Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Episode 7 - 16 - 12


Airdate: 7- 16 -12
After a kerflunkety start, wherein a microphone surprised us all by not working, we began today's show by discussing the Cheez-It and Mountain Dew-soaked news from Comic-Con, which we both disseminated with due skepticism and opprobrium. The Boom Operator handled all the movie watching this week, while I stuck to obscurity-drenched horror films available on Netflix Instant. Concerning Moonrise Kingdom, the B.O. felt the film grappled with the pros and cons of an established Wes Anderson iconography, and its merits are largely concurrent with your acceptance of said iconography. Sigh. Such is life.

We heard music from:

The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001 - Mark Mothersbaugh
Moonrise Kingdom, 2012 - Alexandre Desplat
Batman, 1989 - Prince

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Episode 7 - 9 - 12


We've got a lot of deaths to catch up on: last week gender essentialist and shitty filmmaker Nora Ephron bit the dust, and this week mighty Ernest Borgnine, star of such films as Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders and Marty, ate his final double cheeseburger. We took the chance to reminisce on their adequate, forgettable, occasionally regrettable careers, before moving on to review this week's fare.

We both liked The Amazing Spider-Man, with severe caveats. It was almost like two films smashed together, one pretty decent, one lousy. The film certainly suffered under Raimi's shadow, and tried to emulate those films to its detriment. When the movie relied on its own ingenuous casting and high school angst, the results were better than expected. I was surprised and disappointed in equal measure. The other film reviewed (for some reason), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, was silly and boring and involved horse-surfing. Like you do.

We heard music from:

The Return of the King, 1980 - Glenn Yarbrough
Escape from New York, 1981 - John Carpenter, Alan Howarth
"Airwolf", 1984-87 - Sylvester Levay
Gattaca, 1997 - Michael Nyman

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Episode 7 - 4 - 12


Well, today starting off in that typical cuntish fashion...seriously, what is it with our Mondays? I arrive late and without cell phone, knowing that this digital castration will cause no small amount of irritation, and lo and behold, there's no way to contact the Boom Operator in the studio even though I'm roughly twenty yards away. Violent apoplexy ensued. Then on the air the B.O. shared a story of yet another battle with the downstairs vending machine. That shit got epic. We talked therapeutically for a while, easing this bad day out of our metaphorical caecum like a long, unyielding turd.

Boom dissembled Soderbergh's newest weenie-shaking Magic Mike with greater detail given to the sociological surroundings of the deliciously forbidden spectacle that is male objectification. The movie itself? Fairly flaccid.


We heard music from the following:

Cowboys & Aliens, 2011 - Harry Gregson-Williams
Fitzcarraldo, 1982 - Popol Vuh
Fight Club, 1999 - Dust Brothers
Crumb, 1994 - Various Artists
Midnight Cowboy, 1969 - John Berry
Spider-Man, 2002 - Danny Elfman

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Episode 6 - 25 - 12



We both caught Pixar's Brave this weekend, and both proffered the same unimpressed "meh, cute" in response. I probably boosted my estimation due to geeky proclivity for the medieval setting, but otherwise thought the movie started well and fizzled due to no strong narrative drive, instead falling to a pat homily, which didn't fit with the whole fable thing. The animation was up to Pixar's standards, I guess. The whole shebang was bested by the 7-minute short film La Luna by Enrico Casarosa that preceded it.

On the show we got off on insane, random tangents, like pioneering a new young adult book series about teen frankenstein fishermen, the tyranny of tool booths, and trouble with gum machines.

We heard music from the following:

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 2009 - Mark Mothersbaugh
Mirror, Mirror, 1990 - Scott Campbell, Jimmy Lifton
Return of the Living Dead, 1985 - Various
Who Saw Her Die?, 1972 - Ennio Morricone
Brave, 2012 - Patrick Doyle

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Episode 6 - 18 - 12


Another weekend where that rancid pile of goatfuck Madagascar topped the box office. Fuck you if you've seen it or used it as a babysitter. That is all.

We heard music from:

Van Helsing, 2004 - Alan Silvestri
Triplets of Belleville, 2003 - Benoit Charest
The Dungeonmaster, 1985 - Richard Band
Rock 'n Rule, 1983 - Various
"Batman: The Animated Series," 1992-1995 - Various

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