Author Topic: Stan and I are Defecting from PGC (Read 9910 times)

Karl Castaneda #2 · « **on:** September 19, 2006, 08:01:40 PM »

Because there is not nearly enough Pirate Action on Radio Free Nintendo (I don't care how you church it up, Burchfield - that's the Sin Inn and you know it), Stan and I are quitting Planet GameCube. It's the truth, for real, even if I haven't told him yet. Anyway, here's why: we found this awesome site called God's Favorite Blog (http://godsfavoriteblog.blogspot.com) There's this great podcast, too, called God's Favorite Podcast (I came up with the name, ahem). So check out our shenanigans, because I'm allowed to make shameless plugs as often as I please.

IceCold · « **Reply #1 on:** September 19, 2006, 08:09:01 PM »

Good riddance..

Svevan · « **Reply #2 on:** September 19, 2006, 08:13:32 PM »

Who will, ahem, steal my booty now?

ShyGuy · « **Reply #3 on:** September 19, 2006, 08:59:35 PM »

Old. Plus, Karl whines a lot.

UncleBob · « **Reply #4 on:** September 20, 2006, 03:09:21 AM »

We have a sports editor?

couchmonkey · « **Reply #5 on:** September 20, 2006, 06:02:47 AM »

I thought God loves all His blogs equally.

Pryopizm · « **Reply #6 on:** September 20, 2006, 07:43:02 AM »

It's truly a thing a beauty.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #7 on:** September 20, 2006, 09:47:40 AM »

"GOLDEN SWORD, KICK ASS!!" Heh heh, I feel for you! I started writing a book long ago that was probably much worse. I won't address this, maybe it's because I can't remember who's Stan and who's Karl, or maybe it's because...yeah, it's the remembering part.

My book was a rip-off of Final Fantasy IV with lots of other pieces mixed in.

Pryopizm · « **Reply #8 on:** September 20, 2006, 01:08:18 PM »

Stan = The Pibb Sniper; Karl = The Overkill Squad

Svevan · « **Reply #9 on:** September 20, 2006, 04:17:42 PM »

Evan = teh Awes0me

vudu · « **Reply #10 on:** September 21, 2006, 08:43:16 AM »

Ya know, I finally listened to your Pirate Radio podcast this morning. It wasn't as good as the regular one.

Technical issues aside, you two just don't seem to have the same charisma/chemistry that Evan and Obi have. However, I did enjoy the subject matter, which I found refreshing because it's not something I'd necessarily expect to hear from a podcast. So I applaud you for that. If you could work on your presence, I might be willing to give you a second chance. (Also, don't worry; I'm sure if I did a podcast it would suck far worse.)

Also, Evan uses big words a lot more than you guys do. He makes me feel smart. (Even if he has bad taste in movies.)

EDIT: I just found out there's (at least) a second one. I guess I'll give you guys another shot.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #11 on:** September 21, 2006, 10:53:45 AM »

I think there was too much cursing. It's the Internet! Everyone cares if you say f**k.

Ceric · « **Reply #12 on:** September 21, 2006, 01:05:09 PM »

Think of all the Under 18 people who comes to these boards and website.

chuckles

ShyGuy · « **Reply #13 on:** September 21, 2006, 01:45:23 PM »

There are 3 GFB Podcasts so far.

Vudu, what can you tell us about a little movie called Chinatown? How about that ending?

Pryopizm · « **Reply #14 on:** September 21, 2006, 07:58:03 PM »

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Think of all the Under 18 people who comes to these boards and website.

chuckles

This was actually a concern of mine. I wasn't too hot on selling it here for fear of (OMG CUSSING!), so I left the decision to Karl (since he has greater PGC seniority).

As far as chemistry goes, Karl and I are much better than those two yahoos Vudu mentioned. I can't even remember their names. I think one is Bevan? or is it Bethany? Guido?

vudu · « **Reply #15 on:** September 22, 2006, 03:05:37 AM »

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Vudu, what can you tell us about a little movie called Chinatown? How about that ending?

The ending to Chinatown sucked. It's not that I disagree with the events that occured, I just didn't like the way they were presented. It felt hurried. This is Chinatown. What kind of lame excuse is that? None of the people involved (cops, bad guys, good guys) have anything to do with Chinatown except they happened to be there that particular minute. As soon as they leave, Chinatown isn't going to protect them. It was lame. It's most likely because the ending was written by Polanski, not the writer. He's a great director, but I've had to come to the conclusion that the guy can't write worth a crap.

Also, you think my opinions on Chinatown are bad? When asked about his favorite directors, Evan mentioned Soderbergh, but didn't even think to name Scorsese. Evan likes bad movies.

wandering · « **Reply #16 on:** September 22, 2006, 01:02:54 PM »

God's favorite, huh? You guys starting to feel itchy by any chance?

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Evan mentioned Soderbergh, but didn't even think to name Scorsese.

Well, on the one hand, Scorsese kind of sucks now. But on the other hand, Full Frontal. Also, Ocean's 12.

vudu · « **Reply #17 on:** September 22, 2006, 02:12:08 PM »

What? Christ, someone ban wandering.

