and DW Lundberg to tackle the back half of 2008’s top-grossing movies—where talking animals, malfunctioning robots, and emotionally exhausted spies battled it out for box office supremacy.

This batch has it all: MCU beginnings, Pixar magic, Bond reboot blues, and a certain talking lion who just can't catch a break.

Films Discussed:

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  Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (6) – The animals are back and... still trying to get home.

  
  


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  Quantum of Solace (7) – Bond is brooding, brutal, and possibly bored.

  
  


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  Iron Man (8) – The movie that launched a universe (and Robert Downey Jr. into legend).

  
  


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  WALL·E (9) – A near-silent ode to love, loneliness, and environmental collapse.

  
  


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  The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (10) – Slightly darker, slightly edgier, but did anyone notice?

  
  

IN THIS EPISODE:

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  Was Quantum of Solace an artistic casualty of the 2008 writers' strike?

  
  


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  How Iron Man became a bigger gamble than anyone remembers.

  
  


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  Why WALL·E might be Pixar’s boldest and most bittersweet gamble.

  
  


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  Robert, DW, and Jason try to answer the eternal question: "Who actually watched Prince Caspian?"

  
  

From Armored Avengers to existential robots, the back half of 2008’s top 10 is more influential than you might think.