/Filmcast Episode 4 - The Incredible Hulk + The Happening

Posted on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at 6:38 pm by: David Chen

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In this jam packed edition of the /Filmcast, Dave, Adam, and Devindra ponder what could have been after reading Darabont’s alleged Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull script, debate whether this Hulk is an improvement on the last one, question whether Shyamalan has still got it, and mourn the loss of a tremendous talent. Special guests Andy Sorcini and Muhammad Saleem join us from The Drill Down podcast. Have any questions/comments/suggestions? Feel free to e-mail us at slashfilmcast@gmail.com.

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Show Notes

Introduction

(00:20) Andy Sorcini and Muhammad Saleem join us from The Drill Down

What Have We Watched

David Chen: (1:50) Recount
Devindra Hardawar: (07:20) Battlestar Galactica mid-season finale, Layer Cake
Adam Quigley: (12:53) Semi-Pro, The Signal, [Shit movie of the week] Meet the Spartans

Film News

(27:34) Frank Darabont Script for “Indiana Jones and the City of God” Leaks Online
(38:40) Remembering Stan Winston
(44:12) Trailers: Death Race with Statham and Punisher War Zone
(1:00:15) Marvel Studios Too Cheap to Pay for Jon Favreau?

Featured Review

(1:08:44) The Incredible Hulk
(1:35:45) The Happening

Credits

Our music comes from the Podsafe Network and Brad Sucks
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Corrections

At 1:41:46, Andy Sorcini refers to The Green Effect as the script that Shyamalan shopped to Disney’s Nina Jacobson. The script was in fact Lady In The Water, as told in Michael Bamberger’s The Man Who Heard Voices.

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Helena Mainbasquet Says:

June 18th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

Hm. If you can’t pronounce his name even once, it really detracts from your credibility as a critic.

I don’t doubt the movie sucks though.

JayDrizzle Says:

June 18th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

To evoke the immortal Johnny Carson while presenting the Oscar’s in the 1970’s, you managed to squeeze 10 minutes of entertainment into a 2 hour show.

McLovin Says:

June 18th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

Hey guys… The villain in Iron Man was shit but Abomination was the shit. He has good character development throughout the film and is growing towards the monster… however he looked like the pussy version of Cloverfield. I kept wanting to see Rob and his buddies walk buy with a video camera. I thought Ed Norton did very well even in his humorous lines like the subway line. It wasnt supposed to be a hilarious line coming from Dane Cook but in his nerdy acting it fit perfect. Liv Tyler had me yelling in her whisper voice at the scrren “ARAGORN!!”

Good podcast guys

Devindra Hardawar Says:

June 18th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

@McLovin: Good point about the Cloverfield monster. They both certainly tore through the same territory :P I agree that Abomination wasn’t a *great* villain like Doc Ock or Magneto, but he was certainly refreshingly better than Iron Monger.

Josafat M. Says:

June 18th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

I got a suggestion for the people who wants to watch The Happening at the theaters: when you go see this movie and you’re in the middle of the show and you feel like you wanna pee, get on your feet and start walking backwards to the restroom, you’ll have a blast.

patrick Says:

June 19th, 2008 at 11:25 am

this new Incredible Hulk is a lot more fun than the first one with Eric Bana; as usual Ed Norton has gravitated to a “split personality” role…

Aqualeo Says:

June 19th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Josafat M.

“when you go see this movie and you’re in the middle of the show and you feel like you wanna pee, get on your feet and start walking backwards to the restroom”

That is fantastic! I wish I would have thought of that during the movie because I could have definitely left in the middle of it for that.

Shannon the Movie Moxie Says:

June 19th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

Fun cast to listen to as always!

Per Helena’s comment, here is a great reference for pronouncing:

http://inogolo.com/

And film specific:

http://inogolo.com/desctag/film

Unfortunately Shyamalan isn’t there, but his name is pretty phonetic.

John Says:

June 19th, 2008 at 10:24 pm

God you guys suck with reviewing the hulk. He is not human he is a monster it would have look even stupider with a real guy. I about throw my lap top across the room when i heard the lord of the rings bit in how to use CGI to change size. There is one thing that is wrong with that the scale and size of him would not work. It would be to the back round that would look off.

David Chen Says:

June 20th, 2008 at 4:40 am

@Helena

Apologies for the slip up, although I think I’m the only one on the podcast who mispronounced his name. For posterity, I now know unequivocally it’s pronounced SHA-ma-lon, where the “y” is silent.

@John

Our point was that when you have a movie (two movies actually - Ang Lee’s Hulk and this new one) where the climax is dependent upon 100% CGI creatures battling it out, it’s difficult to feel emotionally connected when you’ve spent the whole movie trying to get invested in the (human) characters’ storylines.

Helena Mainbasquet Says:

June 20th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

Shannon, not sure what the reference to those pronunciation links is for. I was referring to the fact that one of the three people in the podcast mis-pronounce Shyamalan’s name every single time he says it. One of the other panelists actually tries to correct him once, and I think he even tries again later, but the dude just can’t say the director’s name properly. Really, it’s not that hard to pronounce, but a reviewer should be able to say the name of the director correctly if he’s going to review the film, or the review lacks an awful lot of credibility. What sort of film expert is he if he can’t say the director’s name correcty even once?

Shannon the Movie Moxie Says:

June 25th, 2008 at 10:59 am

The link was for future reference, it’s a great site where you can hear the audio of how to correctly pronouce commonly mispromounced names. M. Night isn’t there but others such as Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ralph Fiennes are. It’s a great reference.

My memory has that it was actually one of the guests that said his name incorrectly and Devindra did try to get in there with the correct pronouciation.

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