The Movie Overdose #40.5 – The Top Ten: The Requel: The Results Show

Brilliant. Time to talk about our Ten lists once more, so settle in for the long haul and try and keep up. Much discussion ensues as Sam tries to extol the virtues of Ingmar Bergman, praise the magical realism of Billy Liar and attempt to make sense of All About Lily Chou-Chou. John continues the theme, causing slight, though understandable, consternation with his uncensored views on Raging Bull and confessions of multiple tears during Schindler’s List. Tom rounds the night off in business-like fashion with praise for The 400 Blows, controversial dislike for the second half of Stalker and man-crushed love for Le Samourai.

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The Movie Overdose #40 – Fantastic Mr. Fox

M. fantastique Fox, as they would say over in le France, comes to visit in the studio as Sam and Tom discuss Wes Anderson’s stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation. Against that, we get  to hear Sam make a clanger, a car crash happen outside the base, Tom argue that Hollywood doesn’t promote domestic violence and the pointless nature of remakes. The boys then lament the lost potential of FlashForward, praise In Bruges to the hills and then set out the movies their children will have to see.

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The Movie Overdose #39 – The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus

The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus arrives for the gents to consider, unfortunately without much favour. They continue into talks about movie budgets and creativity, scary children’s films and whether there will be a shift in the horror genre on the back of Paranormal Activity. They talk about True Blood, The Shield, Good Will Hunting and Sunshine, before a long trailer round-up taking in everything from The White Ribbon to Black Dynamite.

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The Movie Overdose #38 – Up and Zombieland

Tom and Sam are all alone in the world today to chat about Up and Zombieland. They go on to complain about Cabin in the Woods and 3D, sing the praises of maniacal biblical action movies and how awful but watchable The Tooth Fairy looks. The continue into a discussion of Trick r Treat, Gossip Girl’s third season problems and what movies make them cry, cry, cry all the way home.

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The Movie Overdose #37 – The Invention of Lying

Chris Boyd, comedian and provocateur, steps back into the studio to join Tom and Sam for a talk about The Invention of Lying, the good bits of Eddie Murphy’s career, National Lampoons, small documentaries about oil, Bette Davis’ face, Toy Story’s third dimension and why people lie about seeing films. They conclude with five high concept movie pitches apiece.

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Music in Movies #3 – Jackie Brown

Like Cameron Crowe last week, Tarantino’s style is probably more an aural one than visual. He’s certainly not a man without the ability to make a good looking movie, but the only discernible style that seems intrinsically his, on a visual level, is the foot fetish. Otherwise, its the music and the dialogue.

Since the beginning of his career, Tarantino has made a name for himself through his musical choices. Sometimes, and his present choices seem to speak to this, he has a tendency to side further towards more obscure music, often making selections which appear more wilfully obscure than components in aiding the quality of the film. Death Proof, a film I disliked quite a bit, has one amazing moment with the use of ‘Hold Tight’ by Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, a complete classic used to perfection. Otherwise, like much of that film, everything felt tightly constructed to evoke a certain style and feeling which felt derivative of Tarantino himself.

The Movie Overdose #36 – Surrogates

Sam and Tom venture into the world of Surrogates for no good reason, but emerge stronger for the experience fails to kill us. We move on talk of justice and Roman Polanski, to David Cronenberg remaking himself and to drawing a new career path for Tarantino. Next, the boys all convene to talk about a multitude of documentaries and the pilots of FlashForward and Bored to Death. The conclusion comes in tribute to Patrick Swayze, celebrating him in Road House and Point Break.

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Music in Movies #2: Say Anything

If there is one distinctive, auteurist-feature to the directorial work of Cameron Crowe, it’s surely aural rather than visual. He doesn’t necessarily have any visual style, though all of his films seem to have a misty nature to them, a kind of wistful dreaminess in their themes and in the way of their main characters. The only time this fails to happen is with Vanilla Sky, his remake of Alejandro Amenabar’s Abre los Ojos, though even here the soundtrack falls into line with his methods.

The single defining feature of a Cameron Crowe film is surely music. Crowe is interested in music of his characters, music of their time and music they would like. Some would place his squarely as a 60s-70s man, but this era-based categorisation is negated entirely by the first film I’m going to talk about in his column.

