In this episode, Andrew and Kurt discuss:
Movie reviews for:
- Pirates 3
- Waitress
- Bug
PLUS…
- Kurt’s Top 5 films about food
- This week in theaters and our DVD picks
…and as always our signature tangents.
Unwrap the complete Show Notes by clicking on this link…
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These are the show notes for Cinecast Episode #49.
Bumper music from Leslie Feist and Mercury Rev.
“Tracks” - - I apologize for the sound of Kurt’s mic in the beginning. The sound gets fixed at: 33:11
Intro Music: 0:00 - 1:24
Opening Remarks/Announcements/Criterion DVD tangent: 0:34 - 5:14
Star Wars Blog-a-Thon: 5:15 - 8:05
Pirates 3: 8:08 - 32:50
Waitress: 32:51 - 51:20
Top 5 list: 51:21 - 1:02:55
Bug: 1:02:56 - 1:25:20
DVD Picks: 1:25:21 - 1:32:32
Coming to theaters: 1:32:33 - 1:37:01
Closing Comments: 1:37:02 - 1:39:32
Outro Music: 1:56:33 - 1:59:11
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End:
Andrew’s review
Final Box office numbers:
four-day, domestic weekend - $153 million
World -wide $335 million
[source: box office mojo]
Filmstalker discussion on problems with Trilogies - includes two major commentaries by Kurt (posting as Triflic)
Waitress:
Andrew’s review
Nathan Fillion on Late night with Craig Ferguson talking about Waitress:
Kurt’s Top 5 Films About Food:
5) Big Night
4) The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
3) Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
2) Dumplings - Kurt’s review
1) Ravenous
more in depth talk on this subject on the Twitch forum
Bug:
Andrew’s Review
Twitch Review - Dave Canfield
DVD Picks of the Week:
Andrew picks The Hawk is Dying
Though I haven’t seen it yet, it’s Paul Giamatti (my favorite current actor). It HAS to be good right? The YouTube one doesn’t seem to have sound, so HERE’s A LINK to the Apple/Quicktime version. Yahoo! has it too. Or here’s a soundless snippet…
Kurt picks Ichi the Killer:
Blockbuster
Netflix
New Joker pic…
was totally ripped off from Ichi the Killer…
This Week’s Homework:
Rent any film about FOOD and send us your thoughts 
Comments or questions?
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- - Kurt’s BLOG
Andrew, I can’t believe you haven’t seen “The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover”. I hope you’re planning on fixing this with this week’s homework assignment…
Another great show guys!
Haha. Yes. After almost eery show Kurt and I do I always end up adding anywhere from 2-6 movies to my Blcokbuster queue. It takes froever to get through them all (Probably never well). This coupled with current films takes up all my time.
Kurt, that scene you talked about in Waitress with the blurry edges and she is in focus actually reminds me of Kevin Costner scenes in For Love of the Game - “…shut down the mechanism.”
I just got back from Pirates and I have to say I actually enjoyed myself somewhat. I didn’t have any problem following the many alliances and while I did think it needed to focus on fewer characters I was still kept interested.
My biggest complaint is the need for sequels and trilogies to always top themselves in the later movies. I could actually buy what Jack Sparrow was able to do in the first movie but in the second they had the really annoying wheel sequence and in this one he pretty much became Spiderman on the ropes. I also though the fighting on the mast was silly. If they hadn’t been going around the whirlpool it might have been fine but as it was it was just a bit too much.
If I were to rate all of them I’d give the first movie a 9 (yes I really loved it). The second movie a 2 (yes I really hated it) and the third movie a 6.5. I can think of a lot of worse movies.
Oh and I also read some reviews that complained the Calypso bit was just totally dropped off and I don’t think it was. I thought that bit of storyline ended really well.
How many times does Jack Sparrow grab on to a rope and then either cut the counter weight or use a cannon to swing himself into the air throughout the series? I would guess about 211 times. Not to mention, it is one of the most cliche things to do in a movie and I’m tired of it. From now on, if a character in ANY movie ever escapes his enemies by grabbing a rope and then cutting the counter weight (whether it be a chandalier or a ship’s mast), that film automatically gets deducted 2 stars.
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