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Damn The Gods

Posted on December 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

In reference to Joe’s earlier post at http://www.deathbymovies.com/2011/12/22/sequels/

Steve: Wow. You really have a lot of bitterness about Greek myths.
Were you forced to read the Illiad when you were six or something?

Joe: Am I wrong?
Are there warm and cuddly Greek myths not retold by Disney?

Steve: Um…
That’s like… being right and wrong at the same time
Obviously Greek myths are really dark. Most mythologies are.
But… like… are you okay?

Joe: What?

Steve: You seem personally offended by it.
Like Greek myth raped your mom or something.
Wait… are you a demigod?

Joe: I am Zoul

Steve: The minion of Gozer?

Joe: You’re the minion.

Steve: Your mom’s a minion.
Minion of Jesus.

Steve: Also, I’m going to adjust your extremely venomous post so that terrible trailer is embedded instead of linked.
Did you see the first Clash of the Titans?

Joe: Yes.

Steve: Were you with me?
That movie was BAAAAADDDDDDD.
But the kind of bad that I sometimes like to watch just to make fun of it.

Joe: I saw it at the Grove with friends.
not with me
you

Steve: …
Did you just get me confused with yourself?

Joe: Kinda.

Steve: Dammit. We all knew this day would come. I’d better grow my beard out again.

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Monster Epics

Posted on December 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

This conversation relates to our new project, DeathByMovies.com

Steve: So Joe.
I think we should have a goal.
And that goal should be Godzilla.
We should spend the year building up our tolerances.
And then close out with a two-weekend Godzilla marathon.
There are 22 of those.
We could 11 each weekend.
And then collapse and die.

Joe: I hate you and I totally agree.

Steve: How much do you agree?

Joe: What do you mean?

Steve: Enough that we can announce that as our goal now?

Joe: Yes.

Steve: Alright. We’re both in then.
Damn.
So much Godzilla.

Joe: You know what the worst part of that 2 weekend nightmare will be?

Steve: The American one.
Or do you mean the Monday in between?

Joe: No, the American one.
I have watched a total of 5 minutes of that twice in my life and regretted it ever since.

Steve: Yeah that’s the one where Godzilla doesn’t even breathe fire.
I saw it in the theater.
I was young enough to assume they couldn’t possibly screw up Godzilla.
He’s a giant fire-breathing lizard who can’t be killed.
Only in the movie he not only didn’t breathe fire and was easily killed.
He also turned out to be asexual and laid a bunch of eggs so that they could rip off the Jurassic Park raptor scene with a bunch of baby Godzillas.
In other words, they literally cut the dick off the most famous monster in movie history.
On the flip side, you know what the best part of those two weekends will be?

Joe: ???

Steve: Godzilla vs. King Kong.

Joe: True.

Steve: Greatest thing since Superman vs. Batman

Joe: Did you ever take sides in that fight? I always hated King Kong for even thinking he could get into the ring with Godzilla.
Giant fire breathing dragon with armor plating created from toxic waste vs. giant gorilla.
Didn’t seem like a fair fight on any front.

Steve: Eh.
It’s tricky.
I mean, monkeys beat reptiles every time.
But like you said, Godzilla breathes fire, which is something real reptiles don’t do.
Plus, in the original movies King Kong was 50 feet tall while Godzilla was 400.
So again, Godzilla
But I’ve actually seen that film.
And the explanation was that in the intervening years, Kong had simply continued eating the giant-growth berries that embiggened him in the first place.
So now he was Godzilla-sized.
Plus, apparently electricity makes Kong stronger but hurts Godzilla.
So the lightning storm helped him out.
Kong won in the American release, but my understanding is Godzilla won in the Japanese release.

Joe: Yes, that was the case.
Editor’s Note: No, it wasn’t. Turns out Kong won in both versions.

Steve: I say Kong I guess.
Breathing fire is nice, but nothing beats raw brute strength.

Joe: Except breathing fucking fire.
But whatever.
I was super emotional about it as a kid.

Steve: Gorillas are fucking strong dude
Haha.

Joe: Fire is hot, nuclear fire is crazy hot.

Steve: I loved them both.
Yeah but Kong can take it.
From his perspective, it’d only be a little bit of fire.
It just singed his fur.

Later…

Steve:I also have bad news.
The Godzilla franchise is even bigger than I thought.
29 films total with a 30th in preproduction.
Possibly to be released next December.

