In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Adam, and Devindra geek out about some brand new trailers, speculate on the future of The Office, and try to find some meaningful criticisms of Wall-E. Special Guests Kevin Buist from Filmcouch and Eric Vespe (AKA “Quint”) from Aint it Cool News join us today. Have any questions/comments/suggestions? Want to advertise with us or sponsor us? Feel free to e-mail us at slashfilmcast@gmail.com.
Download or Play Now:
Subscribe:
Show Notes
Introduction
- (00:24) Kevin Buist: The Filmcouch podcast, the Spout blog, Porcupine School
- (00:46) Eric Vespe aka Quint: Contributing Editor for Aint it Cool News
What Have We Watched
David Chen: (02:15) Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Devindra: (05:35) Human Giant, The Visitor
Quint: (10:12) The Elephant Man, Hancock
Adam: (16:44) The Spiderwick Chronicles, [Shit Movie of the Week] 10,000 B.C.
News Discussion
- (27:54) Trailer releases: RockNRolla and Quantum of Solace
- (43:50) Inglorious Bastards Not a Period Piece
- (46:35) Steve Carrell for 3 More Years of the Office
Featured Review
- (50:45) Wanted
- (1:12:25) Wall-E
Credits
- Our music comes from Point 22 courtesy of the Podsafe Network, and Brad Sucks
- If you’d like advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail slashfilmcast@gmail.com
July 1st, 2008 at 10:48 pm
speaking of BnL taking over earth and whatnot,
fred willard playing “mr. president”
basically saying “dont worry everybody itll all work itself out… just STAY THE COURSE”
wiki:
“Bush originally used the phrase to describe the Iraq War, but has since abandoned the phrase due to continual pressure to change his Iraq War strategy.”
crazy…
?
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 am
great review of Wall-e. I agree that the film was wonderful but still had it’s share of imperfections. A point I brought up to a friend was the question of why the ship was even bothering to sustain the people. The ship is an extension of the BNL corporation. Corporations run on greed and income. So how were these people, generations later, generating income to feed the corporate system.
I’m sure I’m reading further into the story than intended.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:54 am
@taylordubose - Good catch! I actually noticed the exact same thing, but it just seems so passe in films/TV shows these days to compare a leader’s buffoonery to Bush that I didn’t think it was worth bringing up :)
@anthony - you bring up an interesting inconsistency but I was able to accept the idea a massive, luxurious ship was necessary to get humans off the earth. Even the evil people in charge of BNL had to accept that…they were humans too, right?
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 am
“People made this connection that I never saw coming with the environmental movement, and that’s not what I was trying to do. I was just using the circumstances of people abandoning the Earth because it’s filled with garbage as a way to tell my story.
I always knew that I wanted WALL•E to be digging through trash for two reasons: One, I wanted him to be the lowest on the totem pole. It’s a janitorial job; it’s the saddest, lowest status amongst his kind; and it just makes him that much more of a lonely guy. Two, trash is really visual. Even the littlest kid understands when there’s stuff in the way and it needs to be picked up, so I didn’t need to spend time explaining his job. And then I just reverse-engineered from there, ‘OK, if there’s trash everywhere, how did it get there?’”
-Andrew Stanton
September 10th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I think Go-Green is a scam. Its arrogant meddling, it’s interfering with nature. 90% of the species that were on this planet before us are dead. We didn’t kill them all. They died. We are so self important…save the trees…its all arrogant. We can’t even take care of ourselves and yet people say take care of the planet! Its tiresome…Environmentalists could care less about the planet in the sense of the abstract…they care more about a clean place to live! Because they are personally inconvenienced!
Its arrogance and narrow minded self interest bull shit! That is what this movie was about and that’s why I hated it! Besides there is nothing wrong with the planet! It is fine! It’s the people on this planet that aren’t. The planet has been here for 4 and half billion years! We have been here for like 100,000 years! Heavy industry has only been around for 200 years. 200 years vs. 4 and half billion…ummm…and we have the conceit to think that we are a threat and that because Costco’s, Wal-marts, and Targets are everywhere (Or as in Wall*E – Buy N’ Larges) that we as a society are doomed! The planet has been through a lot worse than us…Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Plate tectonics, Continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the polls, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment from comets, asteroids, meteors, floods, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages and we think some recycling and some movie about a Robot “saving humanity” is gonna help!
The planet isn’t going anywhere – WE ARE!!! Since we are a failed mutation! A failed species! A product of natural selection! The planet is a living thing! That responds to things…we are symbiotic beings on this Earth…it will phase us out like a threat from a pest…it will kill us with some kind of virus (HIV, AIDS, sexual diseases something that effects the reproduction of our species! That’s why Children of Men is a good movie or 28 Days Later).
Devindra says some republican groups would disagree with his thoughts…I think it has nothing to do with republican or democrat…but stereotyping is cool…I guess.