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Podcasts - Remote Viewing: Episode 43

Brian and Cyrus have their work cut out for them this week. Lots of blu-ray and dvd titles, the gamut is run of opinions, and even some polar disagreements. Check it...

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Tags: podcast, spill, spill.com, remote viewing, dvd, blu-ray, review, cyrus, brian, luke

48 Comments for Remote Viewing: Episode 43

January 24, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II said ...

@Cyrus: I wouldn't say the writing of Frankenweenie is sloppy because the reason why things go wrong for Victor's classmates is because they brought sea monkies, a turtle, a hamster and a rat back to life and some turtles and rats have very scary personalities when they are mutated in cartoons and fiction movies so the last 15 mintutes couldn't be sad, dark or intense like Edward Scissorhands because it's a wonderful and charming Disney animated movie.

@Brian: Tim Burton puts his heart into all his movies because Edward Scissorhands was based on a drawing that he drew when he was a teenager. Tim, John August and Johnny Depp made Willy Wonka like he is supposed to be: a Howard Hughes recluse. Tim decide to make The Corspe Bride after the late Joe Ranft, one of the directors of Cars, told him the story. Tim Burton directed Alice and Wonderland because he never felt an emotional connection to the original book, with its series of events about a girl wandering from one weird character to another and finally Tim directed Dark Shadows because he loved the original T.V. show from 1966 along with Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer.
January 23, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Hector Fernando Andrade JR. II said ...

I rented Frankenweenie last Monday.

I thought Frankenweenie was a fun and charming stop-motion animated movie with a sweet story written by Tim Burton and John August, good voice acting performances by Charlie Tahan as Victor Frankenstein, Frank Welker as Sparky, Martin Landau as Mr. Rzykruski, Winona Ryder as Elsa van Helsing, Atticus Shaffer as Edgar E. Gore, Robert Capron as Bob and James Hiroyuki Liao as Toshiaki, great directing by Tim Burton, wonderful and deatalied black and white stop-motion animation by Walt Disney Pictures, cool music by Danny Elfman and a smart message about a kind and talented a young moviemaker and scientist and his competitive friends learning about the positives and negatives about science.

So if you are a fan of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie live-action short movie from 1984 or you like movies that parody the 1818 novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or the 1931 movie Frankenstein then you will like Frankenweenie.

I give Frankenweenie 4 out of 5 stars, a Full Price!! and I hope you enjoy Frankenweenie.
January 19, 2013 at 7:38 PM, said ...
January 17, 2013 at 12:01 PM, said ...

Nothing against Cyrus not liking The Inbetweeners movie but I think to really like this movie you have to be British. It has so many small plots / jokes that only brits will get. I guess thats why we loved it over here and is the biggest comedy success ever in the uk.

Great show guys!
January 17, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Spirit3188 said ...

if you want to see why Dredd did so bad in theaters, id blame the first trailer, which can be backed up by the users here on spill on the post when the trailer first came out ( http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/dredd-trailer-arrives ). the trailer did a poor job grabbing interest. i still agree, the trailer did make it look lame, despite being a kickass movie
January 17, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Spirit3188 said ...

i like the daredevil movie too...-_-
January 17, 2013 at 9:21 AM, said ...

I think Dredd is way better than the dark knight rises and the avengers. Please guys buy the blu ray so we can see a sequel.
January 17, 2013 at 7:31 AM, said ...

I agree a horse sized duck is terrifying and duck sized horses would just be adorable.
January 17, 2013 at 6:42 AM, said ...

Def gonna check out 2 lane black top and trailer war! How the f$%k do ya'll find time to watch all this?

Cheers hosts with the remotes:)
January 17, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Jose A. Vanga said ...

How 'bout "Couch Potatos"? It goes with the illustration and you gotta spend a great deal of time on it to watch all this stuff (TV shows in particular)!
January 16, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Dr. Detfink said ...

Three years ago, Tim Burton had an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, which at first I thought to myself, "REALLY? Hmm. Putting this cat's work in the same house of a Lucien Freud painting? Rubbish!" Certainly both sides were looking at the publicity (and did it come) for Alice in Wonderland.

Being a member, I didn't have to pay to see the exhibit and the one thing I appreciated from an exhibit that showed all of Burton's illustrations, story boards, designs, animations, sculptures, and props...is the concept of process. He pumps out a lot of work....and young artists should always be willing to explore the deeper depths of their creative gene and not be afraid to produce a ridonkulous amount of work...rather than a lot of the very nice looking but constipated limited amount of work I see today in Illustration.

That said, I enjoyed Big Fish. I loved Edward Scissorhands. I loved the Nightmare before Christmas. I even enjoyed his interpretation of Batman as an Elseworlds.
January 16, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Michael-Orian Bockus said ...

@Allen Jensen
Universal did a great job on the boxset as a whole. The transfers are beautiful and the special features are fantastic. However did you notice some of the images suddenly becoming blurry in scenes from 'Creature from the black lagoon'?
January 16, 2013 at 8:19 PM, said ...

Bought all 3 seasons of Archer as Christmas gifts for my dad. F**king got lost in the mail except for the third one which I pre-ordered. I am sooooo angry over that.
January 16, 2013 at 6:33 PM, said ...

The 3D Blu-ray version of Creature From the Black Lagoon actually looks very good. The underwater scenes really pops out of the screen :-)
January 16, 2013 at 5:50 PM, said ...

I like the viewer mail segment, but I hate the obnoxious singing. You guys desperately need a jingle.
January 16, 2013 at 3:03 PM, said ...

This week's song (no video):

"Rocket From The Crypt" "Your Touch" http://amzn.com/B000VZYD0M
January 16, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Chad Posey said ...

Finally one of the gruesome twosome could appreciated Dredd like it should be.
January 16, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Dr. Detfink said ...

You know it, El Pollo ;)
January 16, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Michael Giustini said ...

Cyrus is so sure the music and plot of Smash are much better then Glee, even though I doubt he has ever seen more then a single episode of Glee. I watch both shows and can say that withought a shadow of a doubt, Glee is better on both fronts. The only things I really liked about Smash were Megan Hilty and Jack Davenport.
January 16, 2013 at 6:36 AM, said ...

Dredd was done filming when the Raid started filming... Dredd took longer to come out becous of the CG and junk. I did my reserch becoues I was cerious.
January 16, 2013 at 4:27 AM, said ...

My issue with Tim Burton is not that he keeps using the same style, but that his last several movies have been mediocre at best. He can keep to his signature style all he wants if he'd just start actually making good films.
January 16, 2013 at 3:40 AM, said ...

@Dr. Detfink - Ah, Bobby "The Brain'... master of the Greco-Roman hair-pull...
January 16, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Michael-Orian Bockus said ...

@G-man
Only two movies have been released since 'Alice'. Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie. Yes he has a signature style but I hardly see that has a negative. He applies his style to different genres (musical, drama, children's movie etc.). I do not see critics knocking the likes of Picasso or Monet for using the same technics in their work.
January 16, 2013 at 2:34 AM, said ...

@Michael-Orian

I would agree with you if it were before Alice in Wonderland. Everything after that I feel has been pretty mediocre. It;s just because he keeps reusing the same style and material over and over again.

Most of the movies Fungusmonkey mentioned, I actually enjoyed. And I know a lot of people used to love Tim Burton before Alice in Wonderland came around, but after that people began to drop off from his fan base and with good reason. With the exception of Planet of the Apes, the Burton movies before Alice I love if not like and I know that that's the case with most people.
January 16, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Michael-Orian Bockus said ...

And others feel differently

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