SteveJRogers

How about two actors who wound up being in award winning/nominated movies virtually every major release. One being one of the biggest icons in Hollywood history, while the other seemed poised to eventually break out of a "That Guy" supporting role character actor mold, despite at least one iconic role to his credit. Of course the former, James Dean achieved his icon status more due to the cult of personality that follows not only him, but his time in American pop culture, the 1950s. Specifically with his untimely car crash death that made his best known work posthumous releases. The latter, John Cazale, besides being Fredo Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather II and archive footage in The Godfather III (granted YMMV with it being Oscar nom worthy or not, of course), every movie he was in got a Best Picture nomination; The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter. The last released after Cazale's death from lung cancer at the age of 42.

Awww geez, how did I forget THAT one! Though, do we really need two Brits who weren't alive at the time discussing how messed up our government can be with an event from nearly 45 years ago? =;)

Not sure if this is worthy of an HA discussion, especially since most likely it applies to just about every actor/actress/director covered, and perhaps I may email it as well, but there is an interesting road not taken with Hoffman. He was all set to be the Bloom character in Mel Brooks' The Producers before landing the role in The Graduate. Might be interesting to discuss Hoffman in Gene Wilder's place in The Producers and other Mel Brooks films. And quite possibly other iconic Wilder roles such as Willy Wonka and his team-ups with Richard Pryor. No doubt he could pull those off just as well as Gene Wilder did, but it would be an interesting concept to play with.

Isthar for its infamousness as one of the biggest flops in history. Hoffman did Willy Loman in a 1985 TV Movie of Death of A Salesman.

Graduate is a must. Kraemer vs Kraemer is another biggie.

Not sure what was a worse example of live action shameless commercialization of a current products that went above and beyond simple product placement, that or Mac & Me. Both vapid and horrific. I'm still trying to figure out why the latter has any fans due it being such a blatant rip off of ET and the success that film had with Reese Pieces, but like I said earlier, sometimes movies just speak to someone despite what someone else with a more critical eye might say about the art of the film making process. I do think Mac & Me would make a good episode though.

Hard to justify films that aren't generally accepted as a hot mess though. Even what is considered the dregs of the Marvel Movie U has their fair share of fans. Conversely, Star Wars, the Nolan Batman films, Godfather and all films considered classics by the masses have a fair share of people that would do a legit Tranquil Tirades critique on them. I'm not saying you are wrong in your dislike of the film, I'm just saying I don't think there is enough of a mass amount of hate on Ant Man, or it being considered lazy and banal storytelling enough, to justify being on a show dedicated to ripping apart things that are considered the dregs of bad and uninspired movies.

Doing some brief Google-fu leads to vague speculation that the bunny must have been a "popular" Pirate's World concession stand mascot, akin to the characters at Disney parks and Six Flag's arrangement with Loony Tunes characters. Nothing concrete (ummmm...ice cream style pun not intended there) comes up from a brief Google search though. I'd imagine further research would be going down...ummm again no pun intended...rabbit holes of nostalgic forums focusing on Florida based amusement theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s. But as much entertainment as that could provide, it would be a bit too much for the sake of this bit!

LOL! I was wondering what the Live Tweeting was all about yesterday! I thought maybe you were vetting it for James & Dubs!

For some reason I thought some good farva material around baseball season starting time would be one of the crappy Babe Ruth bio pics. But of course that runs into the problem with doing movies within franchises with no prior knowledge base of, or desire to do the homework for. For example, how are you supposed to criticize a film for getting certain things wrong, when you don't know the whole story behind why its wrong in the first place, and little things that are just plain out of character for the IRL person would seem nitpicky for someone who wasn't there or can shrug it off as "well, the actor or director is just putting a modern spin" or its for an affect or something*, but are there any actual "based on actual events" or bio pics that are in consideration for being covered? *Example in the John Goodman Ruth movie is Ruth flipping his bat over his back and watching a home run, which is more of a modern day celebration and something Ruth never did. Some might shrug that off as putting a modern spin in there for today's (well early 1990s) audiences to understand as opposed to Ruth calmly jogging around the bases and taunting the opposing dugout after a mammoth shot.

Good rule to go by! =;) I didn't mean to call you out, but The Eagles would probably qualify as being on that group of bands so popular in their day, that there would be a backlash due to "wait, why aren't these guys as popular, or these guys weren't as great as their popularity would suggest. BTW, the problem with using Seinfeld as an example of "this would be solved if..." tropes is that Seinfeld first aired when cell phones weren't as pervasive part of the culture as they are today. Other wise you'd could say Lucy Ricardo would rarely have to be doing some 'splaning to Ricky all the time if I Love Lucy aired today!

