Eight of us are on the mics tonight.

Thanks to Jeff Bailey, fellow Back Seat Producer working on Back Seat Box Office, for leaving the voicemail that kicks off the episode.

Your producers for this episode are:

• Tony
• Julie
• David
• Melina
• Darrell
• Paul
• Luke
• Kim

This episode was recorded Friday, December 13th, 2013.

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We found this article the day after recording.  Enjoy the relevance.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/4/scientists-only-amatteroftimetofindextraterrestriallife.html

Listener Neal has pointed out that Europa Report had an ‘on demand’ release prior to its theatrical run.

Stolen from Wikipedia: The film was released on Video on Demand, iTunes, and Google Play Movies on June 27, 2013, and was released theatrically on August 2, 2013.

Filmlichter

Directed by Jean

• Claude Schlim

Produced by

• Bob Bellion

Written by

• Jean-Claude Schlim
• Christian Thiry

Cast

• Layke Anderson – Frank
• Gintare Parulyte – Rita
• Benn Northover – Jake

• No one is happy with Tony for his choice of Skanksgiving movie.
• David did not get the gayness he was hoping for.
• David is a sucker for that banana-shaped carrot.
• NOT GAY ENOUGH!
• Act 1 – awesomeness, everything else after that – wait, what?
• Stephen Fry and his amazing amount of disdain for Reagan.
• Tony gets technical… AIDS, the gay plague, GRIDS.
• Udo Kier singing… in drag… in German.
• “Does it entice you when I lick this thing like that?”
• Magic Mike comparisons.
• The authority on guys… Jolie or the other guys?
• Panty-dropper and jock strap-dropper.
• There was a distinct lack of penis in this movie!
• I did not expect the AIDS, either.
• More penis, less AIDS.
• Denver, the Last Dinosaur and its gay subtext.
• The Gay Hangover.
• Glimpses of awesomeness.
• Revenge masturbation.
• Sex is deadly… that’s all.
• The ever-so-sexy tomato!
• Football.  Yes, football.
• Ghostbusters.
• Star Wars stuffs.
• Walking Dead… the tank!  Tony seems a smidge TOO excited.
• Netflix is a lying jerkface!
• Cat adventures.
• Sausagefest…we’re enablers.
• Idris Elba… every man’s dream.
• Let’s not bring the room down with AIDS… abortions now!
• Cards Against Humanity, of course!
• 10 Incredible facts about the anus.
• The euphoric rush of strangling a drifter.
• You know the rules, Darrell… penises are always funny, vaginas are always serious!
• It’s too big for my mouth, Tony.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Jolie
• David

This episode was recorded:  11/27/13

United Artists

Directed by

• Woody Allen

Produced by

• Charles H. Joffe

Written by

• Woody Allen
• Marshall Brickman

Cast

• Woody Allen – Isaac Davis
• Diane Keaton – Mary Wilkie
• Michael Murphy – Yale Pollack
• Mariel Hemingway – Tracy
• Meryl Streep – Jill Davis

• Woody Allen the person vs. Woody Allen the Director/Actor.
• Also, Jerry Seinfeld.
• Jolie’s brief history of Woody Allen, Stand-up Comedian.
• Why not watch Crimes and Misdemeanors instead?
• Wait… Paul?
• Princess Bride reference!
• Movember.
• Somebody’s always making the duckface.
• The proper way to announce an affair in the 70’s.
• Cards Against Humanity. Because Cards Against Humanity.
• Oh, that’s right… there’s a movie to talk about.
• David’s lack of knowledge of New York landmarks.
• The discussion takes a slightly uncomfortable turn.
• Walking Dead.
• Movie talk!  Not Woody Allen, but still.
• Lando’s pimp ship.
• Wang test.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

• Woody Allen disliked his work in Manhattan so much that he offered to direct another movie for United Artists if they would permanently shelf Manhattan.  He later said, “At this point in my life, if this is the best I can do, they shouldn’t give me money to make movies.”
• This was also the most commercially successful film of his career.
• This is one of eight cinematic collaborations with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.
•  This is one of five cinematic collaborations with Woody Allen and Wallace Shawn.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Jolie
• David

This episode was recorded:  11/13/13

Warner Bros. Pictures

Directed

• Alfonso Cuaron

Produced

• David Heyman
• Alfonso Cuaron

Written

• Alfonso Cuaron
• Jonas Cuaron

Cast

Sandra Bullock

• Dr. Ryan Stone

George Clooney

• Lt. Matt Kowalski

Ed Harris (voice)

• Mission Control

In the meantime, here are some out of context (or are they?) quotes from the episode:

David: “I know when I deprive myself of oxygen, Clooney’s the first place that I go.”

Tony: “Do solar winds whistle through your face?”

Jolie: “I’m a gender betrayer.”

David: “I’m well-versed in crazy… …we’re eskimo brothers.”

• The art of harassment, by David.
• Vin Diesel vs. The Rock.
• Gravity… many thumbs up.
• Mixed reviews of 3D effects.
• Reality spoils everything.
• Damn you, Neil deGrasse Tyson!
• Lung control… Back Seat Producers vs. Sandra Bullock.
• Can you bend in a space suit?
• Lack of oxygen or dream?
• The conversation devolves. Thanks, David.
• The science (maybe) of space death.
• No nipples or bulges.
• The mechanics of space sex.
• Astroglide.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Jolie
• David

This episode was recorded:  10/30/13

Blazing Saddles – February 7, 1974

Director: Mel Brooks
Producer: Michael Hertzberg
Writers: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Al Uger
Actors: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise
Distributor: Warner Bros.

The course of the conversation:

This is a combo-episode, inspired by and releasing for the Back Seat Producers as well.

Sausagefest is discussed.  You can continue to donate at sausagefeststl.com.

We were asked to respond to a past BSP episode.  Jonathan’s been holding a grudge about Blazing Saddles for a while.

Jonathan explains We Just Watched a Movie a bit.

When did you first experience Mel Brooks and or Blazing Saddles?

In defense of Gene Wilder.

Madeline Kahn is simply incredible.

Slim Pickens walks a tight rope.

