Comments on: Film Junk Podcast Episode #155: Right At Your Door and The Assassination of Jesse James

By: Henrik

Henrik — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:52:48 +0000

I know, right?

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:57:49 +0000

YES! YES! YES! Henrik you are a genius!

By: Henrik

Henrik — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:34:08 +0000

And I think you should name the podcast “Google that Bitch!”.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:15:11 +0000

Yeah I think that we can all agree that Terminator 2 is pretty much the perfect sci-action movie.

By: Rian

Rian — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:07:51 +0000

Jay:

I don’t recall any of the advertising for T2, I am 100% on your side in believing that it shouldn’t have given away the true motives of Arnold’s character. Regardless, T2 is certainly one of those movies that I wish I could watch for the first time again to have the experience of seeing it with no expectations or prior knowledge. Definitely one of the best action movies of all time.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:09:01 +0000

Singe was so awesome, Google that Bitch! Singe is Greg times 100. (no offense greg)

By: Jay C.

Jay C. — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:18:21 +0000

Rian,

That’s a fair enough assessment. But even going with your theory, it still supports my original annoyance; it was basically impossible to even think that they were both bad guys because we KNEW one was a good guy, and we knew the good guy was Arnold.

Either way, the movie still kicks ass.

By: Rian

Rian — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:49:02 +0000

On the subject of the Terminator II debate surrounding the mystery of who is good and who is evil at the beginning of the film, I am leaning toward Jay’s opinion on the matter, but I honestly feel that I have to disagree with both he and Henrik. I saw T2 when I was pretty young, so I don’t recall how I viewed the movie that first time, but it occurs to me that based on the way that both Arnold and Robert Patrick act at the beginning of the film, a first time viewer with no prior knowledge of the plot may assume that both characters are evil. Think about it. In the first film (if I remember correctly) Kyle Reese obviously experiences some adverse effects to the time travel he’s just been through and is immediately a sympathetic character because of his discomfort and the fact that it seems more like he’s trying to survive rather than mindlessly hunt down and murder someone. IN T2, both Robert and Arnold start out the film acting the way that Arnold did in the first film, hinting that they are both Terminators and not humans, hence their ease in enduring the effects of time travel. Then, if we’re to immediately assume that they are both Terminators, based solely on what we know from the first movie, there’s no reason that we should expect either of them to be a good guy as, for all we know, all Terminators are evil. Also, immediately both of them appear rather cold and violent towards the first people they meet. I think that if I were to see Terminator 2 tomorrow for the first time with no prior knowledge of what it’s about aside from what I saw in the previous film, I might actually think that James Cameron had decided to up the ante by having two evil robots trying to kill the same kid up until the mall sequence occurs and one of them is shown to be a good guy. Thoughts?

By: Rian

Rian — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:35:32 +0000

Please tell me that “Cop Corner” with Singe (<– sp?) will be a new regular addition to the site along with the Film Junk Podcast, Cantankerous, and Fishing With Tom. That stuff at the end where Jay was conducting the pseudo-interview with Jeremy was extremely entertaining.

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:55:43 +0000

I think Mick Mars has some kind of disease actually. You gotta cut that guy some slack. But yes, they were seriously fucked up for a long time.

Their Carnival of Sin tour kicked ass though. Midgets tossing and hot, naked, trapeze artists, Tommy Lee’s boob camera, Tommy Lee flying over the audience from drum kit to drum kit. It’s pretty frakkin rad.

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:36:47 +0000

POINTS (in reverse order):

1 – Right at Your Door: really? You guys thought the acting was bad? It wasn’t Oscar worthy, but it was alright I thought. I think Rory Cochrane (stoner from Dazed and Confused – also in a pretty decent mini-series called The Company) is great in it actually.

2 – Dar. Thanks to the Jun Horde, he is the last of the Emerites and the world’s greatest hero.

3 – Brad Pitt is NOT the lead in Jesse James. Don’t get me started on the bullshit that is Affleck being up for supporting actor when he’s clearly the lead in the film.

4 – Southland Tales. That movie is a complete MESS! I was actually looking forward to the strange casting, thinking that would sort of make it fun; but it does not work at all. WAY too many things trying to happen at once with way too many ridiculous characters with way too much existential bullshit. HOWEVER, I actually kind of liked the Timberlake musical number. He’s awesome in it. You can see it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgbuuUIMHq8

I still like it even though it’s in the movie for no reason and this is a shitty quality version. I love the end where instead of just breaking loose, he just stands there and stares into space.

By: Jay C.

Jay C. — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:01:42 +0000

“Oh and Arnold is friendly, asking for the clothes, boots and bike, whereas T-1000 is violent right away.”

He said the same thing in the first Terminator. Friendly certainly didn’t pay off in that instance.