Podcast 12 (right click, save as)
We talk about Sunset Blvd. and posthumous narration. Which leads us to talk about film noir protagonists, and anti-heroes. Zack talks about Kingsley in Sexy Beast and I talk about Michael Mann’s Heat. We next talk about con movies since I review The Sting. This invariably leads us to talk about David Mamet for a bit (we’ll return to Mamet in full at some time).
We move on to review Running Scared and Shot ’em Up. The idea being that there is this new subgenre of action movies that are essentially non-stop gratuitously violent and ironic while thinking it’s awesome. We declare that these films work if they bring the style and don’t wink at the camera too much.
Correction: It was Keith in that episode of Voltron; he was the pilot of the blue Lion.
For our weird movies (we need to come up with a better title for the segment). I review Sneakers with Robert Redford and talk about how it would be nice if he would do more comedies. Then I review Missing in Action II: The Beginning and talk about how sometimes you need to bite a rat to break it’s back so it doesn’t chew your face off. Zack talks about Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy) movies and how the idea of Ryan being some super bad ass high school quarterback isn’t cool.
Our pitch segment this time is for light drama comedies (or what I’m calling James L. Brooks comedies). Zack’s is called Jacquzzi (sp?). Mine is more inane but marketable.
bump music: Brian Eno – Force Marker (Heat Soundtrack)
9 Lazy 9 – No. 9
DJ Food – Strange Taste
David Bowie – Subterraneans (All Saints)