Untitled Giant Bomb Movie Podcast 08-02-2013

@bkbroiler: Get a dropbox account. put the file in there. Install dropbox on your and download. HEY PRESTO! ;)

@rorie: Perhaps Giantbomb's Giantscreened weekly? Or just the Giant Screen?

hey I liked first class

Totally recommend Daredevil: the Directors Cut. It's the only director's cut in history that actually turns a bad movie into a pretty good one.

Definitely enjoyed Only God Forgives in the theater, though I understand how divisive it is. It's pure aesthetics, if you come to movies for stories you will hate it. But the photography and music is masterful. I hope those teen girls checked out the "new Ryan Gosling movie," were traumatized for life, and turned into film students.

@rorie: How about "Giant Bomb Movie Podcast"

I think you could make a pretty good movie out of The Flash if you used lots of slow motion to convey things from his perspective, and also toned down his powers drastically.

But that doesn't change the fact that, between Batman's seriousness and Superman/Green Lantern's terribleness, DC's whole crossover universe effort seems totally fucked.

So... yeah.

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"Box Office Bomb" must be the name of this podcast, by the way.

All right another movie podcast! I really enjoy these Rorie and Alex, thanks a whole lot for doing these.

i believe avengers 2 will not be based off the age of ultron, and they are just using that as a title not to directly base it off that.

I suggested that weeks ago but never trademarked it. (though I went with Box Office Bombcast)

Curses, your glory should be mine!!!!

The podcast with no name!

Superman was amazing. these guys are crazy.

@csl316: I didn't look back though the previous comments, but was almost positive someone had come up with that name before. Then again, you didn't trademark it.

This. They're introducing Ultron, but beyond that it has zero ties to the recent Age of Ultron comic event.

@rorie said "No one really liked X-men First Class Origins Wolverine Part 1," so I'm assuming he is referring to just "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." That is a totally different movie from "X-Men: First Class," which was actually very well received, and given the context of the conversation, I'm pretty sure he was talking about the Origins movie.

I'm not a believer that a Rotten Tomatoes score defines if a movie is good or not, but just for the sake of it, just compare the two scores:

X-Men Origins: Wolverine = 38%

X-Men: First Class = 88%

I'm a film student but I don't own a beret. Is God Only Forgives for me?

@ewy: Yep, I have no rights to it. You win all the credit.

I'm only 20 minutes in right now, but I sort of agree with the Batman+Superman movie feeling too early.

I think, looking at it from a marketing perspective, the movie makes a lot of sense. They want to milk the fervor for the Batman movies as much as they possibly can. If the new Superman came out two years from now, we could assume another two or three years would be needed to do the combo then. Will Batman be as popular 5 years from now? I don't know, but they could have made another Batman movie as well. OR, they could save the money from making two movies, and just make it one.

Makes sense, but as a fan of superhero movies, I would have preferred one more stand-alone Superman movie before a combination. DC wants to set up a JLA movie, and they need to show that these movies are in the same universe. And every year they don't make JLA movies (as in the tent pole films, the movie itself) is another year they don't get a piece of that huge superhero pie. They're kind of desperate, in my eyes, and they don't seem to know how to set all this up well.

Really? Thank god. The shit that it would stir up giving Pym a movie, it's probably for the best that they go with Lang. Hard to empathize with a wife beater.

More like 'Untitled Giant Bomb Comic Book Movie and Occasionally a Lesser Known Film Podcast' amirite

More like 'Untitled Giant Bomb Comic Book Movie and Occasionally a Lesser Known Film Podcast' amirite

Edit: More like double posting amirite

All this podcast does is make me want to go watch more movies... too bad I don't have the money XD still another fab episode

Wolverine was amazing !

1 of my favorites this year. :P

You guys are far too forgiving of complete shit cinema, but I love you anyway. Also, just go with "Boxoffice Bombcast" and be done with it, okay?

I didn't enjoy Wolverine that much. It wasn't a terrible movie like X-Men Origins, but it was a pretty average film.

I say call it the Giant John Cartercast.

My entry for podcast name is "Behind the Giant Bomb Door"

I kind off liked X-Men Origins. I see everyone thought that movie was terrible. I know it doesn't hold true to the comics that much, but I enjoyed it as a movie.

I pretty much hated every part of the Wolverine movie, except the incredibly pretty japanese girl.

No, good villains. The lady villain didn't even had an agenda. And the family internal stuff .... So much antagonistic parties, but they cluelessly stood around in the way of the "heroes"...

@groverat: What podcast app are you using? BeyondPod let me import it through Feedly on my S4.

I really liked The Wolverine, right up until he gets captured and strapped in that chair.

After that, it starts to strain credulity, and gets pretty dumb. But regardless of that final 20 minutes or so, it's a good entry into the superhero pantheon. And the post-credits scene is great, even though I knew more or less what was coming.

Know what I watched tonight? Daredevil. That was a crappy movie.

Screened is back!!!

This stuff right here. This is great. Thanks guys! Fuck yeah movie talk.

Based upon what Alex said about the Wolverine not being your typical action hero movie I went to see it.

