Episode 187 Topics Include:
- The Star Wars legacy
- DVD/Blu-ray special features
- Whatever happened to the caped crusader?
- This month in trailers: Brave, Snow White And The Huntsman, This Means War, Young Adult, The Hunger Games
- The Walking Dead 2x06 (01:14:20 - 01:16:35)
- Dexter 6x08 (01:16:36 - 01:21:35)
- Featured Review: The Fly II
Running Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Episode Songs:
Jagger's Nut - Vantage Point
This Podcast May Include Some Explicit Language
...It Also Most Likely Contains Some Spoilers
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ReplyDeleteReally fun/funny stuff on this episode. Agree with everything on the trailer stuff.
I know this posted night of Walking Dead "mid-season" final, but I loved every episode this season. With the first season, I really wouldn't have cared if the show was cancelled, but 2nd has made me want more. The finale just made it all even more better with the climax and reveal! Pretty much everything Jesse complained about in this show is made awesome in the finale. Although it def moves a lot slower than the comic (at least the beginning of the comic).
Again, REALLY loved this episode.
Thanks Nico!
ReplyDeleteWe had a really great time recording this episode and I'm glad it showed!
I will have a lot to say about the latest Walking Dead episode. It was just... wow.
Thanks again dude!
I was pretty happy with this episode, too. Thanks, Nico.
ReplyDeletei was going to weigh in on Star Wars but... ugh.
ReplyDeletei absolutely LOVE The Hunger Games!! the kids-killing-each-other-in-an-arena thing is similar to Battle Royale, yeah, but there's nothing wrong with that necessarily, especially since in The Hunger Games the context and world surrounding the arena concept is really different and it's only one aspect of the story. things play out differently with the arena than they do in Battle Royale, too, it's like the national sport and the kids are celebrities and there are public relations and strategic maneuvering aspects, like while in the arena the kids have to act and play up the drama and made-up narratives so that the audience and sponsors will favor them. it's also largely a character study of the narrator, though, as she changes as a person because of all this stuff.
i've seen the HG trailer and i'm struggling to push it out of my head, i'm struggling not to imagine the main character as Jennifer Lawrence!!! usually i don't care about that stuff with adaptations and it never affects my enjoyment, but i love The Hunger Games so much that i find that really distracting. same with my dad who still refuses to see the Lord of the Rings movies because he loves the books so much and doesn't want the movie visuals to infect what he's already imagined.
Just out of curiosity, Ross, how did you get into The Hunger Games and how long have you been into it? As I mentioned on the show, I never heard of it until a few weeks/months ago.
ReplyDeleteI've found that I can put aside my opinions on a property at least long enough to watch a film or adaptation. The Thing is a perfect example. I had almost no hope that the new movie would be any good because I love the Carpenter film so much, but morbid curiosity made me go see it. I'll also watch pretty much any comic book movie. I read so few actual books/novels that I've never run into a problem seeing a movie based on one that I can think of.
More often than not, I discover books that I like because I hear that they're going to be made into movies, so I check them out. The Ruins and As She Climbed Across The Table are examples of that. I heard about the Ruins movie a few months in advance and it sounded cool, so I read the book. I'm not even sure if As She Climbed Across The Table is going to end up getting made, but I heard David Cronenberg is attached, so I checked it out. Most of the other novels I've read have been the Dexter books, which I started reading after seeing the first season of the show, and the Aliens/Predator novels which are mostly based on the comics/movies I'd already read/seen.
Maybe I just need to read more.
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ReplyDeletei only just started reading Hunger Games fairly recently because my parents read them/listened to them on audiobook a while ago and they said they were good, and i'd heard good things from colleagues so the series was on my radar and on deck to be read (my reading pile is super backlogged!), most of what i read is YA fiction so i wanted to get around to the series eventually, but yeah it was the movie news that made me bump HG to the top of the queue. i actually had no idea what the story was about before i started reading it, just that i knew there was going to be a movie and i wanted to read the books before the movie came out and everybody started spoiling it left and right.
ReplyDeletei check out some books after hearing about or seeing the movies, like i read both The Ruins and The Mist (the Stephen King story) after seeing the movies. i thought the Ruins was awesome, i loved the movie but the book was even more brutal. but the ending in The Mist movie is SO MUCH BETTER than the book, i don't know if you've seen the movie and/or read the book so i won't say anything.
so yeah, i read mostly YA books so i'm always on the lookout for that stuff or my mom, who's a librarian, tells me about ones people recommend, like Hunger Games, and i'm also acquainted with a few YA authors so i read their stuff or they keep me in the loop. other than that i don't read much prose, either, it has to be written a particular way otherwise it sounds pretentious to me if the writing is too flowery or something.
I've never read The Mist, but I am a big fan of the movie, and the ending of the movie in particular. I definitely think novel of The Ruins to the film, but it was pretty good. My big problem with the movie was the ending.
ReplyDelete**SPOILERS FOR THE RUINS***
In the book, Scott Smith made a huge deal out of the fact that if even a single speck of one of the plants made it past the salt ring at the base of the structure, that would basically trigger an end-of-the-world level chain reaction. In the film they don't hammer that point home nearly as much and then the main girl escapes from the jungle, essentially damning the rest of the world to a slow death at the "hands" of the plants. That should have been a HUGE deal, but the filmmakers just used it as a cheap little coda on the end of the film at the girl's funeral. That ending really bugs me. The whole scenario should have been a lot more hopeless in my opinion.
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The Ruins has to hold the record for the book I finished the fastest. I could not put that thing down for 2 straight days. I essentially finished it in 2 sittings, which is uncanny for me since I tend to read so slow.
Also, oddly enough, my mother is a librarian, too. She only really reads pseudo-mystery/drama/romance books and biographies written by celebrities she sees on talk shows, though. Every now and then I'll recommend a book to her from a different genre and she'll really enjoy it, but then go right back to the stuff she was reading anyway. She loved The Ruins, the Dexter books, and Bone after I convinced her to read them.
oh weird, it sounds like we watched different versions of The Ruins! in the version i saw SPOILERS--
ReplyDelete--Amy drives away from the pyramid and the vines appear underneath her skin and then it ends, that's it.
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i do not remember the graveyard/funeral part! maybe i did see that one but just forgot...