The guys talk about racism.  Shocking.

Jonathan diverges into talking about The Simpsons.

Jonathan diverges into talking about Penny Arcade.

Racism seems much more prominent today than when BSP was recording.

It’s too bad this movie couldn’t be made today.

Mel Brooks is at his best when he parodies a genre, not a specific movie.

Jonathan diverges into talking about Grand Theft Auto 5.

The Way of the Game would like to apologize to our listeners for Nathaniel.

Blame the damned dirty apes.

www.jackmangan.com

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Lionsgate

Directed

• Pete Travis

Produced

• Alex Garland
• Andrew MacDonald
• Allon Reich

Written

• Alex Garland

Based on Judge Dredd by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra

Cast

• Karl Urban – Judge Dredd
• Olivia Thirlby – Judge Cassandra Anderson
• Wood Harris – Kay
• Lena Headey – Ma-Ma

• Dresden audio books.
• Harry is a dick.
• If you start as an a-hole and you stay an a-hole and is a-holish in the same ways…
• Bless you, Darrell.
• Again, Darrell.
• Dredd.
• Best interpretation based on the comic books.
• Karl Urban had the frown!
• Great cinematography.
• The life and times of Lena Headey.
• Red eye… Kitt and cylons.
• Some of the action went to ridiculous places.
• A good way to spend a rainy afternoon if you’re looking for an action movie.
• Can someone get Darrell a lozenge?
• The comic book is written in real time.
• This movie felt like a pilot.  A good pilot.
• New comedy TV pilots.
• Man of Steel & Superman.
• Superman’s mullet.
• Cat poop.
• Batman can’t stop thinking about sex.
• There’s very few causes better than boobs.

Trivial bits & pieces:

• Some of Ma-Ma’s tattoos are Lena Headey’s actual tattoos, that were expanded by the make-up artists.
• Body count: 102
• The graffiti throughout Peach Trees has names of characters from the Judge Dredd strip, such as Chopper and Kenny Who?

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David

This episode was recorded:  9/18/13

It’s almost time for Sausagefest!  Check out the website for a list of perks and how to donate.  We’re up to $720 so far so dig into your pockets and help us to support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

www.sausagefeststl.com

There are 3 different versions of this episode.

• Version A: Split Audio/Stereo – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear our voices in your left ear and the guitars in the right.
• Version B: Mixed Audio/Mono – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear both our voices and the music in either ear (or both).
• Version C: Voice Only/Mono (This Version) – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear just our voices.  This one is shorter because I cut out the pauses where we are playing our instruments.  You might also hear some background string plucking that our vocal mics picked up.

Show notes to follow.

There are 3 different versions of this episode.

• Version A: Split Audio/Stereo – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear our voices in your left ear and the guitars in the right.
• Version B: Mixed Audio/Mono (This Version) – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear both our voices and the music in either ear (or both).
• Version C: Voice Only/Mono – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear just our voices.  This one is shorter because I cut out the pauses where we are playing our instruments.  You might also hear some background string plucking that our vocal mics picked up

Show notes to follow

There are 3 different versions of this episode.

• Version A: Split Audio/Stereo (This version) – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear our voices in your left ear and the guitars in the right.
• Version B: Mixed Audio/Mono – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear both our voices and the music in either ear (or both).
• Version C: Voice Only/Mono – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear just our voices.  This one is shorter because I cut out the pauses where we are playing our instruments.  You might also hear some background string plucking that our vocal mics picked up.

Show notes to follow.

Topics of discussion in alphabetic order… just to mess with you.

• Alan Moore
• Andrew Vachss
• Aliens destroyed Metropolis, it took a human to rebuild it.
• Alien vagina monster
• Argo
• Batman: The Ultimate Evil
• Ben Affleck direct a Bat Movie… please!
• Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, Yo!
• Ben Affleck’s Filmography
• Ben Affleck as Superman
• Breaking Bad
• Breaking Bad as the origin story of Lex Luthor
• Brian Cranston
• Cast of Armageddon
• Cast of Daredevil
• Christian Bale
• Christopher Nolan
• Daredevil
• Dark Knight Returns
• Death of Zod
• Elektra
• Gene Hackman was awesome. But was he Lex Luthor?
• Gigli
• Gone Baby Gone
• Heath Ledger
• Hollywoodland
• I will never kill… again.
• It was 10 YEARS AGO!
• It’s all part of the plan.
• Jersey Girl
• Joe Johnston
• Kevin Conroy
• Kevin Costner
• Kevin Smith
• Kevin Spacey was wasted.
• Lara nails it. Tee and Tony almost lost it.
• Man of Steel
• Man of Steel 2: The Fan Trailer
• Michael Bay
• Michael Clarke Duncan IS The Kingpin
• Michael Shannon
• No Bat-voice, please.
• Oscars
• Paycheck
• Potential Ideas for Man of Steel 2
• Punisher: Dirty Laundry
• Riddick
• Russell Crowe
• Script Solidity
• Shakespeare in Love
• Skyfall
• Smokin’ Aces
• Subtle Crystal Ship
• Sucker Punch – Tony and Tee disagree
• Superman II and being a sociopath
• Superman Returns
• Super-n00b vs. Super Soldier
• Superstalker or Superdad?
• The Town
• Thomas Jane
• V for Vendetta
• Vin Diesel
• Watchmen
• You can be my Lex Luthor anytime.
• Zack Snyder

Buena Vista Pictures

Written and directed by

• Bobcat Goldthwait

Produced by

• Jeff Culotta

Cast

• Joel Murray – Frank Murdoch
• Tara Lynn Barr – Roxanne “Roxy” Harmon

• Tales of sausages and Gencon.
• Fantasy Football.
• Comparing finger tingles.
• Little Miss Entrepreneur.
• More Gencon.
• Sausagefest!
• Thank you, Canadians.
• Hated it. Loved it.
• Natural Born Killers-light.
• Mental high five!
• This movie is a Revenge Fantasy.
• Sausage is the Avenging Spirit.
• George Carlin.
• Was he a hypocrite?
• “Why do I have these headaches?”  “How should I f***ing know?”
• Reminded of Red State… but better than Red State.
• Memories of Shakes the Clown.
• Time to pull it out!

