The Movie Blog Uncut Podcast - August 3rd 2009

John Campea 25 Comments

Hey guys. Welcome to the newest installment of The Movie Blog Uncut Podcast. On today’s show I’m joined once again by Soul Video, and along with us comes Chuck Norris and Christina Warren (contributor at Flickcast and her own popular blog).

Today we talk about a bunch of stuff including:

1) Are people too stupid to get smart movies?

2) Lindsay Lohan joining Machete a good or bad thing?

3) Rob Marshall directing Pirates of the Caribbean 4

4) True Lies 2 actually happening?

5) Funny People

6) The Collector

All this and a few things more.

You can listen to or download this episode of the podcast here.

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  • bret

    your rss feed for this never works. no matter how many times i subscribe over the course of 8 months.

  • http://probitionateinsitu.blogspot.com/ probitionate

    John;

    1) I’ll be very curious to see if you go back to what you’ve said in this podcast, when your film comes out.

    2) Regarding Chuck’s comments about ‘Synecdoche, New York’… I hadn’t seen the film, but I took a look at the discussions online, and maybe this is a great example of how ‘pretension’ on the part of the filmmaker slips into the discussion, and becomes a far greater factor than the question of the audience not being ‘smart’ enough to appreciate a particular offering. (Having said that, I stand by my comment about general intelligence being much lower than a benevolent society would like to believe.)

  • AARON

    Breaking News: True Lies 2 not happening
    http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0911251/

  • http://probitionateinsitu.blogspot.com/ probitionate

    Not only are (many) people too stupid to get smart movies…

    …but many (reasonably) smart people just can’t understand that what they ‘like’ is, in fact, crap. *Stupid* crap.

    I find the latter a much harder topic to have a discussion about.

    The truth is that people by-and-large are much, much less intelligent that we want to believe them to be. One only has to visit message boards for proof.

  • Sound Designer Dan

    One more thing, did anyone see these bootleg “Kick-Ass” clips: http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/4-clips-from-the-movie-kick-ass-that-well…-kick-ass…-ahem/

  • Sound Designer Dan

    I think stupid is the wrong word to describe most audiences. I think the more appropriate word would be lazy. Why do most people shy away from remakes? It’s not because they’re stupid, it’s because they’re lazy. People want films like Transformers 2 because they expect their summer films to be like junk food.

    Another thing is that what is the definition of a “smart” film?

    • http://www.thinkmcflythink.com/ Phil Gee

      And I would completely 100% agree with Dan. You can draw comparison between cinema and fast food in that regard meaning that people will only pick something where they know what to expect and know what it’ll taste like. People are too scared to try new stuff I guess. But I don’t think we should accuse said people of having a lesser intelligence because of that.

      And what’s wrong with the Pirates of the Carribean ride Christina?

      Thanks for the show guys.

  • methos

    There might actually be some truth to what Tom Arnold is claiming. During a SDCC interview someone asked James Cameron how he feels about a “True Lies” sequel. He stated that he’s open to the possibility, but only if Schwarzenegger returns. Then again, maybe Arnold read/heard Cameron’s response and made up the rest. After all, he’s been saying a sequel has been in the works for years! lol

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