232. Justified (right click or click)
Zack, Seth, and Ian talk about the first season of this pretty darn good somewhat different TV show on FX. It’s got the guy from Live Free or Die Trying’… or whatever. Ian also makes a startling claim about The Wire. It’s Year 4 of the Futile Podcast all bets are off. Join us if you can.
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music:
Tsuneo Imahori – The Lowdown
228. Real Genius (right click or click)
Mark makes his dramatic return to talk about this seminal coming of age 80′s comedy that most people probably don’t like because it lacks a smarmy unlikeable Matthew Broderickesque character. Oh wait he’s sort of the bad guy in this movie. Real Genius and Revenge of the Nerds paved the way for the society we have today where not being a nerd makes you a social pariah.
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music:
Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule of the World
222. Betrayed (right click OR click)
Zack tells Ian about this odd little movie from the 80′s. It’s about how a woman investigates some white supremisists but they end up being the “good” racists not Nazis or anything … so she is torn as to if she should turn them into her Fed buddies. Yeah a real moral quandary this one.
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221. Silver Streak (right click OR click)
Despite being set mostly on a train this movie is not as good as an anime series called Baccano! could be that 70′s era train travel isn’t as cool as 30′s? That’s not really a question though is it? This is the movie with Gene Wilder and hints of Richard Pryor though honestly there is far more Pryor in Superman 3.
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music:
David Bowie – I’m Deranged*
*bonus points if you’ve seen Lost Highway or own this soundtrack or Outside, it’s all pretty solid
219. Iron Man 2 (right click OR click)
Zack and Ian discuss this next in the series of intertwined Marvel comic movies. We also talk about what makes for good comics/movies.
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music:
The Pixies – Wave of Mutilation
217. Fargo (right click OR click)
Mark and Ian, with a little help from Seth, talk about this slightly odd but not really that odd movie. It was a big deal like 13 years ago or something.
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music: NO MUSIC THIS WEEK (think of snow and cold but not Verspertine cold I don’t know maybe … like something Danny Elfmanesque)
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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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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More like Pubic Enemies as Zack would have you believe. We discuss this newest of Mann’s films in all it’s crappy video shaky cam goodness.
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music:
Passengers – Always Forever Now
runtime: 33:41:07
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen review (right click OR click)
Zack, Ryan, and Ian discuss a few things. Ian does a quick review of Wendy and Lucy and then they get into the big blockbuster for the Summer or whatever.
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musics:
Radiohead – Packt like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
Animal Collective – Turn into Something
Runtime: 0:33:08:02
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