Following up

So even tho Herman REALLY wanted to talk about Avatar, I managed to hold off of most of our comments till this week's episode (Thanks Everett!)

To Avatar or not

Here's a little "behind the scenes" of the radio show.

After watching Avatar, and realizing that former WWE Superstar Tazz may not be a call-in guest for next weeks show, I was considering to make next week's show all about Avatar. I feel we can easily fill an hour talking about the movie.

I mentioned this to (co-host) Herman, and he thinks we should stick to the plan on do Avatar tonight. I'm going to talk to the rest of the team, and you'll have to tune in (or wait till next week) to see what is decided!

Good Times

My newest webmaster is working on the new totally redesigned site, so hopefully I'll be able to upload new shows myself on there. As of right now, I still can't figure out how to get it on the "ICFTR" site....

The show is going quite well, Charlie did very good, and we had a good time. This week we will have a call in guest.

So things are looking up right now! I look forward to the new calendar year.

So now what?

I have been spending the better part of the day trying to upload last nights show to the "It came from the Radio" site (it was pretty good with the new addition). Still no go. I guess I still need a computer guy....

Just in time for the holidays

I had something else in mind for this week's post, but it seems that Santa came early and we have a holiday run of "It Came From The Radio" shows starting next week. The schedule is tentative, but this is what I have lined up so far:

12/8: Re-cap of the time between shows, a "duel of the cons" follow up, and then well have a discussion of re-makes and the new "re-imaginations"

12/15: Call-in guest from the comic Serpent Wars, then a discussion of the new 3-D trend in movies

12/22: Sky Pirates, and Avatar

and finally, 12/29: I hope to get former WWE superstar Taz to be a guest and have a discussion of the new "Sherlock Holmes" movie.

Remember they are all live, so listen in call in and spread the word!

Random Thought

I was thinking about this the other day. They do covers of songs (where one artist sings the exact same lyrics of another artist's song, re-make movies and TV shows, but they never re-write books. Why is that?

Why is it that people feel a tv show is "old" or "dated" where there are books much older? I mean there is no new "Romeo and Juliet". Yes, there are new "takes" of the story, but the book is never "remade".

Just something I was thinking about....

The day after Godzilla attacked our Independence in the year 2012

If you didn't get my attempt at humor, I am talking about the new disaster movie 2012 (made by the guys who did Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, and the American Godzilla (amongst others)).

And as with all my movie discussions, spoilers may (and most likely) will be mentioned.






First off, this movie is looong, but it didn't feel like it, so that tells me the pacing was good. The movie starts off in 2009 (which was a bit of a surprise to me) where they get right to the plot. Crap is going to go down "very soon". Usually, there is one guy who knows everything and no on else believes him, but not in this movie. Right away, the President (played by Danny Glover) is notified and he let's all the "important people" know.

Soon after that, we are introduced to the "every man" the people who are going to have to survive (or at least try to) the disaster. Usually, these people are introduced separately and brought together by what ever the movie throws at them. Not in this movie, everyone is connected together in some way before crap goes down (which was a nice touch).

Now lets get to the destruction: Computers have come along way, but it still looks..."not right" somehow. But, these guys went all out (so far as to stretch your limits of plausibility to the max) with stuff blowing up (or down, or out) all over the place. No inch of the screen was spared. Usually, it's just one (or possibly two) big events and the rest id build up. Not in this movie. There are at least 5 different events (each equally huge) scattered throughout the movie (which once again helps with the pacing.

Out of everything going on, there was one guy who stood out for me....



Johann Urb (shame there is no dude-ipidea) He has "Hero" written all over him. Every time he showed up on screen, I was thinking, he could be Captain America, or maybe even the next action hero.

Now for the bad stuff....
The only thing that really bothered me (and only after I left the movie) was the really really good cell phones every one was having. As it stand now most phones don't work properly (dropping calls and bad connections and what not). But not in this movie. Despite the cell towers being destroyed (either by flood, earthquake, or just you know blowing up) everyone was able to call everyone else with no problems at all. They even mentioned that they had to turn off the switchboard because of all the phone traffic, and yet everyone was still able to make calls! In most horror movies, there is no reception and that is just with a guy in a hockey mask running around. Here, the world is coming to an end and everyone can still reach out and touch someone!

So overall, it was a decent disaster movie, the characters were more fleshed out than usual, the destruction levels were high and the cast was pretty decent. So go out and see it you only have 3 years to do so!