Podcast Episode 50

Thor's 50: The Thorscars: like the Oscars, but absolutely ridiculous

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Thor, Bladr, Loki, Frayja and the artist currently known as Hiemdale discuss the Oscars and talk about the actual best movies which came out last year, and the best movies that didn't come out last year but they saw for the first time. Longer episode this week because we cover a lot more topics than usual.

The official Thorscar winners for the first annual Pantheon Movie Awards are declared at about an 1 hour and 23 minutes into the episode.

Wriite in with your thoughts on the Oscars and this year in movies to HourOfThunder (at) gmail

Also! write in via email or call 754-444-THOR (754-444-8467) (same as a regular call to Florida, United States) to vote for the Who Did It Better questions which Loki posed as an awesome category/ question to the fans. (They are discussed by Loki in the second half of this episode, and are also printed below for your convenience)

¿Who Did it Better?:
-----The Matrix is in your dreams:
Inception (I know, 2010) vs The Adjustment Bureau

-----Wedding Pregame:
Hangover (or Hangover II) vs Bridesmaids

-----The "Arrangement":
No Strings Attached vs Friends With Benefits

-----Motherfucking Narration:
Born to Be Wild 3D vs African Cats

-----Found Footage Horror:
Paranormal Activity 3 vs Justin Beiber: Never Say Never

¿Who Did it Better: To the Wayback Machine!
------Crazy Girls Have All the Fun:
Sucker Punch (2011) vs Return to Oz (1985)

------It's Graduation, Get the Girl!:
Take Me Home Tonight (2011) vs Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

------Convention-al Misadventure:
Paul (2011) vs Galaxy Quest (1999)

------Dudley Moore versus Russel Brand:
Arthur (2011) vs Arthur (1981)

------Kurt Russel versus some dame:
The Thing: 2011 vs 1982)

------The Getaway Driver/ "Rules, I like that":
Drive (2011) vs The Transporter (2002)

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This these words come out of our mouths: Oscars, The Artist, Jonah Hill, Money Ball, Aaron Sorken, Fright Night, Fright Night 3D, Winnie the Pooh, The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Transformers 3D, Transformers: The Dark of the Moon, Bellflower, Harold and Kumar 3D, Inception, Adjustment Bureau, the red carpet, oscar pre-show, dresses, boobs, immaturity, Joan Rivers, Third Eye Blind, Blue, Third Eye Blind's second album, the dark knight rises, Ad campaigns, dick jokes, Gieco, caveman, man of obvious intelligence.

Deep Space Nine, Trails and Tribble-ations Progressive, Flo, Hamsters, HamStars, Party Rock Anthem, Party Rock, LMFAO, Kia, Best Ad series, Old Spice, Bonnie and Clyde, An American President ,The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, isaiah mustafa, Wolverine and the X-men, x-men skyrim, wolverine, Cyclops, DC’s New 52, the best comic book relaunch in 2011, Grant morrison, 2007 Oscars, Jon Stewat, Once, The Swell Season, Falling Slowly, 80th Acadamy Awards, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, People who are nice. Irish People, Scream 4, Scream 3, A Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe, mary marcy may marlene, Elizabeth Olsen.

And! Many more things that I'm not typing because my fingers were just eating by tribbles.

This week's cover photo via: http://firewireblog.com/2009/03/19/marvel-celebrates-wolverine%E2%80%99s-35th-anniversary-with-variant-covers-and-fine-art/

This trailer is awesome.

Guy Pearce is fucking rad. Even the less awesome movies he is in like "The Count of Monty Cristo" he is still awesome in.

And lets not forgot that "Hurt Locker" sets up how fucking hard as nail you have to be to be on a bomb disposal team in Iraq buy setting up Guy Pearce as awesome in the first 30 seconds and having him get blown up a minute later.*


Pearce's two best roles (at least of the films of his I've seen) are as the leads in "Memento" and "L.A. Confidential", where he is able to convey the vulnerability of characters struggling with an immoral world around them.

