After the break, you'll find a brand new episode of Travis Bickle on the Riviera.
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0:00:00 - 0:12:13 - Tucker saw The Raid 2: Berandal (2014), directed by Gareth Huw Evans, starring Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruihan, AND THE FACE OF GOD. Also discussed in this section: Drop Dead Diva, Al Jazeera America's reality tv programming, Walter Hill, John Carpenter, John Woo, Martin Scorsese, Casino, The Departed, Public Enemies, Old Boy, Django Unchained, Batman, and The Punisher.
0:12:14 - 25:24 - Sean watched The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), directed by Wes Anderson, starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Adrien Brody, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Soarise Ronan, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Almaric, Harvey Kietel, Bill Murray, Lea Seydoux, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Fischer Stevens, Bob Balaban, and future James Bond Waris Ahwulia. Also discussed in this section: Torn Curtain, Schindler's List, Europa, Inglorious Basterds, Black Book, To Be Or Not To Be, The Producers, Fantastic Mr Fox, aspect ratio jokes, the Transformers: One Day As A Lion trailer, Power Girl, Russ Myer, the D-Day invasion, and a forthcoming fan-edit of our special favorite Quantum of Solace.
0:25:24 - 43:46 - Tucker watched Captain America 2: I Know Who Killed Me (2014), directed by Anthony & Joe Russo, starring Frank Grillo, Chris Evans, Robert Redford, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Emily VanCamp, and Jenny Agutter. Also discussed in this section: Under The Skin, Three Days of the Condor, Skyfall, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Hurt Locker, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Arrested Development, Community, Six Feet Under, the Nolan Batman movies, Man of Steel, Sunshine, Kobe Bryant, this Jonathan Glazer Levis commercial, Ed Brubaker, Geoff Johns, and I, Frankenstein.
0:43:47 - 1:02:59 - Finally, both of us saw Noah (2014), directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Russel Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Frank Langella, Nick Nolte, Logan Lerman, and Anthony Hopkins. Also discussed in this section: Frailty, Zardoz, Black Swan, The Lion King, Dragon Ball Z, Repo Man, Zu Warriors from Magic Mountain, and The Neverending Story.
Our outro music this week: ""The Judgement of Man" by Clint Mansell from the Noah score.
NEXT WEEK: HOMEWORK: The Duellists and The Last Stand.
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I too saw Cap 2 after Raid 2, and yeah, there's no comparison action-wise. But I did think that the scene that starts when Bucky throws Jasper Sitwell out of the moving car and they wreck on the overpass was pretty great -- it really took up the space available in an interesting way, you know? Cap's immediately thrown off the bridge and into that bus on the street below, Falcon gets pinned, Widow escapes, and then the three of them each have a different part to play in the larger combat zone. The hand-to-hand had the kind of bloodless hyperkinetic feel that Man of Steel had (on a smaller scale, though) and the shots were all framed just right to capture the fight choreography. The finale was an overblown silly waste, but I thought the elevator fight/escape, the boat fight in the beginning, and that highway/bridge fight were some of the best stylized hand-to-hand that I've seen on the big screen in a while. I particularly enjoyed the parts where Bucky was using his pistol in close combat against Cap -- reminded me a bit of Equilibrium or the weapons locker fight against Dahl Lundgren at the end of Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (except, you know, shiny & Marvelized).
Or maybe I was just really high and they sucked.
Posted by: negativecopy | 2014.04.16 at 15:48
I liked the fighting in Cap 2 as well. Very clear and about as brutal as can be within the confines of the PG-13 rating. Frankly it was just nice to see one of these movies where the hero punches other human beings and not CGI monsters.
Posted by: Cass | 2014.04.16 at 16:21
Chris Evans was surprisingly good in Snowpiercer.
He does an amazing job playing a guy under fire and just taking everything thrown at him and keeping it inside. He uses his face and body to tell and it's pretty fucking great.
Towards the end Evans just releases all his frustrations at this iron vault door and it so fucking intense. He can feel all that frustration and I was taken aback.
Posted by: Larry B Vossler | 2014.04.17 at 16:07