Tuesday, March 9, 2021

NinetyForChill.com: The Podcast - Episode 8: The Brilliance of Stuart Godon, The Madness of Russ Stevens

NinetyForChill.com: The Podcast

Episode 8: The Brilliance of Stuart Gordon, The Madness of Russ Stevens (Just Press Play)

Thank you Stuart Gordon for creating nothing but gems that I am proud to promote. Too bad he passed away before I could get a chance to tell him to quit picking on cats and Downstate Illinois. Yes, Chicago is where I want to be, but I will not forget that I was Peoria Made. Daisy from "John Wick" was asking for it. A feline would have stayed out of Iosef and his gang.

The lesson this week is to always keep coming up with content. I ponder when I am going to get sick of that. Thanks to these little extra steps when it comes to documenting nearly every "new to me" movie I have watched since September of last year has allowed me to provide a somewhat genuine episode of the podcast. It is almost like I never missed a beat.

Of course there were some misses. I was unable to line up a new guest this week and that scramble was really frustrating for me. This is where I would say, "If you have been keeping up on my blog posts at MainEventOfTheDead.com," but there has been a back log since I am prioritizing promoting the podcast. With that said, some restructuring of my promotion schedule will be taking up my downtime today at work. That defeats the bringing "Pokemon White 2" to the bank, but content creation needs to be a constant in my life.

Creating content at least means I am doing something and have something to offer for my readers and listeners to invest in. But to be frank, I am still perplexed on how much less effort certain people put in to something to get people to invest in them. When you take in account how some of them treat others, their success can seem maddening. My forties outside of the podcast have sucked so far, but this is a theme to my adulthood. It is making life seem pretty pointless, especially when I have not asked for a cent.

I have only asked for advice on how to produce and opinions on my treatment for my pro-wrestling, zom-com Z-movie "Main Event of the Dead". 20 minutes of time is all I ask. If you want to offer that up, send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com.

Needless to say, watching and pondering how the hell this week's addition of "Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/allysaccessoriesshop)" offering of trash cinema, "Eternal Damn Nation" was ever produced, did not help my state of mind. I guess "Brain Damage Films" thinks just producing content, regardless of quality, will pay for itself. Perhaps I need to get off my high horse and abandon wanting to create worthwhile material.

This is going to be a quick podcast and I promise to provide you with some great conversation next week. In other words, I do not have enough David Cronenberg material to devote 25 minutes to...unless I just pull all the references from the past episodes. Let me know if you want to hear The Poetic Critic talk about Jeff Goldblum killing cat monkeys again.

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The Undrafted and Wrongfully Drafted

"Bull Durham" was not drafted on the Baseball Draft (A film that can only be drafted at #1)
"No Fear of a Black Hat" on the Fictional Band Mini-Mega Draft
The entire George Lucas Draft
"The Birdcage" instead of "La Cage Aux Folles" on the Drag Draft
"Road Trip" was not even mentioned during the Road Trip Draft
"Major League" instead of "Drop Zone" on the Wesley Snipes Draft
"Black Swan" instead of "Mermaids" on the Wynona Ryder Draft
"Akira" instead of "Ghost World" on the Comic Book Movie (Non-Super Hero) Draft. Tetsuo is a Supe.
"Now You See Me" instead of "Diggstown" on the Con Artist Movie Draft
"The Onion Movie" instead of "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" on the Sketch Comedy Anthologies Draft
"The Big Lebowski" not being marked eight on the Coen Bros. Draft
"Labrynth" or "Dark Crystal" not receiving the number 1 or 2 spot in the Jim Henson Draft
"Stage Fright" on the Giallo Draft. It is a slasher despite the presentation.
"Assault of Precinct 13" and "Prince of Darkness" Instead of "Escape from New York" and "The Thing" on the John Carpenter Draft
"Con Air" instead of "US Marshalls" and "Universal Soldier" instead of "Time Cop " on the 90's Action Draft
"WarGames" instead of "Spies Like Us" on the Cold War Draft
"Traffic" instead of "Side Effects" on the Steven Soderbergh Draft
"Fight Club" instead of "The Virgin Suicides" on the 1999 Draft ("Suicides" made the Actor Directorial Debut Draft)
Any Kirk Douglass instead of "The Shining" being on the Kubrick Draft
"Return of the Jedi" instead of "Tokyo Drift" on the Threequels Draft (there's only one "Return," okay, and it ain't "of the King," it's "of the Jedi.")

Deserves a Second Chance

Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

I find the DC movies, or at least Zack Snyder, was trying to bring comic books to the big screen as opposed to adapting comic books for the big screen. If you read, (or watch the excellent animated adaptation of) "The Dark Knight Returns", it is a very slow build to the battle between the Bat and Supe. This is regarded as one of the best threads in comics.

As a guy who fell in love with wrestling in the 1980's, the very methodical showdown is what I loved. It's a love letter to comic book fans who read and note every detail and want to try figuring out the plot before the character do. Come at the flick this way, and I think you will get something out of it.

Tropic Thunder (2008)

This is a feature that dares you to be offended. When director Ben Stiller is that forthcoming like Robert Downey Sr. was with 1969's "Putney Swope", an audience saying that something is in poor taste, hence not funny, means they are afraid to make a mockery of a concept.

My own experience with junkies bankrupting me allows me to thoroughly enjoy Jack Black's making addiction seem ridiculous. Robert Downey Jr. nails his taboo performance and I would say helps the call for actors from a demographic to be the first people called on for the roles representing them. As for the "Forest Gump" knock off jokes, they serve as a way to ridicule us for what we accepted (and encouraged) as fine a decade prior. The narrative that controls the pace in the second act can drag, but the content that is delivered cannot be cut.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021