Runtime
78 minutes

Show Contents:
0:00 Introduction
2:38 Know Your Enemy: Dave Voigt from In The Seats
18:00 The New Slang: THE NEON DEMON
50:58 The Other Side pt i: EVENT HORIZON
1:03:26 The Other Side pt ii: EYES WIDE SHUT

Thoughts from your host…

 

 

The bad news is that an entire month went by without any films jumping out at me as something that warranted conversation. There’s a bit of that that’s on me since I could have looked a little harder, but by and large I’m hanging that one on the studios for this slog of a summer they have made us endure.

I mean, really…what’s a guy gotta do for an OBVIOUS CHILD right around now…or a BEFORE MIDNIGHT?

However, into this abyss, we eventually discover a film so polarizing, so abstract, that we could have dedicated two whole episodes to it and still not tick off all the boxes. While my feelings on it are deeply mixed, I have to appreciate it for at the very least giving me something to talk about in these badlands of filmgoing we currently find ourselves wandering.

A quick technical note; with this episode being recorded during a truly beautiful long weekend, I couldn’t resist the urge to once again sit outside. However, the afternoon got a little breezier than I realized. So while I must apologize for the wind whistling past the microphone on more than one occasion in this episode, I don’t think the end result is inaudible…

…but I’ve been wrong before.

 

Thanks for tuning into episode one-hundred-sixty.

 

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7 Replies to “Episode 160 – THE NEON DEMON”

  1. To be completely honest, I side more with Dave on THE NEON DEMON (star rating and all).

    Also, based on the way you describe it, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK has turned into an all-female version of OZ.

  2. Dave Voigt the man. Just got through the “know your enemy” segment. I also really liked The Man with the Iron Fists. Looked up my original review on LetterBoxd and found I gave it four stars and said, “Feels like Zhang Yimou directing a comic book movie.” And then two minutes later Dave mentions “Coming Home.” Awesome sauce spreading.

    On Orange/Black, I couldn’t get much further than the chicken episode. Ugh, I really disliked that show.

      1. Go on take the bait, you know you want to!

        He make an OK Alien movie, but then so has Ridley Scott, I seem to remember Prometheus.

        I think we call agree there are only two great Alien Movies.

  5. I have only just listened to this episode. I held onto it for a few days until I had seen the film. I really liked it. Yes, it has its problems but I still enjoyed it.

    As for your other side movies. I saw Eyes Wide Shut at the cinema when it first came out. I loved it. It was in my top three of the year with Fight Club and the Matrix (incidentally the first three DVD’s I ever owned).

    Event Horizon is total trash. However, we differ in that is a compliment in my book. Cinema was built on genre movies and quality trash with high production values are a rare treat.

    Paul Anderson is just as valid as a film maker as Paul Anderson!

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