Film Geeks - Episode 43

Title: EPISODE43 - So This Is What's It's Like When Geeks Cry

Episode Notes: The geeks talk about all the movies that came out this week at the box office!!!...oh..no wait...the geeks talk about what were the saddest movies they ever saw. But, some movie news is back!

Sorry about the audio quality, Briney was experiencing some technical difficulties.

Listen to the show here - http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-14391/TS-246428.mp3

List to other shows here - http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/14391

Movie News

http://blogs.tampabay.com/80s/2009/07/prepare-to-have-childhood-memories-crushed-gi-joe-could-years-worst-movie.html
GI Joe - Dud?

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57151
Ghost Rider 2 and Nick Cage looking like a huge douche!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i30319b161b10e5dcc3666148772f6d4f
Thor movie update

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/07/10/ryan-reynolds-is-the-green-lantern/
Who will be Green Lantern?

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/07/14/the-ultimate-3d-movie-preview-and-release-date-schedule/
3D up the wazoo!

http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/Comedy/RiffTrax.aspx
See Plan 9 From Outer Space...ON THE BIG SCREEN!

Saddest Movies

- Saving Private Ryan
- E.T.
- Passion Of The Christ
- The Notebook
- Pay It Forward
- American Beauty
- The Elephant Man
- Old Yeller
- A Beautiful Life
- Field Of Dreams
- Brian's Song
- Joseph - The Bible Series
- Never Ending Story
- Click
- Charloette's Web
- Ladder 51

Film Geeks - Episode 29 - 12 Angry Geeks

Title: EPISODE29 - 12 Angry Geeks

Episode Notes: And the father of the baby is... With my dying breath, the money's location is... The killer is *lights off, a scream, and a shot*... the detective is...DEAD! This week we'll be talking about the most dramatic movies we've seen and why we go so wrapped up into them. We cover some movie news and where the technology is going to take us and where WE want it to go.

Remember we now record on Skype for betting audio quality. The username is "agentx216" and we ask you to mute your microphone and if you want to come in an talk just type it in the chat.

Download the show - http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-14391/TS-145163.mp3

Other shows - http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/14391

Movie News

http://www.variety.com/VR1117991656.html
Big Budget Chances

http://www.businesssheet.com/2008/9/christopher-nolan-not-making-another-batman-movie
Batman news

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rosemary-s-Baby-Remake-Confirmed-8144.html
Jessica "Rosemary" Alba?

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/exclusive-sony-sets-sam-raimi-studio-may-shoot-4-and-5-at-same-time/
Spidy 4 and 5 Suck-a-thon

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3id9a975e26c8545c58af3176ddf00e637
Inside Man 2?

Dramatic Movies:

* - movies talked about

- 12 Angry Men*
- A Few Good Men
- Apollo 13*
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)*
- Casablanca
- The Shawshank Redemtion
- The 6th Sense
- The Young Mr. Lincoln
- Crimson Tide
- Do The Right Thing
- Failsafe
- Martian Child
- Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
- Rear Window - pretty much anything by Alfred Hitchcock
- Phone Booth*
- To Kill A Mocking Bird
- 25th Hour
- Inside Man*
- Cube
- The Mothman Prophecies
- The Never Ending Story*
- Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope
- Signs
- Right At Your Door
- Shooter
- John Q

Show Notes For Film Geeks Episode 22

Episode 22 - The Geeks Show Their Nerdy Side - http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/14391

http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-14391/TS-131454.mp3

http://defamer.com/398417/where-the-wild-things-are-gets-new-release-date-never
Where The Wild Things Are - more money...more time

http://chud.com/articles/articles/15511/1/IT039S-ALWAYS-DARKEST-BEFORE-THE-RED-DAWN/Page1.html
Red Dawn remake

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_popmachine/2008/07/the-high-tech-r.html
WarGames re-release and sequal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JboQmDIdKWs&eurl=http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/index.php
- Max Payne Trailer

