Runtime

61 minutes

Show Contents

0:00 Introduction with guest BOB TURNBULL
21:11 The New Slang: BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

 

Shownote Links:

Matt Zoeller Seitz’s video essay on SUPERMAN RETURNS (continued here).
Thoughts from your host…

 

I have no idea what I originally planned on talking about this week (CHI-RAQ, or THE LITTLE PRINCE perhaps?). Suffice it to say, it wasn’t going to be a discussion about a major comic book franchise…not even one I was stoked to see.

(Yes, I’m the one. Nice to meet you).

For the most part, I try to keep the franchise talk low on this meagre podcast for the pure and simple fact that there’s not much to be gleaned from one more discussion about whether Marvel is better than DC, or whether they all need to go away. Likewise, if one more person happens to check out a film like OBVIOUS CHILD, BEFORE MIDNIGHT, or AMY on my recommendation, well then so much the better

But then…well, there was alcohol, and Bob Turnbull, and an argument…and, well, here we are. I explain more on-air, but for now, please join us for a beverage mere moments after the film ended and [spoilerspoilerspoilerspoiler]

 

Thanks for tuning into episode one-hundred-fifty-five.

 

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5 Replies to “Episode 155 – BATMAN V SUPERMAN”

  1. re: theater patronage, phone usage, etc.

    Hate to be that guy, but I’ll be that guy: You were seeing “BvS” on opening night/weekend. If it were a Malick film, you probably wouldn’t have those problems. I’m sure you guys are aware of what happened to Sean Kelly.

    Part of it is just a larger number of people going to these types of films – i.e. the more people, the higher probability there will be an idiot in the screening.

    Secondly, it’s a Zack Snyder, comic book film. I think it’s safe to say you’re going to have a lot of mouth-breathers in there. If one were seeing Tree of Life or Clouds of Sils Maria, it would be far less likely.

    Great to hear Bob’s voice again!

    #loggingintostatetheobvious

    1. I haven’t the foggiest clue what happened to Sean Kelly.

      It’s not really a matter of numbers or content, to be honest. I’ve seen a lot of fan properties on opening night in packed houses – 007, Marvel, Star Wars, Batman, Transformers. You name it, I’ve been there It’s totally dumb luck when you’ll be in a theatre with “that guy” or when you’ll get an awesome crowd. Shit, I got seated in front of a really awful family full of patrons and THE REVENANT…whispering and giggling through the entire back half.

      I think our ultimate point was, the sticker price might act as a deterrent for “the mouth breathers”. Zack Snyder and comic book be damned, not many of them are going to want to pony-up $20 for the privilege.

      Then again, I’ve sat behind people in live musical theatre who feel that they can talk through the performance, and those tickets are at least triple the price. Also, those people be old.

      Young or old, highbrow or low? Assholes are everywhere.

  2. Fair enough. I think the higher price point might backfire as well. Perhaps by paying more money, people feel more entitled.

    Now that I think about it, the venue is probably the best determinate on what kind of people you’re going to get. The “art house” cinemas tend to be better than the big multi-plexes.

    “Young or old, highbrow or low? Assholes are everywhere.”
    This.

  4. Really interesting conversation. I am one of the people who trashed the film in my review. Not because I had an agenda or went in knowing I was going to hate it, quite the opposite, my review was born out of disappointment. I wanted to like it, and I liked things about it but on the whole it was just disappointing. In some ways I would have preferred to see a truly terrible film that I can dismiss, instead we get a film that leaves a lingering sense that it could have been so much better. There are basically only four real problems with the film:

    Week plot
    over-long running time
    Total lack of fun and humour
    Jesse Eisenberg

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