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Week 37: Johnny-John Ick-Nic (John Wick (2014), Johnny Mnemonic (1995))

joegetto — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:41:26 +0000

This Week in Film, no Ray, no Tony, but Nick gets a blast from the recent past when super fan Dan comes back to the show!

Then they unintentionally talk about Keanu Reeves movies where he plays a character named John: John Wick (2014) & Johnny Mnemonic (1995).

Entire Week 37 Podcast:

Week 37 Rundown:
00:00:00 – Show Open & Intro
00:01:42 – I keep asking Dan if he’s back. Well you know what, he is back! Then he talks about John Wick (2014), an awesome Keanu Reeves action movie where he wears a dapper suit.

00:18:07 – Then Nick talks about a terrible Keanu Reeves action movie where he wears a dapper suit, Johnny Mnemonic (1995). There is also a horrifying dolphin in this movie. It’s a half cyborg dolphin. It’ll haunt your dreams.

00:37:23 – We are gonna let last week’s #RaysRayndomRayquest ride for ONE MORE WEEK!
– What’s your favorite sports movie?

00:37:52 – But to keep things fresh, we got a brand new #DansDastardlyQuestDan:
– Can you name a movie you had low expectations for and came out pleasantly surprised?

00:39:48 – Plugs & Show Close

End of Show.

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Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

joegetto — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:37:13 +0000

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Featured in: Week 37
Discussed by: Nick

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Nick’s Week 37 Johnny Mnemonic Notes (I’m not fixing any of these typos, you’re welcome):

• 4 years after point break and 4 years before the matrix

• this week I watched Keanu reeves in the 1995 train wreck johnny mnemonic

*This is laughably bad. You have to watch it. It stars Keanu, ice-t, dolph Lund green, Dina Meyer, and of course Henry Rollins is in it playing a doctor. He wears glasses so you can see how smart he is.

*Also the year is 2021. It’s a dystopian future where society has been ruin by the Internet and television.

*Keanu plays a smuggler who has a implant in his brain which allows him to upload classified or confidential information for companies or criminals want to move around. Who ever pays, he works for.

*In order to get this implant they had to remove Keanu’s long term memories, so he doesn’t know who he is. But that doesn’t matter because it hardly comes up except when he’s bored.

*So the movie starts, Keanu gets forced into one last ride but this time there’s trouble. Normally his brain can only hold 180gb of data, but the client needs to move over 300gb.

*Not a problem! Keanu fits it all in his brain, which has to be the funniest looking thing. Afterward he goes to the bathroom to have a seizure, then there’s a gun fight and you realize there’s a whole lot more going on.

• the yakuza who are or are working for a drug company, who created this tech disease called the black shakes want Keanu’s head because he has the cure in it.

*Keanu puts on an amazing disguise of wig and glasses and walks like a robot out of the building and heads to New Jersey, which is a giant dump. Not much has changed in the movie. Jersey slam.

*Because Keanu’s head is overloaded he has about 24 hours to get the data out or his brain will break down or something stupid. So they keep reminding you by having him have a seizure whenever it’s convenient and he needs to take a nap.

*Anyway, Keanu gets double crossed and fights his way out of a bad time. Then he makes friends with ice t. Ice t is the leader of the poor people. They live in what’s left of a bridge because New Jersey is a terrible place and in the future.

*ice t leaves and the Keanu gets captured by the yakuza and then gets rescued by Dina Meyer who plays dizzy in star ship troopers. But let’s just call her felicity because that’s who I thought it was for most of the movie.

*Felicity saves Keanu and she takes him to meet dr Henry Rollins.

*Meanwhile the yakuza are getting pretty mad about this whole thing. So they hire dolph Lundgreen who plays a long hair religious nut named Street preacher, he’s going to hunt down Keanu. Everyone he comes across he kills in some jesusy kind of way.

*The movie goes on for a while and eventually Keanu and felicity meet up with ice t. Ice t says “we can help you, let’s go meet Jones, who is ex military computer hacker”

*Jones is a dolphin. *He’s a dolphin connected to a computer. It’s horrifying. It has red eyes and blast concentrated sonar at people who piss it off.

*Anyway, for whatever reason, the dolphin helps and he and Keanu go into the worst looking CGi internet world in order to hack into Keanu’s mind.

*Then the movie ends. *It was great. I can’t wait to watch it again.

*The movie was directed by Robert Longo who never made another film but I guess he’s a celebrated 1980s artist. According to Wikipedia a bunch of his art is on the walls of Patrick bateman’s apartment in American psycho.

*The movie is very disjointed. Felt like the beginning and end of most scenes were just removed.

*Finally, Keanu’s character is called johnny. But not johnny mnemonic just johnny or johnny smith.

*It was really dumb. I loved it.

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John Wick (2014)

joegetto — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:37:07 +0000

John Wick (2014)
Featured in: Week 37
Discussed by: Dan

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Week 34: Rise In A High Point (Point Break (1991), High-Rise (2015), Insomnia (2002))

joegetto — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:41:19 +0000

This Week in Film join Nick, Ray, & Tony as they discuss Insomnia (2002), Point Break (1991), and High-Rise (2015).

