Hey-hey! Look who’s back! Us, that’s who!
Well, after an exceedingly long hiatus in which I’m sure you thought at least once “What happened to that podcast I was listening to… that one.. with those guys…” we are back and hopefully back to stay. For a while. Where exactly we’ve been and why we’ve been there is explained in the first minute or two of this episode (Hint: It doesn’t involve jail time) and then we get into the real reason we have a podcast… to witter on about the new Indiana Jones movie!
Besides that, some aggressive conversational steering by myself manages to get us on to other topics, such as the big May movies - Iron Man, Speed Racer, Prince Caspian and… er… Indiana Jones, again. We also talk briefly about things like The Hobbit movie, that Incredible Hulk trailer and… Indiana Jones merchandise.
I swear it’ll all pass by, say, mid-June.
In the meantime download away! You know you want to.
Some boring techie notes about this episode… one, it was edited (barely) by me in Garageband, which has a totally different interface to Audacity. As a result it’s not quite as slick… although it does sound good. It’s also been exported as an MP4 file, against my will, so hopefully that’ll still play for you. It should.
Oh and also… erm… well it took me a while to get to editing it so ignore the references to any movies that might have opened… this weekend. We’ll strive to be more up to date next time.
Show #21 - Still talking about Indiana Jones IV [35:16m]:
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Well apparently, we’re just totally over this summer’s movies after a string of disappointments and duds have left us craving next summer’s fare. Which is of course more of the same - sequels that resurrect our childhood memories and get us all dewey-eyed with nostalgia… that’s why Al’s been talking about Indiana Jones 4 at every damn opportunity he can, and we’ve both been paying (a little) attention to The Dark Knight, AKA Batman 6… 7? It’s a lot of Batmen anyway….
Apart from us waxing about those two movies - that are so far away, they’re much easier to joke about - we also weigh in on the ‘mysterious Cloverfield‘ or perhaps 1-18-08, or Cthulhu: The Movie, or Ghostbusters III… we wish.
And finally… I, at least, went to the movies. So download to hear me talking about 28 Weeks Later (Good!), Ocean’s Thirteen (Not so good!) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Also good!).
Shit, I just totally told you all you need to know. Download it anyway, okay? It’s a good show. Honest.
We’ll be back soon - probably. Set your watches!
Show #20 - Summer 2007 is over. Bring on 2008!! [33:08m]:
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At last! Like a desperate, dying man crawling across the desert in search of water… like an out-of-work actor looking for a porno flick just to add something to his resume… like a director whose last two flicks have bombed at the box office… ah, the return is so much sweeter. In other words, we’re back!
Sorry about the delay folks, but, you know, we had movies to ignore. I mean, watch. We watched some! Honest! Yes, we got our asses out of the house long enough to both go and see Spider-Man 3, naturally; and I also managed to survive a screening of David Fincher’s Zodiac.
Along with our opinions on those two rockin’ flicks, we’ve also got the usual chaotic blend of news, opinions and stupidity. It’s one of our better ones, honest! We should do more of them without a plan, but preferably without the month break.
Show #19 - Spider-Man 3, Zodiac and more [31:59m]:
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It’s May already, and that means it’s time for movies! Movies! MOVIES!!!
Blockbuster summer movies, that is - Tagline’s speciality, our forte if you will. The stakes are high; the budgets are gigantic; the tentpoles are massive. There’s all to play for. Who will win? Who will lose? Who will get fed to the lions? We’ll find out over the next few months as the Hollywood studios duke it out for your hard-earned time and money.
Up first, it’s the biggest three movies of the summer - and they’re all three-time winners. These box office behemoths stand astride the month of May like… three very hyped movies. We’re talking about Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Are they worth your money? Are they worth their own budgets? And just how much might they make in US domestic gross receipts, anyway?
These questions and more (like, what would Empire Strikes Back have been like if Han Solo had been a creepy stalker?) are asked and answered in this, our greatest podcast yet. (No really. If you’re arriving for the first time, you totally want to download this, dude.)
We’ll be back for much more real soon, including our views on Spidey 3… in the meantime download, listen and enjoy. Drums, please….
Show #18 - Summer movies... three by three [31:59m]:
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With the sun shining down on good ol’ Blighty, and I don’t just mean in Danny Boyle’s new flick, you’d think we’d have no inclination to go sit inside for a couple of hours and watch movies. You’d be wrong!
This time out we’re talking Grindhouse, and how it’s flopping harder than a fat kid throwing themselves into the deep end. We’re talking Premiere magazine, and mourning its death. We’re talking The Forbidden Kingdom, even though we know nothing about it. And of course, we couldn’t let a podcast go by without mentioning Indy IV, or talking about random superhero flicks. (Although of course since this podcast has gone by, Shia “No, I’m not in Indy IV, honest” LaBeouf has actually ended up in the movie. Fo’ real.)
As for the movies we went to see, well there’s the much-hyped Sunshine, and much-discussed Days of Glory (aka, Indigènes). Are either up them up to snuff? Download and find out.
Music this time from the soundtrack to Clerks - a charming little ditty called Violent Mood Swings.
Show #17 - Grindhouse and Sunshine [45:16m]:
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