This week might be our most movie reviewing-est Frotcast yet.  After we get through our righteous moral outrage over the Four Loko ban (F*CK YOU, NANNY STATE, IMPEACH SCHUMER), we bring on Laremy from Film.com to talk White Dog, 127 Hours, Monsters, Tucker Max’s movie, and more.  He LOVES 127 Hours!  I DON’T!  Chaos ensues!  It’s great podcasting!  (Seriously though, we think it’s pretty listenable.  If you like it, tell a friend or four).  And mysterious emailer “Cody”, claim your t-shirt.

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Same as last week, this week’s intro song is “Totally Snake” courtesy of the band Totally Snake.  Looking for a new one, so if you’ve got a good song, send it our way.

Aron Ralston’s tale of a Moab Canyon adventure gone bad has been well documented for the seven years since it happened. Ralston, of course, was canyoneering in Utah when his arm was trapped underneath a giant rock. Ralston spent five days stuck in the canyon until he finally used a pen knife to amputate his own arm, and now moviegoers are saying that director Danny Boyle’s recreation of the amputation in his film 127 Hours is just too realistic. If only he had gone with his original idea of having golden retriever puppies lick Ralston’s arm off.

127 Hours stars James Franco as Ralston, and the scene in question features Franco simulating the breaking of his arm and then a very graphic removal of the arm at the point of trapping. The scene lasts for approximately five minutes and as many as 16 viewers have reported passing out. In related news, 127 Hours is now the most popular movie among drunken frat boys.

Why do people insist on talking during movies, Fox News?

At a screening of the R-rated film at the Savannah Film Festival on Saturday, a woman began calling for a doctor to help a man who had apparently fainted after watching the scene.

“You have to turn the lights on,” a woman screamed.

“We need a doctor,” another man yelled.

Added another man, “Hey, there’s a penis in my popcorn! Damn you, Vince Mancini!”

A number of other moviegoers have reportedly walked out of the theater during the amputation scene, but Boyle claims that most people aren’t reacting to the actual removal of the arm, just to the intensity of the story in general. Meanwhile, I’ve still been unable to find a studio to produce my heroic story of the morning I chewed my own arm off when I woke up next to Khloe Kardashian.

In his latest wacky performance-art stunt, interdisciplinary graduate student James Franco dresses like a man for all two minutes and thirty-nine seconds of the latest trailer for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, the story of self-amputating outdoorsman Aron Ralston.  It’s impressive work.  He could win an Oscar for this.  Or even a Gertie, the prestigious award given every year to the country’s top performance artist, named for 60s Berkeley professor Gertrude Jenkins-Gold.

“Literally 127 hours of thrills!” -Pete Hammond.

Opens November 5th. HD version available at Apple.

Fox Searchlight just released the first trailer for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours.  I like Danny Boyle, so it’s exciting to see him move onto something that hopefully doesn’t alternate between massive plot holes and lame clichés, but it does come from the same screenwriter as Slumdog Millionaire, so we’ll see.

Anyway, it stars James Franco as Aron Ralston, the guy who spent five days under a crushed boulder and had to amputate his own arm with a pocket knife.  Reportedly, there’s no dialog for a good hour of the film, but in the trailer, we mostly see Ralston before he gets stuck under the boulder.  They paint him as a real cocky dude whose life is all sex, drugs, and camelbaks, like he thinks he’s the Lebron James of backpacking.  Hmm, I wonder if being stuck under a boulder for five days will take him down a peg and make him realize the things that really matter (probably some chick he met when he was 8). Hey, those Chilean miners who’ll be trapped underground for the next four months called, they said this guy’s a bitch.  No sunlight or chicks for four months?  Might as well start blogging.

[also available in HD at Apple]

My fellow Columbia MFA student James Franco (oh yeah, it’s true, we’ve practically even met) is set to star in 127 Hours for Danny Boyle, the story of climber Aron Ralston, who hacked off his right arm to free it from a boulder.

The film tells the story of mountaineer Aron Ralston, whose right forearm got pinned for nearly five days under a boulder during a climb in Utah in May 2003. He used a dull knife to amputate the limb, then scaled a 65-foot sheer wall and hiked out before running into a family that gave him water and food. [ComingSoon]

Settle down, ladies.  Now, I know Aron Ralston seems like the manliest man ever, and he makes a ton of money traveling the country for speaking appearances and he practically has a dildo for an arm, but keep in mind… he was right handed.  So he probably throws like a girl now.  Hopefully doctors can whip him up some sort of prosthetic attachment for throwing a frisbee.  What?  You know that motherf*cker plays frisbee.

(James Franco and Nic Cage)