…And finally, after Part 1 and Part 2, we wrap up our LIVE commentary of the 2012 Oscars with Part 3 of this epic podcast!
Listen Below:
Download Here (by right clicking, then “save as”): CR: 2012 Oscars Part3
…And finally, after Part 1 and Part 2, we wrap up our LIVE commentary of the 2012 Oscars with Part 3 of this epic podcast!
Listen Below:
Download Here (by right clicking, then “save as”): CR: 2012 Oscars Part3
If you’ve already listened to Part 1 of our epic LIVE Oscar commentary, why not go ahead and start listening to Part 2?!
Listen Below:
Download Here (by right clicking, then “save as”): CR: 2012 Oscars Part2
On February 26, Cinema Recon hosted a very special event: A Live viewing and commentary of the 84th Annual Academy Awards!
The video was hosted by Ustream.com, and there, on the Cinema Recon channel, you can find video of the show, or you can also watch by visiting CinemaRecon.com and taking a look at our post “Replay of Cinema Recon LIVE”
Easily one of our favorite shows yet, we had an absolute blast broadcasting live, interacting with fans through Twitter, Facebook, and Ustream, and just causing the normal Cinema Recon debauchery you’ve come to expect.
This epic event has been split into 3 parts for you to listen as a podcast. Even if you missed the Oscars, the show is still entertaining and pretty damn hilarious.
So kick back, relax, and enjoy the very special Cinema Recon LIVE with the 2012 Academy Awards!
Listen Below:
Download Here (by right clicking, then “save as”): CR: 2012 Oscars Part1
How do we, as rational human beings, stand in a line and quietly pay for food that is marked up 300% with no explanation given to us other than “because we can”? Why do we not throw a fit of obscenities and revert into a primal state of rage, just tossing objects and people across the room?!?! Who can possibly justify accepting a premise so absurd??
And yet, we do it all the time. In airports, in Disneyland, and yes, in the cinema. But finally, someone has the gall to stand up for the rest of us sheep! The Detroit Free Press reports that one man is suing AMC Movie Theaters because their concessions are too high! Nary a one of us shall again have to kneel over the guillotine and buy Twizzlers for $9.00!! Or a medium Soda for $6.75!! (for just a quarter more you can make it a large and really, why the hell wouldn’t you?)
Okay, so maybe the insane popcorn prices aren’t going anywhere just yet, but I found this lawsuit particularly interesting, being that I spend quite a bit of my free time in a theater. Certainly this case will be dismissed long before it gets any real traction. If Law School has taught me anything, it’s that 99% of all suits will never see a day in court, whether they are dismissed or settled early on. Basically, people sue over some of the wackiest shit.
So what then does this guy hope to accomplish? It is pretty well-known that theaters make all their money from concession sales. If they were mandated by law to sell their Goobers at minimum prices, what do you think is going to happen? The ticket prices will go up! Attacking the theaters, as crazy as those Milk Dud prices may be, is aiming a little too far down the root of the problem. It’s the prices imposed by the film distributors in an already concentrated industry that are really driving the M&M costs through the roof (often distributors will charge 50-70% of a theater’s ticket revenues for the license of one film).
You could do what I do: get yourself a Jake of your very own and have him carry all those Sour Patch Kids in his cargo shorts. He’s like a big, bearded purse that complains a whole lot.
Thanks to Cinema Blend for pointing this story out to the masses!
A new trailer has been released for the upcoming horror romp The Cabin in the Woods. Again, this new trailer plays up the angle that “you think you know” the formula for every horror movie. What starts off as a Friday the 13th/Cabin Fever/Wrong Turn vibe quickly diverts into the realm of SciFi, with security cameras, underground laboratories, and invisible force fields! Have a gander at the full trailer here:
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The film will premiere at SXSW on March 9th (how convenient for us! …Now if we can just get passes…), but there is a little more than meets the eye with this one. You see, Cabin in the Woods was shot in 2009! This is always a scary caveat for a film. Usually when a film sits on a shelf this long, a studio has no confidence in it. They will generally wait to release such a stinker when the rest of their film schedule permits, and with zero marketing behind it.
And yet, I am hopeful. Sure, I’m a sucker for all things horror, but this in particular could be a fun time. It has a rather unique premise, was co-written by Joss Whedon (director of the upcoming Avengers), directed by Drew Goddard (Cloverfield), and stars a pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth. How can it be bad?!
Hopefully Cinema Recon manages to sneak into the SXSW premiere. If we do, you can bet we will be reviewing it on an upcoming show, along with the other film premieres we have already confirmed (21 Jump Street and The Hunter). I don’t like to make predictions, but I’ll go out on a limb here and say this will be the best horror movie of 2012 to feature Thor battling invisible force fields.
South by Southwest is one of the biggest Music and Film festivals on the planet, and Cinema Recon has a front row seat for the action!
That’s right, we are packing up the show and taking it to Austin, TX! While there, Cinema Recon will be sponsoring three HUGE Music Showcases hosted by our dear friends at Deadbird Records! The Cinema Recon booth will be firmly entrenched, with Paul and Jake recording new podcasts, interviewing the headlining bands, chatting it up with CR Fans, unveiling brand new CR schwag, and much much more!
