The Ring Two / The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Movie / Dr Who (2005)
Welcome one and all to podcast #3.
This week’s edition heralds:
- The Ring Two
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Movie
- Dr Who (2005)
This special extended (Cool) Shite podcast will make you laugh, make you cry and make you email us never to hum again.
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Just listened to your show here while working, I just have some small comments. First, the background music is sometimes too loud! Drowns out the speech in my small PC speakers…
Very interesting stuff about Hitchhiker’s Guide, not really agreeing with you on Dr Who – it was pretty cheeky really, and uhh.. why were the mannequins shooting? I mean, ok, plastic came to life – but nobody builds guns into mannequins! Shite indeed.
I’d like to hear your opinions on Enterprise ending, I sense you guys might be into Star Trek.
/Henrik, Sweden
Hey Henrik,
Thanks for giving us a go and the feedback. I shall turn the background music down for the next podcast. We are still finding our feet, so every comment help. Now that you meantion the gun thing I am inclined to agree, I shall berrate Chris about it
The Startrek thing personally isn’t my scene, but I will definently thought it around the table for a discussion.
Once again, thanks for listening, tune in to our next podcast for a shout out.
Hi Henrik, thanks for listening!
Dr. Who has always been cheeky – that’s part of the charm of the character and the show so it was good to see that creep back into the writing and dialogue.
As for the shooting mannequins, this shouldn’t be a problem. If you can already suspend disbelief to accept that the Doctor is a 900 year old time travelling alien and his vehicle of choice appears to be an old blue policebox with LOTS of legroom on the inside, you shouldn’t have too much trouble accepting the guns.
Also, this episode was an homage to the first episode of the Jon Pertwee era of Dr. Who (1970 – 1973), Spearhead From Space, which featured an attempted invasion by the Nestene Consciousness using animated shop window dummies.
Granted, as an adult, we can think things through and start to get a bit picky about such choices. But to a kid, this is the stuff that will send them cowering behind whatever piece of furniture is available. I’ve read reports recently that Harrods has had to remove the dummies from their stores temporarily because kids are too frightened of them… because of Dr. Who! Now that’s television at its greatest!
As for Enterprise, Star Trek isn’t at all much to my taste. Q-Dog will be the dude to talk to about that. Generally speaking, it may be a good thing for sci-fi overall that the Star Trek franchise is finally going to pasture for a while. It will mean that we can expect new and different things, or more quality programming such as the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, to fill the gap.
I recieved an email for our good friend Tom/Tim
Thanks for answering the question Tom. I shall have a look around for a copy of Kung-fu Hustle. Both films sound great.
So far no comments or complaints about our humming… maybe this will become a regular edition.
You have been warned!
As to the Trek, well, i have watched enough in my time to know that it needs some time to sort itself out. personally i think it needs a new direction. something that boosts it back to being cutting edge. at the moment it is looking like the senile old grandpa who thinks that everybody si moving too fast and playing their music too loud (Not a dig at you henrik, just what granparents do.)
enterproise had a great third season, the expanc\se was interesting, but it sufferd from a long story which got too convoluted and didn’t allow people to “jump on” which is a dangerous gamble to play. for fans they get one long reat story, to others they get incomprehensable rubbish.
i haven’t seen any of season four but i hear that it sucked. and as to the ending… well, when the cast say it is appauling then i think that something has gone wrong.
give Straczynski a go, he wants to do a trek series… let him! BAB-5 was excellent!
but failing that, let it snooze, let it gain a cult following again. look at the viewing figures on DR Who. sometimes some time off makes sense.
as to the autons… ok, the guns are a bit odd, but i tell ya what there are as many fans of the old stuff who would have lynched someone if thye hadn’t had guns. i would have…
i really do love the new stuff and i am a bit sad that ecclestone has made his move, but i figure, what the hell i still have twelve episodes of him to watch over the next three months… life aint so bad!
with movies like the hitchikers guide and sin city coming soon, life is very very good in fact!
Just a quick comment that I have changed the file name so the RSS feed would validate properly. So if it comes up again in your podcasting software, you can safely ignore it.
Umm.. I just wanted to write a small comment here.. but it turned out pretty long. Maybe I should start writing my blog again.
As for the guns and the suspension of disbelief – sure, I can accept that theres a vast space inside the police box, someone built that with alien technology. Sure, they travel back and forth through time and space – someone built that with alien technology. Sure, there’s a signal that brings plastic to life etc… but! Nobody built guns into the mannequins! The plastic-life-signal didn’t do it! Where did they come from! =) I accept that Dr. Who is cheeky – I’ve seen very little of the original (I don’t think it was ever on in Sweden) and I understand it’s part of the appeal. I saw episode two yesterday and it was an improvement on ep 1, and I will be continuing to watch the series.
Enterprise has had a bumpy ride. Season four have been better than the third, in my opinion, and the series is good enough to deserve a fifth season – there’s a lot more shit series out there still going and going…
Sin City, 10 out of 10 in style.
The Machinist, fantastic film.
