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Showing posts with label film analysis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film analysis. Show all posts

Saturday, February 17, 2024

JIGSAW Commentary Track

A BOP n' A Movie commentary track? But that podcast has been dead for ten years! The only explanation can be that there's a copycat on the loose, and it's set its sights on the most vulnerable member of the Saw family: 2017's forgotten soft reboot, Jigsaw! Crank up the Roy Orbison and grab your favorite bucket, as persons unknown revisit Lionsgate's first attempt to resurrect a dead horse,  but is the only entry from The Brothers Spierig the return to simplicity they wanted? Filled with new characters, time jumps, fan sites, retcons, and more expendable detectives than you can shake a Tapp at, can one of the men who gave us Good Luck Chuck create an apprentice who will finally make John Kramer proud? Step inside the ol' Tuck Ranch and we'll have a look...



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Saturday, January 27, 2024

SAW VII (3D): THE FINAL CHAPTER Commentary Track

 
We can't say the man didn't warn us it would get bloody. Unfortunately, our plunge into America's favorite amputation-based horror franchise has brought us to this BOP n' A Tragedy commentary for Saw 7, AKA Saw 3D, AKA Saw 33⅓: The Final Insult. Opening with Jigsaw saying the name "Brad" and going downhill from there, this attempt to squeeze a few more drops of blood out of the Hoffman saga killed the franchise as we knew it, with poorly utilized 3D, a threadbare script, and a style that screams "the director only participated under threat of lawsuit." Is there anything to love about the last dance of Mark and Jill, or was too much lost in the attempt to blend two very different movies together in one hastily-constructed finale? Was finally pulling the pin on Cary Elwes worth it? Is The Final Chapter a glass coffin constructed by its own producers? Will a flashback ever reveal why John Kramer wears is hat that way? In Saw fashion, we may or may not answer any of these questions!



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Monday, December 18, 2023

SAW VI Commentary Track

Like a good neighbor, cherish your life! Terrible jingle for an insurance company, but perfect for our purposes, as tonight we've gathered to milk John Kramer for every last ounce of gratitude his corpse has to offer, with this BOP n' A Movie Commentary for SAW 6! At the end of the 'Jigsaw's Last Will Trilogy' (we're naming just now), our story finds Hoffman's world crashing down around him as the Billy-slain return from the dead, janitors battle their corporate overlords for lung supremacy, and the final convoluted pieces of John's plan fall into place. Listen as we talk Tobin Bell playing the proud papa, the shift in quality from the detective-half to the game-portion, the ascension of go-to Saw director Kevin Greutert, the even higher ascension of Lionsgate's producers, the reality show whose grand prize was sharing the screen with Costas Mandylore, and Amanda's revenge from beyond the grave. Sort of. After the credits. 




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Friday, December 8, 2023

SAW V Commentary Track

If you're reading this, then you've finally found what you've been looking for. But is the discovery of our podcast enough? Or will your insatiable hunger for Saw films push you deeper into the abyss? Heed my warning: do not listen to this Bop n' A Movie commentary on Saw V. As your hosts watch Costas Mandylor be horror's worst cop since Matt Cordell, they discuss the lows and highs of the post-Jigsaw era, how first-time director and former cinemaSAWgrapher David Hackl handled the transition away from the Wan/Bouseman style, the push and pull between creatives and executives with notes that would go on to define the series, and just how many ways you can fail to make a torture-chamber interesting. Just listen before Det. Straum stabs him-- oh, there he goes again. Don't look, it'll just encourage him...




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Monday, October 23, 2023

SAW III Commentary Track

Editor's Note: Mike's audio was borked and did our best to do a Lazarus on it and save the commentary. Will be jarring at first but hope we got it listenable for you. Our apologies!