You know, I would have thought The Eagles, and their respective solo works, would be included in that group of Beatles, Nirvana, Ramones, etc that Dubs hates when it comes to the perceptions that just because they are so uber popular that people are brainwashed into thinking they were the best of their genre/era/etc. I mean You Belong To The City works with the idea of where you were going, but surely it couldn't be the only song you could think of about connections to a generic city without a specific name in the song/title?

Hard to pick from the bunch of horrid Bond parodies and knockoffs I saw in a trailers and "highlights" package before Spectre at a local Alamo Drafthouse! I guess Operation Kid Brother is as "good" as any.

Just curious as by now a few years ago the feed had a couple of trailers, with the last one detailing the deadline to send in fan feedback, leading up to the Skyfall review. I know Ian is quite busy, and I'm sure Adham is as well, but just curious if there was any sort of timetable for the Spectre review episode yet?

Burnett (the guy Siuntres interviewed) does a lot of DVD bonus content work (he did the Appendices for the LOTR Extended editions, among many, many, many other things) and talked about working on the bonus features for Superman Returns. He was responsible for that massive, incredible three-hour making-of that was far longer than the movie itself. It's one of the most in depth things that's ever appeared on a DVD. The single-disc version without it outsold the 2-disc set by something like 20:1. Physical media and bonus content won't ever go away entirely (Criterion, for example, is staying right where it is), but it'll become niche, and fairly expensive for collectors only. That is until hipsters see it as "retro chic" and bring it back the way vinyl has! =

That is true, but someone needs to speak for those like me whom had to do a massive purging of DVDs because of lack of space, and am strictly digital now due to both space and money (to buy the physical copies) issues. I'm fine with just renting DVDs from public libraries though, but you find these days that internal DVD-ROM drives are becoming less and less frequent on laptops and the like.

Which is why I'll never understand why certain things (like commentary tracks, and select docs from various sets/releases) aren't added as part of the streaming package. Granted that is the enticing thing about the DVD/Blue Rays over streaming, but why not put that stuff up as options and parts of "seasons" if you will with the streaming packages.

Been on a West Wing rewatch binge, and it occurs to me that the now late Roger Rees would have made a good Doctor. Well, at least if he brought his Lord John Marbury character to the role. Watch the episodes he's in, the character is very Doctor-esque. Interestingly enough, his final episode airing (Season 6's Wake Up Call) predates the start of the NuWho series by a few months! I wonder if he ever was considerd for a role in either New or Classic Who. BTW The West Wing, or Aaron Sorkin's work in general could use an Earth-2 podcast treatment. I'd love to, but I don't have the time, or editing skills to pull it off the way I'd want it to be.

FYI, Ken Shamrock vs Billy Gunn's history! http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=konst&letter1=B&wrestler1=219&letter2=K&wrestler2=398&letter3=&wrestler3=0&letter4=&wrestler4=0&matchtyp=0&anzeige=matches

Fun fact, since this was recorded, and for those not paying attention to the modern WWE product, The Izod Center is no more. Literally was announced as closing earlier this year, with the final event back in March. Not much was filling the arena besides the usual concerts, WWE/UFC events, circus, Monster Jam, etc since the NHL's Devils and college basketball's Seton Hall Pirates moved to Newark's Prudential Center (closer to NYC and more of a city than where the Meadowlands was) in 2007, as well as the NBA's Nets move to Brooklyn's Barclay's Center in 2012 (which followed two seasons in Newark as well). Ironically, another legendary arena here in the New York/New Jersey area, the Nassau Veterans Coliseum out on Long Island, home of the opening set of matches for WrestleMania 2 (Mr. T-Piper Boxing match), and other big WWE events will shutter its doors at the end of the month as well (NHL's Islanders are set to open in Barclay's Center this coming season). SummerSlam 2015 was moved to the Barclay's Center instead. I haven't heard scuttlebutt, but its probably safe to assume SummerSlam is headed back to Staples Center in LA for 2016.

It's meant to be a comedy, so it breaks that rule, but...MY GOD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFD2293oGvA Based on that review alone, and the usual rants both of you have done on video game "adaptations," Pixels deserves some consideration.

Don't know it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXVAiFBEpwA

Basketball lends itself more to lazy and bad film making more so than other sports. I'm not being glib, the accessability, and the easiness to participate probably does lead it to be used when a sporting scene needs to be made. Why Shaq and Rodman needed to try acting? *shrug* there are bad attempts at trying an acting career in all sports.

Another use of the original ad campaign (I REALLY hope me and James aren't the only ones in this thread that know about that old Nike campaign in a non casual way) Bo tries his hand at trivia games: Bo Knows.