Monday, May 26, 2008

Cue the Film 11 - Disney girls Gone Wild!

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Sorry, we're late. But I'm sure the awesome film splice held you over (Plus, I spent Friday night in a Play).

But on this episode, Chris has the nerve to come back and join me, John, and Steph to discuss Disney films before the 90s. We talk about The Litle Mermaid, The Rescuers, Herbie the Love Bug, 20,000 Legues under the Sea, Song of the South, and Steph and her daughter give a great review of Prince Caspian

Today's promos were provided by Geek by Night
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Our next show wil be released on or around June 6th. We will be reviewing 3:10 to Yuma
The Departed/Infernal Affairs
The Thing/The Thing from Another World
Flubber/The Absent-minded Professor
Dangerous Liaisons/Cruel Intentions
A Perfect Murder/Dial M for Murder, and Rear Windwo/Disturbia

Thanks for listening, and have a great week

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23 comments:

Chris JC said...

It's gonna be Hitchcock-tastic. It's time for me to watch that TV movie remake of Rear Window with Christopher Reeve.

I'm also watching both versions of Fail Safe, but just for my own enjoyment.

Will John also be watching "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"?

Actually, there's a few versions

PalmerEldritch said...

only 17 minutes in...


DANGER MOUSE!!!

with Penfold and whatnot. and the original home of Count Duckula!

fan-f'ing-tastic.

PalmerEldritch said...

and now i've got the Danger Mouse theme song stuck in my head.

Daaaaaaaaaanger Mooooooooooouse!!!

Chris JC said...

Crumbs, DM!

Of all the things I never would have assumed had gone Stateside... sorry to have patronised you all.

Chris JC said...

Also - after the last few episodes and the Splice, there should probably be a minimum time set during which I am not allowed to mention Herbie.

PalmerEldritch said...

did you guys get Count Duckula too?

Chris JC said...

Duckula and Danger Mouse are both British productions, from the Cosgrove Hall company. So yes.

The voice of Danger Mouse and Duckula is David Jason from Only Fool and Horses.

PalmerEldritch said...

yeah, Duckula's technically a spin-off from Danger Mouse. right?

well, i've got twenty minutes left of the latest Cue the Film so i'd better get to work on it!

Chris JC said...

'Tis indeed.

More Cosgrove Hall

Alias the Jester!

Chris JC said...

Hey folks - finally got caught up with listening to "Can I Get a Subtitle". The echo is super spacey.

Remember that Fisher Stevens is not playing an Israeli guy, but an Indian guy complete with brown make-up.

I think we're particularly sensitive to it with him being a white man, but I imagine that in offensive terms Sayid in LOST (being a British Indian actor playing an Iraqi) is probably not dissimilar.

john dimery said...

when i hesr cosgrve i thik ofthe cartoon freakazoid

andrew. said...

- "Uncle Remus and His Friends" was one of my favorite books growing up. Obviously I wasn't really hip to the racial drama surrounding it and accepted it as a collection of folktales not dissimillar to Aesop or Rudyard Kipling. I'm not sure i've ever seen the whole "Song Of The South," but it probably would have been wise for Disney to stray from the original text a bit more. Hell, they changed the ending of "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame," they could certainly have toned down the derogatory dialect.

- "Herbie Goes Bananas" was one of the 1st new movies that i can remember going to see in the theater. I have no desire to see a 2nd time, but it's a fond memory.

- I really liked Disney's "Lilo & Stitch," mostly for the story of Lilo & her sister. That's the last cel animated movie from disney I saw.

- thanks for the podcast peeps.

andrew. said...

- oh yeah. i followed through on my top 5 inspired by the Cue The film podcast about "Son Of Rambow". It's on my blog: Stupid Scientifical

Chris JC said...

That's a good selection of films, Andrew. I never would have thought to include 28 Weeks Later in a list like that, but you're spot on.

Basically - children's (or "family") films don't NEED to star children, and films starring children needn't be children's films. I wish this simple fact was more accepted.

Stephanie said...

I loved Rocket Gibraltar. Watching George Washington now.

john dimery said...

on the subject of childerens films being condescending you should check out the episode of battleship pretension about that

Stephanie said...

I think I had brain-damage yesterday while recording.

Emily said...

steph got your email, is everything okay?

Stephanie said...

I'm not dying of a brain tumor or anything. Paul sent me a link to a program actually works. The only problem now is recording the trailers and putting them in.

andrew. said...

- thanks for the recommendation on the Battleship Pretension Podcast. I haven't found the episode about condescending to children yet, but i really enjoyed the newest episode about work and i've been downloading a bunch of others.

- Just saw the poll about M. Night Shyamalan on the front page. I voted "mixed bag", but i'm really close to "I can't Stand Him."
I saw a clip from "The Happening" and it was terrible. A big part of that is Marky Mark. I actually have a soft spot for him but it looks like he might be a recent botox victim with his eternally-surprised eye brows.
M. Night is good on concepts but his execution is extremely uneven, and usually fails.

Stephanie said...

The Happening looks like what I imagine a Uwe Boll movie looks like.

Emily said...

What really bothers me about the Marketing for the Happening is the way they advertise it as being "Night's first rated r movie," for frak's sake, it's like he has fianly grown up.

The fact that its R does not make we want to see it anymore. But, I will see it, for the simple reason of curiosity. I will not like it, but I keep waiting for him to make another film like Unbreakable...I'm still waiting.

Chris JC said...

The rating will be nothing special over here - it'll just be another 15.

UK Shyamalan ratings (not counting Wide Awake and Praying With Anger, obviously)

The Sixth Sense: 15
Unbreakable: 15
Signs: 12A
The Village: 12A
Lady in the Water: PG
The Happening: 15

So actually, it's not that much of a difference for us guys. The areas of coverage in our ratings, in comparison to US ratings, are weird. Both the family friendly, and the uncut super violent version of Die Hard 4 were rated 15. Which version did we get in the cinema though? Correct.

Anyway - The Happening. I'll be there regardless.