Pete and Law review a couple things and then dive deep into the rest of the Summer to see what gives them boners. There’s lots of boners.
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We got voicemail. We got TV to review. We got films we watched. We even got a new trailer to argue about. It’s all here inside the BingeCast. Come have some.
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Jack is newly hitched and back on the BingeCast! Together with Law they join forces to battle the many evil films and television series that look to destroy them. Google voice shows up for comedic value and there’s even everybody’s favorite, Drunk Seg. He’s so crazy. The BingeCast is filmed in front of a live studio audience (it’s not).
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00:00:00 Intro / Wedding recap with Jack 00:17:20 What You Missed This Week on the Binge Media Podcast Network
00:26:10 GOOGLE VOICE 00:27:08 Billy Goodtimes reviews the Backyardigans 00:31:10 Billy Goodtimes has a Would-You-Rather 00:38:43 TM lets the boys know the BingeCast makes Mondays bearable 00:41:09 Nate P. recommends Line of Duty to Law 00:46:38 Billy Goodtimes hopes this week’s show is 12 hours and comes out on Saturday 00:48:21 Alex recommends Sound of Metal, digs Loki, and has a time travel question
00:59:58 DRUNK SEGMENT
01:05:39 TV ROUNDUP 01:07:38 Handmaid’s Tale (Law) 01:10:55 Broadchurch (Law) 01:15:57 Mythic Quest (Law) 01:16:35 Loki (Jack, Law) 01:38:15 Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Jack) 01:43:10 M.O.D.O.K. (Jack)
01:50:00 WHAT DID YOU WATCH THIS WEEK 01:52:19 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (Jack) 01:55:37 Bo Burnham: Inside (Jack) 02:06:14 Blue Code of Silence (Jack) 02:08:36 Luca (Jack, Law) – SPOILERS 02:29:50 F9 (Law)
Pixar and Basketball. It sounds like Law’s favorite week ever. Will Chad C poop on his parade or will this weekend be everything he’s ever wanted in a theater? Listen with your head holes to find out.
Pete MC, Moreno, and Law get together for a few drinks, lots of giggles, and way too many farts as they discuss the latest films and TV shows. They also bring back PTI (Pirates of the Interruption) in an attempt to talk about the latest news.
No Law, no ‘Reno means Jack and Ammon are in charge. The boys talk a little housekeeping at the top then get into it with reviews of WESTWORLD, THE EXPANSE, BROCKMIRE, PARTS UNKNOWN, NO RESERVATIONS, THE STAIRCASE, THE CONFESSION TAPES, LEGION, THE BACHELORETTE, X-MEN APOCALYPSE, CITIZEN KANE, INCREDIBLES 2, 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR, SICARIO 2, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, IN THE FADE, MARROWBONE and JURASSIC WORLD FALLEN KINGDOM. There’s also some talk of introducing children to The Big Lebowski and some other stuff, so get to work.
TIMESTAMP
0:00:00-Listen up.
0:02:06-Falvey and Ammon. New merchandise! What’s going on on the site? Movie Homework is back! Trailer Round Up
0:27:28-TV ROUND UP…..after Trailer Round Up concludes. Westworld Season 2 in full (spoilers begins around 47:05 and end around 49:25). Ammon has The Staircase, The Confession Tapes, Legion, and The Bachelorette. Jack has Parts Unknown, No Reservations, Brockmire, OJ: Made in America, and The Expanse.
1:14:31-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Ammon has You Were Never Really There, In the Fade, Marrowbone, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Incredibles 2 (which Jack also checked out). He also saw Isle of Dogs but may have to revisit it. Jack begins his list with X-Men: Apocalypse, Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, and Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado.
0:02:08-Bare bones, bitch. So much tech diff. It’s gross. Law sounds old school. Moreno’s phoning it in. Literally.
0:05:30-GOOGS.
0:23:45-TV ROUND UP. Intervention. Law watched The Staircase and I’m Dying Up Here, which Moreno discusses as well. Also Handmaid’s Tale. Moreno has High Maintenance.
0:47:13-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Law tells a positive theater story. Then Incredibles 2, bitch. Law watched Den of Thieves. Beers. BingeViews. Better Call Binge.
Shortest. Bingecast. Ever. Probably? I don’t know. Maybe? I don’t know. Fuck you.
Chad C sits down with Moreno to do a little new release catch up since there are no new wide theatrical releases this week. Chad peeps COCO, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI, ROMAN J. ISRAEL and LADY BIRD.
Some things are just a part of life. Air is what we breathe, barbers will always have return business and Hollywood is going to keep producing remakes. While a small percentage of remakes are good, I’d like to turn our attention to some films that acutally could benefit from being remade. Constantly there are reminders of the failure of Hollywood remakes, from Black Christmas to Arthur, but here’s a list of ten films that I think could and should be improved upon.