The Movie Overdose #35 – Show Notes

Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire

So, much to note from this week’s episode. Remember to check us out on Twitter, Facebook, iTunes and email us with any questions. All the links and information for that are now on the left side of the page.

The News…

• Darren Aronofksy taking on the Tonbridge heist (via /Film)
• Highlander to be remade by Justin Lin (via Rope of Silicon)
• Poster for The Rock’s Tooth Fairy (via JoBlo)

Trailers…

Paranormal Activity – Capitalism: A Love Story – This is It – A Christmas Carol – New Moon – Gentlemen Broncos – Up in the Air (see below)

Notes & Corrections…

Oh dear, this is what happens when Sam has been ill… September Issue director RJ Cutler did not direct The War Room, he produced it for DA Pennebaker. The film also follows the first Clinton campaign, not the second.

The story about Steven Spielberg and his experience watching Paranormal Activity.

Wings of Desire is to be released on Criterion edition, in Blu-ray also, in November.

The Movie Overdose Presents: Mrs Doubtfire 2

This week we try out for a direct continuation of the highly potent Mrs Doubtfire franchise. We present to you our valiant attempt at developing a darker new chapter in everyone’s favourite quasi-Scottish nanny’s life…

Tom: yeah sure

lets do it

Mrs Doubtfire 2?

John: alan moore style

behind the mask

so it’s definitely a direct continuation, right? same cast?

Tom: oh absolutely

it’s set maybe 5 years later

the kids can be recast

slightly older

and everything seems normal. Robin Williams is still doing the Mrs Doubtfire show

then one night he comes home to his wife and they’re in bed together. and he starts talking dirty in Mrs Doubtfire’s voice.

they both think it’s hilarious that he’s using an old woman’s voice while in bed. and laugh it off. but then robin williams goes to the bathroom, looks in the mirror and sees Mrs Doubtfire in the reflection

cue titles: Mrs Doubtfire 2: Burning Desire

John: because of the flaming fake breasts?

does that play a role in the next film?

Tom: that’s interesting. maybe in a freak accident on set, the breasts melt and get stuck to him

anyway. so basically robin williams has to deal with the fact that he can no longer control Mrs Doubtfire

also i seem to recall in the first that Mrs Doubtfire is always pining over her dead husband. i forget his name. We’ll call him Norman for the time being

John: ok

Tom: and Mrs Doubtfire wants Norman back, so she’s on the hunt for a replacement Norman

that kindly old bus driver in the first film gets assaulted

John: ah maybe it could be a case of lost time

like robin williams wakes up and doesn’t remember the last few hours

sort of like a transvestite version of Memento

Tom: yeah, but he looks down and he’s wearing frilly knickers

John: that’s right

as Doubtfire he’s trying to fill the void left by norman

Tom: it also becomes a bit like The Fly. because it gets to the point where he’s physically turning into an old lady

he also needs Sally Field out of the picture as she’s not old enough for him

him/her

John: so Brundlefire is gradually morphing over the course of the second act, we’ve set up the schism between him and sally field in the first act, where do we go from there?

Tom: we need a hero

someone to save robin williams

John: the gay couple from the start of the first film?

Tom: oh no. they’re brainwashed by Brundlefire to try and use their make-up skills to make Sally Field look like poor deceased Norman

John: ah yes, of course

shouldn’t take that much work though

Tom: ouch

of course once she looks like Norman, Brundlefire will have to kill her, as Norman is dead. he/she needs to make things perfect

you know i hope the transvestite community isnt appalled by this film.

John: i think a lot of people are going to be appalled by this film. i’m also not sure how i feel about brainwashing the gay couple

there are so many nasty layers to this film

Tom: it’s a nasty film

John: we’ve still not got a hero though

Tom: the cover of the film though will look like the cover of Mrs Doubtfire 1

the trailer too, will be cut to look like a romantic comedy

John: so we’re really going for a suckerpunch of a movie

i like this

Tom: viral marketing too. Robin Williams dressed up as Mrs Doubtfire will respond to random ads in actual newspapers looking for a nanny

John: i think i’d be pretty terrified if williams turned up at my house responding to an ad

John: can pierce brosnan save him?

Tom: oh god i forgot about pierce

of course

he’s the decoy hero though

John: so he dies?

