Ryan McNeil
Still with me? I didn’t scare you away with too much big, bad, nonfiction?
Well good – this site is about to get back to normal…well, as normal as it gets while I try to balance film consumption with my favorite hockey team’s playoff aspirations. Allow me a moment to reset myself.
Going forward over the next few weeks, there will be plenty of reviews to look forward to. There will be the big’uns you might expect THE GREAT GATSBY, STAR TREK, IRON MAN – which I’ve already watched, but haven’t yet written. In addition, there will be a nice handful of smaller ones that I’ve been greatly anticipating including MUD, THE ICEMAN, and BEFORE MIDNIGHT.
In addition, the podcast will follow something of a staccato rhythm over the next four episodes, mostly to line myself up properly for THE MAN OF STEEL in four weeks. I’m super excited because I have some great friends making guest spots over the next few episodes and we’ve chosen some great films to discuss.
Speaking of The Matineecast, the last full episode was just over two weeks ago, and the next full episode is coming up. I didn’t drop a feedback question in the last episode in anticipation of the scheduling, so it’s time to put out the call.
Matineecast 84 will find us discussing THE GREAT GATSBY – a story that is checkered with lavish parties. In honor of that, I want to know:
If you could, what fictional party would you like to attend?
Perhaps The Corleone Wedding in THE GODFATHER? Perhaps the Delta House Toga Party in ANIMAL HOUSE? Maybe the all-out rager in PROJECT X? Or even one of Bruce Wayne’s gatherings in the various Batman films?
Do tell, and keep an ear out for discussion of them on Matineecast 84 next Monday!
Yule Ball from Harry Potter or one of Holly Golightly’s parties.
Anyone worth their salt would be at the keg party at the moonlight tower from Dazed and Confused
This might be the best answer I’ve heard yet.
The get-togethers in Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing are entertaining. I’d step in for that.
Good call – pretty damned elaborate for house parties, donchathink?
Can I go to the party in Eyes Wide Shut?? Just to be the guy who makes the messed up response happen.
You pervy bastard…
The Christmas cocktail party from The Thin Man. Great people to talk to, free-flowing booze, and I’d get to hang with Myrna Loy in her prime.
The Jack Horner-hosted party of “Boogie Nights.” Pretty sure I wouldn’t want to make a habit of it – that would probably end poorly – but once would make for quite a story.
This wins.