Well folks, Christmas comes early.  And when I say Christmas, I do intend to compare a new Frotcast to Jesus being born.  This week, we talk Predators, Mel Gibson and why the Jews keep trying to ruin his career, and we speak to Bobby Hacker, who, in addition to making the Cars videos, was present for the very first public screening of Birdemic: Shock and Terror, and has been documenting James Nguyen’s journey from crazy guy with fake blood on his van to cult sensation ever since.  He discusses the bartenders at Sundance holding James’ stuffed eagle for ransom over an unpaid bar tab, and we talk about what the ride has been like since then, and when we might be able to see all of this amazing footage of James Nguyen (which is arguably more interesting than the movie itself) in documentary form.  Other notes:

• We begin with the story of a bird pooping on me yesterday and why God seemingly hath decreed all Frotcasts should start with a poop story
• We’re up over 4,000 subscribers.  You guys must really love poop.
• Predators talks starts at 4:50
• Four Loko: Drink for hobos who need cheap booze AND energy. 16:09
• Brendan talks meeting Ahnuld. 24:00
• Bobby Hacker interview starts at 39:42

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Opening this week:
Predators
The reviews for the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed Predator sequel pluralization have been middling so far, but does it really matter?  If I don’t see it, Danny Trejo says he’ll stab my family.  And I believed him, he grabbed his crotch right afterwards.

Despicable Me
Looks okay, I guess.  I didn’t see any Dreamworks face, so there’s that.  Gosh, I can’t wait to have some annoying, stupid kids.

The Kids Are All Right
Annette Bening. Julianne Moore.  Lesbos.  Everyone I know seems to be groaning at the “quirky family” ness of this one, but I don’t know.  I thought the trailer looked funny. Besides, it’s got Mark Ruffalo in it, and he’s like a boxer puppy with a bandanna around its neck.  Just wanna feed that f*cker a milk bone and scratch his chin (no homo).

Grease Sing-a-long
Playing in NY, LA, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, San Diego, Miami, and Ocala, FL.  I think I’d rather have my genitals ridiculed by a clique of popular cheerleaders than be in a room full of people singing along to motherf*cking Grease.  Put them together and make the setting this van and you have my perfect nightmare.

Winnebago Man (NYC only)
Yes, it’s a documentary about the star of the funniest viral video of all time.  I would stab my mother to see this film.  Well, your mother anyway.  If you’re in the New York area, I would urge you to go see-  Aaaah I don’t even know what the f*ck I’m typing!  DON’T SLAM THE F*CKIN’ DOOR, TONY.   (*waves flies out of face, kicks dirt*)

Oh and check out the FilmDrunk Frotcast, you jerks. Critics are already calling it “the bro-iest circle jerk of the summer.”

The Robert Rodriguez-produced Predators (directed by Kontroll‘s Nimrod Antal) opens July 9th, and this is the newly-released international trailer.  This time around, the predators will be hunting the most dangerous game: Adrien Brody.  The humans have been dropped into some sort of space game preserve (which we know because A Brodes says “I think this is some sort of… game preserve”), so presumably, the Predators in this one will be the fat, white Texas predators that are too lazy for regular hunting and ride around in golf carts.  Aside from Adrien Brody, the assortment seems to be a Russian (former fighter Oleg Taktarov), an African, another white dude, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo, and a Latin chick.  I applaud them for breaking up the usual stock-photo arrangement of two whites, a black, and an Asian.  Seriously, look at any college course catalog or bank poster: it’s always two whites, a black, and an Asian.  It’s like the John, Paul, George, and Ringo of stock photos.

Also, Danny Trejo plays “Cuchillo”, which means of course, “knife.”  Not to be confused with his other character, “Machete,” which means of course, “big knife.”  He should win the Oscar for stabbing people. And then he could fashion the trophy into a shiv and stab someone with it.

The other day brought a short teaser, but now (courtesy of IGN) we have the full trailer for Nimrod Antal’s Predators movie. As for the plot, we learn through expository dialogue that the characters are on a Predator-infested island to become some Dirty Dozen-style team of outlaws.

WHITE DUDE: I was supposed to be executed two days ago.
BRITISH GUY: And I was in combat.
AFRICAN DUDE: So was I.
LATIN CHICK WITH BRITISH ACCENT: Black Ops.
JAPANESE GUY: Yakuza.

Danny Trejo and Laurence Fishburne are there too, but don’t say why.  They must’ve cut that part out.  But I bet it went something like this:

FISHBURNE: I was… in The Matrix.
TREJO:  I was lowrideen, ése. I swear, even ask my cóusin.  Ju can’ prove notheen, puto. *chugs mezcal straight from the bottle, fires pistols up in the air*  Now eet’s a party, vatos!  Ayayayayayayay!

Because that’s how Mexicans are.

Robert Rodriguez showed off a two-minute sneak preview of Predators at SXSW recently, and now it’s online.  Rodriguez produced, but the directing work was actually done by Nimrod Antal.  We get to see a couple new things from the new version, namely a new Predator guy with an arm-knife dealie, a triceratops thing, and a disturbing lack of mega-jacked army dudes.  Who are these slack-jawed f*ggots?  Pff, next you’ll try tell me that having 24-inch biceps doesn’t help you shoot guns better.  Whatever, dude.  Also, is it just me, or has Laurence Fishburne has been on the Luke Wilson fat face diet?

“Take the blue pill, Morpheus, it will suppress your appetite.”

Opens July 9th. [via /Film]