300 – 300 was and continues to be a fairly popular film and there is precedent for that. Without straying from the source material, 300 was a retelling of the Frank Miller graphic novel that gained a lot of traction due to the success of Sin City before it. Zack Snyder, a guy who I do not particularly like as a filmmaker, does an adequate job here making one of the great “hoo-rah” pump-up movies of the past few years, and films like this will always have a place with a certain audience. For me, 300 was a massive let down, but it was my own fault for letting the hype get to me. The trailers are still phenomenal, but the movie around them is incredibly one-dimensional and anti-climactic. The real tragedy is that the real story behind the 300 Spartans is MUCH MORE EPIC than what was put to page here. For example, did you know that the Spartans actually fought off the Persian army for three days AFTER Leonidas was killed, just to recover his body? There’s a really great action-drama in the vein of Apocalypto waiting to be made here and it is a shame that we haven’t gotten it yet. If ever there was a story that needs a fresh take on the big screen, I think it’s this one. Possible Directors – Peter Jackson, Mel Gibson, George Miller
Fire In The Sky – When your movie is famous for a terrifying alien probe scene you know you have something special. The unfortunate reality of Fire in the Sky is that outside of that one horrifying scene the movie suffers from being pretty average. There is not a surplus of great alien horror films out there from the perspective of people being abducted and in the right filmmaker’s hands this could be a modern classic, almost like the anti-Close Encounters.
Slaughterhouse-Five – One of the strangest time-travel stories ever, the movie simply struggles to capture what the book conveys so well. Without spoiling the story, Slaughterhouse-Five is about a man caught in time named Billy Pilgrim. Pilgrim seems to experience all moments of his life at once, only pausing occasionally in different times of self-awareness. Time travel is a tricky subject and especially so when you have a concept as abstract as this one, but intelligent science fiction is not too common so I think there is a place for this in the cinematic landscape. Possible Directors – Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Shane Carruth
Soylent Green – There have been a ton of suggested gritty reboots over the past few years but Soylent Green is one that needs to happen. The entire idea of this film is ripe with social commentary, and like Slaughterhouse-Five could be the next great science-fiction concept. While the original film is a classic product of the 70’s, the themes of this film could be expanded upon and made into something even more meaningful and special with some quality writing.
Spawn – At some point, Spawn is coming back, so maybe this is an easy target. That being said, Spawn was always a really dark and intriguing character to me. A guy who dies and sells his soul to the devil in exchange to see his wife again is something that is pretty primal and ridiculous. The Michael Jai White film was largely a failure due to timing and execution. In a world where Deadpool is getting a fair shake, I think the odds of seeing a good Spawn film are higher now than ever before.
Star Trek The Final Frontier – I think we all have certain films that no matter how bad they are we just don’t care. For me, Star Trek The Final Frontier is one of those films, most likely due to the fact that I saw it so young. Despite that, the search for God is something that Star Trek is uniquely positioned to examine, it just seems that Shatner was not the guy to pull it off whatsoever. While Abrams was abjectly wrong for trying to remake The Wrath of Khan, my vote would have been to rework this story and run with it.
Super Mario Brothers – Let’s face it, Super Mario Brothers doesn’t have much in the way of redeeming qualities. In fact, I don’t know the name of the director who could have done this justice, but I do know who could knock this out of the park: Pixar. Whether it’s Pete Docter or any of the other phenomenal talent they have, I’d vote Pixar on this all day. While the licensing might be a challenge it would be well worth the investment.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Superhero team-ups are all the rage these days so I think now is as good a time as any to take another crack at this one. Granted, Alan Moore is not kind to anyone who adapts his work, but I don’t think his approval is needed to make something great out of this. Who wouldn’t want to see an R-rated superhero team-up with famous literary characters? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a must-remake if ever there was one.
The Odyssey – This movie is largely the entire reason why I created this article. To date, no one has made an effective or competent cinematic version of The Odyssey. The Hallmark channel Armand Assante production was ok, but it’s nowhere near as expansive or adult as I believe the story calls for. Greek mythology has not fared too well in recent years with there being an interesting opportunity for something innovative to be done. The Odyssey is one of the world’s oldest stories and I think it’s high time someone gives us a take on the material.
The Stunt Man – One of the coolest movie plots I know of, The Stunt Man is a criminally underseen film about a convinct on the run from the police who stumbles onto a movie set. The director hires him on the spot to use as a stunt man in the film he is directing and the stunts get more and more deadly as the shoot goes on. Peter O’Toole absolutely kills it here but this is an often overlooked film in the pantheon of 70’s thrillers. This is the kind of concept that is so wacky you can take it in a bunch of different directions, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed that someday we get an update.