Another late Top Ten list, but I wanted to watch as many potential #ConTENders as possible before I made my final tally. Then, I found myself with more work in television than ever before. And yet, I STILL missed some big films. But, we will get into that soon enough. Catch up with my Top 15 of 2015, and my Top Ten of 2016 if you’d like.
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Okay, so I’m dreadfully behind. In order to catch up, here are four days in one post!
First, Day Eighteen: I was back on Legion! Their craft services are one of the best around! What did I eat, though?Read More »
Well shit, that was an interesting failure, huh?
I began the second year of revisiting childhood films, once per week NOT wanting to do it at all. The process of writing about each film was a chore and it wasn’t fun. I had held myself to it for 2016 because I had this newfound love of completing things. And yet, when I started 2017’s version, I had come across an equally strong hatred for the series.Read More »
During one of my many days working as a Production Assistant on American Horror Story, another PA asked everyone an informal poll question: What’s most important to you? A lot of people said family, financial security, or love. My answer was the same reason I came out to Los Angeles in the first place: happiness. Thousands of people come here every year in hopes of attaining happiness and The Disaster Artist, is about Tommy Wiseau’s version of that: The American Dream.
You know amidst the ever-flowing changes of life, some things take a backseat. And while these changes can be inexplicably altering, they too can prohibit one from properly expressing his or her self in their typical way.
If you haven’t heard already, I’ve been working on a television show. Many of my readers are people I know and so to the dozens of you, this comes as no surprise. But to those of you who may only know me from this blog, I have been neglecting you… and myself.Read More »
*Note: This is the LAST #52PickUp post. To see how the series will live on click here.
The 90s was an important decade to my generation if only for the simple fact that it shined a light upon the polluting ways of the world. And media reflected that message of hope and climate change reversal in the form of many things, namely, Captain Planet. But since they didn’t make a movie for that, I watched the 1996 “eco-friendly comedy:”
Bio-Dome. I remembered loving this film. Pauly Shore was on fire in these few years with the likes of Encino Man, Son-in-Law, A Goofy Movie, Jury Duty, and In the Army Now. Bio-Dome was the last of this storied run.
This week is interesting. Alex and I are hoping to be joined by Tim as I promised last week. Will he show?
We discuss the history of my #52PickUp webseries, how I came up with the idea, how I decided on which films to watch, and test Alex’s viewing prowess with these classic (and not-so classic) films.
Then we discuss my newest entry in 2017’s #52PickUp: Waterworld.
See all of my current films in the #52PickUp Series, and which ones I watched last year.
And finally, we play a game that you too can play! I ripped it straight from a podcast that I listen to, who, in turn, stole it from a radio show!
#52PickUp: The Shameless Topic! (Starts at 00:00)
#52PickUp– Waterworld (20:39)
Alex’s Jason and Deb’s IMDb Game (30:23)
Plugs and Close (45:02)
Listen here.
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Visit Jamie’s blog at GuyOnAWire. Here’s the #52PickUp I mentioned!
See Tim on the Universal Lot! He’ll be the one showing you around!
And visit Alex’s blog at Doggone Movie Reviews.
And finally, see what Jamie looks like (hint: not so good) at their other project: We Need Movies.
-Jamie (@GuyOnAWire)
*Minor story spoilers ahead*
In a world where the blockbuster is all capes and sorcery, Kong: Skull Island aims to bring the spotlight back to the old monster movies of yesteryear. And that is why it’s one of my 2017 #ConTENders.
Can an alternate one-off superhero movie be any good? Can–
YES. Yes, it can. Logan is amazing.
I’ve been the biggest X-Men fan since I watched the 90s cartoon show and then first got my grubby little mitts on a special issue of What If? Specifically, issue #9 (Volume 2).
And Logan plays out like a movie version of “What If?” Logan is loosely tied to the rest of the series and is drastic in theme and tone. The film is best summed up as a post-apocalyptic western with mutants.
The boys are back in town! Tim, Alex, and Jamie regroup to take on the dire in three very disturbingly dark films (A streeetch).
Unannounced spoilers for I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore at 6:43 (It’s on Netflix as of this episode posting!) Otherwise than that, it’s largely spoiler-free for that and the new horror, Get Out!
But we definitely spoil the DICK out of Shame, (and what a dick it is). WHAT?! Siri, how do I erase podcast descriptions?
“Okay, here’s what I found on ‘howling erect podcast prescriptions:'”
Noooooooo!
Then we talk the OSCARS 2017 and who won the Not Quite Hollywood Predictions Contest in a bonus segment!
Jamie– I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Starts at 00:00)
Tim– Get Out! (12:06)
Alex– Shame [Communal Film of the Week] (17:45)
#52PickUp– Maximum Overdrive (24:12)
OSCARS 2017– (29:05)
Listen here.
Download us on iTunes every Thursday!! Subscribe and comment below to join the conversation!
Follow us on Facebook! /NotQuitePod
Follow us on Twitter! @NQHPod
Do you have questions, suggested movies, or topics for us to discuss? E-mail us at NotQuitePod@gmail.com
Visit Jamie’s blog at GuyOnAWire.
See Tim on the Universal Lot! He’ll be the one showing you around!
And visit Alex’s blog at Doggone Movie Reviews.
And finally, see what Jamie looks like (hint: not so good) at his other project: We Need Movies.
-Jamie (@GuyOnAWire)
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