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0:00:00 - 0:04:31 - INTROS - This week on Travis Bickle on the Riviera we start off by talking about knitting, plastic cups and Brooklyn.
0:04:32 - 0:11:18 - HOMEWORK - Sean was assigned Andrei Rublev (1966), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring some Russian people. Also in this section we talk about other Tarkovsky movies, again, and translation.
0:11:19 - 0:22:27 - HOMEWORK - Tucker was assigned Sisters (1973), directed by Brian De Palma, starring Margot Kidder, Charles Durning, Jennifer Salt, William Finley. Also discussed in this section - Hitchcock (specifically later Hitchcock), Robert Deniro, Al Pacino working with David Mamet, and Charles Durning's life and career.
0:22:28 - 0:29:25 - Sean watched GI JOE Retaliation (2013) directed by John M Chu, starring Walton Goggins, Channing Tatum, The Rock, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Stevenson, Bruce Willy, Tyra from Friday Night Lights, and bunch of white stuntmen with rags over their heads to pretend like a warehouse in California is Iran. Also discussed in this section - The Shield, Olympus Has Fallen, and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
0:29:26 - 0:37:06 - Tucker watched Dirty Work (1998) directed by Bob Saget, starring Norm McDonald, Artie Lang, Traylor Howard, Chris McDonald, Chevy Chase, David Koechner, and Chris Farley. Also discussed in this section Monk, Major League, Hot Shots, Police Academy 2, Airplane 2, and rape jokes in The Mighty Boosh and The Long Kiss Goodnight.
0:37:07 - 0:44:51 - Sean watched Fudoh: A New Generation (1997), directed by Takashi Miike. Also discussed in this section the Iron Man 3 trailer, the Death Note film series, The Dark Knight, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Gere, World War Z, and White House Down.
0:44:52 -0:55:27 - Stealing the TRIPLE BANGER LIGHTNING ROUND from Cashing in With TJ MILLER, Tucker watched Insignificance (1985) directed by Nic Roeg; Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) directed by Peter Weir; and Le Doulos (1962) directed by Jean Pierre Melville. Also discussed in this section - Watchmen, NBC's Smash (because it is hilarious to call it NBC possesive apostrophe s Smash), The Hit, The Virgin Suicides (Josh Hartnett and not Ashton Kutcher but who the fuck cares), THE TWO MARILYNS, Mad Max.
0:55:27 - 1:13:37 - Sean watched Getting To Know Your Rabbit (1972) directed by Brian De Palma and Room 237 (2013) directed by Rodney Ascher.
We kind of use Room 237 to talk about the nature of criticism, obsession, close reading, textual analysis,modern non-talking head documentaries, Tucker on a Gary Groth editorial in The Comics Journal #100, Blow Out, online video essays, Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, A Life In Pictures, Alien, Going Clear, journalism, entertainment, genre for genre's sake, the corporate co-opting of the idea of genre for genre's sake, and self-justification.
Our outro music this week is David McCallum and David Axelrod's "Smile".
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Dirty Work has my favorite ADR joke, when they're in jail and Norm says "you know what hurts the most is the lack of respect, well that and THE OTHER THING" and you can tell "the other thing" was so obviously dubbed in over him saying ANAL RAPE to avoid a ratings change. Much like Galaxy Quest before they go through the mashers and Sigourney Weaver says "FUCK THAT" and they dub in "screw that" instead.
I was gonna come here and say HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE blah blah but the movie is extremely deadpan, and it's not non stop comedy. Like my favorite joke in the movie is HEY ARE THOSE HOOKERS? I MEAN.......... WHO ARE THOSE GIRLS? And any other hooker line in the movie, I never seen so many dead hookers in my life, David Koechgkdhgner suddenly screaming THIS IS A LIVE COMMERCIAL before composing himself, as if anyone did live commercials in the 90s anymore, every fawkin thing in the movie has the most godawful paper thin premise and I love it. Like one of the revenge things is at a carnival just so Norm can say into the tape recorder "note to self, I don't want to LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!" But then I would just be sitting here all day typing lines from the movie into this text box. Why didn't he punch you in the stomach? I HAVE NO ~*~IDEEEEEEEA~*~ Don Giovanni who's that DUDE etc.
Posted by: Blorg Fleebo | 2013.04.10 at 07:37