In this, their thirty-fifth episode, Jesse and Rian are once again joined by Ricky Robertson as they discuss:
- The Release of the Dark Knight
- Dark Knight discussions
- Rian's Jumper vs the Dark Knight debate
- Did it meet Jesse's expectations?
- Thoughts on Dark Knight 3
- Rian's Dark Knight nitpicks
- Even more Dark Knight discussion
- Ricky's crazy idea for Batman 3: Batman vs the Transformers
- Who should be the Villian(s) in Batman 3
- Want to Skip all the Dark Knight talk? Skip to Minute 42
- Movies Rian has seen this week.
- Ricky's thoughts on the Ruins
- Hancock discussion
- A very special guest shows up
- Jenny's life as a nanny
- Rian's News
- Recent Trailers
- How comic book animation should and shouldn't be done
- Ricky's video game news
- Rock Band 2 vs Guitar Hero: On Tour
- One Day As a Lion (with a sample)
- Resident Evil 5
- More news from Ricky
- Our individual choices for The Top 5 Movie Openings Of All Time
...and multiple other topics. Come along, won't you, as Jesse, Rian, and Ricky get Sidetracked.
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Episode 35 Song List:
Come Together - Joe Cocker
I'm Not a Hero - Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
And I thought My Jokes Were Bad - Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
Introduce a Little Anarchy - Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
Aggressive Expansion - Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
Agent of Chaos - Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
Like a Dog Chasing Cars - Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
Transformers - Mutemath
Kiss From a Rose - Seal
Look Into My Eys - Bone Thugs N Harmony
Drown - Smashing Pumpkins
Parents Just Don't Understand - Will Smith
Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You - Lauryn Hill
Sweet Pea - Amos Lee
Sin City - Robert Rodriguez
The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning - Smashing Pumpkins
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - U2
Bulls On Parade - Rage Against the Machine
Wild International - One Day As A Lion
Zelda iii/Hyrule Castle - Neskimos
You're the One That I Want - John Travolta/Oliva Newton John
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Misirlou - Dick Dale and His Del-Tones
The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
Sellotape - Flight of the Conchords
10.15 Saturday Night - The Cure
I'm shipping Up to Boston - Drop Kick Murphys
Cross The Tracks (We Better Go Back) - Maceo & The Macks
So what I did was I wrote down as many moves I could think of whose openings I liked, then I immediately removed all the ones you guys mentioned. This is what i came up with.
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5. JAWS
Come on. Young couple. Girl gets naked. Skinnydipping. You're trying to spot some nip in the shadows as she galavants around as free as a bird, then she's in the water, the famous music starts up, terror builds, you want your mom to hold you, everything turns horrible, camera from Jaws' point of view, you can see some thigh and ass now but it doesn't matter because all you can think about is that this poor human is now for dinner, nothing more than a snack, you start feeling guilty for attempting to spot the allusive shadowed-nipples of the latest victim of that great white pain in the ass as she gets pulled under and ultimately eaten by the film's namesake. Rock the fuck on. Please tell me they kill that bastard shark that ate the young, nubile, naked girl I would have liked to have seen more of. I will watch this film all the way through now in the hopes that naked, slutty fun-time girl is avenged.
4. The Visioneers
This movie isn't available to the masses yet, other than the few film festivals it's been screened at, so I won't go into it. but much like the other films here, this first scene introduces you to such a great world right from the get go that it's impossible for me not to put up here. It's hilarious, strange, concerning, ridiculous, familiar yet foreign, and immediately makes you bond with the characters and become sympathetic in the world in which they live. Great opener. I can't wait until more people see they can all go, "I agree, Karl! You are super-awesome! Thank you!"
3. Iron Man
I can't believe none of you guys picked Iron Man. Must be al that Dark Knight, clouding our brain.
In one scene, during a very casual-sounding conversation that was jam packed with information, we were given a to-the-point-without-being-obvious-or-pretentious character study of Tony Stark, that immediately had me hooked so that i cared and was extremely inested and concerned with his fate when the action starts- he's injured, is in and out of consciousness as they hook a car battery up to him, and lastly has a bag whipped off his head, his bleary-eyes focusing on what's past the light shining on his face to reveal a terrorists all around him, shouting demands at a video camera in the foreground, then *KUNG!* "IRON MAN." What a GREAT opener.
2. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
From the opening footage of protest and war and politics with "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music playing over it to set the time period, the quote by Dr. Johnson- "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" setting up the escapist attitude, the Ralph Steadman-esque title dribbling off the screen for artistic mood, and Raoul Duke's opening line of dialogue "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" as the kicker, this film had me at "Raindrops on roses..." And i haven't even mentioned the entire opening scene that IS the opener, ending when Dr. Gonzo informs Raoul Duke that it will be a goddamn miracle if they make it to the hotel before Mr. Duke is a goddamn animal.
"'How long can we maintain?' I wondered. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge manta rays coming down on the car? If so -- well, we'll just have to cut his head off and bury him somewhere. Because it goes without saying that we can't turn him loose. He'll report us at once to some kind of outback Nazi law-enforcement agency, and they'll run us down like dogs. Jesus! Did I say that or just think it? Was I talking? Did he hear me?"
1. Kill Bill Vol. 1
Bill: Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to. You know, Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know that there's nothing sadistic in my actions. Well, maybe towards those other... jokers, but not you. No Kiddo, at this moment, this is me at my most...
[cocks pistol]
Bill: ...masochistic.
The Bride: Bill... it's your ba b-
[BLAM!]
"I was five and he was six... We rode on horses made of sticks... He wore black and I wore white... He would always win the fight bang bang... he shot me down.
