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Back Seat Box Office #221

Please enjoy this week’s episode.

New Movies:
Hot Tub Time Machine
The Duff
McFarland, USA

Other movies/tv discussed:
Art – Pacific Rim, Snowpiercer, The Bourne Legacy, Agent Carter, Iron Man and Captain America : Heroes United, Home (trailer), Run All Night, Fantastic Four (trailer), Helix

Jeff – Roswell, Agent Carter

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Back Seat Book Club – Book Twenty-Seven: Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Author: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Trans.)

Knopf Publishing Group

Plot Summary – Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.

Quick Thoughts:

  • Scott is a Fake Book Guy(TM)
  • Lightweight read
  • No magic realism. Which is weird.
  • What is the Pilgrimage. Where is it?
  • Crime?
  • Striving upward is evil, creativity is good.
  • Betrayals and letting go as recurring issues.
  • Awkward sex in lucid dreams (check your Murakami bingo cards).
  • Show tropes.
  • In relation to other works by the author.
  • Scott is not threatening you.

“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.” 

Next Time: A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

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Back Seat Box Office #220

For reasons unknown, we have a mystery guest. Enjoy!

New Movies:
Jupiter Ascending
The Seventh Son
The Spongebob Movie : Sponge Out Of Water

Other movies/tv discussed:
Art – The Book of Life and the Daredevil trailer
M.G. – Game of Thrones audiobook series, Fresh Off The Boat, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds computer game
Jeff – The Imitation Game and Helix

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Back Seat Box Office #219

Please enjoy the latest episode of Back Seat Box Office.

New Movies:
Project Almanac
The Loft
Black or White

Other movies/tv discussed:

Art – the Terminator Genisys trailer and  The Boxtrolls.

Jeff – Agent Carter, Bad Words, Hobbit 3, and Bang Bang (I actually called it Boom Boom during the episode – ?!?).

 

 

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Back Seat Box Office #218

Please enjoy the latest episode of Back Seat Box Office.

New Movies:
Mortdecai
Strange Magic
The Boy Next Door

Other movies/tv discussed:

Jeff:  Star Wars : Rebels, Agent Carter, Helix, 12 Monkeys, and seeing The Grand Budapest Hotel in a theater.
Art: Ultimate Spiderman – Web Warriors, rewatching the Avengers, his undying love and fealty of Guardians of the Galaxy, Bones and Cowboys and Aliens.

Art did an episode of Kicked in the Dicebags. You should check it out.

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Back Seat Box Office #217

Here we go again.

Opening this weekend:

Blackhat
Paddington
The Wedding Singer

(Wow, no sequels or movie titles with a colon.)

Other movies/tv discussed: Star Wars : Rebels, The Giver, Planes : Fire and Rescue, Avengers : Age of Ultron, Last Vegas, The Guilt Trip.

Art did an episode of Kicked in the Dicebags. You should check it out.

 

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Back Seat Box Office #216

And we’re back after missing the last two weeks. Please enjoy the first episode  of 2015.

Opening this weekend:
Taken 3

Other movies/tv discussed: Guardians of the Galaxy, Art was foolish for counting on Netflix, Agents of Shield (TV), Star Wars : Rebels, Criminal Minds : Suspect Behavior, The Hobbit : The Battle of the Five Armies, Penguins of Madagascar, Muppets Most Wanted, Quartet, The Sapphires, Sleepwalk With Me, Percy Jackson 1 & 2, Elf, Kick Ass 2

Art did an episode of Kicked in the Dicebags. You should check it out.

We neglected to mention the last episode’s “Movie Lines”. “You sit on a throne of lies” was from the movie “Elf”.

 

 

 

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Back Seat Box Office #215

Here’s the next episode of Back Seat Box Office.

Opening this weekend:
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Annie

Other movies/tv discussed: Elementary, Agents of SHIELD, Snow Globe Christmas, Buddy’s Musical Christmas, The Toy Story That Time Forgot, D-Day 360.

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Back Seat Box Office #214

Here comes the next episode of Back Seat Box Office

Opening this weekend:
Exodus : Gods and Kings

Other movies/tv discussed: Art is enjoying the cavalcade of Christmas movies that one can watch on the Hallmark channel and I talk about Timecrimes, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Caddyshack.

 

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Back Seat Book Club – Book Twenty-Six: Eyes of the Dragon

Author: Stephen King

Published: 1987

Viking

Plot Summary – Once upon a time – there was terror and dragons and princes… evil wizards and dark dungeons… and an enchanted castle and a terrible secret. With this enthralling masterpiece of magical evil and daring adventure, Stephen King takes you in his icy grip and leads you into the most shivery and irresistible kingdom of wickedness… The Eyes of the Dragon.

Quick Thoughts:

  • Not enough dragons.
  • Better than the Last Unicorn. SHUT IT!
  • We don’t care about this book’s sausagefest.
  • Morgenstern-y (totally a real word).
  • disbelief suspenders under strain.
  • Tower lore intensive.

Recorded: 10/25/14

“Oh, I suppose all men of intelligence know how fragile such things as Law and Justice and Civilization really are, but it’s not a thing they think of willingly, because it disturbs one’s rest and plays hob with one’s appetite.” 

Next Time: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami