As you heard on our this past Thursday we took a time warp and watched some geeky video game based movies from our past. When we watched the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie we were shocked. First we wondered how a movie starring Bob Hoskins, John Leuizamo, Dennis Hopper, & Samantha Mathis could be so awful but upon realizing that the cast was: Bob Hoskins as Mario, John Leguizamo as Luigi, Dennis Hopper as King Koopa, & Samantha Mathis as Daisy the casting horrors became all too real (at least they changed the story so Luigi was adopted because there's no way John Leguizamo could pass for an Italian plumber). The movie went on and we got our jollies laughing at the ridiculousness of it all until the end when we both had a physical reaction. We watched as images of New York City made way for the Twin Towers and then it happened, in streams of billowing black smoke the image of the Twin Towers changed to the image on the right. It was strange enough to see the Twin Towers as part of the old NYC skyline but that image with the surrounding smoke was terrifying. We knew we had seen something far too similar. The photo from FEMA taken 9-11 said it all. We couldn't believe what we were seeing.
Now we're not conspiracy theorists, we don't believe that Hollywood was telling of the plans almost a decade before the terrorist attack but it doesn't make it any less freaky. The funny thing is the only other person who seemed to see this connection was one of those wacky people who find conspiracy everywhere (for example they noted every movie where people got $9.11 or did something at 9:11PM, and that's too far fetched even for us).
So we ask you all, is the Super Mario Bros. movie the devil?
Friday, June 26, 2009
Is the Super Mario Bros. Movie the Devil?
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Movie Time Warp
Don't miss Geek World tomorrow!! Geek World takes another trip in the time machine to watch geeky movies from our past and is shocked to learn that Super Mario Brothers may be the devil! Tune in tomorrow at 12 Noon PST (3pm EST).
Friday, June 19, 2009
You Guys Rock!
Thanks to all of our fans and all you Geek World newbies!!!! You helped make this weeks Geek World the best and most listened to episode ever!!! Thanks again to Michael Papajohn for such a great interview! We can't wait to have him on again. I bet he has even more great never before told stories to share and we know how to bring them out.
On a frustrating note I'm having some MAJOR computer issues right now (I'm lucky that blogger works on really old operating systems so I can at least post this) so I'll try to get the interview up online for download as soon as I can but there is a chance I might not be able to until next week. Same goes for last week's show with the Battlestar Galactica interviews. Keep checking the blog for updates.
Tune in next Thursday for another one of our Time Warp review shows. We're planning on going back to our childhoods to take a look at some very geeky movies that we can never forget (no matter how hard we try).
Thanks again to all of you for tuning in!
--AnnaMay
On a frustrating note I'm having some MAJOR computer issues right now (I'm lucky that blogger works on really old operating systems so I can at least post this) so I'll try to get the interview up online for download as soon as I can but there is a chance I might not be able to until next week. Same goes for last week's show with the Battlestar Galactica interviews. Keep checking the blog for updates.
Tune in next Thursday for another one of our Time Warp review shows. We're planning on going back to our childhoods to take a look at some very geeky movies that we can never forget (no matter how hard we try).
Thanks again to all of you for tuning in!
--AnnaMay
Monday, June 15, 2009
Transformers Interview This Thursday
Don't miss the show this Thursday!!! Michael Papajohn who plays Megan Fox's father in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (which I keep calling Transformers: Rise of the Fallen. Wasn't that what they were calling it before?) joined us for our first interview in the new studio. It's a great interview filled with never before told stories spanning his entire career in Hollywood working with actors and directors including Taylor Hackford, Tony Scott, Adam Sandler, McG, Sam Raimi, and Michael Bay.
Tune in on 925kyhy Thursday at 12 Noon PST to hear it. This is definitely a can't miss interview!
Tune in on 925kyhy Thursday at 12 Noon PST to hear it. This is definitely a can't miss interview!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Another Live Action Dragonball?
Since we haven't posted anything here in a while I thought this would be the kind of frustration worth posting. In case you haven't heard, according to James Marsters (who we love) they are making a sequel to the live action Dragonball movie that came out this year. Well I can't say I'm excited. Dragonball Z is on of our all time favorite shows here at Geek World. We were excited that a live action film would bring the story to a larger audience. We gave it the benefit of the doubt the entire time we waited for the movie to come out. Then we made the mistake of actually seeing it. Calling it a disappointment is an understatement. When a movie takes beloved characters (and believe me, Goku is beloved in Japan and even to a significant number of Americans) and takes away everything that makes them what they are there is a problem. All I can say is ugh!
