Whilst Kurt plans for Actionfest and Andrew digs through his catalog for The Minneapolis Film Festival, it leaves little time for theatrical screenings. Which is alright since the last couple of weeks have all but dried up in the multiplexes. But fear not, we still have listener homework to fawn over and quite a nice little Watch List to cover as well. We keep this one short and simple folks. An easy listen… if you can stand the sound of our voices and the occasional belch here and there. Man beer tastes good. Mmmmm. Beer. Oh but sorry, the movie conversation continues…
As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!
WELCOME TO THE SUMMER, boys and girls! Mamo’s summer box office contest kicks off once again, and we give you our picks for what the top ten films of the 2012 season will be.
CONTEST ENTRIES ARE NOW OFFICIALLY CLOSED. THANKS FOR ENTERING. We will tally the results in mid-September and announce the winner on the show; in the meantime, feel free to continue to use this thread to chat up the summer results. You can also watch the leader board for the contest right here (thanks to GE Hale!).
Rules:
THE SUMMER STARTS ON MAY 1 AND ENDS ON AUGUST 17, in terms of movies you can pick. Please work by domestic release dates only and with domestic grosses only. Scores will be tabulated after the Toronto International Film Festival is over.
Players will submit the following:
Top ten films, in order of total grosses. Also total gross $ amount and opening weekend gross $ amount. So as an example, submissions should look like this:
1. Dark Knight Rises, $402 million, $175 million
2. Avengers, $375 million, $150 million
Points awarded for:
A. 1-10 Points for film rankings. If you are bang on (your #1 pick comes in #1) you get 10. If you are 5 places away (your #8 film comes in #3) you get 5, etc.
B. 10 bonus points for every film who’s gross you have within 5 million of the actual gross.
C. 5 bonus points for every film who’s gross you have within 10 million of the actual gross.
D. 1 bonus point for every film who’s gross you have within 20 million of the actual gross.
E. 10 Bonus Points for every film who’s opening weekend gross is within $1 million of the actual opening weekend gross.
F. 5 Bonus Points for every film who’s opening weekend gross is within $5 million of the actual opening weekend gross.
G. 1 Bonus Point for every film who’s opening weekend gross is within $10 million of the actual opening weekend gross.
E. 10 point bonus for every film you have ranked correctly AND within 5 million of the actual gross AND within $1 million of the opening weekend gross.
F. For the purposes of calculating weekends – Films opening on a Wednesday are counted until the first Sunday they are released. Films opening on Memorial Day weekend are counted until the following Monday. Films opening the week of July 4 are counted from whenever they open in that week until the first Sunday of their release. Example – Spiderman opens on Tuesday, July 3. Your guess for weekend gross would actually be its 6 day total, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Many of you know him as “Goon”, but illustrator/web designer/movie nerd, Corey Pierce of the Critical Mass Cast has parachuted into the Cinecast floating ever so gently down on the buoyancy of his love for Mirror Mirror and making the show one of epic length, even by Cinecast standards; we do not quite break the Cinecast record but we do come dangerously close. After a signature tangent on whether or not it is appropriate to applaud or boo after (or during) a film and comparing The Raid to both porn and “The Family Guy,” we tackle the glossy and relentless Indonesian action film in the context of how a movie can set its own terms, and either fail, succeed on those terms, or transcend them. Where does The Raid fall? You’ll have to listen.
We then move on to listener submitted home work and the glory (or lack thereof) of trash cinema. Going through the various assigned work reveals both enlightening and pandering to the ‘teachers,’ which underscores that our listeners do indeed take these homework assignments seriously. Bravo to you folks. The Watchlist rounds out the show and features a lengthy discussion of the Bully documentary, Eddie Murphy and racial/sexual epithets, JFK Conspiracy Books, American Presidents – right back to the founding fathers – fosters a wacky and over-simplified discussion of politics (Is there any other kind??!!) on both sides of the Canada/USA divide, studio Ghibli, giant gorillas and one-armed drummers. Yeah, the thing is over four hours. Enjoy…or endure! (Bend like a sapling in the wind, lest one break!)
As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!
Super, extra special thanks to Patrick Ripoll of The Director’s Club Podcast for helping out with our spoiler(!) review of The Hunger Games in this episode. We get into a little bit of Ewan McGregor channeling Indiana Jones as he goes fly fishing and Kurt just reads books. We kick it old school this week though with a massive tangent right off the bat on the nature of the “it’s so bad it’s good” theory of many a cult film. Also the term, “objectively bad or good” has been kicked around lately on the site so we dive into that as well. In-house business doesn’t kick in until about the thirty minute mark, so you kind of know what you’re getting into here. Also special thanks to Jim Laczkowski (also of The Director’s Club Podcast) for providing us with this week’s opening theme music; Wayne Newton, eat your heart out! At any rate, enjoy the tangential David Lynch retrospective, the marvel of 80s robotics and of course quicksand in space.
As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!
Though on first glance April is looking a little light on goodness, more than a passing glance revels quite a stash of stuff to get excited about including the eagerly anticipated Cain the the Woods. Apparently I’m not the only one who can’t resist the pull of Whedon. But there’s more than that and Dale (Digital Doodles), Colleen (Mary Ostler Wood Butchery & Other Stuff) and I find a few other titles that peak our interest. Take me to space!
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With not much going on, there sure is a lot going on. We go gaga over the new Prometheus trailer. We have (row)three theatrical reviews to cover today and we touch down in Iran before cruising over to Jump Street and then we get our ass to Mars. We take our time, so bear with us and feel free to skip around the show but beware the full spoiler-discussion of A Separation – see the well deserved Oscar winning film before listening to that segment.
Kurt waxes ecstatically about the packaging and presentation of the new Special Edition BATTLE ROYALE DVD/BLU set. Hunger Games looms on the horizon.
Technically there was no show last week and the side effect of doing an Anniversary Clip-Show is that this week we have a lengthy Watch List to dive into. Watch out for the quick sand, subway squatters, slimey lawyers, Nick Cage as an Atlantic City Cop and Dennis Hopper’s chainsaw wielding antics! With this much off-beat violence, the show could be hazardous to your health. But feel free to indulge in your (Miami)vices and jump in feet first. You. Are. Invited.
As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!
Mamo has seen Cabin in the Woods, the three-years’-delayed Joss Whedon / Drew Goddard extravaganza that delivers on every conceivable level. We’re joined by fellow Whedonite Sasha James for a roundtable discussion of the Ascension of Joss.
Note: this conversation was, to whatever degree possible, spoiler-free.
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Will theatrical moviegoing die out, or evolve into something new? We talk to special guest stars Ned Loach and Robert Gontier from 360 Screenings, a new screening series coming to Toronto this spring, which will unite cinema and live performance to create a new level of immersion in the film’s story.
People have been screaming “BOMB!” at John Carter for longer than is, we think, strictly germane to the potential value (or lack of same) of the franchise. Now that the movie is out – and bombing – what happened? And while we’re on the subject, what happened to Eddie Murphy?
What is Gamble’s next door neighbor up to? Matt grades a special homework assignment this week and a variety of scenarios are proposed and considered in detail to the point where one member of the cinecast breaks out a pretty spectacular Ted Levine impression. Also theatrical reviews of Canadian Hockey Hoser-y happens in Goon. And the found-footage mega-party, Project X, not only brings the age-divide into stark relief but also results in an overall missed opportunity. The Watchlist covers a lot of ground: Robert Bresson, Danny Boyle, Errol Morris, Neil LaBute, Paul Greengrass, Nevaldine/Taylor, Martin Scorsese, Tim Roth, and delightful gay men. Onward!
As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!