Entire Week 34 Podcast:

Week 34 Rundown:
00:00:00 – Show Open & Intro
00:00:54 – High-Rise (2015)

00:10:27 – Insomnia (2002)

00:20:48 – Point Break (1991)

00:33:41 – We read responses to both of last weeks questions, an experiment so successful we are gonna do two questions again.

00:37:50 – First up is #RaysRayndomRayquest:
Can you name a movie that you like/disliked that took place in one setting?

00:39:04 – Next is #TonysThirdDegree:
What is your favorite mainly dialogue driven scene/movie?
Answers will be discussed on next weeks episode!

00:40:28 – Plugs & Show Close

End of Show.

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Point Break (1991)

joegetto — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 18:34:38 +0000

Point Break (1991)
Featured in: Week 19, Week 34
Discussed by: Keith, Nick

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Entire Week 34 Podcast:

Nick’s Week 34 Point Break Notes (I’m not fixing any of these typos, you’re welcome):

*After rays review last week of the new point break I was compelled to watched the classic.

*My brother was in town and he told me he had never seen it, so we put it on and after finishing it he said “that was great! I really like that, it was the best kind of terrible!”

*this movie is an excellent example of what you can do when you have great direction, charismatic actors, exciting action sequences and a terrible terrible script and even worse acting.

*It exists in the 1991 post glam rock music era, everyone looks like they just left the set taking turns recording extremes “more than words”. Anthony kiedas has a cameo and this was I think just before the chili peppers really blew up and after that grunge music in general. If this movie came out even two years later the music would feel so dated and that Seattle sound would ruin a movie dripping in LA rock. The movie really feeds on the idea of the dangerous Southern California surfer dude. Always looking for a fight and if you don’t know how to surf stay out of the water, or better yet, stay out of LA.

*this movie is long. It feels every minute it’s two hour runtime. But there isn’t a whole lot of waste. *the raid sequence doesn’t effect the overall story but it adds an exciting action sequence but there are no real consequences for Keanu and busey.

*raid sequence is an example of great direction though. No music. Tense and exciting. Lots of close ups. Quick cuts. Clear sound. And the point of view changes from character to character seamlessly. You go from the bad guys perspective to Keanu’s to busey and you can clearly follow all the action leading up to the gun fight.

*great stunts – I remember a making of segment of this movie where they talk about the scene where Keanu jumps without a shoot. Obviously the stunt man wouldn’t do that for real but he wore a parachute under a shirt to hide it. But the goal to reach swazye was the same. If he ran into trouble he would have to lose the shirt and then pull his shoot. So it was a dangerous stunt and it looks great in the movie.

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The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

joegetto — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:48:04 +0000

The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
Featured in: Week 16
Discussed by: Tony

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Week 19: Special Edition: Seddon Tomatoes #2 & #3

joegetto — Wed, 25 May 2016 13:36:08 +0000

This Week in Film, join Nick, Ray, Tony, & Keith with the release of a new special edition in the super popular Seddon Tomatoes series! Movies featured are: Men in Black (1997), Point Break (1991), Purple Rain (1984), Cliffhanger (1993), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), True Grit (2010), Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (1984), Jackie Brown (1997), & American Psycho (2000).

Entire Week 19 podcast:

Keith compares every movie he sees against the 2002 classic Spider-Man.

We put this to the test by surprising Keith with a list of movies he may or may not have seen. Keith must then tell us, as quickly as possible, the plot to these random film selections and whether or not they are better than Spider-Man 1.

Week 18 Rundown:
00:00 – Show Open, Intros, Movie Choices, & Rules
04:02 – Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

04:44 – Men in Black (1997)

05:39 – Point Break (1991)

06:48 – Purple Rain (1984)

07:23 – Cliffhanger (1993)

08:31 – End of Part 1

09:56 – Open of Part 2 & Movie Titles

12:50 – The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)

13:23 – True Grit (2010)

13:50 – Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (1984)

14:17 – Jackie Brown (1997)

15:03 – American Psycho (2000)

15:33 – Plugs & Show Close

End of Show.

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Week 16: The Soldier Devil’s Invitation (The Invitation (2015), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), The Devil’s Advocate (1997))

joegetto — Wed, 04 May 2016 17:11:57 +0000

This Week in Film join Nick, Ray, and Tony as they discuss The Invitation (2015), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and The Devil’s Advocate (1997).

Entire Week 16 Podcast:

Week 16 Rundown:
00:00 – Show Open & Intros
00:56 – The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

04:45 – The Invitation (2015)

08:46 – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

13:54 – Plugs & Show Close

End of Show.

This Week:

We respond to a listener Dan’s suggestion:
Discuss a movie where music made a scene epic.

We read out the responses to last week’s Rays Rayndom Rayquest. What movie has the best soundtrack?

Answer this week’s question:
What movie didn’t click with you until you watched it a second time?

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