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Comment on The Day Gadwell Lane Died by Nick Centonze https://lastpintprod.com/the-day-gadwell-lane-died/#comment-537 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:20:13 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=771#comment-537 Awesome piece. (As I listen to Writing Home in 2014)

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Comment on The New Way Episode 6 – Adaptations by King John https://lastpintprod.com/the-new-way-episode-6-adaptations/#comment-530 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:19:45 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=613#comment-530 Ben, why don't you like the film Sphere? And thank you for not going through with the Gollum voice answer. It would have been really really awkward and creepy in not a cool way. Yikes!

I haven't read the Hunger Games books, so when I watched the movie I was sooooooo angry at Katniss for being such a passive protagonist. She really doesn't do anything. Most of her problems were solved for her.

I nearly lost my mind when she refused to use her archery skills in the game, especially when she could have shot an arrow to set off the mines and destroy her enemies that took her friend, right? Also, the use of FOUR massive hound dogs to attack them at the end really annoyed me. But I had some friends explain some of the book to me and I understood some of her choices and story's purpose. Still I was annoyed.

Anywhoo, good times.

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Comment on Steely Man by King John https://lastpintprod.com/steely-man/#comment-529 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:06:23 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=672#comment-529 Great review and I feel like i'll have the same viewing experience…

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Comment on Steely Man by Mary Allyce https://lastpintprod.com/steely-man/#comment-528 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:17:03 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=672#comment-528 Hmm . . . the word "wonderful" in the same sentence with "Kevin Costner" . . . ok – you know how I feel about Costner. Eager to see this film anyway and your review tweaked my interest even more. Good job.

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Comment on Braden Danner by The New Way Episode 7 – Braden Danner ‹ Last Pint Productions https://lastpintprod.com/braden-danner/#comment-523 Fri, 17 May 2013 05:06:00 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=627#comment-523 […] week Ben and Matt are joined by a GEN-U-WINE celebrity, BRADEN DANNER.  Braden classes up the joint and regales us with stories of fame and fortune.  We also spend a […]

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Comment on DreamWriters (1 Hour Sci/Fi) by Geek Speak ‹ Last Pint Productions https://lastpintprod.com/dreamwriters-pilot/#comment-522 Fri, 10 May 2013 11:33:56 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=52#comment-522 […] Pint began with us working on a TV series called DREAMWRITERS. As we branched into writing on other projects including a musical and a feature film, we also […]

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Comment on The New Way Episode 5 – Guilty Pleasures by King John https://lastpintprod.com/the-new-way-episode-5-guilty-pleasures/#comment-521 Tue, 07 May 2013 23:24:25 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=593#comment-521 Adventures in Babysitting is Gold!

You guys have to watch a low budget film called, ThanksKilling. It's on the top of my guilty pleasure lists. My buddy and I discovered it on Netflix during a drinking binge night and we hail it as the greatest terrible movie ever and we can't stop watching it. A horror movie about a killer Turkey that comes out every 500 years to kill on Thanksgiving. Even the math and motive doesn't make sense; the turkey has a Jersey accent. We quote that film all the time and I promise it will change your life!

Isn't Nicholas Cage's career a guilty pleasure, along with Michael Bay's career?

Pitch Perfect is the top of my current list now. I saw it in the theater on my 31st birthday last december and sang along to every song in the movie. The plot is ridiculous and predictable but I loved every moment of it!

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Comment on Bruce Campbell Live & The Best April Fools Ever by Geek Speak ‹ Last Pint Productions https://lastpintprod.com/bruce-campbell-live-the-best-april-fools-ever/#comment-520 Mon, 06 May 2013 22:52:32 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=343#comment-520 […] Donnolly was responsible (while still working for AICN), for us getting to bask in the greatness of MR. BRUCE CAMPBELL, and for that alone, he has earned some good will from us. Of course, if one of our screenplays […]

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Comment on The New Way Episode 3 – Two Thumbs Up by Geek Speak ‹ Last Pint Productions https://lastpintprod.com/the-new-way-episode-3-two-thumbs-up/#comment-519 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:18:14 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=509#comment-519 […] The New Way Episode 3 – Two Thumbs Up […]

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Comment on Chris Schenk by The New Way Episode 5 – Guilty Pleasures ‹ Last Pint Productions https://lastpintprod.com/chris-schenk/#comment-518 Fri, 03 May 2013 04:04:51 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=578#comment-518 […] is about guilty pleasures. Joining Ben and Matt is Matt’s brother, Executive News Producer Chris Schenk. The three discuss The Newsroom, Michael Bay, the video rental habits of an arty 6 year old, and […]

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Comment on The New Way Episode 4 – Chick Flicks by Last Pint https://lastpintprod.com/the-new-way-episode-4-chick-flicks/#comment-517 Fri, 03 May 2013 02:20:03 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=571#comment-517 In reply to King John.

That's because ours was about good chick flicks. :)Sent from my iPhone

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Comment on The New Way Episode 4 – Chick Flicks by King John https://lastpintprod.com/the-new-way-episode-4-chick-flicks/#comment-516 Fri, 03 May 2013 02:05:28 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=571#comment-516 In reply to Last Pint.

haha! Damn, my friend would murder you. But I agree. I could never get through P&P, but oddly I did enjoy the Matthew Mcfayden film adaptation with Kiera. Say what you want about the Brontes but I loooove Wuthering Heights and I would argue it's an erotic thriller.

True story, I saw the Princess Diaries in the theater opening weekend and bought the soundtrack. No shame. Mandy Moore was in it and I adore her.

