Another incredible episode of the Handsome Genius Club Radio Show, fresh out of the oven for you with ANTHONY KINGDOM JAMES and TJ HABIBI behind the mics. Uncle Kingdom is suffering with a head cold and with the size of his noggin, you just know it has to be a doozy! But a little illness could never keep AKJ from talking to today's special guest: actor DIRK BENEDICT! Dirk, who played Starbuck on the original Battlestar Galactica and Templeton "Faceman" Peck on A-Team, joins the show from his home in Montana where he enjoys a roaring fire and a good cigar while talking to the HGC Crew.
Find out what Dirk thinks of the re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica, the efforts to remake The A-Team and what he calls "the emasculation of the entertainment industry". Plus, we get a visit from NOAH PANICO with some shocking accusations about CHRIS MAVERICK and Rihanna, a quick look at the NERD NEWS, a peek at Kingdom's busy weekend ahead and a whole lot more...
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This week's handsome links...
-Dirk Benedict has an official website.
-Noah Panico is one of the diabolical villains behind the new Counting The Lights website.
-Check out TJ Habibi's band: Secret Suburbia.
-We can never get enough of Big Daddy Donnie and "Your Bro" Dan-e-o over at Tha O Show.
-Kingdom updates the HGC's Twitter and Facebook regularly.
Noah offers "proof" that Mav beat up Rihanna. Man, that picture sure does look familiar.
This week's music:
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Gotta love how AKJ gets hot about peopele commenting on Tha O Show message boards and such and not commenting on this one but reads comments only from the other ones. Awesome. Yeah, just hot cause I wrote two of the only three comments from last week. But still, seems like a waste of time to comment on here.
Wow... You're really hot at me about that? I apologize if I missed answering a specific question you asked. I will endeavour to do so later tonight. But come on...
Aw, D. Ross, this message board will come around in time, I'm certain. Tha O Show has been around for a lot longer than the HCG and the membership of our lofty club is far more exclusive!
Give it time and the message boards here at HGC will pick up, and Kingdom posts on here a good deal-I'm sure he just missed your question.
Oh, and maybe some of this can spark some discussion here on the forums. I bring these matters to your attention, my Genius brothers and sisters. Just some random junk:
-I picked up Resident Evil 5 for 360 and I’m really underwhelmed with just about everything in the game besides the graphics and Excella’s boobies. This bums me out because RE 4 really turned the whole franchise upside down and gave us something different at just about every turn (From gameplay to storyline). No overplayed, Ham fisted Umbrella to go up against and a fresh host of bad folks. RE 5 goes back to Umbrella and Wesker, giving us more of the same shit we were tired of 8 years ago. The AI on single player of your ‘partner’ will surely make you pray for death, and it just seems like watered down survival horror. It’s sad, because the game looks so pretty and all. Ah well.
-No comedy should be over two hours. Ever. The 40 year old virgin was funny up until the last half hour or so when it started getting uncomfortably serious, and just dragged on too long. Comedies should be no longer than one hour and forty five minutes, daggummit, and ideally an hour and a half. I don’t know why this bothers me so much, I’m just noticing a lot of comedy movies are stretching to and even surpassing the 2 hour mark. Seems unnecessary mostly 95% of the time, though there are exceptions.
-I was so pumped for the Legends of Wrestlemania video game, but as the release date gets closer, I’m thinking more and more about not getting it. Nostalgia is all well and good, but really, can you think of any single move in 80’s wrestling that was exciting? Every character will have a suplex, body slam. Bear hug and a drop kick as well as a finishing move! I dunno, I hope I am wrong, because it’s a rad idea. Wrestling video games as a whole have been pretty lame as of late (SD vs Raw 2009 was pretty fun, but the loading times totally kill it for me), and I think we may be spoiled with all the hep, flashy new moves we have come to expect in our wrestling. I’m not sure that a purely nostalgic trip down memory lane is really worth 60 bucks.
-While I’m on a video game kick, and I really don’t want to sound like the sort of person who just hates everything-DAMN Street Fighter 4 is amazing. From top to bottom they totally nailed it. Great job Capcom, this almost makes up for a disappointing Resident Evil return.
-Now I know how Roddy Piper must have felt in ‘They Live’ being the only person who can see something that seemingly everyone else is oblivious to, because I thought The Dark Knight was fucking laughably crappy, while it apparently has become the Citizen Kane of superhero films to most people I talk to/read about.
