It’s a festive atmosphere in Cynic Town this week for no other reason than it’s Sunday and we get to talk about movies on the radio. We’ve got a review of Megamind, some news about Shane Black, Brian musing over TV loyalty, and even an episode of Geeking Out. The vibe is positive, but the reviews might not be, so strap yourselves in for adventure.
- (0:00) In the movie news department, Steve’s excited to report that Shane Black is apparently taking the reins for the third Iron Man film. This could be a big win for the franchise bringing the king of the buddy film on board.
- (11:27) Brian might really be losing his patience with the shows he’s watching, ’cause he’s asking Steve how far his TV show loyalty stretches. In this day and age, it ain’t far.
- (20:50) Megamind presents the Film Cynics with an interesting quandary: What is to be done with a comedy that isn’t funny? Many films that fail at their intended genre can spill into comedy for being laughable. But if it’s meant to be laughable and isn’t, then what?
- (29:36) We haven’t had much to geek out about for a long time, until now. Warner has just launched it’s new series of movie apps and to Steve it looks like this might be the future of DLC.
- (36:35) Steve and Brian take some familiar Vault picks, with Brian trying to redeem Will Ferrell with Anchorman and Steve sharing a proper superhero flick with Mystery Men. As for trailers, Brian’s got a good one in Apollo 18 (although he can’t help himself from mentioning Transformers 3 and ruining the moment) and Steve’s got the new trailer for Thor in all it’s godly glory.
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Hey guys,
I think one useful thing that could be done is to add the time for which each section of your podcast starts so we can skip directly to the parts we want to listen to if we wished to.
I love it! Thanks Castor!
I hate it. The Cynical Podcast is meant to be listened to in its entirety. Anything less is just bush league. I don’t travel 8 hours both ways, in the snow, uphill with kleenex boxes on my feet for you to skip around our show all willy nilly. Peace.
Ya heard!