Episode 207: In and Out

Hello and welcome to our back on track week in geek.  This week is going to be a quick one as we didn't hit the theaters and the Revenant was pulled from HBOgo before we could watch it.  We talk over some news and answer this week's question of scared the shit out of you as a kid for this week's podquestion.

This week's Streaming Review is another Netflix original, Little Evil.  Watch it on Netflix with us and we will be back next week to talk it over.

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

-Hammer

Episode 206: Holy shIT

Hello and welcome to our back on track week in geek.  We hit the theaters for the horror remake of IT and bring you a spoiler free as well as a spoiler filled review.  We also talk about this weeks nerd news, our podquestion and our streaming review of Butter.

For this week's suggestion we watched the fan suggestion of Butter.  This is an odd duck of a movie.  There are a ton of notable actors and actresses in here but the movie itself is ... strange.  The heartfelt story of a orphan girl bouncing from home to home finally finding a family and a purpose, which happens to be butter carving.  She squares off against a horrible controlling housewife in a nonsensical competition.  We both find it hard to recommend this one as it has some funny parts but on the whole it might have been a little too strange for our tastes... perhaps we would enjoy a an unsalted version more?

 

This week's Streaming Review is another movie that we missed in the theaters The Revenant.  This intense Oscar fuel for DiCaprio will be an interesting ride.  If you want to join in on this one you can watch along on HBOgo.

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Below you will find this week's most recent podcast.  But fear not, you can click these links to listen to this and past week's podcast in iTunes or Sticher.  We also have the past 2-3 episodes available on SoundCloud.

In the spirit IT we ask what scared the shit out of you as a kid for this week's podquestion.

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

-Hammer

Episode 205: Death Nope

Hello and welcome to back to our back on track week in geek.  With the slow news week and the end of summer we thought this was the perfect time to do our summer movie round up.  This is the time where we take a look back at the summer slate of movies and pick our tops and bottoms and discuss the rest.  We also dish out a little free shit good shit with the PlayStation plus games for this month as well as this week's streaming review.

For this week's suggestion we watched the Netflix remake of Death Note. This was a movie that we both approached with a bit of apprehension due to the negative internet feedback. Bat, with no knowledge of the source material, and myself, avid lover of the anime and the Japanese live action movies. The best parts of the movie were easily the casting of L and Ryuk. The person cast as L did a wonderful job of playing the Sherlock Holmes-esque character and William DaFoe is easily the best version of Ryuk that we probably will ever see. That's where the good stuff ends unfortunately. L's character completely breaks in the third act and goes against everything that was set up in Acts 1 and 2. DaFoe unfortunately is more of a cameo than anything and while his scenes are extremely enjoyable they are usually brief. Light, the other main character, was completely hollow and a shadow of the original source material. You need only look up the scene comparisons between anime movie of Light's first introduction to Ryuk to realize that they completely missed the point. Whereas the original source material had Light be a narcissistic sociopath who imagined a better world through killing of the evil or wicked the movie on the other hand portrayed him as a little kid with a gun who was more concerned with impressing a girl than he was with his own well-being. Overall, neither of us can recommend this movie to any fans of the anime and would strongly advise people who have never heard of the show before to avoid this and instead watch the anime which is on Netflix as well.



This week's Streaming Review is a recomendation from Bugs (of our awesome listeners) Butter.  We have no clue what this movie is or why we want to spread it over toast, but we will be back next week to give you our spoiler filled review.  You can watch this one on Netflix.  

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

-Hammer