Category: Season 08

Oscars chit chat & Walter White.
Jennifer Lawrence & Kristin Stewart: one acted like a mouth-breather, one is…
Someone found it better than A Good Day to Die Hard and Battleship.
Someone just didn’t like it and couldn’t even get through it.
Someone thought this movie was better than it deserved to be.
I’ve got a space ship, you’ve got a space ship, everybody’s got a space ship!
No nakedness… boo.
Then let’s make a new horizon.
So… a cheesy movie with moon Nazis.
The music was not in the right place.
Still… better than Four Rooms.
Harlem Shake, because you can’t have any kind of conversation without that being brought up.
David makes a disturbing discovery about the clothing that turns him on.
Covering up guy-parts in Superman and Tron.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

More than 10 percent of funding for this film came from fans. The donors are listed in the credits.
The German customs office would not allow the film-makers to bring any Nazi costumes and regalia into Germany, but fortunately the makers of Inglorious Basterds helped director Vuorensola by revealing how they had circumvented the same problem.

Your Producers for this episode were:

Tony
David
Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 2/27/2013

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BSP Episode 260: Inglorious Basterds

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Post date March 4, 2013
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More Tarantino Love!

Release date: 8/21/2009

Universal Pictures

Directed and Written by

Quentin Tarantino

Produced by

Lawrence Bender

Cast

Brad Pitt

Lt. Aldo Raine

Christoph Waltz

Col. Hans Landa

Melaine Laurent

Shosanna

Eli Roth

Sgt. Donny Donowitz

Samuel L. Jackson

Narrator

The hosts review:

Beer!
Batman!
No mistaking that this is a Tarantino movie.
Each of the main characters (Aldo, Hans, Shosanna) has their own kind of morality that pushes them to do what they do.
Or, is Hans Landa a bored, yet brilliant, sociopath?
Is Aldo really just the same as Hans?
Brad Pitt is great at playing these off-the-wall characters.
Aldo Raine = homage to and poking fun at John Wayne
The film within a film within a film!
The basement bar scene… a whole bunch of busy dialogue, and then BOOM!
The cameos were very good; Mike Myers, Rod Taylor and Harvey Keitel (voice).
Changing lanes and discussing Clerks and Clerks 3, and Kevin Smith’s career.
The music was all over the place, the soundtrack is fantastic.
“Being in wool underwear will make you want to kill anything”
“… and Hannah Montana.”

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

Tarantino intended for this to be as much a war film as a spaghetti western, and considered titling the movie “Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France”. Instead, that ended up being the title of the first chapter of the film.
Cloris Leachman originally appeared in the film as Mrs. Himmelstein, an elderly Jewish woman living in Boston, drinking tea with Donny Donowitz (and signing his trademark baseball bat afterward). This was cut from the final film, but Tarantino has said that he might use the footage in the prequel.
Roughly only 30% of the film is in spoken English, the language which dominates the film is either French or German, with a little Italian.
At the end of each take, actors would face the camera and say “Hello Sally”, referring to Sally Menke, the film’s editor. This has been done with Tarantino’s previous movies (such as Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol 2 and Deathproof). Inglourious Basterds was the last film by Tarantino to be edited by Menke, whose work was honored in 2010 with her final Academy Award nomination for Best Editing, prior to her death later that year.

Your Producers for this episode were:

Tony
Darrell
Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 2/16/2013

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BSP Episode 259: Jackie Brown

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Post date February 25, 2013
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Notes to follow

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BSP Episode 258: Four Rooms

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Post date February 18, 2013
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It’s a Quentin Tarantino Love Fest!!

Release date: 12/25/1995

Miramax Films

Directed and Written by

Allison Anders
Alexandre Rockwell
Robert Rodriguez
Quentin Tarantino

Produced by

Lawrence Bender

Cast

Rim Roth

Ted the Bellhop

“The Missing Ingredient”

Valeria Golino

Athena

Ione Skye

“The Wrong Man”

David Proval

Sigfried

Jennifer Beals

Angela

“The Misbehavers”

Antonio Banderas

Lana McKissack

Sarah

“The Man from Hollywood”

Quentin Tarantino

Chester Rush

The hosts review:

Robert Rodriguez’ clip was good… kinda weird… enjoyable.
Quentin Tarantino’s was also really good.
“The Misbehavers” could have been a standalone short.
“The Missing Ingredient”… missing a whole lot more.
The reason you watch the whole thing, all four stories, is for the very last five minutes.
The reason for some of the witches being topless didn’t make sense.
It would have made more sense if “The Misbehavers” was first.
Tarantino’s short was typical of his long films, long mundane dialogues that explode into insanity.
What, exactly, brought these four writer/directors together? And, was it a good idea?
Alison Anders biography reads almost like a Tarantino script.
Robert Rodriguez followed up the first three Spy Kids movies with Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
The hosts can’t really recommend the whole movie, but the opening credits and Tim Roth’s movements were very Pink Panther-ish.
Ione Skye… aged well, looked good!
Madonna… meh, why was she there?
A discussion of Madonna’s… oh, let’s just call it her movie career for the sake of argument.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

