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I’ve been getting lots of good feedback on this Frotcast, so if you’ve never listened before, hey, maybe give it a try. Or, if you’re trying to turn your friends onto the Frotcast (note: please turn your friends onto the Frotcast!) maybe start them on this one. This week, we had Laremy Legel from Film.com LIVE IN THE FROTQUARTERS! He bought me some booze and I drank it all, and we held our Fantasy Summer Box Office Draft. We also talked about Thomas Kinkade being a drunk lunatic, Mel Gibson, charities, school loan debt, and why cerebral palsy is the thinking man’s palsy. You can read Adam’s more detailed episode notes after the jump, in case you want to skip to certain segments (feel free, it’s your world, man).
FANTASY SUMMER BOX OFFICE PICKS:
VINCE (choosing first): Dark Knight Rises (HA! Suck it, losers!), Total Recall, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, BOMB PICK: The Raven
BEN (he chose second): The Avengers, Men in Black 3, Ice Age, BOMB PICK: Men in Black 3.
BRET: Brave, Snow White & The Huntsman, Bourne Legacy, BOMB PICK: Dark Shadows
LAREMY: Prometheus, GI Joe: Retaliation, Madagascar, BOMB PICK: Rock of Ages
BRENDAN: Amazing Spider-Man, Battleship, Expendables 2, BOMB PICK: Battleship
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[Notes by Adam]
This week in a rambunctious episode we have Frotcast regular Laremy Legel of Film.com in the Frotquarters for the 2nd annual Summer Box Office Fantasy Draft, discuss Mel Gibson’s recent news, Vince drinks all of the booze Laremy bought him, and we have a grand ol’ time.
- 00:03:18 – Mel Gibson is back in the news over a conflict with Joe Eszterhas, writer of Basic Instinct and Showgirls. As usual, Gibson is claimed to have made disparaging remarks about Jewish people. Vince goes on a mini-rant about charities.
- 00:10:39 – The guys learn a bit more about Laremy, and how he got to where he is now. There is some more talk about American Reunion.
- 00:19:32 – Vince reads a list of the WASPiest names: college lacrosse players [specifically, the 2012 all-name team]. The guys talk about the debt of higher education, commercials during day time television, loans from Indian reservations, what they’re drinking, and Jesus as Vice President.
- 00:36:54 – Bret reveals that he has missed the past few Frotcasts because he was traveling Europe. Brendan saw Ann Coulter wearing a mink coat at the airport. With the passing of Thomas ”Painter of Light” Kinkade, Vince reads an email from a listener who shares her personal experience with the artist.
- 00:51:20 – The 2nd annual Summer Box Office Fantasy Draft leads off with Vince making the most obvious pick, Bret has trouble understanding the drafting order, and Brendan makes a strong, strategic move which Ben copies. Some news about Lindy West is revealed.
- 01:24:48 – Vince has gotten a dog and is astonished with its shitting prowess.
Don’t forget to check out Laremy’s podcast, Brad ‘n’ Laremy on Movies, at iTunes.
Drunk on! – Adam
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those are pretty good picks this year.
did this just become the potcast?
Did teh puppay get on the mic with any adorable puppy noises?
Man fuck Gawker so hard.
No more Drunk Lindy? I’m heartbroken! Can’t she come on under an alias, like Screaming Mimi?
Yeah, that is absolute bullshit.
I wanted to hear her explain the plot of Rock of Ages, dammit!
*stands outside Gawker headquarters*
ATTICA! ATTICA!
Oh, but the Drunk Lindy Frotcast reunion tour is going to be SO DOPE you guys.
Prometheus is not a good pick. As someone who lives in the midwest, I can tell you. The net is flipping shit for this movie, but the average Charlie Cheesesnack doesn’t care. The title is confusing and it’s an Alien movie that apparently doesn’t have aliens. I think it looks great, but this is going to be filed next to Scott Pilgrim and Watchmen under “Sorry, Internet!”
Sadly, I get the same impression. My parents and all their friends want to see Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter but hardly anybody I know wants to see Prometheus, the fuckers.
I don’t talk to enough Hank Hotwings to know what they buzz about, but I think that TV ads showing space madness tagged with “From the Director of Alien” will send a tingle up most any American’s spine. That movie was in heavy rotation on cable TV for so long that there are waves of people who grew up with it as Holy Text.
I think the movie will do huge money, he said boldly, not knowing what it is opening against.
I hope it does well, but I dunno. Alien is an absolute classic, but it’s not being marketed as an Alien movie, which is a big distinction for most people. Also, it’s opening against Madagascar 3. Family CGI usually trounces the competition.
Why are they being coy about the Alien tie-in? Is there going to be a Duh Duh Duhn moment at the end of the movie? That we all saw coming? Why are they not straight-up marketing this as Ridley Scott’s sequel to Alien? (Never mind the stardate. It’s a sequel, box office-wise.) Do they think Alien is dated? My Dad is 83. We saw Alien together in the theater. He compared it to Cat People.
I have no idea why it’s a big mystery. Hopefully, it isn’t supposed to be a big reveal in the movie, because they’ve already blown that anyway. So without straight-up saying it in the ads, they are leaving a huge box office draw on the table.
This was a very emotional episode.
At least no one was killed.
Everybody wants pictures of Vince’s and Laremy’s dogs. Preferably in party hats.
From reading these comments, I take it Lindy’s no longer allowed on the Frotcast? Long live the log flume! *throws self down waterslide, can’t get an erection cos the water is cold =( *
Nobody has properly summarized this Frotcast correctly, but luckily for you forshak-hut-dwelling Terran yIntaghs The Mighty Feklahr is here to offer His unique insight into this complex presentation:
Vince bogarts the good hooch and gets shitfaced and tries to act pseudo-denially-confrontationy when his friends (rightfully) call his baktag ass on it. BOOSH!
He also pulls out drugs.
I think I’ve been listening since #30 or so, and this is the first time I’ve heard any on-mic puffing. Kudos, good sirs. Kudos. Also, Gawker can suck nuts.
Tossing this ol’boy on the phone and listening at the gym. People look at me like I’m insane when I’m dying laughing while out of breathe. It’s a sexy.scary sight, everyone.
I feel for you Vince; writing a lengthy passionate post and getting few comments.
I spent nearly two months (off and on) writing and researching a massive retrospective on the relevant “Night Of The The Living Dead” DVDs/LDs/CDs ([tinyurl.com]). ZERO replies, that broke my heart.
This week in the Frotcast: Vince teaches us that the rate of alcohol absorption in the bloodstream is constant, and Laremy wishes he got Vince a cheaper gift.
Live Laremy was a delight. I’m quite sad about Lindy West! What the fuck?
Good one, dudes. (Also, ‘when you’re mining for coal and you forget what coal is…’ etc. is my favourite line of any song.)
P.S. Holy damn Jezebel commenters ARE dumb.
New name for your anal hair removal memoire: “Nair Do Well”