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Podcasts - Let's Do This!!! April 25th, 2012

This week we discuss upcoming superhero summer movies, the badassness of the Batman logo, that n**** that grabbed the microphone, a guy that fired a gun at his class, a woman who hires the wrong person to catch a cheating boyfriend, the Batdance, and email that drives us crazy.

Tags: lets do this, korey, cohost, podcast, spill, spill.com

199 Comments for Let's Do This!!! - April 25th, 2012

February 14, 2013 at 3:21 PM, said ...
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August 09, 2012 at 6:14 PM, said ...

Christopher Nolan’s biggest wish: to direct a Bond installement!
June 09, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II said ...

Sony is rebooting Spider-Man because they told Sam Raimi not to use The Lizard as the bad guy In Spider-Man 4 because they wanted a human bad guy so when Sam decided to use The Vulture Sony told Sam not to use him either because they thought he was not challenging and popular enough to fight Spider-Man and they'd have too many unsold Vulture toys on shelves when the movie was released in the movie theaters.

John Malkovich was going to play the Vulture and Anne Hathaway was going to play The Vulturess rather than The Black Cat.

Although Sam hired Alvin Sargent to write the script, he didn't like the idea of having Peter and Mary Jane getting married and having a baby girl, Spider-Man killing The Vulture and give up being Spider-Man and return as Spider-Man in the 5th movie so he decided not to make Spider-Man 4.
June 09, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II said ...

Sam wanted another villain, and Ben Kingsley was involved in negotiations to play The Vulture before the character was cut out of the movie. Producer Avi Arad convinced Sam to include Venom, a character whose perceived lack of humanity had initially been criticized by Sam. Avi told the Sam that Venom had a strong fan base, so he included the character to please them and even began to appreciate the character himself based on how well Alvin Sargent wrote him in the screenplay.
May 04, 2012 at 9:52 PM, said ...

This was a great episode guys, loved the superhero talk, and plenty of funny-ass topics to last for days...

Also like the "Batman Tech" vids below....
May 03, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Kingsley O said ...
May 01, 2012 at 2:29 AM, said ...

love the BS session... total nerd fest. <3
April 29, 2012 at 11:50 PM, said ...

OMG, the last 7 minutes had me in tears. One of the funniest tweets and emails ever; I was pretty much like Billy where every little thing set me off! I need a cold towel to keep my face from going any more red...
April 29, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jonathan Tipton said ...

YAY Billy Fuck Zack Snyder
April 28, 2012 at 7:58 PM, tevan said ...
April 28, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Peterslam said ...

Be sure to check the scene at the end of The Avengers, DURING the credits. Comic Fans will really enjoy it lol
April 28, 2012 at 6:07 AM, said ...

For some reason people tend to have selective memory for the superhero movies. Especially with the original Spider-man trilogy. People seemed almost two faced when it came to those films. I kind wish that reviewers would/could watch these movies twice before they give their reviews. I'm kind of getting annoyed that people praise a movie when it first comes out but call it mediocre or crap later. I know sometimes something might seem awesome at first but when you look at it a second time you realize that it really wasn't that good. This phenomenon has happened a lot with the recent superhero outings lately. I'm not even going to listen, watch, or read a review for the big 3 until I watch them twice myself. When the Dark Knight Rises comes out I'm willing to bet that people are going to look for things to nitpick and bitch about.
April 28, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Jeff W. said ...

Hey, Billy, if you and the rest of the guys on the b.s. train wanna know why Hollywood reboots franchises like Spider-Man and Superman so fast there was a really good article explaining the reason is obvious: big money, young audiences and really short attention spans:

That didn’t work? Okay, then — go ahead and reboot.”

We’ve become used to hearing this shopworn command these days, usually uttered by a bored IT guy. Yet, until recently, reboot was a dangerous word, and one seldom intoned in the corridors of Hollywood. A reboot was the movie equivalent of using a defibrillator on a heart patient. It was risky and undertaken only as a last resort, when a film franchise was dying or already half-dead.