Tom: like scatman crothers in The Shining

yeah. he comes to save the day, then Brundlefire shoves a pepper down his throat and his allergies kill him

John: can we have pierce get a call from williams right at the very start of the movie? so we keep cutting back to brosnan making his way across the globe

only to be peppered in the final reel

Tom: yeah of course

but we still need a hero

what other characters are there in the first one?

John: just looking through imdb, nothing is jumping out

we might need a new character

shouldn’t be too much of a stretch as we have all the important principle cast intact

John: joseph gordon levitt?

Tom: he’s a bit too good for this

John: paul walker

he’s going to be our muse

Tom: ok how about this

paul walker was raised by his grandma who died

and mrs doubtfire comes along and acts as a grandma figure

paul walker has no idea that it’s actually robin williams in disguise

he feels close with Doubtfire, not knowing what he/she is becoming

turns out that Paul Walker’s grandpa was the bus driver who mrs doubtfire murdered

and paul walker remembers his grandpa talking about an old lady with hair legs

and sees doubtfire shaving them and puts two and two together

John: this is such a tragic story

poor doubtfly

Tom: well with the help of paul walker, robin williams eventually destroys his alter ego

John: so does paul walker then ingratiate himself into the family?

Tom: if only it was that simple

this is where things get meta

robin williams weakened by mrs doubtfire isnt prepared for what happens next

John: now i’m terrified…

Tom: ALL of Robin Williams other alter egos staart to randomly surface as if he is malfunctioning

so Jack, Patch Adams, Bicentential Man, Jakob The Liar, Peter Pan etc…they all start surfacing randomly

like when the T-1000 at the end of Terminator 2 is malfunctioning

robin williams can no longer control his personality

John: ok i’m definitely in on this project

but don’t forget popeye

Tom: yeah

it’s kinda like a video game boss battle

with each personality, Paul Walker must find its weakness

John: i think we’ve got this wrapped up, what do you think? i’m confident about this one

Tom: sold

The Movie Overdose #35 – Away We Go

Three reviews from the gents today as they go on a journey around hipster America in Away We Go, want more Julia and less Julie and feel robbed of precious life by Gamer. They go on to chat about telling the story of a major heist, remaking Highlander and reviving the career of The Rock. They celebrate the brilliance of Wings of Desire, remember how fun Robocop is and delve in the world of American Vogue in The September Issue. They concluding trailer round-up includes a couple of key disagreements, a couple of resounding agreements and, in a shocking development, sees Sam defend Michael Moore.

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John Malkovich has joined the cast of Randall Wallace’s Secretariat.

Darren Aronofsky is to make a film about the £53m Securitas van robbery which happened in Tonbridge in 2006.

Zooey Deschanel has married Ben Gibbard, the principal member of Death Cab for Cutie.

Columbia Pictures is to make a movie of the Enron story, just after the theatre show is to make its way to the West End.

FOX has ordered up a whole season of Glee.

Jon Hamm, Will Ferrell and Linda Cardellini are among those backing the cause of health insurance companies in the face of Obama reform policies.

Brad Pitt may play Moriarty in a second Sherlock Holmes.

Let the Oscar Buzz Begineth!!

As we are prone to do, it feels like to kick-off the Oscar buzz season as awards from major film festivals begin to roll in and the ceremony approaches. I realise that this may feel like the kind of wishing-life-away feeling that it given as you walk into shops in mid-September and see Christmas stock out all over the place, but these will get more frequent as we get closer and can begin to actually predict what could win. This is more to provide an interesting gauge of how buzz works, how it changes and how wrong we could well end up being by the time the awards come around.

So, just for the big few categories, here’s what seems like it’s going to cause a stir this year:

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Looks like George Clooney could end up directing the Hamdan vs Rumsfeld project, with Matt Damon starring.

Precious is beginning its Oscar buzz season with a win in Toronto.

Apparently Gavin Hood wouldn’t mind making a shitty Magneto movie too.

Jack Kirby’s estate has begun delivering copyright termination notices to a whole bunch folks, including Marvel and Disney, relating to characters the late creator was responsible for.

Five movies which make Film School Rejects hungry.

Declaration of Independence: The Ten Principles of Hybrid Distribution from Indiewire.

Johnny Depp is reportedly less interested in another Pirates movie without Dick Cook at the helm of Walt Disney Studios.

