Link to the Show / Show NotesOn the docket this week:
-Something Vaguely Entertaining
Before we even get started, we acknowledge the tragedy in Haiti. This is probably the only sober moment in the show.
Getting the stupid started, we give a shout out to Synthetic Cinema, makers of Banshee!!!, who is actually following us due to our Friday night livetweeting of Chiller's inane movies. Largo then reminisces about a cheesy little toy he had as a kid, the Spider-Man Webmaker from Chemco. If you happen to have one, he's interested. Just not for $145.00. This leads to a more general discussion of childhood toys and the ridiculous prices of the 'collector's item' reissues of those toys. Sanguinist then tells the sad tale of the carcinogenic heavy metal Cadmium and how it's being exploited by China's toy companies. Randomly, this leads to Yoda, economics teacher and Darth Greenspan.
As a digression, we talk about the show that we were before we were this show and how there really isn't a good first episode of ours to listen to. We also visit the Dalek Theatre to talk about the strange changes made to Zardos as it became The Book of Eli (and why these changes have moved Eli down on Sanguinist's 'wanna watch' list.) We also look at the Eternal iPod before recasting the movie with Vin Diesel and John Travolta. This leads to our 'No shit, there I was...' gaming story involving Vin Diesel, Bruce Campbell, and Nathan Fillion (or at least one that we wish we had.)
Getting into our Chiller movies, we look at Malevolence, what the filmmakers must have been feeling toward their audience while making this movie. This slow-motion picture involves bank robbers, bad Pennsylvania roads, a mom and daughter hostage team, a nonsensical killer that somehow has amazing resistance to bullets and bludgeoning, an equally nonsensical plot to have two of our bank robbers kill the other two, interminable driving shots, entirely too little dialogue and characterization, slow camera pans that fail to generate interest let alone tension, inept shots that one might have thought were supposed to be foreshadowing, and a fifteen minute sequence that seemed tacked on simply so we could have a 'shock' ending. In a word, ARGH.
And as bad as Malevolence was, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is even worse. This modern-day 'reimagining' of the Stevenson tale is staggeringly inept, hitting all the wrong chords of sexism, racism, and really bad pseudo-science. This one was bad enough that two of our three hosts abandoned ship about twenty minutes in.
To top the show off, we look (figuratively, at least) at Jennifer Love Hewitt's bizarre practice of 'vagazzaling.' Let the off-color comments fly.
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