The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Films

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Sorry for the late post, but I totally forgot to edit everything. Listen in to John, Ross and myself as we discuss Saturday Night Live, MacGruber, and its attempts to break into the movie market.

We also give our Good, Bad and Ugly SNL movies. Do you agree with us? Think we’re way off? Send us an email to podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com or a voice mail via Skype to let us know what your favorite SNL movie is and why.

Mark

GOOD: Blues Brothers BAD: Blues Brothers 2000 UGLY: It’s Pat

John

GOOD: Wayne’s World BAD: Superstar UGLY: The Ladies Man

Ross

GOOD: Wayne’s World BAD: Night at the Roxbury UGLY: Stuart Saves His Family

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Ross hosts this episode of the GBUF Podcast, an all reviews show. Today, we review the new releases of: Valentine’s Day, Legion, Edge of Darkness, and The New Daughter.

What did we think these movies did right? What did they get wrong? Why didn’t one of the lead actors in Valentine’s Day wave a shotgun or a handgun around? Get the answers to almost all of these burning questions by listening to the podcast.

Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day follows the lives of several couples in this light-hearted comedy. Their ups and downs in the game of love. All of the stories are inter-connected in a bit of a ham-fisted way, but it still works as a good date movie. The cast is populated with many stars, including: Ashton Kutcher, Bradley Cooper, Julia Roberts, Jamie Foxx, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Taylor Lautner, Topher Grace, Queen Latifah, Hector Elizondo, Patrick Dempsey and Jennifer Garner.

John: BAD Mark: GOOD (after I finished) Ross: N/A

Legion

Legion takes place in a diner on the outskirts of Las Vegas. The angel Michael comes down from heaven to protect a pregnant woman and her unborn child, who, no surprise here, is going to be the next saviour of mankind. The other angels don’t like this idea so much, feeling that the time of man is coming to a close and try to speed up the apocalypse by killing the woman and anyone trying to help her. This stars Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Charles S Dutton, Tyrese Gibson and Kevin Durand.

John: BAD Mark: BAD Ross: UGLY

Edge of Darkness

Mel Gibson stars as Thomas Craven, a homicide detective that loses his daughter to an unknown assailant at his house. Working under the impression that he was the intended target, he is set straight by Jedburgh, a corporate “fixer” played by Ray Winstone. His investigation into his daughter’s life leads him to darker and darker places in his search for justice and revenge.

John: BAD Mark: BAD Ross: BAD

The New Daughter

Kevin Costner plays a father with two children whose wife has recently left him for another man. He and the kids move to an idyllic town in South Carolina. The daughter, played by Pan’s Labyrinth’s Ivana Baquero, starts acting even stranger than a regular teen girl acts, which leads the dad to start investigating the strange mound on his property. This movie went directly to DVD/Blu-Ray.

John: UGLY Mark: UGLY Ross: UGLY

If you’ve seen any of these movies and would like to add your comments, then please feel free to do so right here on the article, or email us at podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com. You can also leave us a voice mail via Skype. You never know… we might just play your message on one of the podcasts.

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John, Mark and Ross go completely off the rails with this episode. There are so many tangents and side trips, it’s amazing that we get from start to finish.

Listen in as we review some of the stuff we’ve posted over the last little while, including:

• You’re So Wrong… about Stephen Sommers by Ross
• A new MPAA warning label
• Mark shows Grindhouse some love
• Ross reviews Nine and gives a comparison to Sex in the City
• Sean Young’s Dune home movies

The movie that we review this week is the relatively low budget vampire flick, Daybreakers. It stars Ethan Hawke as a vampire haematologist, trying to create an artificial blood supply for a world filled with vampires and a dwindling human blood supply for food. He teams up with a band of rogue humans (that includes Willem Dafoe) in an attempt to find a cure.

Listen in to hear the finer points of what we thought of the movie.

Ross: BAD

John: BAD

Mark: BAD

If you’d like to add your opinion of the movie or anything that we’ve talked about today, please send us an email to podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com, or you can also leave us a voice mail with Skype.

-Mark

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In today’s podcast, we review 3 movies: Tooth Fairy, It’s Complicated and The Descent: Part 2. Ross wasn’t able to join us, so we keep our Michelle Rodriguez jokes to a minimum. Yes, I know she isn’t in any of these films. That doesn’t stop us from making fun of her.

If you think we’re wrong with any of our reviews, or have something to add to the mix, please feel free to email us at podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com or leave us a voice mail with Skype.

May the 4th be with you…

Tooth Fairy

Allen: BAD John: BAD Mark: BAD

It’s Complicated

Allen: BAD John: UGLY Mark: GOOD

The Descent: Part 2

Allen: BAD John: BAD Mark: BAD

For the article Allen talks about that reviews The Descent (the first movie), click here.

