Ratings First: A Movie Nerd Podcast
Three filmmakers of unquestionable repute. One irrefutably questionable format. Zero apologies -- this is America, after all.
🎥 Ratings First is a movie review podcast hosted by working filmmakers Justin 👨🏻🦱, Ethan 👨🏼🦰, and Brandon 🧔🏻♂️ — a director, a cinematographer, and a guy who's done everything from first AD to sound design.
Together, they obsess over movies the way normal people obsess over therapy.
They’ve seen it all, argued about it all — and now they’re doing it on-mic.
The twist?
They rate the movie before they discuss it.
Because in a podcast ocean full of masters (WHM), legends (Filmspotting), and Letterboxd darlings (Paddington🧸🇬🇧)... doing it backwards felt like the only way forward.
🎬 Come for the takes, stay for the tension.
They may not be famous (yet), but they’re too geeky to quit — unless the nukes drop (fingers crossed), in which case, well... at least we tried.
Ratings First: A Movie Nerd Podcast
The Naked Gun (2025) — starring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston
🎙️ Episode 6 — The Naked Gun (2025) 💥👖🍫
No, you didn’t miss Episode 5 — that’s Playtime, and it dropped over on our Classics Tier, aka the “Snickers Tier™” 🍫
Why Snickers? Because if you subscribe for $6/month, each of us gets $2 (before taxes), which is just enough to buy one (1) small Snickers bar from Ralph’s.
You’re welcome for the financial transparency.
Anyway.
Episode 6 is all about the reboot no one asked for but everyone watched anyway:
🎯 The Naked Gun (2025) starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.
Justin, our resident nihilist ☠️, gave it a 9, which is wild — though Brandon suspects it’s because Justin hasn’t seen a comedy in theaters since 22 Jump Street.
Ethan enjoyed it too 👍 (to a lesser degree), and Brandon?
Well… Brandon had expectations.
Like, “this is one of my all-time favorite franchises” expectations.
And when the classic siren intro is replaced by a graphic designer gag? Yeah. He brought notes. 📋
But hey — the movie is funny. And so is this episode.
We debut our first ever long-form trivia game:
👉 Flop? Or Not? 👈
Ethan and Justin go head-to-head guessing which jokes from the movie landed in Brandon’s theater — and which ones absolutely died in the aisles.
Spoiler: Justin's favorite gag: A snowman threesome. ☃️☃️☃️
It’s a beautiful blast of an episode, and we think you’ll love it.
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