3x2 Podcast

3x2 Podcast


A Few Flicks to Reboot

May 05, 2014

We are back from the bouts of sickness and allergy, of babies and kids, work and work, and school and a Diablo III addiction. Really, it was the copious amounts of coughing and hacking and so forth that took us over the top and made us miss our podcast last week. But we saved up enough energy to tear into our topic this week in anticipation of jumping into another podcast next week. Huzzah!


So this week (in an episode we were ready to roll with before Lars and the Hopester added another shit machine to the world), we take some beloved and awesome movies and figure out how to reboot them. Not in the Spider-Man way, in which you start with another damn origin story 5 years after Emos Spidey was emo, but in taking a franchise that has been dead for decades and figuring out how to re-skin it so it’s awesomely awesome again. Like the reboot for Battlestar Galactica, or Mission: Impossible. Keep the good, jettison the cheezy, and go ape shit with the awesome.


 


AND NOW, THE NEWS:

We have 3 bits of news this week:


Tabletop Season 3 is a go. 20 episodes are a go. And the RPG SPINOFF IS A GO!!! Allow us to give this a ridiculously long WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!


We lost the talents of both Bob Hoskins and Efrem Zimbalist Jr this week.


And our semi-official mascot, Horny Cat, is now gone on to a new home. Because Horny Cat can’t compete with a baby. Sad, but true. We do have a tribute at the end of the podcast for her though.


 


TODAY’S TOPIC: Rebooting Franchises


  1. 1. We relocate the

Ghostbusters 


  1. franchise out of NYC, cast a whole new crew, ponder who gets to cameo, and whether the ghost of Harold Ramis should make an appearance. Seriously, they’ve had the ideas for another Ghostbusters movie bouncing around for 25 years and have yet to get anywhere beyond writing it and getting cast commitments (most notably Bill Murray). We’re really due…..

 




  1. 2. With both the better tech to edit film and the fact we’re dealing with the infinite fun of tie travel, we go

Back to the Future 




  1. to ponder whhat could happen with the offspring of Doc Brown and the grandchild of Marty McFly, as well as the perils of a film coming out in 2015 after we saw the future of 2015 in

Back to the Future II


  1. ….

 




  1. 3. We enter a debate on which would be the better movie franchise to reboot,

Dirty Harry 




  1. or

Death Wish


  1. . These are two good, gritty series that have the potential to bring some real hard killing back to the movie screen, if brought into the 21st century. We ponder casting, changing to a female lead, and whther Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, or Lindsay Lohan is the leatheriest bastard in Hollywood….

 


THE EPISODE


 


 


TODAY’S FEATURED MUSIC

“Frozen – Let It Go (Karaoke)” by Jabicho

with Horny Cat tribute lyrics written and performed by the Illustrious One

(yeah, you read that right, we’re back to dicking with Disney music.)



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