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  5. Posted

    Also, I had a great convo with my buddy about this movie.

     

    The Rock was bar none my favorite part, because to me he looked and acted like he knew he was in a totally bonkers movie and he was just having a fucking BLAST, because he understood what it was.

     

    Vin Diesel as Dom is acting like he's in a very serious drama, which completely clashes with the feel of the movie. He's awesome in Perfect Dark and pretty much all the Riddick movies, but here...yikes.

  6. Posted

    About haflway through and I am LOVING this epsiode. It's been a long tough week and this is so nice to have heading into a long weekend. I love you Paul, June, Zouks and Adam!

     

    Also, just have to say I thought their discussion of female characters was something I didn't think about, but they make some pretty great (and sad) points.

     

    Did love that Ronda Rousey appearance/fight though!

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    Okay, that was decently entertaining. But I found myself rolling my eyes at how absurd the action was, rather than enjoying it a lot. I mean, I love over the top action as much as the next guy...but driving a car into a helicopter? Stomping on cracking concrete and making someone fall through it? Come on now.

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    You shouldn't be too confused. This might be surprising, but it's not a complex story.

     

     

    I don't remember that. I know they marketed 6 under Fast Six (although the title onscreen is Fast & Furious 6).

     

    Yeah I've had to look up a few character histories so far, but I'm following.

     

    What the hell was in that package, an A-bomb?!

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    I was hoping for a studio episode...but I'm psyched to have Mr. Scott back.

     

    I've never seen any of the F&F movies, not sure I'll even watch #7-I think some movies are fun to NOT watch and just hear the gang talk about them.

     

    I am VERY excited to watch Maximum Overdrive though, as ridiculous over-the-top Stephen King is one of my favorite things in the world.

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    I wish there were still video stores. Seems like online subscriptions have destroyed them. I think a video store could still work... if it was in a liquor store.

     

    There's actually a great local video store here in Denver still, but I no longer live in the city and it's the only one I know of :(

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  13. Posted

     

    Really? Because I think they explained it very clearly;

     

     

     

    The thing that makes this so helpful and expositionary, for me, is how the grammatical frame of reference changes multiple times from past to future to past tense. This did not at all come across like the ramblings of a hobo becoming unstuck in time. I also feel that adding literal bullet points to an opening crawl is very useful, because that's how I like to imagine opening narrations; as a shopping list.

     

    My take on that was totally "Well, we can't afford to SHOW this, so just pack in a bunch of expository dialogue with scrolling text."

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    So hear me out here, but I watched the first 5-6 minutes last night and....parts of it were kind of cool! Namely:

     

    -The look of the opening. It was actually kinda creepy and interesting

     

    -This movie is so colorful! Maybe it's over saturation of all those gray, bleak "gritty" movies lately but I felt like it really popped.

     

    -The T Rex Puppet/costume is super impressive.

     

    But yeah, that's all I've got so far...the rest is just puzzling...

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    I have to say, I found the trailer for video stores truly, oddly fascinating-I'd never heard anything like that!

     

    And well, dammit...it made me miss video stores. I grew up in a small-ish town, and we always had the local video store. Then Blockbuster came and it was a HUGE DEAL. I'd never seen somewhere so cool! I actually rented from Blockbuster as lately as a couple years ago, before they all went under.

     

    Kids these days will never know the joy of making a trip to the video store! Here's a relevant video to end my miniature rant:

     

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  17. Posted

    Yeah, I should point out that I loved everything else except that part. It's a great movie.

     

    Also, I got to meet Keanu when he was at Fantastic Fest last year for the screening of John Wick. He's basically Ted "Theodore" Logan in real life, and I love him so much for that. After he introduced the movie, he walked out to the lobby and thanked all of the volunteers who help put on the festival (he goes pretty much every year). Just really the nicest guy in the world.

     

    Yeah I've heard he's a great, great guy. There's a really cool podcast called "I Was There Too" with Matt Gourley, he interviews bit players from famous movies about their experience. He interviewed the passengers and bus driver from Speed, and they all said he was the nicest, most approachable person they'd ever worked with.

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  18. Posted

    I've always heard it as because they swam across the Rio Grande.

     

    Source: I'm a Texan and have a lot of racist relatives.

     

    Yep, that's been my interpretation as well. Either way, when I heard that line my reaction was "The fuck was that?! That really came out of left field!"

     

    Also ties into the debate about whether or not it's a kids film. That was the first real moment that made me say "WAIT...is this supposed to be for kids?!"

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    It's a great action movie, but I hated that part so much. Like,

    they introduced the dog solely as an excuse to kill it. If they had built any sort of relationship between them, it would have been one thing, but I felt like it was "Oh, here's a dog. Let's kill it. Then he'll go on a rampage."

     

     

     

    I definitely get it, it left a lot of people sour. I just took it as "They took his car, whatever. But when they took his connection to his recently deceased wife, that put him over the edge."

     

    But yes either way...not pleasant.

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  20. Posted

    I can't seem to quote the actual post, but to reply to:

     

    They really have it in for the dog. The only movies I've seen where dogs were killed for no readily discernible reason were the first two Terminator.

     

    MINOR SPOILER FOR THE FILM JOHN WICK WHICH IS AWESOME

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Keanu Reeves is finally pushed to revenge when these Russian mobsters kill his dog. They steal his beloved muscle car, beat the shit out of him...but it's not until they kill his dog that he's like FUCK THESE GUYS.

     

    It was upsetting to see, but I loved that it's what spurred him to take these assholes out. By the way, that movie is well worth a watch. It's an amazing action movie.

  21. Posted

    Not sure if this falls into corrections and omissions but...no mention in the ep of the bonkers scene on the boat at the beginning?! Absolutely ripe for material.

     

    "Wait, I'm a cop!"

    "I don't care."

     

    And a dog was thrown into the water!

     

    Maybe it was in the first part that wasn't recorded Paul mentioned, but I would've loved to hear June's reaction to the whole scene.

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  22. Posted

    Dearest Paul, Zouks, and June:

     

    I ever sincerely hope that the new episode shall be in my feed tomorrow, as I fear my heart cannot take much more of thinking about this film that is "Top Dog" without hearing Zouks' bafflement, and June's upsetting feelings at a dog being punted from a boat.

     

    Whilst I do understand that you have life beyond this podcast, I need you. I dearly hope the new episode will be ready for my morning drive into the city.

     

    Yours ever truly,

     

    Ooof

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