Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Where you been spending your nights?
Well, for both Monolith and Bear Trap, at least one of those nights was spent watching the season premiere of AMC's 'The Walking Dead'. Listen in to this week's podcast as our two favorite know-nuthin's talk about how the zombie show Darabont built is faring at the beginning of its sophomore season. Spoiler alert: not too good. Also featured is a live demonstration of Siri, the new voice recognition software available on the new iPhone 4S. In this podcast you will hear Siri's response to that age old question: "What is the meaning of life?" We also talk about 'Green Lantern', Ryan Reynolds, the new DC Comics Superman reboot, Superman vs. Batman, what scares us, and then we talk about two new trailers: 'The Avengers' and 'The Raven'. We're mixed on one and pretty negative on the other. Tune into find out who gets the thumbs down.
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ReplyDeleteGood show, gents. And an epic one, too. You ho's sure like to talk.
ReplyDeleteSo - Walking Dead. That's been a poor show since day one, which is a shame considering it's coming from the place that gave us shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad. And that Darabont was involved, but then he hasn't done anything amazing in the last 15 years or so. And he's a super sentimental, big-emotional-moments kind of guy, which is part of what kills Walking Dead dead for me - it's the sappiest zombie story ever. Tons of crying. And that makes sense, you know, because everyone you know who's dead is now a flesh eating monster. So you'd probably cry, sure. While that's true, that's also boring and predictable. I wish they'd hand the reigns of this story over to Vince Gilligan and just let him go nuts on it. But as it stands, it's sort of The Stand, Dawn of the Dead, and 28 Days Later over and over again, but with more soap opera figured in. I don't know. I expected more.
Ryan Reynolds. Very likable actor and I generally like him in most everything. But the best thing he's done, the most consistently funny, is Just Friends. So check that out. Everyone around him is pretty funny, too. It's also super dumb, but it's funny.
Phobias - physics reversing? That's a pretty cool phobia to have. I'm with Brian on the heights thing, which is not a cool phobia. Used to have a major phobia of flying, but that's pretty well gone now. I'm somewhat phobic of throwing up - emetophobia, by the way. But it's interesting you touch on the whole home invasion thing and how it changes as you start to grow a family and the "man's" role in all that. Because probably my biggest fear in life at this point is that something would happen to my family and I would fail at protecting them. Easily the biggest fear of mine.
As for the Avengers - I thought that trailer was pretty terrible, shiny though it is. Because afterwards - I don't know who the bad guy is or what he's doing besides, as Crane pointed out, blowing up cars on streets. Which is worrisome, but not super worrisome. Besides only the hint of a bad guy, we get quips and a tiny bit of action and then… done. And I realize this is more of a teaser and we'll get a trailer later that will lay out the story… I hope. But movie evidence of the past - like the later Schumacher Batmans - suggests that movies with more than one hero will blow because it will focus on effects and star power and not on the story. This teaser looks like that to me. But good point about Whedon going after the actual meaning of the word 'avenge'. I'm glad he won't just treat it as a cool name. He definitely has my trust.
And the Raven - well, yeah. If a movie about Poe being a detective isn't a comedy, then I just don't know what. Also - John Hawkes should've been Poe. Perfect casting.
I recommend you check out the Harold & Kumar Christmas red band trailer, as I was deeply surprised at how funny I found that to be.
Thanks for the great post Craig. Should we keep this on this site or move these comments to Facebook?
ReplyDeleteA-ha. No problem. Will do.
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