Stavros

You cheating bastards.

Tactically it was the final battles of Lord of the Rings meets The Battle of Cannae from the second Punic war. Amazing battle scene.

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Good episode as usual chaps, although this complaining about feedback does make you seem awful needy. I have never seen an Audrey Hepburn film but as usual you guys have made me want to expand my horizons a little. Probably start off with Roman Holiday and go from there. Maybe Charade with the famous Bristolian actor Cary Grant.

Urgh, um. I guess Batman and Robin because at least it was honouring something about the history of Batman being such an homage to the 60s. And somehow it fucks continuity far less than Origins and thus fails to get my dander up nearly as much.

Really good stuff guys. Dan's summation of the Cap thing at the start was perfect and all the attention that particular drama deserved. Bringing Watchmen into the DC universe feels like the actions of a company that believes it's audience fundamentally didn't understand what watchmen was. You can't take a book that deconstructs heroes to that degree, plop them down next to Superman and pretend they fit together. You can absolutely tell stories with those people but it just doesn't work for me as an overall concept and won't work for a lot of people. It's like taking the skin off a tiger and pretending it's still what it was. It looks a bit like one but man, the point of a tiger is not its skin.

There's a well reviewed Spanish/English film called Intacto from the early 2000s that's quite good. All about luck as an actual measurably property, lots of betting on guys running blindfold through traffic, that kind of thing. Worth a look. Problem is finding well known films where he's a lead character.

I went Revolutions because it was an awful story but competently made. I bet there's more than a few people out there who think it was ok. I can't imagine anyone thinking SMB was good.

Crow takes it. Oh god it's close, but I just don't get as angry at The Crow. Rescuers, Cap and Ed Wood. The Matrix Revolutions vs Super Mario Bros Two awful films in completely different ways.

Sterling stuff, sir! Particularly as it says you posted this at 5 in the morning - I would personally struggle to replicate such prose and accurate spelling at such an ungodly hour for what is ultimately some frivolous nonsense. You're right I turned to the wrong pair of curmudgeonly critics. Best leave this to Mike and Dan.

Kermit. Significant back catalogue over decades, a variety of roles and choices as a performer. Made the leap from TV into The Muppet Movie but then moves from mere sequel bait into action films like Muppet Treasure Island and smaller more critic-friendly roles like Cratchett in Muppet Christmas Carol. Plus he had a recent career renaissance so there's modern stuff to cover as well.

I ran through this and the Helen Mirren episodes back to back at work this weekend. Pandy, I accept your apology in the manner which it was delivered. Partially. Seriously though, the onset of Pandy's new dad exhaustion phase and the subsequent giggles have been hilarious. I say never let him sleep!

Ooh, yeah Muppet Christmas Carol. Considering your opening you owe it to them. Heck, it's almost time to do that Kermit episode. Jaws 4 is more tirades territory, it's not really a fair evaluation of his talents and not worth discussing outside of the fact he did it to buy a holiday home. I'd throw in your Ipcress Files, Get Carters and The Man who would be Kings as the other options. Although obviously Italian Job is probably an auto-pick. My challenge to the both of you- No impressions. The whole episode. No catchphrases, nothing. It's never been done when discussing Michael Caine.

OK, based on Civil War a Spidey movie with added Iron man could well be a complete home run. Best version of Spidey ever and the interplay he has with Stark was perfect. They're doing this because it equals box office and even better than that it actually works on screen. This isn't DC throwing some Bat + Supes equation at the screen and expecting the fans excitement to do all the work.

He's definitely the Hollywood version, there's images coming out of a bunch of fake movies starring him from a film festival somewhere.

It's a proud day for me finally making into the Tirades Wiki.

Congratulations Will on your 31st season as a professional reaper-dodger.

Ta very much, it was great fun to record as well!

I just saw that it was 4 minutes on itunes and came in to report a technical error. I hate today.

As mentioned in my various shows with Ian, I actually prefer the old school Rebecca Romijn version because start to end there's a purity of vision about what the concept and character are, even in X-men 3. Visually the big motifs in the first movies were Wolverines claws and Mystiques awesome design, and so once they came to First Class they retroactively tried to make her a bigger deal than she should have been, lending her this cooked up history with Xavier that never really fit. I'd be fine with a young her showing up in this revised timeline and even showing the history of how she became what she did but she should be inexorably on the path to villainy. Instead she just gets more and more heroic because Mystique has become the iconic character of the franchise and its for all the wrong reasons. In fact the casting of an actress who has become a huge name has an a retroactive Halle Berry effect, boosting a character based on the profile of the person playing them rather than what serves the story.

So that's Wacky Races if it took place on Apokalips right?

Send a fossil to find a fossil.

Ah fair enough. You seemed to imply the book was funny even if the film wasn't, whereas the book the serious and the film is merely bad.

You can tell how quick I'm going through this. Ian, the original World War Z is not a comedy book, it's a bleak literal text about a near apocalypse. You might argue that the concept behind the Zombie Survival guide is comedy because it's a serious book of a ridiculous subject but even there you don't find any actual jokes.

To play devil's advocate, is The Matrix not also good and did it not redefine Sci Fi movies? Eh, it added some techniques to action cinema but it hardly redefined sci-fi. It just took existing elements and combined them. Toy Story has innovated the path of animated features into a multi-billion dollar industry. I can't think of many films that got made because the matrix exists. It's not like it's Terminator or 2001 a Space odyssey.