After the break you can find the latest episode of Travis Bickle on the Riviera, the world's only movie podcast. With your hosts Morgan and Sean Witzke.
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0:00:00 - 0:34:39 - To start off this week, Sean and Morgan talk about Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), directed by George Miller; some more.
Also discussed in this section: Coraline, Beowulf, Avatar, John Seale, the Dawn of the Dead remake, Prometheus, Pacific Rim, Need For Speed, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Inception, Marvel movies, Ghosts of Mars, The Ward, Michael Bay, the Wired oral history of ILM, non-action editors editing action films, Big Trouble In Little China, Robocop, The Road Warrior, The Warriors, Darkman, Terminator, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sergio Leone, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, The Empire Strikes Back, Happy Feet, Peter Jackson, Ridley Scott, Denis Villenueve's Blade Runner sequel, Moebius, Syd Mead, Neuromancer, Roger Deakins, Sicaro, and Se7en.
0:34:40 - 1:04:01 - Next up, we both watched Ex Machina (2015), directed by Alex Garland, starring Oscar Isaac, Domnhall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno, and Corey Johnson.
Also discussed in this section: The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, EC Comics, George Miller, Anthony Dod Mantle, Dogme 95, Danny Boyle, Sunshine, 28 Days Later, William Gibson's Blue Ant series, Dredd, Garth Ennis, The Beach, Mad Max, Point Blank, Wittgenstein, Slumdog Millionaire, Watchmen, Hugh Laurie, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Day of the Dead, Prince of Darkness, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, The Walking Dead, Transcendence, Jonathan Nolan, and Soderbergh's Solaris.
1:04:02 - 1:21:51 - To close out, Sean watched some M. Night Shyamalan movies for some reason: Unbreakable, The Village, Lady In the Water, and The Happening. They are terrible.
Also discussed in this section: John Leguizamo, Mark Wahlberg, The Gambler, The Crucible, Christopher Doyle, Roger Deakins, Cherry Jones, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Samuel L. Jackson, Signs, Watchmen (again, sorry), The Dark Knight, Superman, The Devil's Rejects, Audition, Blow Out, and Arthur C. Clarke.
Next Week: who knows
Our outro music this week: "Hacking/Cutting" by Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barow from Ex Machina. And our intro, as always, is from Escape From New York.
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Paul Reiser over everything.
It's such a relief hearing someone smart take a bit of the air out of the Alex Garland bubble.
I actually really enjoy Dredd, but it's the first film written by him that didn't make me feel like I was being hectored by a hack writer who thought he was masking his misplaced contempt for me as a viewer.
Danny Boyle elevated 28 Days Later and Sunshine above their really derivative - and inexplicably also condescending - scripts. The fact that he isn't capable of carrying his high concepts into anything but middle-of-the-road slasher-thriller third acts is just sour-tasting icing on that particular cake.
Posted by: Issuespod | 2015.05.29 at 04:25
RE: 3D movies, where does Gravity rank?
Posted by: Ryan | 2015.06.02 at 23:24