http://www.fanboysmackdown.com An autobiographical cathartic experience... through film. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:48:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you get this message, then you are subscribed to the wrong feed. The Fanboy Smackdown podcast has changed its name to Backseat Producers. You can subscribe to the new feed by visiting the site and clicking on of the links on the left or by pointing your podcatcher to this link. http://www.backseatproducers.com/?feed=podcast We ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/06/03/if-you-get-this-message/ This is it, our first promo. Feel free to spread it far and wide and point folks back to http://www.backseatproducers.com If you play our promo in your podcast or play it in your feed, let us know. Thanks for listening. Tony http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/06/03/the-first-back-seat-producers-promo/ Win an IN PLAIN SIGHT gift bag. This contest runs from May 19th, 2008 to June 16th, 2008. To enter this contest, send an email to contest at fanboysmackdown dot com Put the phrase “In Plain Sight” in the subject line. Please include your name and mailing address in the body of the email. ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/05/22/contest-in-plain-sight/ This is the last one. With this episode, the Fanboy Smackdown podcast is no more.  We are moving on and hanging up our microphones. PSYCHE!!!! We are just changing the name.  The guys of the Fanboy Smackdown are now the Backseat Producers. Come visit us at www.backseatproducers.com. Make sure when you get there you update ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/05/19/fbsd-episode-061-feedback-and-the-finale/ Mike Terry is a mixed martial arts instructor specializing in Jui Jitsu. Terry is a very honorable man, using his martial arts and the instruction of to prevail in life, even though he finds that that's not quite enough when the bills come due. And as Terry and ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/05/19/theatrical-review-redbelt/ Young Speed Racer has always had a big dream of being the greatest racer in the world and living up to the high standards set by his father in the production of racing cars and his older brother, Rex. As Speed has gotten older, he's able to face that ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/05/13/theatrical-review-speed-racer/ In 1988, a cool and different little genre film premiered called Alien Nation this movie which sprang from the mind of Rockne S. O'Bannon told the story of how an immense group of alien slaves (over 250,000) found themselves stranded on Earth and had now been incorporated into our ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/05/12/dvd-review-alien-nation-the-ultimate-movie-collection/ Happy Mother's Day! Tony, Adam and Sergio discuss the teen pregnancy comedy, Juno. Next week's episode will be a Feedback show. Please get any feedback to be featured in this show to us by Wednesday, May 14th at 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific. fanboysmackdown at gmail dot com 618-207-4747 www.farpointforums.com http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/05/11/fbsd-episode-060-juno/ In this episode, Tony and Adam drink your milkshake; they drink it up. Just a reminder, the name of the show is changing. We don't have a date set, but we'll soon be changing the name of the show to Backseat Producers. If you are an artist who might ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/05/06/fbsd-episode-059-there-will-be-blood/ Win one of two copies of Stephen King's The Mist 2 DVD set. This is a 2 disc set. This contest runs from May 6th, 2008 to May 31st, 2008. To enter this contest, send an email to contest at fanboysmackdown dot com Put the phrase “The Mist” in the subject line. Please ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/05/06/contest-the-mist/ Billionaire munitions manufacturer Tony Stark is living the good life, enjoying a bit of a hedonistic lifestyle from profiteering from his weapons sales. He has his justifications for it and he's proud of it, and then one day it all goes to hell. After demonstrating his newest weapon, a ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/05/05/theatrical-review-iron-man/ Tony and Adam are joined by a voice from the past to continue the Oscar series by discussing the film Atonement. Tony, Tony and Adam also make a big announcement before discussing the film.  This will change everything. First half remains spoiler free, so if you are looking for a review of ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/30/fbsd-episode-58-atonement/ Herein we chat about the kick off to Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica. There is drinking and swearing and spoiling. Kinda like the bar that the pilots all hang out at. Phil from The Red Earth Saga and Melina join Adam and Tony for this recording that took place mere minutes ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/25/fbsd-episode-se05-battlestar-galactica/ It's 1999. An alien race known as the Tenctonese lost a transport ship full of slaves five years ago. They crash-landed onto the third planet of a solar system, and haven't been heard from. Until now. A beacon has been transmitting a hailing frequency, and the Overseers (the higher class ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/24/alien-nation-dark-horizon/ Tony, Adam, Phil, Paul, Jake and (Grungy)Dan went to the movies Saturday afternoon.  Then they went back to Fanboy Smackdown's satellite studio and raided the beer fridge.  