Loose Canons Ep. 20 Blonde Venus

Loose Canons Ep. 20 Blonde Venus

Timeline Blonde Venus:

00:00-04:48 Ilya covers the whole plot (and his microphone sounds better!)
04:48-11:20 Liked It (Ilya, Reuben), Disliked It (Basil, Patrick)
11:20-12:20 Podcast Statistics!
12:20-13:40 Patrick liked the visuals
13:40-14:30 This movie has no middles
14:30-16:00 People keep telling Marlene Dietrich what to do
16:00-18:00 What’s good for the kid could be bad for the parents
18:00-19:30 The Infamous HOT VOODOO!
19:30-20:24 Hot Voodoo – Ilya unscrews Robin Thicke
20:24-21:50 Hot Voodoo – “Savages,” "Angels" and Racialized Stereotypes
21:50-23:20 Hot Voodoo – Von Sternberg’s Foible for Exoticism
23:50-24:30 Hot Voodoo – Reuben would've cut you out
24:30-28:20 Outsider Alliances
28:20-31:30 Patrick feels the movie short-changes emotional connections
31:30-32:10 Hello, that flop house scene is so good!
32:00-34:20 Basil feels this movie’s a Broadway Revue of Marlene and not really progressive
34:20-36:00 We all agree this movie looks amazing
36:00-37:45 No never means no in this movie
37:45-41:30 Marlene figures out the system (men) and climbs the ladder (of men)
41:30-42:35 The Ending – The son’s just gonna be another man
42:35-44:30 Reuben compares the use of repetition here and in other movies
44:30-45:50 The Ending – That’s what you and your voice are good for, Marlene
45:50-47:20 White directors should help undo racism the other way
47:20-49:00 This might be a shitty movie that Marlene makes great
49:00-50:00 Ilya loves Marlene’s vacation stare
50:00-51:00 Patrick loves Marlene’s singing (and sings!)
51:00-51:50 This ended up being much more interesting than Basil was expecting!
51:50-52:45 Nobody liked Olympus Has Fallen (except the first 5 minutes)
52:30-52:45 Thanks for listening, everybody!

Loose Canons Ep. 19 The Warped Ones

Loose Canons Ep. 19 The Warped Ones

This time our youthful minds get warped by the sun and we gain the power of indiscriminately acting like apes.

Timeline: Warped Ones

00:00-00:50 We are Podcasting Sisyphus
00:50-01:25 Reuben can’t pronounce the director’s name
01:25-03:00 Meet our (varyingly nasal) voices!
03:00-09:00 Liked It (Patrick, Basil), Disliked It (Reuben, Ilya)
09:00-09:40 Reuben wants to murder Akira
09:40-12:30 Patrick is wrapped up in Akira’s awfulness
12:30-14:00 This movie does have one (magical) black character
14:00-14:45 Fights are for people who can’t appreciate jazz
14:45-17:00 Warped Ones & PT Anderson
17:00-18:10 Warped Ones & Japanese Cinema History
18:10-19:40 Reuben’s Sun-Crazed Kryptonians Theory
19:40-23:20 Reckoning with historic trauma through accusatory, fucked-up characters
23:20-24:50 Nobody has written anything about this movie (jk)
24:50-25:45 Donald Richie – The One Man Wrecking Crew of Japanese Film Criticism
25:45-29:15 Basil – our Donald Richie
29:15-31:45 Every country on earth has a New Wave ‘cept the U! S! A!
31:45-34:05 This movie has really dumb opinions on modern art
34:05-37:40 Akira is crazy vs. Akira is boring
37:40-40:20 Doing whatever you want without consequence? Not that wild!
40:20-42:50 “Rebuilding is pointless and everything is the worst” – Japan
42:50-43:50 Akira did just get out of prison, for what it’s worth
43:50-44:30 Patrick feels bad for the happy couple
44:30-46:20 Wait, what happy couple?
46:20-48:00 The Kryptonians may just want the same things everyone else wants
48:00-50:00 That really doesn’t work out well for them, though
50:00-52:30 “We really need to talk about the past but we just won’t” - Japan
52:30-54:10 Erasing the past in A Town of Love and Hope
54:10-55:10 Most (movies about) young people are boring
55:10-58:30 Assuming audience awareness and the movie’s setting vacuum
58:30-01:00:30 Patrick was with the movie all the way
01:00:30-01:03:00 Ilya liked the phrenology scene and what it says about acting
01:03:00-01:06:00 Making fun of character psychology
01:06:00-01:07:15 Mona Lisa needs a mustache
01:07:15-01:09:45 Reuben thinks Kids had better things to say on similar subjects
01:09:45-01:10:50 Basil wasn’t bored cause the movie moves quickly
01:10:50-01:11:20 Nobody’s really a good person in this movie
01:11:30-01:12:15 Except for Gill, the magical black guy
01:12:15-01:13:50 Akira’s (and everyone’s) dream: swim off into the sunset with a black person
01:13:50-01:15:00 RIP Pimp C
01:15:00-01:17:40 This podcast is as long as the movie!
01:17:40-01:18:57 Thanks for listening, everyone (Michael)!