The Futile Podcast

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

231. Crank 2 redux

231. Crank 2 (right click OR click)

Not to confuse this isn’t a new version of this fantastic film it’s yet another podcast about it from us.  Why? Because it’s Crank 2 any further justification would embarrass the both of us.

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music:

Fat Boy Slim – Love Island

230. The Expendables and Scott Pilgrim

230. Expendable Pilgrim (right click OR click)

Zack, Seth, and Ian go for both.  It’s a great chat about 80’s action movies and the pathology of modern subculture. 

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music:

Iwasaki Tarou – Omaera Zenin Moete Shimaetsu

226. Predators

226. Predators (right click OR click)

Zack, Seth, and Ian talk about the newest Predator movie. Ian talks about an idea for a Rom-Com that might be relevant to Pre-Daters.  Zack talks about the Micheal Crichton post-humously published book: Pirate Latitudes.   Maybe a pirate movie with Predators?  I don’t know something different would be nice.  But you know good.

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music:

nine inch nails – You Know Who You Are

Next Week: Inception

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)

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

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

“If it were Clive Owen I’d have a boner.”

Crank:  High Voltage review (right click OR click)

This one is crazy.  Ian also talks about C. Kaufman’s Synecdoche NY.   You can read the written review of these films here:    http://theforgottenreviews.wordpress.com/

 

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musics:

Bjork – Play Dead.

XPloding Plastix – Relieved Beyond Repair

 

runtime:  0:25:17:09

“Not all guns are created equal.”

Last Man Standing review (right click OR click)

Sully’s back in this one and he’s got a Tommy gun in toe to boot.  Mark and Ian chat about Walter Hill’s adaptation of Yojimbo

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musics:

Johnny Greenwood – Convergence

Joe Strummer – War Cry

runtime: 0:40:26:12

Lists pt. 1 Music in Movies

Music in Movies(right click OR click)

A little off the chain for this Futile Podcast we talk about lists.  We start a discussion that spills over  into 2 other podcasts (making this a trilogy) where we discuss top whatever lists.  To start off we talk about some of our favorite use of song or music in movies.

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Musics:

Henry Mancini – Lujon

Paul McCartney – Live and Let Die

Bobby Darin – Beyond the Sea

 

runtime: 0:24:25:17

“He’s got “gameover abs””.

Samurai Champloo discussion (right click Or click)

We talk about anime in this one in particular Samurai Champloo (Spoilers for those too dumb to have watched this show already), Paranoia Agent, Last Exile, and a few others.  Most of the spoilers are minimal.  Now,  I’m going to go watch Samurai Champloo again!

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musics:

Fat Jon – Stay

Tsutchie feat. Azwu a  Riki – Fly

runtime:  0:45:47:00