0:00:00 - 0:07:49 - To start this week off, Tucker watched GI Joe: Retaliation (2013), directed by John M. Chu, starring Walton Goggins and the Rza. In this section we talk about just how bad movies can get right now. Guess what, it's a theme this week. Also Tucker eats a salad.
0:07:50 - 0:12:40 - Sean watched The Colony (2013), directed by Jeff Renfroe, starring Bill Paxton, Laurence Fishburne, some other fucking people. We also discuss how recent good direct to dvd movies have been getting our hopes up, and Screamers. This movie is awful.
0:12:41 - 0:20:57 - Tucker watched all of Hannibal (the tv show) starring Hugh Dancey, Mads Mikkelsen, Laurence Fishburne. We also talk about Dino De Laurentis, Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, and our expectations for television.
0:20:58 - 0:32:27 - Tucker also watched The Fall starring Gillian Anderson. We also discuss focus on monsters and "likeable characters" and having some sort of thing to say if you want to make this kind of television. And we circle back around to Hannibal again and Laurence Fishburne's last decade of his career.
0:32:28 - 0:53:50 - Tucker watched The Wolverine (2013), directed by James Mangold, starring Huge Ackerman, Tao Okamoto, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rila Fukashima, Will Yun Lee, Svetlana Khodchenkova, and Famke Janssen. We also talk about the decline of American culture, superhero and blockbuster movies, Black Rain, also the trailers for Lone Survivor and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and YA franchise films. The Mitty trailer sends us into a conversation about Ben Stiller's directing career, comedians wanting to do serious movies, and Jerry Lewis' The Day The Clown Cried.
0:53:51 - 0:58:41 - Sean watched the documentary Side By Side (2012), directed by Christopher Kenneally and starring Keanu Reeves. We also talk about why some great directors fail and some don't, and why being a nice guy doesn't count for shit.
0:58:42 - 1:03:38 - Sean watched Hell Baby (2013), written and directed byThomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, starring Lennon, Garant, Rob Cordy, Leslie Bibb, Rikki Lindhome, Keegan Michael Key, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel, and Kumail Nanjiani. In this section we also talk about Lennon & Garant's career as scriptwriters, Reno 911, The State, Viva Variety, and Burning Love.
1:03:39 - 1:14:19 - And finally Tucker talks about watching that tv show Suits, a thing only he does (says the guy who keeps E! News weekends on the air) (That is not a picture from Suits).
Our outro music this week is Tangerine Dream's "Betrayal (theme from Sorcerer)".
NEXT WEEK: either a guest or MORE PAXTON.
That was some great Hannibal/TV talk
Posted by: Morgan Jeske | 2013.08.05 at 12:06
Glad to hear the USA Network is maintaining its proud tradition of uncomfortable sex stuff; the memory of Silk Stalkings will live forever in our hearts.
Posted by: Joe McCulloch | 2013.08.05 at 18:46
And the really really gross Duckman Silk Stalkings parody.
Posted by: Sean Witzke | 2013.08.05 at 19:00
Speaking of Lawrence Fishburne and Ben Stiller, might I suggest to you gentlemen Deep Cover, with the former and Jeff Goldblum and directed by Bill Duke (yes, THAT Bill Duke), and The Zero Effect with the latter and Bill Pullman? The former is a deliciously atmospheric, occasionally poetic bit of overlooked 90s neo-noir, and the latter is one of the best Sherlock Holmes films ever made that is both a direct adaptation of a Holmes story and not Sherlock Holmes at all, and Stiller is actually the straight man.
Posted by: Cleofis | 2013.08.08 at 20:51
Just saw the latest Wolverine, I agree the fight scenes were refreshingly clear visually. I think I mainly dig all the samurai bullshit, although Hugh Jackman is pretty believable as the gruff goodguy burdened by his inner beast. Are the previous Wolverines worth watching? There are other Wolverine movies aren't there? It's soo weird that I spend as much effort avoiding super-hero movies now as I would've spent pinning for them to be made when I was 12 years old! Bizarre times mayne.
Posted by: wabby | 2013.08.09 at 05:41