Episode 58- Into Darkness: Brendan McGovern and Jake Jabbour
We chat with our buddies Brendan McGovern and Jake Jabbour about Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, Johnny Depp and the Star Wars viewing order. We also drool over the The World’s End trailer and contemplate a Christopher Nolan 007.
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5 Brilliant Clues Hidden in the Background of Movies
Sometimes movies gives away their own ending (or at least crucial upcoming plot points) by dropping vague little hints early on. You just have to keep your eyes open.New article up! About foreshadowing in movies! I really like movies!
but why would you even give him the waterbed
he had scissors
for hands
scissors
I LOVE HOW THIS DOESN’T EVEN MENTION WHAT IT’S ABOUT BUT EVERYONE KNOWS.
who else has fucking scissors for hands
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Hollywood, Movies and Stuff
The other week JF Sargent wrote this thing on superhero movies and stuff. I wrote a response…kind of…
I think what happens will be interesting. The bust will happen on some promising ideas, at least, promising in the greater arch of comics narratives. I’m thinking in part on an Ant-man movie, because outside of his shrinking/enlarging powers it would be a mainstream movie that would possibly address spousal abuse and why it needs to not happen. I had never heard of Guardians of the Galaxy before the announcement, but there are all types.
I know I’m tired of the gritty ‘realism’ in movies. I’m tired of everyone being too cool, and too serious and always scowling. I think it’s something that Iron Man has kind of avoided, it is still all serious but there’s humor in the situations that I think save it from from being The Dark Knight. I don’t need the movie to wink at me as the creators acknowledge that things are kind of silly, I want to see a movie where it seems like people are having fun with it.
I think the gritty, concrete chewing, scowling, I’m so emo Man of Steel kind of fails as the idea of a Superman movie because they’ve turned Metropolis into Gotham. I’m not a Superman fan to begin with, but the trailers and early posters are so lowly saturated that the bowl of All-American cornflakes kid-Clark eats will look like setting cement. Superman is ridiculous space monsters and a megalomaniac corporate thug in a sunshiney landscape. Why does it have to be so dark? Where is the hope of a better tomorrow and all of that positivity that Superman represents?
You’d think, logically, that Hollywood wouldn’t inflate budgets like this because technically, if the movie has a smaller budget and does well, it’ll make back more money, proportional to what was spent. I’m not saying give a project pennies for a dollar’s worth of work, but be reasonable. If studio executives don’t know and don’t understand the material they need to distance themselves more from nitpicking and let people who will make stronger narrative and creative decisions make those decisions.
I’ve had thoughts on things like this for a while. I’m also interested in seeing what the next generation of young directors/writers will create. I’m interested in seeing where movies are going to go, what’s going to be the next thing that hollywood will co-op and celebrate before ruining. I don’t know, but I’d like to see more variety in the movies offered. Sequels and reboots of old material aren’t that interesting. Give more people less money to try something new instead of stripping the bushes behind the house of not just the berries, but also the leaves.
Back to comic book movies, I think it’d also be more fun to see more non-superhero movies. Scott Pilgrim was a weird, beautiful love letter to the source material. Not everything has to be that, but there’s so much more going on in comics than people in tights punching each other and eating concrete for every meal. Hell, a Chew movie would be insane. Cop drama plus crazy magic that doesn’t really make sense? Or a Locke and Key movie could be so dark and twisted and skin crawlingly creepy. Hell, at least Hellboy was weird and accepted that it was a weird world of monsters, and at least 40% of the pages are black in the source material, they made it more than concrete chewing.
I feel as if I went all over the place, and my images were very left field, sorry, I’m just passionate about what could be but isn’t. The bust is going to hurt some potentially great things.
Is this all Phase 2 or is Guardians and Ant Man Phase 3?
Also Marvel, please make a good Daredevil movie soon!
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Feature | Iron Man 3 essential reading
With Iron Man 3 hitting cinemas this week, we’ve prepared a list of the most relevant Iron Man comics to check out before (or after) seeing the film.
by Adrian Hatwell
I’m cool with the essential reading list, but… I want to know who illustrated this, it’s gorgeous!
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movie magic
This is the best.
In a previous life I was a model-builder.
I would have liked to be one in this life too, but, yannow.
