No breaks, no gears, all podcast! That was awful. We’re back, we’ve been to the movies and we’re ready to scream and yell our asses off to anyone that will listen! Join Alex, Russ, Peter and myself as we discuss The Expendables 2, Premium Rush and Paranorman (not to mention a little bit of The Apparition just for good measure). Recorded on August 28th 2012 at Champs in NYC, and I apologize for the sound quality.
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It was really only a matter of time. After a few months of incredible casting news that included Omar, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, and the now off the film Hugh Laurie, the ‘Robocop’ news is turning sour. Who could have guessed it would be about the films foreign director having trouble dealing with Hollywood?
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This is going to be really weird. I brainstormed this one with Andrew and Ashley today at lunch, after Ashley gave the suggestion of “pickle.”
Dill Kill
We open on Phil, a pickle artisan. We see him shoving something into a brine. His son is watching him in the corner. We see a porcupine in a cage also watching Phil.
“Come here, pickles.”
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With Premium Rush coming out this weekend to be nothing other than a schlocky mess, I figure we are ripe to have some more EXTREME action movies coming out. This film will be directed by any hack like Rob Cohen.
This film starts off with two brothers at the top of a gondola in Vail, Colorado. They are all getting ready to ride down a diamond course and we see one of them , Rick, played by Mike Vogel is nervous. He’s not as experienced as his older brother Ryan, played by Anson Mount. Ryan encourages to just do it anyway, and when they begin to ride, an avalanche starts. They attempt to out ride the avalanche and are doing well, but it starts to get faster and Rick, decides to ride up a half pipe (that is conveniently in the middle of the course) and get big enough air to grab on to a high tree branch. His brother follows suit, but does not get enough air and grabs onto Ricks board. Rick tries to grab him and bring him up to safety, but Ryan says it’s too late, he’ll end up bringing them both down. He says “never stop riding” and he falls in slow motion into the avalanche, and we assume he dies. Rick screams no, and at that moment a helicopter comes to get him out of the tree, and the the Title Card “SNOWBLIND” comes onto the screen.
So I’ve been without Cable or the Internet for the past few days. I was going to write a movie about a world where we lose these things but realized it’s been done. It was called ‘The Postman’ and it was PERFECT. So here’s a film about a magic library instead.
Seeing Books
It’s raining and a kid sits out in front of his house. He calls his mom on her cell phone but it goes right to voicemail. He tries the door again but it’s locked. He notices some neighborhood toughs coming down the street and tries to hide but they see him. A standard kids-movie bullying scene follows. It’s not overly mean as much as awkward that the bully is putting in so much work.
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In the last two days, Thor: The Dark World has made two casting announcements. The first is that Kat Dennings has re-signed to appear in the sequel as her character Darcy. Darcy was largely the most annoying part of the first film, but now that Dennings is the star of one of the highest rated comedies on TV, you know they will try and shoehorn more comic relief into this film.
The other and more interesting bit of casting is that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (or Mr. Eko, or ADEBISI) has been cast as the villainous Algrim the Strong, ruler of the Dark Elves. In the comics he’s coerced by Malekith, to fight Thor. I think that Algrim and Malekith will make up a good pairing for Thor and the Warriors Three to have to take on, but my real question is why does this movie have to have anything to do with earth?
Darcy’s inclusion means that we’ll be getting more of the Earth stuff. I didn’t love any of the Earth stuff the first time around. If this film is going to be delving farther into Thor lore, how are we going to even have time for Jane Foster, much less, Darcy. I guess I’ll have to wait and see. I’m hoping they are just cameos at the beginning.
Videodrome is a 1983 classic techno-horror film starring James Woods as a Canadian TV exec who starts pirating a channel that shows real killings, snuff film style. It gets very popular and a bunch of weird shit happens. It’s basically a cautionary tale about TV only David Cronenberg made it, so you know it’s weirder than anything.
Well, Universal Studios have decided to reboot/remake or whatever the fuck they plan on calling it to Videodrome. They even hooked a music video director to helm it, Alan Berg.
Problems:
1. This didn’t need to be remade.
2. David Cronenberg is a genius-level weirdo. Unless he wanted to go back to that world, theres no reason to go back
3. All of the creepiness, will most likely be replaced with slick visuals.
4. Being able to direct a commercial or music video should not give you carte blanche to direct a heady sci-fi horror epic with lots of moralistic ideas about media.
I’m assuming Universal’s thought is that the original is 30 years old almost, so they can re-release it on blu-ray around the time they get the new one up and running in theaters. I saw the original years ago when I was too young to even understand it, but it creeped me out to no end. Movies don’t creep people out like that anymore. I’ll bet they even try and neuter it by making it PG-13.
David Cronenberg must be pissed about this while he drinks his Molson.
Sam Claflin has been cast as Finnick Odair in ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.’ Claflin is coming off of a supporting role in ‘Snow White and The Huntsman’ and being the guy who’s not Orlando Bloom in the newest Pirates film.
I said months ago that I wanted a lesser known actor for the part, someone that could get immersed in the role with you looking at him and seeing only Finnick. I personally read Finnick a bit older, but the movie series is trying to get girls excited about cute guys not about a strong female lead.
I know most of you have read the books. Thoughts on the casting?
Disney is doing a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong. They made the best decision of their mousey lives buying Marvel, but they let Pixar go and made ‘John Carter.’ We can add something else to the dumb idea list with the rumored plans of theirs to produce a reboot of the ‘The Rocketeer.’
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(At least) Half of this 1 minute and 2 second long trailer is just a blank screen, with either a woman screaming for help behind darkness or a Saw-esque phone conversation. Natalie’s Lose Lose, Eric Williford’s first foray into directing, looks to be a torture-porn/kidnapping story, also not unlike Saw. There was no gore to speak of in the trailer, so who knows what the final product will be. I don’t know how I feel about this movie yet, honestly. It looks interesting but also a bit tired. Some of the scenes seem a bit more stylized than your typical gore-fest, which is always a welcome change of pace. But the simplicity of this trailer is what sells me on it. I dreamed about a trailer similar to this (for a Fake Movie Friday I’ve done recently) and the sparse nature of this trailer has completely sold me.
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