What have you been watching...
Travis:
The Comedians Stars Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally) and Josh Gad (Frozen)
Humans Stars Cathrine Parkinson (IT Crowd)
Daredevil Stars Charlie Cox (Stardust) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket)
Fury Stars Brad Pitt (Seven) and Shia LaBeouf (Disturbia)
**A brief detour into Shia's inspirational rant videos and tanks
George:
Miss Fisher Stars Essie Davis (The Babadook) and Nathan Page (Noise)
**Frames of reference for Austaliana. (I'm finally starting to fit in!)
Playing Splatoon on Wii U
**A detour into N64 Goldeneye and online multi-player with our excuses of why we don't normally play online with others.
A random interlude by Trudi Rawnsley and we fall in love with Fallout 4 and Just Cause 3
Next we discuss our weekly challenge where we bet on Major League LaCross (Boston vs Chicago) and George reviews S Darko. In short it is a student movie fan-fiction sequel that fails to grasp any of what made Donnie Darko a great, cult movie.
Travis won the bet but still lost because he had to spin the Wheel of Heigl!!
George has to watch... Battlefield Earth starring John Travola and Forest Whittaker... oh dear...
Travis meanwhile has to watch The Ringer starring Johnny Knoxville and Kathrine Heigl.
We are all losers this week.
George manages to finally remember the other movie he watched this week... A Time To Kill.
We have a little conversation about Uve Boll, Pixels and the gloomy future of Comedies.
We then go on to Film to of the Cold War, Fail-Safe following on from last week's Dr Strangelove...
Fail-safe is a great movie, but it has really dated and suffers the same problem again that it suffered on its original release... Dr Strangelove is better and you can't help but want Fail-safe to be funny.
We also talk about the developement of technology and hope movies from that time period vs what we are seeing now. Scientists were superheroes and there was a brilliant fear of science; the eponymous cautionary tale.
We also agree that we would like to see a a remake set in the modern day.
The next step in our Cold War series is James Bond and The Living Daylights.
Finally, we discuss our 5 Most Wanted Reboots/Sequels.
But before we being with that we explain our unanimous hatred of Ghostbusters: The Female Edition and remember fondly Rick Moranis and Spaceballs
Travis:
5) Twilight Zone/Outer Limits. Do it a bit like Black Mirror; the idea of disconnected episodes; like the ABC's of Death or Masters of Horror; possibly on a Streaming service; Fincher, The Wachowskis, Nolan. A director's choice sort of thing.
4) Firefly reboot or sequel.
3) Buck Rogers!
2) The Phantom... yeah... ...Flash Gordon.
1) He-Man and The Masters of the Universe
George:
5) Indiana Jones. NO SEQUEL! The three movies are perfect and awesome. The same period; Nazi's as bad-guys. NO SCI-FI! Not Chris Pratt. A totally new actor taking on the role. Maybe Tilda Swinton as a female Dr Jones. With a cameo from Howard Stark
4) The Crow. A total reboot.
3) The Matrix rebooted - That could even be the name. A 22-episodes-per-season TV series; Star Trek-esque with a focus on the characters and the different versions of The Matrix
2) Tarzan - an origin story. But then replaced with Harry and the Hendersons (am I joking?)
1) Reboot Red Dwarf - British; low budgets and cheap sets. Make it good again