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Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David

This episode was recorded:  8/21/13

Buena Vista Pictures

Directed by

• Robert Zemekis

Produced by

• Frank Marshall
• Robert Watts

Screenplay by

• Jeffrey Price
• Peter S. Seaman

Based on Who Censored Roger Rabbit?  by Gary K. Wolf

Cast

• Bob Hoskins – Eddie Valiant
• Charles Fleischer – (Voice) Roger Rabbit
• Christopher Lloyd – Judge Doom
• Kathleen Turner (Voice) Jessica Rabbit

• Picking people up at the airport.  Yeah.
• Video game talk.
• Spoiler! Judge Doom framed Roger Rabbit!
• Still a fun movie.
• Cool World – the poor man’s Jessica Rabbit.
• She’s just drawn that way… as her shape changed throughout the movie!
• For its time, the animation’s pretty fair.
• Sequel? Really??
• Toon Town was always funny.
• 25 years later, you pick up the adult themes.
• More Naked & Afraid.
• Don’t go skinny dipping in Sweden.
• Christopher Lloyd is always awesome.

Trivial Bits:

Although the film’s title is a question, it is not in the movie title because that is considered bad luck in the film industry.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• David
• Stingray!

This episode was recorded:  8/13/13

Directed by

• Guillermo del Toro

Produced by

• Thomas Tull
• Jon Jashni
• Guillermo del Toro
• Mary Parent

Screenplay by

• Travis Beacham
• Guillermo del Toro

Story by

• Travis Beacham

Cast

• Charlie Hunnam – Raleigh Becket
• Idris Elba – Stacker Pentecost
• Rinko Kikuchi – Mako Mori
• Charlie Day – Dr. Newton Geiszler

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David
• Sam
This episode was recorded: 8/7/13

Artisan Entertainment

Directed by and screenplay written by

• Darren Aronofsky

Produced by

• Darren Aronofsky
• Eric Watson
• Scott Vogel

Story by

• Darren Aronofsky
• Sean Gullette
• Eric Watson

Cast

• Sean Gullette – Maximillian Cohen
• Mark Margolis – Sol Robeson
• Ben Shenkman – Lenny Meyer

• The science of Back to the Future.
• “It is appropriately offensive to all of the senses.”
• Or… was he just crazy?
• Great editing and music.
• Not sure if the Wall St. story line was strong enough.
• Is he hallucinating or is he seeing what he thinks he’s seeing?
• Comparing the compulsive ideas of Super and Pi
• There was religion and business… it would have been interesting to add a political story, as well.
• Or is Sol the political line?
• “This is guerilla filmmaking at its best.”
• Props to Fatbeats.
• Condoleeza Rice.

Trivial Bits:

• This movie cost $60,000 to make, which was mostly raised by individual $100 contributions from the Aronofsky’s family and friends.  When it was bought by Artisan Entertainment, every contributor received a $150 return on their investment.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David

This episode was recorded:  7/31/13

IFC Films

Written and directed by

• James Gunn

Produced by

• Ted Hope
• Miranda Bailey

Cast

• Rainn Wilson – Frank Darbo/The Crimson Bolt
• Ellen Page – Libby/Boltie
• Live Tyler – Sarah Helgeland
• Kavin Bacon – Jacques
• Nathan Fillion – The Holy Avenger

• Predictions of the ending of How I Met Your Mother.
• Shut up, crime!
• Darrell drops some James Gunn/St. Louis knowledge.
• Shut up, crime!
• Liv Tyler… necessary?
• The glorious Kevin Bacon.
• Ellen Page.  Still Juno, but not Juno.
• Rob Zombie!
• Ever wanted to know what happens when you smack someone upside the head with a monkey wrench?
• These are my two perfect moments.
• All the eggs.
• The proper applications of Superhero sex.
• Darkness makes the end good.
• All it takes to become a Superhero is the choice to fight evil.
• Ellen Page and Anna Paquin.
• Ellen channeling Kermit the Frog.
• More on Chloe Moretz.
• If you’re going to be Naked and Afraid in the wilderness, you want to be with women… no, not just for that reason.
• The Mentalist and Red John.

Trivial Bits:

• When Liv Tyler is in her rehab group session near the end of the movie, she can be heard saying. “F#*ked up, insecure, neurotic and emotional.”  This is a nod to her father (Steven Tyler) and Aerosmith’s 1980’s song “FINE” which is an acronym for that line.
•  Body count – 19

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David

This episode was recorded:  7/23/13

ERBP

Written and directed by

• Shane Carruth

Produced by

• Shane Carruth
• Casey Gooden
• Ben LeClair
• Scott Douglass

Cast

• Amy Seimetz – Kris
• Shane Carruth – Jeff
• Andew Sensenig – Sampler
• Thiago Martins – Thief

• The demise of David’s beard *lights candle*
• Hangin’ out with Hermoine.
• Watch the movie, then go back and watch the first 10 minutes again.
• Fantastic sound and soundtrack.
• 2001, Primer, Upstream Color… it’s all on you, people.
• Fantasy? Hmmm.
• It all revolves around the piglets?
• “Oh, I hope those piglets will be fine.”  “Umm, keep walking.”
• Tony attempts to explain what this movie is about.
• Psychic link to the pig.
• Darrell makes the call on cancer.
• Idris Elba detour.
• What’s the Walden connection?
• It’s a beautiful movie.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David

This episode was recorded:  7/10/13

There are 3 different versions of this episode.

• Version A: Split Audio/Stereo – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear our voices in your left ear and the guitars in the right.
• Version B: Mixed Audio/Mono – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear both our voices and the music in either ear (or both).
• Version C: Voice Only/Mono (This Version) – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear just our voices.  This one is shorter because I cut out the pauses where we are playing our instruments.  You might also hear some background string plucking that our vocal mics picked up.

Let us know what you think of our little experiment, good or bad.

