Review of Lego: The Movie

In this episode, Wayne was being acosted by a gang of 12 year olds for disrespecting The Amazing Spider-man 2 with his -2 review in a previous episode. In Wayne's absence, it was up to Regular Justin and his trusted compadres, Darkest-Timeline Justin and Michelle to decontruct Lego: The Movie and discover the truth behind the bricks, to find out if Lego: The Movie is a shallow advertisement, brainwashing kids into being obedient servile plebs, or if Lego really does have a heart... that loves... taking your cash. 

 

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The Cult of Mike judge Idiocracy to Extract

In the latest episode of the Soylent GreenScreen Podcast, our intrepid crew journey through the cult of Mike Judge films to determine whether cvilization is moving towards an idiocracy and if Mike Judge is creating an expanded cinematic universe where Stephen Root is God.

Just kidding about Stephen Root being God. We wish we'd thought of that during the recording of the podcast, obviously we were distracted by Ben Afflecks beard. Meanwhile... Michelle is still coming to terms with Affleck playing Batman. 

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The Amazing Spider-man Sequel (A.K.A. ASS)

In this mini episode Darkest Timeline Justin and Wayne review The Amazing Spider-man 2: Rise of Electro and discuss what could very well be the worst hollywood tentpole film in a very long time. 

Darkest Timeline Justin says, Amazing Spider-man Sequel (ASS) Is a real stamina test. At 2 and a half hours it felt like my eyes were going to drop out. On the upside Spiderman in costume is much improved and the scenes of him flying through the streets are the best they've ever been. That said, the movie itself is a disjointed mess mostly interested in setting up future installments and spin offs rather than telling an actual story. Peter Parker as a hero is still a character I can't connect with. The love story between him and Gwen is tiresome and after a while you just sort of try to tune it out or use it to relax your eyes. Character behaviour is driven by what the story needs rather than by their own personality and needs. The fight scenes are stunning but it does suffer from it being CGI smackdown between two characters. So what is the story about? Well nothing really there isnt one, it's just a garbled mess. 3/10

Wayne on the other hand thought ASS was so bad that he gave it a deficit score of -2/10. Because 0 wasn't low enough. If you want to hear why listen to the episode. If you don't agree you can twittify us @SGSpod or comment on our facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/soylentgreenscreenpodcast 

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Coming Soon.

Thank you to those who have downloaded and listened to our first two episodes.

We appreciate the feedback and how responsive you guys have been. We are about to record our next batch of episodes over the easter break.

The next episode will definitely be on Mike Judge, focusing on Idiocracy, Extract and Office Space.

 

In future episodes and in the lead up to the new Godzilla film we will discuss the development of Godzilla as a cultural icon of the 1950s and as a franchise stalwart that keeps coming back.

To tie in with May 4th (which has somehow morphed into an official Star Wars Day) we will discuss the culture of Star Wars as presented in the cult film Fanboys.

If you have any feedback or film suggestions tweet us @SGSpod 

Thanks for listening and have a fantastic Easter break from the Soylent GreenScreen team. 

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Episode 2: Veronica Mars, Captain America and a dash of Ozploitation

 

 

In our second episode, two of our podcasters were missing in action so we sat down to discuss Veronica Mars and the ways in which Veronica Mars reinvented Film Noir. Yes, there are character spoilers but we promise that the mystery Veronica Mars solves is not discussed or given away. In the second half we discussed the new Captain America film and the ways that Captain America has reinvented the the espionage and paranoia films of the 60s and 70s on a grand scale. This is followed by further discussion on The Raid 2 reinventing the fight/action film and a few references to Ozploitation films. 

 

Veronica Mars Movie Trailer

 

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Trailer

Dead End Drive Inn Trailer

 

Turkey Shoot Trailer

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Episode 1: Schlock A.K.A. Banana Monster

 

In the first episode of The Soylent GreenScreen Podcast Wayne, Justin, Justin and Michelle take on John Landis' first film, Schlock A.K.A Banana Monster (1973) to determine if John Landis has a plan or if his films are simpple crazy hijinks. This is followed up in the second with further investigation into the running gags about fried chicken in John Landis films plus a discussion on more contemporary films that winds up questioning the acting skills of Nick Frost. 

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Episode 2: Coming Soon

In our next episode we will be looking at Mike Judge movies with a focus on "Idiocracy" and "Extract".  We will also look at some of the films we've watched over the last two weeks.  Feedback as always is welcome at the soylentgreenscreenpodcast@gmail.com

Idiocracy Movie Trailer

Extract Movie Trailer

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Schlock A.K.A. Banana Monster

 

In our first podcast we discuss the merits of John Landis's first film Schlock. This is a film about a prehistoric ape-man in the 1970s who goes on a bizarre rampage of destruction before falling in love with a blind woman. Through our discussion we attempted to uncover whether or not there were any hidden meanings in this film or if its simply a silly comedy. 

 

Original Film Trailer

 

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