--AnnaMay
--AnnaMay
Monday, May 12, 2008
We Love Speed Racer!
That's right we absolutely loved Speed Racer. We saw it in imax and as I said on last Saturday's show (part 1, part 2) it is a visual feast! It's fun, exciting, silly, sweet, beautiful, and I will say it again FUN!!! Haters be darned!
One think that is really bothering me is ridiculous claims by certain reviewers that this is nothing like the classic anime. Well all I can say to that is check out "The Trick Race" to see just how wrong you are (YouTube currently has it in three parts, Click here for the first). The Wachowski brothers proved that they truly understand the heart & soul of the 1967 anime and they did an amazing job bringing it to the big screen in live action!
Another note from some critics is that it may be too childish for many adults while being too risque for young children. This claim is often followed by a statement about how many families may be going to see Iron Man instead. Well we loved Iron Man but if you think Speed Racer (where the most risque thing is a kiss and some sexyish talk about a kiss) is too risque but the bedroom romp of Iron Man is ok for your kids then perhaps you shouldn't have children. As for it being too childish for adults all I can say is that a monkey is funny for everyone, and this monkey has always been a part of Speed Racer, and lets not forget that Speed Racer was always intended for kids and families. This movie is fun first and foremost and should just be enjoyed for what it is an amazing retelling of a classic anime from the 60s.
We have come to a conclusion that people don't allow themselves to just relax and have fun anymore. You can't go to Speed Racer and expect Atonement! Plus just because Andy & Larry Wachowski made it doesn't mean it is a Matrix sequel. This is a movie you go to the theater to watch and just say "Wow!" because it looks so incredible. The Imax made us feel like we were there and when a car flipped it flipped right over us. The colers were beautiful and I have no doubt that if the variety and brightness of the colors were all available in 1967 they would have used them in the exact same way as the movie did.
Aside from just how enjoyable the movie is this is another one that we don't think could have been cast any better. While John Goodman (who plays Pops) and Paulie Litt (the little boy who plays Spritle Racer, especially in his scenes with Chim Chim) were often scene stealers Emile Hirsch played the part of Speed Racer exactly as it was supposed to be as did Matthew Fox as Racer X and if you have any doubts about that check out the episode I mentioned before. Christina Ricci made a great (and sexy) Trixie and the lovely Susan Sarandon truly was everything a Racer Mom should be!
Speed Racer made us feel like kids again! We want the toys, we want to drive the Mach 5 and the Mach 6, we want to watch the movie again and again!
What were all you haters out there expecting? This had all the right characters in all the right situations placed in an amazing and fantastic world that truly translates anime into reality. If you were upset by the races (would you rather watch them go around an oval track over and over again) and how the cars were modified then you obviously know nothing of Speed Racer. I think people should stop hating for the sake of hating and start accepting that this is exactly what it set out to be, this is SPEED RACER!
--AnnaMay
One think that is really bothering me is ridiculous claims by certain reviewers that this is nothing like the classic anime. Well all I can say to that is check out "The Trick Race" to see just how wrong you are (YouTube currently has it in three parts, Click here for the first). The Wachowski brothers proved that they truly understand the heart & soul of the 1967 anime and they did an amazing job bringing it to the big screen in live action!
Another note from some critics is that it may be too childish for many adults while being too risque for young children. This claim is often followed by a statement about how many families may be going to see Iron Man instead. Well we loved Iron Man but if you think Speed Racer (where the most risque thing is a kiss and some sexyish talk about a kiss) is too risque but the bedroom romp of Iron Man is ok for your kids then perhaps you shouldn't have children. As for it being too childish for adults all I can say is that a monkey is funny for everyone, and this monkey has always been a part of Speed Racer, and lets not forget that Speed Racer was always intended for kids and families. This movie is fun first and foremost and should just be enjoyed for what it is an amazing retelling of a classic anime from the 60s.
