FS #220: The Dark Knight (Spoiler Edition!) / Top 5 Movies of the Year So Far
Plus, Filmspotting welcomes back male model, media mogul, new dad and A.V. Club critic Scott Tobias to help us sort out our Top 5 Movies of the Year So Far. Along with the best, we also find time to list a few of the year's worst. Spoiler alert! Uwe Boll makes his way onto one of them.
Also on the show: Listener Feedback, Massacre Theatre, music by Spoon and Matty's Movie Minute returns for a review of "Step Brothers."
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Filmspotting #220
:24-23:39 - Spoiler Review: "The Dark Knight"
Music: Spoon, "Don't Let It Get You Down"
23:24-27:01 - Voicemail, Polls
27:02-28:35 - Matty's Movie Minute: "Step Brothers"
28:36-35:39 - Feedback (Performances So Far, Creatures)
Music: Spoon, "Back to the Life"
36:20-40:06 - Massacre Theatre (Winner: Steven Aparicio)
40:07-47:36 - Top 5 Movies So Far (#5-#4)
47:37-53:33 - Top 3 Worst Movies So Far
Music: Spoon, "Jonathon Fisk"
53:57-56:56 - New DVDs, Donations, Contest
56:57-1:10:59 - Top 5 Movies So Far (#3-#1)
1:11:00-1:13:26 - Close/Next Show/Outtakes
NOTES/CORRECTIONS
- Michael Phillips' "Dark Knight" review
- Moviebuff28 is right, of course... Jason Segel wrote "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." But hey, Apatow produced it and it has his fingerprints all over it.
Labels: Dark Knight Spoiler, Michael Phillips, Scott Tobias, Top 5 Movies of the Year So Far
posted by Adam @ 12:01 AM
11 comments
11 Comments:
I don't mind the idea of a spoiler edition of a movie review, but I'd like to suggest you do it as a separate podcast. It's not easy to fast forward without hearing at least some of the dialog. I haven't seen Batman yet, as I'm waiting for it to hit my local IMAX theater next month. I'm trying to remain spoiler free.
I agree, it's sometimes difficult to accurately skip portions of a podcast. An alternative suggestion might be to save any spoiler sections for the end of the podcast. That way at least the listener has a clearly defined point at which they can opt out. It also provides a convenient point to resume the broadcast, once they have actually seen the film being spoiled.
I don't know... I certainly hear your point and don't disagree that other approaches might have been better... but there are two places where it tells you exactly what time to skip to. I can skip to 23 minutes on my iPod without hearing anything.
I would also suggest a separate podcast for spoiler editions, only because it deprives many of your listeners from hearing an additional movie review. I would have very much preferred to hear your review of X-Files in this show since it is opening wide this weekend. Just an idea!
- Dave, Sioux Falls, SD
That wasn't possible though, Dave... we noted at the end of a recent show that X-Files had one advanced screening and we couldn't make it. It wasn't an option.
Additionally, we don't really have time for 'extra' podcasts... we made the call that a DK spoiler review would be more interesting than any other options we had this week. So far there hasn't been a groundswell of protest.
I thought this was a great episode, and I'd love to see more like it. I think you could have made the case for spoiler-casts for Indy 4 and Wall-E as well, because both of those can't really be discussed fully without talking about the endings. It's not hard for those who haven't seen it to skip that section: a great thing about your podcasts is how easy you guys make it to jump around within them.
Given the popularity of The Dark Knight I don't mind a spoiler edition - but I do not want this as a trend.
Seems rather unlikely.
Adam, I usually get so excited for Adam/Matty outtakes that I just miss everything you say at the end of the show. Ha!
Dave, I can live with that!
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