Feb 17, 2012
Movie Meltdown - Episode 162
The gang is back! And this week we kick things off with a War
Horse battle straight from the trenches! (Watch out for the
barbed wire) Then we dive right into this week's Sofa
Theater feature - TiMER. Can this
slightly sci fi movie enlighten us on the futuristic ways of
finding your soulmate. Or will some of us have issues with the
science involved.. or lack thereof? What results is a great group
discussion. Plus we feature a One From the Vaults segment
from the star of the movie Emma Caulfield. Where
we hear her thoughts on the general themes addressed in the
film.
And somewhere amidst all this we also mention... foley
art,
Guy Maddin, peering in my neighbor’s window, Ibsen's “A Doll's
House,
theater of the mind, Vintage Thunderbird, Seinfeld, Bryan’s Misty
impression, Weekly Reader lies, Stranger Then Fiction, Apu
and his wife, Juno, lost your privileges, diminishing returns,
Manhattan,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Another Earth,
being rapturously in love with horses, Party Down, Tex Arvery’s
House of the Future, oh my god, that plot makes me want to smash
things!!, Brand Upon the Brain, making a romantic comedy about
monkeys, Up in the Air, freak accidents, Unbreakable, SpongeBob
SquarePants, people used to be spherical, I didn’t start dating
until I’d been married for five years, If you don’t feel something
is missing - there’s something wrong with you, it struck me that
the concept of love seemed to - not matter,
and only our show would find a way to thematically tie this film to
Power Rangers, The Simpsons and That’s so Raven.
Spoiler Alert: We
reveal the major plot points and the ending of this week's movie
TiMER. Oh yeah and we totally spoil Old Yeller
and The Mist along the way. So beware of those
moments...
"The central science fiction metaphor, is not a metaphor for
something in life, it’s a metaphor for something that exists in
romantic comedies.”