In 1978, Superman: The Movie flew into theaters 30 years after the George Reeves TV version went off ABC. Nearly 30 years after that, when EON Productions rebooted the James Bond franchise in 2006 with a 007 that had not yet earned his license to kill, it was still considered a perilous procedure. But over this past blockbuster-hungry decade, that window has gradually gotten smaller and smaller. Just look at Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, a 2005 retelling of the Caped Crusader’s origin story released a mere sixteen years after Tim Burton tackled it. Earlier this month, there was news that Universal would reboot its Mummy franchise, likely for 2014, just six years from its most recent release.

This July, The Amazing Spider-Man will set a new land speed record for rebooting: Just five years after Spider-Man 3, with the image of Tobey Maguire still dancing in moviegoers' minds, Sony has installed a whole new creative team (director Marc Webb of (500) Days of Summer, and stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone) on its $2.5 billion franchise to deliver an origin story radically different in tone and premise from director Sam Raimi’s trilogy.

Unlike previous reboots, which followed box-office disappointments (like Edward Norton's 2008 The Incredible Hulk, coming five years after Ang Lee’s Hulk) or utter creative failures (see 1997’s Batman and Robin, a franchise-killer that George Clooney recently described as “really shit”), The Amazing Spider-Man is coming close on the heels of a vaguely unloved third film that still managed to gross just shy of $900 million worldwide. Hypothetically, there was enough juice left in the Raimi-Maguire–Kirsten Dunst trio. But when Raimi expressed creative exhaustion and was bereft of new ideas, Sony realized that with a great franchise comes great responsibility. So it quickly hit the reset button because there was too much at stake to show patience: The company's annual bottom-line profits have ebbed and flowed based on whether or not they've had a new installment of Marvel’s best-known title that year. And beyond the theater, there are mountains of merchandising money to be lost when there is no new movie to tie tons of Spider-Man toys to. With that kind of pressure, this kind of short-turnaround total reboot is likely to become more common in blockbuster-obsessed Hollywood, a town already so dependent on franchises and brands and the lure of the familiar.

Besides the Spider-Man trilogy's multi-billion-dollar theatrical grosses and DVD sales for Sony, the films have generated an astonishing amount of revenue for Marvel — now owned by Disney — and its toy licensee, Hasbro. It’s too early to tell how much merchandise The Amazing Spider-Man will ultimately sell, but if the previous film is any indication, it will be substantial: In April 2007, toys tied to the release of Spider-Man 3 were estimated by analysts to have contributed as much as $70 million to Hasbro’s first-quarter revenues — and this was from a film that wouldn’t open in theaters for another month. “In the case of Marvel,” explains Geoff Ammer, a former marketing chief at both Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, “their primary objective is to sell merchandise.” Which is why, to hear top producers and directors tell it, there is almost no such thing as too soon when it comes to the right time to refresh a film franchise these days.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/04/spider-man-and-the-half-life-of-the-movie-reboot.html
April 27, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Ghostmonk said ...

Stupidest hysteria I've ever seen.

He didn't assault her. He pranked her reporting. He's also black in South Carolina and she's a white reporter. OF COURSE he has to go to jail for that.

Such horseshit, guys.
April 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, said ...

This week's fu*k your thoughts was literal! Fu*k your thoughts! Damn, I'd love it if let's do this ended like that more often.
April 27, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II said ...

This week's episode of Let's Do This was Laugh Out Loud Funny. I Loved it.
April 27, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Lunatik said ...

LMAO Classic ending..
April 27, 2012 at 12:21 AM, said ...
April 27, 2012 at 12:18 AM, said ...

It's " Get the funk up!!!", but I prefer "Get the fuck up!!!"
April 26, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Mario D Love said ...

GIMME DAT MICROPHONE, BITCH!
April 26, 2012 at 11:33 PM, said ...
April 26, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Jon Baley said ...

Korey's mad as hell, and he's not gonna take it anymore! God dammit!
April 26, 2012 at 9:30 PM, said ...

The argument about what 'row' meant made me laugh, it means argument, also Billy's accent isn't terrible

UK represent, also my teeth are fine
April 26, 2012 at 9:23 PM, said ...

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