Episode 231 Topics Include:
- When you wish upon a Death Star
- X-Men: The Return Of Singer
- Walking Dead 3x03 (00:45:56 - 00:56:00)
- Dexter 7x05 (00:56:01 - 00:59:54)
- What we've been watching
- Featured Review: Magic Mike
Running Time: 1 hour, 51 minutes
Episode Songs:
Clone - Metric
This Podcast May Include Some Explicit Language
...It Also Most Likely Contains Some Spoilers
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ReplyDeleteRian: i watched Julia's Eyes, wasn't crazy about it, i gotta admit. :( i thought it was pretty boring, i almost shut it off a couple times. i guess it was well made, i don't know. i liked when she was pretending to be blind, that was the only part where the movie popped for me. and i hated the villain's explanation of why he is the way he is, like who cares? i don't know. sorry, man.
i'm with you on Star Wars, though, i burned out on it years ago and now the only one of them i like is Return of the Jedi. i'm burned out on that whole universe, i'm not sure what could get me back into it. maybe if Vin Diesel or Dwayne Johnson was the main character. or if they got somebody really unusual to direct, somebody risky, not some safe popcorn director. or if they want a big name they should get Kathryn Bigelow or Spike Lee or somebody. or i might be interested if they focused on something other than the usual straight white male hero. SW is such a bro-fest.
i also think i'd rather see some kind of reboot than a continuation, because i think the SW universe has been broken by the prequels. it's been broken by inclusions like midichlorians, the prophecy/chosen one bullshit, Anakin's immaculate conception, Yoda being completely ruined as a character, the whole concept of the Jedi being made into something crappy (they're a corrupt political body who settle trade disputes???), it's just unsalvageable in my opinion. i'm open to see what they do with Episode 7, maybe i'll end up eating my words, but right now i can't see how anything set in the same continuity as those things could work. it needs a reboot or some kind of standalone tale that doesn't acknowledge the other stuff, something that rewrites/resets the rules back to what we knew before the prequels.
at this point i'd actually almost be interested more in a new George Lucas Star Wars than something actually good, if you can believe it, haha. the prequels are garbage but i also find them fascinating, like how did Lucas make them not only horrible boring trash, but how did he make each film worse than the last??? there was no skill improvement at all, he never improved as a filmmaker or storyteller or a decision-maker, how does that happen?! so intriguing. i feel like a good Star Wars film at this point would be antithetical to what Star Wars is about now.
man, i love Bram Stoker's Dracula!! so funny. i don't care much about any of the characters or plot but Gary Oldman, holy crap, that guy KILLS IT in that movie. who came up with that characterization of Dracula?? was it Oldman or Coppola or both? it's so weird i can't imagine what the creators were thinking when they sat down to create it. "let's have Dracula talk as weirdly as possible." my favorite part is when Keanu makes some kind of casual remark about Dracula's Dracul bloodline or something, and Dracula whips a giant sword off the wall and he goes "it is no laughing MATTAAAGGHHH!!" (as in laughing matter). haha.
Rian, where did you see Rawhead Rex?? i've always wanted to see it but it's never been on Netflix and i've never seen it to rent or buy anywhere...
i also really want to see Magic Mike, gotta bump that up in my queue. Jesse, your comparisons to Step-Up are a compliment in my book, i love the Step-Up movies!! haha. especially Step-Up 2, if you guys bother with any of them, that's the one to watch. it's stupendous.
On behalf of both Jesse and I, thanks, Ross! That's a huge compliment!
DeleteYou don't have to apologize to me for not liking Julia's Eyes. To each their own. I'm disappointed that I recommended a movie and you didn't enjoy it, but I'm not necessarily surprised. I hope that doesn't sound insulting. I just mean that, as we've discussed before, I have a tough time gauging your film proclivities (to jump ahead a bit...Step Up? Really?) My favorite part was the part you mentioned when Julia had to pretend to be blind. The other guy I recommended it to liked the movie, but seemingly not nearly as much as me. I wonder if my fear of blindness and/or having sharp objects near my eyes played into the movie's effect on me more than most people. Not that anyone wants to go blind or get stabbed in the eye, but those are easily among my top 3 fears.
Star Wars = meh. I'm open to the idea of more installments because they could be good inasmuch as any movie has the possibility of turning out okay, but I also wouldn't be disappointed if there was never another new Star Wars movie made.
The thing I want to know most about Bram Stoker's Dracula is how they came up with that hairdo. I know the hairy palms come from the book, but I'm not sure where the "pervy old man" personality came from.
I downloaded Rawhead Rex. I wouldn't highly recommend it, but I may be able to upload a copy for you somewhere if you'd like. Just let me know and I'm sure I can get you a copy, even if I have to burn it to a DVD and mail it to you. I just checked Amazon and the official DVD is going for $80+, which is insane!
Please, do not take Jesse's word for it...Magic Mike is nothing like Step Up. If Channing Tatum weren't in both movies, no one would ever make that comparison.