Podcast Episode 79

Thor's 79: Oscars Special Part 1: Rihanna Vs. Ke$ha

We discuss the films and music which were really the best of the year.
As well as reviews of the recent theatrical releases A Good Day to Die Hard, Parker, and Side Effects.

We also talk about Ke$ha and Rihanna, find out which of these ladies wins our Artist of the year, since obviously that is relevant to the Oscars.

Bruce Willis, Jude Law, channing tatum, Rooney Mara, Jason Statham, Liam Neeson, The Oscars

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 46

Thor's 46: Jason Statham is about to tackle you from behind!

Seriously! Turn around right now!

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We discuss more TinTin, Spielberg, Sci Fi and horror movies. And a bunch of more specific stuff that I don't have time to right down right now.

The photo for this episode is some silliness I (Thor) made in homage to a joke I really dug from the podcast
"The Flop House" found at http://www.flophousepodcast.com/
You should give it a listen, it is a awesome podcast about bad movies.

To explain the P2 poster further: In Episode 77 of The Flop House, Dan mentioned the low grossing horror film "P2" to which Elliot explained, "Yes the movie 'P2: Pudgement Day' and Stuart went onto explain that it was about a shape changing robot from the future made of liquid chocolate.

(I find very silly things very funny, as your probably noticed from listening to the podcast. Which is why the Monty Python skit "The Silly Party" is one of my favorites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FFTx6AKmU )

Strictly Commercials declares best ad of 2011

This ad is as funny as anything I have featured on this site*, but instead of selling cars or shampoo its from the British Heart Foundation and it teaches you "Hands only CPR"



Vinnie Jones was the best part of "Snatch" and "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", and unfortunately has since then mostly been in much shittier movies than those two, such as the R rated horror with the title of an X rated porno, "Midnight Meat Train."

Its nice to see Vinnie using his Badassary for a good cause. Definitely the best PSA where a tough guy tries to save your life since Clint Eastwood told me not to do drugs in this real PSA:




Or When Clint Eastwood and Alice Cooper told you not to do drugs in my fake PSA:
 (at 4 minutes and 5 seconds into this stop motion video I made back in 2007):





Thanks to Christian and Arthur for making me aware of the Vinnie Jones PSA


 footnote(s):
*Old Spice Guy excluded, its not fair for mere mortals to get to compete with him

Podcast Episode 26

Thor's Hour of Thunder: Episode 26: Ehren Kruger's Third Coming

No wrestling or interviews this week. We are back to discussing general geek culture topics this week.

Including: Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Google plus, How online advertising works, the website Crackle, James Franco, Transformers 3, Shia LaBeouf, Shia The Beef, Scream 3, Captain America, Winnie the Pooh, The Winnie the Pooh movie, Criag Ferguson, Piglet, Owl, Christopher Robbin, TIgger, seinfeld, Pineapple Express, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Draco Malfoy, Tom Felton, interactive ads during "The Daily Show", pillsbury, pillsbury Toaster Strudel, Race to Witch Mountain, The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Fast Five, Fast & Furious, The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Six, F6, Fast, Vin diesel, mark vincent, Paul Walker, Josh Lucas, Stealth, Jamie Foxx, internet ad revenue, black hole, blackhole, black holes, NHL Hockey, NHL jerseys, Reebok edge, Vancouver Canucks, Ebay, Winnipeg Jets, New Winnipeg Jets, Washington Capitals, Sears, K-mart, K mart, K mart basic clothes, khaki pants.

Discover what company makes the official really cheap pants of The Hour of Thunder. Google plus, Google +, Plus one, Plus 1, + 1, circles, Google buzz, Gmail, Gchat, status, twitter, facebook, i liked facebook when it was minimalistic, Ken, Drinking in the woods, Malt liker, 40oz bottle, Philadelphia, Ken's house in the woods, Ehren Kruger, Michael Bay. Transformers: The dark of the moon, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Sentinel Prime, Shot in 3D, computer graphics, Jason Statham, C. Deegan, rosie huntington-whiteley, Sazz wagon, fit birds, filmdrunk, film drunk, filmdrunk.com

Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Curiosity, New show on Science channel, Did god create the universe, Stone Henge, how it's made, Druids

Hour of Thunder answers it will honor the year's actual best films as picked by the hosts in February before the Oscar's. I am writing that detail here in hopes that it causes me to actually remember to have us do that.

Podcast Episode 13

Greetings from England

Thor's Hour of Thunder: Episode 13: In The Claws of the Scavenger!

In Honor of our 13th episode we do NOT discuss: the films 13 Ghosts, Friday the 13th, the 13th Warrior, Thirteen, or the shitty board game 13 Dead End Drive.

But we do discuss:
Doctor Who, Hellboy, Clockwork men, More on the upcoming Thor Film, The Green Lantern Film, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, Shitty post stan lee 1960's x-men comic books, "Im the Juggernaut Bitch", Vinnie Jones, Shitty X-men vllians like: The Locust, Count Nefaria, the Eel, Porcupine, Morkubine Porcupine, and more on B-List Marvel villians, Crank 2: High Voltage, Crank 3, Jason Statham having sex with amy smart, Dennie O'Neal, The Savageland. Aquaman, Captain America