How do you follow a 5 hour podcast from last week? By reviewing said podcast and almost doing it again. Other than discussion of banning Luke Norris for life, Garrett’s mysterious infomercial we found on the net, and both, the best and worst call ins of all time on the same show, we also have our own shit to talk about.
What Did You watch is a whole bunch of revisits such as GOODFELLAS, COLLATERAL, KINDERGARTEN COP and the NAKED GUN movies.
Movie Homework is a look back on the criminally overlooked NARC.
Google Voice is stupid as usual.
TV Round-Up is epic with talk of Vinyl, Horace and Pete, The Expanse, Man Seeking Woman, 11/22/63, The People vs. OJ Simpson, Better Call Saul, and some more I forgot about.
We end the show with a spur of the moment game of Marry/Fuck/Kill and things get really weird. Stupid sexy Guttenburg.
A lot of times, I like to start intros to podcasts in the vein of, ‘this took so much work to put together,’ acting like what I do around here is actual work. Truth is, a lot of times, it is a collaborative effort. I love to give Jason Morris a hard time, but the man has a real creative vision and a lot of the shows we do together are a synergy of creative artistry.
In regards to the creation of this particular show about the documentary entitled The Resurrection of Jake The Snake, I credit one man. That man being Batch (cue Batch Bomb). After watching this powerful documentary, Batch got in touch and said he would like to talk about it on my show with me. After wiping tears from my eyes on my viewing of the documentary, I more than full heartedly agreed.
During this podcast, Batch and I go over our own childhood memories of watching Jake The Snake in action. As well as what watching his fall from grace did to our hearts. We also pepper in a little DDP Yoga talk, which I have just purchased for my own self. And then, it is on to the movie.
The Resurrection of Jake The Snake is such a roller coaster of emotions, that we try our best to not cover all of them as much as just give you all an overview of what the movie shows. But the most beautiful thing about it is, you do not have to be a wrestling fan to enjoy it.
For more general information about The Resurrection of Jake The Snake, you can visit its websitehere. You can stream it on itunes here. And for more information on DDP Yoga, go here. I want to send out a million thanks Batch’s way for coming up with this inspiring Binge Movie Aftertaste topic.
No Batch this week. Fucker got a job or something. Kupka and Moviefreak Jack Valley discuss some Hand of Fate, Star Wars Force Unleashed II, Civ V, and their love of The Division. Some other stuff too. Go listen.
2016 has gotten off to a great start for me in terms of movies. I’m on a three-week streak of solid 8’s with Hail Caesar, Deadpool and The Witch all delivering solid movies to me. Thankful as I am for all three, they are linked by another, less than attractive trait. I am not sure if it has been some phenomenal bad luck or just poor planning but somehow I have been in some of the worst audiences I’ve ever experienced. While Hail Caesar was an expected older, more behaved crowd, Deadpool and The Witch were full of children who, frankly, should not have been there. As such, I present unto you five ways in which you can not be a dick when going to the movies.
Step 1: Snack Consideration
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a movie-snack guy. I like popcorn and candy just fine but when I go to see a film, whether it’s Children of Men or Captain America, I’m there to see the movie. I don’t like being distracted, fumbling around for my soda in the middle of critical moments, and I also think that for some films it is not how they were meant to be seen in the first place. There is nothing worse than an audience member foraging through a box of fucking Milk Duds in the middle of Tarantino dialogue. All I’m saying is this. If you are into movie snacks, then good on you, but be a little considerate of the other people in the theater who planned on watching a movie and not listening to you navigate a bag of popcorn.
Step 2: Turn Your Cell Phone On Airplane Mode
This is something I think a lot of people do already. However, there are some who do not and they need to calm it down. First of all, you paid to see this movie. So now you’re going to double your cost by also consuming electricity on your mobile device and, in essence, ignoring the movie you’re watching? To quote Louis CK, “You non-contributing-product-sponge-cunt”. Anyone still answering texts during a movie should be kicked out of the theater, no questions asked.
Step 3: Don’t Utilize Waiters During a Film
The newest trend at the movies seems to be waiters serving you as the movie is being played. Responsible adults, please drink up, but don’t keep calling the waiters back to pound seven beers during the flick. The people walking in front of the screen are distracting, you ordering your shit is distracting and, frankly, when you have to get up to take a piss because you have no self control, guess what, that’s also distracting. Stop it.
