Hey there folks. With the wild and surprising Superbowl weekend out of the way, it’s time yet again for your weekly Monday installment of The Movie Blog: Uncut! As promised, we’re now coming to you in audio AND video, with options for downloading and subscribing to the video for playback on your PSP, iPod video or iPhone..
At any rate, take some time to download or stream this installment of Uncut as Doug and I discuss:
1) Star Wars: Clone Wars on the big screen
2) A Venom stand alone movie
3) M. Night ShamHammer’s “The Happening”
4) A Jim Henson Biopic
5) No Robert Englund for Nightmare remake
6) There could indeed be a Rambo 5
7) No Country For Old Men lock on the Oscar
8) Over Her Dead Body
9) Strange Wilderness
All this and a few things more.
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Why do people always talk about twists in M. Night’s movies. He has done TWO films with twists in them and somehow people get stuck on those as if he’s always trying to pull off a good twists. You as movie fans should know this and should acknowledge that and not spout out miss information to the general public. I know the guy is a public punching bag these days but damn, get your story straight.
As for the comment about musicians not making any difference. What the fuck? The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Sex pistols, Public Enemy, even fucking Cat Stevens. These are all musicians that made a HUGE difference in their society at the time and had HUGE influence on the music industry. They spoke directly to a large number of people and made a difference. Live Aid anyone?
Can you really say the same thing about Jim Henson? Sure he did great films and his characters were fantastic but as for influence and making a difference for a generation. Hardly. Can you name me one thing that’s been directly influenced by The Muppets or Jim Henson or anything that they did that caused a great difference in society. The only contribution that the Muppets had was that a generation appreciated hand puppets.
Why not Venom vs Carnage? Venom trying to stop the much worse Carnage.
Hey John, I have to say I think a Venom movie would be just fine if they have Venom as kind of a anti-hero. If you are at all familiar with the comic book than you would know that he had his own for quite some time. He worked as kind of like an underground assassin for some time..
Venom is one of my favorite Marvel characters period and I think it would be completely possible to do a movie with Venom without making him a villain.
i just listened to the show and john do you seriously believe that no musician or band has had any effect on the world at large??? i loved the tone of bemused shock in dougs voice after you spouted out that great one……
so you just outright dismiss the effect acts like elvis and the beatles had on the world? especially the beatles. they changed everything.
music is, has and always will be right at the forefront of all cultural shifts not only reflecting the changing attitudes and times but heavily influencing it.
it is certainly more influential on the way we live then any fucking puppet show.
then you bring up gandhi as an example of a world changer….yeah he sure changed the world alright…i mean the world is just so peaceful now.
amazing.
oh and why does everyone go on about shaymalanaamamamas twists.
wide awake – twist? no
sixth sense – twist? yes.
unbreakable (by far his best film)- twist? not really.
so sam jackson turns out to be the villain. hardly a twist. its not as if we had been lead to believe there was no possible way he was the baddie. in fact it was kind of obvious.
signs – twist? no.
not at all. just a stupid ending ruining what had been a good film.but the aliens being unable to tolerate water is not a twist.
the village- twist? yes.
a fucking terrible one that I guessed from the first trailer.
lady in the water – twist? no.
just a fucking heap of self indulgent trash.
so there we go ….out of 6 films only 2 films with a traditional twist in that the reveal changes everything you have just watched. thats what a twist does. thats why I don’t include unbreakable. that reveal falls more into the “whodunnit” realm then a real traditional twist. i mean finding out sam jackson is the bad guy doesn’t exactly change everything you have seen to that point.
i know some people include it as a twist but personally I don’t.
anyway my point is people go on about his twists everytime a film comes out and he has only done it twice.
anyway….
I guess I missed the explanation but where the hell is Darren Connelly?
are you kidding me John??
The new IRON MAN tv spot that was shown at superbowl had tons of new footage.
You are living in lala land.
Not much to add except thanks.
Any new Star Wars related material will have to prove itself to me first by the way of good word of mouth before I am willing to plunk down any more time or money.
I haven’t seen strange wilderness yet. But, I wonder what’s happening with Steve Zahn’s career? I saw him in Rescue Dawn and that dude can act! Do you think making a movie like this will hurt or help his career?
Thanks for the show guys.
Your very right on that one.. My bad… Still love the show
Hey ghandoo
Actually, as far as we can tell we’re the 3rd longest running podcast in the world. HOWEVER… in the show intro we say:
“The original, the world’s longest running, and the very best damn MOVIE RELATED PODCAST”.
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First Uncut Podcast: November 10, 2004
Daily Source Code with Adam Curry (First Show): August 13, 2004
So maybe second longest running podcast.. :S
Hey Don,
How is yet another Iron Man commercial, showing us basically all stuff we’ve already seen… yet again…. bigger news that a potential Venom movie?
We talk a lot about Iron Man… and we’ll talk more… when there’s something to talk about.
Well I am really impressed with this pod cast Thank you so much. However, I dont know why so many people think the pre-quels of Star Wars were so bad? I honestly dont have a problem of course as I watched the films the inner film maker in me wanted me to change things diffrently. I also feel its not fair to judge a series of films that have a 25 year gap in between filming. We loved the trilogy when we were kids and 25 years later our kids love the pre-quels as much. As far as the Venom movie.. I think they should scrap all the Spider-man films and start fresh calling it the Amazing Spider-man with a much better cast except J.K Simmons he was Oscar worthy performance. M. Night Sucks hated all his films. I dont want a Re-boot Nightmare but ill wait to see a trailer.
Hey, i dont know if you guys saw this yet but its the trailer for Where in the World is Osama. Looks awesome.
I have to agree with Doug when it comes too Venom. Unless they changed the origins of the character it just wouldn’t work. Venoms purpose isn’t to take over the world or rob banks, his purpose his to make Spider-Man pay for his wifes dead. In fact he sees himself as a hero and Spider-Man as the villain.
As for Star Wars i agree that they should have made something else, either a sequel to Episode 6 or a prequel that uses the XBOX-games Knights of the Old Republic as an influence.
How come you guys didn’t post IRON MAN tv spot and discuss it?
You know IRON MAN is 100 times bigger than all those topics combined that you discussed.