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BSP Episode 248: The Ides of March

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Post date November 5, 2012
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Release date

10/7/2011

Columbia Pictures

Directed by

George Clooney

Produced by

George Clooney
Grant Heslov
Brian Oliver
Leonardo DiCaprio

Screenplay by

George Clooney
Grant Heslov
Beau Willimon

Based on “Farragut North” by Beau Willimon

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Stephen Meyers

George Clooney

Mike Morris

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Paul Zara

Paul Giamatti

Tom Duffy

*NOTE* Back Seat Producers will be on a bi-weekly schedule through the end of the year

Back Seat Producers or Fanboy Smackdown?
A discussion about politics or will they speak of their collective love for Clooney & Gosling?
Ryan Gosling… a tool or a TOOL?
Political, but not obnoxiously so.
Hmmm… does atheism matter when it comes to politics?
Is Marisa Tomei a vampire?
The acting was all top shelf.
What about morality? Good thing or bad thing?
Evan Rachel Wood… oh what a tangled web she weaves.
*Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler*
In politics, if it’s a possibility, it’s real.
There is a difference between what happens and what is perceived to have happened.
A lesson on the appearance of impropriety… take heed!
An autobiographical cathartic experience through film.
The logic of cheating.
You can’t con an innocent man.
Of course the President nominee would check his cell phone during a press conference… don’t all Presidents do that?
More cynical movie than All The President’s Men… and that’s a good thing.
This is about campaigns, not government.
Yes, Tony… living in a battleground state (Florida) does suck!
All political banter seen on Facebook must be true!

Your Producers for this episode were:

Tony
Deuce

This episode was recorded: 11/1/2012

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Back Seat Book Club Shows

Back Seat Book Club – Book Two: Fight Club

Post author By Lena
Post date November 3, 2012
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Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Publication Date: 8/17/1996

W. W. Norton

Plot summary –The main character/narrator is the protagonist, a jet-lagged automotive product recall specialist who struggles with insomnia. He finds a measure of relief by attending several support groups for seriously ill people. In one of the groups he meets Marla Singer, a woman who attends these support groups for similar reasons, but she is a reminder that he is a fake in these groups. Soon after, the narrator meets the mysterious Tyler Durden. After a consensual fist-fight in the parking lot of a bar, they move in together and soon begin an underground fighting club. This blossoms into anti-consumerist ideas and a second underground group, this one more violent/destructive at its core. When the narrator sets out to find Tyler, who seems to have gone missing, he is confronted with the reality that there is no Tyler Durden… that Tyler is a personality created during his periods of insomnia.

Quick thoughts –

Some of the hosts might not be terribly enthusiastic about this one.
Chapter 6 was the original short story… worth reading.
Scott wants to compare it to The Stranger (Camus) or anything by Sartre, but it can’t be done.
It’s a cult of personality, especially when recruiting for Project Mayhem.
If you’re watching the movie… don’t eat brownie mix, or anything, during the liposuction scene. You’re welcome.
Things start to come alive when the narrator begins to realize who Tyler Durden is.
Forced edgy, forced clever, but it doesn’t quite work on paper. The transfer to film worked better.
Scott’s scary tales of insomnia.
There is a lack of a cohesive world; everything revolves around the narrator, but there were some bright spots of descriptive visualization.
Marla Singer – real person or another personality?
We make A LOT of comparisons to the film… get used to it.
The main character is deeply flawed, but not “deep.”
A satire of anti-consumerism?
Space monkeys.
Soap, as your buried heroes and washing society clean. Also it’s feeding them their own kids.
Working class people taught that they’ll have a level of success, but they learn that it’s just not true.
When the narrator is flying around the country looking for himself/Tyler, he’s put up obstacles that keep him from finding what/who he is looking for but there isn’t much sympathy for the narrator.
The themes ring true, but the characters do not.
It’s an anarchist movement with a surprisingly large number of rules.
The parts of the story that are meant to be edgy, come off more as self-consciously edgy or childish.
Comments on Fight Clubs started up after the book/movie.
Who is this book really meant for?
Brief discussion on how the movie ending deviates from the book ending.
This is our final stand against consumerism.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you’re proud of will end up as trash. – Fight Club

Your hosts for this episode:

Lena
Scott
Paul

This episode was recorded 9/27/2012

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Back Seat Box Office Shows

Back Seat Box Office #111

Picks:

Jeff

Lena

Wreck-It Ralph
Flight
Argo
Cloud Atlas
The Man with the Iron Fists

Scott

Wreck-It Ralph
Flight
Argo
The Man with the Iron Fists
Cloud Atlas

There are no other movies in wide release this weekend.

The hosts picks for Back Seat Art House:

Jeff, Scott – This Must Be the Place
Lena – A Late Quartet

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Back Seat Box Office BSBO Results Shows

Back Seat Box Office #110 Results and Voice Mail

Post author By Tony
Post date October 31, 2012
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Congrats to Tony for the best score this week – 23.

Thanks to the following folks for their voice mail contributions:

Art
Jonathan
Tad
Tony

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Back Seat Quickies Shows

Back Seat Quickies #68: Amazing Spider-man Deleted Scenes

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Post date October 30, 2012
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In the seat:

Scott

Recorded 10/29/12

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Back Seat Producers Season 07 Shows

BSP Episode 247: The Cabin in the Woods

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Post date October 29, 2012
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Release date: 3/9/2012

Lionsgate

Directed by

Drew Goddard

Produced by

Joss Whedon

Written by

Drew Goddard
Joss Whedon

Cast

Kristen Connolly

Dana Polk

Chris Hemsworth

Curt Vaughan

Fran Kranz

Marty Mikalski

Richard Jenkins

Gary Sitterson

Bradley Whitford

Steve Hadley

The hosts review:

Deuce watched it five times within a week… ‘nuff said.
David’s reasons that this movie worked: 1 – Thor, pre-Thor, even! 2 – He likes a movie where he can SEE the monster, and this was utterly satisfied. 3 – There were heroes, not people making stupid choices in the face of danger.
The ultimate choice… do you kill one person to save the world or do you let the world end?
Special kudos to the Japanese school children!
Scooby Doo… yes, I think everyone thought that, too.
The cup bong was the amazing!
Stereotypical behavior via chemical enhancements… and not the kind you’re thinking about. Well, a little bit but not all of it.
Why did they only bring one dirt bike? Five people, one dirt bike?
If you were in the basement, what item would you have picked up? The puzzle ball? The conch? The diary? The necklace? The music box?
Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain.
Tony reads a list of monsters/evil and their origins.
Merman! Messy to clean up, though.
An interesting twist would have been in Marty was the virgin.
Cabin in the Sexist Woods.
It’s a great movie with a full plot and not contrived. It lifted the veil off of all horror movies.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

In the scene where Jules kisses the wolf head on the wall, the wolf’s tongue is covered in powdered sugar to give it a dusty look and to make the scene tolerable for the actress.

Fran Kranz (Marty) received extensive prop and behavior training in order to capture the stoner persona. He received a two-hour joint rolling session and a separate bong lighting session from expert consultants.

On the white board in the control room, when the staff is taking bets on the victims’ potential killers, both “Deadites” as well as “Angry Molesting Tree” are listed. These are obvious references to The Evil Dead films which also feature a cabin in the woods.

Immediately after an early previous screening with Fan Q&A, the first question Director Drew Goddard was asked was, “Will there be a sequel?” To which he responded, “Have you seen the ending to my movie?”

Your Producers for this episode were: