Hubbi, Snubbeakers! Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends…the way we’d like it to – neatly with a pithy joke. This week on the Dragon (that’s my new, cool shorter way to say the show’s name): IT’S HOT (Holy cow, it’s hot); it’s Teen Wold again, but is there much more to say; Dave tells it like it is about werewolves; Ian tells Dave’s wife she’s wrong; Terminator 5 – you have been warned; SPOILERS!!!; Dave watched Fast and Furious – the article-free version; Ian remembers watching movies and has some eating tips; Ian pimps Netflix…again (and they’re not even sponsoring the damn show); Dave should watch smart shows; Ian is right about Existenz; Dave watched Annabelle and has as much to say about it as Annabelle; and, finally, Dave melts into a pool.
Thanks for listening.
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You might be forgetting Dark City, which is a great movie with near identical setup to The Matrix, but, no pun intended, darker
Yes, I also wanted to mention the excellent Dark City (1998) which was actually released before The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor and eXistenZ (all 1999). I’d say it was the rise of video game technology that inspired that wave of virtual-reality-or-is-it? sci-fi flicks. Like how the latest interactive computer and robotics technology is inspiring all these A.I./”can we make robots that can think and feel?” films and TV shows. (Last week, I found myself asking a rather artificial-sounding voice calling from a bank, “Are you real?” Then a real guy — or so he claimed — jumped in and said I was talking to a real person, but he was using “it” for “quality control” — I assume he meant using prerecorded questions and responses until the customer indicated they were willing to talk.)
I tend to agree with Dave about werewolves in film or TV looking a bit disappointing once you actually see them. This is the werewolf transformation I like: it’s the full moon, uh oh!…human actor…agony agony agony…a few quick edits of CGI or make-up FX of nails and hair growing, muscles rearranging, eyes glowing, etc. Then cut to scariest wolfiest live-action dog you can find slinking out of the shadows, baring its teeth and going for the throat of that character who was ASKING FOR IT. I don’t like that half-man half-beast version…SPOILER…except in the TV show “Penny Dreadful” which draws on Victorian literary references and folk tales so it makes creative sense that it’s an old-timey-style wolf man.
Oh, a great werewolf novel that I picked up this year is British author Glen Duncan’s “The Last Werewolf” which is the first in a trilogy. It’s a witty violent first person narrative of a wealthy but world-weary modern-day werewolf who is being, er, hounded, by a secret cadre. It’s sort of like if Ian Fleming wrote a novel about a werewolf.
I really enjoyed Dark City and wriote a parody of it for an upcoming Futurama comic.
Hi Guys..
You’re sneaky dragon button and a link to your page was featured on my blog again this week…I used the button Dave sent me as a marker on a shawl I’m knitting and there’s a picture of it and the link…I think I’m going to use the ‘I Blame Dave’ button for next week’s marker so you’ll get another shout out next week too…
Anyway I haven’t had a chance to listen to 187 yet but hope to get to it tomorrow afternoon..
Hope your both well…
All the Best
Jenn
Hey so a while back Ian suggested I write to the guy who did that Dance to Death Podcast and ask if he was going to put up Part 2 of his interview with Dave. Anyways, he just got back to me, said he completely forgot about it, and will post it right away. So, I look forward to finally hearing that.
Ken
As do I. Thank you.