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/Filmcast Ep. 71 - Trick ‘r Treat (GUEST: Rian Johnson, Director of Brick and The Brothers Bloom)

Posted on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 by David Chen

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In this week’s /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss the merits (or lack thereof) of 3D conversion, compare A Serious Man to Barton Fink, and confirm or deny whether or not Couples Retreat is, in fact, a complete trainwreck. Special guest writer/director Rian Johnson joins us for this episode. Rian’s latest film, The Brothers Bloom, is currently available for rental in iTunes, Blockbuster, Netflix, and plenty of other places right now.

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Shownotes

Introduction

  • (00:44) A special word from Brick and The Brother’s Bloom director Rian Johnson

What We’ve Been Watching

  • David Chen (07:16): Glee pilot
  • Rian Johnson (15:36): A Serious Man, After School, Last Year at Marienbad
  • Devindra (25:00): Rudo y Cursi, Gigantic, Flash Forward
  • Adam (30:35): Couples Retreat

News Discussion

Featured Review

  • (1:14:44) Trick ‘r Treat

Credits

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  • Great podcast, or the greatest podcast?
  • harmonica
    Greatest.
  • jasonb26
    @ rian johnson...

    i don't know if you'll even read this, but...i won tickets to see BB in SF a few months back, through a contest set up at /film. to this day (oct,14) it is still my favorite film of 09' (haven't seen WTWTA or the road yet, but that's still great company to be in!)

    i went to the midnight showing, and by that time you and peter were pretty tired, but you still had a few cool things to say about the film/filming in general. you even very graciously laughed at a shout out for "brick 2"!

    at the golden globes, during mickey rourke's speech, he commented on special directors coming around every 25 years or so, as he was thanking DA. for me, 5 guys who have come around in my 25 years, whose films i'll follow into the cinematic gates of hell, are: chris nolan, PTA, park chan-wook, alfonso cuaron and yourself.

    who are the guys you look up to? do you ever include them/their work in your processes? I try as hard as i can to not rip you guys off in my own filmmaking, but that fine line between homage & theft is a bitch! yer one of the greats! cheers, jb
  • AlbertSiebener
    devindra, i'm totally with you on "gigantic". terrible movie. it's the "transformers 2" of wannabe-sundance-hits. all surface, no depth. you just throw in your typical indie -ingredients, but you make the dialogue pointless, have random characters appear, reappear and finally disappear without giving a hint, what they were needed for, and you give the characters absolutely no motivation for whatever they do.

    "to his tenth birthday i gave him a bike. but he cried. he said, he wanted a chinese baby! it never changed ever since."

    that's not quirky. that's creepy, stupid and disgusting.

    ... you should take an entire episode to talk about this movie. it's one of those movies, that actually really made me angry, for how stupid it was.
  • Daniel
    But.. How could Avatar possibly earn his enormous budget back if most of the general public doesn't even know it exist and when only a week later he will have to face Sherlock Holmes?

    Also, the people i show the trailer to said it looks like - and i'm quote - "A dumb Disney movie".
  • I wasn't too keen on the first trailer either, but they have time to change the general public impression with more glimpses at the film.
  • Daniel
    With only two months left i really doubt it. Also, it still doesn't answer my question. People from the general public are *much* more hyped about Holmes then Avatar, and it comes only a week after. Fox really did (and still doing) a terrible job in marketing this film so most of the general public is still kind of in bay about it or doesn't care. The geeks will see it, for sure, but is it enough? Nope. Fox should really do something, and do it fast..
  • Daniel
    Oh yeah, and to prove my point, the last movie that almost didn't make any mony at all do to Fox terrible marketing job was Jennifer's Body, and it had Megan Fox france kissing another chick, for F..!
  • Daniel
    *money
  • Gene Milder
    Thanks for spoiling BM´s cameo from Zombieland. Last week you guys made a pretty good job avoiding it. Not so much this week.
  • To be fair, it's popping up pretty much everywhere in news titles this week. A cameo that big can only remain unspoiled for so long.
  • Jeff
    That was the greatest PODcast ever. Rian Johnson was a very enjoyable guest...
  • Johnson is very ignorant of 3D. Amazing. Calling it gimmicky and arguing that you can't forget that you are watching a movie in 3D is wrong, wrong, wrong. He himself said that he did not see AVATAR Day (but you can tell he is worried it might actually be good - he might actually have to consider using 3D someday) and he says we are a long ways off to seeing great 3D that mimics our human experience. Wait until he sees AVATAR - he will be eating crow for lunch.

    And so he aligns himself with the illustrious Michael Bay on the anti-3D side as opposed to oh let me see, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Steven Soderbergh and the list goes on. I think I will stay on the 3D side of the fence for now, but thanks anyway Rian. :-) Of course rumor has it TRANSFORMERS 3 is going 3D...
  • J
    *The giant hand of 3-D will come out of the sky and crush Rian Johnson for having a countering opinion of 3-D! And then Johnson won't be eating crows but the crows will be eating Johnson! Mwahahahahaha!*

    Jeeze, jimdorey. Its just an opinion.
  • But what an opinion. From someone who should know better. He publicly made
    it - I can publicly debate it.
  • jasonb26
    3d is gimmicky and always a presence.
  • Everybody has an opinion, mine is totally different than yours if it is done
    RIGHT.
  • Kyle C.
    Great discussion on Trick 'r Treat. I was kind of disappointed after I saw it last week because of all the hype but now that I've watched it a few times I think it's great. It truly is the only and best film about Halloween and is very rewatchable. I have to agree with Adam about it being too short although I'd be fine with it if we get a sequel, which I doubt we will. This film would have turned into a Halloween tradition like Saw if it had been given a theatrical release.

    Also, to answer Mr. Rian Johnson's question, I believe the reason the film was forgotten by Warner is that originally it was supposed to come out October 2006, 3 or 4 months after Superman Returns. But once Superman didn't do so well, I think that Warner wanted out of the Bryan Singer business and since he produced Trick 'r Treat, that film got an unfair shafting by studio execs who felt burned by Singer, so they burned him back. I could be wrong, but it seems like only a bad grudge could have caused this film to be treated the way it was.
  • GreatBigLion
    Can't wait to listen to this one. STILL need to see Brothers Bloom!
  • One of the Best Episodes, Rian Johnson is a Legend
  • robb3d
    Rian Johnson is bags and bags of awesome !
  • Romero
    excellent episode! one of the best... come back everyweek Rian!
  • jcastillo81
    Love any podcast you guys do with Rian Johnson. He's always entertaining.
  • thechemist
    Great episode, make rian a permanent member of the podcast please. He's honestly hilarious and adds a lot to the show. Great podcast
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