I need a PA to come by my dressing room, I'm taking a dump.

 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 - 0:24:13 - This week we recorded without any planning for the first time in a long time and so we have an old school scattered ass podcasts. So we start this week off talking movie trailers! We talk about the trailers for Jupiter Ascending, Sabotage, The Hobbit 2: Evening at the Radisson, Amazing Spider-Man 2: Next Gen Console edition, Godzilla, and we also do a comics podcast topic and talk about the casting of Man of Steel 2 starring Batman.

Also discussed in this section: John Carter, Wachowski movies, M. Night Shalyman, Modern Warfare 3, Peter Berg movies, Bad Boys 3 (?), Lethal Weapon 4, Beverly Hills Cop 3, Jack Reacher 2, Batman & Robin, Game of Thrones, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Rounders, Runner, Runner, Ian Watkins, Boardwalk Empire, Without Limits, and Good Will Hunting. Oh and horrifying / stupid celebrity shit.

0:24:14 - 0:43:31 - Tucker watched The Counselor (2013), directed by Ridley Scott, written by Cormac McCarthy, starring Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez, Edgar Ramierez, Rueben Blades, Dean Norris, and Bruno Ganz.

Also discussed in this section: The Driver, Ridley Scott, Cameron Diaz's career, The Mosquito Coast, No County For Old Men, and a lot on Mike Tyson's autobiography.

0:43:32 - 1:08:53 - Both Tucker and Sean watched Homefront (2013), directed by Gary Fleder, written by Sylvester Stallone, starring Jason Statham, James Franco, Wynona Ryder, Kates Bosworth, Chuck Zito, Clancy Brown, and Omar Benson Miller.

Also discussed in this section: Captain Phillips, Oz, CSI: Miami, Road House, Fast and the Furious 7, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Captain America, Taraji P Henson, American Hustle, Nashville, Out of the Furnace, Inside Llewyn Davis, and Spike Lee's Old Boy.

Our outro music this week is: "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake from the movie Old School.

NEXT WEEK: WE HAVE NO PLANS, AMERICA.

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Comments

[Jakob]

Can someone explain the dumping while hand holding story?

[alec]

the false prophets bit. thank you.

[Andrew Taylor]

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer/video game comparison is a lot more justified, because it looks entirely like the studio had the game tie-in in mind when designing those action scenes. "Here's Jamie Foxx fighting Spider-Man in this infinitely huge factory designed to make sparkles! Press X to jump around! Buy Mountain Dew!"

[Matt]

I realize that by typing this comment on a weeks-old podcast I'm complaining into the voidiest of voids, but I disagree about The Counselor being about nothing or being confusing. Later in the same episode you wanted to come up with an example of someone getting into crime but feeling like they could control how deep they go, which seemed to me one of the many things it was about. And I was also reminded of when you talked about Upstream Color, expressing surprise that anyone could view it as something other than linear; I definitely felt like the events of The Counselor were pretty straightforward, and in fact even embarrassingly-unsubtly underlined by things like Cameron Diaz's conniving character having literal leopard-print tattoos to highlight her predatory nature.

[tucker]

That's a good point. I'm still mulling over the Counselor, it's not a movie I'm done thinking about. Sometimes these episodes are going to catch more immediate reactions, whereas other times there's going to be some reassessment going on. I think the confusing thing about The Counselor that remains for me is that the character's motives don't make sense to me. Pitt and Diaz--i just can't gauge what the fuck is going on with them. "Money" seems cheap in the face of so much writing.

Like I said: i'm not sure where I'm at with that movie. I do think it'll always suffer due to the expectations I bring to it, as well as the general concern I have that Cormac is dicking around with movies when he could be writing novels. I'm not saying that we should complain on podcasts about his movies so he'll get back to writing books, just admitting that--while he is absolutely free to do what he likes--I believe he's a much more interesting novelist than he is a screenwriter, and his absence from books is much more keenly felt to me than it is to not get another crime movie.