Film Junk Podcast Episode #202: 2009 Movie Preview
0:00 – Intro
2:35 – Greg’s Story
10:25 – Headlines: Golden Globe Winners (In Progress), Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell in Iron Man 2
20:15 – What We Watched: The Visitor, In Bruges, Righteous Kill, The Wire, I Love Lucy, Dear Zachary, Days of Heaven, Bottle Rocket, Towelhead, Revolutionary Road
55:15 – Feature: 2009 Movie Preview
1:09:28 – Trailer Trash: Objectified, The Last House on the Left, Anvil! The Story of Anvil
1:27:28 – Junk Mail: Falling Down, JCVD, High School
1:41:35 – This Week’s DVD Releases
1:42:58 – Outro
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Yes! Just in time for my ride to work! And it’s my birthday – thanks for the podcast!!!
Posted by Bas on January 12th, 2009Dolph Lundgren is Swedish you berks.
Posted by swarez on January 12th, 2009Baltasar Kormakur, director of Jar City, was very close to directing Last House. He wanted to go further back to Ingmar Bergman’s Virgin Spring which probably why he didn’t get the gig.
Posted by swarez on January 12th, 2009An 8 minute Greg story? Can’t wait!
Posted by joe on January 12th, 2009home alone – NICE!
Posted by Bas on January 12th, 2009do you think the people who complain about “torture porn” in movies like “last house on the left” would say the same for the original bergman film “virgin spring” ? .. if its black and white and swedish does that make it better or less violent or intense?
Posted by blackmothra on January 12th, 2009I don’t think Bergman had somebody sawed to pieces with a chainsaw. But then I haven’t seen it.
Posted by swarez on January 12th, 2009I think that the original Last House is one of the first films that you could call “torture porn”.
Dolph Lundgren also has an Chemical Engineering degree. I think you guys need to do a Dolph Lundgren retrospective with much emphasis on Masters of the Universe but less on Johnny Mnemonic.
Posted by JakeTheFatMan on January 12th, 2009I’m sort of interested to see Astro Boy, which is supposed to be out late ‘09.
Also, The Brothers Bloom with Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz Rinko Kikuchi, and Adrian Brody looks awesome. It’s written/directed by Rian Johnson who did Brick, and that’s been pushed back a couple of times now.
And of course, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs could be awesome. The book is great.
Everything else you guys already mentioned. I agree this could be a really good year for movies.
Posted by richard on January 12th, 2009I may have mentioned this before, but back in 97/98 – and maybe earlier (i’ll go to that in a bit) I listened to Greg’s show on HTZ FM almost every week. I think Jay or at least the guys from Graze/Lightyear also did, in Stu’s car on the way home from one of a couple Toronto shows – either Catherine Wheel or the Bosstones. I remember coming home from Toronto and I think Greg was playing Amorphis, a Finnish folk-death metal band, and I remarked at how proud I was of my Finnish friends for breaking their 97.7 cherry.
From Greg’s show I won a couple contests too, and when I’d call in I would often be 4 of the 11 callers needed to get to in order to win. “You’re 4, try again. click” and I’d try and try again, and sure enough that one summer I was always home and near the phone as I listened to it, I won the Coal Chamber album and T-shirt, Beastie Boys tickets – which I traded to Stu for a number of albums he swore he purchased new, but I’m sure he bought used because he’s a cheap fucker like that. Remember popping into the White House of Rock which everyone said was haunted, grabbing that shit, seeing Christie Knight or whateverhernamewas, who looked and sounded like an awful cougar witch.
Ah, memories.
And I remember in another house I was living in, back in like 95, HTZ had a metal show and I remember the christmas episode playing a Judas Priest christmas song. I don’t know if that was Greg’s show though.
There was a competiting metal show starting in 98 on 107.1 called THe Big Unit, which was more mainstream, but I was able to win the entire Slayer catalogue off of.
Posted by Goon on January 12th, 2009oh, and I had a Gorguts album, they are still quite well regarded by the extreme metal community. Not many Canadian death metal bands from that era. There was Mundane, Entropy, Summertime Daisies, Sons of Otis, Kataklysm (still kicking around) and Another White Male.
Posted by Goon on January 12th, 2009Strapping Young Lad is an awesome Canadian metal band.