Release date – 6/11/2012

Roadside Attractions

Directed by

• Debra Granik

Produced by

• Anne Rosellini
• Alix Madigan

Written by

• Debra Granik
• Anne Rosellini

Based on Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

• Ree Dolly

John Hawkes

• Teardrop Dolly

• Thriller? Not so much.  Investigation?  More like that.
• Yes, Jennifer Lawrence is talented.
• Everybody move to Missouri!
• And hillbillies.
• Chainsaw?  What?
• Detour to This Is The End
• The WHAT fight? (No, really.  I listened to that three times.)
• Channing Tatum love.
• James Franco fan club.
• Hereafter
• Yes, I do deserve an award.
• Pacific Rim & Transformers

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• David

This episode was recorded:  7/03/13

There are 3 different versions of this episode.

• Version A: Split Audio/Stereo – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear our voices in your left ear and the guitars in the right.
• Version B: Mixed Audio/Mono (This Version) – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear both our voices and the music in either ear (or both).
• Version C: Voice Only/Mono – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear just our voices.  This one is shorter because I cut out the pauses where we are playing our instruments.  You might also hear some background string plucking that our vocal mics picked up.

Let us know what you think of our little experiment, good or bad.

Release date – 6/11/2012

Roadside Attractions

Directed by

• Debra Granik

Produced by

• Anne Rosellini
• Alix Madigan

Written by

• Debra Granik
• Anne Rosellini

Based on Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

• Ree Dolly

John Hawkes

• Teardrop Dolly

• Thriller? Not so much.  Investigation?  More like that.
• Yes, Jennifer Lawrence is talented.
• Everybody move to Missouri!
• And hillbillies.
• Chainsaw?  What?
• Detour to This Is The End
• The WHAT fight? (No, really.  I listened to that three times.)
• Channing Tatum love.
• James Franco fan club.
• Hereafter
• Bass & guitar lessons… kinda.
• Yes, I do deserve an award.
• Pacific Rim & Transformers

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• David
• Fatbeats McGee

This episode was recorded:  7/03/13

There are 3 different versions of this episode.

• Version A: Split Audio/Stereo (This version) – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear our voices in your left ear and the guitars in the right.
• Version B: Mixed Audio/Mono – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear both our voices and the music in either ear (or both).
• Version C: Voice Only/Mono – If you listen to this version, you’ll hear just our voices.  This one is shorter because I cut out the pauses where we are playing our instruments.  You might also hear some background string plucking that our vocal mics picked up.

Let us know what you think of our little experiment, good or bad.

Release date – 6/11/2012

Roadside Attractions

Directed by

• Debra Granik

Produced by

• Anne Rosellini
• Alix Madigan

Written by

• Debra Granik
• Anne Rosellini

Based on Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

• Ree Dolly

John Hawkes

• Teardrop Dolly

• Thriller? Not so much.  Investigation?  More like that.
• Yes, Jennifer Lawrence is talented.
• Everybody move to Missouri!
• And hillbillies.
• Chainsaw?  What?
• Detour to This Is The End
• The WHAT fight? (No, really.  I listened to that three times.)
• Channing Tatum love.
• James Franco fan club.
• Hereafter
• Bass & guitar lessons… kinda.
• Yes, I do deserve an award.
• Pacific Rim & Transformers

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• David
• Fatbeats McGee

This episode was recorded:  7/03/13

Warner Bros. Pictures

Directed by

• Zack Snyder

Produced by

• Christopher Nolan
• Charles Rovan
• Emma Thomas
• Deborah Snyder

Screenplay by

• David S. Goyer

Story by

• Christopher Nolan
• David S. Goyer

Based on Superman by

• Jerry Siegel
• Joe Shuster

Cast

• Henry Cavill – Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman
• Amy Adams – Lois Lane
• Michael Shannon – General Zod
• Kevin Coster – Jonathan Kent
• Diane Lane – Martha Kent
• Russell Crowe – Jor-El

• Note for next week… Bone, bone, bone, bone… bone.
• Liked it… decent… best.
• More Krypton than all the other movies.
• Much Zack Snyder love, but…
• Genetically engineered Kryptonians.
• The hosts change up the sequences to improve some parts of the movie.
• Tips on how to make the 2^nd Man of Steel better.
• Suicide by Superman.
• Satellite & tanker trucks.
• Henry Cavill… a whole bunch of awesome!
• Who doesn’t love a down to earth Superman?
• Zod’s badassery.
• Supersuits are super!
• Lois Lane, thank you for having a brain.
• Thumbs up to Jor-El.
• Kevin Costner was fantastic, but mixed reviews on some of his scenes.
• More Martha, please.
• The backstory worked as flashbacks.
• “Welcome to the Planet.”
• Jimmy/Jenny
• Jor-El vs. Jonathan Kent
• Zod’s motivation… pros and cons.
• Action!!
• If I was invincible, THIS is how I would fight.
• The superheroey-est fight of all fights.
• Laser eyes!
• The hosts approve of chest hair.
• Superman inspires.
• Batman vs. Superman: one of them is meant to inspire, one of them is meant to terrorize.
• Building a better Lex Luthor.
• Scott’s dubstep destruction machine.

Trivial bits:

• This film was set to release in June, 2013, which is the 75^th anniversary of Superman.
• This is the first Superman movie not to have “Superman” in the title, and also the first live action Superman movie not to feature Jimmy Olsen.
• Henry Cavill met Russell Crowe years earlier when he was an extra in Proof of Life; he received words of encouragement from Crowe, who was his favorite actor.
• Cavill (who has a naturally hairy chest) was the one who insisted that Superman have chest hair in this film.  He rejected the notion that you couldn’t have chest hair and be muscular, and he cited the comic book arc Death of Superman as a representation of Superman with a hairy chest.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David

This episode was recorded:  6/26/13

Release date – 10/26/2012

Warner Bros. Pictures

Directed by

• The Wachowskis
• Tom Tykwer

Produced by

• Grant Hill
• Stefan Arndt
• Lana Wachowski
• Tom Tykwer
• Andy Wachowski

Screenplay by

• Lana Wachowski
• Tom Tykwer
• Andy Wachowski

Based on Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Cast (each playing numerous characters)

• Tom Hanks
• Halle Berry
• Jim Broadbent
• Hugo Weaving

• Cat anatomy!
• And the movie…
• Some parts good, some parts cheesy.
• Hugo Weaving IS Nurse Ratched.
• Jim Broadbent’s story line is the best.
• You have to really pay attention to this movie.
• David digs vignettes.
• Certain story lines climax early… oh yeah…
• Soylent Green is people!
• Every story, in some way, advances the idea of being free.
• Hugo Weaving was great in every character.
• Tom Hanks was a weak person (character) who becomes strong.
• Hugh Grant = old, crust Mick Jagger.
• How to survive a disaster & self-defense tips from your hosts.
• If you can make your way through the whole movie, there’s a good payoff.
• Don’t watch the movie in parts; you need to see it all at once.