Movie Geeks

Good
- Hackers - Jonny Lee Miller - Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool'
Angelina Jolie - Kate Libby / 'Acid Burn'
Matthew Lillard - Emmanuel Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer'
Laurence Mason - Paul Cook / 'Lord Nikon'
Others
- UHF - Weird Al Yankovic - George Newman
- Revenge Of The Nerds - Robert Carradine - Louis Skolnick
Anthony Edwards - Gilbert Lowell
Others
- High Fidelity - John Cusack - Rob Gordon
- Charlie Bartlett - Anton Yelchin - Charlie Bartlett
- War Games - Matthew Broderick - David Lightman
- Back To The Future - Christopher Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown
- Clerks - Brian O'Halloran - Dante Hicks
Jeff Anderson - Randal Graves
- Donnie Darko - Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko
- Office Space - Ron Livingston - Peter Gibbons
David Herman - Michael Bolton
Ajay Naidu - Samir Nagheenanajar
- Pi - Sean Gullette - Maximillian Cohen
- Searching For Bobby Fisher - Max Pomeranc - Josh Waitzkin
- The 40 Year Old Virgin - Steve Carell - Andy Stitzer
- Takedown/Freedom Downtime - Kevin Mitnick
- Galaxy Quest - The "not Star Trek" nerds
- Ghostbusters 1 + 2 - The Ghostbusters
- Grandma's Boy - Everyone
- Juno - Ellen Page - Juno MacGuff
- The Mask - Jim Carrey - Stanley Ipkiss
- Me, Myself, And Irene -
Anthony Anderson - Jamaal Baileygates
Mongo Brownlee - Lee Harvey Baileygates
Jerod Mixon - Shonte Jr. Baileygates
- Rocket Science - Reece Thompson - Hal Hefner
- Sneakers - Everyone
- Stargate - James Spader - Dr. Daniel Jackson
- Stranger Than Fiction - Will Ferrell - Harold Crick
- Weird Science - Anthony Michael Hall - Gary Wallace
Ilan Mitchell-Smith - Wyatt Donnelly

Bad
- Antitrust - Ryan Phillippe - Milo Hoffman
- Toxic Avenger - Mark Torgl - Melvin Junko
- The Core - DJ Qualls - Theodore Donald 'Rat' Finch
- Fantastic Four - Ioan Gruffudd - Reed Richards
- Film Geek - Melik Malkasian - Scotty Pelk
- Napoleon Dynamite - Everyone in the movie
- Swordfish - Hugh Jackman - Stanley Jobson
- The New Guy - DJ Qualls - Dizzy Harrison
- Italian Job (2003) - Seth Green - Lyle
- Rushmore - Jason Schwartzman - Max Fischer
- She's All That - Rachael Leigh Cook - Laney Boggs
- The Conversation - Gene Hackman - Harry Caul
- Real Genius - Everyone
- Superman III - Richard Pryor - Gus Gorman
- The Net - Sandra Bullock - Angela Bennett

Fillers Characters
- Die Hard 4 - Kevin Smith - Warlock
- Mission Impossible 3 - Simon Pegg - Benji
- Enemy Of The State - Jack Black - Fiedler
- Goldeneye - Alan Cumming - Boris Grishenko

Got anymore to add? Leave us your list under the comments section on this post!

Show Notes For Episode 20 Of Film Geeks

EPISODE 20 - can be listen to here - http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/14391

Movie News

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/captain-ameri-1.html
The people behind Captain America must really hate us. Leonardo DiCaprio has been RUMORED to be Captain America.

http://themovingpicture.net/zack-and-miri-vs-the-mpaa
Kevin Smith Vs. the MPAA

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080621/en_movies_eo/a0ffd43891f4_4f19_a6c0_769744631748
Spidy 4

http://themovingpicture.net/new-two-face-clip-hits
Two Face clip is out. You only see half of it though.

http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=185294&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=
Even Marky Mark thinks he sucks. M Night has even called his new movie a "B movie"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/16/obit.stan.winston.ap/index.html
Stan Winston died on Monday - Terminator 2, Aliens, Jurassic Park, and many others.

Get Smart Review

39.2 million for the weekend - my predictions for the lines movie critics will use
If they like it - Get Smart is smart or Get Smart outsmarts the competition
If they didn't like it - Get Smart, missed it by that much

- Don't expect a lot out of this movie. It does have some funny parts but it's not the best American comedy
- Steve Carell does a great job of showing a lot of aspects that Don Adams brought
- Anne Hathway is mighty hot in this and she's got a lot more action scenes than I expected
- The Rock....is the Rock
- The story has a few gaps in it, most importantly what the motive of the main bad guy was
- Bill Murray has a nice quick cameo as Agent 13
- Not really a spy parody like Austin Powers is, more like an action comedy
- Alan Arkin really comes over the top and shows some great action bits
- There are some really great action sequences that are quite surprising
- Terence Stamp has that classic bad guy feel to him; he was still best as General Zod and in this movie too he's got a huge hulking underling too
- The script is decent enough with a good amount of really funny stuff, other times it's more miss than hit.
- Overall - B-

Over hyped movies:

These movies can be called over hyped or overrated depending on how you're talking about them. That means you hear a person or a group of people rant and rave over a film and then when you watch it you're like, "So what?" So with this list, it's going to be hard no stepping on anyone's feet or love for a movie since, by definitions, the movies we're going to be covering, for the most part, are loved.