MTV has an exclusive excerpt from Kevin Smith’s SModcast book.

Henry Rollins voicing a Batman character? Fuck, yeah!!

Twitch has an interview with Guy Maddin at TIFF about Night Mayor.

Venice Golden Lion winner Lebanon has been purchased by Sony Pictures Classics.

District 9 has made it over to Nigeria.

Music in Movies: The Spotify Playlist

As an addendum to the show notes, which you will have read earlier, I thought I would put together a Spotify playlist of some of the songs which we focused on, and the films from which they come. The playlist is below and its linked to here and at the end of the playlist. More of these will follow as I continue the Music in Movies feature on the blog.

The songs are:

‘Gonna Fly Now’ by Bill Conti from Rocky
‘Little Green Bag’ by The George Baker Selection from Reservoir Dogs
‘Needle in the Hay’ by Elliott Smith from The Royal Tenenbaums
‘The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down’ by The Band from The Last Waltz (note: not the version from the live show)
‘The Wind’ by Cat Stevens from Almost Famous: Untitled Cut
‘It’s a Sin’ by Pet Shop Boys from Bronson
‘Across 110th Street’ by Bobbie Womack from Jackie Brown
‘Staralfur’ by Sigur Ros from The Life Aquatic
‘Battle Without Honour or Humanity’ by Tomoyasu Hotei from Kill Bill
‘Falling Slowly’ by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from Once
‘Pretty in Pink’ by The Psychedelic Furs from Pretty in Pink
‘Lust for Life’ by Iggy Pop from Trainspotting
‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ by Queen from Shaun of the Dead
‘The End’ by The Doors from Apocalypse Now

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Disclaimers on all fronts, folks. This is by no means the end of the conversation. We will be running a weekly column on the site considering music in films, published every Monday. There is sooooo much more to talk about with music in films, we have failed to even scratch the surface of all that shall be talked about. Until then however enjoy the above.

MOD Summer Round-Up #2 (July to September)

So, in the wake of Transformers revenging the fallen all over our minds, we were in need of cooling down from the sheer anger and exhaustion felt in the studio. Though Sunshine Cleaning should have been a great example of an indie to bring us back onto home turf, it ended up an underwhelming experience. The eminently crushworthy pairing of Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, along with the solid Alan Arkin and roles for Steve Zahn and Clifton Collins Jr, just couldn’t quite drive us into anything beyond a tepid lack of satisfaction. Ideas involved were strong, but the execution was half-hearted, even if all of the above tried really hard to elevate the material.

MOD Summer Round-Up #1 (April to June)

Being in the UK, deciding what actually constitutes summer in our increasingly muddled weather environment is pretty darn difficult. Should we start with May? Well, if summer is the period of the year in which things were sunny and bright and lovely, then May, June and July are all out for us UK folks. Our summer never really arrived, overshadowed as it was by the constant humidity and rain. Instead of going with weather calculations, our summer will start in May, or the end of April to be precise, when the blockbuster season kicked-off in multiplexes, and plexes, across the land. Begin post-jump…

The Movie Overdose #34 – Show Notes

Our Guest…

Remember to get tickets to see Jon Cooper’s show for Ignition at the Tristan Bates Theatre. You can check out the details for his two performances here and here. Also, please check out Jon’s blog, alternately known at Silent Working and Dirty Feed, and go back and listen to Silence in C Minor, the radio show produced by our very own Producer John and written by the Cooper.

Show notes…

• The other song from Rocky I was trying to think of was ‘Heart’s on Fire’ by John Cafferty. Listen to it here.
• To back Jon’s assertion, here’s the Rickrolling figures.
• Fisher Stevens was not in Wing Commander. But he was in Hackers. I think this makes Tommy right.
• Trailer for The Killing Room.
• Trailer for Fish Tank and my review on SoundScreen.
• The Vin Diesel Random Fact Generator.
• A turtle having an orgasm.

Remember to follow us on Twitter, check us out on Facebook, subscribe to us on iTunes and email us, all linked to on the right-hand side of this very page.

