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Smug Film Podcast Episode #3 – Movies That Got Us Into Movies (4/21/14)
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On this episode, I am joined by fellow Smug Film contributors John D’Amico and Jenna Ipcar. We discuss the movies that got us into movies, and were our gateway into obsession. As always, we go on tangents along the way, take a quick break for a movie joke by comedian Anthony Kapfer, and then close the show with questions from our mailbag.
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Movie Stuff Referenced in this Episode:
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Tagged 2001, 2001 a space odyssey, 29 days later, a clockwork orange, a hard day's night, alan mehrez, albert magnoli, alfred hitchcock, aliens, altered states, anthony kapfer, anthony kapfer comedian, apollo 13, back to the future, batman, batman begins, batman tv show, battlestar galactica, big, blake edwards, bloodsport 2, bloodsport ii, blow, blue velvet, breakfast at tiffany's, breakfast on pluto, brian depalma, bryan singer, buckaroo banzai, casablanca, christian nyby, christopher nolan, chuck russell, cody clarke, commando, danny boyle, david cronenberg, dawn of the dead, dawson's creek, death wish, detour, disco pigs, do the right thing, don hartman, don siegel, donnie darko, ed wood, edgar g. ulmer, edgar wright, eric rohmer, ernest b schoedsack, ethan coen, fargo, ferris bueller's day off, film joke, film jokes, film podcast, forrest gump, francis ford coppola, frank oz, geoff murphy, george romero, going home, groundhog day, hal ashby, handbuilt city, handbuiltcity.org, harold and maude, harold ramis, herbert b. leonard, holiday affair, howard hawks, irvin s. yeaworth, irvin s. yeaworth jr., james bridges, james cameron, jaws, jenna ipcar, joe vs. the volcano, joel coen, john badham, john carney, john damico, john ford, john g. avildsen, john hughes, john patrick shanley, joseph kosinski, jurassic park, ken loach, ken russell, king kong, kirsten sheridan, krzysztof kieslowski, kurt neumann, lee unkrich, lost, lost highway, magnolia, manhunter, mark l. lester, marnie, merian c. cooper, miami vice, michael curtiz, michael mann, mike's murder, movie joke, movie jokes, movie podcast, mystery science theater 3000, nashville, neil jordan, network, night of the living dead, o brother where art thou, o' brother, on the edge, paul thomas anderson, pauline at the beach, pee wee's big adventure, peewee's big adventure, peggy sue got married, penelope spheeris, penny marshall, peter yates, plan 9 from outer space, podcast, podcast ad, podcast advertising, princess bride, pulp fiction, purple rain, quentin tarantino, raising arizona, rambo, rambo; first blood part ii, red eye, ricahrd lester, richard donner, richard kelly, rob reiner, robert altman, robert zemeckis, rocky, ron howard, rushmore, saved by the bell, saving private ryan, scarface, seinfeld, shaun of the dead, sidney lumet, smug film, smug film podcast, smugfilm, smugfilm podcast, spike lee, sponsor a podcast, stand by me, stanley kubrick, star trek, stephen lisberger, steven spielberg, sunshine, ted demme, ted kotcheff, the adventures of buckaroo banzai across the 8th dimension, the big lebowski, the birds, the blob, the blob remake, the boondock saints, the breakfast club, the decalogue, the fly, the fly remake, the friends of eddie coyle, the goonies, the handbuilt city, the lone ranger, the princess bride, the terminator, the thing from another world, the usual suspects, the wind that shakes the barley, the wonder years, thief, tim burton, toy story 3, tron, tron legacy, troy duffy, under siege 2, under siege 2: dark territory, upstream, upstream john ford, w.d. richter, wargames, wayne's world, wes anderson, wes craven, what about bob, where art thou?, who framed roger rabbit, zack snyder
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Robocop: Times Change
Robocop (2014)
Directed by José Padilha
Screenplay by Joshua Zetumer
117 min.
Very minor spoilers ahead.
When they rolled that screen open to 2.35:1, I knew it wasn’t going to be like Verhoeven’s. The original Robocop is a minor masterpiece, one of the most cutting satires of the 20th century. It’s dingy, clunky, sarcastic, and howling—just like the ‘80s that spawned it. Our new Robocop—which is, for all practical purposes, the second Robocop remake in recent memory, counting the spectacular Dredd—is none of those things. It’s shiny, sleek, and “tactical,” as Michael Keaton’s character says.
The memorable ultra-violence of the original is gone. In its place, there’s a smooth, sanitized finish over everything, which gives it all a sort of uncanny creepiness—a quality best exploited in one of the film’s high points, in which we learn just where Alex Murphy ends and Robocop begins.
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Tagged alex murphy, battlestar galactica, blackwater, cattle queen of montana, chopping mall, dredd, fdr, franklin roosevelt, gort, hitler, john damico, jose padilha, joseph mccarthy, joshua zetumer, klaatu, lyndon b. johnson, michael keaton, robert wise, robocop, robocop 2014 review, robocop remake, robocop remake review, robocop review, ronald reagan, the day the earth stood still, the terminator
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Pacific Rim Is The Dullest Movie You’ll Ever See About Giant Robots Fighting Sea Monsters
These characters are so. Fucking. Boring.
Pacific Rim (2013)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Written by Travis Beacham & Guillermo Del Toro
131 min.
Warning: spoilers ahead.
2013 was supposed to be the year that saved big screen science fiction. When this summer’s lineup began filling out, I had more anticipation for this movie season than I’d had in years. Names were popping up like Blomkamp, del Toro, Shyamalan (fuck the haters), Abrams, Cuarón, Wright (and Pegg and Frost), and startlingly, there seemed to be more original properties on the horizon than sequels/adaptations: Elysium, After Earth, Gravity, Pacific Rim, Oblivion, Ender’s Game, Star Trek Into Darkness, The World’s End, etcetera. From what I saw of the trailers, these movies didn’t look like your typical disaster porn invasion movies, á la, Battle: Los Angeles or Transformers (except Pacific Rim, though its premise justifies, and even necessitates it) nor were they part of the insufferably relentless deluge of Marvel/DC sequels and spinoffs (except Into Darkness, whose trailers gave it the tone of a Dark Knight movie; y’all looking forward to Thor: The Dark World?). I loved the designs I saw in the Oblivion trailer, I liked the visual approaches of After Earth and Ender’s Game, and I love the idea of Sandra Bullock leading a stranded-in-space drama.
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Tagged after earth, alfonso cuaron, armageddon, avatar, battle: los angeles, burn gorman, charlie day, chekhov's gun, elysium, ender's game, gravity, greg deliso, guillermo del toro, hellboy 2, idris elba, independence day, it's always sunny in philadelphia, j.j. abrams, m. night shyamalan, neill blomkamp, neon genesis evangelion, nick frost, oblivion, pacific rim, pacific rim bad, pacific rim review, pan's labyrinth, simon pegg, star trek into darkness, star wars, starship troopers, the dark knight, the devil's backbone, the matrix, the terminator, the worlds end, thor: the dark world, tom cruise, transformers, travis beacham
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