The Aviator and Gangs of New York are among Scorsese's best (Bringing Out The Dead ... not so much). No Direction Home was also amazing (but I'm a big Bob Dylan fan; I'm not sure you'd enjoy it as much if you didn't like him).

wandering · « **Reply #18 on:** September 22, 2006, 03:01:18 PM »

I actually liked No Direction Home. Gangs of New York....not so much (apart from Daniel Day Lewis.) Haven't seen Aviator...it looked awful, but maybe I'll give it a shot...

Svevan · « **Reply #19 on:** September 22, 2006, 04:49:16 PM »

Okay okay okay, Vudu has proved himself wrong without me even replying, so I feel no need to say this:

Can we for a minute back off of The Aviator? Great entertainment, zero substance. Gangs of New York has an excellent, absolutely excellent set up and a good ending, but the race-riot climax was a serious pace-halting misstep. Bringing out the Dead, as anyone who has seen it can tell you, is a masterpiece and among Scorsese's best three films. Other good Scorsese: Casino, Taxi Driver, Last Temptation of Christ. None of these films are perfection, but they are great cinema. Above average Scorsese: King of Comedy, Kundun, Goodfellas, and Raging Bull (yeah, some people love it but it has awful improvisation by Joe Pesci that ruins the film for me). Should we really applaud a director who made personal rough-edged cinema in the 70s, some good, interesting movies in the 80s-90s, and fluff in the modern era?

Soderbergh on the other hand has conquered cinema with only a handful of great films. Traffic alone is among the best films ever made, and Solaris is its equal in sheer power. His other films are either great or have a lot of substance (including Full Frontal, excepting Ocean's 12). He understands movies in and out - he can make an emotional film like Erin Brockovich but switch gears for the highly intellectual meta-comedy Full Frontal. Out of Sight is a 70s crime flick through and through, and Schizopolis is cinematic free-association. How can we not respect this man?

Chinatown is based on the era of film noir, films that were often nihilistic and dark. See Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, The Big Sleep, The Killing, Touch of Evil, all had dark endings, most of them featured the anti-hero being destroyed or evil going unpunished. Chinatown is the logical extension of that, and other neo-noirs recreate it as well: The Man Who Wasn't There, for instance. Disrespecting the ending is misunderstanding the ending. Chinatown as a "city" represented the dark underbelly of humanity, an evil that cannot be destroyed and lives in all of us. Chinatown was a metaphor and as such didn't need to have correlation to the plot.

wandering · « **Reply #20 on:** September 22, 2006, 06:15:02 PM »

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Gangs of New York has an excellent, absolutely excellent set up and a good ending

I remember loving the very beginning, but then hating how the fight was shot. Instead of capturing what it would've been like to take part in the fight, or what it would've been like for the kid who was watching it, we just got shot after shot of one person hacking into another.

Don't really remember the rest of the film.

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highly intellectual meta-comedy Full Frontal.

read: Unwatchable mess created by a smart, creative, yet obviously bored filmmaker.

I need to watch Traffic again, I don't really remember much about it. I tend to dislike movies, though, where the main character is an issue instead of a person.

Liked Solaris.

If you want to talk about a great director, though, how about that Peter Weir?

vudu · « **Reply #21 on:** September 23, 2006, 04:54:17 AM »

As I've told Evan before, Traffic was a mess. I haven't seen it since it came out, but it was a bloody mess. I remember leaving the theater thinking great cinematography but very bad editing.

The only Peter Weir movies I've seen are Truman Show and Master & Commander. TS was good, but far from the ranks of truly great directors. M&C, while technically shot very well, went bloody nowhere. But I suppose that's the fault of the script writer and not the director. Also, I hate Russell Crowe. (While we're not on the subject, Gladiator sucked.)

And I can't believe Evan isn't backing me up on The Aviator. It was an excellent film. I think Scorsese should have won for best director over Clint Eastwood that year (although I agree with the academy that Million Dollar Baby was a better film overall).

Evan, in what order would you rank the ten films nominated for best picture of the year for the past two years? I'm assuming you've seen them all. Aviator, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Cinderella Man, Crash, Finding Neverland, Good Night and Good Luck, Million Dollar Baby, Munich, Sideways, Syriana. (Note, I replaced Ray with Syriana because we all know it's a much better film. Also, I threw on Cinderella Man just for the Hell of it; so it's actually eleven films.)

Pryopizm · « **Reply #22 on:** September 23, 2006, 05:34:06 AM »

Damn you all for making this thread into an argument over movies.

Soderbergh was good until he started smoking crack. And Scorcese makes boring movies. And yes, I include Taxi Driver. End of conversation.

Karl Castaneda #2 · « **Reply #23 on:** September 23, 2006, 05:35:30 AM »

This needs to be a God's Favorite Podcast. I will set it up!

Pryopizm · « **Reply #24 on:** September 23, 2006, 05:42:41 AM »

Vudu has pointed out a flaw in my argument. Cape Fear, while highly commercial, was incredibly fun.

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Author Topic: Stan and I are Defecting from PGC (Read 9910 times)