Wall-to-wall blockbusters this week! Could Iron Man be the best superhero movie ever? Could GTA IV be the best open-world game ever? Could Marvel's Secret Invasion be the most exciting comic event of all time?
This week in Movies:
Summer movie season officially kicks off with the release of Iron Man and Alex, Dan, and Jeff blow the doors off the funvee with their review!
Not one but 2 huge Marvel superhero movies will hit in Summer '08. The guys make their predictions based on the newest trailer for The Hulk.
This week in Video Games:
In the world of video games, there is big, AAA release - and then there's GTA IV. Alex, Dan, and Jeff dive into Liberty City and come back up for air, just long enough to give their impressions.
But GTA isn't just a game franchise, it is also a political lightning rod. The guys discuss the ramifications of IV's popularity on the hobby they love.
This week in Comics:
Huge summer releases aren't just reserved for Movies and Video Games. Marvel's giant summer crossover, Secret Invasion, has begun, and the guys weigh in on the Skrulls' insidious plan.
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Posted by dannyt on 05/12/2008 at 12:24:56 am in Totally Rad Show
"Good afternoon gentlemen,
I'll start with Dan.
Sir, I have to say that I can't think of any particular movie that we disagreed on up till now. I merely expressed my review of your review. I'm a proponent of using different means for scoring movies. I'd just like to see more encouragement in that area as I'm sure you could use a guitar as well as a violin to evoke emotions.
Jeff, the reason why I stated that I didn't want to hear it is because I'm surrounded by it almost everyday. All the time on every digg page and commercial there is a desperate pull for me to reject one group for another. There is no middle ground there is no discussion either you believe as we do or you are less than intellegent. I say that both sides (right v. left, repub v. demo, enviro v. skepitc, vegan v. everyone else) are equally guilty of this war of ideas. Instead of finding the best they slash and burn the other until all that remains is a blasted wasteland with two sides glaring at each other.
I watch you all as I find the way you speak, your ideas, and your directing of my attention towards something to be an enriching experience. For example I haven't picked up a comic book in 15 years yet I've started reading Dan's Surroagates, Your The Ultimates, and Alex's Secret Invasion. I'm convinced that politics would just cloud this completely.
Warm Regards,
Mier"
I really enjoy a-typical scores as well. I liked There Will Be Blood, Thin Red Line and most Clint Masell stuff for this reason...
The score didn't feel unique or interesting or outside the box in any way-- but even i did think so, it doesn't change the root of ish-- I didn't like the score nor most of the needle drops...
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Posted by EddieLee on 05/11/2008 at 05:04:13 pm in Totally Rad Show
The score to Iron Man was horrible... I remember walking out of Spider-man or Batman Begins with the AMAZING themes stuck in my head. Iron Man's score was completely forgettable.
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Posted by Mier on 05/11/2008 at 04:21:25 pm in Totally Rad Show
Good afternoon gentlemen,
I'll start with Dan.
Sir, I have to say that I can't think of any particular movie that we disagreed on up till now. I merely expressed my review of your review. I'm a proponent of using different means for scoring movies. I'd just like to see more encouragement in that area as I'm sure you could use a guitar as well as a violin to evoke emotions.
Jeff, the reason why I stated that I didn't want to hear it is because I'm surrounded by it almost everyday. All the time on every digg page and commercial there is a desperate pull for me to reject one group for another. There is no middle ground there is no discussion either you believe as we do or you are less than intellegent. I say that both sides (right v. left, repub v. demo, enviro v. skepitc, vegan v. everyone else) are equally guilty of this war of ideas. Instead of finding the best they slash and burn the other until all that remains is a blasted wasteland with two sides glaring at each other.
I watch you all as I find the way you speak, your ideas, and your directing of my attention towards something to be an enriching experience. For example I haven't picked up a comic book in 15 years yet I've started reading Dan's Surroagates, Your The Ultimates, and Alex's Secret Invasion. I'm convinced that politics would just cloud this completely.
Warm Regards,
Mier
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Posted by Mier on 05/11/2008 at 04:02:15 pm in Totally Rad Show
"The SCORE from Iron Man was terrible. ....
Lastly, if you don't like hearing people pick apart movies, DON'T WATCH A REVIEW SHOW!!!! "
There's review and there's nitpick. At first Dan said it himself the one nit he could pick was the score. What happened afterward was more nitpicking. That's my only complaint about Dan's reviews is that he seems to run off on tangents, expanding on criticisms, and sometimes talk about what he would have done. All of that is what tells me that Dan is an aficionado, a perfectly respectable person to ask his opinion on a movie. But as with Ebert and those guys, I know that if they give it a bad review I might like it all the same. So I will continue to watch and I will take Dan and Jeff's opinions into account when I decide on what to spend 9 bucks on.
I like the idea of trying new ideas for scoring a movie and I'm hoping that more musicians and directors will be more brave and buck the trend in scoring movies with orchestral music. Just some of those movies have to not suck of course.