ALMOST BUT NOT QUITE
Resevoir Dogs - great diner scene, great quotes, "Tommy wang?", "You shoot me in a dream...", etc, and a great slow-mo credits sequence as they walk past the brick wall, then the music slowly fades t reveal someone screaming in agony... you're hooked.
Ghostbusters - classic opener. It was really hard not putting this in my top 5.
Romeo + Juliet - Billy Shakes' wrote a great opener anyway, but to contemporize it into a television news report letting us know we're in Verona, then cutting to two rival Miami gangs having a shootout at a gas station over a bitten thumb, with the Prince of Cats getting involved and everything-! This ain't yo' Daddy's Shakespeare.
Sleepy Hollow - The terror of not seeing the monster is always awesome. Roll that together with Tim Burton's early 20th century film expressionistic touches of shadow, Nightmare Before Xmas-esque scarecrows and set design, Danny Elfman score, and a carriage ride gone terribly wrong wth poor Martin Landau ultimately losing his head in a wheat-field, this film has a great first scene to set up the supernatural detective story that follows.
Memento - The beginning is the end.
Fight Club - FROM WIKIPEDIA - "The film's title sequence is a 90-second pullback scene from the fear center of the narrator's brain, representing the thought processes intitiated by the narrator's fear impulse." How awesome is that? especially when you finally 'come out' of the narrator's head through a sweat gland on his forehead, head down his nose to his mouth and follow the gun up to its sights? FUCKING AWESOME.
"Any last words?" This was also SUPER close to being in the top 5.
The Player - A satirical Robert Altman film with it's sights set on the Hollywood machine, this film stars Tim Robbins as a Hollywood Exec who is getting death threats. The opening shot of this film is 7 minutes and 47 seconds long without one cut, and it's just awesome. The camera floats around these Hollywood sets, touching in on bits and pieces of conversation, stars walking on as cameos, agents yelling at their assistants, etc. This definitely wouldn't have made it into the top 5, but it definitely deserved to be mentioned.
On an editorial note, I would like to suggest that Rian stop giving runner-ups before the lists are shared. You all should go right into the Top 5, then share your runner-ups afterwards. Joel did this last week in the comments section and I like the format a lot more, and in the case of your show, no one will be stepping on anyone else's toes by blabbing on too long about a runner up that's actually in someone else's top five. Think about it.
I'm the first one to comment on this podcast? Didn't see that one coming. I'm at work so I just wanted to say this was probably my favorite podcast so far. Great discussions (Mostly The Dark Knight) I agree with Rian, I wasn't a huge fan of the super-sonar scene, but other than that it was awesome. Having Jenny pop in was great, it was a fun little surprise and produced a poop-puke story. I definitely laughed out loud the most this time around. Maybe I'll post my fave movie openings in a bit, but you guys already mentioned a lot that I'd probably repeat. Kudos, dudes.
ReplyDeleteOk, so when I went to publish my comment, Karl's had posted. So I'm second to comment. Such is life.
Good episode, I felt bad for Jenny, poor girl had no idea what nerdyness awaited her when she sat down at the computer. Before I forget again Metal gear solid 4 is awesome, beat it in two days 15 hours and at one point it lectured me that I had been playing for a really long time and that I should take a break. Snake eater is still my favorite of the franchise (can’t beat that cold war setting) MGS4 is a masterpiece in its on right, easily some of the coolest and scariest boss battles of all time, managed to fix some of my least favorite metal gear moments along the way and really brought closure to the series. can’t wait for rians review and hopefully more metal gear games with Big boss.
ReplyDeleteI watched the end of the mist on youtube since I had to spoil the one thing this damn show seems to be againts spoiling. Also saw what is in the mist and I'am glad I spoiled it and didnt sit through it.
Top five Movie openings! Lot of great opening scenes you guys picked. I defiantly agree with the way of the gun, No country and Kill bills opening scene defiantly being on the list of best openings.
5. The Lookout- A movie rian recommended that I ended up liking a lot. The opening scene is really sad, but you know its coming from the very premise of the movie. It’s like waiting from someone to punch you in the stomach, knowing its coming doesn’t really make it that much easier to deal with.
4. Casino Royale- The opening of casino royale was the perfect way to introduce the new Bond, Daniel Craig and at the same time show that the franchise was going in a new toned down more realistic direction.
3. Die Hard with a Vengeance- Love all four of them but man die hard with a vengeance just grabs you from the opening and tells you to hold onto something.
2. Cowboy Bebop Knocking on Heavens door- Love the series and the opening scene of the movie reminds me of all the reasons why. The opening shot of the villain Vincent playing his little marble game with the voice over by spike, To the robbery scene in the supermarket, To spikes awesome line of “ Just a humble bounty hunter ma’am” to cap everything until the opening credits. Awesome.
1. Rocky Balboa- sitting in the theater about to see rocky on the big screen for the first time ever. You get the little scene with Mason Dixon easily defeating his latest opponent only to get pelted with ice, as the commentators ask for a fighter who thrills them with his heart. Cue the frank Stallone song “take you back” as we travel through Philly in search of our hero rocky.
Honorable mention
Star wars episode one- I know I can hear the groans already, no lies, the movie sucks the new trilogy sucks, But I’ll never forget sitting in the theater watching the crawl and knowing I was about to see a new star wars movie. For that three minutes of reading the crawl to seeing a ship flying in space Lucas had me….then Jar Jar, midclorians and horrible acting killed everything I knew and had hoped for.
Temple of doom- hate temple of doom, it’s not crystal skulls bad but the only part I really like is the opening.