"Dark Knight was laughably crappy"? Sure, Iron Man was better and sure Ledger only won the Oscar because he died... but how can you not have dug that film?
Oh Kingdom, I’m so glad you asked!
I wanted to post a thorough list of my gripes with Dark Knight, but I figured it was WAY too long and that no one wanted to hear them anyway, but since you inquired…
1. I know it’s a Super Hero Movie…but come on…
Batman jumps on a speeding van and STOPS IT IN ITS FUCKING TRACKS. No skidding, no screeching tires, but a complete, TOTAL stop. Late WCW storylines were more believable than this.
Need more? I gots more-Batman and Oogly Lady both land on a car fucking SIDEWAYS after falling a few stories out the window and neither is so much as out of breath. This is fun! Weeeeeeeee! Apparently Batman is immune to things like gravity, yet Dogs always seem to fuck his shit up.
And the whole “I turned a cell phone into the patriot act on steroids!” nonsense made me want to get up and fucking leave. Was that honestly necessary? I’m always amazed when people say “Dark Knight rules cuz it’s so realistic! It’s like a crime drama!” Bullshit. It’s nothing remotely close to either of those things. It’s funny how people praise how dramatic and dark and serious this movie is when there was SO MUCH ridiculous rubbish permeating it (The batcycle thing riding full speed at a wall, then doing a gay ass twirl and landing gingerly on the road? What the fuck?)
Oh, and Two-Face is 50 percent incinerated, yet he’s out of the hospital, walking talking and boozing with no problems in a matter of hours. And then he kills the driver of the CAR HE IS RIDING IN and flips it over, yet naturally, he is unscathed. Okay, whatever. Wow, the realism is just mother fucking staggering. How many more examples must I point out? The movie was silly.
I understand this is a superhero movie, and Batman does not conjure images of the most realistic film, but a lot of the stuff was so far fetched it was downright campy. You can’t shoot for dark realism and then feed me this bullshit, seriously.
2. Way too fucking long
Movies like this try to fool you. To convince people they are good, they have to be over 2.5 hours so you get lost in all the bullshit (Lord of the Rings Trilogy I am talking directly to/at you). WATCHMEN WAS LONG BECAUSE IT NEEDED TO BE. End of story. Dark Knight should have been 2 hours TOPS. The entire escapade to Hong Kong-waste of time. It was needless. Gordon faking his death-even more needless and time consuming.
3. Joker has no Plan
Villains need plans. Schemes. Capers. This is the crux of the super hero genre. Bad guy comes up with villainous idea, good guy needs to stop him-It’s a beautiful and basic formula. But Joker’s plan changes every 5 minutes. I know what you’re saying-But Dave, he’s Craaaaaaaaaaaazy!!!!! Fuck that. You cannot have psychopathic, chaotic Joker one minute, then have him pull off well organized bank jobs with military fucking precision the next. One or the other, people, Joker is either a raving lunatic or a criminal genius. You cannot have them both. Throughout the whole movie, Joker EFFORTLESSLY outwits the police department, the mob, and Batman. He never suffers a setback once. They turned the Joker into Triple H for God’s sake. He no sold the whole fucking movie. Oh wait, actually HHH is better because he never acts like Eugene one minute, then is the cerebral assassin the next. Way to go, Trippy! Here is a list of Joker’s numerous ‘schemes’ throughout the movie that seem to fluxuate back and forth…you know, cuz he’s loony and all.
-First he’s stealing from the mob for some reason
-Then he wants to kill Batman
-Then he wants to not kill batman
-Then he wants to turn Harvey Dent from a good guy into a bad guy
This is annoying and showcases that the movie really has no story to tell. Just sit back and watch the mindless garbage, and after the second hour you’ll think it rules because Joker looks kewl with a K.
4. Incomplete Storytelling
After over 2.5 hours, you don’t feel any sort of completion from this movie. Joker’s origin is never explained (See, he gives 2 different stories because he’s CRAAAAAaaAAaaazzZZZyyyy!!!!!), and it’s never really explained what happened to him at the end. The ending was literally left hanging.