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Strap yourselves in boys and girls, we have a ton of stuff to talk about today. We talk about some of the articles that we’ve collectively posted on the site and what each of us thinks about them. Here’s some of the stuff we talk about:

• Ross’ Ice Castles movie comparison
• Sam Worthington, movie star?
• Ross wants to introduce you to some Freaks
• Mark wants to show you The Thing
• Mark thinks that the Bad Lieutenant was aptly named
• Johnny is haunted by Poltergeist
• Blockbuster propping up its dying business with sweetheart deals with the studios
• Louis Leterrier is a D-Bag
• Who won when Titans and Date Night “clashed” at the box office this weekend?
• TRON Legacy gets a sequel or two
• Birdemic: Sh(l)ock and Terror(able)
• No love for Phillip Morris

The movie we reviewed this week was The Boat That Rocked (aka Pirate Radio). Just listen to the names attached to this film: writer/director Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones), Philip Seymour Hoffman (won the Oscar for Capote), Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet, Henry V), Bill Nighy (Underworld, Pirates of the Caribbean), Emma Thompson (won Oscars for Howards End and Sense and Sensibility), Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead), and more. With the amount of hardware these people are carrying around with them (Oscars, BAFTA Awards, Golden Globes, Emmy Awards, etc.) you’d be scared of this Boat capsizing.

The Boat That Rocked is set in the mid 60s, when radio in the UK is dull and boring, with only 45 minutes a day set aside for Rock and Roll. In order to get their fix of good music, students, housewives, nurses, etc. huddled around radios and listened to illicit transmissions from pirate radio stations. The greatest of all these pirate radio stations is a large ship filled with DJs that play rock music 24 hours a day! Their hijinks caused spontaneous dancing in the streets and the government to see red.

Take a listen to see what we all thought of this movie. If you’d like to have a spoiler before you listen, then look below for our ratings.

If you’d like to comment on anything we talked about today, or think that we’re way off with out opinions, please feel free to email us at podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com or send us a voicemail via Skype.

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We’re in fine form today as we review three films: Sherlock Holmes, Brothers, and The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans. Johnny, who was woefully unprepared for this show, only watched Sherlock Holmes, so didn’t do a lot of commenting.

Take a listen after the end music for Reznor’s (the podcast mascot) contribution to the show.

The first movie in our review sights is Sherlock Holmes. Starring Robert Downey Jr, and Jude Law as Holmes and Watson respectively, this Guy Ritchie directed action pic covers our heroes as they battle the supernatural forces being brought to bear by Mark Strong’s character, Lord Blackwood. Rachael McAdams also shows up as the femme fatale.

Allen: BAD

John: GOOD

Mark: GOOD

Ross: GOOD

Our second review is of Brothers. It stars Tobey Maguire as a Marine that is about to serve a tour in Afghanistan, Natalie Portman as his wife, and Jake Gyllenhaal as his fresh-from-prison brother. When Tobey’s character, Captain Sam Cahill, is believed killed in Afghanistan, Natalie and Jake, never the best of friends, find some common ground. This is directed by Jim Sheridan, who gave us pics like My Left Foot and In America. How does it stack up?

Allen: BAD

Mark: BAD

Ross: BAD

The third movie is Werner Herzog’s The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans. Is this a remake? A sequel? Something else entirely? You be the judge. We have Nicolas Cage as the Bad Lieutenant, a cop that’s injured during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, who spirals downward and out of control as his addiction to pain killers leads to harder things. This also stars Eva Mendes as his prostitute girlfriend and Val Kilmer as his partner. What did we think of this? Find out below.

Allen: GOOD

Mark: GOOD

Ross: GOOD

If you’d like to give your opinions of these movies, or tell us where we went horribly wrong, please feel free to email us at podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com, comment right here on this post, or send us a voicemail via Skype. We’d love to hear what you think. -Mark

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I don’t know if someone spiked the punch tonight, but we were all a little giddy when we recorded this podcast. Lots of laughs.

We’ve got some news and we talk about what we’ve been doing on the site lately, namely:

• Dennis Hopper gets his Walk of Fame star
• Ross’ fashion tips for Jack Nicholson
• Uma Thurman’s new movie, Motherhood, tanking in the UK
• 3D ticket prices going up
• Oscar-worthy animated performances by Jessica Rabbit and Jim and Hilda Bloggs
• My awesome treatise on why they could never remake any Tarantino movies (aka My 2 paragraph intro to a 1 paragraph article)
• Box Office news and what we think about the state of 3D
• and more…

We also review two films this week, the first being Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. Surprisingly, we weren’t unanimously in love with Chipmunks 2, but there were a few interesting admissions of guilty pleasures when it comes to the movie. John also brings a bag of questions about the movie that he wants answered.

