HooperCast Episode 24

Ello, Govnah!

Sorry, just noticing how many Brits are in this movie.

Dustin and I bring you our very informed (if I do say so myself) review of "The Dark Knight Rises"

No drinking game this week. I forgot to think of a word and I've already listened to this thing all the way through twice. I've got a lot of stuff I gotta do. 

You guys should make your OWN drinking game this week!

ENJOY!

 

0:05 - Intro
0:57 - We begin our spoiler-free discussion of "The Dark Knight Rises" with the film's setting
4:26 - We discuss Christopher Nolan and his talents in these movies.
5:30 - Issues with Bane's voice dub
7:30 - We talk about visuals and effects, briefly
8:04 - Performances by the returning cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman
11:55 - Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate
13:15 - Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle
19:10 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake
23:45 - Tom Hardy as Bane

27:00 - We enter spoiler territory with my new spoiler territory song
27:45 - I look at these movies as three acts of a nine-hour story
29:55 - "Where do you rank this film with the other films?"
37:57 - "How well do you think they handled Talia al Ghul?
43:18 - Bruce and Alfred
45:00 - We talk about two choices Alfred makes and if we agreed with those choices or not
48:04 - We talk about how Selina Kyle figures in to the bigger story
51:00 - Bane as a villain
54:10 - The pacing of the film and deleted scenes
58:30 - We discuss the last 5 minutes of the film, what it means for the characters, and if we like it or not. Then we talk more about the movie as a whole and little things here and there.
1:15:50 - More about the trilogy and how each film is its own, and unique.
1:18:00 - We finish up our review and comment about how hard it is to make a positive review of a film entertaining.
1:18:45 - Goodbye

HooperCast Episode 23

Hello everyone!

Sam and Dustin join me for an in-depth

dissection of The Amazing Spider-Man!

We delve deeply into the characters, the script, and the future of this franchise.

Super informative, funny, and entertaining!

This is very much our very best episode

DRINKING GAME FOR THIS EPISODE IS EVERY TIME WE MENTION SAM RAIMI

0:00 - Best intro ever.
1:00 - Sam and I briefly summarize our horrible audience for "The Amazing Spider-Man", and some other random stuff
5:48 - We begin the spoiler-free section of our in-depth review of "The Amazing Spider-Man"
6:14 - We begin with the character of Peter Parker
18:35 - Gwen Stacy/Emma Stone
21:32 - Rhys Ifans/Doctor Connors/The Lizard (and the plotholes involving him)
32:18 - The chemistry between Peter, Uncle Ben, and Aunt May
40:27 - The relationship between Peter Parker and Flash Thompson
43:29 - The relationship between Peter and Gwen
47:37 - More about Peter Parker
51:27 - SPOILER SECTION BEGINS/ WE talk about the script issues and direction flaws of the film
1:28:19 - The action
1:32:06 - The web shooters
1:35:23 - The end/The Lizard is suddenly sane
1:37:50 - Peter's relationship with Doctor Connors/ Doctor Connors' arm
1:41:50 - J. Jonah Jameson, The Daily Bugle
1:42:30 - Norman Osborn/the scene during the credits/Rajit Ratha/Peter's parents
1:46:36 - Kurtzman and Orci are writing the sequel
1:49:40 - Richard Parker and OSCORP
1:51:17 - The villains in the sequels
2:00:07 - Overall opinions on the film
2:07:52 - The music
2:12:26 - Goodbye

HooperCast Episode 22

0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Sam and I discuss "Ted", or rather, we begin to discuss "Ted", as well as Seth McFarlane.
2:32 - John calls and joins our discussion, steering it into a discussion about other things, such as "Brave", "Prometheus", "Amazing Spider-Man" expectations, why the franchise was rebooted, the appeal of Emma Stone, "The Watch", and the effect of 9/11 on movies coming out in theaters at the time.
16:54 - We say goodbye to John
17:23 - Sam and I continue talking about "Ted"
21:00 - We focus more on Seth McFarlane
24:23 - We discuss "21 Jump Street" and end up comparing it to "Ted" a little bit. But we discuss the story, and the chemistry between Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.
29:30 - Why I almost never am excited about comedies these days and why "21 Jump Street" succeeded for me and why "The Hangover: Part II" failed.
33:00 - The social significance of "21 Jump Street"
42:16 - Sam goes on a heated rant about Stephanie Meyer and Twilight
44:14 - Marvel will be releasing a 10 - disc set for the Avengers movies
45:04 - We discuss Aaron Sorkin and why some people don't like his stuff.
47:09 - Apparently Tyler Perry is disappointed in "Prometheus". Sam and I engage in a LONG, but GREAT discussion of Tyler Perry and why television shows are better than movies these days.
1:00:46 - We read along with a "Ted" review on Slashfilm
1:04:52 - Kevin James doing MMA in a movie?
1:05:46 - The fact that both me and my wonderful fiance absolutely hate Jack Black.
1:07:42 - We talk about the fact that being on a date during a good movie will distract you from how good the movie is. My first time seeing "Walk The Line" was on a date and because I was preoccupied, I thought the movie sucked. The movie was nominated for multiple Oscars and it turns out the movie is awesome, I just should have been paying attention.
1:12:00 - I show Sam a YouTube video called "Ticklish Cage". check it out.http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/67fcba8825/ticklish-cage
1:16:35 - Goodbye

HooperCast Episode 21

Back again and this time we are joined

by John Haden to talk about film news and amusement park stuff too!

Enjoy!

 Oh yes, and there is potty mouthing here as well.

Oh and also, this is the beginning of a new segment called

The HooperCast Drinking Game.

This episode, the secret word is "yo", so drink every time you hear it.

0:00 - We struggle to get started

2:40 - Intro

6:34 - No one has seen HBO's "Newsroom"

7:00 - Avatar land in Disney World

7:42 - No one is interested in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"

8:05 - Dustin and I learn what an AMC stub card is

9:30 - What we each think about the concept of a fourth "Transformers" film.

13:20 - "Taken 2" trailer

14:28 - How much fun the Nintendo 64 GoldenEye game is

15:50 - Apparently there is going to be a "Jurassic Park 4"

16:12 - Our favorite movie so far this year

16:39 - The birth of the HooperCast Drinking Game

17:17 - "Wreck-It Ralph" trailer

18:31 - Are we excited for "Man of Steel"? And how awesome Michael Shannon is.

20:35 - John met a celebrity at the Blue Man Group show.

22:16 - Should there be a "Breaking Bad" movie?

24:14 - Michael Bay's "Ninja Turtles" movie has been put on hold. And John points out that nearly every big movie this summer so far, besides "The Avengers" has financially underperformed.

25:22 - Dustin and John defend "John Carter" and discuss Taylor Kitsch's acting abilities

28:26 - I am annoyed by John Leguizamo and John points out that most animated movies these days look terrible

29:30 - We all offer our opinions on if Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" will be good, like half of his movies, or self-serving crap, like half of his movies.

32:00 - Disney wants to bring Marvel characters to Disnleyland

33:58 - At this point, none of us had seen "The Amazing Spider-man", so we talk about how we're only half-excited for it

38:05 - Other celebrities John has seen at Blue Man Group, and we discuss Larry the Cable Guy

40:13 - We have ZERO interest in seeing "The Hangover: Part 3"

40:54 - Are they going to make a Justice League movie, now that "The Avengers" has been such a success?

41:43 - We say goodbye for now