FightCast

In this week’s FightCast, we fight about U2 3D, Cloverfield and briefly There Will Be Blood. We recorded the FightCast on the road to Salt Lake City to pick up a friend for Sundance 2008, and apologize for the delay in getting this up. U2 3D is the 3-D concert film which premiered this week in Park City. Cloverfield is the J.J. Abrams produced monster movie which hit theaters last Friday. And we talk a bit about Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, which is in theaters now. Check it out!

 

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Seen Cloverfield? What Did You Think?
Cloverfield: So What Did the Rest of You Think?

In this week’s FightCast, we fight about five of this Holiday’s biggest movies: I Am Legend, Walk Hard, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Sweeney Todd, and Juno. We both had a lot of catching up to do and decided to talk about a bunch of the big films that are playing this week. I Am Legend is the Will Smith action flick that opened last week. Walk Hard is the Judd Apatow musical comedy starring John C. Reilly. National Treasure: Book of Secrets is the sequel to the first National Treasure and brings back Nic Cage yet again. Sweeney Todd stars Johnny Depp in a dark musical directed by Tim Burton. Juno is Jason Reitman’s independent comedy hit. Definitely a great line-up for this weeks FightCast - so check it out!

 

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Walk Hard Red Band Trailer
First 10 Minutes of Walk Hard
Universal Studios Islands of Adventure - Poseidon’s Fury
FirstShowing.net’s Hellboy II Trailer
Movies Mentioned: I Am Legend, Van Helsing, The Mist, Cast Away, Superbad, Walk Hard, Ghost Rider, Next, National Treasure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Big Fish, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood, Juno, Knocked Up

In this week’s FightCast, we fight about the newly debuted Speed Racer trailer and The Golden Compass, two of the biggest topics of discussion heading into this weekend. The very first trailer for the Wachowski Brother’s adaptation of the Japanese cartoon Speed Racer arrived yesterday, and is getting quite a polarized response. Alex loved it, while Peter thinks it’s going to suck. The Golden Compass is a fantasy adventure film based on Philip Pullman’s novels that stars Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, and Dakota Blue Richards, and is directed by Chris Weitz. Peter enjoyed it a lot but had some problems, and Alex has a similar opinion.

 

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FirstShowing.net’s Speed Racer Trailer
/Film’s Speed Recer Feedback
Speed Racer Looks Like a Video Game
The Best Car Chase Movies
Movies Mentioned: Dick Tracy, The Flintstones, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, V For Vendetta, Death Proof, Bad Boys 2, Terminator 2, Labyrinth, Neverending Story, The Dark is Rising, Harry Potter series

In this week’s FightCast, we fight about Hitman and The Mist, two big Thanksgiving films that opened just yesterday. Hitman is an R-rated action flick based on a video game that stars Timothy Olyphant and is directed by Xavier Gens. The Mist is a horror, thriller based on the Stephen King novel and is directed by Frank Darabont.

 

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Catwoman
Frontière(s)
Frank Darabont
Stephen King Approves of The Mist’s New Ending!
K.N.B. Effects

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