Comments on: Cinema Apocalypso

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:00:26 +0000

Stimulating debate – that’s what I like.

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:29:42 +0000

PONCES!

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:03:14 +0000

Well readers-I’m glad we got that sorted out!

By: Vones

Vones — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:53:27 +0000

I’ve seen a pic of you Nappers, you cetainly look more cro-magnon than I.

It’ll be done when Swines has finished editing it. Tomorrow.

I expect you to listen, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE.

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:42:17 +0000

It doesn’t matter who’s in it, does it? I link to WWM’s podcast merely to demonstrate how a podcast sounds when it isn’t in the hands of two jug-eared throwback drunkards who are two or three rungs down the evolutionary ladder from the rest of us.

That doesn’t mean I’m not looking forward to the next Slashing the Seats Podwangle, by the way. When will that be? When the moon is at its most gibbous?

By: Vones

Vones — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:30:14 +0000

You’re not even in that one!

And do we really sound pissed? We’re not!

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:27:06 +0000

Vones – Apparently, I’m contractually obliged to love your podcast. We’re all one happy family, after all. I wouldn’t want the readers of Slashing The Seats to think there was another podcast available from Epic Win Media where you don’t have to put up with two half-cut hayseeds getting hammered on barnyard moonshine as they ramble on incoherently about films they know nothing about.

*cough*

http://watchwithmothers.net/2009/07/17/wwm-podcast-9/

*cough cough*

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:19:45 +0000

Well, it’s easy to say you’d take him on on the Internet isn’t it? especially if you’re sure he’ll never want to visit the mud-hut village you Northern types call home, and love, rolling around in your own self-satisfied grimness. Ponce!

By: Vones

Vones — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:16:51 +0000

Mmmm…cider.

I bet you loved the podcast NC.

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:13:14 +0000

Is he arse.

Anyway … you two sound like a couple of cud-chewing bumpkins whose trousers are held up with knotted barley. I’m not taking any film advice from the sort of creatures you see knocking around the village in Straw Dogs. You both should be ashamed of yourselves, you Susan George-raping, inbred brace of big-eared, cider-swilling yokels.

UP YOURS!

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:09:15 +0000

He has, but remember-He’s the Devil!

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:03:51 +0000

I haven’t got a degree, Interceptor.

Anyway, I’ll happily take that wizened old bastard on in a gunfight. He looks like he’s got arthritis.

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:00:51 +0000

btw-so you ARE scared of a gunfight with Clint! Scared of a feeble old man…You big ponce!

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:58:39 +0000

I say they do, but generally only the top-notch clever ones. Not like Ridley Scott-everyone knows that Alien is about a Alien wot eats people, not any of that male-fear-of-rape claptrap, it’s about the male fear of being eaten by an Alien.
What degree did you get Naps? Was it Curmudgeonly Studies?

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:55:47 +0000

PONCE!

By: Vones

Vones — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:54:26 +0000

Arse End Polyveristy For The Terminally Unwilling To Get A Proper Degree.

That’s exactly where we went.

Although we’ve always referred to it as Scumbag College.

Up Scumbag!

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:52:23 +0000

No, I’m saying it doesn’t always cross film-makers’ minds to work on several levels. Sometimes they just make what they want. It’s for film school ponces like you to presume an underlying meaning to a piece of work you had no involvement with. Indeed, this searching for an allegory guff is just so you can fill two sides of A4 with shit to get a pass mark from a failed wannabe at Arse End Polyveristy For The Terminally Unwilling To Get A Proper Degree.

YOU FAT PONCE!

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:42:04 +0000

Well, I reckon he’s both-they do that in filums sometimes, he’s Bill Munney, but he represents Death. It’s Subtext. Unless you think subtext is for cowards-is that what you’re doing, calling Clint Eastwood out as a cowardly, bad, one-dimensional filmmaker?

Are you willing to gun-fight with him to prove it?!

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:38:16 +0000

Sorry, yes, the Devil. I was so billious with rage, I wasn’t typing straight.

Anyway, no, you’re wrong. He’s not Death in Unforgiven, he’s Bill Munney, ex-gunslinger and all-round bad egg. Out for revenge after that bastard Little Bill gives his mate a going over thanks to English Bob getting his back up previously.

You read too much into stuff like one of them wanky art critics. You’ll start talking like that ponce Brian Sewell next.

Is that what you want? To be known as a ponce? A film ponce?

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:30:43 +0000

Naps-I’ve survived 32 winters so far my friend-Clint is t’Devil in HPD and PR, not Death, totally different bloke. Anyway, didn’t he wait 20 years to make Unforgiven, until he was old enough-everything he touches dies, he’s Death he is he is he is!

*Stamps feet and rolls around on floor*

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:23:22 +0000

Interceptor – The difference being that Clint set out to be Death in HPD and PR. In Unforgiven, he set out to make a good old-fashioned revenge movie because he was miffed they weren’t making proper Westerns any more (thanks to those Young Guns buggers). He said so at the time. Not that you’d know that, as you were still in nappies then, I imagine.

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:18:58 +0000

Nice one Naps, I left out ‘The Quiet Earth’ too, and day of the dead, and armageddon-High plains drifter and Pale Rider are both end of the world movies too. Clint’s the Devil in them see, that’s how it works.
Oh-and I forgot ‘Summer Holiday’…

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:07:37 +0000

Here we are …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def-Con_4

The film’s fucking ace. Or at least it was when I saw it on VHS in 1986.

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:57:43 +0000

Also – I’ve never heard such a wanky description of Unforgiven. It’s a bloody western, you wazzocks. Like just about every other western, it’s a revenge caper. Clint didn’t make it as an allegory – he made it because he was pissed off they weren’t making proper westerns any more. ‘The dark nature of man’, my arse. He just wants to kill everyone because that bastard Hackman’s shot his old mate.

Bloody university claptrap.

By: Napoleon

Napoleon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:53:23 +0000

Where’s Night of the Comet? Or Defcon 4? Or Lucifer’s Hammer?

Unforgiven? Eh? In that case, why not Pale Rider? Or High Plains Drifter? Or Every Which Way But Loose?

Bloody ridiculous! BASTARDS!

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:36:19 +0000

Unforgiven IS an end of the world movie (honest-I wrote a whole crap 1st year film studies essay about it…I got a B…*slinks away in shame*)!
Zombies have been done to death (see what I did there?)

By: Vones

Vones — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:32:09 +0000

Unforgiven is Apocalypic. Tha bit at the end with the rain and the flag…Amazing.

- Also inspired the Saint Of Killers from Preacher – the apocalypse in a duster coat.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:29:11 +0000

Exactly – no zombie films. It’s a DISGRACE.

Unforgiven… disqualified!

By: Vones

Vones — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:25:57 +0000

Day of the Dead for number ten, that’s one future I don’t want to be in…