Ryan McNeil
Funny the way things work out sometimes.
As you may or may not have noticed, the podcast has primarily been keeping its eye on underexposed indie films through the course of 2014. Of the nine episodes that have posted prior to this, only three of them are what I’d really qualify as “mainstream selections”. So when I circled this animated offering from Dreamworks as a film to be discussed, I thought that it might be the moment the show tapped back into the zeitgeist.
Imagine my surprise to see this film under-perform, making this discussion a look at yet another underexposed selection! Hell, back when I mapped out when episodes would drop, along with what would be discussed, I feared that talking about this title one week after it arrived would be showing up late to the party.
Imagine my surprise!
Well hopefully y’all tune in (and even more hopefully, y’all check out this film), as it was a great evening spent with one of my favorite local podcasters – and a good friend to boot. This is the first time I’ve recorded in someone else’s home here in my home city, and I think it brought a great energy to the show that’s audible in the track. So before we go on, I want to offer my gracious host a word of thanks for opening his home to me.
Here’s what’s in store in episode one-hundred-and-fourteen…
Runtime
82 minutes
Up for Discussion
1. Introduction
2. KNOW YOUR ENEMY– Q& A with this week’s guest, Matthew Brown (5:20)
3. COME TALK TO ME – Fielding some listener feedback on movie worlds listeners want to visit (18:11)
4. THE NEW SLANG – Review and reaction to HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (28:10)
5. THE OTHER SIDE – Matthew couples DRAGONSLAYER (56:39)
6. THE OTHER SIDE – Ryan couples REIGN OF FIRE (66:55)
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You’re going to hate me for seeing it before you, but BOYHOOD is my favourite film of 2014 so far.
I had a pass to BOYHOOD, but concert tickets claimed priority. Thus, I hate nobody who has seen it before me.
2014 has been great so far in terms of singular quality.
Top 3 so far
1. The Rover – In a summer of bright colorful excess, a stripped down nhilistic tale of determination was a breath of fresh air, it being beutifully shot and having an amazing score was a huge plus.
2. The Raid 2 – In the opposite direction a movie that takes a closed circuit of an original and blows it out into a large broad crime story that also levels up the look and cinemetography on top.
3. Short Peace – never hit Canada in 2013 amazing animated anthology that switches through tone and feeling as it switches through animation style.
I can’t choose between Only Lovers Left Alive and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Really enjoyed your conversation on Reign of Fire. We went to Disneyland Paris (dorky I know) in 2006, and their studios park has a part of the “tour” go through a recreation of the Reign of Fire sets in London. The dragon that shoots fire wasn’t working, which felt kind of fitting given the quality of the movie.
I’ll admit that I’ve seen a limited number of 2014 films. Given that fact, I have to go with The Grand Budapest Hotel for best of the year, though I didn’t like it as much as some of Anderson’s best work. The art direction was gorgeous, though.
Alas, by the time you posted your comment, Episode 115 was long since in the can. Good selection though. Not sure that BUDAPEST will make my year-end list, but I did love the holy heck out of it!
That’s cool. It’s probably better since I’ve seen so few movies from 2014. I can’t really be an expert of what’s my favorite because the sample size is too small.