Pearce appears to be playing the completely opposite end of the vulnerability spectrum as the cheeky jacked badass hero in his new space prison rescue mission movie, which is either called "Lock-Out" or "MS One: Maximum Security" depending on which region of the world you live in.




If this new movie is half as 80's wisecracking hardcore action hero-y as this trailer implies, it will beat The Expendables at its own game. Expendables was a fun movie but Stallone clearly focused more on getting the cast he wanted and the interactions between the members of the team, instead of say, the action or directing, this left the viewer with a really fun action movie which often looked like it was shot on a cell phone, and didn't have very clever action sequences, other than the occasional cool shot of Jason Statham throwing knifes.




Footnote(s):
*Spoiler alert, except not realy since that is the first 3 minutes of the film.


trailer discovered via Filmdrunk.com

Podcast Episode 51

THE SURGEON GENERAL recommends you drink Czech Budweiser until you no longer notice
how shitty the photoshop in this ad is.

Episode 50 was taken down due to popular demand, and we will be marking the milestone with a future "Episode 50" where we try to have the entire pantheon involved for at least part of the broadcast. Anyway for now here is the brand new, covered in body glitter, episode 51.

Enjoy
-Thor

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Thor's 51: Pouring Out a Czechvar for Jeremy Brett

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The Chris Farley and Keenan Thompson skit from "All That" which we talk about can be watched here: http://gawker.com/5415244/chris-farley-and-kenan-thompson-clown-around-on-all-that

Sukiyaki Western Django, The Good, The Bad, and the Weird
Czechvar, the original budweiser, 1945, Czech Republic, Soviet Union, USSR, CCCP, Iron Curtain, Budvar, Bud, Japanese gore films, Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett, Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes, Jude Law, Doctor Watson, 1984 TV series, Jeremy Brett
David Burke, Edward Hardwicke, Granada Television

music to play at end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQebeuVYPqs

this week's theme music via:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQebeuVYPqs
(youtube user " RonaldvanKeulen93

Thor's official podcast website still awesome and still at:
HourOfThunder.podomatic.com

email us your questions and comments at
hourOfthunder (at) gmail
leave us a voicemail to play on air at
1-754-444-THOR  (same as a regular call to Florida, USA)
Thor's 51: pouring out a Czechvar for Sherlock Holmes

Podcast Episodes 48, 49 and 50

Thor's Saint Valentines Day Massacre 2012:

Three full episodes about love and lust in movies, Tv, literature, and Horror films

Thor, Loki, and Frayja start the episode, Baldr stumbles in via his secret Batcave entrance to the internet about 11 minutes into the episode. 

To celebrate valentines day, We talk about fictional characters we find sexy, real people we find intellectually sexy.

We Review the new Daniel Radcliff Horror film The Woman in Black, Thor does quick reviews of Netflix streaming available horror films: The Wolf Man, American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Lon Cheney Junior, Doctor Terror’s Hour of Horrors, A Comedy of Terror, Tales of Terror, Madhouse (aka The Curse of Doctor Death), Dracula 1972 AD, Satanic Rites of Dracuala (aka Dracula is Dead and Well and Living in London) 

Stone Hedge. What is a Hedge? Bath, Cadbury chocolates, Cadbury Eggs, Cadbury Bunny, Kraft, Cheez Whiz, The Man Who Would Be Polka King, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Bill Nye, Judy Dench, The Artist, The Dog From “The Artist”, Dog Cancer. jeffrey palmer, Philip Pullman, Sally Lockhart, Abed, Community, Glee, Britney S. Pears. We give a shout to the awesome horror podcast “The Flicks the Church Forgot” which someone leads to us discussing the stereotypical repressed british person versus the reality.

 (Sorry to anyone from England who is offended by our bad impressions of your accents or by our general idiocy :-D ).

