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Part 30 Preview!

July 30th, 2008by Gareth Higgins · 9 Comments

I’m going to see the ‘X-Files movie’ soon, and my genial co-host and I discuss it in our ‘Preview’ section of this week’s episode – due out on Friday; we mostly devote out time to exploring the notion that ‘The Dark Knight’ is one of the most politically interesting mainstream films ever made; personally I feel it should be re-titled ‘George W Bush’s Retirement Tribute Video’. The Maestro wasn’t a fan of the ‘X-Files’ movie; which leads me to guess that I won’t be either – but I’ll keep an open mind. And, as is often the case with these things, it just makes me want to watch my other favourite alien/conspiracy/mystery movies; the list starts with ‘Close Encounters’, ‘Vertigo’, and ‘The Parallax View’, and expands to include ‘The Game’ and ‘Les Diaboliques’, along with a healthy dose of alien-human musical comedy in what I consider to be one of the most undervalued ‘movie movies’ of the 1980s – Frank Oz’s perfect ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, the best film you could imagine starring Rick Moranis, Bill Murray, Steve Martin and a man-eating plant. (I’m sure it eats women too, but I don’t recall any being fed to it in the picture.)
Tune in from Friday for Chapter 30 of the conversation that never ends!
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9 responses so far.

  • 1 Tom // Jul 30, 2008 at 9:07 am

    Let's here it for The Game! Great paranoid thriller from Fincher – and no severed heads and bleak ending (never popular with me).

  • 2 jettloe // Jul 30, 2008 at 9:28 am

    I couldn't make it through the X-Files picture…(and yes if we've got time you'll hear my 'mini-rant' about it on Part 30…p.s. it comes out tomorrow not Friday :)

    + interesting technical note re: 'Little Shop of Horrors' = they found when looking at the 'dailies' that the plant wasn't animated enough – so they shot the film with the actors miming to slower versions of the songs then sped the footage up!

  • 3 kiley // Jul 31, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    “…a man-eating plant. (I’m sure it eats women too, but I don’t recall any being fed to it in the picture.)”
    it's been a few years since i've seen 'little shop' but, i thought audrey II tried to eat audrey at one point! ;)

  • 4 Phil // Jul 31, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    “Tried”, yes. In the movie, Moranis's character kills the plant, and Audrey is saved.

    The musical, I believe, has a more gruesome ending, where all the characters are eaten by the plant.

  • 5 kiley // Jul 31, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    AWESOME!! i must see this musical…tho that would've been an awesome ending to the movie, like just a long shot pulling back of a grinning plant picking it's teeth, LOL!

  • 6 jettloe // Jul 31, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    In Pajamas!

  • 7 Phil // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    “Tried”, yes. In the movie, Moranis's character kills the plant, and Audrey is saved.

    The musical, I believe, has a more gruesome ending, where all the characters are eaten by the plant.

  • 8 kiley // Jul 31, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    AWESOME!! i must see this musical…tho that would've been an awesome ending to the movie, like just a long shot pulling back of a grinning plant picking it's teeth, LOL!

  • 9 Jett Loe // Aug 1, 2008 at 4:24 am

    In Pajamas!

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