We have come to a conclusion that people don't allow themselves to just relax and have fun anymore. You can't go to Speed Racer and expect Atonement! Plus just because Andy & Larry Wachowski made it doesn't mean it is a Matrix sequel. This is a movie you go to the theater to watch and just say "Wow!" because it looks so incredible. The Imax made us feel like we were there and when a car flipped it flipped right over us. The colers were beautiful and I have no doubt that if the variety and brightness of the colors were all available in 1967 they would have used them in the exact same way as the movie did.
Aside from just how enjoyable the movie is this is another one that we don't think could have been cast any better. While John Goodman (who plays Pops) and Paulie Litt (the little boy who plays Spritle Racer, especially in his scenes with Chim Chim) were often scene stealers Emile Hirsch played the part of Speed Racer exactly as it was supposed to be as did Matthew Fox as Racer X and if you have any doubts about that check out the episode I mentioned before. Christina Ricci made a great (and sexy) Trixie and the lovely Susan Sarandon truly was everything a Racer Mom should be!
Speed Racer made us feel like kids again! We want the toys, we want to drive the Mach 5 and the Mach 6, we want to watch the movie again and again!
What were all you haters out there expecting? This had all the right characters in all the right situations placed in an amazing and fantastic world that truly translates anime into reality. If you were upset by the races (would you rather watch them go around an oval track over and over again) and how the cars were modified then you obviously know nothing of Speed Racer. I think people should stop hating for the sake of hating and start accepting that this is exactly what it set out to be, this is SPEED RACER!
--AnnaMay
Monday, May 5, 2008
We Love Iron Man
That's right, if you heard our show on Saturday night you heard us gush on and on about how much we loved Iron Man (of course having Jon Favreau & Robert Downey Jr. unexpectedly stop by the theater to introduce the movie didn't hurt our feelings about it)! And to all those of you that kept saying it would only earn $70 million because no one cares about Iron Man, well it looks like we were absolutely right for mocking you (ha ha ha ha)! Over $100 million domestic and $200 million worldwide gross? That's right skeptics, put that in your pipe and smoke it!
As far as I am concerned Iron Man is a great movie first and foremost and a superhero movie second. It couldn't have been cast more perfectly, I was even pleased with Gwenyth Paltrow's performance as Pepper Potts. The thing that disappointed me most about Iron Man is that I have to wait for a sequel.
For all you fanboys, you should be quite pleased that the story and characters truly mesh with the comic book lore and it is quite apparent that Jon Favreau & Robert Downey Jr. had real care for & connection to the comic and in Robert's case the character of Tony Stark.
I must say I was especially impressed with the CGI/Motion Capture. I have never seen flying look so real. I don't think it takes much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that there was a man in the Iron Man suit and he was actually flying, in fact I would go so far as to say I have never seen flying in a movie look so good.
Congratulations to Marvel on their first indepenently financed feature! You have proven that sticking with the comics is the way to go! Big studios take note, this is how you do a comic book adaptation (or any adaptation for that matter). If you think a story is good enough to make a movie from then you must follow Iron Man's lead and stay true to it.
If you haven't seen the movie yet stick around all the way through the credits (it won't hurt you to wait in your seat a few minutes) for a spectacular final scene with a great cameo.
This is definitely a movie worth seeing in the theater (I plan to see it multple times).
--AnnaMay
As far as I am concerned Iron Man is a great movie first and foremost and a superhero movie second. It couldn't have been cast more perfectly, I was even pleased with Gwenyth Paltrow's performance as Pepper Potts. The thing that disappointed me most about Iron Man is that I have to wait for a sequel.
For all you fanboys, you should be quite pleased that the story and characters truly mesh with the comic book lore and it is quite apparent that Jon Favreau & Robert Downey Jr. had real care for & connection to the comic and in Robert's case the character of Tony Stark.
I must say I was especially impressed with the CGI/Motion Capture. I have never seen flying look so real. I don't think it takes much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that there was a man in the Iron Man suit and he was actually flying, in fact I would go so far as to say I have never seen flying in a movie look so good.
Congratulations to Marvel on their first indepenently financed feature! You have proven that sticking with the comics is the way to go! Big studios take note, this is how you do a comic book adaptation (or any adaptation for that matter). If you think a story is good enough to make a movie from then you must follow Iron Man's lead and stay true to it.
If you haven't seen the movie yet stick around all the way through the credits (it won't hurt you to wait in your seat a few minutes) for a spectacular final scene with a great cameo.
This is definitely a movie worth seeing in the theater (I plan to see it multple times).
--AnnaMay
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