With Saw X currently gouging up the theaters, we continue our ongoing social experiment against the moral integrity of Cody's liver, BOP n' A Movie! This edition's reading from The Book of BOP brings us to Saw III, Darren Lynn Bousman's sophomore turn in the director's chair and Leigh Whannell's final word on Jigsaw and all his animal friends. Avoiding the franchise's most miscast leading man at all costs, the crew discuss the surprising tenderness and hilarious cruelty of Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith as horror's homicidal Batman & Robin. Containing perhaps the highest quantity of actors too good for the third entry in a Lionsgate franchise, does this end of the original era work as the finale to a trilogy, or is it just another link in the chain? And just how much footage did they shoot of Amanda wrecking people's shit? Swallow this tiny cassette drowned in Malort and find out!



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Saturday, July 1, 2017

THE WORLD'S END Commentary Track

After listening to this, we hope you sit there, blood on your knuckles, beer down your shirt, sick on your shoes, knowing you'll never listen to a finer podcast than this one. And you know what? You probably will. No one has ever been drunk enough to actually believe otherwise. But all the same, join us in this BOP 'n A Movie feature commentary for Edgar Wright's THE WORLD'S END! The final entry in the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. Mmm gotta love that blood and ice cream. Or in this case - alcohol! And copious amounts of it. Along with a side order of depression, arrested development, addiction, battles (figurative and literal) against societal conformism, and Bill Nighy as an alien overlord who may or may not have invented Starbucks. We get all kinds of ink on our hands dissecting this one! Plus, we prove why we always drink with a crazy straw. Not so crazy now, are we!?

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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2

The BOP Crew's Mary Poppins, ya'll! And we're here to save the galaxy for a second time -- well, actually, we're here to talk about other people saving the galaxy for a second time. We heart Marvel's GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 so hard, you guys, and we gots ourselves oodles to say about the deep emotional and psychological turmoil everyone's favorite ragtag cosmic heroes went through for your entertainment! Join us as we explore the HEART of Kraglin, the balls on James Gunn to do literally anything he chose to do with this film, Kurt Russell's giant space-face, and our lamentation on just how wrong we were about StarFox being Star-Lord's dad. But, hey, could still be related! You don't know. We could be right about something one day.

There are those who dance and those who download this episode right here! And who needs dancing, am I right?



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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Commentary Track

Congratulations, you are listening to Box Office Pulp. Please... do not resist. Too bad the BOP Crew can smell the lies! The deception! So, why don't you choke on your aspirations of doing something else this evening, and become one with the Force by listening to this BOP 'n A Movie feature commentary! And if you haven't picked up on the clues, we're doing ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY while the movie's still hot and fresh off the presses! Who will steal credit away from Cody's achievement? Will Mike go through with his murderous orders while wrestling with his own inner Latin charms? Is a fully CGI James disrespectful to the memory of the still living James? Only Bor Gullet knows, and he can feel your downloads!

Be like Bor Gullet and download the commentary here, for the unfortunate side effect of not doing so is losing one's mind.



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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

FOUND FOOTAGE (TO THE END OF YOUR LIFE)

RE: BOX OFFICE PULP, "Found Footage Episode," Archived 8-17-16:

A few weeks ago, the Crew of the Box Office Pulp podcast attempted to document an episode in which they would analyze, dissect, and discuss, the film genre known as "Found Footage." They have not been heard from since. Three days ago, a brown package arrived at our offices (The Kinnison County Sheriff's Department), inside was a recording of their final days spent researching the aforementioned style of movie. At first, it was noted that all seemed well; each member of the crew provided insightful comments ranging from the intimacy the genre produces, the affecting and sometimes terrifying tension that only Found Footage brings, the mistakes that are often made, a passionate defense of that class of filmmaking against detractors, and even whether a web series about Slender Man is better than an actual movie about Slender Man (we at the Sheriff's Department can confirm). But part way through the episode, the innate weirdness of the co-host designated Cody Alft appears to take physical form. What happens next is shocking, and highly disturbing. We are releasing this audio to the public in hopes of anyone out there having information to the last known whereabouts of the Crew. If you do, contact us at 1-800-BOP.

