Texas Chainsaw 3D Review Podcast

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Episode 18 - Texas Chainsaw 3D

The Where And How Of Kickstarter

Josh tells you where your money would be going in great detail and how to use Kickstarter in case you are confused. Ask us questions in the comments and junk! Only 29 days left to make our dreams come true! Please share and help.

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Movie of the Week: The American Scream

Well, it's that time again. Time for me to do a movie of the week, and time for me to recommend another documentary on Netflix! This week, I decided to pick The American Scream. This film documents a few different people and the time and money they spend preparing their houses for Halloween. They turn their houses into haunted houses, sounds simple, right?! No, these people (especially their families) go through hell trying to do this.

It's quite interesting to see how much these people go through, just for their love of Halloween. There are quite a few interesting characters as well. I found myself hooked within the first few minutes, just in awe of what I was seeing. This also showed me that I will NEVER go through that much just for one day. That sounds like no fun, and I don't like doing things that aren't fun. These people are absolutely fucking crazy.

I'd check it out while it's streaming on Netflix, it's really worth a look. 4...FUCKING...STARS.

Seven Psychopaths Review

If you watch the trailer below first like I did, you probably won't want to watch this movie. It just does not sell the movie that well at all. Hell, I downloaded it for us to do a podcast review of it and none of us cared enough to watch it. I should have just looked at the cast and trusted at the very least Christopher Walken to entertain me. At the moment I'm broke and don't have netflix any more and most shows I watch have ended their seasons for the summer time so now I'm left with my thumb up my ass, bored out of my mind. I thought about reviewing a video game because that's all I've done aside from watch youtube videos. So today comes, and it's my day to review something, and I had no idea what to do. Finally I remembered that I have a backlog of movies saved that I haven't watched that were all potential Knight's reviews that fell through.

Star Trek Into Darkness Podcast Review

We went to go see the latest Star Trek movie in theaters. Does it boldly go where they haven't before? No. No they do not. Anyway, hear what we have to say about it! Also, donate to our Kickstarter please! We are stuck as $855. If we don't get $3000, we don't get any of that.

Episode 17 - Star Trek Into Darkness

The Goodwin Games Premiere Review

I saw a trailer for this a while ago and thought it looked cute. Yep, cute. And then this came out with different actors in it. Right off the bat, seeing T.J. Miller in this now, I knew I had to support it. I love that guy. Denver, YEAAAAH! Listen to "Doug Loves Movies," you'll get it. As well as it comes from the creators of How I Met Your Mother, and with that show ending soon they had to start something new. But will it be any good?

The story so far is, a father passes away and reunited his three children. Henry, Chloe, and Jimmy. They have become estranged over the years and the father wanted to change his children to be better people. So before he kicked the bucket, he made a crazy as shit will. Full of tapes, games, and puzzles that the three siblings must do in order to earn the $23 million inheritance. He wants them to play a game of Trivial Pursuit, but with custom cards and questions about the family. This is where they introduce the 4th player, someone they don't know who could also win all of the money. For a premiere, I enjoyed it. It kept me engaged and entertained. Some jokes fell flat and others were spot on. I enjoyed all the performances. I will be tuning in for the next one.

but...

I do not see this lasting. Number one, it is on Fox, nothing lasts long there. Good or bad. It's like my last few jobs, high turnover rate and being run by people so far out of touch with society that they're confused by logic and things that are different. Number two, the story. I felt that the show could have been resolved in the first episode. I believe this should have been a movie. Just a one shot and done. I don't see much else they can do or add to keep it fresh for long. Number three is the amount of episodes ordered. Fox gave this a half season order, only 7 instead of the usual 13. That is a rocky start out of the gate. So my prediction is to get in while you can before this is crushed by the Fox Machine. Get your enjoyment while you can.

TV Spectacular Review Podcast

Hey guy! So we are doing something special for you guys, we are reviewing television and streaming shows. There are a bunch we talk about and we do it rapid fire and we manage to do it all in under an hour! It's like magic. So tune in and listen and enjoy.

Episode 16 - TV Spectacular

The Office Series Finale Review/Series Retrospective

Well, tonight was the final episode of The Office...ever! So not only am I going to talk about the series finale, I'm going to talk about the show in general. The show had already gone on for 4 seasons before I finally watched an episode. I was bored hanging out with a friend, who convinced me to watch the first episode of The Office. I was pretty much hooked at that point, although the first season is one that I tend to not go back and watch much of. I enjoyed it for what it was, but there are only a couple episodes I actually still enjoy. The show didn't really hit it's groove and find its place until the second season.

