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Lots of honest-to-God movie talk on this week’s Frotcast, as Laremy talks Fast 6, Ben and I talk Star Trek 2, and Laremy Legel from Film.com and I argue over whether The Hangover III is worse than The Hangover II (three is much worse than two and Laremy is an idiot). We also play a few of your voicemails, argue about the new pronunciation of “gif,” discuss our favorite hobo stories, I rant about Will Smith and his dumb kids, and Brendan shreds on the mouth guitar during some impromptu Black Sabbath singing. AAAAW LAWN CHAIR!

Also, I don’t know how to tell you this, dude, but I think your dog might be gay.

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Haha, quit playing around, you guys.

Laremy jumped off to a commanding lead in this year’s Fantasy Summer Box Office contest, as his first pick Iron Man 3 hand rocketed its way to a $175.3 million opening in North America, good for second all time behind The Avengers $207.4 million last summer. But we all saw this coming, let’s not start acting like Laremy is some kind of sage here. Iron Man 3 is to this summer’s box office what Barry Sanders was to Madden ’92, and any butt-fingering chimpanzee worth his own back ticks would’ve chosen it first. (Look, you do not want Laremy to get a big head, trust me on this).

Iron Man 3‘s $175.3 million debut is a huge leap over Iron Man 2‘s $128.1 million [and Iron Man's $98.6]. That’s a remarkable achievement given the dodgy history of three-quels—nearly all of them decline from their predecessor—and Iron Man 2′s questionable reputation. The main reason for this is simple: audiences viewed Iron Man 3 more as follow-up to The Avengers, which is almost universally beloved, than as a sequel to Iron Man 2. [BoxOfficeMojo]

I guess I can buy that the public saw it as a follow-up to The Avengers, since the average Joe Buttcrack and Charla Cheesesnack don’t think about stuff like Shane Black coming on to direct. Though for me, there’s a nice synergy to the idea that the best of the three Iron Man movies is also the highest opening. (*tattoos “SHANE BLACK 4 EVA” on chest with exacto knife*)

Weekend Top Ten and Fantasy standings below.

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Sorry about the lag in posting, folks, had a little power outage over at FilmDrunk HQ. In any case, we have a very special episode for our landmark 150th Frotcast (our sesquipodtennial!). We bring on Laremy Legel from Film.com for our Fantasy Summer Box Office Draft (you can see our teams after the jump), Matt Ufford from SB Nation drops by to tell us about his Gary Busey encounter (an escaped circus bear with tinnitus, believe Matt described him), and finally, we play a spirited round of Can You Spell This Made-Up Utah Name.

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The Frotcast comes a day early this week! This week, we all (ALL of us, can you believe it?) saw Room 237, the documentary on peoples’ insane theories about The Shining. We’re all a bit baffled by its 92% RT rating, as for most of us, it was a powerful, powerful nap aid. If you don’t mind paying $7 for a really restful nap, Room 237 is your movie. At one point, a guy was literally talking about how he saw Stanley Kubrick’s face in a cloud. I’m with Armond on this one. The world is already lousy with asinine opinions, thanks. We also discuss Tyler Perry’s awesome newsletters where he compares your life troubles to turbulence on his private jet, and Laremy shows up to read us some lists. Take your pants down, it’s time to grind boners, Frotcast for life.

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I was flying back from LA last week and moving all weekend, so the Frotcast didn’t get posted in its normal timely fashion, but better late than never, right? This week (last week, whatever) we brought on SF comedian Leslie Small to sit in for the absent Brendan and called up Laremy Legel, recently returned from DC where he sat in on a session of the Supreme Court. We talk The Oscars and all the Seth MacFarlane and The Onion contraversialiciousness, Laremy tells us about the Supreme Court, and I talk about my trip to LA. A good time was had by all. Huge thanks to any and all who came out to see me at the Improv last week. They laughed hard at font humor, so I assume a bunch of you must’ve been in the audience.

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