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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!

It’s the great big Tagline 2007 movie preview, starring a cast of thousands! And 16 movies of all stripes. Just in time for the tail end of January (ahem).

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SHOW NOTES

00:00 – A blast from the past to get us going, talking about the future… excerpt from Prince’s Batman soundtrack.

00:30 – Intro time, complete with extended metaphors.

01:45 – Starting in no particular order with… 300.

05:30 – Call the fuzz… Hot Fuzz.

10:40 – Biggest movie of the year? And our only ‘threequel’ on our list… Spider-Man 3.

18:00 – Will Smith is the Last Man on Earth… kicking vampire butt in I Am Legend.

21:25 – Can Pixar get back into my good books with Ratatouille? Signs point to yes.
22:30 – Ridley Scott + Russell Crowe + Denzel Washington = American Gangster.

24:05 – A slight detour into talking about David Fincher’s ‘comeback’, Zodiac.

25:50 – Thinking about Christmas already? Hollywood would like you to remember the name… Fred Claus.

28:10 – Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez bring you three hours of shocks! Thrills! It’s Grindhouse.

30:35 – I refuse to speak about it, but Al wanted to… The Simpsons Movie.

32:30 – And the big finale. This summer you’ll have a choice… oooh… Live Free or Die Hard.

35:30 – That’s it for the movies we really want to see… but our honourable mentions (although they’re certainly not all honourable) include threequels Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End, Shrek the Third and Ocean’s 13.

39:50 – Not to forget Michael Bay’s Transformers…

43:25 – …and later in the year, the first part of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy – The Golden Compass (or Northern Lights, if you’re English).

45:49 – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. “Best title ever.”

48:08 – And we’re out.

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