Oh no, we’re nearly 30. Is it too early for our midlife crisis? I’ve got a sports car to buy, Kris is going on a spiritual retreat to ‘find himself’ and Lewis has to find an 18-year-old to start a self-destructive affair with.
Before we head off, we recorded this podcast. It’s just as weird, rude and possibly amusing as ever. We try, at least.
We discussed From Dust, Call of Juarez: The Cartel, Daredevil, Timecrimes and The Orphanage. Oh, and The Crystal Maze, obviously. Lewis ran his competition which our Twitter followers may have a bit of an advantage at this week because we’ve discussed the music heavily on there.
Then we had the quiz and I had a kind of tantrum because the special subject enrages me. Kris may have won, I can’t remember and I won’t listen back to that segment.
Finally, our reader questions (which we love to get) prompted some interesting discussion. Well, I say interesting… it was mostly just me moaning a bit.
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nofi
Crystal Maze, you say? Nom.
gaffers101
Downloading now ;)
rht992
finally remembered to enter the competition this time! great podcast as always. we sell the orphanage for about 4 quid at work so i believe I’ll be picking that up now
The Lone Steven
I think i will lock CB in a room with that segment playing in a loop just to annoy him and as revenge for stealing all of the bananana splits a few weeks back.:p
I shall listen to this tommorrow as i have it off.:D Plus i will read Harry potter while listening to it. Which confuses Blair.:D
mynameisblair
I don’t understand how you can read and listen to a podcast!
The Lone Steven
Well i am the resident TSA nutter.(i demand that to be my custom tag.Please?^_^) It’s quite easy. Read and listen at the same time. I believe it is called, multitasking. :o
BIGAL-1992
Oi! That’s my job!
The Lone Steven
what is? the reading while listening or being the resident nutter?
hazelam
you’re going to listen to the podcast as you have it off? o_O
mynameisblair
I made Kris a triceratops and THIS is how he treats me?
*cries in the corner*
The Lone Steven
You may want to get out of that corner as there is a dead triceratops. Don’t ask me how i created it or why it is dead, err i mean why is there a dead triceratops in the corner.:p
Sympozium Pawa
I’ve seen a dead one before… tis a sad sight making it get killed by a T-Rex. RWAR!!! enter its er.. cage-a-thing for herbivored and kill it.
hazelam
another great listen, i nearly pissed myself laughing at the four thors question, sorry kris. ^_^
anyway, i don’t think nintendo are in trouble, but maybe the 3ds is.
this price cut really reminds me of what ms did with the original xbox.
especially with how close to launch the price cut is.
i did the quiz again, got six this time, i didn’t recognise the song from the lion king but i recognised jeremy irons’s voice and knew the link was disney by then.
and i knew the last one but i couldn’t remember the title
as i was listening to you describe time crime i realised i think i’ve seen a trailer for it, looks interesting, weird, but interesting.
i’d like to offer a couple of recommendations for little known films that are pretty good.
firstly there’s ghost world, it’s based on comic book by daniel clowes, i think.
it’s not a superhero film, it’s about these two girls just leaving school and looking for a place to live.
they’re best friends and they want to share a place, but things don’t exactly go as planned, thora birch’s character, enid meet buscemi’s character, who’s name i can’t remember, and she sort of attaches herself to him, and his love of jazz, not much happens and there’s not really a happy ending but it’s still a great little film.
it stars thora birch, scarlet johansson before she was that well known, and steve buscemi.
another one is american splendor, starring the totally underrated actor paul giamatti.
it’s kind of a biopic of the comic creator harvey pekar, though it features the real pekar in bits of the film, it’s another hard to describe film but i think giamatti’s performance is well worth watching .
oh and talking about del toro’s film, there is one of his earlier films called cronos that is a sort of vampire film.
it’s an amazingly inventive take on the whole vampire thing, i haven’t seen it for a decade or two but it’s one that has stuck with me.
another long one. ^_^
what i like to do is listen to the podcast in the morning before i go out, and then when i get back i listen back to bits of it, because i know if i comment after i’ve listened to it i’ll have forgotten what you talked about earlier in the podcast, and it’s too early to listen again to comment, so i listen again later.
that sort of explains why they’re so long.
well that and the fact i tend to go on a bit. ^_^
hazelam
oh and peter, was michelangelo from the painter, or the ninja turtle?
colossalblue
I wish I could say that I was cultured enough for it to be the painter… Let’s just say I wanted to rename my dog Splinter…
Gastos84
I’ve seen Cronis and American Splendor. Both great. I have been meaning to check out Ghost World for ages now, the trailers make it look very funny.
danny_ken
Just been listening to the podcast on the Eurostar as I am in the process of moving back to the UK, cannot believe I won something cheers guys, it means I have something to watch tonight while I wait for my stuff to be delivered on Friday. Will listen back to the recommendations, the comic sounded very interesting, the game sounds a lot like Laser Squad Nemesis and I will check out the film too. Thanks again from a daily reader but forum lurker
embryo69
Great podcast again guys! Nice to hear a comp noob won. I sent my first entry in to Lewis last week too. He’ll receive my next entry later.