The Futile Podcast

Deconstructing 80's & 90's action movies. Relating them to comics, TV, and cartoons from then and now.

211. Sword of the Stranger

211. Sword of the Stranger (right click OR click)

A good anime … a good anime movie … a recently produced good anime movie?  Yes.

Blood stings, you don't want to get it in your eyes.

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music:

Force of Nature – Nightshift

207. The Outlaw Josie Wales

Mark and Ian talk about Clint Eastwood’s favorite Western.
Mel "blanks" up in this one too.
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music:
Toto – In A Feeling

204. Hurt Locker and Inglorious Basterds reviews

204. Hurt Locker and Basterds (right click OR click)

In my world there would be a different coloured Hitler behind each door.

We talk about two of the better pictures of 2009 as we play a bit of catch up due to our time away.  Ian also talks about his distrust for documentaries while Seth and Zack talk about Fantasy Sports … NERDS!

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music:

David Bowie – Cat People

202. Popularity

202. Popularity (right click OR click)

Posted just a few minutes before the end of my birthday.  Horrah I got a rejection from the SxSW film fest today for a present.  So I’ll probably post the said rejected short online soon.   I did a little too much work outside in the rain today, so I feel kind of bad.  I’ll just say it’s the end of the beginning.

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music:

Pixies – Where is my Mind

The Last Boyscout

The Last Boyscout review (right click OR click)

Who knows where life will take us but for now this may be the final Futile Podcast.  Though I’m sure it is quite the whimper to the deafness of the void, I say that this will not be the end.

musics:

Boz Scaggs – Lowdown

Sigor Ros – Svefn-G-Englar

Robots in movies pt. 1

Pixar and Wall-E (right click OR click)

Ian and Prof. Estrada talk about the various portrayls of robots in cinema.  In part 1 we talk about Pixar and specifically the triumph that is Wall-E.  Check the prof’s site:  http://eripsa.org/

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Tech in film part 5: Behavioural Economics

OR Libertarian Paternalism (right click OR click)

The tech in film discussion keeps on going and takes a bit of an aside to discuss the idea of “nudging” people to do what is “best”.  Incidentally R.I.P.  Teddy Kennedy.

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Technology in film part 3: Robotics and Fear

Tech in film part 3 (right click OR click)

Prof. Estrada and Ian continue to devle into robotics in movies which leads to discussions about intellegence and of course the Turing Test.

Dr. Estrada’s place:  http://eripsa.org/

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