It's definitely not bad and I probably enjoyed it a lot more since I didn't know the source material. Not sure who the silver samurai was but I can only imagine he wasn't the same thing as in this movie.

One annoyance I have is that writers need to find better ways to tell a story about nearly invincible heroes without falling on the crutch of taking away their powers for half the movie. I don't think anyone enjoys going into a film about Wolverine only to see him limp around - essentially you're left to put up with watching this really cool character stripped of all his potential meander around until the plot picks back up.

I used to be in film school until I found the overwhelming, unrelenting tide of head-planted-in-ass bullshit to be too much to bear. My 180-degree rebellion led me to the world of TV-commercial editing.

Regardless I did like Only God Forgives, but found it rather unsettling, and certainly not enjoyable. The kind of movie I can only watch once but appreciate the craft involved. Especially the cine, that movie is beautifully shot.

Where's my fucking Avatar sequel James Cameron

I have to agree with Alex on OGF in that I don't know if I could honestly recommend it to anyone. I enjoy different types of cinema, even the experimental kind to a degree, but found almost nothing redeeming about this "experience." Even the cinematography didn't impress me as much, although it is clearly the highlight of it all. I consciously am avoiding using the word "movie" as that carries with it certain expectations that were clearly not met. The standard movie goer will despise OGF while the more adventurous folk with an affinity for more unrestrained filmmaking should approach it with caution.

This has quickly become one of my favourite features on Giantbomb. Thanks guys!

@bkbroiler: on iPhone 4S I copied rss into downcast and it subscribed me to whiskey media premium podcasts which were all giant bomb premium podcasts

I REALLY enjoyed Wolverine... until the last 15 minutes. Then it just completely falls apart in ways that the rest of the film can't justify...

@gameclubber said:

Ah, awesome! How did I not figure that out before! Thanks! And thanks @splid for another great, but less easy solution (because I use downcast).

Thanks for the podcast sirs! I thought Wolverine was meh. I loved Man of Steel because I grew up watching Dragonball Z.

Did Alex just non-ironically say revengeance?

Went to see Only God Forgives last night and came away absolutely entranced. I thought it was one of the best things I have seen this year. To me it is the absolute essence of cinema, everything boiled down to its purest form, just minimal dialogue, with all the mood and nuance delivered through image and expression.

I think it is a film which you need to be prepared for. It was interesting to watch it a full cinema with a lot of people who obviously expected Drive 2 or were just there for Ryan Gosling. There was a palpable air of tension and fear at what they were going to be exposed to next especially after the horrific torture scene when the guy is pinned to the chair. It was like being with an audience who had come to see One Direction but had been locked in a room with some chicken-stomping Death Metal band.

It helped me that I knew it was going to be film which relied on visuals and mood. I arrived prepared to treat each scene as if it were a picture to be studied rather than a sequence of moving images and meant I got a lot more out of the film than I might have otherwise. Normally I like to know as little as possible, in order to be surprised, but this was an experience which required some work on the part of the viewer, something a lot of people resent, which might account for some of the mixed reaction.

I can't remember the last time I saw such a wonderfully shot film. You could take every frame and hang it on your wall, so perfect was the composition, lighting and mood. Everything tiny detail of the film seemed to be there for a reason and combined to create this masterpiece of neon doom, which just drew me right in. The slowness and stillness of so much of it just added to the air of menace and fear.

I'll just add one more thing about Ryan Gosling's character. It was almost shocking to see him play a character who is so emasculated, weak and uncertain after seeing him portray so many silent stoic heroes on screen and I think Refn really played on the audience's expectations of what a Gosling character should be. The scene at the dinner table with his mother and prostitute girlfriend was astonishing. There is a moment when the camera cuts to his face after his mother has gone on a tirade about how small his cock is and how much bigger his brother's was and we realise how defeated and damaged he really is. It stays on his face for a few seconds and looking at him it is almost impossible to believe this is the same Ryan Gosling we have seen up on screen so many times, looking confident and in control.

This is definitely a film school movie, but I don't think you need to be wearing a beret, or any sort of hat. You just have to be prepared for a film which requires some concentration, thought and willingness on your own part to be immersed in the experience. This is not a bad thing and it will reward you if you put in the effort. Its not hard to do, the film is barely 90mins long, and if you are the sort of person who likes to think and talk about your movies afterward there is tons here to digest and discuss.

Hey everybody... It's movies.

Dear god I missed you guys.

@rorie, I finally caught up with all of these episodes, and it's just like old times with the Screened podcast. Two thumbs way up. Please keep 'em coming, because it's great to hear you and Alex together again.

Anyone know how to add this to downcast by any chance?

What I get from these podcast are that 99.9% of movies are baaaad. Sounds just about right.

@leebmx Really agree with your assessment of Gosling's role, it was great to see him in such a contrasting role to Drive. The film was beautiful but especially affecting for concentrating on the worthless and the weak as the central characters, essentially pushing the 'hero' to the sidelines.

Well, except for when he singing karaoke.

If Valhalla Rising is Refn's 2001 then this was his Barry Lyndon.