- Introduction
- Odds and ends
- A Les Grossman movie
- Snow White gets Ratnered
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Contractually-obligated Batman discussion
- “Hello Bicycle” by The Volume Brothers
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You can argue over whether or not greenlighting a movie starring Tom Cruise as Les Grossman is a good idea. You can argue over whether or not Nicolas Sarkozy’s policy of only hiring short guards is a bad one. You can even argue over whether or not Joseph Gordon-Levitt would make a good Riddler. But one thing that we call all agree on is that Brett Ratner is an awful, no-talent hack.
This week, Joel Murphy discuss every single one of the topics mentioned above. They also give shout outs to Rain, Chris Kirkman and Hobo Radio’s first ever groupie. And, for some odd reason, Lars keeps asking people to take their tops offs. Needless to say, it’s an entertaining, jam-packed show.
What country was Napoleon from? What made Top Gun so special? Was the original Snow White too soft? The answers to these questions and more are in this week’s podcast.
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I have no idea if the new Snow White would be any good, but I like the dark versions of the stories. Fairy tales were horror stories for children to frighten them into good behavior. The dwarves have been depicted as robbers (and rapists, if I remember correctly) in a few of the versions, so using that in the new version of the movie is appropriate. And the dragons were in one of the versions of the story, too, as odd as that sounds. People have tried to make horror versions of the story before, but they’ve been not very good. And I don’t have very high hopes of this one.
Also: I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
Thank God no one will actually make it to the end of the show this week – or else people might notice that I somehow managed to screw up my sign-off.
You bastards!!!! I AM still listening! And I made it through the entire show! Aside from the continuing mildly-to-boldly insulting stripper/objectified references, I agree about Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He is a great actor, too cool for school but my only concern is he resembles Heath Ledger. Think about it…they could be movie brothers. If I was responsible for casting, I would’ve put them in the same flick as siblings…in the same way, I would cast Johnny Depp & Skeet Ulrich as brothers. It could be distracting for die-hard, Nolan reboot-loving cinephiles.
On another note…
Almost all of my “Scientological” knowledge comes from Bill Maher in Religulous but according to that, people who subscribe to Scientology supposedly believe that Xenu brought us to Earth a little less than 100 million years ago, used humans for kindling in an intergalactic bonfire with a group of volcanoes serving as the fuse and lit it up with a hydrogen bomb. In short, humans were the filter for the most epic joint in all of EVERTHING!!!
Apparently, we are “older than the universe”…so SUCK ON THAT pulsars, quasars & supernovas!! You might be mind-numbingly, near-incomprehensibly beautiful things, but YOU BE BABIES COMPARED TO US! Human fodder for the fire of the Galactic Confederacy RULES!!!
Considering all that, maybe it sorta, kinda explains where modern day, loose screw Tom Cruise is coming from…or maybe it just serves to underline your questions about how the hell he hid his inherent Looney Tune nature for so long…
So, if that doesn’t prove my listening allegiance, I don’t know what will…
P.S. My top is off. And “Hello Bicycle” reminds me of Monty Python…in the best way. I am now pining for the fjords.
P.P.S. Kilmer rocked for a while. And can still rock intermittently…”Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” comes to mind. No doubt. His general awesomeness in “Willow” (you gotta love Madmartigan in drag) makes me madly nostalgic and his definitive Doc Holliday (“I’m your huckleberry”) still gives me cinematic orgasms. That being said, I am more than willing to bet that either one of them would gladly give the other head if Satan–or Michael Bay or even Ratner–promised them they could “BLOW” their careers back to late-80s, early 90s-er glory.
Tom Cruise and Kilmer, I mean.
Now, I am the groupie. Apparently.
I didn’t even notice. And since I grasp at every opportunity to point out your faults, that is saying something.
Kaycee K: Val Kilmer in Willow is one of the best things ever.