Trivial bits:

• The film was shot with two parallel filming units, one under the helm of Tykwer and one under the direction of the Wachowski siblings.  They shared no crew members beside the cast and the directors themselves.
• With a budget of over $100,000,000, Cloud Atlas is one of the most expensive independent films to date.
• The character played by actress Amanda Walker (Veronica Costello) is based on Elvis Costello’s song Veronica, which tells the story of an old lady that is spending her final days in a nursing house, like the Veronica from this movie.
• All the characters played by Hugh Grant and Hugo Weaving are villains.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David

This episode was recorded:  6/19/13

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Directed by

• Benh Zeitlin

Produced by

• Josh Penn
• Dan Janvey
• Michael Gottwald

Screenplay by

• Lucy Alibar
• Benh Zeitlin

Based on Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar

Cast

Quvenzhane’ Wallis

• Hushpuppy

Dwight Henry

• Wink

• The wonderment that is Redbox.
• The first half wasn’t that good, the second have was great.
• The girl was a perfect fit for the role, well-acted and emotionally charged.
• What is that huge, hulking, bore-looking thing?
• Fantasy embellishments.
• You might not see it at first, but it is a hopeful movie.
• Anne Hathaway vs. Quvenzhane’ Wallis.
• Okay… it’s Kwah-VAY-Jah-Nay.
• Argo vs. Beasts of the Southern Wild vs. Django Unchained.
• No surprise… Man of Steel discussion.
• Beast it!

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• David

This episode was recorded:  6/12/13

Paramount Pictures

Directed by

• J.J. Abrams

Produced by

• J.J. Abrams
• Bryan Burk
• Damon Lindelof
• Alex Kurtzman
• Robert Orci

Written by

• Roberto Orci
• Alex Kurtzman
• Damon Lindelof

Based on Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry

Cast

• Chris Pine – Captain James T. Kirk
• Zachary Quinto – Commander Spock
• Zoe Saldana – Lieutenant Nyota Uhura
• Karl Urban – Lt. Commander Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy
• Simon Pegg – Lt. Commander Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
• John Cho – Lieutenant Hikaru Sulo
• Anton Yelchin – Ensign Pavel Chekov
• Benedict Cumberbatch – John Harrison/Khan

Hosts thoughts

• Disagreements begin with the title!
• BLEEP!
• General consensus… a good movie but a few problems.
• Are the homages too much fan service?
• The ending was a little too tidy.
• Darrell wanted something original.
• Passionate views on Spock, Spock and Khan.
• They need to get away from Earth.
• Enough with the five year mission!
• So, where’s this Darkness you speak of?
• Plot hole.
• Buckaroooo!
• Retooled Super Heroes and Legends.
• Stop hitting the table!
• Benedict was a good Khan.
• Shatner & Montalban vs. Pine & Cumberbatch.
• A better ending would have been…
• Kirk as a warrior, rouge or fall-guy?
• Scotty, the unsung hero.
• Predictions on the next Star Trek movie.

Trivia bits ‘n pieces:

• J.J. Abrams said that the time travel-alternate reality concept was used to enable a reboot for new sagas/films.  It allows them to use ideas from the past or create new ones.
• Damon Lindelof’s favorite film title, including the joke titles, was “Star Trek: Transformers 4.”  He said, “It’s technically available, we can go there!”
• McCoy says, “Shut up Spock, we’re rescuing you!” in the opening sequence.  The original McCoy said the same line in the episode “The Immunity Syndrome.”

*Christopher Doohan, son of James (the original Scotty) Doohan, had a cameo appearance as a Transport Officer alongside the current Scotty, Simon Pegg.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony
• David

This episode was recorded:  6/5/13

The Weinstein Company

Directed and Written by

• Quentin Tarantino

Produced by

• Stacey Sher
• Reginald Hudlin
• Pilar Savone

Cast

Jamie Foxx

• Django Freeman

Christoph Waltz

• Dr. King Schultz

Leonardo DiCaprio

• Calvin J. Candie

Kerry Washington

• Broomhilda Von Shaft

• Screwed up movie, but very good and entertaining.
• Not really a western; more of a revenge picture.
• The movie is described in sex/orgasm terms.  Betcha didn’t see that coming!
• Christoph Waltz… GREAT!
• Hey, it’s Jonah Hill.
• Brilliant music choices.
• Samuel L. Jackson with hair – not to be trusted.
• Jamie Foxx’s best scene was where he is the Mandingo fighting expert.
• Discussions of Spike Lee claiming the movie is racist.
• The blood spatter was a bit too much.
• Leading vs. Supporting Actors.
• The dog scene… what about the dog scene?
• “The D is silent; payback won’t be.”
• Kerry Washington – “If there’s an award you can get for being less than a supporting actor… “
• Best Extra in a Movie.
• All in all, the hosts really liked the movie.

Trivia bits ‘n pieces:

• While filming in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Tarantino rented out a local movie theater to show samurai and western movies from his personal collection.
• Foxx used his own horse, Cheetah, in the movie.
• This was Jackson’s sixth collaboration being directed by Tarantino: True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained.
• Quentin revealed at Comic-Con that Django and Broomhilda are meant to be the great-great-great-grandparents of John Shaft.
• The n-word (or abbreviations of it) are said over 110 times in the movie.

