The Movie Blog: Uncut Podcast – July 7th 2008

Hey there folks! Doug and I are both back here in Los Angeles now. Sorry for no podcast on Friday, but Doug just had a 5 hour flight and it was the 4th, so we decided to take the day off. But we’re back with a vengeance. So do join in with us as we discuss:

1) Blowing a load over the new Netflix Roku Player

2) A “Friends” movie would be more successful than a Sex and the City movie

3) Some Dark Knight DVD details

4) Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland”

5) Is Will Smtih the last and only bankable movie star left?

6) Jessica Alba as the new Barbarella?!?!

7)The mid-year report. The top 10 Best and Worst movie of 2008 so far.

All this and a few things more.

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21 thoughts on “The Movie Blog: Uncut Podcast – July 7th 2008

  1. I hate Rogers now too Chris, after my contract is up – I will go to another (hopefully new) provider. I am hoping that T-Mobile will come to Canada or AT&T. I would love to support Canadian companies, but it gets hard when they scam and screw like these two do!

  2. Lions for Lambs was not a Tom Cruise film. He was a supporting actor. Nobody was saying Cruise wasn’t a bankable actor after Magnolia and that only made $22 million with a lot of high profile actors and a lot of buzz (much better than Lions for Lambs and most critics agreed that Cruise was the best part of Lions for Lambs).

    If Valkyrie flops then we might question Cruise’s bankability. But then again Valkyrie isn’t the type of film that makes big bucks whether it stars Tom Cruise, Will Smith or an not.

  3. Hey John How About Mel Gibson As Being A Bankable Star. I was watching Signs last night and remember it made a crap load of money as a lot of his films have.

    What do you say?

  4. By the way, John you didn’t mention anything on the show about your action against Variety. How come? I wanted to hear if you had reached some resolultion with them. Or does the boycott continue.

  5. Hey John and Doug. I just wanted to comment on your support for Rogers. I know that Bell isn’t a great company, but I’m not sure that Rogers is a saint either. You will probably see that when you check the rates for your new iPhone. For the last several weeks they have been in some hot water for having the highest prices in the world to use an iPhone. There is even an online petition that has been featured in newspapers and on news broadcasts. The link to the petition is here if your interested.

    http://www.ruinediphone.com/

    Also, I don’t mind the ordering of your list. The only film that I kind of disagree with is Wall-E. I wasn’t blown away by the film. I liked it and I liked its personality, but I think that the story needed something. They reached the turning point of the film and then it ended in like 20 mins. Is just to short for me. If the end was longer I would rank it higher.

  6. Courteney Cox is hot and I always thought it was a shame that her movie career post-Friends seems even worse than her career pre-Friends (she at least had Ace Ventura beforehand, but what has she had since 2004?).

    Regarding the Alice in Wonderland film, who matter who the lead is I think they’ll just sexualize it anyway. Not in an overt way, but they will. They’ll make it look somewhere between “cutesy little girl” and “fetish goth”. All the parents will feel slightly dirty about bringing their kids to it, but the advertising push won’t really give them a choice. I feel like I’ve already seen Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. I think the whole exercise would be completely predictable, yes right down to the almost inevitable casting of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. Sorry to sound so negative, but I feel like Burton’s style stopped being interesting a long time ago. Still, I can see that Willy Wonka, for example, was a good enough movie–I just don’t get the hype for the stylization. To me it’s like a few steps above looking forward to another movie where Eddie Murphy dresses up as a fat person.

  7. Insomnia had deleted scenes I believe. =)

    I think that Courtney Cox could have a solid movie career. She has been in a few films where she shined. She was good in the Scream movies, and she came out in a small little film called November….I think that’s what it’s called lol.

  8. @Sahil

    In regards to Aniston, all of those movies that you listed, save for The Break Up, BOMBED. She’s not as hot as people were saying. People were calling her the next Julia, but people do not go to her movies. Nobody cares about her. She’s bland as hell.

  9. John
    You said
    “…None of them can generate any kind of movie career…”
    “None of them have significant movie careers”
    about the cast of Friends!

    Jennifer Aniston has been in Derailed, Rumor Has It, Friends With Money, and Break-Up since the end of Friends in 2004 and she has also completed three other movies that will come out next year.

    $5 Million dollars each? Are you nuts? For 2 months work?
    No way!

    They recived $1M each for the last 2 seasons of Friends which was like atleast 30 episodes.

    I dont think they will get the cast back for less than $12-15M each.

    But you are right John if they do make it and it is half good it will make bank. And much more than Sex and the City just casue it will be PG-13.

  10. Wasn’t The Comeback on HBO or Showtime or something like that?

    BTW, “Strange Wilderness” was AWESOME! I laughed my ass off the entire movie. The Bigfoot scene was absolutely priceless.

  11. In reference to Jolie’s weight in Wanted: I believe they were filming this movie right as her mother was entering the last few months of her life. I noticed that right after Jolie’s mother died, she was seen in public looking damn near emaciated. I can understand her being too grief-stricken to even eat, but I’m glad she got preggo again so that she could gain some weight.

  12. John, do the movies that Netflix provides over the box have the extras such as commentaries? Because if it doesn’t, I’d still have to buy/physically rent them.

  13. Friends really sucks. I mean, REALLY sucks. God, what a fucking stupid, stupid show.

    Depp isn’t nearly as bankable as Smith. If Will Smith was in Sweeney Todd, it would have made double the box office that it did, even if watching Will Smith sing and kill people would be fucking ridiculous.

    Alba sucks and you can read the Barbarella post comments for my reasons why.

    Can’t wait for HB2!!

  14. You lads forget Johnny Depp for bankability. his movies always strike gold. even when he’s in a glorified cameo ala Chocolat.
    Depp is way more bankable than Smith. Smith is hit & miss outside of North America. Depp truly has international appeal.
    Damon always puts butts in seats these last 5 years.

  15. Tom Cruise is a truly bankable star at the same level as Will Smith, Sure he’s absolutely insane and sure he shit the bed in a Robert Redford movie (Lions for Lambs) but Will Smith did that too in The Legend of Bagger Vance (which cleared a solid 30M bucks with Matt Damon and Charlize Theron).

    If you cancel the Redford kick in the nuts on both slates, Smith had the exact same amount of 100M blockbusters as Cruise.

    They’re both Scientologists too… coincidence you say?

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