In a fight over Tracy Flick, who would win in a contest between Bane and Captain Kirk? McG’s latest romp, This Means War, explores that very issue. On a more grave note, the 3×3 of our favorite uses of dead bodies starts at the 43-minute mark.
Next week: The Secret World of Arriety
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Us three dudes without superpowers discuss Chronicle, a movie about three dudes with superpowers. That’s hardly fair. Our 3×3 this week, which starts at the 51-minute mark, is movies that cop out.
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The Grey is not the movie one of us wanted, but two of us loved — yes, loved! — it. Listen for a spirited conversation about what Joe Carnahan’s latest movie is, isn’t, and/or should be. For this week’s 3×3, which starts at the 1:03 mark, we talk about those parts in movies where the audience knows something the characters don’t. You know, like when the rope is fraying, or when a cup is poisoned, or when a monster is creeping around behind someone. But we mostly pick better examples than those. Next week: Chronicle.
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All right, which one of us is the wet blanket who’s down on Gina Carano’s turn as an action star in Steven Soderbergh’s lean Haywire? Listen to find out. Then our 3×3 of the best bathtub scenes starts at the 50 minute mark. Next week: The Grey.
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The real divide this week has nothing to do with Xavier Gens’ horrible post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror movie, The Divide. The real divide takes place during this week’s 3×3 of running gags, which begins at the 53-minute mark, and eventually explores the difficult issue of whether Hudson Hawk or Armageddon is the better bad movie.
Next week: Haywire
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Unfortunately, this week’s movie is horror director Ti West’s The Innkeepers. Fortunately, it gives us a chance to talk about West’s other movie, House of the Devil. If you don’t want The Innkeeper spoiled, you can fast forward to the 3×3 at the 42-minute mark, where we talk about our favorite door scenes.
Next week: The Divide
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Hey, it’s our epic (i.e. about an hour too long) end-of-the-year podcast. We go over our picks for top ten movies of the year. Rest assured that the discussion is spoiler free, thanks to the careful editing of our elite bleeping team. After two hours and 22 minutes — I know, right? — we do our 3×3 of favorite montages. Kelly Wand ends up $5 poorer for not knowing Jaws very well.
Next week: The Innkeepers
After the jump, I’ve posted our lists in case you don’t have two and a half hours to spare Continue reading →
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The director of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull paid an extended visit to Weta’s motion capture studios. The result, Tintin, is exactly what you’d expect from Polar Express meets a Belgian comic book. This week’s podcast also includes a fair amount of talk about Hugo, Young Adult, and more than you’ll ever want to know about the alien invasion yarn The Darkest Hour, from the writer of Ridley Scott’s upcoming Prometheus! The 3×3 of our favorite fake movie products starts at the 58-minute mark.
Next week: our picks for best movies of 2011
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Our podcast, should you choose to accept it, covers Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol. At the 57-minute mark, this week’s 3×3 is about our favorite examples of movies breaking the “show, don’t tell” rule. This podcast will self-destruct in five seconds if you don’t rate it on iTunes.
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Join us for secrets, betrayal, suspicion, and hidden identities. And that’s just the podcast! We also discuss Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which two of us loved and one of us was all “meh” about. This results in a discussion so, uh, in-depth that the 3×3 doesn’t start until the 1:37 mark. At which point we figuratively jump into the pool and talk about our favorite swimming pool scene, as well as some other swimming pool scenes.
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We’re all fans of Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, and director Steve McQueen. But we’re not all fans of their latest collaboration, Shame. Since the movie is rated NC-17, so is this podcast, which contains the words penis, hog, and honker. This week’s 3×3 of our favorite transitions in movies kicks in at the 1:06 mark.
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Is Alexander Payne’s The Descendants an effective story about a man’s struggle through a family crisis, or a maudlin soap opera with a made-for-TV sensibility? Depends on who you listen to on this week’s Qt3 Movie Podcast. At the 52-minute mark, for this week’s 3×3, we discuss our favorite uses of the color red. At least one of us is literally color blind.
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An artsy, understated, ambiguous movie from a first-time writer/director starring an unproven actress in a challenging role about a character in an uncertain mental state and John Hawkes? We’re all over Martha Marcy May Marlene! This week’s 3×3, our favorite dance moments in movies, starts at the 1:13 mark.
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Tarsem, the director of The Cell and The Fall, needed all three of his names to make Immortals, his first movie without a definite article. Our opinions are divided on how well that worked out. In the above shot, Immortals would be the guy on the right in the funny hat. Tom is yelling and snapping a fire whip at it. Dingus is to the far left, enthralled and wearing a princess costume because he will mention Tangled at least once on this podcast. Kellywand is crouched indecisively between them. We aren’t sure who that fourth guy is, the one over there with Dingus. He can be you, the listener.
This week’s 3×3 is hero survival rip-offs. You know those moments when the hero totally should have died, but didn’t? That’s what these are. Join us for the discussion around about the 1:20:00 mark.
Up next week: Martha Marcy May Marlene
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This week’s 3×3 is our discussion of characters cutting their hair, or shaving, or growing their hair out, or growing beards or mustaches, or that sort of thing. Hair transitions, if you will. Hair shifts. We talk about our favorite instances of that. We also saw a movie, but I forget what it was. I think Ben Stiller was in it.
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