“Five Rooms” was the original title of this movie, but Richard Linklater withdrew before production began.
Salma Hayek is the dancing girl in TV in “The Misbehavers.”
The role of Ted the Bellhop was originally written with Steve Buscemi in mind.
Bruce Willis is not credited because he violated SAG rule by acting in this film for no money, doing it for fun and as a favor for Tarantino. SAG agreed not to sue Willis if his name was not included in the credits.
Robert Rodriguez and Antonio Banderas filed their segment one week after finishing Desperado.

Your Producers for this episode were:

Tony
Darrell
Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 2/7/2013

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BSP Episode 257: The Next Three Days

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Post date February 11, 2013
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Release date: 11/09/2010

Lionsgate

Directed by

Paul Haggis

Produced by

Michael Nozik
Olivier Delbosc
Paul Haggis
Marc Missonnier

Screenplay by

Paul Haggis

Based on Anything for Her by Fred Cavaye’, Guillaume Lemans

Cast

Russell Crowe

John Brennan

Elizabeth Banks

Lara Brennan

The hosts review:

Reminiscing about the joy that was The Hobbit (The recording, not necessarily the movie).
Watching a movie, sitting in a recliner, being waited on… this is the good life!
Jennifer Lawrence is talented, don’t blame The Hunger Games.
The many faces of Robert DeNiro.
Two likes and one not-so-much.
Discussing Paul Haggis’ career. He’s come a long way from The Richie Rich/Scoobie Doo Show.
Criticisms on how to rub a drug dealer.
How does a person respond to such extreme circumstances?
Elizabeth Banks… Olivia Wilde… Elizabeth Banks… Olivia Wilde… what to do?
How bada$$ is Liam Neeson? Come on!
Brian Dennehy is AWESOME.
Was she really a murderer? Was the recreation what really happened?
Darrell would have preferred that scene be cut from the end.
Should the detective have cared more?
Darrell depressed Tony/Deuce.
Tony liked the Lara/spinning car scene, as it seemingly jumped out from a mostly sedate movie.
Once John’s plan was set, there wasn’t anything that was going to derail it.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

The “bump key” procedure Crowe used actually does work on cylinder locks.
The phone and fax numbers on the lab work are the real numbers for Med-Health Services in Monroeville, PA.
Mark Isham, Haggis’ regular collaborator, didn’t compose this score due to their falling out over Haggis’ very public break from the Church of Scientology, of which Isham is still a member.

Your Producers for this episode were:

Tony
Darrell
Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 1/24/2013

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BSP Episode 256: 12 Monkeys

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Post date February 4, 2013
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Release date: 12/29/1995

Universal Pictures

Directed by

Terry Gilliam

Produced by

Charles Roven

Screenplay by

David Peoples
Janet Peoples

Based on Le jetee by Chris Marker

Cast

Bruce Willis

James Cole

Madeleine Stowe

Kathryn Railly

Brad Pitt

Jeffrey Goines

The hosts review:

Pimpin’ Back Seat Book Club!
Hugh Jackman is the Wolverine of singing.
Les Miserables singing reviews.
Loving and hating ABBA.
P….a….c….i….n…g
Great example of time-travel sci-fi.
You can’t change time.
Bob… another time traveler or Cole’s psychosis?
“I wouldn’t mind seeing a Brad Pitt Joker”
Brad Pitt’s rants made Fight Club unnecessary.
Breakdown of Terry Gilliam’s successes.
The music is insane and off, it works really well.
“All I see are dead people.”
Glad that it didn’t have a Hollywood ending.
Time is fixed. Time loops are fixed. Time travelers are fixed.
This sci-fi was a mind game, as opposed to special effects.
Setting the movie in the year that it came out was a great move, but a few things didn’t age well.
Any time you have a character in science fiction named Cassandra, PAY ATTENTION.
Cole, as the time traveler, didn’t do actually change time himself.
It wouldn’t have worked if it was faster paced, and it wouldn’t be a Terry Gilliam movie.
On to Batman.
Tony reads another of Goines’ rants.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

Terri Gilliam gave Bruce Willis a list of “Willis acting clichés” NOT to use, including Steely Blue Eyes Look.
Most of the actors took a pay cut because they wanted to work with Gilliam.
In a scene where Cole is drawing his own blood, there is a shadow of a hamster in a wheel. This took a whole day to film because the hamster wouldn’t move, and Gilliam is a perfectionist and insisted that this detail should work as intended. For the rest of the production, Gilliam’s perfectionism was nick-named “The Hamster Factor.”