On today’s Audio Edition Doug and I dicuss:
1) Jean Claude Van Damme in Rush Hour 3. WICKED!
2) David Goyer doing Thor
3) Truth Justice and all that other stuff
4) Does Sandman kill Uncle Ben?
5) Star Trek is Dead
6) New Snakes on a Plane poster
7) We give our top 10 favorite Superhero films of all time.
All this and a few things more.
Warning: This podcast contains language that may not be suitable for even sailors. Listener discretion is advised.
Subscribe to The Audio Edition on iTunes! iTunes will automatically download each new episode for you as soon as they go online! Just click this button. iTunes will open to the Audio Edition page. When it does, just click “subscribe”. It’s that easy!
Or you can manually download this installment of The Audio Edition here.
As plain as two and two make four. Didimus.
Great show. Late post thanks to that snag yesterday. A few comments:
1) OK. So obviously no one else likes my Voyager movie idea. I guess Janeway isn’t as popular with the boys. Well screw it. She’s right up there with Picard for me.
2) You’re totally right about Trekkies. There aren’t as many as people assume, they’re just rabid. Actually, there’s a fanbase even more devoted than Trekkies and that’s the Browncoats. Freakin’ hell man, we helped make “Serenity” happen!
3) “Ice Pirates” is, by far, near the top of the pile of all time crappy movies ever made. Oh, it’s bad. Forget pirates in space how about Cowboys in Space??? This ties in with the reboot of the Star Trek series. Just forget it. You want ship mates that are moraly unstable, not always good and a bunch of freakin’ awesome action, just bring back Firefly. (yes, that was a freudian slip in number 2).
The reason TNG worked as a tv show and not as a movie is because the writers on the show could devote one of 24 episodes to a single character. Like Worf discovering his Kilingon roots or Picard recovering at his brothers vineyard on Earth after being part of the Borg collective. One of my favourite episodes was when Picard was “kidnapped” and placed on a planet with another alien. The entire episode was about Picard trying to understand the language of that alien. That was great television. The movie sequels basiclly had the same plot……the Enterpirse saving the universe. They were all terrible.
They might haved worked as Star Trek-TNG mini series or made for tv movies. Not major motion pictures.
A humble ‘thank you’ from England for sharing my homicidal fantasies with the international friends. I cried a little bit.
I wasn’t all that bothered about Rush Hour 3, but your enthusiasm for the return of JCVD has pulled me in. I have to say, though, that this film has HUGE BUDGET written all over it, especially with Ratner being fresh from the success of X3. I can see this heading into Ishtar and Bonfire Of The Vanities territory easily. That sort of stuff is always worth watching.
I’ll I hated blade:trinity but I dont think Goyer is fully to blame, i think it was combo of and dickhead arrogant wanka face dick sucking wesley snipes and goyers first shot at directing … I think he’ll be ok and with Ryan Reynolds donning the Flash mask, that’ll be safe too … as will Thor, even though I don’t care too much for it … sorry Nagy
1) I’m dying to see a little Van Dammage on the big screen. It’s been far too long. Rush Hour 3 just became my favourite future movie, just after Snakes On A Plane.
2) The Spider-man thing with changing Uncle Ben’s death is stupid. They should stop milking his death so much. I don’t care if they change the comics but when they start changing the history of their own movie franchise I draw the line. Sandman looks huge in the trailer. Are they honestly gonna tell me that a giant man MADE OF SAND killed Uncle Ben, NOBODY ELSE, and then ran away without anybody witnessing it? Not a single person in Ben’s death scene in Spidey 1 was trembling and screaming and spazzing out screaming “Holy Fuck! Did you see the giant man made of sand just kill that old dude??? WOW!” Ben didn’t seem too bothered about being killed by a giant man made of sand either, he was just a bit miffed at dying. If Sandman had killed him then I think he’d have been more than a little fuckin’ scared and less inclined to give mini-speeches with his last breath. Wouldn’t it have been on the news? Wouldn’t the police have figured out that the old guy was killed by a giant man made of sand if it happened in the middle of a crowded street? Maybe informed the family how this sand guy did it? On top of that, what was Sandman’s motive? He didn’t kill ANYBODY else. Did he just see him get shot by the car jacker and think it’d be fun to crush him and run away? It can’t have been that scary either with all those people crowding around too. It’s stupid. It’ll probably end up being another goddamn inspirational dream.
3) Dude, Nick Nolte was awesome in Hulk. Casting a drunk old guy as a supervillain was genius! I haven’t seen The Shadow since I was a kid but I loved it. Baldwin was a complete badass in that movie.
Hey, DS9 was the best Star Trek series ever. Yes, even better than TNG. It had great writing, great story arcs and good acting. Hell, I loved the way Sisko was portrayed. Brilliant. It’s true that it got momentum after the second season, maybe even fourth, but Voyager never got it, Enterprise got it in the fourth season and might had a chance if it continued.
You made DS9 sound like it’s barely worth a mention. And that made me pretty angry, dudes.
And the reboot idea. The same idea was made to Paramaount by Strazynski :) Too bad, with Strazynski behind the wheel, I am sure the series would rock.
Wow. i am honored that two of my post submissions were the first two topics of convo…i am going to jump for joy…..
Russell I am willing to bet that RH3 makes ALOT of money (especially because of Jean Claude Van Damme) if it is released at the right time
Sometimes I think you guys have lost your mind. If you honestly think that a studio that has given into a demand of $20+ million dollars to one actor and that someone other than himself will get the majority of the screen time then you have no concept on how movies are made. Chris Tucker now owns that movie, not that he deserves to, but that does not change the fact that the studio by giving in to him will make him the “face” and the star of the picture, regardless if Jean-Claude Van Dam is the villain or not. Just not going to happen. And an extra $50 million because of Van Dam? Then I assume that you and Doug will be donating $25 million a piece. Because I wouldn’t pay any part of my Netflix monthly fee to see this movie. Jean-Claude is a great piece of casting but it’s not going to change the fact that Chris Tucker IS the star, even though he shouldn’t be. The movie studios speak with their money and they have spoken loud and clear on what Rush Hour 3 is going to be. I love your show and listen to it as soon as it’s out, but sometime you guys are so far out in left field that it’s frightening.
Star Trek:
Here’s an idea that I would LOVE.
Have a series that focuses on the ENSIGNS! The lower ranked officers that are always hiding away in engineering or temporarily filling in on the bridge while the main characters are away. This would rule. They could have these relationships with eachother, and we could see them affecting the missions from their perspective, possibly playing a larger unnoticed role in the outcome then the main crew might have.
I WANT IT
Jay C.
http://www.filmjunk.com
For instance, RopeOfSilicon has very similar podcast in terms of.. well… ya know, style. But that’s ok I think. They are trying.
Jon, put up the full archive again. Only like the last few months worth of audio editions are available atm.
glad the site is back up i was having withdrawal symptoms.
Your website was down for a little bit this morning and I cried
hell yes! 2 audio editions in one day.
yesterdays had to take a back burner due to a 3 year old rugrat that I WANTED to expose to Doug’s language but was not legally allowed to.
(listening)
My top 10 list is now up on my blog, complete with pictures that show text when you run the mouse over them. Go and read it, since John didn’t bother reading any of my comments except part of what I said about the Powerpuff movie.
Just click on my name below, and enjoy yourself.
Rush Hour 3 should be just a 2 hour long fight scene between Chan and Van Damme. They can fight in Time Square or something. Maybe even make it like a Dragon Ball Z fight. That would be worthy of a fight of this magnitude.