- Talk about he use of trailers and how some trailers lie about what the movie is actually about (ex. Pan's Labyrinth, Proof, A Beautiful Mind, Reign Of Fire, 28 Days Later, Blair Witch, Man Of The Year, Pirates 3)

- Talk about the reliance of CGI in movies to get people to go see it (ex. Battlefield Earth, The Matrix sequels, Shrek 3, Jurassic Park 2 and 3, The Day After Tomrrow, Pirates 3)

- Cloverfield - stands apart. It's a good movie but not worth becoming a frickin detective over it

Over rated movies:
- Citizen Kane - maybe I'm not smart enough or I don't appreciate all that Orson Wells did for cinemtography, but I have to disagree with AFI's list every year that puts this up at number 1
- The DaVinci Code - the book was so hyped up that I don't think as many people read it as claimed to...why? Because it was horribly boring!
- Star Wars - Episode 1 - why George? why?!?!?!?!?!
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - this is just a boring, unintelligent, nothing happening movie
- Apocalypse Now - it's a good movie, but it's waaay to long for a war movie and uses a lot of symbolism
- Scarface - if you're a rapper than you have to own this by law. Really, there's not much here in the way of a coherent movie
- The Shining - some of it freaky, but there is not a lot of explination and a lot doesn't happen in it
- The Seventh Seal - it might have been good when no one knew which way to point a camera, but Ingmar Bergman didn't really write or direct anything special here.
- Fantasia - just horrible, not a good kids movie at all
- Dune
- Blade Runner
- Borat

Show Notes For Episode 19 Of Film Geeks

EPISODE 19 - can be listen to here - http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/14391

Movie News

http://io9.com/5014765/iron-man-2-will-have-more-armored-heroes-but-no-drunken-armor-

mastery
Iron Man 2 - War Machine/Terrance Howard, Demon In A Bottle storyline

http://www.hecklerspray.com/the-smurfs-movie-it-isnt-a-cartoon-any-more-be-afraid/20081

4663.php
Live Action Smurf movie

http://themovingpicture.net/robocop-remake-teases
Robocop Remake - Cylon?

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/06/12/punisher-war-zone-movie-trailer/
New Punisher Trailer

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/06/14/the-truth-about-edward-norton-vs-marvel/
Edward Norton Vs. Marvel - Fact Or Fiction

WARNING "THE INCREDIBLE HULK" NOTES MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!

Hulk notes:

- no origin - greatness, only credits telling the backstory
- great man vs. monster/anger/inner self
- Hulk actually hits a bunch of stuff
- Great scene is when Hulk stabs Abomination with his own elbow bone
- Hulk is not emo at all
- So much action and great CGI; Hulk look/character is fluid and realistic and not plasticy

- Norton is a great actor; Liz Tylor is pretty decent for the most part
- General Ross is straight out of the comics; William Hurt is looking old
- Tim Roth, Emil Blonsky/Abomination, is decent enough
- Betty's b/f really has no real purpose or role

- Hulk doesn't show a lot of his strength that he does in the newer comics
- It rains A LOT, at the campus fight scene it suddenly starts raining after the battle even

though it was nice out before
- A lot of green stuff in the film - drinks, signs, etc.
- When the Hulk is first show, he's not shown completely all at first
- Transporter 1 & 2 director - Louis Leterrier
- Zak Penn wrote script and he's had some bad ones in the past with Behind Enemy Lines,

X-Men 3, Elektra, and Fantastic 4. After this he's set to write Captain American and the

Avengers Movie
- Inside jokes - purple pants, Hulk slow walk theme song, "Wouldn't like me when I'm

hungry", Captain America/Super Solider Serum, Stanleys' Resturant", and Stan Lee and Lou

Ferigno cameos (Ferrigno is the voice of the Hulk)
- great cameo by Stark and Avengers program

Two Green Thumbs Up - A for Patrick
B grade for Briney