Talkie Talk Ep. 2: The Talkening (Movie: Subtitles)
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The official second episode of The Media By Us pan-media podcast, Talkie Talk.
In this episode, we have TJ, Brent, Chris and David discuss their Watchlist/Playlist, some quick SAG Award news (Winona loves pizza), before going into subtitled movie titles – Think Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo and its ilk, through the beautiful majesty of some movie subtitle-related trivia quizzes and general colon discussion. Grammatical colons.
Some background: this comparison started mentally for me back in college, when my friend Pritesh asked if I wanted to see Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! playing on TV – he said it’s that movie with the Tobey Maguire lookalike. For those of you not acquainted with the quaint charm of WADWTH!, this romantic comedy stars Topher Grace as the Tobey Maguire lookalike. It made me wonder – was my friend comparing these two because they looked alike, or because their names looked alike? But more germane to this piece, who is just better?
There is no objective way to approach who is a better actor; so I thought, why not expand this subjectively to find out who is the better ultimate human being, utilizing arbitrary categories for comparison?
That’s right. It’s THE TOPH VS THE TOBE.
Physical Attributes
Topher Grace: white, skinny and a surprising 5’10¾” – a quick aside, the ultra specific 5’10¾” is the kind of height people who are actually 5’8” give. He’s a spry 38-year old and was born in NYC. East Coast.
Tobey Maguire: white, skinny and a just-about-right 5’8”. An elder 41-year old hailing from Santa Monica, California repping the West Coast.
Topher has the reach on Tobey, but this is for the best everything, not just the best in a fight. So we’ll call the first round of the East Coast / West Coast battle a draw.
And Then There Were Ten – in which our intrepid hero goes back and expands the Academy Award Best Picture nominations to ten nominations, and goes about filling those hypothetical slots. This time – it’s 2008 – the previous entry is The Dark Knight (Box Office Hero).
Chapter 2: Actors Acting for Acting Actors (Doubt)
Streep, Amy, and Hoffman on their debut EP cover art (image: fanart.tv)
The Actors’ showcase is a great way for a film to get its foot in the Academy door. More than that, an actor-friendly film is an established pathway to not just multiple acting nominations, but typically a Best Picture nomination as well. The Academy has only about 6,000 members – nearly a fourth of the members are actors. It is not a stretch to posit that Academy members are capable and even pre-dispositioned to recognize its own department as the key to an exceptional film. Our beloved statistics bear this out as well.
Talkie Talk Ep. 1 - Are You Ready For Some Football (Movies)?
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The second-slash-first episode of The Media By Us pan-media podcast, Talkie Talk.
In this episode, we have TJ, Brent, and David discuss their Watchlist/Playlist, some quick Oscar Nomination reactions before going into Football movies to celebrate Super Bowl week with some football-related trivia quizzes and general pigskin cinema discussion.
Intro – Watchlist/Playlist: TJ – 13th, Life Animated, Kubo and the Two Strings, Inferno, Angels & Demons, How I Met Your Mother, Playing: Hearthstone Brent – 13th, Cloud Atlas, Dallas Buyers Club, Hidden Figures, Watchmen, Playing: Skyrim, 10-Yard Fight(check out Brent’s great article) David – Life Animated, Kubo and the Two Strings, Hell or High Water, Captain Fantastic, Playing: Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest Quick Hit: Oscar Nomination Reactions Main Topic: Football Movies Quizzes: Football Filmographies, Football Box-Office General Discussion:Friday Night Lights (TV), The Replacements, Necessary Roughness, Little Giants, The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon (yes, really), Any Given Sunday, Rudy, Varsity Blues, Draft Day, Friday Night Lights (movie), Remember the Titans, Brian’s Song Homework Follow-up:99 Homes New Homework Assignment:Tucker & Dale Vs Evil
And Then There Were Ten – in which our intrepid hero goes back and expands the Academy Award Best Picture nominations to ten nominations, and goes about filling those hypothetical slots. This time – it’s 2008
Chapter 1: The Box Office Hero the Academy Deserves, Not the One It Needs Right Now (The Dark Knight)
This candidate is my entire reason for coming up with this series. And many believe that this candidate missing out is the reason for the expansion. If you want to drive ratings for the broadcast ceremony, you want to select a movie that people have seen – and seen again – to the tune of over a billion in global box office. That would be nice. It also helps when a well-known movie is good.
Welcome to the first episode of The Media By Us pan-media podcast, Talkie Talk.
In this episode (split into two parts), we have TJ, Brent, Chris and David discuss what they’ve been watching before going into predicting the Academy Award Nominations.
Talkie Talk Episode 0 – Part 1 of 2
(Intro, What We’ve Been Watching/Playing, Oscars: Brief Discussions – Tech categories)
Talkie Talk Episode 0 – Part 2 of 2
(Continued Oscars: Deep Dives – Writing, Acting, Directing, Best Picture, Outro)
The Academy Awards. Where white people are finally recognized.
The Academy Awards holds a special place for many people – for some, it is a celebration of cinema, competition and glamour, with warm, family-time memories spent watching tuxedos and sparkling dresses exchange gold statues. For others, it is a backslapping, near-masturbatory, never-ending, annual slog about movies that you do not care about. And for a select portion of the population – it is an afterthought.
For years now, a cottage industry (which is an understatement – more like a mansion industry) has cropped up around prognosticating who gets what on the big night. For the awards nerds out there, the cinema equivalent of the Super Bowl is Oscar Nomination Day. The saying goes, it is an honor to be nominated – and there is truth to that. There are those among us who know when Nomination Day is coming up, and make plans to tune in the live webcast of the announcements early in the morning.
The official second episode of The Media By Us pan-media podcast, Talkie Talk.