The Movie Overdose #34 – Adventureland and 500 Days of Summer

The return of the Cooper! Jon Cooper comes back to the podcast to have a chat about Adventureland. Tom and Sam have a think about (500) Days of Summer and the gents all think about the YouTube rental model. They go on to reminisce about Hackers, praise Fish Tank to the hills and have a good ol’ natter about Supernatural. The conclusion sees Tom depart and Producer John step in to talk about music in movies.

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The Movie Overdose Presents: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Apologies for the horrendous use of colons in that headline, in penance this week we present our mind-shattering remake of 2001: A Space Odyssey…

Tom: we’ll do 2001 next

John: i’m not sure i like you any more

Tom: first thing we do….remove all ambiguity

audiences dont like to think

John: so it’ll be the first film released with the director’s commentary as part of the overall sound mix

Tom: doubtful

the film needs a lot more work than that

where are the A-list actors?

where is the CGI?

HAL is fine, but he needs an evil face

John: you’re pushing me tom, you’re testing our bond

Tom: also what the fuck is a Space Odyssey? no one knows. We’ll call it 2001: A Space Adventure

well it’ll have to be 3001 since 2001 is a little dated

3001: A Space Adventure!

John: but then some people might assume it’s based on the book 3001: A Final Odyssey

Tom: with the exclaimation mark as mark as part of the title

like anyone reads these days

John: people will have to read our script though

or is this pure improv?

as long as i can retain the rights to the lunchbox merchandise on this project then you can do what you like

Tom: with actors like Paul Walker, David Arquette and Chris Klein in the lead, who needs a script?

John: investors?

Tom: AND despite it being a little weird, we’re keeping the big baby at the end

played by Billy Zane

the investors will be on board because of the big monkey battle at the start

John: this is starting to sound like planet of the apes

planet of the apes: in space

Tom: funny you should say that. we’ll just use longshots from the tim burton film for that

no one saw it and it’ll save money

John: and then the apes battle the fierce HAL for control of the universe?

Tom: the monkeys will have to speak too

Brian Blessed is the head gorilla

John: monkeys + robots = cashprofitmoney?

Tom: i won you back with that one

John: you always win me back with monkeys

if it works on hard-nosed film investors then it’ll definitely work on a sap like me

i want to get Calvin Harris to do the soundtrack

Tom: every 10 minutes there needs to be an action beat

open with the monkey battle

the last monkey standing throws the bone up in the air

people expecting it to cut to a spaceship

WRONG

it cuts to a freaking laser rifle

huge laser rifle battle

then main character wakes up

it was just a dream

which proves our movie is so badass, people dream action set pieces

John: or maybe our main character is secretly a laser rifle-toting ape in a past life

Tom: you seem desperate to tie the apes from the start of the movie with the rest of it

John: but where’s the link?

audiences don’t like ambiguity, you said it yourself

Tom: i dont know

they just saw an epic monkey battle

they’re satisfied

but fine…we can make HAL the disembodied brain of the last surviving ape after that battle

all the other apes are dead

turns out this surviving ape was behind every one significant event on earth

he shot Kennedy

erm. invented velcro

everything

and then becomes a mass computer brain

John: i think you’ve gone mad with power

you need to calm down

Tom: hey i was happy to leave the ape battle seperate. this is the only logical way how we can tie it into the rest of the movie

John: ok fine

can we also have a bad CGI John Colicos saying to the camera at the end “deep down we’re all a bunch of monkeys”

Tom: wow thats a sucker punch

John: roll credits

not a dry eye in the house

everyone is giving us money

Tom: dont know what to do about those monoliths

they seem irrelevant to the story so maybe remove them

no one will miss them

John: or make them into massive orbital cannons

HAL invented them

Tom: well thats works too

also HAL can have two robotic henchman, called Stanley and Kubrick, for a nice in-joke

John: won’t that involve a level of intelligence on the part of the viewer? i’m deeply troubled by a movie that starts out simply to entertain the audience with a massive monkey laser fight only to have a somewhat subtle in-joke later on

Tom: well you have to please the original fans too

John: i don’t think any of this will even remotely please the original fans

i feel that we may have to go into hiding

Tom: as a comprimise, we’ll still call it 2001: A Space Odyssey

so they know what we’re trying to do

John: that’s somehow worse

but i like it

can we have a scene of someone being put into a rubbish bin and thrown down a hill?

this is the only thing i feel the film is missing

what’s a space odyssey without a man in a bin

Tom: the bad guy will have to do that ‘Taking out the trash…the SPACE trash’

