FS #223: Tropic Thunder / Man on Wire / The Getaway / Top 5 Movies About Movies

August 15: Max Fischer: "Were you in the sh*t?" / Herman Blume: "Yeah, I was in the sh*t." As you can probably imagine, Adam and Matty have never been anywhere near the sh*t, which puts them in good company with the protagonists of Ben Stiller's latest Hollywood-war-movie parody "Tropic Thunder." Your hosts attempt to "take that hill" and wring out some much needed summer laughs alongside Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, and Kirk Lazarus. Plus, tying in with "Thunder's" movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie conceit, Filmspotting counts down its Top 5 Movies About Movies (Redux).

Plus, the final movie in the Filmspotting Classic Heist Marathon, "The Getaway," and the lads find time to work in a review of the new documentary "Man on Wire," chronicling Philipe Petit's 1974 "artistic crime of the century" when he walked a tightrope strung between the World Trade Center towers.

Also on the show: Listener Feedback, Massacre Theatre, Matty's Movie Minute and music by Akron/Family.

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Filmspotting #223
:24-12:10 - Review: "Tropic Thunder"
12:11-18:30 - Review: "Man on Wire"
Music: Akron/Family, "I'll Be On the Water"
18:31-23:39 - Voicemail, Notes, Polls
23:40-32:09 - Feedback (Swan Songs)
Music: Akron/Family, "Shoes"
32:32-35:00 - Contest Winners
35:01-39:16 - Massacre Theatre (Winner: Bjorn van der Voo)
39:17-53:12 - Heist #6: "The Getaway"
Music: Akron/Family, "Don't Be Afraid..."
53:38-59:22 - New DVDs, Donations, Contest
59:23-1:01:30 - Matty's Movie Minute
1:01:29-1:10:33 - Top 5: Movies About Movies
1:11:34-1:13:20 - Close/Next Show/Outtakes

NOTES/CORRECTIONS
- For those of you who have seen "Man on Wire," no, the connection to heist movies wasn't lost on us... we just didn't get to squeeze it in. Hopefully it will come up on a later show.

- Orson Welles's character in "Transformers" was actually Unicron. Well, duh.

- We held off on the Cassavetes Marathon because unless you own the Criterion Five Films collection, the movies are almost all impossible to find on DVD.

- Yes, Matty deliberately refers to Divine as "she" and not "he" out of respect for his/her lifestyle choice. Or something like that.

- Yes, it sounds like Matty says Mike 'Judd' during Massacre Theatre... He's well aware that it's actually Mike Judge.

FS #196: Persepolis / Winter Light / Top 5 Coming of Age Movies

February 1: On this week's show, Matty and Adam give a "C'est bon!" to Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," the Oscar-nominated animated film based on Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novels about growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Plus, your hosts attend communion and question the existence of God as their Ingmar Bergman Marathon resumes with a discussion of 1962's "Winter Light."

Also on the show: Massacre Theatre, Listener Feedback, and -- tying in with "Persepolis" -- our Top 5 Coming of Age Movies.

Music by Akron/Family courtesy of Everloving Records.

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Filmspotting #196
:23-9:14 - Review: "Persepolis"
Music: Akron/Family, "Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead"
10:21-16:49 - Audio Feedback, Polls
16:50-25:07 - Listener Feedback (Oscar Nominations)
Music: Akron/Family, "Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music for Moms"
25:33-29:16 - New DVDs, Donations
29:17-32:50 - Massacre Theatre (Winner: Stephen Alford)
32:51-43:11 - Bergman #4: "Winter Light"
Music: Akron/Family, "There's So Many Colors"
43:57-56:05 - Top 5: Coming of Age Movies
56:06-57:42 - Close/Next Show

NOTES/CORRECTIONS
- Joe Wright obviously did not receive an Oscar nomination for Best Director. I (Adam) just meant that he belonged in that group with those other "flashy" directors.

- "Winter Light's" predecessor in the trilogy mentioned is "Through a Glass Darkly" not "Through THE Glass Darkly."

- Next week's Top 5 is actually going to be London Movies, and not Movies by Playwrights turned Directors, which was great in theory but impossible in practice.

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