You Don't Mess with the Zohan tells us what not to do. Is Lego Indiana Jones solidly built? Remember X-Files? Plus, 2 great comics picks!
This week in Movies:
Adam Sandler returns to his roots as broad comedian in the new film, Don't Mess with the Zohan. Alex, Jeff, and Dan grab some hummus and look for some laughs.
Continuing the theme of throwback movies, the guys take a look at the new Lego Indiana Jones, on a variety of different handheld and home console systems.
High profile game designer, Itagaki's departure from Tecmo leads the guys into a discussion of rock star game designers and their importance in the games industry.
This week in Comics:
Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips' gritty crime drama series, Criminal is Alex, Dan, and Jeff's latest trade paperback recommendation, but they take a trip into the weekly comic releases, too, to check out Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards' 1985.
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Posted by dannyt on 06/17/2008 at 03:27:40 pm in Totally Rad Show
miss ya homie! u kinda get a shoutout this week too...
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Posted by chessdogg on 06/17/2008 at 02:48:37 pm in Totally Rad Show
wow that was pretty unexpected,... and kinda cool getting a shout out on trs,my wife went flipping nuts. pretty neat danny t.
-chessdogg
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Posted by keaven on 06/17/2008 at 11:04:11 am in Totally Rad Show
I was a little surprised that you guys talked about this "now, real life" premise as though it had never been done before. What about Superboy Prime? That's exactly his story... from the "real world" where Superman (and all the other DC superheros) were just comics.
I like this kind of concept, so I'm glad to see that it's being done by others. I'm going to have to run out and grab a copy of 1985... but I'm still a little sad that you didn't touch on DC's use of this same premise :(
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Posted by edhager on 06/16/2008 at 09:44:29 pm in Totally Rad Show
Lego Indy is actually the third Lego game to be released. The first Star Wars video game covered episodes 4, 5 and 6. The second Star Wars video game release covered episodes 1, 2 and 3. Lucas Arts combined them later into "The Complete Saga".
My son is 8. The Lego games have been great games for us to play together. Playing head-to-head in any game against a grade-schooler just makes him cry and he doesn't have the skills yet to play will in FPS games. Two big thumbs up on the Lego games on the Xbox Classic and the Xbox 360 from our household.
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Posted by gm_wil on 06/16/2008 at 02:53:43 pm in Totally Rad Show
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they actually have a D&D podcast of the guys who make the penny arcade comic trying out the new 4th ed of D&D...(can subscribe though iTunes)...they have 3 parts out so far...pretty entertaining to hear the changes being learned/used (it sounds a lot like the recordings I'm doing of our group for our buddy who's in Iraq)
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Posted by theman8631 on 06/16/2008 at 11:36:09 am in Totally Rad Show
In response to Jeff's "Do you perceive video game designers in the same light as big name directors" discussion I personally feel two reasons that they don't.
Firstly I feel that the criteria for what makes a good movie (although it adapts and grows) has been more laid out, tested, and somewhat rooted in traditional story telling. Although you don't have to follow the rules there are such a vast list of guidelines for what makes effective and moving visual storytelling that I trust the consistency of a writer or director to follow a similar form that they have in the past, and if I trust them as effective storytellers it is more consistent that I can trust their next movie. In video games I have rarely (if ever...) seen that consistency. I know everyone says gaming is in its infancy but I truly believe it is even more then we acknowledge. Most other forms of storytelling have a list of guidelines that are consistent with other mediums but the guidelines for what makes video games fun, or immersive is harder to map because we don't have a long history of experience to set effective guidelines in the way we do movies. I see gamasutra discussions from big industry names discussing new ways of thinking about video games in a way I can imagine early movie studios discussing different ways of thinking about the original moving pictures transition into feature length, color, talking movies.
I think movies may have even had it easier; as far as I am concerned movies are a visual adaptation of storytelling, and to a certain degree so are video games but there is a vast jump from storytelling to an audience experiencing a simulated environment.