For those of you that aren’t in the know, Chipmunks 2 is about those debatably lovable little chipmunks that are international pop music superstars. When their “dad”, Dave, is injured due to Alvin’s crazy hijinks on stage, it’s decided that they’ll go live with Dave’s cousin, Toby, while Dave recuperates. Instead of continuing to milk the cash cow that is international pop stardom, they enrol in High School. Hilarity ensues. There’s a whole busload of talent in this, including: David Cross, Jason Lee, Wendie Malick, Amy Poehler, Justin Long, Zachary Levi, Anna Faris, and Christina Applegate.

Allen: UGLY

John: UGLY

Mark: UGLY

Ross: BAD

The second movie reviewed this week was the Oscar nominated picture, An Education. It’s a story about a 16 year old girl that goes to a private school in the suburbs of early 1960s London. Her life changes when she meets a sophisticated man nearly twice her age, who shows her all the things that she’s been missing in her sheltered life. It stars Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard in the lead roles, with a brilliant supporting cast that includes Alfred Molina, Emma Thompson, and Olivia Williams.

  Allen: GOOD

John: GOOD

Mark: GOOD

Ross: GOOD

If you’d like to comment on anything we’ve said in the podcast, or to put in your two cents about either of the movies reviewed, please feel free to comment directly on this post, or send us an email to podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com. You can also leave a voicemail with Skype and we may just play your comments on the next podcast. Fame and fortune await!

-Mark

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This topic gets thrown around a lot when we’re discussing movies either before the show, or even sometimes during the podcast. No matter how iconic a film is, there seems to be some kind of rush by Hollywood to send it along the remake/reboot road. Sometimes it’s a good thing, using today’s technology to tell the story in a better way. Two prime examples of this are The Fly, and The Thing. There are some that would argue that the originals are just as good, if not better than the remakes (*cough* *cough* Ross *cough*), but they’re mistaken. I would consider the remakes to be the quintessential version, and should never be touched again. Yes, some of the in-movie technology looks a bit dated, but the story itself is perfectly crafted.

Not counting the classics like Casablanca and Citizen Kane, I was a bit stumped when it came to thinking of movies that could never be remade. Hollywood has this knack for proving us wrong when it comes to movie remakes. We’ve brought up Blazing Saddles a few times on the podcast, so I’m not going to go for that low hanging fruit. My choice for a movie that couldn’t be remade is: any Quentin Tarantino movie.

I know that sounds like a bit of a bold, blanket statement, but let’s look at it a bit closer. Pick any of the movies that he’s made and try to think of any of the major roles that could have been played by any other actor. I’m not usually a QT fanboy, but his eye for talent and getting outstanding performances out of his actors is uncanny, especially actors that Hollywood has already written off. I just don’t think that there is another director that could take the same material and give us anything close to the same quality. Unlike a couple of my favorite films, namely Alien, and The Thing, there isn’t a lot of on-screen technology that dates Tarantino’s movies. Excluding Inglourious Basterds, any of his other films could have taken place any time in the past 20-30 years. They are fairly timeless.

Maybe if Tarantino decided to redo them himself… Nah. His ego is pretty big, but he’s no George Lucas.

Allen wasn’t able to join us for this podcast, so Ross, John and I make it our mission to give you everything you didn’t ask to know about George Clooney! Call it our George Clooney Special. We briefly list off his career in the entertainment industry, then launch into reviews for two of his movies from 2009 that are, coincidentally, being released today: Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Men Who Stare At Goats.

Listen in to what the mice say while the cat’s away…

The Men Who Stare At Goats

Ewan McGregor plays an American war correspondent who thinks he might have the story of a lifetime in George Clooney’s, Lyn Cassidy, a man who claims to be a former psychic soldier for Uncle Sam.

Ross: BAD

John: GOOD

Mark: BAD

Fantastic Mr. Fox

George Clooney plays the titular role of Mr. Fox in this Wes Anderson adaptation of the children’s book by Roald Dahl. He has dreams and aspirations that he’s put on hold due to becoming a father, but the time has come to see if he’s still got what it takes to provide for his family the old fashioned way.

Ross: GOOD

John: GOOD

Mark: GOOD

If you’d like to chime in on what you thought of these two movies, George Clooney in general, or anything we’ve said on the podcast, please email us at podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com. You can also leave a voicemail for us with Skype. – Mark.

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Wow! Who’d have thunk that we would have made it to 100 episodes? In this special podcast, we list off the 10 films that influenced us in having a greater appreciation for the cinematic medium or were milestones for us. As part of our celebrations, we decided to have a long-overdue “vodkast”. Listen to our new theme music and let us know what you think.

Our 10 films…

ALLEN Perfume: The Story of a Murderer The Rapture Short Cuts Marnie The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Eating Raoul Videodrome Tess The Last Picture Show Where the Red Fern Grows

MARK 28 Days Later The Matrix Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels The Thing Blade Runner The Fog Alien Monty Python and the Holy Grail Papillon Easy Rider

Do you have any films that have influenced you, either in your life or in the way you view cinema? Let us know! Send us an email to podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com, or comment on this page. You can also leave us a voicemail via Skype and we may play it on one of our shows.

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