Kung-Fu Hustle – I HATED it. It wasn’t funny. The Road Runner-type bit? Awful. It had unnecessarily brutal violence in spots, really stuck out at times. For instance, the axe murder in the beginning. I turned it off half-way through because I simply thought it was shite, and I had heard from so many people that it was soo good. I don’t agree. I watch a fair bit of asian cinema, so it’s got nothing to do with it being Chinese.
Ok, I’m stopping now. I’ll go write a book or something.
Nobody built guns into the mannequins! The plastic-life-signal didnۉ€ž¢t do it! Where did they come from! =)
Here’s another explanation – maybe the guns were “morphed” into the dummies’ hands the same way Plastic Mickey’s hand morphed into a big spanky paddle. This begs the question “well, why didn’t Plastic Mickey’s hand turn into a gun then?” and my answer would be “not enough time”. It could be that, in the lead up to the activation of the dummies, the Nestene Consciousness was actuating the “growth” of the guns on a very subtle sleeper signal. Or perhaps the change occurred as soon as the dummies were activated. Mickey’s spanky paddle was good for close quarters combat, whereas the guns were good for overall death and carnage, as well as the creation of terror.
In Spearhead From Space the Nestenes actually infiltrated a plastics factory and had been creating the dummies for a few weeks before the attack.
Anyway, that’s all I have to say about that. We watched episode two last night and it bloody well rocked! More detailed thoughts at a later date.
i liked the general tone of kung-fu hustle, i guess the bit at the beginning was a bit strange, but once you’ve watched the whole film it doesn’t stick out as much, because it’s obvious the tonge-in-cheek comic book nature they were going for…… and the bit with the ultimate killer guys fighting the three masters using their big harp thing…. come on….. how can you not have enjoyed that…..
and the road runner bit made me laugh my ass off
just my opinion….
i guess for me the film was just a step up from shaolin soccer, a more cohesive plot, better acting, and obviously just a more expensive production…..so as a rule of thumb if you didn’t like shaolin soccer then you wouldn’t like Kung-fu hustle
on a similar note, a friend showed me a swedish film called ‘kopps’ last night, that had a similar stupid comic book feel….. i loved it….
I did enjoy Shaolin Soccer, I saw it several times in fact. I guess I’ll have to watch Kung-Fu Hustle again with a more open mind, eh?
I haven’t seen Kopps actually, although it was very popular and successful at it’s release. The director’s first film “Jalla, Jalla” was even more successful, but I didn’t really like it so I guess that’s why I passed on Kopps. Most Swedish films are boring shitty dramas so when someone makes a flat-out comedy it usually makes a lot of money – which is spent on making shitty boring dramas which lose lots of money.
…that Straczynski dude has a TV series on late one night that I stumbled across…post-apocolyptic style, all people on earth over like 15 years old or something have died leaving the kids to fend for themselves, kinda fallout-like and generally interesting….the only thing that might freak you out is…wait for it…Luke Perry…yeah I kid you not…
The TV show you are referring to is called Jeremiah. I am interested in seeing it, but from the beginning. So I will wait for a DVD release or something.
Jalla, Jalla is a great film. I found it very funny and nice easy watch. If Kopps is by the same director, I am willing to give it a go
Kung-fu Hustle will be watched by the (Cool) Shite crew this coming Tuesday and then Podcasted about the following Sunday.
This weeks Podcast will be about Pornostar (Japan) and Nothing (Canadian), So watch out!
The show is called Jeremiah it did pretty well in the states and has gotten a coupl of seasons a least. i have enjoyed a couple of the shows i have watched but sadly i think that it become a bit hokey of late. when it went in for the quasi mystical stuff that was cool, but now its a bit militaristic.. and if i want military stuff i’ll watch stargate…
maybe if i had caught every episode i’d be more hooked… dunno. interesting premise though.
ah, swedish films… heh heh, the boring dramas are the one we seem to get all the time on SBS (our internaitonal channel) its all too rare to see something funny or cool come out of europe…
i dunno, maybe its the cold but most of the films coming off the contnent just seem so dour and pouty…
or is it just me?
Oh and for anne interested tonight (7th of april) the final episode of season one of Jeremiah will be aired.
give it a look, ya never know.
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I’ve met that Straczynski dude.
Of course, when I say “met” I mean “I’ve poked a digicam in his facing at the San Diego Comic-Con in an attempt to get him to give me an ident for Eruptor.com”
But I HAVE met Shannon Elizabeth, proper, fo’ real. And she’s divorced Ugly Joe. BOOYA. Now’s my chance.
“At last, the time has come, at last we will reveal ourselves to the shannon.”
what darth maul was actually thinking.
i’ve seen a lot of really boring scandinavian films (my girlfriends norwegian) but kopps surprised me, i’ll have to look up jalla jalla, I watched another norwegian film the other night ‘kitchen stories’ AKA ‘tales from the kitchen’ really interesting little film about swedish furniture designers sitting on high chairs in the corner of norweigan kitchens…. very funny, and sweet.
glad to hear you guys are going to be reviewing kung-fu hustle..
i’m gonna give skype a go in a tick…
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