Step 4: Know The Movie You’re Going To See
So many people go to the theater at whatever time they want and ask the person at the kiosk “What’s good?”. What kind of person are you that you just happen upon a movie theater with no prior knowledge of anything out and just decide to see whatever this person you’ve never spoken to in your life recommends? Aren’t you just setting yourself up to be disappointed? Granted, some people are easily amused, and I get that, but more often than not I have seen people walk out of a theater and demand a refund due to dissatisfaction. Usually, those people are pretty shitty about the ordeal for little-to-no-reason. In the case of Deadpool, I had to deal with eight little Morenos sitting behind me detailing each and every FUCKING scene from the movie for the entire runtime. Not only were they not even legally able to attend a PG-13 film, they had no business being in the theater. I don’t give a fuck about a movie being vulgar, but it is on a parent to get a handle on that shit.
Step 5: Stop Seeing Shitty Movies
This one goes without saying. Are you sick of movies like Transformers going on until the end of time? Stop going to see them. It’s as simple as that. Aggrivated that Gary Marshall now has a Mother’s Day film coming out? Maybe you should have aided his previous holiday movies in turning a profit. People want to complain about how good/great movies get ignored but no one wants to admit that they are aiding the problem by sending their money to projects that don’t deserve it. Horace and Pete, Louis CK’s series distributed through his website, is pretty revolutionary in that he decided to just release it as he makes it and charge different amounts of money for the product. Regardless of the quality of the final product (which admittedly is high) I will buy every episode because I support someone trying to do something unique and different. I’m putting my money where my mouth is and supporting the artist. The next time you go to see a movie, make sure you’re doing the same if you want to see more good stuff.
There’s a lot of hatred in this week’s article, and honestly I feel like I’m preaching to the choir here at Binge Media, but these are things that more people need to realize when they go to see a movie. Stop being so self-centered and wake up! That’s it for this week, Binge On!
Well. If you’ve come this far into our Terminator Retrospective, you have proven to be braver than human race leader John Connor ever was on the Judgment Day aftermath battlefield. Or, did Judgment Day even happen? Or does Judgment Day happen in the future?
Confused yet? That does not even begin to describe how we feel going into this viewing of 2015’s Terminator Genisys. Join me and my colleague Matthew Goudreau as we go over each of the film’s plot points, detail by detail, and try to pull apart some sort of logic behind it all. And, as a little preview -and is evident by the ratings below- I will say one of us is deep enriched in how bad this movie is, and one of us is not necessarily a staunch defender. But, the closest Genisys will get to having one on this site.
Will Ah-nold’s appeal to Matt be enough to make him said defender? Listen below and find out.
Big thanks to Matthew Goudreau for spending three podcasts deciphering the entire Terminator franchise with me. Be sure to check his work out at www.theyoungfolks.com.
Every once in a while we blindly bust through the threshold of acceptable stupidity while recording these shows. Welcome to this week, where Ammon gets so wasted he doesn’t even know who he’s talking to by the end of the show. Jack Valley joins us to witness this amazing display, review HAIL CAESAR, and help us deliver our Top 10 Films Since the Year 2000. This is helpful and also adds another hour and a half to the show.
Before that though Law reviews (loses his freaking mind over) DEADPOOL, Moreno plays 459 Google Voicemails, and the boys fire through Movie Homework while Ammon is still somewhat sober.
Thanks for listening, as always, and prepare for a sloppy mess.
This week we tackle the disappointing(?!?!) Lego Marvel’s Avengers, the very enjoyable Unravel, and Kupka got to play the Beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division. Then they bitch and rave about Controller support. Go listen to find out why. And as always they talk about a bunch of random other shit including how you can download your very own playable Binge Media Staff for WWE 2K16 for XBONE. Enough reading, go listen.
You can also check out some game play of Unravel here.
Where the hell is Eva Mendes? This is the most important question of the year. Also, what is the best film since the year 2000? The boys try to answer all this nonsense while getting shitfaced and trying not to be obsessed with the iguana scene in BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL: NEW ORLEANS. We also review a bunch of television – Horace and Pete, Hunted, The X-Files, Billions, The Man in the High Castle – and watch a bunch of films, new and old – THE GODFATHER, KUNG FU PANDA 3, SPOTLIGHT, TED 2, GOOSEBUMPS.
Get it while it’s hot. Whatever that means. Yeah, totes.
So beginning yesterday, all EA Access (and now Origin Access for PC), subscribers got to dive into the highly anticipated (at least for this guy) Unravel. I got to spend a little under an hour with the game late last night and so far so good.
Graphically stunning, controls are pretty tight, and story wise it seems to be one of loss and remembrance but I’m only 1 level in so I could be completely off on that. We shall see. This should be right up the alley of anyone who enjoys a side scrolling puzzler and it seems a bargain for only $19.99 (10% less for subscribers). I will have a more in depth review on this week’s Gamecast.
Unravel releases this Tuesday February 9th or you can start playing today via EA Access or Origin Access.