Hi and welcome to Nerd Culture Podcast’s inaugural Audio review!
We love doing reviews for our fan’s to read, but sometimes real life gets in the way (damn work!) and it can be a bit difficult to find the time. Our normal practice was to see the movie, record ourselves discussing it, then write the review based on that discussion. But the other day I had a brainwave! Why not dispense with the written review and post our discussion, like mini podcasts! And the Audio Reviews were born.
Our first audio review is for the just released Conan the Barbarian remake.
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CONAN the BARBARIAN
Released: 2011
Director: Marcus Nispel
Writers: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Sean Hood
Starring: Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Rachel Nicols, Rose McGowan
Starring: Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman
I like to consider myself to be fairly tolerant and forgiving of films. I have often demonstrated my willingness to sit through a bad movie, to either give it a chance to get better or have fun laughing at its many faults and generally have a good time. There are plenty of movies perfect for the latter, my all time favourite being Robot Monster, but other classics like The Last Dragon, The Core and Tango & Cash also spring to mind. Movies so dumb that you can’t take them seriously and really shouldn’t. Unfortunately, Your Highness is nowhere near as good as any of these films.
What you need to know
Your Highness tells the story of Prince Thadeous (McBride), a foul mouthed, lecherous idiot who lives in the shadow of his older, handsome, more successful brother Prince Fabious (Franco). Fabious returns home from yet another successful quest with a young lady in tow, who he rescued from imprisonment in an evil wizard’s tower and now plans to marry. But the evil wizard appears and re-kidnaps the bride to be, prompting Fabious onto a new quest, with his reluctant brother in tow.
Along the way they are betrayed by their soldiers, and meet opponent/ally Isabel (Portman). After some ‘adventures’ they eventually infiltrate the castle, defeat the wizard, rescue Fabious’ bride and Thadeous proves his worth.
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Writers: Scott Mitchell Rosenberg (story), Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (screenplay) and 6 others!
Starring: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde
What you need to know
Cowboys & Aliens started life as a concept script at Universal Picture/Dreamworks. When nothing came of it Rosenberg published it as a comic and paid vendors to stock it in order to make it appear more successful than it was and therefore a more lucrative prospect for the film studios. It was a gamble that paid off, with Universal Picture/Dreamworks again teaming up to produce the film. The final product however, is substantially different from the graphic novel version (which is good because the comic story was terrible).
A wounded man awakens in the New Mexico desert, with a strange device on his wrist that he can’t remove. After a brief altercation with some locals, the sheriff recognises him as outlaw Jake Lonergan and arrests him, with the assistance of a mysterious young woman, Ella, who previously expressed a lot of interest in Jake’s wristband and apparent amnesia.
He is eventually freed during an alien attack on the town and is caught up in a posse of townsfolk determined to track their missing kin. Along the way a little more is learnt of Jake’s past, he is violently re-united with his former gang and he survives yet another alien attack. Ella however is mortally wounded and dies, but later resurrects herself and reveals her origin.
Eventually the group join with the gang and some Indians and they all attack the aliens. The townsfolk are saved and Ella sacrifices herself to destroy the ship and the remaining aliens.
Hi and welcome to Nerd Culture Podcast’s inaugural Audio review!