Starring: Thor, Bladr, Loki, and Frayja 

More talk of love in movies and books including: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Harley Quinn, The Joker, Batman, Batman: The Animated Series, Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3D, Jaws the Revenge, Roy Schieder, Michael Caine, Hannah and Her Sisters, Oscars, Academy Awards, The Bahamas, choosing movies to star in based solely on the filming location. The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Rape metaphors in 1950’s films. Rodger Corman, The Creature Walks Among Us. The Help, Glory, Danny Glover, Red Tails, Haiti, King of the Hil, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Daily Show, Being a nerd versus being a fan, wyatt cenac, Peggy Hill, Hank Hill, Bobby Hill.

Starring: Thor, Bladr, Loki, and Frayja

More Valentines day-ness including:

Amy Pond, Rory, Doctor Who, Matt Smith, David Tennant, The Girl Who Waited, The Last Centurion, The Man who waited, the boy who waited, The Note Book, Favorite romantic movies, Things (not people) you love. The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, John Oliver, The Daily Show, wyatt cenac, Favorite Date movies, Transformers: the movie, 1986, Beyond Good, Beyond Evil, Beyond Your imagination. Unicron, Orson Welles, Lenard Nemoy, The Land Before Time, 1988, A nerd enthusiast. Nerd versus Fan. Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin, Here's the Thing, Alec Baldwin thrown off an airplane, James Garner, You'll Laugh You'll Cry, You'll Hurl, Beer Changes the taste of seman, so do Tomatos, and Asparagus, Nickelodeon game shows, GAS, Horror movies as date movies, FIgure it out, Vital Information, laurie beth denberg, Summer Sanders, Guts, Legends of the Hidden Temple, There Dana ONLY Zule!, There is no spoon!, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, Zagat's, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Zagats, The More You Know, Herman Melville, Hortio Hornblower, ricardo montalban sounds like Bane in Batman: The Animated Series, J.J. Abrams, Star Trek, Ron and Hermione, Harry Potter, Screen Couples, Hortio Hornblower in space, Nicolas Meyer. James Caan, William Shatner, Family guy, Null punch line joke. Donna Noble, River Song, Doctor Who Christmas Special, First episode of season 7 of doctor who. Spoilers.

I'm sick of writing descriptions today, so suffice it to say we also cover a bunch more shit from movies and tv. including talking about YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE

 In case you were curious the photos for episodes 49 and 50 are both of adorable platonic couples

Download these and all episodes at the official site: HourOfThunder.Podomatic.com

Cool trailer for new horror movie

As far as I can tell without actually bothering to do any research this trailer for "Beyond the Black Rainbow" is for a new horror film that just uses 1970's elements and production design.

It is a really cool trailer, and makes me want to see this movie without actually revealing any plot points:





via Bloody Good Horror

You got cows around here?

This isn't an awesome closed caption error like the,  "All Stations prepare for a Happy Birthday" from Star Trek. I just love this bit of the closed captions on Netflix for the Joe Dante werewolf film "The Howling":

I like the idea of the mom from E.T. just letting out a sustained moo to express the melancholy shown on her face.

In reality, the caption is informing the deaf and hard of hearing of the a cow mooing off screen, who to honest wasn't nearly as excited as the captions would indicate.

Song making fun of Montreal Canadians

So I hadn't heard of the song "Why This Kolaveri Di" before but it has 42 million views are an article in "The Times of India" from back in November. So apparently I'm the only person who hadn't heard this song before now. (Here it is if you hadn't either):



Its super catchy and the hooks in the music are great, but you know what it could use? Its lyrics changed to be about the Montreal Canadians trading their popular and talented player Michael Cammalleri to the rival Calgary Flames:



The parody video is more clever than laugh out loud funny, but I really dig it. The production is spot on and I like how the even parodied the orginal video, down to the subtitle font and the in studio video setting. This song is catchy as hell and both the original singer ( Dhanush) and the singer in the parody video have a really cool sounding voice. 




via Puck Daddy