You've obviously got the love story of Jim and Pam, which leads to one of, if not the best season finale of the entire series. When Jim finally confesses his love for Pam, with the reaction she gives him, it's absolutely heart breaking. I love season two so much. It has plenty of great Michael Scott moments, plenty of build up for the Jim and Pam relationship, and quite a lot of great moments featuring the rest of the office in general. It's really one of the best seasons of the show in my opinion.

Season three is another one of my favorite seasons. Jim has now left, leading to the introduction of Karen and Andy. Karen is now Jim's new love interest after being shot down by Pam, and Andy is a more annoying/more realistic Dwight at first. When the branches merge and Jim and Pam are reunited, it leads to plenty of awkward moments. It also ends up making you just root for them to finally get together, which finally happens at the end of the season. (FINALLY!)

Season four for me was the last "great" season. I feel like this is where the show peaked. Jim and Pam were both still funny, Michael was great, Dwight and Andy are awesome, and you get plenty of awesome Kevin moments. Who doesn't love a good Kevin moment? He fucking rules. Seriously. Kevin is the best. His Kool-Aid man face is priceless. This is the season more so than any other that I'll put on when I'm going to sleep and watch. I just love it so much. This show has just been one of my favorite shows ever.

Season five had it's moments for me. The stress relief episode was great, as was the weight loss episode. But it just felt like there were too many "meh" episodes, and not enough good ones. That's where the show continues to go down hill for me. I'll pretty much wrap it up by saying that seasons 6-8 for me felt really lack luster. Robert California was awful, Nelly sucked for quite a while, Will Ferrell being absolutely unlikable and unfunny, Jim and Pam becoming the most boring couple ever, Andy and Erin trying to be the replacement for those two and failing....I could go on and on. I felt like this show should have ended after season 6, but they obviously had plans to continue on, so we were left dealing with a few lack luster seasons.

Season 9 for me ended up being a pretty good, not great season. For me, a major flaw has been the later seasons going 20+ episodes. It ends up giving you way too many filler episodes, and not enough good episodes that left an impact. However, the last couple of episodes were so damn great. They left you pretty much wanting to cry. I've been saying for the past few years how this show has over stayed its welcome, and how I wanted it to end. But now that it actually is over, I really don't want it to be.

The last episode takes place a year after the documentary was done filming. It's time for Dwight and Angela's wedding, so the episode focuses on Jim giving Dwight surprise bachelor presents. You end up seeing Dwight using a bazooka...seriously. So fucking awesome. This episode gives you quite a few heart warming moments, that if you weren't such a man you would be crying like a God damn baby. But I'm a man, so I didn't cry...I held back the tears. It was really great seeing former cast members come back for this episode. Kelly, Ryan, Carol, and...

MICHAEL FUCKING GOD DAMN SHIT ASS FUCKING DAMN SHIT SCOTT CAME BACK! I mean, you knew he had to. It really just wouldn't have made much sense or had nearly the impact without him. Jim and Dwight's reactions to seeing him were so priceless. A person who feels actual human emotions would have been crying so hard at this point. Michael doesn't say too much in this episode, but it was so great to see him back. The show basically wraps up with Jim and Pam making plans for their new life, and everyone recalling their time on the documentary. It was such a beautiful way to end such a great show.

I feel like they couldn't have done any more to wrap this show up. This finale made up for this show going on entirely too long, at least for me. I'm truly going to miss not being able to see new episodes of this show anymore, but damn did it leave with a bang. This will be one that I'll keep on the DVR and watch quite a few times over the next few years. Thanks a bunch to The Office for all of the great memories!

Movie of the Week: Superman Unbound

It's a fact that I like cartoons. Animated features are always cool to check out, and Netflix has a bunch so you can always go there. But over the past few years, DC Comics and Warner Brothers have been putting out some great straight to dvd movies. They offer more than the live action market which is just Batman, Green Lantern, and soon the new Superman movie. Most of these animated movies are retellings of popular trades released some time ago. Like the Batman: Year One series or several other Superman stories.

What I like about these is that you can just jump right in. No bullshit explaining who Superman is or what he can do. They expect you to know that by now, and no, not every straight to dvd movie is a sequel to the last. So you don't have to have seen that one. They are much like an animated tv show, only in a 90 minute chunk.

