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This week on Travis Bickle on the Riviera, special guest, fellow voice of Factual Opinion podcast network, and author of The Most Popular Movie Column in the Entire World: Joe McCulloch joins Sean to talk movies, movies and religion. Only 3 movies on deck this week, but we dig deep on the few we have.
00:00:00 - 0:35:11 - Joe watched After Earth (2013), directed by M Night Shalyman, starring Will and Jaden Smith
Also mentioned in this section - Will and Jaden Smith interviewed at Vulture, and Will and Jaden with Alfonso Ribiero and DJ Jazzy Jeff on Graham Norton, Sean has a 2nd hand story about M. Night Shalyman's set carpenter, Scientology related films Battlefield Earth, Phenomenon, and the Master , Jaden Smith on Key & Peele, Neon Genesis Evangelion, M. Night films The Last Airbender, Signs, Lady In the Water, The Happening, and Praying with Anger, the fake Syfy channel M. Night Shalyman documentary, David Lynch's Dune, the trailer for Ender's Game, the girl who played Orphan, Gary Whitta's history of working with Chris Weston, the Jaden Smith Karate Kid, Pandorum, video game influenced movies, religious films, Fireproof and Bible Man, why Joe hates Jake Sully from Avatar, and actor dynasties in Bollywood films.
0:35:12 - 0:44:09 - HOMEWORK - Sean assigned Joe to watch Zebraman (2004), directed by Takashi Miike, starring Show Aikawa, Kyoka Suzuki.
Also discussed: Zebraman's secret identity is named after Ultraman Ace screenwriter Shinichi Ichikawa, the sequel Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City! and it's relationship to the scientology-like Happy Science movement, other Miike films,Tokatsu and Sentai shows, Men In Black, the dreamatorium from Community, the weirdness of Spider-Man villains, Miike and CGI, the Hideki Anno live action Cutie Honey movie, and the Matrix Reloaded.
0:44:10 -1:04:26 - HOMEWORK - Joe had Sean watch Cockfighter (1974), directed by Monte Hellman, starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Laurie Bird, Patricia Pearcy, Charles Willeford, Richard Schull, and Ed Begley Jr.
In this section we also discuss morality in film criticism, the storied and insane filmography of Monte Hellman, the many titles of Cockfighter, Roger Corman's attempts to sell it, Joe Dante editing the film's trailer, the other film adaptation of Charles Willeford with Miami Blues, Earl Mac Rauch, Night Moves, Joe, Lynch's Dune again, Blue Chips, Rocky, Heaven's Gate, Unleashed, Point Break, the Stuntman, the ending of The Wrestler, dealing with State Senators, Nestor Almendros, the Raging Bull shot in the final cockfight, the use of slow motion in Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, and the legalities of cockfighting in Georgia at the time.
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