After our week off — all you would have missed was three dudes agreeing that Hot Tub Time Machine was no Hangover — we’ve returned to discuss Kick-Ass.
Haven’t seen Kick-Ass? No problem. Join us for this week’s 3×3 at the 47-minute mark: double features that you have to explain.
Next week: The Losers
You know Ken “w00t!” Wootton as fuzzyslug. After this podcast, you might mistake him for a Playstation 3 evangelist for all the glowing talk about Little Big Planet, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Resistance 2, Uncharted, and ass slapping. Speaking of ass slapping, we also totally talk about the sports. Listen for your chance to win a free game.
Next week: Jorune and Emperor of the Fading Suns
If you listen to one movie synopsis this year, make it Kelly Wand’s Clash of the Titans movie synopsis. If you haven’t seen Clash of the Titans yet, we can help. Listen to our podcast instead.
This week’s 3×3 begins at the 44-minute mark. We talk movies that best establish a sense of place.
Next week: Hot Tub Time Machine
We talk existential knock-knock jokes, bored teenager antics in rural America, getting in bed with Dan Hsu, armed Frag Dolls, and gamerscore pride. I mean, shame. Gamerscore shame. We also play a clip from the new cop show Chick and McMaster.
Plus, listen for our world-premiere announcement of Gordon Cameron’s Danger Cats and your chance to win a free game. Finally, there’s some stuff about Heavy Rain, starring Nommen Jaiden.
Next week: fuzzyslug and Uncharted
Following some confusion about sardonic actor Chris Eigeman, Watergate co-conspirator John Ehrlichman, and celebrity Nazi Otto Eichmann, we discuss Greenberg and the challenge of making a movie about an a-hole. What does it say about us that we all three loved the movie?
If you haven’t seen Greenberg, you should probably get on that. Until then, fast forward to this week’s 3×3 at the 50-minute mark for our top three depictions of drug use.
Next week: Clash of the Titans
It’s the OG podcast! We’re like Statler and Waldorf going on about the old days. How did Qt3 start? What happened to it? And why? But I should warn you we’re not above talking about girls and cars. Oh, and Diablo. We get a little of that in there. And Mark Asher shows off his mastery of Spanish. And I trash talk model train enthusiasts.
Listen to win a free game like ddtibbs did from last week’s podcast.
Up next: Jason McMaster and Heavy Rain
Repo Men. Does it have a twist? A reveal? Is it more like Brazil or Blade Runner? Is it a biting commentary on health care or a Philip K. Dick adaptation, or both? How are you supposed to say RZA’s name? In which Star Wars movie was the quote “The Force is strong, Luke”? And why are there a handful of great scenes in this movie? These questions and more are answered, followed by this week’s 3×3 for our choices of MacGuffins worth remembering. Fast forward to the 47:30 mark if you don’t want Repo Men spoiled. Well, “spoiled”.
Next week: Greenberg
This week I intend to give Abilio Carvhalho a hard time about the Portuguese monarchy, but it turns out there is no longer any such thing. So we talk Warhammer, owning a gaming shop, and real time strategy games. It’s a nerd paradise with an international twist and you’re all invited.
Congratulations to nixon66 for winning last week’s free game. Listen this week and you can not only be eligible for a free game, but you’ll find out just how weird Europe is.
Next week: Mark Asher and Diablo
Here’s our review of Green Zone, in which Paul Greengrass treats the invasion of Iraq with all the nuance of James Cameron’s Avatar: “Please to stand there, drink my wine. Come and dig my herb.” Alternatively, fast forward to this week’s 3×3 at the 42-minute mark. Oops, or not. Not everyone can hear the musical cue, so hilarity ensues and the 3×3 doesn’t actually start until the 45-minute mark.
Next week: Repo Men
What kind of guy has seven crocodiles in his backyard? Adam Britton, aka krayzkrok. Meet him on this week’s podcast. We squander some valuable time that could have spent on crocodiles talking about Dead Space.
Up next: Abilio Carvalho and Supreme Commander 2
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is another 2 vs. 1 split. Two in favor, one opposed. Or maybe it’s the other way around. It’s curiouser. But we all agree on the excellence of Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, and the word “acreage”.
If you haven’t seen Alice in Wonderland, join us at the 50:00 mark for this week’s 3×3. We discuss movies for which there is no forgiveness. It’s probably not going to go where you think it goes.
Next week: The Green Zone
Meet Matt Manghi, hydro-geologist, house painter, ski bum, baked goods snob, and the guy who draws those slightly creepy hobbits. Listen as I try — unsuccessfully, I think — to convince him Demon’s Souls is a horror game. It’ll quickly become apparent he knows the game far better than I.
Congrats to Dead Buffalo for winning last week’s contest. This week you could win Greed Corp, which would be cool because then I’d have someone to play with.
Up next: krayzkrok and Dead Space
So, yeah, a remake of a George Romero zombie movie that didn’t really have zombies. You can imagine how that turns out. Tom Chick recommends Impulse, Kelly Wand recommends Shivers, and Dingus admires the mayor’s swimming pool. We also perform a short sketch based on a Kevin Smith movie.
If you haven’t seen The Crazies, go ahead and listen anyway. Or just skip to this week’s 3×3 at the 43-minute mark, in which we each fix three movies by recasting one of the parts.
Next week: Alice in Wonderland
Marley Malloy is simultaneously supercool (wait till you hear about her Master’s thesis and how she has literally licked dead people) and an uber-dork (I’m still trying to wrap my head around that stuff about Q from Star Trek). She’s also got way more hours than me logged in Oblivion, which we discuss this week. I should warn you that I don’t recommend booting up Oblivion to “take a quick look at it again”. That’s simply not how it works.
Also, stick around for the end, at which point she reveals a dark shameful secret about someone else on the forum. And congratulations to StGabe for winning Bioshock 2 in last week’s drawing.
Next week: merryprankster and Demon’s Souls
We don’t agree on Shutter Island. One of us wants to punch someone. The other two of us embrace the mystery. If you haven’t seen Shutter Island, I’d normally recommend fast forwarding to the 52 minute mark for this week’s 3×3: best depictions of parenting. However, I can’t really do that this week since Shutter Island spoilers got sprinkled into the conversation.
Next week: The Crazies