John: bin rolls slowly down the hill and exploooodes

cue Calvin Harris

Chris Klein rolls in on a trained ape

defeats HAL somehow

Arquette and the other guy help a little

someone is singing

it’s HAL

HAL is singing to Chris Klein

it’s beautiful

Klein weeps and turns on Arquette and the other guy

Calvin Harris gets louder and appears on screen

Harris disappears

HAL and Klein destroy everything

cue Colicos

credits

i want my money now please

Tom: i have a huge problem with this

John: why

its perfect

drama, intrigue, sexiness

Klein riding a monkey

Tom: when i see the poster for ‘2001: A Space Odyssey- A visionary reimagining of a Stanley Kubrick movie’

i dont want to be looking at just apes and Chris Klein. that’s a bit homoerotic

i want to be looking at MEGAN FOX

and some other talented actresses

wearing skimpy space suits

John: let’s get Elisha Cuthbert in then

happy?

i want my bin scene though

Tom: fine

it can be a real bin too. a nod to the lack of CGI used in the original

that’s two winks

John: i feel you’re playing a risky game here

Tom: we need a video game too. for the monkey battle, it can use the LOTR: Conquest engine

John: i’m off the project, you lost me at that one

going to call time on this one, here’s your last chance. what’s the tagline on the poster going to be?

Tom:  erm

‘a remake of a film that time (and space) forgot’

John:  good luck with this

The Movie Overdose Presents: Primer

This week we debate the merits of remaking my favourite film of all time, Primer…

Tom: we’ll do Primer next

all 6 versions of the protagonist fight through time

15 minutes

16:12

me: they’ll fight the other guy

heavily outnumbered

7 to 6

Tom: dont worry. the outnumbered guy went back to prehistoric time and stole a T-Rex egg

16:13

he reared it for many years, and rides it with a staddle

me: what does that do?

what’s a staddle?

Tom: saddle

16:15

me: oh

Tom: like dinoriders

me: that makes sense now

16:16

maybe each one of the 6 Aarons could get an awesome weapon from different eras

like a trebuchet

and a howitzer

16:17

also, Abe has been recast with Wesley Snipes

16:19

Tom: i love it

16:20

‘Your TIME has run out Abe’ Aaron shoots Abe with a blunderbuss

16:21

lots of time puns

‘You’re LATE for your funeral’

16:22

me: early to bed, early to die

16:23

Tom: we might have to steal from The Fly, and have some creature get in the box while Abe is travelling

ABEetle

16:26

me: that’s so crushingly lame it could work

16:27

somewhere along the line aaron becomes a woman

16:28

Tom: who gives birth to the original Aaron

creating the ultimate paradox

16:32

me: which the movie then proceeds to never address again

close-up shot of Willem Defoe screaming

16:35

Tom: the sequel can be called Primers, and is set in a dystopic future, where everyone carries around a time travelling box

5 minutes

16:41

me: box? too unwieldy. in the future everyone carries around a metal sash

16:42

Tom: except one unassuming character who can travel through time at will and is the chosen one

he is THE PRIMER!!!

and wears black glasses and a long leather coat to prove this

16:46

me: he wears it because it was the first coat ever given to him (by himself from the future)

16:49

some terrible symbolism in there: first coat, primer, paint

i think i’m falling out of love with this project

16:50

Tom: you could say it’s before its time

16:54

me: time to call it a day

Tom: we’ll do Primer next

all 6 versions of the protagonist fight through time

15 minutes

John: they’ll fight the other guy

heavily outnumbered

7 to 6

Tom: dont worry. the outnumbered guy went back to prehistoric time and stole a T-Rex egg

he reared it for many years, and rides it with a saddle

like dinoriders

John: maybe each one of the 6 Aarons could get an awesome weapon from different eras

like a trebuchet

and a howitzer

also, Abe has been recast with Wesley Snipes

Tom: i love it

‘Your TIME has run out Abe’ Aaron shoots Abe with a blunderbuss

lots of time puns

‘You’re LATE for your funeral’

John: early to bed, early to die

Tom: we might have to steal from The Fly, and have some creature get in the box while Abe is travelling

