Film Junk Podcast Episode #406: Chinese Zodiac

Posted by on February 26th, 2013   Filed under: Featured, Film Junk Podcast

0:00 – Intro
3:15 – Review: Chinese Zodiac
27:50 – Other Stuff We Watched: Stoker, Mr. Nobody, Gone with the Wind, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), Skyfall, Klute, Executive Decision, Wanderlust, The Man with Two Brains, Argo, Nothing But Trouble, Life of Pi, No, Marathon Man
1:35:50 – Headlines: Academy Member Reveals the Voting Process
1:42:00 – Junk Mail: The Imposter Amazon Reviews, Oscar Categories We’d Like to See Added or Removed, Views on Piracy, Retrofitting Dramas into 3D, Film Junk Special Guests
2:06:20 – Chatroom Q&A
2:23:35 – This Week on DVD and Blu-ray
2:25:10 – Outro

Film Junk Podcast Episode #406: Chinese Zodiac by Filmjunk on Mixcloud

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  • http://www.boxcarpodcast.com Steve

    YES! Psyched for the Mr. Nobody smackdown.

  • Tum Tum Tyranus

    F Yes, Kurt Halfyard!

  • Gerry

    Any chance of the Oscar evening discussion being a podcast?

  • Rob Zombie

    World War Z is indeed a terrible book.

  • Gerry

    Just started listening, so ignore my last post.

    Microphone quality is really off so I’m guessing it’s a skyped podcast.

  • http://www.seandwyer.net Sean

    Yeah, this is the only thing we recorded Sunday night. The rest of the Oscar chat took place in the Ustream chat room.

    It wasn’t via Skype, it was recorded locally on my laptop but we were just in such a rush that I didn’t set the levels properly. Plus I had my mic facing the wrong way. Oops.

  • bard

    Great episode! Can’t wait for the Mr Nobody special!

  • Tommy

    Would have loved the mics to stay on to hear you guys during the Oscar broadcast. Maybe next year?

  • kyri

    One can only admire how accurate Greg is in predicting the Oscars. EVERY SINGLE FUCKING YEAR. The guy is a pro!

  • Tum Tum Tyranus

    Frank told that Emmy Rossum story before but damn does it still play. I like that.

    lol at when the guys cracked up when Kurt states that there actually is a Pakistan Dracula, Zinda Laash.

    People who watch cam copies are the worse. So pointless.

  • Brad

    Great show guys, wish you could do it live more often

  • http://www.rowthree.com Kurt

    Pakistani Horror films from the 1960s and 1970s are absolutely insane. Here is a taste:

    https://vimeo.com/39920413

  • https://twitter.com/#!/ripplesdip James

    Thanks guys. Good to hear Kurt, he adds a lot.

  • Lior

    Love listening to Kurt but was totally baffled by his reading of Gone With The Wind. What makes it great is that Scarlett is extremley flawed despite being strong and independent. Rhett is not her paramour but the trigger for her character arc. It is one of the most astonoshing character transformations in cinema and Vivian Leigh completley sells it.

    Obviuosly I totally disagree that she doesn’t learn anything. In fact, I think it’s done beautifully and subtly, unlike the obvious character arcs of modern films. She starts the movie as a flawed woman and ends it as a flawed woman but in completley different ways. It’s a great movie.

    :-)

  • Brendan

    Seems like less comments than usually, I assume that’s because the folks who listened on ustream did their commenting live.

    As I posted last week, I bought Beauty Day on iTunes in HD, and Jay’s right, it was $12.99 in the US. The HD looks good from the few minutes I watched (been saving it for when I can devote full attention to it).

    The Jennifer Lawrence dress thing (at the SAG awards) the guys talked about wasn’t really a slip (pink or otherwise). You saw some thigh meat as she hiked her dress up, but the dress wasn’t ripped, it was designed in different layers and Lawrence just accidentally pulled on the upper part which showed the separation of layers.

  • Eloise

    Sorry but Greg’s attempt to justify piracy was bullshit. Its like saying I do loads of shopping at the supermarket so I’ve earned the right to shop-lift from there every now and then.
    Also, the excuse of “we promote movies and buying Blu-rays” is bullshit as well. Does everybody who works in marketing, advertising, radio, TV etc. etc. also earn the right to take products without paying for them?
    Seriously guys, if you are going to pirate at least have the decency to not admit to it, or talk about it on the show. Keep it as it should be: your own dirty secret.

  • http://www.seandwyer.net Sean

    “Does everybody who works in marketing, advertising, radio, TV etc. etc. also earn the right to take products without paying for them?”

    Yes, and they are called screeners. Most film critics never have to pay for a movie. Unfortunately, we don’t do this professionally so we only occasionally have that privilege. But you’re right, we should probably just keep our mouths shut.

  • Austin in Japan

    Boo to you Eloise. If they want to download, that’s up to them. And if they choose to talk about it in their show, it is up to them as well. Not you. And I’d appreciate it if you’d have the decency not you use such foul language in your posts.

  • Goon

    re: “Preachy” Life of Pi.

    I’m pretty much… very atheist. I enjoyed Life of Pi save the bookends. I will attempt to make Sean’s argument better than Sean did.

    Without the religious element this story doesn’t even exist, so on that level, it doesn’t irk me whatsoever.

    What did irk me was the presentation of the two stories at the very end, because Pi presents a false dichotomy, of asking which story you prefer. You just watched a dazzling fantasy survival epic where you spent time getting attached to characters, vs. a 1 and a half minute dour summary of horrific events. Of course you pick the former.

    It would be like if at the end of Schindler’s List or Black Book or Life is Beautiful you said, “Yeah you could have watched this sad Holocaust film, or you could have watched it told with mice and cats. Wouldnt that have been stupid?”

    But out there, there’s Maus, which did do that, and it’s great. You can’t just present the story as you want it told, and then give a derisive second version to try and make your point about the quality of the first. That’s bullshit. That’s a typical stack the deck kind of tactic you get from street preachers who want to stop you with their “Just one question” technique, a method to push you into their one way of thinking.

    I don’t feel like Pi provides a true ‘second way of thinking it’, I think that false dichotomy moment is presented as an actual case for the quality of religion, and on that grounds, that moment is most certainly preachy, and bullshit.

    Furthermore I think throughout the movie his faith makes Pi do really stupid things that don’t make sense when you look at the analogy (if he’s the tiger, why make a food raft?), but that’s something else.

  • Andrew

    Life of Pi has a brilliant aesthetic and the soul of a Hallmark card according to Daniel Mendelsohn, which sums it up pretty well I think.

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