The Futile Podcast

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

217. Fargo

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)

216. LadyHawke

216. LadyHawke (right click OR click)

Mark and Ian talk about the Donner disaster (too harsh?  probably) LadyHawke (pronounced “lady” “Hockey”).  Though the film has its problems, it does look quite good in places.  And that’s probably because they went to real places to shoot it.  Thumbs down to green screen environments.

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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

208. Split Second

208. Split Second (right click OR click)

Probably don’t know about this Rutger Hauer sci-fi movie do yah?  Well Mark and Ian watched it so you won’t have to … though you might want to, I mean it has a mutated Rat creature that is a Satanic Serial killer?  I think … maybe.

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music:

Gorillaz – Demon Days

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

206. Unforgiven revisited

206. Unforgiven revisited (right click OR click)

Mark and Ian return to Clint’s masterpiece, this time on Blu-Ray.  You can see the original Unforgiven podcast that Ian and Zack did here:  Podcast 08b Unforgiven.

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Music:

Blood and Thunder – Trigun Soundtrack

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

Technology part 2: Terminator, Time-Travel, and Technology

Technology discussion part 2 (right click OR click)

Ian continues his discussion of representations of technology in film with prof. Estrada.  Whom you can learn more about here:  http://eripsa.org/

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Public Enemies review

Public Enemies review

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