ABEetle

John: that’s so crushingly lame it could work

somewhere along the line aaron becomes a woman

Tom: who gives birth to the original Aaron

creating the ultimate paradox

John: which the movie then proceeds to never address again

close-up shot of Willem Defoe screaming

Tom: the sequel can be called Primers, and is set in a dystopic future, where everyone carries around a time travelling box

John: box? too unwieldy. in the future everyone carries around a metal sash

Tom: except one unassuming character who can travel through time at will and is the chosen one

he is THE PRIMER!!!

and wears black glasses and a long leather coat to prove this

John: he wears it because it was the first coat ever given to him (by himself from the future)

some terrible symbolism in there: first coat, primer, paint

i think i’m falling out of love with this project

Tom: you could say it’s before its time

John: time to call it a day

The Movie Overdose #33 – Show Notes

News Items

Check out the discussions of spoilers on the /Filmcast and on the IFC News Podcast.

The A-Team casting news about Quinton Jackson. And the respective castings of Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper. If you can, check out Joe Carnahan’s amazing debut, Narc.

Not mentioned on the show, but here’s the link to Dan Ackroyd’s Crystal Head vodka brand.

Remember to check us out on Twitter, on Facebook, on iTunes and email us at the address on the side of the page.

The Movie Overdose #33 – District 9

The anticipation is soothed as the boys have a long chat about District 9 and finally kick-off their sci-fi marathon. They then hold a longer-than-expected talk about an A-Team movie, outline their views and policies when it comes to spoilers and delve into The Boat that Rocked, 25th Hour and yet more on The Hurt Locker. The concluding sci-fi platter includes an evisceration of Gattaca, a justification and criticism of Forbidden Planet and near-nirvanic praise of The Incredible Shrinking Man.

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Show Notes to follow in later post.

Fish Tank Trailer

As we are of the British persuasion, we often feel an obligation to promote really great British movies. Fish Tank, the second film from the immensely talented Andrea Arnold, is out on Friday and we urge you to see it ASAP. The film is quite superb and contains an amazing performance from Katie Jarvis, in her film film.

The trailer is below and you can check out the official site here. I’ll also have a review of the film up at SoundScreen this week.

The Movie Overdose Presents: Stalker

There have been a few times when Tom and I have wondered how easy it must be to make a film these days. Quite often we can have little brainstorming sessions wherein we create masterpiece after masterpiece so we decided to start sharing these little exchanges. Starting from today The Movie Overdose is proud to present a new series of articles that will give you a glimpse into the wonderful world of two of potentially the most awful film producers ever…

This week we present to you a bold re-imagining of Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal science fiction masterpiece, Stalker.

Tom:  still could have done with a bullet-time gun battle with aliens at the end

wonder if Paul W.S. Anderson has thought about remaking it

Sent at 15:33 on Monday

me:  you live to torment me, don’t you tom green?

Sent at 15:34 on Monday

Tom:  Woody Harrelson as the Stalker (as that Russian guy reminded me of him)

me:  i’ll give you that one

nic cage as the Scientist

Tom:  now you’re onboard!

me:  not sure about Writer

steven seagal

Tom:  he can die early on. The Zone can be filled with literal traps. maybe he steps on a disintegration bomb

it’ll be called Stalker: Get In The Zone

me:  yes yes yes

like Cube but in a field

Tom:  yeah. with a bit of Labyrinth

set it in the US. no one knows where Russia is these days

Sent at 15:41 on Monday

Tom:  also the scientist is evil and he wishes to transform into a CGI monster

Sent at 15:42 on Monday

me:  stalker’s wife Charlize Theron follows him into the Zone

also, the meat grinder is an actual meat grinder

everyone is telekinetic in the zone

Tom:  it has to be guarded by some creatures too

Sent at 15:44 on Monday

me:  bad shadow creatures like the stuff out of The Darkness

i’ve got it

the zone is the result of an experiment with alien technology GONE WRONG

the person now in control of the zone is an evil scientist

ladies and gentlemen

Christopher Walken

Tom:  AND the Stalker was one of those aliens but got amnesia. that’s why he knows the terrain so well because HE WAS BORN THERE

me:  he’s also dead

like a thetan

got to get some kind of Scientology slant in there somehoww

Tom:  still could have done with a bullet-time gun battle with aliens at the end

wonder if Paul W.S. Anderson has thought about remaking it

John:  you live to torment me, don’t you tom?

