Episode 92: Empty Fili-ings

Welcome back dear listener!  Tis the season of slow news and our 2nd anniversary episode and you know what that means?  That's right, it's time for another Hobbit movie and a whole of lot bullshitery!  Really though it's kind of hard to believe we've already been at this for two years and it only seems right that our anniversary is heralded with the movie series that started it all. We want to just give a genuine and heartfelt thank you to everyone out there listening/reading.  We really appreciate all of your support and input, it makes us feel all fuzzy every time we get to meet or talk with you wonderfully geeky guys and gals.

Now with all of that merriment out of the way lets get to this weeks streaming review of Knights of Badassdom.  This movie is pure silly with a health dose of gore.  Seriously everyone dies in this damn movie.  Death aside, this was a wonderfully strange ride with a few notable actors and some pretty gruesome deaths.  If you had seen "Unicorn City," "Gamers: Dorkness Rising" or other LARP/Table Top RPG movies you kind of know what you are in for.  While this may not appeal to everyone both of us enjoyed it plenty enough to give it 3/5 on Netflix and would recommend it.

 

Our next and possibly last streaming review for this year is going to be In A World.  The movie centers around the daughter of a renowned movie announcer who is trying to make her mark in her fathers business.  Just say the movie title out loud in a dramatic way and you will know who her father is. Enjoy the trailer below and here's to hoping the movie is enjoyable. 

If you want to join us on our third (and possibly final) December movie of the month you can find this movie on Netflix. You can send us your reviews or your suggestions for our next streaming review via Facebook, Twitter or email us at Batandhammer@gmail.com

This episode we take a look back over this years Streaming/Theatrical reviews, discuss our favorite games we played this year and talk about The Review getting pulled.

Click here to listen to this weeks podcast in iTunes or Sticher.

We've also included the most recent episode via the embedded link below. 

Theatrical Movie Reviews for 2014:

• 47 Ronin
• Lego Movie (Hammer only)
• Robocop
• Non-stop
• Captain America 2
• Xmen: Days of Future Past
• Oldboy (Hammer only)
• Amazing Spider Man 2
• Godzilla
• Transformers 4
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Edge of Tomorrow (Hammer only)
• Hammer's pick for best Theatrical Movie of 2014
• Maleficent
• Lucy (Hammer only)
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• TMNT
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Tusk
• John Wick
• Bat's pick for best Theatrical Movie of 2014
• Interstellar
• Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies

Streaming Movie Reviews 2014:

• Karate Robo Zaborga 
• Human Centipede
• The Square
• Sexy Evil Genius
• The Stuff
• Assult on Wall Street
• Back in the Day
• Bat's pick for worst Streaming Movie of 201
• The Grey
• Pain and Gain
• The Purge
• The Family
• The Dirties
• Stuck in Love
• Last Days on Mars
• The Lifeguard
• Safety Not Guaranteed
• The Mighty
• Hammer's pick for best Streaming Movie of 2014
• Solomon Kane
• Mud
• American Psycho
• Quarantine 2: Terminal
• Blair Witch Project
• Hammer's pick for worst Streaming Movie of 2014
• Carrie
• Escape From Tomorrow
• Winner of SzG's "this one is so bad that it shouldn't be called a movie" award
• Grave Encounters
• Rush
• Bat's pick for best Streaming Movie of 2014
• Snowpiercer
• Knights of Badassdom

Favorite Video Game Played 2014:

• Bat             - Saints Row 4
• Hammer     - Gundam Dynasty Warriors: Reborn 

Here are the answers to last weeks Podquestion of where do you see the future of Star Wars going?  

Fanboy                      Please don't suck     

Bat                             Please don't suck

Hammer                    Having Jedi that use both dark and light sides of the Force

For next week's Podquestion, Bat asks you what movie from your past would you 'hack' to the point of it never getting released?  

We want to hear your answers so let us know via Facebook, Twitter or email us at Batandhammer@gmail.com

That is all for this week's Blogcast. Be sure to tune in next week. Same Hammer Time, same Bat Channel. 

-Hammer

Episode 91: the SzG Star Wars Holiday Special

Welcome back dear listener!  This episode we are joined by returning guests TK and Mando as we again skip out on the theatrical releases, we are waiting till next weekend to see the final Hobbit movie.  Instead we review this weeks Streaming Review of "Snowpiercer." The rest of our show this week is a round table discussion on Star Wars and where we see it going as well as delve into the past a bit.

There has been a lot said about this movie, some say it is a life changing movie while others say it is a train wreck (yup, we love puns).  I can say pretty confidently that while neither of us were really blown away by the movie we both enjoyed it enough to give it 3 stars.  There is surprisingly a lot happening on this train with some social commentary about class systems, ecological changes and humanity in general.  Not all of it is really heavy handed but it isn't subtle either.  The movie has a really strange feel to it that I find hard to describe besides that at times it can go from being really comical with the main character that Tilda Swinton plays to the admissions of what Chris Evans character did to survive in the beginning.  I would say that the movie is worth the one watch but try and keep your expectations in check as there isn't some life changing message here and the ending really falls flat.

