/Filmcast Ep. 15 - Postal (GUESTS: Vic Holtreman and Scott Weinberg)

Posted on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 6:51 pm by: David Chen

In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, and Adam ponder box office surprises from the past weekend, discuss the merits of a Facebook movie, and look back on the first season of the /Filmcast. Vic Holtreman joins us from Screenrant and Scott Weinberg joins us from Cinematical and Fearnet.

Have any questions, comments, concerns, feedback, or praise? Feel free to e-mail us at slashfilmcast@gmail.com or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Tune in next week as we review Bangkok Dangerous.

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Introduction

(00:19) Vic Holtreman from Screenrant.com

What Have We Watched

(01:10) Vic Holtreman: Mirrors
(03:42) David Chen: The Dark Knight
(10:56) Devindra: 21
(14:05) Adam Quigley: Traitor, Mad Men (Season 1), [Shit movie of the week] The Room

News Discussion

(23:16) Weekend Box Office Grosses
(33:50) Facebook: The Movie
(40:33) Wanted 2: A Movie Sequel, Not a Comic Book
(43:30) Watchmen Might Be Delayed
(46:48) Looking back on Summer 2008

Featured Review

(1:00:35) Postal

Credits

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Adam B. Says:

September 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 pm

I go back to classes tomorrow, so thanks for uploading this tonight. :D
will give me something entertaining and thought provoking to listen to.
love the show guys, keep up the awesome work!

muffin man Says:

September 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm

nice editing dave.but i really prefer the live version. much funnier, will be sticking to that :)

Mr Hollywood Says:

September 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 am

Wait, the live version plays differently? How?

SILK SPECTRE Says:

September 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 pm

dave,
i’m not hating on you about your TDK issues, but first of all, just becasue a movie is confusing at times doesn’t make it bad (I.E. memento) and secondly, we all know this movie isn’t perfect but that doesn’t mean it still isn’t great, almost every movie has slight flaws.

SILK SPECTRE Says:

September 3rd, 2008 at 5:03 pm

still, another great episode.
i love you, adam!

David Chen Says:

September 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm

@SILK SPECTRE

Just because I think a movie has flaws doesn’t mean I think it’s NOT great. I agree with everything you said. The movie is great! I love the Dark Knight! But for some reason whenever people listen to me talk about it, all they hear is what I think the flaws are, and not the parts where I say “I love The Dark Knight because of X, Y, and Z.” Nonetheless, I don’t think we should try and avoid thinking critically about a film just because it’s awesome.

The confusion in Memento was in some ways intentional and a product of that film’s structure. The confusion in Dark Knight seems a result of too much footage on the cutting room floor….or not enough.

SILK SPECTRE Says:

September 3rd, 2008 at 6:01 pm

okay, you win, valid points.

Cesaria Says:

September 3rd, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Haha, I just watched The Room a few days ago. I fucking love that shitty ass movie. I, too, discussed it in my most recent podcast on my website (www.cesariatic.wordpress.com) which was inspired by the /filmcast. Your podcast gets me through my boring ass day!

MorrisMitchener Says:

September 8th, 2008 at 6:09 am

May I suggest that if you have a guest who likes to use the ‘R’ word (the one from Tropic Thunder), that you; request that they don’t use it on your show, edit out of the podcast, and don’t invite them back unless they comply.

I doubt that you’d allow someone who uses the ‘F’ word for gay people to get away with it. Most of all it is just irritating. It conjures images of 15 year olds speaking in that ‘Clueless’ or ‘Mean Girls’ way. It grates very badly.

MorrisMitchener Says:

September 12th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

Hi. I write this while trying to avoid spoilers.

Some of you thought that the confusion over the way that the Joker tricks Batman into saving the person whom he did not choose to save when given the dilemma between Dawes & Dent. It has been suggested that this was because we are used to being spponfed by more formulaic films. Indeed Jonathon Nolan referred to this on the Creative Screenwriting podcast, whilst infuriatingly not clarifying the exact situation.

My recollection is that Batman tells Gordon whom he intends to save, but then he arrives at the location of the other person.

The problem for me is that later on, in the hospital scene, the person who is saved asks Batman why he chose them, rather than the other person. Critically, Batman goes along with this, and does not explain that he was tricked by the Joker, even though it could have been advantageous to him to explain this. That is the crux of my confusion. The CONCEPT that the Joker may trick Batman was very clear, but the details were never fully revealed and did not make complete sense.

We know that the Sonar/Clown Mask scenes were even more confusing, so it would not be beyond the editing of this film for the two-way dilemma scene to have been left ambiguous.

Any comments or explanation would be appreciated.

Cheers

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