Tom:  Woody Harrelson as the Stalker (as that Russian guy reminded me of him)

John:  i’ll give you that one

nic cage as the Scientist

Tom:  now you’re on board!

John:  not sure about Writer

steven seagal

Tom:  he can die early on. The Zone can be filled with literal traps. maybe he steps on a disintegration bomb

it’ll be called Stalker: Get In The Zone

John:  yes yes yes

like Cube but in a field

Tom:  yeah. with a bit of Labyrinth

set it in the US.  no one knows where Russia is these days

Tom:  also the scientist is evil and he wishes to transform into a CGI monster

John:  stalker’s wife Charlize Theron follows him into the Zone

also, the meat grinder is an actual meat grinder

everyone is telekinetic in the zone

Tom:  it has to be guarded by some creatures too

John:  bad shadow creatures like the stuff out of The Darkness

i’ve got it

the zone is the result of an experiment with alien technology GONE WRONG

the person now in control of the zone is an evil scientist

ladies and gentlemen

Christopher Walken

Tom:  AND the Stalker was one of those aliens but got amnesia. that’s why he knows the terrain so well because HE WAS BORN THERE

John:  he’s also dead

like a thetan

got to get some kind of Scientology slant in there somehow

The Movie Overdose #32 – Show Notes

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If you want to hear, see and be around more of Chris Boyd, he will be playing a gig at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden on Monday 5th October at 9.30pm. Buy tickets for the show here. In addition to that, please check out Chris’ blog, entitled Chris Boyd Knows You, here. You can also check out Chris’ article on ‘Indie Dating’ here.

Also, be sure to check out our buddies over at Bonaroo and at SoundScreen.

The Movie Overdose #32 – Funny People and The Hurt Locker

Tommy and Sam are joined in the studio by offbeat comedian and bon viveur Chris Boyd, specifically for an inside view on Judd Apatow’s Funny People. The two also have a chat about why The Hurt Locker is great, why Joel Silver is bad, by Disney buying Marvel is fairly inconsequential and why rebooting Fantastic Four would be ugly. They also find time to have a talk about art porn, British movies, Ozploitation and why Tom decided to rewatch Deja Vu.

Download The Movie Overdose Episode 32

See next post for our show notes.

The Movie Overdose #31 – Inglourious Basterds

The boys reconvene to have a natter about Quentin’s Inglourious Basterds and about Quentin in general. They move on to puzzle over Inception, try to praise Avatar and save Bryan Singer before working on the casting of a Susan Boyle biopic. There some discomfort about the racism in Trading Places, a short consideration of the psyche of Mike Tyson and a celebration of John Barrowman’s line readings.

The Movie Overdose #31 – Inglourious Basterds

Here is John Barrowman in Shark Attack 3, as discussed by our very own John.

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? Trailer

The trailer for My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, the new movie from Werner Herzog and produced by David Lynch, has turned up. It’s not quite as insane as the trailer for his take on Bad Lieutenant, but the voiceover does seem to slightly mistake the kind of film Herzog tends to make. It does however, akin to Rescue Dawn, indicate this desire in modern Herzog movies to make films which seem to conform to the look and feel of mainstream Hollywood movies and yet entirely work within his own sphere of interest.

Check it out below.

Vampire Killers. Nothing Else. Just Vampire Killers

A row has broken out over the alleged censorship of DVD cases for Lesbian Vampire Killers, the ‘comedy’ and uber-terrible British comedy film starring James Corden and Matthew Horne.

A number of retailers, notably supermarkets including Tesco and Asda, have been stocking copies of the DVD with the majority of the word ‘Lesbian’ blocked out by a warning sticker. This comes in the wake of the recent advertisements for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds in the UK, shown on Channel 4 pre-watershed with no mention of the world ‘Basterds’ (not, not actually a word due to spelling).

I’m sure this is no censorship conspiracy and, as the report on The Guardian notes, the retailers have defended the action by saying that distributor Momentum offered them two versions of the DVD. Momentum has though said that the retailers requested it so, it suppose, it falls into the category of PR shitstorm for both sides.

Saddest of all though, it has meant that Lesbian Vampire Killers, a piece of shit if ever there was one, has been given some extra, entirely undeserved press coverage.