Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Matt Phillion as we count down our favorite movie remakes. Listen to the show below or download it directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Seems like every movie's a remake these days
- Hollywood's afraid of original ideas
- Many different types of remakes
- Many American movies are remakes from films originally made overseas
- Remakes of TV shows
- Reboots of franchises (Spider-man, Superman, Hulk, Bourne)
- Recent remakes include Footloose, The Thing, Fright Night
- Matt's list of best remakes starts with: The Magnificent Seven
- Toughest actors in toughest movie
- Jay: The Departed
- Based on Korean movie
- Jay recommends checking out Oldboy, crazy Korean thriller
- Matt: True Grit
- Liked it better than the original
- Jay: Cape Fear
- Another Scorsese remake, DeNiro plays creepy
- Matt: 3:10 to Yuma
- In praise of Ben Foster
- Jay: Evil Dead 2, a sequel that's also a remake
- Bruce Campbell rules
- Matt: Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call New Orleans
- Nic Cage brings the crazy
- Cage's wacky career choices
- Jay: Scarface
- Totally over the top
- Matt: Insomnia
- Christopher Nolan's followup to Memento
- Jay: Fatal Attraction
- Glenn Close played classic scorned woman
- Matt: Ocean's 11
- Fun movie with great cast
- Bonehead of the Week
Music:
The Dodos - So Cold
The Delta Spirit - Gimme Some Motivation
Damien Jurado - Nothing is the News
Benjamin Shaw - How to Test the Depth of a Well
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The Dodos song is previously unreleased and is available for free download (in exchange for your email address) at the band's website.
The Delta Spirit song is on the EP I Think I've Found It. Download the EP for free (in exchange for your email address) from the band's blog.
The Damien Jurado song is on the album Mariqopa on Secretly Canadian. Download the song for free at http://rcrdlbl.com/2011/11/23/download_damien_jurado_nothing_is_the_news.
The Benjamin Shaw song is on the album There's Always Hope, There's Always Cabernet on Audio Antihero. Download the song for free at IODA Promonet:
Benjamin Shaw
"How to Test the Depth of a Well" (mp3)
from "There's Always Hope, There's Always Cabernet"
(Audio Antihero)
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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.
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