Link to the Show / Show NotesOn the show this week:
-Give Me Rock and Roll or Give Me Death
-Get in My Belly!
-Something Vaguely Entertaining
We start with doped-up The Boy
trying to supplement his post-surgery voice with electronically. That
works ever so well. And please forgive Largo's lack of volume,
Sanguinist's varying volume, and The Boy's overwhelming volume (and
belching.) We all recorded into the same box this week, so our
ability to make adjustments was limited.
Largo starts us out by bitching about
the death of WQWK, the last modern rock station in his market.
Moreover, the head honchos decided to kill Qwk Rock so that it could
be replaced with a conservative talk radio station. Brilliant move.
Suck it, Forever Broadcasting.
After we introduce our newest
character, Viking Dan, Sanguinist then moves us on to the sad tale of
a mother who, suffering from postpartum depression, killed and ate
her baby after Satan told her to. This leads into using Karl Rove as
an ambassador to Hell and how Jon Stewart can use his rep as a
comedian to be more effective than some real reporters.
Prepare then for the onslaught of crap
thanks to the Chiller network. Spoilers, such as they are, abound as
we look at Warriors of Terra, a film that involved no warriors but
did at least take place underground, and Asylum Presents:
Shapeshifter, which can certainly not be faulted for lack of truth in
the name. The first film combines the worst of the 'base under siege'
film with the over-mined genre of the 'faux-Japanese creepy pale girl
with ill defined powers that moves in a creepy, unnatural way and
kills you.' Add in the fact that only every fifth frame was actually
lit and a cast of completely stereotypical caricatures (and Eddie
Furlong) and you get a completely useless exercise that makes some
SyFylitic Originals look good. On the plus side, it does give us a
new element, Handwavium, the Anti-Zeist. Our second film manages to
look better in comparison despite starting with (blurred) breasts,
proving again the rule that if you see tits in the first five
minutes, the film's gonna suck. This gem features wooden acting
couples with stereotypical characters (that are, admittedly, a little
better than the last film's), Romanian gangsters that speak in
Russian, a prison full of nice criminals, a monster that looks like
the bunny suit from Donnie Darko, a ton of tropes that are set up
that the film fails to pay off, and a gas chamber that kills people
by using natural gas. On the plus side, it's better lit that Warriors
of Terra, and Sanguinist proves that one could take a nap in the
middle of the film and miss nothing important.
On the less sucktastic side, we then
look at G.I. Joe, which we all found pretty entertaining. Not
spectacular, mind, but entertaining. Explosions, poor science, and
big, a spoiler or two, and some dumb fun abound.
And if you can hear him, Largo closes
the show with a look at Human Alliance Bumblebee, a pretty spiffy
Transformer on a larger scale than the deluxe class that comes with a
slightly dopey looking Shia LaBeouf figure.
Email us at: svreasonable@gmail.com. Music used with permission by DJ Lodger.
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