Next week we have Knights of Badassdom as our next streaming review to give us a bit of silly in our lives.

If you want to join us on our second December movie of the month you can find this movie on Netflix. You can send us your reviews or your suggestions for our next streaming review via Facebook, Twitter or email us at Batandhammer@gmail.com

No Nerd News this week, just all Star Wars all the time! 

Click here to listen to this weeks podcast in iTunes or Sticher.

We've also included the most recent episode via the embedded link below. 

Here are the answers to last weeks Podquestion of what is your  favorite movie animal character?

     

Bat                             

Hammer                    Mortal Kombat  

Tristan                       New Hope

Charles                      Phontom Menace

Our next Podquestion comes from TK and he asks where do you see the future of Star Wars going?  

We want to hear your answers so let us know via Facebook, Twitter or email us at Batandhammer@gmail.com

That is all for this week's Blogcast. Be sure to tune in next week. Same Hammer Time, same Bat Channel. 

-Hammer

Episode 90: Nostalgica!

Welcome back friends, we hope you all had a nerdy and happy Thanksgiving.  No new theatrical release this week so we will instead rush onto our new Streaming Review...

"Rush."  We both originally planned to see this one in theaters but time just got away from us and luckily it came back onto our radar thanks to Bat's Heterolifemate.  

To start off, Ron Howard makes some pretty damn good movies.  And Rush is one of those movies.  The movie delivered on what the trailer proposed, a dramatic and well acted depiction of two race icons (who honestly I had never heard of before the movie).  Howard does a wonderful job of making us care for a sport and these drivers in a way I didn't think he could.  We both really enjoyed the movie and it really is gorgeously shot and well acted. If we were able to rate it on HBOgo we'd give this a solid 4 our of five.  If the trailer intrigues you at all I'd definitely recommend for you to watch it.

 


"Snowpiercer" is our next streaming review, care of our friend Tristan.  I don't know much about the movie besides the trailer and that Tristan called it "Cap on a train" so I''l leave you with the plot synopsis.
  Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a   lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class       system emerges.

If you want to join us on our first December movie of the month you can find this movie on Netflix. You can send us your reviews or your suggestions for our next streaming review via Facebook, Twitter or email us at Batandhammer@gmail.com

This weeks Nerd News includes: Suicide Squad Casting, Kristen Ritter cast as Jessica Jones, Cumberbatch cast as Doctor Strange and trailer reviews of Star Wars/Jurassic World/Terminator Genysis/Bond: Specter

Click here to listen to this weeks podcast in iTunes or Sticher.

We've also included the most recent episode via the embedded link below. 

This teaser trailer is the big boy of the lot.  Everyone is talking about this one and over all we thought it was alright, still waiting on a proper trailer to really grab us.  But with Bat's favorite moment being the X-wings flying low and mine split between the Millennium Falcon and Broadsword lightsaber I think it's fair to say we're going to be seeing this one.  It is Star Wars afterall.  Also here's the George Lucas edit Bat talked about, it is rather entertaining.



Next up is Jurassic World.  Man this trailer has Dinosaurs and a park... I'm sold.  Really though, you don't have to convince me any further.



3rd up is the new Terminator, and well... it's a Terminator movie.  And we will both be seeing this one, though we kinda hope they get rid of Arnie soon as we can only take so many "I'll be back"s as well as "Come with me if you want to live"s.


4th up is the new Bond, Spectre.  This really is more of a title announcement and casting reveal.  But it looks like they are using the newly reacquired rights to Spectre and I look forward to seeing where this final Craig movie goes.

Free Shit, Good Shit:

Sony has unveiled this months Playstation Plus free games

PS4:

Secret Ponchos
Injustice: Gods Among Us

PS3:

Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut
Hitman Trilogy

PSVita:

Final Horizon 
Titan Attacks!

Microsoft also showed us what XB Live's subscribers will be getting with this months Games for Gold.  

Xbox One:

Worms Battleground

Xbox 360:

The Raven

SSX

Here are the answers to last weeks Podquestion of what is your  favorite movie animal character?

     

Josh the White         Falcor - the Neverending Story

Bat                            Keiko  - Free Willy

Hammer                    White Fang - movie of the same name

Natalie                       Shadowfax  - Lord of the Rings

Tristan                       Hachi - Hachi: A Dog's Tale

Charles                      Maximus - Tangled

Mike                           Chewie - Star Wars

Our next Podquestion asks what movie from your past just doesn't hold up to nostalgia?  

We want to hear your answers so let us know via Facebook, Twitter or email us at Batandhammer@gmail.com

That is all for this week's Blogcast. Be sure to tune in next week. Same Hammer Time, same Bat Channel. 

-Hammer