2 Comments About “PreRecorded Friends Show #43: Neal Troutman 3000”

1. Magnulus on April 7th, 2008 at 2:42 am

   I’m back with my blow-by-blow on your show and I’m going to try to actually NOT be the subject of a crash this time.

   Charlton Heston was never a GOOD actor. Well, I guess he falls into the crowd of actors who, whatever they act in, they’re irrevocably themselves. Kinda like how Russell Crowe is ALWAYS Russell Crowe in every movie he acts. The problem is that I really just don’t like who Charlton Heston IS. He’s this old-school machismo-man. Always with the gritted jaw and the puffed-out chest. In Omega Man, he’s watching the Woodstock movie over and over in an abandoned cinema, which - to ME - seems more like a joke than anything else, because it just feels completely wrong to have that man watching that movie. I just don’t like that Man’s Man kind of guy, I guess.

   Oh, and Omega Man… Holy Shit, what a load of crap.

   I was introduced to HP in much the same way as Billy. I bought the first book because I’d heard it was pretty good and then I bought all the four first books. At that time, I had no idea there was a film coming, so it was great. I read ALL the books again before Book 7 came out, just to keep updated, in a way.
   I dug the third Potter film, apart from a lot of flaws. The main good thing Chris Colombus did was to leave the grown-ups to do their own thing. Alfonso Cúaron seemed to enjoy giving some of the new grown-ups kind of shtick-direction, which I personally didn’t enjoy THAT much, though the casting was good, and the design was MUCH closer to what I would have imagined it to be. Chris’ Hogwarts was flat and bland, though the Quidditch scenes were pretty awesome. The fourth film was good, but I -hated- the bit where Dumbledore got really physical and aggressive, because that’s just not true to the character.

   Citizen Kane is an amazing film, but will probably never be appreciated in the same way it was long ago, simply because it isn’t made in the same film “language” as today. The old 1933 King Kong is FANTASTIC, and actually really genuinely exciting even today, but a lot of people will scoff at me saying that. Check out the Allosaur fight. It’s brutal as hell.

2. Shannon on April 12th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

   Yay, Magnus is back!

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