Links of Joy!

No news is good news, they say. But what if the news is good? Does that make it bad just because it’s news? It seems a little unfair to the news. Speaking of news, what’s new (geddit?) at Sneaky Dragon this week? Video links! That’s what’s new. Ian and I had lots to talk about this week – especially when we went toe to toe, mano a mano and discussed our top 5 most overrated films.

But before we got to that, we opened the show by talking about things that make us cry. As it turns out, Ian and I are a couple of big babies, but Ian is the biggest. He even cries about monkeys. Everyone knows you laugh at monkeys. Because they smoke cigars.

Here is a little slideshow to really make you sad:

Sniff, sniff. *tear*

(Ian’s former bosses!)

Alton Brown shows us how to stop the tears:

Let’s give the last word to Chrissie Hynde. She likes that.

We talked about the great writer/director Alexander Payne:

Who, as you know, directed The Departed:

Great film! But we actually meant The Descendants (*blush*)

I haven’t seen this film yet so I couldn’t watch the trailer. Was it good???

Please don’t confuse Alexander Payne with Major Payne.

Or with Max Payne, for that matter.

Ugh! Please don’t mistake that for a movie!

During the show, Ian revealed the secret of the Harlem Globetrotters:

(The secret is: they were once badly animated!) Wait a minute, what was that song at the beginning? I thought their theme tune was Sweet Georgia Brown?

Things went a little downhill for the Harlem Globetrotters as the Seventies wore on…

Judging from this, everything went downhill as the Seventies wore on!

After the preliminaries, Ian and I got down to brass tacks and started to talk about our choices for Top 5 Most Overrated Movies.

Ian thinks this movie has a bad message for kids and thinks it’s a little too German – although the source material is Italian!

In my experience, lots of people insist on making jackasses of themselves, but that scene is pretty damn terrifying.

Ian thought that Superman: The Movie was silly and didn’t particularly care for any of it. He does like the actor Ned Beatty though:

Ian does not like the prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom. He thinks it’s too violent and was politically incorrect before the invention of the term.

It is odd to have a call back to a scene that hasn’t happened yet. It kind of spoils the goofy fun of him shooting the swordsman in Raiders if he’d tried it and failed before. Still, I enjoyed this movie as silly fun, which is what it was intended to be.

I am not a fan of Anchorman. I’m afraid I’m not a fan of humour that is a celebration of dumbness. I did enjoy this scene though:

Mostly because it has Luke Wilson. My man crush on Luke Wilson goes way back.

I wasn’t a big fan of The Blair Witch Project either. I found the way it was filmed killed any suspense the film tried to build. The climactic ending sequence went by so quickly I was actually relieved. Still, I think we all agree that the film should have had some kind of ending.

Blade Runner is based on one of my favourite author’s books, the oddly-titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. It’s too bad the stupid film turned the whole book upside-down. Making Dick’s sun-scorched, dying, empty world into an over-populated nightime world of garish neon and sci-noir. Ian says my hating the movie, but loving the book makes me a replicant. I say it makes me an over-emotional nerd.