The Contrarians

Feb 03 2025 300 ep. 80 mins 381
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Hosts Alex Mattis and Julio Olivera take on popular opinion, trashing movies everyone loves and praising movies everyone hates. Visit their website at www.wearethecontrarians.com

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227 - Pt. 2 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (RT)

Feb 03 2025 58 mins  
They did it. Those madmen (and madwomen) at The MCU actually did it and pulled all the strings in the world to get a sort of live-action Spider-verse movie to close out Tom Holland’s first Spider-Trilogy. Can this work for anyone who doesn’t have decades of emotional investment in Spider-Man as a movie character, and perhaps even more so, anyone who doesn’t have decades of at

227 - Pt. 1 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (CC)

Feb 03 2025 60 mins  
You could argue that the world was in such a bad emotional place around Christmas 2021 that critics and audiences would have embraced the most transparent attempts at capitalizing on feel-good nostalgia. And they did, as SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME scored a 93% Tomatometer score purely by referencing past Spidey adventures. Listen to Alex & Julio as they resist the combined charm of th

TUFtwenty - Episode 3 - Making Weight

Jan 30 2025 61 mins  
The journey continues as we finally step into the cage. Before we can get there, though, we have to explain weight-cutting to an incredulous Julio. We discuss the tough (and hilarious) road to our first fight of the season and reminisce on some of the weight blunders the sport has seen. In addition, we add music of the era to the weekly format as Steve consults the Billboard Hot

TUFtwenty - Episode 2 - Team Challenges

Jan 24 2025 55 mins  
The team challenges kick off as our journey of The Ultimate Fighter continues. What does sawing a utility log into pieces then reassembling it have to do with fighting? We put our minds together and try our damndest to figure it out. In this episode, we meet our host, Willa Ford, we have a heated discussion about asparagus, and we learn that no one trains harder than UFC fighters

226 - Pt. 2 - Spider-Man: Far From Home (RT)

Jan 22 2025 60 mins  
Whatever movie followed Avengers: Endgame would have the benefit of not having to do a thing to get people to watch it… and the disadvantage of it being impossible for it to live up to Endgame’s epic scale. Spidey drew the short-straw, if you can call it that when your movie grosses a billion dollars, and FAR FROM HOME seems to be the least liked of the Tom Holland movies. List

226 - Pt. 1 - Spider-Man: Far From Home (CC)

Jan 22 2025 58 mins  
You’d think the devastating climax of Avengers: Endgame wouldn’t be the best way to set up Peter Parker’s lighthearted romp across Europe, and yet that’s exactly what the MCU deployed as an Endgame follow-up. Critics lapped it up, but real fans know SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME is as empty and superficial as Mysterio’s illusions. Listen to Alex & Julio yearn for the days whe

TUFtwenty - Episode 1 - The Quest Begins

Jan 17 2025 63 mins  
The Contrarians embark on a quest unlike any other as they’re joined by Joe Hulbert and STEVE(!) to host a 20-year retrospective on the ground-breaking reality television series, The Ultimate Fighter. For Episode 1 of this 14-part journey, we chronicle the history of the UFC heading into 2005 and put into perspective just how much was at stake with this show. We pick our teams a

225 - Pt. 2 - Man on Fire (RT)

Jan 13 2025 57 mins  
Even if you haven’t seen MAN ON FIRE, you probably have a good idea of whether you’ll like it or not, especially once you learn it was directed by latter-day Tony Scott. It’s Denzel on a revenge rampage across the border! But does that play a little differently 20 years from when it was released? And how does it hold up against other revenge stories we’ve covered on the sho

225 - Pt. 1 - Man on Fire (CC)

Jan 12 2025 54 mins  
There’s no explosion like an explosion Denzel Washington walks away from in slow motion. Tony Scott understood this, audiences in 2004 understood this, but critics did not. And so MAN ON FIRE sits with a shocking 38% Tomatometer score, despite giving us the very first Denzel / Dakota Fanning team-up. Listen to Alex & Julio celebrate another exciting Denzel adventure while trying

224 - Pt. 2 - Dragged Across Concrete (RT)

Dec 31 2024 66 mins  
We gave it a shot, but it was inevitable to bring up Bone Tomahawk time and again when talking about S. Craig Zahler’s most recent effort. There’s more to this Real Talk segment than unflattering comparisons thought! Gibson’s persona, Vaughnn’s seriousness, and what can we really make of that Jennifer Carpenter sequence? This is how we close 2024!