Superman Unbound is based on the Superman: Brainiac story. It brings in Supergirl, the city of Kandor, and of course the villain Brainiac. While the trailer below is a bit silly, what with the "Welcome to Erf" line, it is an over all enjoyable experience. So if you enjoy DC Comics, or their movies, or even watched their cartoons as a kid, you'll like Superman Unbound! Go rent it, or wait for it to eventually come on Netflix.

Monday Review: How I Met Your Mother Season 8 Finale

So, I'm gonna do something a little different here than I've done before.  This is a review for a single episode of TV. Specifically, I'm doing the episode "Something New" which is this years season finale of How I Met Your Mother. Ordinarily I discuss a movie or an entire series, but I have my reasons for doing this one so bear with me.  I'll also be partially discussing this season as a whole, but mostly the focus shouldn't stray too far away...or maybe it will.  I'm not a very good writer.  (Blow me)  I'm warning you now, this review will be full of spoilers so if you haven't seen this episode, I wouldn't read any further...I mean why would you?  Maybe you're that guy that wants to ruin things for other people.  I don't know.  Well, I'm not typically that guy so, there ya go.  Consider yourself warned.

This episode was originally supposed to be the series finale. However I guess half way through this season, a couple of the actors renewed their contracts, so now we have to drag this shit out over one more season.  Now don't get me wrong.  I love this show.  It's easily my favorite sit-com, and for good reason.  It's well cast, well written, entertaining, and for the most part really consistent.  But they've been at this for 8 seasons now and everybody just wants to find out who the mother is so we can move on with our lives for fuck's sake!  Even a lot of this entire season felt like they were just wasting time, so I'm really worried that this next season is going to blow...but I'm getting ahead of myself here.

It's now been established that Ted meets the titular mother at Barney and Robin's wedding, or rather, at a train station afterwards.  This entire season has been building up to that moment.  Hell, Barney and Robin's wedding is to take place on May 25th of 2013...Everything was set for that to be the season finale...cause it's May and shit right now!  Buuuut no.  They have pretty much left this story as close to a cliffhanger that a sit-com can really even have, and it's frustrating.  This entire episode was a big cock tease with a bunch of set ups with no pay off.  Now this would be absolutely fine if next week we get the season finale...but dammit, this was the season finale!  So basically they are going to take what could have been accomplished in one more episode next week, and instead, stretch it out over an entire season.  What is this next season even gonna be?!  I guarantee you that the season 9 premiere will be what the season 8 finale should have been...he meets the mother.  But what are they gonna do with the rest of the year?  Is he gonna be trying to get her to fall in love with him?  Is it going to be an echo of season 1, but instead of trying to bang Robin, it's this new girl?  It's a good thought I suppose, but it is not the show I signed up for, neither is it even in keeping with the title of the show!  Okay, I'm gonna take a breath here real quick.  This shit's affecting my blood pressure...Anyway, on to what the episode actually was instead of what it wasn't, or should have been, or whatever.

So, this episode was set up to be the second part of last week's episode, except it wasn't.  As I mentioned earlier, this episode is called "Something New."  Last week's was called "Something Old."  Get it?  'Cause wedding stuff?  This is also a nod to the season 2 finale two-parter which was "Something Borrowed" and "Something Blue."  Those episodes were about Lily and Marshall's wedding...makes sense.  But these episodes weren't really about a wedding.  Should have been...wasn't. (sigh)  In the previous episode Robin goes digging in Central Park for a locket she buried there when she was a teenager;  a locket that she had always planned to have as her "something old" at her wedding...even though Robin has said time and time again in earlier seasons that she never really planned on getting married.  Nice backtracking guys!  So, after digging all day, she finally finds the box.  Meanwhile, Ted has shown up cause Ted always shows up to help Robin with ...whatever, cause that's kind of his thing.  They open the box and it's empty.  Robin starts talking about how the universe is telling her not to get married.  She's having second thoughts, and it starts raining, and she and Ted hold hands.  Essentially they are bringing up that there is still feelings between these two that have not been fully been dealt with.  They've done this too many times now and it's becoming irritating, but that's where that episode ends. The finale then opens up with Barney and Robin together and everything is fine.  I guess that freakout of her's was only there to make us feel bad for Ted, cause we then learn that Ted is moving to Chicago because he still loves Robin and he doesn't think he can handle living around her anymore cause she'll be married to Barney.  Ted reveals this plan to Lily after telling her all about what happened in Central Park.  This is when Lily sheds some light on the whole locket thing.  Apparently right around season 4, just before Ted was gonna marry Stella (I seriously hope you guys have watched the whole series cause I don't feel like explaining myself), Robin gets drunk, cries, talks about how Ted should be marrying her instead of Stella (facepalm) and goes out in Central Park and digs up the locket.  Lily puts it in a pencil box and it gets left at the apartment.  Sooo, it turns out that the locket has been in Ted's possession the entire time. (fanfare)  It sounds like they are setting up for another huge Ted and Robin gesture/relationship trope, even though we all know by now that's impossible...we've known since the first episode.  So what are you doing!?  (UGH!!) But then Ted says he's going to give it to her as a wedding present...ok? But even Lily is like, "be careful Ted (you fucking idiot!)" ...that last part was subtextual.  