My second reason:
When I asked myself how I felt about big names in the industry and realized I didn't care I asked the same question about development studios. Blizzard or Bioware for instance, I realized I had much more faith in a studio as a whole. Although a designer is the game industries version of a movie director, gaming is so much more an in depth group effort then movies. I understand if you have a crappy actor your movies going to suck but with a movie a director is supposed to orchestrate which actors, where and how. It is up to them. With a video game it usually isn't like that. Some studios may have that mentality (Its only good if Will Write says) but most have such a collaborative design process that some games will actually split up sections of the entire game and hand it to completely different people. So when I said earlier I don't see that consistency with video games, sometimes I do... and thats usually when a studio has a design process that produces similar quality games. Baldur's Gate, BG2, Icewind Dale, Kotor, Kotor2 etc (with bioware). Or when Will Write or Myamoto (Who both have very personal control on projects) make something.
It definatly is interesting to think about developers in movies compared to games. I expect in the future when that consistency and creative vision accurately reflecting the end product become more common you will easily have many more celeb status game designers or writers.
Great discussion, great episode. I was just thinking though, I've watched TRS since EP1 and I realized how much I ache for more movie reviews, you guys (Dan especially) are such movie buffs, have such industry knowledge and are so adept at critiquing I feel like your movie section is not only your biggest strength but the section I look most forward too. I get kinda sad inside when theres a movie you can't review because you can only review so much. I know you don't have plans on changing the show any time soon but in case you wanted some random feedback from some dude like me, if you sped up your game, tv, book & comic reviews (gaming especially is alot easier to quickly analyze game bad, good or meh) and doubled your movie section I would ... jump for joy... or some other happy equivalent. But thats just me... and having you guys play a movie, game and other once a week is already an impressive feet.
Oh yea... I'm pretty sure thats the most impressive series of smooth I've ever seen from dan. I just picture from here on random things reminding dan of horse sex with jeff. Jeff: (Jeff comment about something here) Dan: "....But.... do you like having sex with male horses?" *awkward silence*
Makes me lol a little.
Great episode, rock on guys.
-=K=-
P.S. You guys convinced me to ordered d&d 4th. I'm an old d&d'er and realized some of my friends were too... so we'll see. Have you guys had a chance to play since? You guys ever think about giving a formal review on it?
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Posted by tsmith15 on 06/12/2008 at 03:51:13 pm in Totally Rad Show
I found Click very good, especially because the trailers made it seem like a purely silly comedy.
Also, there was a hulk scene in Click where he turns himself green.
Just makin' connections.
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Posted by Heyseuss on 06/12/2008 at 01:39:13 pm in Totally Rad Show
"I was super dissapointed in Reign Over Me, though I loved that they were playing Shadow of the Collossus throughout.
My fave Sandler movie, perhaps tied with Punch-Drunk, was Spanglish-- shoulda won best picture that year!"
Spanglish and PDL were fuckin awesome, especially PDL. Weird movie to watch with one of your 3 older sisters though. Visually, it was like, The Cook, The Thief, The Wife, Her Lover... or whatever that redonkulous title was - shoulda been callled "4 Rooms of Differing Moods and Color". The woman in Spanglish did an amazing job at not being Penelope Cruz.... thank god !
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Posted by -=JediBitch=- on 06/12/2008 at 12:07:41 pm in Totally Rad Show
Did anyone else laugh at this part?
"What did you play it on?(refering to lego indy)"
"3-6"
"...3-6-0"
Hahahaha.
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Posted by maxhdrm on 06/12/2008 at 07:55:10 am in Totally Rad Show
Quick only see The Incredible Hulk guys and let me explain why **spoiler alert***
Well not from me anyway but USA today had a critic review Happenings and as with The Village it will be another stupid explanation. The planets vegetation starts putting off some kind of chemical that causes only humans to commit suicide. No big mystery, no aliens, nothing short of our planet simply fighting back our progression of civilization. Hmmmm sounds political???. He (M. Night) did not like being typecast for his plot twists so he refuses to do them anymore.
Stick to just the Hulk and maybe review Happenings as a DVD release. Personally I am surprised the critic was allowed to divulge so many aspects of the movie before its wide release.
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