Photos like theses will be lost. I love movie models and seeing old school practical effects. My love of practicals know no bounds. Miniature cities and small versions of things to be destroyed, I love it and I love seeing behind the curtain.
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Directors Martin Scorsese and James Cameron have different ideas about the use of CGI in film:
“My big concern is that the image, ultimately, with CGI, I don’t know if our younger generation is believing anything anymore on screen. It’s not real.” - Martin Scorsese
“When was it ever real? There was kind of a wall there and nothing over there. There are 30 people standing around. There’s a guy with a boom mic, there’s another guy up on a ladder with his ass crack hanging out. There’s fake rain. Your ‘street, night exterior New York’ was a ‘day, interior Burbank’. What was ever real?” - James Cameron
the thing is, James Cameron, you are wrong. what Scorsese means, is like how Spielberg used animatronic dinosaurs aka SOMETHING TANGIBLE and then enhanced them with CGI, so they could do more than the puppets could actually do. that way, you had something REAL at the core of the image, enhanced by the CGI and that is why the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park still look so much better than anything that has been done solely on the computer.
I agree with Oldfilmsflicker, i like the tangibility of practical effects, they’re something the actors play against and respond to as opposed it all being done in post. Amazing things can be done in post and I have a huge amount of respect for CGI effects studios but it isn’t and doesn’t feel the same.
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“It is a pity the young Pi was not nominated There’s not much you can do. He’s an Indian actor and nobody knows him so he was easily overlooked.
With peer voting, people will vote for their friends or based on their impressions. He’s a newcomer and we often said he had never acted before—that’s a disadvantage to getting nominated. But I do think his performance was the purest performance.”
Taiwanese director Ang Lee noting Hollywood’s tendency to overlook Asian actors to a Chinese radio station. Ang Lee was disappointed that Suraj Sharma was not nominated for Best Actor for his performance in The Life of Pi. Lee added that he felt Irfan Khan should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and that Zhang Ziyi was not nominated either for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, nor were any actors nominated for Slumdog Millionaire.
What’s a guy gotta do to get an Oscar? Here’s some trivia about Sharma’s work on the film, from FirstPost.com.
- Sharma beat out 4,000 other applicants (Ang Lee decided from the start the role would not be whitewashed.)
- Sharma had never acted prior to this so Ang Lee assigned him a pile of homework and made him act scenes from Teneesse Williams and other playwrights just for practice.
- Sharma didn’t know how to swim when he was cast for the role. When he first started out he could only hold his breath for 14 seconds. In the end he was able to go for one minute and a half.
- Sharma spent most of the movie filming in a pool emoting in front of a blue screen to an invisible tiger.
- Sharma lost 20% of his body weight for the role, eating a diet that mostly consisted of tuna fish, just like his character, so his ribs would show.
- Sharma cut himself up frequently while working on the boat and used those injuries in his acting. He would allow himself to get flipped along with the boat.
- The production was banned from speaking the Sharma. Ang Lee and Sharma agreed that he would not to talk to other people for almost two months so he would understand what isolation was like.
1. This kid is badass.
2. When white actors like Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio do stuff like lose 20% of their body weight or cut themselves and keep acting everyone cheers uproariously.
3. It is weirdly dismissive when films about characters of color get nominated but their actors do not. Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Last Emperor, etc.
4. As FirstPost points out, a lot of the Oscar snubbed actors that people are talking about like Leonardo DiCaprio have plenty of other opportunities to star in other big movies. When is the next big project for an actor of South Asian descent coming up?
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The REAL Reason We Shouldn’t Complain About How Old Stuff Is Better Than New Stuff
Recently Cracked.com Senior Writer Dan O’Brien wrote this article about Movies They Don’t Make Anymore (But Really Should). Obviously it’s a really great and funny article, because O’Brien’s a great writer and also kinda my boss.
But as much as I agree with the first part of his statement (Die Hard, Superman, and everything Mel Brooks ever touched were all awesome), I kinda disagree with the second part — that they should keep making them.
I agree with what Sarge brings up here, to an extent. Media is a product of it’s time. I don’t believe that one piece of media is truly ‘timeless’ but points of the narrative can transcend time, maybe that’s what people mean when they call something ‘timeless’.