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Thursday, July 21, 2016

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? Commentary Track

Damn, The BOP Crew are in a tight spot! And you will be too, if you don't sit down and give a listen to the latest installment of Box Office Pulp's very own commentary series, BOP 'n A MOVIE, celebrating only the classiest and cultiest of conventional cinema. And this month, Babyface Bank Robbin' Cody, Guitar Playin' Devil's Acolyte Mike, The MB of Constant Sorrow, and Loved Up Horny Toad James don't want Fop, god damn it... they're Dapper Dan men! Because in order to properly parlay a discussion on the careers and directorial stylings of cinematic scribes The Coen Brothers into a bona-fide commentary, the crew have to channel the gift of gab in order to revisit the Coens' folksy comedy epic, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? From the Soggy-Bottomiest depth of the unforgettable three leads to the film's connections to Greek mythology and beyond, this feature commentary is a suitor! So, tell us, audience: is you is or is you ain't our constituents?

Do. Not. Seek. The Treasure... by downloading the commentary here!



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Thursday, March 31, 2016

CLOVERFIELD

After extensive research using deep sea probes AND orbital satellites, The BOP Crew can confirm that, yes, it's alive, and it is indeed huge. Whether or not it's Voltron is still up for some debate. What isn't up for debate is that CLOVERFIELD is one of the finest gosh darn found footage films this side of Tokyo! And The Crew has geared up to slowly trek their way through a Clover attack to bring you an episode where they both gush about it, and talk in-depth about 9/11 symbolism. Fun! So, do we uncover the mysteries of Seabed Nectar and the origins of Clover? Do we agree that Beth is too good for Rob because he's kind of a douchebag? How WILL Hud manage without his main dude!? And most importantly of all, do we survive the Kaiju rampage? Or do we get our helpless souls eaten by Voltron? It's Box Office Pulp... so probably the latter.

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Monday, October 26, 2015

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Commentary Track

You're all Box Office Pulp's children! We hope you've brewed some coffee, popped some Stay Awake pills, and most importantly of all -- grabbed your crucifix. Because despite our sweaters being red and green... this ain't Christmas. Oh no, this is the Halloween edition of BOP 'n A Movie! And for this special feature commentary, the Crew is paying homage to the late-great Master of Horror, WES CRAVEN, by sitting around their glowing Freddy possessed TV and watching Wes' most iconic creation: The enduring horror classic, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. We're your boyfriends now, dear listeners.

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Mini BOP - Maniac (2012)

Push that cassette into the player and pump up the volume of that synth score, because it's time for another Mini BOP! And for this one, you are NOT to go out tonight. You are to stay home with JAMES and MIKE... as they discuss the horror remake 'MANIAC'! Starring Elijah Wood and his many mannequins.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

JAWS Commentary Track

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet, the Box Office Pulp crew emerges from the depths, bringing with them the very first BOP ’n A Movie! That’s right, the normal podcast wasn't enough... so we're gonna need a bigger BOP! In this inaugural feature commentary, MB, James, Mike, and Cody put on their snorkels like half-assed astronauts and go swimmin’ with bowlegged women as they discuss the king of summer blockbusters: JAWS!

Compare your shark-related scars with the rest of us by downloading this commentary right here!



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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Clive Barker's Nightbreed

Deep beneath a local backwoods cemetery, the Tribes of The Moon have gathered to welcome the newest member to their breed: The Box Office Pulp Crew! After their God burns us and we(hopefully) survive the trial, we take an all too close look at the contents of Clive Barker's head, and what might be the cultiest cult film that's ever culted! Talkin' about NIGHTBREED here, folks. The movie that taught us that both everything is true, and David Cronenberg is a scary sombitch. Are YOU dreaming of Midian? Then this episode's for you.

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