Movie Moan: For The Honour Of A Horse
Tue, October 18, 2011 The stakes are sky high in Paul WS Anderson's visionary remake of 'The Three Musketeers'. Never mind that England and France are poised for war or that Cardinal Richelieu wants to dethrone the king; the whole film is about the honour of one horse. Phil will tell you all about in his review of this hilariously bad (but never boring) film.
Meanwhile, we thought there might be hope for seemingly pointless prequels and remakes thanks to quality films like 'Rise Of The Apes' but Jamie is here to tells that 'The Thing' does not deserve to join their company.
In the news, Patty Johnson IS directing 'Thor 2', the trailer for 'The Avengers'is dissected, Disney's 'The Long Ranger' rises from the grave like the unholy corpse of a project it is, and apparently it's 'A Good Day To Die Hard'.
We also have a little conversation on the latest wacky way major studios are shortening the window between theatrical and home media release of their films (but it's really just an excuse to talk about how cool VHS was).
Finally, Jamie punishes us all with his 'moan of the week', the John Landis car wreck 'Into The Night'. Next time, don't pick a film at random sir.
Reader Comments (1)
This was an awesome episode! You guys were hilarious talking about Lone Ranger, Die Hard and The Avengers, especially Lone Ranger -- Phil absolutely slaughtered that one. I almost had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. ... As for why theatrical-to-video windows are increasingly shrinking, I heard it's because for movies that don't do well theatrically, the studios just want to dump those movies into the home video market ASAP before the audience forgets about their existence, as you guys said. If the studios were to let, say, six months or more go by before the home video release, nobody would care about the film any longer, perhaps not even the fans in the minority, and the studio would therefore have to pump more marketing dollars into the film to let people know it's out on video. They surely don't want to invest more money into a movie that's already bombed theatrically. Hence, the compressed release window.