Sunday, February 28, 2010

Movie Minute #35 - Best Picture Decimal System

TEN BEST PICTURE NOMINEES? HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?!










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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Episode #55 - The Ugly Truth

Repeat Flop House offenders Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl team up in The Ugly Truth, a terrible romantic comedy that Stuart really, really wanted us to watch for some reason. Maybe because he's just an ol' softie! Meanwhile, Elliott pitches his new hit tragicomedy "Bad Date," Stuart reveals his NBC sitcom holodeck fantasy, and Dan uses the word "whack" as in "out of whack" but is still mercilessly made fun of by his co-hosts as if he was trying to get gangsta.

0:00 - 0:30 - Introduction and theme
0:31 - 3:35 - Stuart wastes all of our time by discussing his upcoming 30th birthday.
3:36 - 34:25 - If your criteria for a romantic comedy is that it specifically contains the words "the" and "truth," and has a negative descriptor in the middle, may we suggest The Awful Truth, starring Cary Grant?
34:26 - 40:31 - Final judgments All three: bad bad
40:32 - 50:00 - Flop House Movie Mailbag
50:01 - 51:14 - An explanation of the new Movie Minute policy.
51:15 - 56:31 - The sad bastards recommend.
56:32 - 58:30 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.

If you don't want to enter the "GIVE DAN A HOOK" contest, but still want to hear the DVD commentary we did for John Ott's short horror film, STULL, you can just purchase the thing outright, by going here.









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Here's Stuart, so happy that The Ugly Truth is over that he's doing a dance to the credits music:

Monday, February 15, 2010

Flop House Side Project Corner!

In the absence of a new movie minute this week (and the last several alternate weeks--something which will be addressed in the next full episode) we present a couple of notable non-Flop House projects from the busy Flop House crew.

First off: Elliott has an article in Popular Mechanics! Yes, that Popular Mechanics! The popular one! About mechanics. Check it out HERE. He discusses the 1939 World's Fair, in his role as a lover of all things old-timey and also futuristic.

Second off: Dan has a new episode of his barely-animated series 9 AM Meeting (illustrated and edited by Dan and starring/written by him and Matt Koff). Watch it below!



And lastly: Stuart isn't doing anything on the side, other than working hard. But here's a picture of him as a circus strongman!

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Episode #54 - Gamer

Don't hate the player; hate the game. On second thought, hate the Gamer. Meanwhile, Dan laments the downfall of the previously-dependable entertaining-trash team of Neveldine/Taylor, Matt finds his new super-muscular bĂȘte noir, and Elliott comes up with a much wackier way to end an already wacky movie.

0:00 - 0:36 - Introductions and Theme
0:37 - 33:42- We welcome Matt Koff, our second guest host of a still-young 2010, and we introduce him to a rising star named Gerard Butler, in a little film called Gamer.
33:43 - 37:57 - Final Judgments (Dan: almost-good/bad bad, Elliott: bad bad, Matt: bad bad bad)
37:58 - 48:38- A very navel-gazing movie mailbag.
38:39 - 51:47 - Two out of three sad bastards recommending aint' bad.
51:48 - 52:37 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.








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