Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Celine Roberts
The Geek Actually Podcast, your weekly dose of ‘the week in geek’. This week we are joined by our new friend and proof that there are girl geeks in the world, Celine Roberts. This week pay homage to the release of the iPad, talk film news and then review the new remake ‘Clash of the Titans’ in 3D. We also take a trip down memory lane and giggle about the original version too. Your show links follow. Celine almost forgets to tell you about Studio Four, but we get the plug in after the closing music.
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Tech News
Polite German vandals trash a Google Street View Car
http://www.news.com.au/technology/google-street-view-car-vandalised-in-germany-police/story-e6frfro0-1225847791124
The iPad is released…almost. What do the critics think? The video we played excerpts from is from MacBreak Weekly find it at twit.tv
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Entertainment News
New Expendables trailer
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808411960/video/18909047
Captain America gets his sidekick
http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/sebastian-stan-is-capn-america-sidekick/
Is this a sequel we really need? Eastern Promises 2!
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/03/26/david-cronenberg-and-viggo-mortensen-to-reteam-for-eastern-promises-2/
Paul Greengrass could be directing the Fantastic Voyage remake in 3D
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017137.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+variety/headlines+(Variety+-+Latest+News)
Doug Liman could direct The Three Musketeers in 3D
http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/04/doug-liman-three-musketeers.html
The Hobbit delayed till the end of the year because of MGM financial mess
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a211138/serkis-hobbit-to-shoot-end-of-the-year.html
The new Night & Day trailer
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/knight-day/feature-trailer
The writer of Battlefield Earth apologises to us.
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/penned_the_suckiest_movie_ever_sorry_MdXedZpTMWJmfpw80Xc7aO/0
Godzilla to be remade…again!
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/03/29/legendary-pictures-producing-new-godzilla-film/
New A-Team trailer – a little better than the teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip1pPPEpDyE&feature=player_embedded
Bryan Singer no longer directing X-Men Origins: First Class, just producing.
http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/singer-to-producex-men-first-class/
Film Review
This week we review ‘Clash of the Titans’ in 3D, the new remake by Louis Leterrier, the man behind The Incredible Hulk, Unleashed (Danny the Dog for the US listeners) and The Transporter 1 & 2. The film stars Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng, Gemma Arterton and Alexa Davalos. Clash of the Titans is written by Travis Beacham, Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi based on the 1981 film of the same name.
Clash of the Titans tells the story of Perseus and his mission to extract revenge on the gods that blames for the death of his family. As his adventure continues, Perseus discovers that he is actually a demi-god and the bastard son of Zues. Perseus soon learns that he must save the city of Argos and the Princess Andromeda from the Kraken, the last of the mighty titans, and become the hero he is destined to be.
It is a messy, incomprehensible mess of a movie that just doesn’t satisfy those looking for a good story or those looking for mindless action. Nice production design and decent special effects cannot save it. Sam Worthington has hit his three strikes and proves that he is just not that good as an actor.
We also take a trip down memory lane and revisit the original ‘Clash of the Titans’ and compare it to it’s new sibling. Overall, as dated and cheesy as it is, the original is a far better film than the remake, despite the distraction of Harry Hamlin’s amazing saucer shaped nipples.
This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.
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