Meanwhile, Marshall has forgotten to tell his mother that he's moving to Italy for a year, so he has to go to Minnesota.  It was more filler kind of crap that didn't have much to do with the important Ted stuff of the episode.  He just kept getting tricked by his brother and making excuses for his crazy mom over the phone with Lily.  Something that did bother me though was that they kept switching back and forth between saying they were moving to Rome, and moving to Italy.  Now I know Rome is in Italy so technically both are true. (yeah ya ass!)  It's just they way they did it.  For instance, Lily let's it slip to Marshall's mom that they are moving the "Italy."  Marshall then gets on the phone and his mom is immediately like, "You're moving to Rome?!?!"...and then they keep saying Rome for a while, and then they switch back.  It's like during a redraft of the script they changed a few lines, but forgot to change the rest.  I dunno, it just really stood out to me.  Also, Marshall gets a phone call saying that there is an opening for him to be a judge in New York, so now he's gotta make a choice between his career and Lily's...more shit that doesn't get resolved til, you guessed it, next season. (foghorn)

Anyway the rest of the episode is peppered with Barney and Robin at a restaurant messing with another douchey couple and basically just being perfect for each other and stuff...so again, what was with all that, "I'm not sure if Barney is ready for this!" shit from the last episode?  Meh!

Finally at the very end of the episode we see the "girl with the yellow umbrella" which we all know to be who Ted ends up with.  Like always, we see her boots and the umbrella and stuff, but then something different happens.  The camera pans up and we actually see her face.  The mother has been cast, and we got to see her!  Yaaaay!... It's still bullshit that should have been resolved next week and not next season.  I say again...cock tease.  If you cut out all the peripheral crap that this season has been full of, and just focused on the main story, then we could have had this stuff wrapped up.  Oh well, I've come this far I guess.  I'm not gonna bail on the show now that we're so close...

Iron Man 3 Review Podcast Part 2

Alright, here is part 2 of our Iron Man 3 review. Sorry for the delay, I was celebrating Mother's Day and couldn't find the time to finish editing this beast. Now that we are done reviewing it, did you agree? Did we miss something? Comment Below! Also, KICKSTARTER!

Episode 14.5 - Iron Man 3, part 2

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Iron Man 3 Review Podcast Part 1

This is a big one folks! The start off the Summer Movie season, for us anyway. Thanks to the Gonya family for paying our way in (You should check out our Kickstarter, we're poor), we got to see Iron Man 3 in theaters! So sit back and listen to us as we spoil the whole thing. It's best if you seen the movie as well. Comment below if you agree with us or if you disagree.

Episode 14 - Iron Man 3, part 1

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Reviewing the Trailers

Hey gang, thought I'd toss this up as I'm editing our large Iron Man 3 review. Join as we talk about these Trailers! All posted below is you can check them out too, and these are the most recent trailers too, so you may see something new. Do you agree with our point of view? Are you excited for these? Give a listen to our short mini talk about the trailers we saw before Iron Man 3.

Trailers Mini Episode

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Movie of the Week: The Imposter

So it's my time to do a movie of the week again, so I've obviously found another awesome documentary for you to check out! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! This has kind of become my thing, and I'm okay with that. This is a pretty strange story that I had never even heard of, but I stumbled upon this while browsing Netflix and was pretty blown away.

Without spoiling too much, a kid went missing, a guy pretends that he's a kid so the cops will take him to a shelter, and later uses the missing kids identity so he doesn't get caught. As fucked up as all of that sounds, it only gets stranger and more confusing. I was hooked into this story after about the first five minutes. I really can't say much more than I have without spoiling it (Why would you want to watch a documentary that was totally spoiled for you, idiot?!) So I'm not going to say too much more about it.

