Cinema Triforce

It's great to be back loyal fans.  After last weeks psuedo-hiatus, we dove headfirst into our 1st "Listener Suggested" theme this week (Thanks Micah):  It Should've Been Better.

We've all been subject to these gross disappointments.  Whether it be from a bad decision at the rental store, to waiting in line for the midnight showing...they can strike anywhere:   Rotten Eggs.  Flubs.  Flops.  They have names everywhere.   From poorly handled adaptations, to deceitfully engaging trailers or over-inflated goth operas...the ichor of a bungled film is a bitter swill to swallow.

Nevertheless, we endured these this week 'cause we just love you THAT much.

• Paycheck
• Shoot 'Em Up
• Charlie & the Chocolate Factory/Alice in Wonderland

So tune in & hear just how deep these 4 flicks pushed us into the bog of ETERNAL STENCH!!

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We devoted this week to hosting the Marvel legacy that led to the opening of The Avengers.  5 movies in 5 days, then a midnight romp with some of the hardcores who hung out this week.  A heavy undertaking and a powerful payoff in what may be the best Marvel accomplishment with Joss Whedon (Firefly/Buffy) at the helm.  Join us as we ring a bell and make you salivate without ruining the exact flavor of what's for dessert.  As a bonus, we include some tracks from an amazing Denver metal band.  The nerd joy must be known, and we sing it from the mountaintops within our deep sea submarine.  Lest we need to list them:

• Iron Man (I and II)
• Hulk
• Thor
• Captain America
• The Avengers - but just a lick of the bowl so you go eat the whole brownie; um, with your eyes and ears.

SPOOOONNN!!!

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Having a recent resurgence in popularity, due in part to a series that shall not be named, Vampires have often been a subject of curiosity, horror & intrigue.   So, we thought, rather than focus on the popular kids in the click, why don't we venture down the hallways & find the outcasts.   The criminals.  The brains.

Therefore, we submit, for your viewing & discussing pleasure:

• Near Dark
• Shadow of the Vampire
• Låt den Rätte Komma In

All three quite tasty in their own vein & all worth your attention.  So, do yourself a favor & don't you...forget about these.

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This episode allow us to get into the 60's for our topic.  The modern movies allow for innovation along with fantastic effects; decades ago innovation was the only way to try to trick us.  The other major option was to break convention and make the audience squirm, which #2 did.  Draw yourself a world, find a victim to voyeurize, and follow the faun into his laberinto.

• Inception
• Peeping Tom
• Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)

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Before Survivor & whatever the hell that Kardashians show is called, there were other types of reality shows.  Shows where normal Dick's & Jane's could come on, win lots (or almost no amount) of money & maybe just get their 15 minutes in the spotlight.

You know...Game shows.  Show's with hosts that always groped the female contestants,  or made you question whether or not they were a zombie masquerading as a celebrity (we're looking @ you B.B. & D.C., AND P.S.) or just a really odd guy with an autobiography that cannot really be confirmed or denied.

• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• Happy Gilmore
• Running Man

While this week's show may be an odd combination, we guarantee it'll satiate your appetite for all things.  Everybody Wins!  Rice a Roni all around!!  Ding Ding

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Sometimes luck is not on your side (d’ya like what we did there) and life deals you a hand that is neither enviable nor advantageous.  What to do in these situations?  Well, you could sit & pout or you could follow this week’s example & get it DONE!  Crazy, scary, or inspiring, all are welcome & all are indeed solid gold!

• Misery
• The Bone Collector
• The Sea Inside

The stars of this trio can out-act others without getting out of bed!  This goes out to Superman, R.I.P.   We try to do our part in attempting to cover various types of performance and the issues that coincide.  Lay down and enjoy, or if you are capable of  movin' around, do it and do not take it for granted...

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A lot of movies bank on action to get them through, but it is a special breed that achieves Badass-ness.  In an episode series based on those thoroughbreds, we begin with the deadlier of the species.  Clean out your panflute and trumpet while someone hammers on an anvil for:

• Kill Bill:  Part I & Part II
• Aliens

We'll get to the guys eventually - and we left out another James Cameron triumph to do both parts of Bill.  This is where YOU come in.  In another chance at inclusion, we ask listeners to give us more directors and female leads - old or new - who can give us an excuse to talk about Sarah Connor in a future 2nd installment about ladies who rule the bloody screen.

For the musicfiles, we know that Carrie Henn was NOT in Poltergeist; we threw that music in because of the mistake people make about Newt.

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We are officially changing our release day to Saturday.  Officially.  If it is done Friday, it'll be released Friday; our aim is now Saturday.  Thanks ahead of time for modifying your calendars.

Plus, we give you a taste of what's comin'.  After this, we'll make it a point to announce on the casts what is to follow each week.  You're welcome ahead of time for that.

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There are always going to be those people who claim to have known of or been fans of someone/some band/some book BEFORE it was popular.  AND...apparently we're no different.

Appealing to our inner "Oh yeah, but did you see them in this"-ISM , we decided to share with you a few flicks that are low on the radar, but high on the KICKASS-OMETER.  So grab your pack, jump in the Radmobile & throw a phone at the desk clerk...

• White Water Summer
• School Ties
• L.A. Confidential

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10 Episodes - TEN!!!   *HONK*    Ten     Eeepisodes  (get it, Grosse Pointers?)

If they can make music they can act, right?  Elvis did it many times - "Lemonaade, that cool refreshing drink."  We turn our lens of Diplomatic Scrutiny onto musicians who choose to memorize lyrics for a song 90 minutes long (give or take).  Come warm your movie-loving ears by our soundfire, upon which we burn:

• Tremors (Reba McEntire)
• New Jack City (Ice-T)
• a surprise Fresh Prince flick

We edged out Tom Jones in Mars Attacks, cause after all he plays Tom Jones (with staggering accuracy).  We'll make up a way to talk about it in za future.  We are now in iTunes,  also under Cinema Triforce.  We shall meet again...  to talk about musicians who don the villain mask.  That horse will rise again; unless you double-tap.

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