Joe: I hate you.
Well, that’s like three Saturdays.

Steve: http://www.deathbymovies.com/
Just posted about it.

Joe: Not sure that’s possible, especially in December.

Steve: I think we’ll be able to do it in two.
30 hours each.
Say we start at 9am Saturday, we’d be done by 3pm Sunday.
Then sleep until it’s time to go to work.
Hopefully we’ll gain the experience we need to pull it off between now and then.

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Death By Movies

Posted on December 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

This conversation is the genesis of our new project, DeathByMovies.com

Steve: Dude.
Dude dude dude.
You gotta do this new thing with me.

Joe: Mmm…does it involve lube? ‘Cuz if it does, I’m out.

Steve: No.
Worse.
I just had the greatest idea for a blog ever.
And I’m totally doing it.

Joe: Are we doing a blog a year now?

Steve: And I want you in on it with me.

Joe: What is it?

Steve: Once a month.
We sit down and watch an entire movie franchise from beginning to end in one sitting.
And blog while we do it.
We start with the Fast and the Furious.
We can do Rambo, Die Hard, Rocky, Alien, Predator, Friday the 13th, whatever we want.
But the only rule is we have to watch ALL of them.
No skipping Rocky V.
And we write whatever comes out of us while this is happening.
What do you think?

Joe: I like it, might actually be a good way to kill a saturday while watching our sons and letting our wives rest, sleep, shop, hang out, etc.
I think we should do one a month and agree before hand on which franchises
Obviously Rocky and Fast/Furious are in.
Probably Die Hard as well.

Steve: And Rambo
We can bring in guest bloggers to watch with us too
I did this once with Glen when we watched all ten Star Treks.
That was a one shot deal but it was hilariously painful.

Joe: Well, Star Treks would take two days, maybe three.
We should put things like Rambo and Fast between things nicer to our souls, like Lord of the Rings or something.

Steve: At the time there were ten Star Treks.
It took us from 1:30pm on Saturday to 9:00am on Sunday.
We were totally incoherent by the end.

Joe: Yeah.
I’d be blind and dead.
Also, I think we should end with Star Wars, watching them in the order they were created, not the order Lucas rammed them up our asses.

Steve: Star Wars yeah.
I might feel the opposite about the order though.
That’s one of the few franchises where we could have the better movies at the end.
So you’re on board with this? Because I want to start soon. I’ll probably create the blog today.
We could have a no pausing rule.
That keeps it from taking forever.

Joe: Right.
We will have to create a schedule and present it to wives as “you will have this Saturday off while we do something stupid with our boys.”

Steve: Agreed.
I think Sarah’s already on board.
She had this look on her face that was a mix of excitement and terror while she simultaneously realized the awesomeness of the blog and the horribleness of what we’ll have to do to create it.
The taking the baby element will seal the deal I think.
Yeah, Sarah’s down.
If Liz agrees we’re golden.

Joe: I’ll email Liz.

Steve: The next step is to start making a list of every movie franchise we can think of with more than two films in it.
We’ll probably run out of franchises we like early on.

Joe: True.

Steve: But we can probe history for things like Frankenstein.

Joe: That might be too much.

Steve: And Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name trilogy, which isn’t really a trilogy but is called one.

Joe: There are some very old and some very bad and some very bad old Frankenstein movies.

Steve: Yup
My parents a have a DVD box set
Dude!
I just realized.
If we get started soon enough maybe we can build up a following before Avengers comes out.

Joe: That’s a good one.

Steve: Then we can watch all the Marvel movies at my place and cap it off by going to the theater
It’ll be like a premiere event
And we can do the with Expendables 2
Watch one film from each actor, then Expendables 1, then go to the theater.

Joe: I don’t have time right now, can you create the biggest list you can and I’ll edit/update after I see it and then we decide?

Steve: Yeah no problem
Everyone’s about to leave me alone here anyway.
Later we’ll start inviting other bloggers over to do it with us. Cross promotion.
My sister wants to do our first one with us.
She’ll be in town on the 1st for Johnny’s dedication.
I don’t suppose you have Monday the 2nd off work?

Steve: Okay I shared a Google Doc with you.
I marked in red the ones I really want to do and put asterisks around franchises that have a new installment coming out soon.

Joe: Ok, I will look at it later.

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