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Posted by puddlefish on 05/11/2008 at 04:47:10 am in Totally Rad Show
"Ok..time for flame
Jeff and Dan are full of shit. The score on Iron Man was phenomenal. Those few rock songs in the movie are already 30 years old. THIRTY YEARS since the release of Paranoid. There was a 'conventional' score there with some actual classic rock songs.
You guys need to expand yourselves beyond your preconceived ideas of movies. The Crow was another timeless movie and guess what? A total grunge rock soundtrack, it can work and with these movies it did work. I just really don't understand Dan's views on movies, I'll reiterate that he picks them apart too much without just watching. I found a link for you, Dan. This is an essay written by Mark Twain about when he became a riverboat captain or navigator. It accurately parallels what I believe is the issue I have with your reviews. Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain (only 3 paragraphs so I don't think you'll be critted by a wall of text)
As for the guy asking for politics in the TRS episodes. ABSOLTELY NOT, I have an inkling of how these gentlemen think and that's their right. I, on the otherhand, would prefer they remain silent on such things as I do not want to stop watching TRS."
The SCORE from Iron Man was terrible. It was lacklustre and not at all memorable. The choice of SONGS was OK, but the SCORE was awful. It was bog-standard rock guitar with some unremarkable orchestral passages. In particular, the very first time he flies above the city in the suit should have been amazing, expecially the moment when it kicks back in after the icing incident. The scene was enjoyable, but a great score would have lifted that to something incredible.
Also, the selection of songs used on the soundtrack to The Crow, while being excellent, wasn't predominantly grunge rock. As well as that, the score to the crow, by Graeme Revell, was actually pretty good, and did help the movie a lot in certain scenes.
Lastly, if you don't like hearing people pick apart movies, DON'T WATCH A REVIEW SHOW!!!! The TRS reviews, while enjoyable to me, are actually fairly light and not quite as indepth as I'd like. But if you can't even handle that level of scrutiny in your reviews, why watch?
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Posted by damnedeyez on 05/11/2008 at 12:40:08 am in Totally Rad Show
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I'm not crazy!
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Posted by JDM4RTiN3Z on 05/11/2008 at 12:26:24 am in Totally Rad Show
W0rD!!!! but for the record "suicidal tendencies" is or was far from grunge.Dude just wanted a pepsi.
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Posted by TRSJeff on 05/10/2008 at 11:28:24 pm in Totally Rad Show
"Ok..time for flame
Jeff and Dan are full of shit.
...
I have an inkling of how these gentlemen think and that's their right. I, on the otherhand, would prefer they remain silent on such things as I do not want to stop watching TRS."
I'm not really interested about talking politics on the show, either, but why would you only want to watch something that you agree with?
-Jeff
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Posted by dannyt on 05/10/2008 at 10:04:49 pm in Totally Rad Show
"Ok..time for flame
Jeff and Dan are full of shit. The score on Iron Man was phenomenal. Those few rock songs in the movie are already 30 years old. THIRTY YEARS since the release of Paranoid. There was a 'conventional' score there with some actual classic rock songs.
You guys need to expand yourselves beyond your preconceived ideas of movies. The Crow was another timeless movie and guess what? A total grunge rock soundtrack, it can work and with these movies it did work. I just really don't understand Dan's views on movies, I'll reiterate that he picks them apart too much without just watching. I found a link for you, Dan. This is an essay written by Mark Twain about when he became a riverboat captain or navigator. It accurately parallels what I believe is the issue I have with your reviews. Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain
As for the guy asking for politics in the TRS episodes. ABSOLTELY NOT, I have an inkling of how these gentlemen think and that's their right. I, on the otherhand, would prefer they remain silent on such things as I do not want to stop watching TRS."
Sounds like you have some fairly preconcieved ideas of me.
Just because you liked the soundtrack I had to? Anybody who doesn't like the soundtrack/score to Iron Man picks movies apart too much?
If you ask me to tell you how I feel about the movie in two words I say: Loved it.
But if you ask me to give a review-- well you get what I gave...
I wonder if you and I have ever agreed on a movie, and, if then, you felt I was picking it apart too much...?
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Posted by Mier on 05/10/2008 at 09:38:37 pm in Totally Rad Show
Ok..time for flame
Jeff and Dan are full of shit. The score on Iron Man was phenomenal. Those few rock songs in the movie are already 30 years old. THIRTY YEARS since the release of Paranoid. There was a 'conventional' score there with some actual classic rock songs.
You guys need to expand yourselves beyond your preconceived ideas of movies. The Crow was another timeless movie and guess what? A total grunge rock soundtrack, it can work and with these movies it did work. I just really don't understand Dan's views on movies, I'll reiterate that he picks them apart too much without just watching. I found a link for you, Dan. This is an essay written by Mark Twain about when he became a riverboat captain or navigator. It accurately parallels what I believe is the issue I have with your reviews. Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain (only 3 paragraphs so I don't think you'll be critted by a wall of text)
As for the guy asking for politics in the TRS episodes. ABSOLTELY NOT, I have an inkling of how these gentlemen think and that's their right. I, on the otherhand, would prefer they remain silent on such things as I do not want to stop watching TRS.
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