Posted by swarez on January 12th, 2009Devin Townsend is my favorite musician. So much to the point I dont even think of him as a Canadian musician – I guess he transcends nationality for me, even though he has a song called “Canada” and a tattoo of the Canada logo on his leg.
But since Gene Hoglan (Death, Dethklok, Death Angel, and maybe more bands that have ‘death’ in the name) is a member/such a force in SYL, I actually think that makes me think less of them as a Canadian band as well.
Posted by Goon on January 12th, 2009Richard: Bloom was okay. Saw it at TIFF. I like all of the actors in it, and it had some very funny moments.
Swarez: Big fan of STL. Townsend is a freak of nature.
Goon: The White House of Rock is a goddam scary place. I’m not sure if it’s haunted per se, but some very fucked up shit happened in there.
Amorphis was fun to play. The Big Unit show can suck my cock. It was shit and the host was a douche. I don’t even remember who it was. Why play a metal show if you’re gonna be tame? I remember when Slipknot’s IOWA came out. The Sunday before the release date I played 8 songs from it in two hours. You never got that anywhere else. I had carte blanche to play what I wanted. I do remember getting a letter from the CRTC (Canadian content government) for playing an unedited version of Metallica’s So What. Apparently, playing a song that contains the lyrics “I fucked a sheep, I fucked a goat, I rammed my cock right down it’s throat.” is frowned upon. I got to see some awesome shows through that metal program. Slayer/Pantera, White Zombie/Deftones/Panters, Disturbed opening up for Canadian metal chicks Kittie (they were not good), Sepultura. Megadeth at the KoolHaus, an accoustic Megadeth show at the Reverb where not only did Dave Mustaine dedicate Hangar 18 to me, I got to party with the band on their tourbus. I was hugged by each member of Megadeth when they found out that my station played the most Megadeth in all of Canada. Hilarious moment.
Posted by Greg on January 12th, 2009“Canadian metal chicks Kittie”
in 1998 I had a radio show on Brock called “Be Quiet and Drive” (was huge into the Deftones at the time), and I had Kittie on the show when they were nothing, simply because they wanted to come and be guests. I don’t know why I said yes, maybe because their now deceased manager father insisted and i was too weak to say no. Maybe because I was 18 and they were 16 and 2 of them were really cute. Either way they came, I played their demo, asked some questions, they just hung out. They actually REALLY knew their shit even though when they started out back then they were more of a nu metal band, they really knew all the underground stuff on Nuclear Blast, Earache, Candlelight, etc
So I was the first person to ever play Kittie on the radio, and am on the thank you list of their first album
– everyone has to be notorious for something I guess.
Posted by Goon on January 13th, 2009I had beers ones with G.G.Garth who produced Kitty and Rage Against The Machine.
He gave us a funny tidbit. Women, you can’t live with them and you can’t fuck beer.
Posted by swarez on January 13th, 2009What made it funnier was that the guy stutters like a mofo, hence his name.
Swarez…that stuttering thing is friggin’ hilarious.
Goon: I remember when Kittie kicked out the black girl in the band and shortly after that I had to interview them and was given notice by their management not to bring that up. That’s what people who liked the band wanted to know about. I asked anyway and got a lame answer. Oddly enough I was mysteriously no longer on the guestlist for the show. I was supposed to bring them on stage.
Posted by Greg on January 13th, 2009I’m not surprised, their dad/manager was pushy and at the beginning I’ve heard a lot of stories about how they didn’t realize the people you meet on the way up are the same people you meet on the way down. I think they’ve had more members than Spinal Tap at this point.
Posted by Goon on January 13th, 2009I’m a girl! I’m a guy! I’m a girl! I’m a guy!
Now to find out if I can OBTAIN a “High School” torrent. The hunt is on…
You guys rock!
Posted by Falsk on January 13th, 2009Greg’s Story is worthy of a short film. It’s crazy that the lady actually opened the door and got in…especially because it was tall Greg in a trench and shades.
Posted by Ryan M. on January 14th, 2009I agree with Greg in being oddly interested in Paul Blart: Mall Cop. I don’t know what it is, it looks and feels like a dumb movie, but it also looks like the perfect movie for Kevin James. I have a feeling it may be one of those movies you catch on TV and have to watch 15 mins of like Elf, or Anchorman.
Avatar has got to be the most anticipated! Come on, new Cameron – it could be a whole new Terminator like franchise ready to be born! This could be like the time right before Aliens kicked us in the heads
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