And I can't believe you guys didn't have Sex and the City 1, 2, (and was there a 3rd?) on your lists. I was dragged to the first one and actually wept a little at the end. I mean, they're terrible, but the show and the movies have a female religious following.

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Comment on The New Way Episode 4 – Chick Flicks by Last Pint https://lastpintprod.com/the-new-way-episode-4-chick-flicks/#comment-515 Fri, 03 May 2013 01:26:03 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=571#comment-515 In reply to King John.

Lol John. I realized my Bronte/Austen mixup after we recorded. Heat of the moment. As for your Austen aficionado, warn them that the last time I was in a room with a Pride and Prejudice lover, it was my honors lit teacher at Ohio State. I convinced her that the youngest daughter was a lesbian because, and I quote, “she always had her nose in a book and that's clearly a reverse phallic symbol for a vagina.” The Austenophile nearly broke into tears marveling at my insight. Meanwhile, I thought the book was yet another attempt to romanticize fake romance via a group of daughters with little to no personality who all felt entitled to love, yet still went for the wrong men. End rant. :)Sent from my iPhone

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Comment on The New Way Episode 4 – Chick Flicks by King John https://lastpintprod.com/the-new-way-episode-4-chick-flicks/#comment-514 Fri, 03 May 2013 00:59:59 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=571#comment-514 Okay lads, I had to stop half through the podcast and comment because:
A) Ben put 3 period piece adaptations of quintessential female novels on his list. Those should not count at all as chick flicks because it just feels like you're cheating by breaking some sort of chick flick list rule. I will allow Jane Eye on the list because it hasn't been adapted five million times.

B) Seriously, Matt? Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Bronte, not Jane Austen. But I really wanna hear your rant against all things Jane Austen then put you in a room with one of my friends, who is a lit major and Austen enthusiast. 😉

Carry on…

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Comment on The New Way Podcast by R0acH https://lastpintprod.com/podcasts/#comment-512 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:34:22 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?page_id=347#comment-512 I'm sorry too, Ben.

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Comment on The New Way Episode 2 – Sports Night by Last Pint https://lastpintprod.com/the-new-way-episode-2-sports-night/#comment-509 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:11:00 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=422#comment-509 In reply to King John.

Mr. John, you make some great points. Moneyball is a really well done flick that makes a topic that is literally and metaphorically “inside baseball” both compelling and entertaining. League of Their Own is great, but it couldn’t quite beat the Sandlot for me. Ducks was never my thing. Any Given Sunday I find to be a little ridiculous. lol
Titans is good, but Friday Night Lights blows it out of the water, and was VERY close to making it on my list (and one of the only GREAT MOVIES that became a GREAT SHOW…maybe the only…other than MASH?). The Natural is a little hokey to me. And my hokey slot was filled by Field of Dreams. 🙂

LADY BUGS! Hysterical. My college roommate and I watched that movie about 50 times during school. Immensely watchable flick. Victory was another one that we watched a few times in college, back when I was a more active Arsenal fan. Air Up There? Really? That one and Any Given Sunday are your weak links. I bet you can think of ten sports flicks WAY better. Hahah.

I’m curious with 42…I’ve read VERY mixed things about it. I’m hoping it’s along the lines of Seabiscuit…a very NICE movie. Not a great film…but an enjoyable flick. That’s still a SLIGHT disappointment to me though, because I think Aaron’s story could be a lot grittier and honest. I don’t know if Spike Lee’s idea would have gone TOO FAR in that direction, and sensationalized it…but I think there’s a version of that film closer to Spike’s approach that’s more what I’d be looking for.

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Comment on The New Way Episode 2 – Sports Night by King John https://lastpintprod.com/the-new-way-episode-2-sports-night/#comment-504 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:29:39 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?p=422#comment-504 Okay, ladies. I was driving back from the San Fernando Valley today and started thinking about all the sports movies you shamefully left out. And now that I've had a PINT of cheap beer and Jameson, Im gonna spill out some films that should get honorable mention. In no particular order:

MONEYBALL
A League of Their Own
Any Given Sunday
MIGHTY DUCKS!!!!
Remember The Titans (gotta represent my peeps)
Friday Night Lights (the drama show was probably better. One of the BEST PILOTS EVER)
THE NATURAL!!!! (My dad introduced me to that film when I was a boy playing in the Little League Minors…in Forth Walton Beach, Florida. Fantastic.)
Lady Bugs
Victory. (Starring Stallone as the American goalkeeper, Michael Cain, and it even had PELE, one of the World's greatest "proper" footballers. Im an English Football fan so that film meant a lot.)
Seabiscuit

However, having The Sandlot , Air Up There, and Hoosiers on your list redeems you a little. Hoosiers brought me to tears; that scene where Gene Hackman brings them into a huddle toward the end and says, "I love you guys." I get teary eyed.

And I'm gonna predict that 42 will be at the top of my list. It's such an important story and think it's gonna be badass. Maybe they'll do one on Hank Aaron later. I'd love to see a film about the first black hockey player too cause I've been curious about that.

Well, looking forward to a little racism and TV talk on the next episode! Haha;)

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Comment on The New Way Podcast by The New Way Episode 2 – Sports Night | Last Pint Productions https://lastpintprod.com/podcasts/#comment-503 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:33:26 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?page_id=347#comment-503 […] Podcasts […]

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Comment on The New Way Podcast by Last Pint https://lastpintprod.com/podcasts/#comment-501 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:03:31 +0000 https://lastpintprod.com/?page_id=347#comment-501 Tom Hanks is the man, and he too, loves turtles.

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