Friday 2nd January 2009, 03:15

Episode 8 Legged Freaks

Paul and Jon sum up their best and worst movies of 2008, with a few entries you may expect, and a few surprises. The Dark Knight, Iron Man, In Bruges and others share praise, whereas Hancock and The Other Boleyn Girl cause disagreement. The worst films are all ripped into with great relish, covering Max Payne, Jumper, The Happening, and more.

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Saturday 27th December 2008, 13:06

Movie Banter episode 7 Brides for 7 Brothers

Recorded in the aftermath of a Christmas meal, this week's podcast covers "Twilight", Christmas war movie "Merry Christmas", and Paul, Jon and Jenny discuss defining movies of their youth, which reveals Jon to be a slightly oddly-influenced child.

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Thursday 18th December 2008, 18:54

Movie Banter 6 - The Undiscovered Podcast

This week Jon realises the only way to enjoy Four Christmases is to essentially pretend you're watching a different film, and suffers through Failure to Launch specifically so he can bemoan its many failings. Paul goes the highbrow route with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and finds a much better Christmas movie in the classic White Christmas. Also up for debate are special effects in older movies, films on TV over Christmas, and more.

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We're trying to bring them in around the 30-40 minute mark, but somehow keep overrunning due to getting sidetracked and finding far too much to, well, banter about. Still, it's all solid film-related stuff, so hopefully of interest. Please do contact us with your thoughts about the podcast - what you want to hear more of, or less of, films you'd like us to cover, or anything else that comes to mind...

Thursday 18th December 2008, 16:42

1987 best for 80's movies

Random aside, this, but it came up in this week's podcast (currently being edited - watch this space...or rather the one right above it). I maintain that 1987 is one of the best years for movies - not necessarily Oscar-level brilliance, but it seems to have the highest concentration of movies which make people from my generation (ie. a child in the 80's) break into a grin:

Batteries Not Included

Beverly Hills Cop 2

Dirty Dancing

Dragnet

Evil Dead 2

Fatal Attraction

Full Metal Jacket

Innerspace

Lethal Weapon

The Living Daylights

Lost Boys

Mannequin

Predator

Princess Bride

Robocop

Roxanne

Running Man

Secret of My Success

Stakeout

Three Men and a Baby

The Untouchables

Wall Street

Withnail & I

Now, not necessarily all films of absolute ground-breaking quality, but that's a lot of classic 80's...ness crammed into one year, and I feel it's worth recording, if nothing else to have a record to try and make my argument better in the next episode...

Wednesday 17th December 2008, 18:33

10 biggest movie mistakes of 2008

This may have been a blockbuster year for big-screen spectaculars, but it's also set a record that filmmakers might not be too keen to shout about - movies released in 2008 notched up over 1,000 factual and continuity blunders, more than movies from any other year have managed in the year they were released! 10 of the best...

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: At the beginning when Indy is talking to Spalko, his hands keep alternating from being in his pockets to just resting at his sides between shots.

Iron Man: When Iron Man and Iron Monger are fighting, Iron Man catches the SUV, and you can see the family inside the car. Although the car is completely vertical, the hair of the people in the car seem to defy gravity.

Sex and the City: The Movie: In the scene where Big and Carrie meet in their cars after Big fled the wedding you can see down the street in the distance a huge amount of SATC fans have gathered to watch the filming.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year: At Riley's Garage, when Troy and Chad rummage through the junk looking for the radiator cap, Troy's boxers are light grey, but next shot when he lifts the truck's hood his boxers are black.

Quantum of Solace: At the end of "Casino Royale," Bond is wearing a three-piece suit. Although "Quantum of Solace" begins just minutes later, Bond is wearing a completely different, two-piece, suit.

Mamma Mia!: In the shot in the bathroom, Tanya has a small diamond necklace but in the next shot in the bedroom the diamond appears larger.

The Dark Knight: During Batman's interrogation of Joker, when he picks him up and slams him against the wall, for a very brief moment you can see the camera and the cameraman in the reflection of the mirror on the right.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: When the Pevensies are outside their treasure chamber in Cair Paravel, Peter tears off a piece of his shirt to make a makeshift torch. A few shots later, once they're in the chamber, the missing piece has gotten bigger.

Cloverfield: When he's walking in the subway, Rob's shirt has a dark triangle of sweat (and dirt) on the back. In one clip the triangle is barely visible and the shirt looks a lot cleaner than before. In the next clip, the triangle is very clear again.

Definitely, Maybe: In the scene where the camera shows Times Square, visible on the right of the screen in the front of the shot is a poster for the Broadway show "The Lion King". The Lion King just celebrated 10 years on Broadway and was not playing in 1994.

The top 10 most mistake-ridden movies of 2008

1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: 64 mistakes

2. Mamma Mia!: 44 mistakes

3. The Dark Knight: 43 mistakes

4. Twilight: 41 mistakes

5. High School Musical 3: Senior Year: 41 mistakes

6. Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008): 31 mistakes

7. Quantum of Solace: 23 mistakes

8. Get Smart: 22 mistakes

9. Step Brothers: 22 mistakes

10. Iron Man: 21 mistakes

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