9 to 5 is remembered as a groundbreaking comedy, but rewatching it today reveals a movie that casually pivots into kidnapping, false imprisonment, and accidental corpse theft.In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock revisit the 1980 classic. They discuss Dolly Parton’s flawless acting debut, the film’s massive $103.2 million box office run, and how a movie about a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical boss still feels entirely relatable today.In this episode:-The unexpected madcap tone of the second act-Why Dolly Parton was the ultimate anti-ego movie star-The film’s massive 1980 box office success against The Empire Strikes Back-The animated fantasy sequences and unhinged plot twists-Final ratings and Letterboxd community scoresSo Many Sequels is your book club for movies.Follow along:-Website: somanysequels.com-Instagram: @somanysequelspod

Some post-apocalyptic movies are about surviving the infected. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is about surviving Jack O'Connell and a cult named Jimmy.In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock review the second part of the new 28 Years Later trilogy. They break down the film's stark departure from standard zombie tropes, Dr. Kelson’s (Ralph Fiennes) bizarre behavior in the wasteland, the introduction of an Alpha infected, and whether the movie tries to juggle too many unconnected storylines at once.In this episode:-Why human evil is scarier than the Rage virus-Ralph Fiennes’ unhinged "Devil" performance-The terrifying lore behind the Jimmy cult-Does Spike’s storyline actually belong in this movie?-Box office struggles vs. high critical praise-Our predictions for the Cillian Murphy finaleSo Many Sequels is your book club for movies.Follow along:Website: somanysequels.comInstagram: @somanysequelspod

Chris Hemsworth. Mark Ruffalo. Halle Berry. Barry Keoghan. A $90 million budget. And a box office run that didn't come close to covering it.

In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock kick off a streaming catch-up series with Crime 101 — the heist thriller that bombed in theaters and found new life on Prime Video. They break down the movie's tangle of subplots, debate whether Barry Keoghan quietly stole the whole thing, and land on three different star ratings.

In this episode:

• Why Crime 101 made $72.9M against a $90M budget
• The "cool guys doing cool crimes" test, applied
• Barry Keoghan vs. the rest of the cast
• Steve McQueen and Bullitt comparisons in the car chase scenes
• Three ratings, one Letterboxd guessing game

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Josh, Garrett, and David close out Mythology Month with Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — five stars across the board, a case for practical effects over CGI, and a theory about the Trojan horse that reframes the whole movie.

In this episode:

• Why The Odyssey landed five stars from all three hosts
• How Nolan shot giants, a Cyclops, and a full ship's crew almost entirely practically
• Matt Damon's months of real archery training — no CGI arrows
• Anne Hathaway's "I want Odysseus" scene, and the case for more Penelope
• David's theory on what the Trojan horse really represents in this version
• The Letterboxd guessing game (David wins with a direct hit at 4.4)
• Black Panther 3 and Ryan Gosling's Ghost Rider news, straight from Comic-Con

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In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock dig into Disney's 1997 Hercules for week three of Mythology Month — the extremely American, gospel-choir version of the Greek myth that somehow still works.In this episode:-The wild casting history behind Hades-Why the Muses might be the best storytelling device in any Disney movie-Disney's Americanization of Greek mythology, and why the backlash from Greece makes sense-Ranking "Go the Distance," "Zero to Hero," and "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)"-The Michael Bolton needle drop nobody saw coming-Three different star ratings — and the real Letterboxd numberSo Many Sequels is your book club for movies.Follow along: Website: somanysequels.com Instagram: @somanysequelspod

Troy made nearly $500 million worldwide, cast half of Lord of the Rings as extras, and turned Brad Pitt into a Greek demigod for two hours and forty-three minutes. It also cut every god out of Homer's Iliad and left Achilles as a straight-up atheist.

Josh, Garrett, and David dig into what David Benioff's screenplay kept, what it invented, and why removing the mythology from a mythology movie might be the reason nobody in it feels worth rooting for. Plus: the Letterboxd guessing game, a Peter O'Toole story that did not end well for anyone, and a rating that dropped the more they talked about it.

Part of Mythology Month, timed to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — now in theaters. Follow So Many Sequels at somanysequels.com and @somanysequelspod on Instagram.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? opened in five theaters on December 22, 2000, went on to make $71.9 million worldwide on a $26 million budget, and somehow got outdone by its own soundtrack — which sold over 8 million copies and beat out Bob Dylan and U2 for the Grammy for Album of the Year, only the third movie soundtrack ever to do it.

Josh, Garrett, and David kick off Mythology Month with the Coens' loose, sun-bleached riff on the Odyssey. David's watched it since he was eleven and it's in his Letterboxd top four. Josh has loved it since childhood cassette-recording "Man of Constant Sorrow" off the radio. Garrett watched it for the first time this week — and tried to track the Homer parallels in real time, which he'll tell you was a mistake. They get into the Cyclops-with-an-eye-patch stuff, the Homer Stokes subplot and what it says about 1930s (and 2026) politics, and why George Clooney's pomade matters more than you'd think.

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Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg's first alien movie in over two decades, and he's calling it the conclusion to a spiritual trilogy that started with Close Encounters and E.T. That's a big swing. We went to see if he pulled it off.

Josh, Garrett, and David caught the film together at Circle Cinema in Tulsa — packed house, no assigned seats, the whole thing — and then recorded this. They talk about why the final act works harder than the first two, Emily Blunt's shot at awards season, what the film gets wrong about how the internet works (and why that doesn't matter), and whether Spielberg is actually using aliens to say something about loneliness, faith, and a world that stopped listening to itself.

Ratings land at 3.5, 4, and 4.5 stars — which means someone's wrong. Go find out who.

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