Talkie Talk #120: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / Robert Redford
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Chris assigns the homework of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the entire group is around to discuss it! We finish up talking about the career of the recently retired Robert Redford. Redford left his mark on cinema with roles in movies like The Sting and The Natural and behind the camera in films such as the Oscar-winning Ordinary People. But he also directed The Legend of Bagger Vance so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
The Willow Walkers will be playing at Smith’s Old Bar in Atlanta on Tuesday, September 4 with The Yawpers. Come out and hang, see a great band, and support the local music scene!
Talkie Talk #119: No Man's Sky / Twilight / Misfits and Monsters
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Brent, Chris, and TJ talk about what they’ve watched before discussing Brent’s Herculean task of watching the complete Twilight Saga in one week. So put on your jorts and get ready to sparkle!
Chris: Overcooked 2 (1:27), No Man’s Sky (3:15), The Challenge (6:20)
TJ: Bobcat Golthwait’s Misfits and Monsters (13:55), Pocket City (16:09), The Invention of Lying (19:06), The Other Woman (21:02), The 5-Year Engagement (22:56), The Intern (24:30)
Brent: Star Trek (26:56), Star Trek: Into Darkness (27:35), The Hobbit Franchise (30:10), The Twilight Saga (31:55)
Breezy on the Streets: (47:04)
Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.
Talkie Talk #115: Singin' in the Rain / Harry Potter / Mission Impossible: Fallout / News
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TJ, Brent, and David discuss the new Mission Impossible film (Fallout), their favorite performances in the Harry Potter Franchise, and the 2 things you need to watch for when riding sloths and/or blimps.
David: Singin’ in the Rain (2:14), Out of the Past (5:30), Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (8:30), Succession (11:10), Movie Trivia Schmoedown (13:40)
TJ: Maron (16:59), Harry Potter Franchise (17:40), Superbad (25:35), The Spectacular Now (27:50), Mission Impossible: Fallout (33:10)
Brent: Get Shorty/Be Cool (43:45), Dirty Dancing/Footloose (47:00), A Clockwork Orange (50:50)
Breezy on the Streets:
Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.
Boo Reefa and The Willow Walkers have two exciting, upcoming shows! 8/17 (Friday) @ 9pm at the Tin Roof Cantina for Boo Reefa and September 11 at Smith’s Old Bar for The Willow Walkers! Come see some great bands and hang with your local Talkie Talkers!
Talkie Talk #112: GoldenEye / Character Takeovers Draft
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IT’S A DRAFT!
TJ, Brent, and David talk about the 1995 campy action flick, GoldenEye. They then move on to discuss what it takes for and actor or actress to take over a role from somebody else, before making our selections in an old role, new soul draft!
Brent: Moana (1:25), Disaster Artist (3:21), Shutter Island (7:44), The Departed (9:44), The Player (15:15), Hannibal (18:04), Before Sunrise (20:43), Abbot and Costello (22:55)
Chris: Luke Cage Season 2 and MCU on Netflix (23:59), Incredibles 2 (28:55)
TJ: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (31:31), Rampage (34:07), Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (36:49), Catch & Release (37:37), Tau (40:40), Eagle vs. Shark (43:04)
Breezy on the Streets (45:43)
Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.
Some movies don’t possess the ability to be great. Before you see them, you just know. In an upcoming episode of Talkie Talk we talk about why game shows don’t usually have long shelf lives. The reason being, in our estimation, is because they get tired. They do the same thing over and over again. If they made 50 Deadpool movies with the same type of jokes (breaking the 4th wall, blending fiction and reality, etc.) you’d get very sick of watching the same movie over and over again. While Deadpool 2 doesn’t bore you that bad, it’s just not as fun and new as the first film.
The performances are as good as you’d expect. Ryan Reynolds delivers again performing a character seemingly written with him in mind. The most impressive work is done my newcomers to the series Josh Brolin and Zazie Beetz.
Josh Brolin as Cable in Deadpool 2 (credit: imdb)
Brolin plays Cable, a character they actually take time to develop, something that didn’t happen in the original Deadpool with any characters besides Wade himself. The story arc for Cable is actually somewhat shocking as they deliver his transformation so gradually that even when he does something out of necessity you find yourself wondering what exactly his motives are.
Zazie Beetz plays Domino. A super hero whose power is luck and therefore constantly in question. She is an absolute delight and has fantastic chemistry with Reynolds. Just a very fun character.
Zazie Beetz as Domino in Deadpool 2 (credit: imdb)
Deadpool continues its streak of finding characters that some people believe were ruined by the FOX X-men films. I won’t say more because I had zero idea that some characters were in this film and it was a pleasant surprise.
Deadpool 2 is simply one half-star (or whatever metric you use to rate films) worse than the original. But it still succeeds in doing it’s job. Making us laugh.
The whole crew tackles the 1992 Penny Marshall comedy A League of Their Own. David calls TJ a mule. TJ calls David a nag. Hilarity ensues. Chris also assigns next week’s homework!
Many films have pieces that look great individually without getting the pieces quite right as a whole. Maybe there’s a great performance that outshines the script. Maybe the script is fantastic but the talent just isn’t there to execute the dialogue. Sometimes movies can suffer this fate and still be above average or even great. Comparing what a film is lacking and what it does well is a bit tricky. Is Jackie really that good or is Natalie Portman just stealing the show? How good is Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption and how much of that movie’s success is based on a truly great story? The plot of Tomb Raider is unfortunately not as exciting as one might guess.
Tomb Raider tells the tale of Lara Croft (they didn’t mess that part up) looking for her dad. He has gone missing looking for, you guessed it, a tomb. Lara finds his bat cave and decides, against her father’s wishes (left behind in a video tape), to chase him down.
Oh, I should probably mention Lara is a bike courier and, by the looks of it, a parkour expert. This will come in handy later…
She finds a boat and a captain and convinces him with some currency (?) to go to a place that he says means certain death. A storm happens in the open water, boat parkour ensues.
Here’s where things get really interesting. Her dad is still alive (!) and that tomb he was looking for? It’s trying to be raided by a guy who works for a mysterious person on the other end of a telephone. Lara must stop him or the world will…end…I think.
Okay, that’s all for the bad parts of the movie. All the plot. Now to the good stuff.
Alicia Vikander in Tomb Raider (credit: imdb)
If ever there was an inspired performance in a bad action movie, Alicia Vikander delivers one here. She has almost nothing to work with and is quite charming throughout.
Walton Goggins plays a fun villain, and while they try to leave his true goals up in the air for the first five or so minutes of his screen time, they just don’t have the skills to write for talent like that.
Walton Goggins in Tomb Raider (credit: imdb)
Perhaps the most impressive part of Tomb Raider were the three or four action sequences that were absolutely nailed. Fun effects that don’t look too cheesy mixed with fun nods to the video game franchise do well here to get you through the slog of a story that just doesn’t work.
It’s not the worse thing I’ve ever seen, but it’s not breaking any video game movie curses either.