Awards (partial list):

• Academy Awards – Best Supporting Actor (Waltz)
• BAFTA – Best Supporting Actor
• Golden Globes – Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino), Best Supporting Actor
• American Film Institute named Django Unchained was named one of their Top Ten Movies of the Year (2012)

*Christoph Waltz: this is the 2^nd time Waltz has won the same three awards… the 1^st was for Inglorious Basterds (also a Tarantino film)

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David

This episode was recorded:  5/29/13

Longtime listeners of BSP or BSBO might recognize Jonathan ‘The Stingray’ Holmberg as one of the hosts here.

We Just Watched a Movie is another movie review podcast who is less jackassy and more organized than BSP.  I make it a point to listen to very few movie review podcasts and this is one of them that I never miss.

Give these guys a listen and if you like what you hear, make sure you let them know that you enjoyed them in the Back Seat.  Seriously… make sure you say that exactly.  “You guys were awesome when I found you in the Back Seat!”

We’ll be back (hopefully) next week with Django Unchained.

Touchstone Pictures

Directed

• Steven Spielberg

Produced by

• Steven Spielberg
• Kathleen Kennedy

Screenplay by

• Tony Kushner

Based on Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis

• Abraham Lincoln

Sally Field

• Mary Todd Lincoln

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• Robert Todd Lincoln

Tommy Lee Jones

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Historical, but fun to watch.
• Two and a half hours of a movie about the law.
• Worst movie since Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunters.
• NOT about Lincoln, it’s about the Thirteenth Amendment.
• A mini-series about the Thirteenth Amendment might have been more interesting.
• (How’s that for across the board reviews?)
• Assume that the bulk of the audience that would see this movie probably believes that the Civil War was fought about slaves (only).
• A better movie: James Spader and Tommy Lee Jones’ wig on a buddy-cop adventure.
• If you love the law, don’t watch it being made.  And salad bars.
• James Spader was great.
• Darrell thought Sally Field’s portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln might have been the most accurate possible.
• There were a lot of things in the movie that were unnecessary to the story; things that just repeated and repeated bits of information about the Emancipation Proclamation and slavery.
• The hosts, for the most part, don’t like Spielberg’s attempt to force emotions.
• Disagreements over what were the important points in the movie.
• Very interesting side discussion about Ender’s Game.
• This movie was better when it was The American President.
• DeNiro does Lincoln.

Awards (partial list):

• American Film Institute – 2013 Movie of the Year
• Academy Awards – Actor in a Leading Role, Production Design
• BAFTA – Best Leading Actor
• Directors Guild of American – Outstanding Directorial Achievement
• Golden Globes – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture
• Screen Actors Guild Awards – Male Actor in a Leading Role, Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Jones)

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony
• David

This episode was recorded:  5/8/13

20^th Century Fox

Directed – Ang Lee

Produced by – Ang Lee, Gil Netter, David Womack

Screenplay by – David Magee

Based on Life of Pi by Yann Martell

Cast

Suraj Sharma – Piscine “Pi” Molitor, age 16

Irfan Khan – Pi, adult

Tabu – Gita Patel

• The list of upcoming movie reviews… connect the, umm, dots.
• Deuce (via email) – amazing!
• Tony – visuals lacking & animal special effects, not so good.
• Darrell – blown away, stunning visuals.
• David – liked it, but some aspects turned him off.
• A visually well told story.
• This movie damns religion (although not really about religion)… listen to find out why.
• Which story do we want to believe? NOT which story is true?
• Nature or humanity?
• Is human nature inherently good or evil?
• I need more tiger.
• Best scene… pee on the tarp, spray on his face.
• Is Gerard Depardieu the most recognizable name to US audiences?
• A brief trip into Great Gatsby land.
• Bad movie going experiences.

Trivia bits-n-pieces:

• 86% of the tiger shots were CGI, the rest (23 shorts) were real.  Some of the real tiger scenes were when Richard Parker was swimming in the water and couldn’t get back in without Pi’s help, most of the scenes where Pi is training the tiger with a stick and when the tiger scratches his claws on the hatch below.
• Tabu and Irrgan Khan, who played mother and son in  this film, previously played husband and wife in the film The Namesake.

Academy Awards

• Best Director
• Best Cinematography
• Best Visual Effects
• Best Original Score

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• David

This episode was recorded:  5/1/13

More notes to follow.

MGM/Columbia Pictures

Directed

• Sam Mendes

Produced by

• Michael G. Wilson
• Barbara Broccoli

Screenplay by

• Neal Purvis
• Robert Wade
• John Logan

Based on James Bond by Ian Fleming

Cast

Daniel Craig

• James Bond

Judi Dench

• M

Javier Bardem

• Raoul Silva

Ralph Fiennes

• Gareth Mallory

• Word Association!  Sun… Moon… Skyfall…
• Tony and Darrell saw a sneak preview of Defiance.
• Best parts… Javier Bardem, the opening credits with Adele, and Judi Dench.
• Favorite Bond songs.
• David didn’t like the movie until Bardem.
• Bond… old?
• Sacrificed by M?
• The Shanghai scene was great.
• Q was very cool.
• The set-up of the characters and relationships was handled very well.
• The Komodo Dragon was silly, but fun.
• “Skyfall” was a great turn and end of the movie.
• Shoot up the Aston Martin? Oh hell no!
• Allowing Bond and M to break away from their stoicism lifted their characters.
• “I like you better without your Beretta.”
• Was the rumor of Sean Connery supposed to be Kinkaid?
• Rating this Bond movie with Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale.

Trivia bits-n-pieces:

• It was rumored that Kevin Spacey was considered for the villain, but declined due to scheduling conflicts.
• M’s house is the former house of John Barry, the legendary Bond composer who passed away in 2011.  Both the score for Skyfall and the use of his house were tributes to Barry.

