This week Lee and Dan visit the dystopian future of the Sylvester Stallone film Demolition Man and for once turn out a podcast that feels semi polished and professional. It may have more to do with Dan’s editing or perhaps Lee’s ban on hovercraft shopping for the 60 minutes or so it took to record.
The highlights:
the most justifiably complex synopsis yet
Sandra Bullock wears tight pants in this and Dan is the sexist one
apologies for past sins (hovercrafts are mentioned)
Lee has seen the future and is unimpressed
Dan agrees.
There is actually some intelligent discussion regarding futuristic settings
Where the hell was Al Leong?!!
There is a lot of discussion around some of the more sizeable plot holes
There is some mention of a video in the podcast and unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances there is no video however it would have been hilarious and would have involved me making a cup of tea illustrating my apathy towards Demolition Man.
Regards
Lee
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Next week Dan and Lee are watching The Neverending Story, cue the music…
Wow, that trailer really contains a bunch of spoilers!?!
Yes that’s right this week Lee and Dan are watching the 1984 film Gremlins which is a really hard film to classify so it’s been labelled a Science Fiction/Horror/Comedy.
in a departure from every other week Dan and Lee had technical problems
behold as the boys screw up Judge Reinhold’s name completely
Lee potentially creates ‘a famous illustrator’ in his mind and sees him in this film
was this released in the greatest weekend ever?
Gremlins scare Dan and Lee (possibly Lee more than Dan…)
Homages to other films including Spielberg’s
Lee can’t even remember the town’s name
Dan and Lee are loving Joe Dante
Stephen King and the construction of character and then doing something horrible to them
Dan identifies the connection to The Wizard of Oz
Lee bangs on about the soundtrack
The utter ridiculousness of the rules and the absence of science
Lee explores the metaphysics of the gremlins
Buffy the Gremlin Slayer – Dan is effing hilarious!!!
Lee and Dan discuss the mother’s place amongst science fiction heroes Ripley and Connor – she goes all Chuck Norris
Dealing with the dog
Dan does a great Gizmo impression!!
CGI vs Puppets
Oh, no more points go listen to the podcast already!!!!
No Dan this week and also no embedded trailer because for some reason a certain film studio doesn’t allow embedding of a 20 year old film trailer because it might encourage someone to seek out the film…
This week’s midnight movie club movie appears to be a slam dunk; spaceships, explosions and giant bugs! On paper it sounds like the perfect film for the club or is it?
Would you like to know more?
Oh.
Really? Ummm okay then ahhhh in the podcast this week:
Dan makes a very exuberant greeting.
Dan and Lee are old.
Arjan is not.
There are 86% less insults directed at the Dutch.
Apparently Lee spoke to Casper Van Dien at some stage on MySpace.
There are 100% more references to flogging than before.
Lee is better and more widely read than Dan or Arjan.
No one is defending the Nazis.
Surprisingly less talk about balls.
Matt pops in for a cup of tea and some points about Starship Troopers.
No one likes Carmen.
No really, no one.
Doogie Howser MD.
Lee, Dan and Arjan discuss nudity *giggle* *snigger*
There are bug puns!!!
Everyone turns on Arjan when he refers to Denise Richards as eye candy.
Arjan then brings up penis removal?!?
Arjan then manages to jam Warhammer into the conversation.
Lee and Dan wonder why they invite the Dutch on to the podcast.
It’s a big file and it goes for about an hour and a half.
But we think it’s worth it
Listen to us discuss the effect alien invasion would have on Con Air Blu-ray supplies, how no one ever cares if the nazi dies, ID4 alien prisoner of war rights violations and how the nuclear weapon ruined the alien’s lunch hour.
This week the club shuns dancing and corner putting and returns to manly popcorn flicks… well we hoped anyway. There are a lot of guns in this and a lot walking around but there is also what feels like the longest fight scene ever!
I’m never quite sure what to say in these little introductions since we’ll be talking about the film in the podcast and don’t want to give anything away in a sad attempt to interest you enough to listen. Lee and Dan nickname one of the characters ‘Dead Eyes’ if that helps? They also completely don’t bother to learn anyone’s name in the film except the guy who has no name… ummm I might quit whilst I’m ahead.
Join Lee and Dan as they talk about John Carpenter’s They Live!
Stars:Fred Ward, Christopher Gartin, Michael Gross, Helen Shaver
Earl Basset, a character from the original movie, is hired to clean up a infestation of giant subterranean worm creatures from a Mexican oil field.
This week we watched Tremors 2 and some people have already asked why we didn’t watch the first one, well in true Midnight Movie Club fashion Dan saw Tremors 2 late one night and knew straight away that we should watch it for the club.
So we watched it, we talked about it, have a listen:
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Next week:
You’ll have the time of your life and you’ll owe all to us…
Dan just finished editing next weeks podcast. That's two in the can, which allows the boys a nice weeks break.08:53:14 AM September 06, 2010from Facebook
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