Cinema Recon also has the esteemed privilege of viewing several SXSW World Premiere films! Confirmed so far for review on the show: 21 Jump Street and The Hunter
If you are in the Austin area for SXSW, come join us! Check out the following for a summary of where you can find Cinema Recon at SXSW 2012:
Stiller. Vaughn. Skinny Jonah. And…um…that other guy. Just the cast alone looks great (aside from that other guy, who at first glance I thought was Jemaine Clement. Had that been true, this movie’s cast would have made my head explode). As Jake commented to me today, and I quote, “Stiller and Hill might make the perfect comedic match,” and I tend to agree. Jake also went on to say, “Paul is way cooler than me” and “I regret having never seen Cats live.”
Check out the teaser trailer for Neighborhood Watch below:
Not mentioned anywhere in this trailer, mind you, is the true plot of the film:
Suburban dads form a neighborhood watch group to get time away from their families, only to discover a plot to destroy Earth. -IMDb
That’s right: Earth. As in alien invaders. Probably not Nazi-Alien invaders, but aliens all the while. Hmmmmm…As excited I am to see this comedic trio in one movie, this has the potential to get awfully zany awfully quick.
Hey, do you remember when you were a little kid, playing in your backyard? You’d be in your sandbox, or what have you, and have all your GI Joes fighting Cobra Command. Then, alongside your GI Joes, you have your Batman action figure jumping into the fray, only to have Skeletor inexplicably confront him on battlefield. But wait…what’s this!? Optimus Prime arrives to save the day! (and he’s also three times the size of all the other figures).
That doesn’t ring a bell? Oh…well that’s what I think of when I watch this new trailer for The Avengers. It’s a mishmash of superheroes/celebrities that really have no business sharing the same screen with one another, yet there they are! It really is a display unlike anything we have ever seen since emptying our old toy boxes.
Now I know the hype machine is on overdrive for this movie (seriously, just try to go through your normal day without hearing/seeing one morsel of Avengers). But still yet, one cannot deny the awesomeness of this trailer and the sheer amount of shit that is getting ‘splodeded (sic).
The Avengers opens in every crevice of America on May 4, 2012.
…Then watch Iron Sky with those batshit-crazy Nazis on the goddamn moon!
BUT, if you watch TWO trailers this year, make sure the other is this one:
After four months of preparation, Jimmy Kimmel released his epic Movie: The Movie upon the masses last night following the Academy Awards. This star-studded behemoth really is something to behold. I found myself “el oh elling” more than a few times. You can also check out the website for the “film” here.
A quick and dirty recap of all the winners from last night’s Academy Awards. How many did you get right?
Best Picture
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“The Help”
“Moneyball”
“War Horse”
“The Tree of Life”
Best Actor
Demian Bichir, “A Better Life”
George Clooney, “The Descendants”
Jean Dujardin, “The Artist”
Gary Oldman, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt, “Moneyball”
Best Actress
Glenn Close, “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis, “The Help”
Rooney Mara, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep, “The Iron Lady”
Michelle Williams, “My Week With Marilyn”
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, “My Week With Marilyn”
Jonah Hill, “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte, “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer, “Beginners”
Max Von Sydow, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Best Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo, “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain, “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy, “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer, “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer, “The Help”
Best Director
Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Terrence Malick, “The Tree of Life”
Alexander Payne, “The Descendants”
Martin Scorsese, “Hugo”
Best Original Screenplay
Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
JC Chandor, “Margin Call”
Asghar Farhadi, “A Separation”
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, “Bridesmaids”
Best Adapted Screenplay
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxton, Jim Rash, “The Descendants”
John Logan, “Hugo”
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon, “The Ides of March”
Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, “Moneyball”
Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughn, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
Best Animated Feature
“A Cat In Paris”
“Chico & Rita”
“Kung Fu Panda 2”
“Puss in Boots”
“Rango”
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Bullhead (Belgium)
Footnote (Israel)
In Darkness (Poland)
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
A Separation (Iran)
Original Score
“The Adventures of Tintin,” John Williams
“The Artist,” Ludovic Bource
“Hugo,” Howard Shore
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” Alberto Iglesias
“War Horse,” John Williams
Best Original Song
“Man or Muppet,” The Muppets; Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
“Real in Rio,” Rio; Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown, Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Best Achievement in Art Direction
“The Artist”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
“Hugo”
“Midnight in Paris”
“War Horse”
Best Achievement in Cinematography
“The Artist”
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”
Best Achievement in Costume Design
“Anonymous”
“The Artist”
“Hugo”
“Jane Eyre”
“W.E.”
Best Documentary Feature
“Hell and Back Again”
“If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”
“Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory”
“Pina”
“Undefeated”
Best Documentary Short Subject
“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement?”
“God Is the Bigger Elvis”
“Incident in New Baghdad”
“Saving Face”
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”
Best Achievement in Film Editing
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Moneyball”
Best Achievement in Makeup
“Albert Nobbs”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
“The Iron Lady”
Best Animated Short Film
Dimanche/Sunday
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
La Luna
A Morning Stroll
Wild Life
Best Live Action Short Film
“Pentecost”
“Raju”
“The Shore”
“Time Freak”
“Tuba Atlantic”
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
“Drive”
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“War Horse”
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“Moneyball”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“War Horse”
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
“Hugo”
“Real Steel”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”