Awards (partial list):

• Academy Awards – Original Song, Sound Editing
• British Academy Film Awards – Outstanding British Film, Original Music
• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards – Best Action Movie, Best Song, Best Actor in an Action Movie

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony
• David

This episode was recorded:  4/17/13

Warner Bros. Pictures

Directed

• Ben Affleck

Produced by

• Grant Heslov
• Ben Affleck
• George Clooney

Screenplay by

• Chris Terrio

Based on The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez and The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman

Cast

Ben Affleck

• Tony Mendez

Bryan Cranston

• Jack O’Donnell

Alan Arkin

• Lester Siegel

John Goodman

• John Chambers

• If the intern was there, she’d have been screaming THE DREAM TEAM!
• Vaginas are always serious… a well-established fact.
• Mixed reviews
• A bit of comedy in the first half, then it tightened up.
• A good period piece for the 1970s.
• Also mixed reviews as to whether it should have won the Oscar.
• Affleck did a good job in not over-acting the character, but it might have been too much in the other direction.
• Hey, Argo F%#k yourself!
• The conversation quickly veers off to the other movies nominated for a Best Picture Oscar
• Nice touches that lent to the 1970s-ness of the movie.
• The Civil War would have been over in a week if they had Twitter
• #ShermansMarch
• #AtlantaBurns
• The would have liked a bit more Jack Kirby.
• The 70’s pornstache was brilliant!
• Oscar expectations, when seeing the movie after the fact, weren’t met.  BUT, still a good movie.
• David lists movies that he thought were better than Argo.
• Did it win Best Picture because of politics?
• Discussing past Best Picture winners and whether they were warranted.
• Thoughts on acting – well cast, well acted.
• Alan Arkin stole every scene he was in.
• Bryan Cranston goes all Walter White toward the end of the film!
• Why are so many movies nominated for Oscars?
• Netflix:  House of Cards, Hemlock Grove, Lilyhammer and Arrested Development
• This is the End

Trivia bits-n-pieces:

• In order to make the movie feel like the 1970s, Affleck shot it on regular film, cut the frames in half and blew the images up 200% to increase the graininess.
• Argo is the first movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture without a Best Director win since Crash (2005) and the first movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture without the Director being nominated since Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

Awards won (partial list):

• Academy Awards – Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing
• British Academy Film Award – Film, Director, Editing
• Critics Choice Awards – Picture, Director
• Golden Globe Awards – Picture/Drama, Director
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association – Screenplay
• National Board of Review Awards – Top 10 Films, Special Achievement in Filmmaking, Spotlight Award/John Goodman
• Directors Guild of America – Director
• Producers Guild of America – Picture
• Screen Actors Guild Awards – Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
• St. Louis Film Critics Awards (shout out to BSP’s homeland) – Film, Director

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony
• David

This episode was recorded:  4/10/13

Show notes will be updated soon.

This episode is dedicated to Andrew.

Walt Disney Studios

Directed

• Timo Vuorensola

Produced by

• Tero Kaukomaa
• Oliver Damian
• Cathy Overett
• Sam Horton
• James Wenban
• Mark Overett
• Samuli Torssonen

Screenplay by

• Michael Kalesniko
• Timo Vuorensola

Story by

• Johanna Sinisalo
• Jarmo Puskala (concept)

Cast

Julia Dietze

• Renata Richter

Gotz Otto

• Klaus Adler

The hosts review:

• Oscars chit chat & Walter White.
• Jennifer Lawrence & Kristin Stewart: one acted like a mouth-breather, one is…
• Someone found it better than A Good Day to Die Hard and Battleship.
• Someone just didn’t like it and couldn’t even get through it.
• Someone thought this movie was better than it deserved to be.
• I’ve got a space ship, you’ve got a space ship, everybody’s got a space ship!
• No nakedness… boo.
• Then let’s make a new horizon.
• So… a cheesy movie with moon Nazis.
• The music was not in the right place.
• Still… better than Four Rooms.
• Harlem Shake, because you can’t have any kind of conversation without that being brought up.
• David makes a disturbing discovery about the clothing that turns him on.
• Covering up guy-parts in Superman and Tron.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

• More than 10 percent of funding for this film came from fans. The donors are listed in the credits.
• The German customs office would not allow the film-makers to bring any Nazi costumes and regalia into Germany, but fortunately the makers of Inglorious Basterds helped director Vuorensola by revealing how they had circumvented the same problem.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• David
• Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 2/27/2013

Release date:  8/21/2009

Universal Pictures

Directed and Written by

• Quentin Tarantino

Produced by

• Lawrence Bender

Cast

Brad Pitt

• Lt. Aldo Raine

Christoph Waltz

• Col. Hans Landa

Melaine Laurent

• Shosanna

Eli Roth

• Sgt. Donny Donowitz

Samuel L. Jackson

• Narrator

The hosts review:

• Beer!
• Batman!
• No mistaking that this is a Tarantino movie.
• Each of the main characters (Aldo, Hans, Shosanna) has their own kind of morality that pushes them to do what they do.
• Or, is Hans Landa a bored, yet brilliant, sociopath?
• Is Aldo really just the same as Hans?
• Brad Pitt is great at playing these off-the-wall characters.
• Aldo Raine = homage to and poking fun at John Wayne
• The film within a film within a film!
• The basement bar scene… a whole bunch of busy dialogue, and then BOOM!
• The cameos were very good; Mike Myers, Rod Taylor and Harvey Keitel (voice).
• Changing lanes and discussing Clerks and Clerks 3, and Kevin Smith’s career.
• The music was all over the place, the soundtrack is fantastic.
• “Being in wool underwear will make you want to kill anything”
• “… and Hannah Montana.”

