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
Weapons — starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin
🎙️ Episode 9 — Weapons 🔪🍫🪞
No, you didn’t miss Episode 8.5 — that’s Freakier Friday, and technically it dropped inside this very episode. You’ll see.
Here’s the gist: two hosts watched Weapons. One host… did not.
Instead, Ethan — our boy, our chaos goblin 🐒 — showed up hungover and tried to flip the script into a Freakier Friday review.
This was funny for about thirty seconds. Then it spawned a new and henceforth unbreakable Ratings First Law: You must watch the movie before you talk about it. 📜⚖️
Love you, Ethan.
Weapons is the new horror instant-classic from Beer McKegger 🍺🔪. Justin adored it so much he dropped his second Perfect 10 💯, claiming with a straight face it belongs in the same breath as Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, Citizen Kane, and Lawrence of Arabia.
Brandon? His feelings were… a little more complicated 😬. And after Ethan poked the bear 🐻, the bear went full scorched-earth — issuing on-air suspensions, vetoing scores, and calling out the insanity in real time.
It’s chaotic. It’s petty. It’s maybe one of our funniest episodes yet. Also, surprise — it’s a secret bonus Freakier Friday episode.
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