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Tuesday 30th June 2009, 19:53

Movie Banter podcast 32

Movie Banter becomes TV Banter for one week only - Paul and Jon cast their critical square eyes on new shows Dollhouse and Better Off Ted, established shows such as 24, Prison Break, Smallville, Pushing Daisies and Lost, and take a particular look at great final episodes, notable Scrubs and Seinfeld.

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Friday 26th June 2009, 18:09

RIP Michael Jackson

Not really film-related, but being a child of the 80's (I even saw Moonwalker in the cinema - there's your movie angle), Michael Jackson was a major pop culture presence in my adolescence, so felt I should post a quick something.

Regardless of any founded and unfounded weird tabloid stories and allegations, the man just made fantastic music, and was an exceptional performer - I managed to see him live twice when I was younger, during the Bad and Dangerous tours, and now feel all the more privileged to have done so.

While he'd slipped from the public eye a bit, and hadn't really done much musically of late, the upcoming gigs in London were reminding everyone quite what a huge name he still was, and no doubt will forever be. Very sad that he's gone so suddenly, for all of his family, friends, and fans.

Although running this site somehow doesn't get me in with celebrities (I know, shocking), I've got one tenuously Michael Jackson-related story, which is to do with John Landis, director of various classic movies, but most relevantly in this case, he also directed the video for "Thriller". A few years back I occasionally popped up on morning TV in the UK pointing out mistakes in the latest DVD releases, and had the good fortune to meet him.

I say "good fortune" - for some reason he didn't take particularly kindly to me nitpicking his movies, and while remaining cheerful on the surface he was definitely unimpressed, having a bit of a go and asking me "don't you have a job?" I answered "yes, this", which got a laugh from the presenters and fit the bill at the time.

Only later did I think I should have said "well, at least I've never been charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment" [he was, after an actor and two children died on the set of a film he directed]. Possibly a bit harsh, and probably would have ended my stint on that show, but it probably would have made a headline or two when he punched me in the face on live TV.


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Tuesday 23rd June 2009, 01:53

15 Transformers mistake pictures

Some of the most blatant Transformers mistakes - click for more!

Mikaela gets a tow truck to move Bumblebee after he lost his legs. At first, the writing on the left door says 'Mike's Towing - 800-555-0199.' When she gets out to hoist Bumblebee up, the writing on the same door has changed to 'Mike's Towing - 800-333-MIKE'.

At Hoover Dam, when the soldiers salute Keller the clock reads 10:00, then as Keller, the soldiers, Maggie and Glen walk away in the background, when Simmons tells Sam that they got off to a bad start the clock reads 11:35, and next shot when Banacheck interrupts it reads 11:43. Also when Simmons talks to Mikaela and Sam the word "Nevada" is gone and it only reads "Time" under the clock. Then when Banacheck says, "Come with me, we'll talk about your car," the word "Nevada" is back under the clock.

After class when Sam rushes to his father, who is waiting in his car, and tells him that he got an A-, the license plate is affixed to the front bumper. At the start of the next shot, the front license plate is gone, but it then reappears when they arrive at Bobby B's.

During the chase scene on the highway, when Sam says, "It's the same cop," they pan to a wide shot to show the whole freeway with the cars on it. All of the vehicles are on the wrong side of the freeway. When looking out of the back of his car, you can see the fronts of all of the cars coming towards the camera, and you can see the text on the signs facing the camera as well. You can also see crowds on the flyover, watching the filming.

At Bobbie B's, when Sam first opens Bumblebee's driver-side door, the gas pump's white steel guardrail is directly behind him, aligned with the driver's seat, but when all the windows shatter, Bumblebee's front fender is aligned with the guardrail, though Bumblebee has not moved. Same goes for the VW Beetle beside the Autobot.

As we hear Prime explaining, "They're a young species, they have much to learn," on the Hoover Dam, S-Seven's SUVs pull up to the curb and doors open, right beside the vertical guardrail posts with the horizontal beams. In the next close-up, all of the horizontal beams have vanished.

When Sam grabs his mom's pink bike, there is nothing in the white basket at the handlebars as he flees from Bumblebee. However, at the start of the shot just before the tire hits the broken concrete, a square pink pillow suddenly appears in the basket, before flying out as Sam flips over.

When Agent Simmons takes Mikaela and Sam into custody, the headrests in the SUV vanish when Prime shows up. The driver's headrest is visible just after they enter the car. When Sam says, "My car had been stolen, from me, from my home," and when Simmons asks, "What do you kids know about aliens?" the headrest behind Sam is visible, among other moments.

When Ron (holding a flashlight and lantern) is looking through Sam's bathroom window, saying, "Judy, better call the city. We got a blown transformer...," there is no windowbox under that window, which was there earlier. Yet when Prime says "Ironhide, you know we don't harm humans! What is with you?" the rather large windowbox full of flowers is back up under that bathroom window.

After Sam knocks Mikaela off her moped, they are both on the ground right beside the moped when Bumblebee shows up, but in the overhead shot as Sam helps Mikaela up the moped is gone, not moved, just gone.

When the troop is flying in the helicopter at the start of the movie, Epps is not wearing sunglasses. When it cuts back to him, he is, then again it cuts away and back several times and you can see an indentation on the side of his head where the Oakley sunglasses were.

When Prime lifts Mikaela up to Sam's bathroom window, there are two baseballs in acrylic display cases and another object (looks like a vintage camera) on the windowsill (beside the tub). Then when Sam runs to that window and sees the Autobots parked as if it were a "truckstop", all those items disappear and are replaced by two small overturned flowers pots.

When Sam is looking at Bumblebee at the car lot, he wipes some of the grease off of the Autobot insignia. When Bumblebee blows out all the windows, all the grease is gone.

At the Hoover Dam, after the salute, when Defense Secretary Keller speaks with Lennox and Epps, the reflection of the white reflector screen is visible on Keller's glasses. What's more, the boom mic's reflection is actually visible within the reflector screen's reflection. Two for the price of one.

In this movie, we see a close up shot of Mikaela's hands in three separate scenes. The first is a shot from behind Mikaela and Sam where they grasp hands and the camera closes in on that. You see Mikaela's short nails, with chipped red polish. The second time we see her hands is a shot where she covers her open mouth with both of her hands in shock. Her nails are unpolished. Finally, the third time is during the ending sequence where both she and Sam have been thrown to the ground near each other. Mikaela stretches her hand toward him, they touch fingertips, and the red nail polish is back.

Thanks to The Daily What, Bullz-Eye, Tengossip, Action Flick Chick, The Bachelor Guy, Gunaxin, TransformersFans.com, Transformers2.net and Filmrot for linking to this post!

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Saturday 13th June 2009, 02:53

Movie Banter podcast 30

Paul, Jon and Jenny put Terminator Salvation through its paces, together with Last Chance Harvey. Also covered are the aging actor population, the cinematic vision of the future they'd most like to live in, movie recommendations from comedian Matt Price, and of course This Week in Movie History.

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Monday 8th June 2009, 06:05

Movie Banter podcast 29

This week up for bantering by Paul, Jon and Jen are more bad ideas for movie prequels, musings on which of the new acting generation could replace the old guard, a review of 12 Rounds, discussing the recently-announced remake of Total Recall, the TV movie of Discworld novel The Colour of Magic, and thoughts about books that should and shouldn't be made into movies. Also a chat with UK comic Andy Kind, This Week in Movie History, and last but not least, Desert Island Flicks covers our most hated movies.

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