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

• Tarantino intended for this to be as much a war film as a spaghetti western, and considered titling the movie “Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France”.  Instead, that ended up being the title of the first chapter of the film.
• Cloris Leachman originally appeared in the film as Mrs. Himmelstein, an elderly Jewish woman living in Boston, drinking tea with Donny Donowitz (and signing his trademark baseball bat afterward).  This was cut from the final film, but Tarantino has said that he might use the footage in the prequel.
• Roughly only 30% of the film is in spoken English, the language which dominates the film is either French or German, with a little Italian.
• At the end of each take, actors would face the camera and say “Hello Sally”, referring to Sally Menke, the film’s editor.  This has been done with Tarantino’s previous movies (such as Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol 2 and Deathproof).  Inglourious Basterds was the last film by Tarantino to be edited by Menke, whose work was honored in 2010 with her final Academy Award nomination for Best Editing, prior to her death later that year.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 2/16/2013

Release date:  12/25/1995

Miramax Films

Directed and Written by

• Allison Anders
• Alexandre Rockwell
• Robert Rodriguez
• Quentin Tarantino

Produced by

• Lawrence Bender

Cast

Rim Roth

• Ted the Bellhop

“The Missing Ingredient”

Valeria Golino

• Athena

Ione Skye

• Eva

“The Wrong Man”

David Proval

• Sigfried

Jennifer Beals

• Angela

“The Misbehavers”

Antonio Banderas

• Man

Lana McKissack

• Sarah

“The Man from Hollywood”

Quentin Tarantino

• Chester Rush

The hosts review:

• Robert Rodriguez’ clip was good… kinda weird… enjoyable.
• Quentin Tarantino’s was also really good.
• “The Misbehavers” could have been a standalone short.
• “The Missing Ingredient”… missing a whole lot more.
• The reason you watch the whole thing, all four stories, is for the very last five minutes.
• The reason for some of the witches being topless didn’t make sense.
• It would have made more sense if “The Misbehavers” was first.
• Tarantino’s short was typical of his long films, long mundane dialogues that explode into insanity.
• What, exactly, brought these four writer/directors together?  And, was it a good idea?
• Alison Anders biography reads almost like a Tarantino script.
• Robert Rodriguez followed up the first three Spy Kids movies with Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
• The hosts can’t really recommend the whole movie, but the opening credits and Tim Roth’s movements were very Pink Panther-ish.
• Ione Skye… aged well, looked good!
• Madonna… meh, why was she there?
• A discussion of Madonna’s… oh, let’s just call it her movie career for the sake of argument.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

• “Five Rooms” was the original title of this movie, but Richard Linklater withdrew before production began.
• Salma Hayek is the dancing girl in TV in “The Misbehavers.”
• The role of Ted the Bellhop was originally written with Steve Buscemi in mind.
• Bruce Willis is not credited because he violated SAG rule by acting in this film for no money, doing it for fun and as a favor for Tarantino.  SAG agreed not to sue Willis if his name was not included in the credits.
• Robert Rodriguez and Antonio Banderas filed their segment one week after finishing Desperado.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 2/7/2013

Lionsgate

Directed by

• Paul Haggis

Produced by

• Michael Nozik
• Olivier Delbosc
• Paul Haggis
• Marc Missonnier

Screenplay by

• Paul Haggis

Based on Anything for Her by Fred Cavaye’, Guillaume Lemans

Cast

Russell Crowe

• John Brennan

Elizabeth Banks

• Lara Brennan

The hosts review:

• Reminiscing about the joy that was The Hobbit (The recording, not necessarily the movie).
• Watching a movie, sitting in a recliner, being waited on… this is the good life!
• Jennifer Lawrence is talented, don’t blame The Hunger Games.
• The many faces of Robert DeNiro.
• Two likes and one not-so-much.
• Discussing Paul Haggis’ career.  He’s come a long way from The Richie Rich/Scoobie Doo Show.
• Criticisms on how to rub a drug dealer.
• How does a person respond to such extreme circumstances?
• Elizabeth Banks… Olivia Wilde… Elizabeth Banks… Olivia Wilde… what to do?
• How bada$$ is Liam Neeson? Come on!
• Brian Dennehy is AWESOME.
• Was she really a murderer?  Was the recreation what really happened?
• Darrell would have preferred that scene be cut from the end.
• Should the detective have cared more?
• Darrell depressed Tony/Deuce.
• Tony liked the Lara/spinning car scene, as it seemingly jumped out from a mostly sedate movie.
• Once John’s plan was set, there wasn’t anything that was going to derail it.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

• The “bump key” procedure Crowe used actually does work on cylinder locks.
• The phone and fax numbers on the lab work are the real numbers for Med-Health Services in Monroeville, PA.
• Mark Isham, Haggis’ regular collaborator, didn’t compose this score due to their falling out over Haggis’ very public break from the Church of Scientology, of which Isham is still a member.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 1/24/2013

Universal Pictures

Directed by

• Terry Gilliam

Produced by

• Charles Roven

Screenplay by

• David Peoples
• Janet Peoples

Based on Le jetee by Chris Marker

Cast

Bruce Willis

• James Cole

Madeleine Stowe

• Kathryn Railly

Brad Pitt

• Jeffrey Goines

The hosts review:

• Pimpin’ Back Seat Book Club!
• Hugh Jackman is the Wolverine of singing.
• Les Miserables singing reviews.
• Loving and hating ABBA.
• P….a….c….i….n…g
• Great example of time-travel sci-fi.
• You can’t change time.
• Bob… another time traveler or Cole’s psychosis?
• “I wouldn’t mind seeing a Brad Pitt Joker”
• Brad Pitt’s rants made Fight Club unnecessary.
• Breakdown of Terry Gilliam’s successes.
• The music is insane and off, it works really well.
• “All I see are dead people.”
• Glad that it didn’t have a Hollywood ending.
• Time is fixed.  Time loops are fixed.  Time travelers are fixed.
• This sci-fi was a mind game, as opposed to special effects.
• Setting the movie in the year that it came out was a great move, but a few things didn’t age well.
• Any time you have a character in science fiction named Cassandra, PAY ATTENTION.
• Cole, as the time traveler, didn’t do actually change time himself.
• It wouldn’t have worked if it was faster paced, and it wouldn’t be a Terry Gilliam movie.
• On to Batman.
• Tony reads another of Goines’ rants.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

• Terri Gilliam gave Bruce Willis a list of “Willis acting clichés” NOT to use, including Steely Blue Eyes Look.
• Most of the actors took a pay cut because they wanted to work with Gilliam.
• In a scene where Cole is drawing his own blood, there is a shadow of a hamster in a wheel.  This took a whole day to film because the hamster wouldn’t move, and Gilliam is a perfectionist and insisted that this detail should work as intended.  For the rest of the production, Gilliam’s perfectionism was nick-named “The Hamster Factor.”

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 1/17/2013