Looking at Die Hard, it looks like an 80s movies, because it is an 80s movie. It was filmed, literally, it was filmed and not just recorded. It’s grainy and it is very much so the product of it’s time as far as technology is concerned but with the narrative it’s about a guy, a regular guy who is not the best husband or father given his estranged marriage who kicks ass by mistake. It works because it was the first to do that and then we got a slew of action movies doing the same thing after that. I don’t want to see it remade, I do want to see people make new movies. What is the equivalent idea for now, what would be the new regular guy action movie? I don’t know but when it gets made I don’t want it to waste my time by winking at me and telling me that it’s doing a new thing.
I kind of forgot where I was going, and I started off on another idea I had about movies and media. But I agree with Sarge, I don’t want to see the high lights of the 70s and 80s remade, I grew up with them. I got the adult jokes that went over immature head as I grew up and i appreciate having experienced those movies as a kid or young adult, but i’m ready to see what things the younger generation of creators has to say. Hell, I’m interesting in seeing what the current generation of 40 year olds have to say. They grew up with these media points but they have different stories to tell about a different world. I like the old ideas but not everything is retreading on old narrative paths, even with all of the sequels, remakes and adaptations coming out there are new stories that say something about the aughts and I want to see those.
We’ve have 20-30 years of gritty action heroes, I’m looking forward to seeing the action hero that rebels from that ideation. We’ve had slapstick, teen sex comedy and satire, what will be the new face of comedy movies? What will be the new comedy? What will be the new rom-com? I saw somewhere that Annie Hall defined that genre of movies but what’s interesting to me right now are the rom-coms that Jason Segel has been writing. His narratives feature different flaws and the reason and motivations for the break up are different and then the characters don’t always get back together. I’d like to see that pushed further.
I feel I went off on a different tangent, but I don’t want to see the things I grew up with, I want to see intelligent people take those same influences and come up with something new. I want to see a new generation of creators push those boundaries and not just see people take ideas and concepts that have worked and continue to trace that line. I want to see people say fuck that line, fuck that box and go somewhere new and draw a new shape. Maybe rock a french curve, or free hand and forget someone’s guide on how it’s done. I don’t want to be able to predict the ending, hell, surprise me by having the hero lose and not have them win in the sequel because there is no sequel.
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So, I failed at responding, that happens.
PART 2 of the epic YEAR END Wrap Up Episode!!! LISTEN AND ENJOY!!! The Lists!!!
Episode 43- Year End Wrap Up 2012 Part 2: The Desolation of Smaug
with DC Pierson, Zack Pearlman and Codi Fischer
It’s part two of our EPIC Year End Wrap Up episode. If you have not listened to the first part, get on it! You won’t get all the inside jokes. With this chapter we start into our Best Of Lists. You get to hear Dave and Zack talk through their lists. Yes, the lists are lengthy, and I edited quite a bit so I apologize for weird cuts, but man do we get geeky! And cheeky! And controversial!
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.” ― Jim Jarmusch (born January 22nd, 1953)
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Episode 43- Year End Wrap Up 2012 Part 1: An Unexpected Journey
Holy crap! This is our epic Year End Wrap Up of 2012 and boy is it EPIC. So epic that we have decided to break it into 3 parts. Dave and I (Scott) are joined by past guests DC Pierson (DERRICK Comedy), Zack Pearlman (The Inbetweeners) and Codi Fischer (Web Soup) and we share our thoughts on the year in movies including our Top Movies of 2012 lists. In part one we discuss our biggest disappointments of the year and wonder why Guy Pearce was in Prometheus.
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After I saw Django Unchained for the first time, I jokingly tweeted that it was going to be funny when a bunch of white people get nominated for Academy Awards for this movie about slavery. Then the Academy Award nominations came out, and it became less of a joke and more an eerily accurate prediction.
I’m not telling you that to give you the impression that my twitter feed is magical or that following me will make your life immeasurably better (even though it is, and it will), just to remind you that the Oscars aren’t really about the best or most important movies, performances, or artistic accomplishments, which is why when you look at a history of the winners you’ll see a curious absence of classics like Die Hard or Star Wars, and an overabundance of moviesthatsuck. Because instead of telling us what movies were the best, the Oscars tell us what movies made the Academy feel the most warm and safe.
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