You should check this one out, as it is on Netflix's instant queue. It's an extremely strange story, emotional, and overall just an awesome documentary. WATCH IT! Seriously, what are you waiting for? Oh, you're still here? Go to your Netflix enabled device and watch this...right now. Do it. DO IT!!

Doctor Who - "The Crimson Horror" Review

Doctor Who is my Jam. I love this show. Which usually puts me in these blinders and a bias about it in general. But something started to form last season. Something I couldn't talk about because Whovians would  throw a shit fit. Well, here we go. I do not like how Steven Moffat writes. Blasphemy, I know. It's like he doesn't know who to follow in the show. Episodes where the Doctor has been away for 100 years, or that Amy and Rory have been gone 5 years are maddening. Remember when Russell T Davis was the lead writer and the stories would connect? You always saw where the Doctor was next. He would step into the Tardis and the adventure would continue from there. Not years later. As well as, Moffat write as if the last 50 years of Doctor Who didn't happen, and ignores everything in the past... eh, that's a cheap shot, because he does make little nods. Ok, so he brought River Song with, but her story is weak as hell. I felt we should have had at least one god damned episode where she was the companion. Another thing about that episode, Spoilers Ahead!

Silver Linings Playbook Review Podcast

"After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own." - IMDB.

Silver Linings Playbook stars Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, and the return of Chris Tucker. This won some awards, got nominated for others, and was received pretty well. I just came out on DVD so you should pick it up and check it out. Tune in on this Sound Board filled episode and see what the guys had to say.

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Movie of the Week: The Watch

"Four men who start a neighborhood watch group as a way to get out of they day-to-day family routines find themselves defending the earth from an alien invasion." IMDb

I'll be honest.  I'd never heard of this movie before.  I don't recall seeing any trailers or advertisements for it, and I'm really not even sure when it came out.  I'm sure a cursory look at IMDb would tell me, but who has that kind of time?  I do, but I don't really care.  So, with all that being said, when I stumbled upon this movie while scrolling through my OnDemand menu, I didn't really know what to expect.  I just saw the cast and figured, why not?  Could be funny.  I was mostly right.

So, I really feel like the filmmakers here didn't really care too much about what the story was gonna be.  I think they just wanted any vehicle to put these four guys in a room and have them riff about whatever for 90 minutes.  I guess the dart landed on aliens.  Anyway, the basic premise is as follows:  Ben Stiller is the manager at a Costco.  One night, one of his security guards is violently murder-splattered all over the store, and the cops don't seem to be doing much about it.  So, he decides to start a neighborhood watch to try and prevent stuff like this from happening.  He puts up flyers, and along come Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and that guy from The IT Crowd, who all join up as pretty much a means of hanging out, drinking, and tearin' shit up. Along the way, a pretty weakly thought out alien takeover plot starts to form.  Basically they figure out that the security guard was killed by aliens, and they took his skin and are hiding among us in plain sight...we better do something about this! Meh, whatever.  As I said before, I don't think they really cared what the story was about.

You can definitely pinpoint the scenes where Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill are just making shit up, as if they pretty much just hit record and said, "fuck it, say whatever you guys want!  I'm sure there will be 20 minutes here and there that will be funny!"  I notice this kind of thing now when it comes to these guys, especially with Jonah Hill.  I didn't mind it so much in movies like Knocked Up, but now he does it in pretty much everything he is in and it becomes obvious and borderline annoying.  How about we make a movie with a script?  I dunno, just a thought.

One other thing that bothered me is that early in the movie, before the security guard gets his skin ripped off, they make a point of showing you that he just got a brand new tattoo.  So, I immediately think that it will later be a decent reveal of someone being an alien...cause, ya know, the alien who's wearing the guys' skin will have that same tattoo, probably somewhere weird or upside down or whatever.  It was a clear set up with an easy payoff.  It never happened.  It's like they were gonna do it, and just forgot about it, or it got left out or something.  I guess it doesn't really matter, but it was something that stuck out to me as a misstep.

That really all I have to say about this movie.  It isn't much, but then I wasn't expecting much.  It made me laugh a few times.  There were some boobs in it at one point.  There was some silly Weekend at Bernie's-esque-alien-corpse-prop-comedy somewhere in there.  They accidentally blew up a cow, which was amusing...what else do you want from these guys really?  This was clearly just a nice paycheck for these guys, and they probably had a lot of fun making it and dickin' around with each other.  Good for them.  So if you like these actors and the line-o-rama kind of dialog they are known for, then by all means, watch the movie.  It will at least keep you occupied while you eat a couple of sandwiches and update your facebook every few minutes.