Episode 182 Topics Include:
- MC Chris ownz
- NYCC News: X-Men Regenesis and the EXtreme Comics Relaunch
- The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 1 (00:28:23 - 00:44:47)
- Dexter Season 6, Episode 3 (00:46:21 - 00:52:38)
- What Rian's been watching
- Featured Review: The Thing (2011)
Running Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Episode Songs:
Fight music from Dracula A.D. 1972
Theme from John Carpenter's The Thing
This Podcast May Include Some Explicit Language
...It Also Most Likely Contains Some Spoilers
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thanks for the Glory plug, you guys! Rian, it's really motivational to hear you so excited about this, i just hope the comic doesn't disappoint! glad you like the artwork from it so far. it's pretty fun so far although i feel a little bit of pressure and discomfort from even the small amount of attention this is getting, i even did my first video interview at NYCC, i can't imagine how i'd ever weather doing something high-profile at DC or Marvel should that ever happen.
ReplyDeletethe new Thing sounds like shit. i'll check it out on video, though, if just to see the gross-out stuff. Rian, you sounded so disparaging about the ladies sitting behind you, your tone of voice, especially the second time you mentioned them, you really emphasized them being black. like "these BLACK women...!! i'm not surprised these BLACK ladies didn't know about the Thing!! the nerve!!!" what's up with that? XD
What can I say, Ross? The art on Glory looks great, and the knowledge that you're assisting with the scripts in some way just makes me even more excited. As time goes on, there are fewer and fewer comic book characters that I feel a great attachment to, and more and more creators that I follow. When my favorite writers and/or artists announce a new project, whatever it is, I can't help but get excited. You should know by now that I'm looking forward to anything you put out. The same goes for Brandon.
ReplyDeleteThe new Thing pretty much is shit. I would avoid paying to see it if at all possible. It's definitely not something you need to go out of your way to see. As for the black women, if I was emphasizing that they were black, I wasn't doing it on purpose. However, if you'd been forced to sit in front of them and listen to their comments throughout the entire film, regardless of race, you'd probably have some disparaging things to say about them. If you want to describe how disgusting you think something is to one another in front of your DVD player at home, that's fine, but when you're in a theater watching one of the goriest monster movies of the year, I shouldn't have to listen to relentless conversations about how surprised you are by how icky everything is.
i'm excited for Brandon's Prophet, it looks awesome.
ReplyDeletei'm sure i would've been pissed at the ladies in the theater, too, nothing worse than somebody who won't shut up during a movie, definitely. but i had to point out that the way you said it, it came off like "black" was one of the disparaging aspects about it. i mean, i already knew you were a huge racist, but just sayin'.
i think if you hadn't emphasized how gross the Thing latching onto a guy's face was i wouldn't be interested at all, but you made it sound so nasty and i can't pass something like that up!!! i live for the gross-out stuff.
Yeah, there are definitely moments of cool, gross monster/human morphing in the movie. Do you remember when Windows walks in on the thing imitating Bennings in Carpenter's version? The way Bennings is sitting there, dead-eyed as the thing just does it's "thing" to him and you get that feeling of helplessness and dread (at least I do)? There are one or two instances of that in the prequel. The Norwegian with the mutating face is one of them. It's comparable to the scene in the beginning of Aliens when the marines find that woman coccooned to the wall and she begs them to kill her just before the chestburster starts moving around in her chest. As fucked up as it sounds, I live for moments like that in monster movies. Another great example (whether you like the movie or not) is in Peter Jackson's King Kong when the characters are helplessly battling the giant bugs and the one guy's head is slowly enveloped in the mouth of that huge maggot-shaped thing. It's totally fucking horrifying to imagine being in that situation. Slowly devoured by an alien lifeform. Gives me the creeps and puts a huge smile on my face.
ReplyDeletei think my favorite monster moment in the original Thing is in the same Bennings sequence, but when the men gather around him outside and he looks up and his face is human but he has this total alien expression on his face and he's got the big clawed alien hands. i think that's probably the most unsettling part.
ReplyDeletei've seen Jackson's King Kong but i don't remember that maggot monster stuff! i don't remember much about that movie. i totally know what you mean though, i live for that stuff too, i want to squirm and be grossed out.
one of the best unsettling gross-out scenes i've seen, which isn't quite the same as your other examples since it's not a monster attacking somebody, is a deleted scene from Cronenberg's The Fly remake, the monkey-cat scene. the monkey-cat stuff is gross, but then the rest of the sequence where the fly leg comes out of Jeff Goldblum's side and he gnaws it off. GROSS. foreign things coming out of you is gross but awesome.
Here's that scene from King Kong:
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It's totally worth re-visiting. I just realized the guy I was talking about who gets eaten by the maggot things is Andy Serkis. No matter how many times I watch those things eat him, it still makes me uneasy. I think the choice to essentially cut out all the music and just hear the sounds of a bunch of bugs crawling around works to great effect in this sequence, too.
Good show guys... again a couple weeks behind, but still listening.
ReplyDeleteHad to skip over Dexter stuff, but THANK YOU for putting in times that it's discussed.
I saw Jesse and Joel tweet about not digging a lot of first Walking Dead episode, but I liked it a lot. I like it more after hearing what Rian said (didn't think of that aspect), but it made it feel a bit more like the comic than the first season did. T-bone bothers me way more than Andrea. He has no character. I'm like "Kill him and bring Tyreese in!"
I'm glad that the time codes are helping someone out. I do have fears that people may skip half of the show because of them, though.
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