After the jump, you'll find the new episode of the Travis Bickle on the Riviera movie podcast.
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0:00:00 - 0:04:11 - PRE-CREDITS Bond movie sequence, theme, intros
0:04:12 - 0:31:32 - First up both of us watched Man of Steel (2013), directed by Zack Snyder, starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni, Michael Kelly, Laurence Fishburne, Richard Schiff, Antje Traue, and Ayalet Zurer. In this section we: do a dramatic reading of correspondence on Zack Snyder, talk about Gym Jones work-outs. Also discussed in this section: Davinci's Demons, the Sleepy Hollow tv show, Superman 2, Dune, The Neverending Story, Avatar, Dragonball Z, The Dark Knight Rises, Michael Bay, Ender's Game, and Robin Hood. See also Zack Snyder's completely reasonable and sane rules for making movies.
0:31:33 - 0:33:16 - Next up Tucker watched Howard's End (1992), directed by James Ivory, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph Bennett, Emma Thompson, and Anthony Hopkins.
0:33:17 - 0:40:04 - Sean watched Prisoners (2013), directed by Dennis Villeneuve, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, Maria Bello, Viola Davis, and Paul Dano. Also discussed in this section: Abhay on this movie, End of Watch, Prince of Persia, Wolverine, angels.
0:40:05 - 0:49:07 - Tucker watched Escape Plan (2013), directed by Mikael Halfstrom, starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzennegger, Jim Caviezel, Amy Ryan, 50 Cent, Sam Neill, Vincent D'onofrio, and Vinnie Jones. Also discussed in this section: the Jabbawockeez, End of Days, The Eraser, old Jackie Chan, Jimmy Cav's torture weekend.
0:49:08 - 0:53:48 - Tucker also watched Copland (1997), directed by James Mangold, starring Stallone, Robert Deniro, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Michael Rappaport, Robert Patrick, Peter Berg, Edie Falco, Method Man, Debby Harry, and Janeane Garafalo.
0:53:49 - 0:56:13 - Sean watched God Told Me To (1975), directed by Larry Cohen, starring Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Richard Lynch, and Andy Kaufman. Also discussed in this section: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure, The Dark Knight.
0:56:14 - 0:58:40 - Tucker watched The Proposal (2009), directed by Anne Fletcher, starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Betty White, Mary Steenburgen, and Craig T. Nelson. Also discussed: Caddyshack 2, The Net, Speed, The Blind Side, and Crash.
0:58:41 - 1:00:17 - Sean watched The Heat (2013), directed by Paul Feig, starring Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Bill Burr, Bill Burr, and Bill Burr.
1:00:18 - 1:15:19 - Tucker watched 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded (2013), directed by Roel Reine, starring Randy Orton, Tom Stevens, Brian Markinson, and Cindy Busby.
Our outro music this week is: Julio Iglesias "La Mer" from the movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
NEXT WEEK: A THING OR SOME OTHER THING
It wasn't until I saw and loved Pacific Rim that I realized how much I disliked Man of Steel. And the reason is simple: Man of Steel does not feel alive. Some would use the word "organic" instead, but joy is really what Pacific Rim brought. Pacific Rim was messy in places, it was funny in places, it was flat-out exciting and fist-pumping in places. Comparatively, Man of Steel was one long power chord turned up to eleven. In that way, it felt very market-tested to me, as if every moment of the film had to be "fucking awesome". It reminded me of Stephen Soderbergh's anecdote in his "future of cinema" commencement speech(?) where he watched a guy fast forward through all the dialogue of a movie on his iPad to just get to the explosions and gunshots. "Mayhem porn" he called it, and that is Man of Steel. (*plus, talk about undeveloped scenes, characters popping out of nowhere, unnatural time jumps! yeesh!)
Also, complete side note, but a couple months back you guys introduced me to Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. It was an off the cuff remark from Tucker, I believe during his Undisputed 3 craze. Allow me to simply say... Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, a million times over!
Posted by: Jonlost_log | 2013.11.21 at 09:14