When I first saw the new Joker picture, the first thing I thought of was “Wow, they are doing something different with Joker-I like it. I can’t wait for them to explain how he got all fucked up.” But nope, they explained nothing. 2.5 hours and the antagonist isn’t even detailed. The performance was very good, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a fucking crying shame that the script and the story were not up to par.
5. In wrestling terms, the Build sucked
Jesus and Satan. The US and the Reds. Hulk and Andre. Anthony Kingdom James and Dane Cook. Batman and Joker. There is something beautiful in the phrase ‘arch-nemesis’ that makes me happy inside. Simply put, you never get the feeling that Batman and Joker really have it out for each other. There’s no suspense, there’s no “Boy I cannot wait for these two to fucking fight!” The end is so anti-climactic, and when you’re talking Batman/Joker it is a fucking sin to have such a dud of a conclusion. Oh, and Joker blowing up the oogly girl was cheap heat!
6. One villain too many.
I understand why there were two villains in Batman Begins. Raz and Scarecrow aren’t really super popular, well known Batman villains, so they kinda needed to share the spotlight to carry the film. I get that. But the Joker is a big deal, and he should have the movie all to himself. There simply isn’t a need to have a second villain in a film featuring a MAJOR villain. Once again, more unneeded minutes tacked onto this clunky, unwieldy film.
Now, I don’t hate Batman as a character. In fact, I loved Batman Begins. I thought it was a new and fresh take on the character and I was super pumped for the sequel. I really wanted to like this movie (And I’ve seen it twice, just to show you how much I tried!), but after the first five minutes when the bank manager says “There used to be a code amongst criminals-honor among thieves!” my jaw hit the fucking floor at the ridiculously queer line. The movie got off to a super bad start from the first scene and just kept withering away from there.
I have just had enough of people slobbering all over this obviously flawed film. Where Iron Man and the Wrestler were overrated in my opinion, they were still good movies (Just not super great like most of the hype suggests). Dark Knight is pretty much universally regarded as some masterpiece yet the holes in the plot and story and logic are so fucking glaring that I cannot relate to how anyone could argue against this.
When I tell my friends who love this movie all my problems with it, they say the same thing every time “Yea, that was dumb, you’re right. Oh yea, that part was dumb too.” Yet they will still go on and on about what a great movie it was.
Hopefully I’ve explained and listed out my opinion well enough to escape any “You’re just saying it sucks to be different/cool” comments, and at best I hope that even people who like this movie will at least be able to see some of the absurdities in it. And damn, I just realize that most of my posts on this message board are me ragging on something! I promise to be more positive in the future.
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I totally saw the crazy things that stood out in Batman but still loved the movie. I actually liked that Joker had no real reason for doing the crazy shit he did. Its not like he can walk into a bank and deposit cash into his savings account. Let him steal it and just burn it. Makes perfect sense. No, I’m not being sarcastic. I liked that he was just crazy to be crazy.
AKJ, I’m not that pissed. Its just that you wanted folks to post their comments here and then you mentioned nothing but comments that weren’t. I still listen to the show every week and even listen to the songs played during breaks. You’re a cool ass dude and I really like listening to you talk about everything, even shit I don’t care about (Battlestar).
The Legends video game seems really fun but the moveset factor is a big concern. It will be something close to the old ass Genesis Royal Rumble game. Punch, kick, body slam, suplex, finisher. God, I just remembered that HBK’s finisher used to be a top rope elbow. My biggest concern is controls. I got SDvsR08 and stopped playing because the control was so shitty. If they let me turn it into 07’s version I would be so happy.
Long comedies are a bad idea. The best example of this is Shallow Hal. God, that movie went on forever. Horror, comedy, and dramas should be an hour and a half. I had no problem with LOTR being as long as it was. I cant imagine it being shorter. Plus, with movie prices being the way they are I would rather sit there for hours at $12.75 than the length of a sitcom and House.
American Dave? Dante Ross? You're both complete madmen. Obsessive geeks with too much time and too much opinion and too much vocabulary on your hands.
That's why I love you both so much. You're the perfect Handsome Geniuses.
Bastard! You said you loved me for my thick lips, full bodied taste, and mansmell! Anyhoot, good show and maybe one day I will give Battlestar a gander.
Have you been watching Lie To Me? Best new show on TV. Also, check out Better Off Ted. I cant remember the last time a show on TV made me laugh that much.
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