Then the microphones went live. This is the result. This is a wild show and we had a great time talking about the new film ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/23/fbsd-episode-057-forgetting-sarah-marshall/ Win one of two copies of Alien Nation: Ultimate Movie Collection DVD set. This is a 3 disc set. This contest runs from April 21st, 2008 to May 5th, 2008. To enter this contest, send an email to contest at fanboysmackdown dot com Put the word “Alien Nation” in the subject line. Please ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/22/contest-alien-nation-ultimate-movie-collection/ As our story starts, it's 1997 and the place is Seattle, Washington. A man named Jon Forster has been arrested for serial killings (as the Seattle Slayer) and is being sent to jail by the damning testimony put together by FBI forensic psychologist Jack Gramm. As Forster is found ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/22/theatrical-review-88-minutes/ Thomas Ludlow is a driven police detective, having suffered his own personal tragedy, he's now extra hard on himself and he focuses it all into his work, doing things that other cops wouldn't do to see that justice is served. He's effective in his ways, and though those ways ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/21/theatrical-review-street-kings/ Tony and Adam discuss the past and proposed future of John Carpenter's Escape From New York. During the course of the episode they also discuss how the feel of Escape from LA differed from Escape From New York and how they each speak to the era in film when they were ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/15/fbsd-episode-056-escape-from-new-york/ In cooperation with Netflix's new YouTube channel, The Fanboy Smackdown podcast is giving away 30 ( that's Three-Oh!) trial subscriptions to Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service. These trial subscriptions are valid for six months of service to Netflix. The directions for this contest are a ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/11/contest-netflix-trials/ Adam and Tony discuss Stephen King's The Mist. We ramble a bit at parts. Make sure you listen after the end music for a special announcement about next week's show. http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/08/fbsd-episode-055-the-mist/ Another review that I didn't get posted because of the future of the show being in flux, having now listed to the latest episode, I want to sort of time this right and put it up before the show with a couple of additional notes coming from having just watched ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/04/03/theatrical-dvd-review-the-mist/ Tony and Adam talk up podcasters, podcast novels and the Oscar Best Picture Award winner, No Country for Old Men. More detailed show notes when Tony recovers from his wicked weekend and this week's Jury Duty. http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/31/fbsd-episode-054-no-country-for-old-men/ Ben Campbell is a young MIT student who's got dreams of being a doctor and has just been accepted into Harvard Medical School. Unfortunately for Ben, the tuition and the living expenses are astronomical, and his only hopes right now rest on getting a coveted scholarship. Ben is ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/31/theatrical-review-21/ We did it before and we are doing it again. Scott Sigler's new print version of Infected gets released on April 1st, 2008. Over the next few days, his publisher has allowed him to give away copies of the PDF version of the book for free. We are helping him do ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/27/we-have-been-infected/ With special guest Tee Morris. Tee's podcast audiobooks are Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword and Morevi: Remastered. Tee won't be making it to Archon this year. Boo! Tee plans on being at Balticon, the New Media Expo, and Dragon*Con. Tony drops an F-Bomb because of Star Wars. Tee ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/26/fbsd-episode-053-pirates-of-the-caribbean/ The time is 1970 and the place is London, England. Michael X, a Malcolm X-like black leader, is coming to prominence, but has both MI-5 and 6 on his tail for illegal activities, primarily drug trafficking, but they can't do anything about it in courts because of pictures that ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/24/theatrical-review-the-bank-job/ "Fiction is as just as real as reality - because you can see it." This line, spoken by one of the main characters of Funny Games, Michael Haneke's 2008 remake of his own 1997 film, sums up the message of the film pretty nicely. I had pretty high expectations walking into the ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/20/theatrical-review-funny-games-2/ In the near future, a deadly virus called the Reaper Virus breaks out in Scotland, which as a result, causes UK forces to erect a wall all around the nation, effectively quarantining them from the rest of the world. 30 plus years later in the year 2035, England feels ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/18/theatrical-review-doomsday/ Oh Noes, we have something approximating show notes! 1. Intro with Melina 2. Spoiler free review of Stay 3. Trampas' Review of Star Trek: Of Gods and Men 4. Tony and Adam make fun of Melina for falling asleep during Gone Baby Gone 5. Total movie plot synopsis and analysis 6. Picking apart the movie, like ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/17/fbsd-episode-052-stay/ As our movie begins, the Farber family, George, Ann and son George Jr. are traveling to their vacation home, ready to enjoy a quiet time away from home and be with friends. As they drive to their home, they see some of their neighbors with a couple of young ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/17/theatrical-review-funny-games/ 10,000 B.C. tells the story of a young warrior, D'Leh (pronounced Duh-lay) and a chosen female, Evolet and their tribe, the Egal (spelling). The Egal depend on hunting down Mammoths for their survival, and at the outset, D'Leh is out to take one down and then claim Evolet as ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/10/theatrical-review-10000-bc/ Lazy Show Notes Adam and Tony review and discuss Ben Affleck's directorial debut. We also have Trampas Whiteman's audio review of The Golden Compass. http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/10/fbsd-episode-051-gone-baby-gone/ In this episode we discuss 2008 Academy Award Best Picture Nominee, Michael Clayton. Tangents include Console games, Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD, and converting wives to geek toys. While the Song of the Dead contest is official over, we recorded this before we stopped taking entries, so winners are NOT announced during this episode. Also ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/03/fbsd-episode-050-michael-clayton/ Win a copy of Highlander:The Source on DVD. Prize package includes a poster and a copy of the soundtrack. This contest runs from March 1st, 2008 to March 31st, 2008. To enter this contest, send an email to contest at fanboysmackdown dot com Put the word "Highlander" in the subject line. Please ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/03/01/contest-highlander-the-source/ OK, I'm actually holding out to buy this on HD-DVD when it hits on March 18th, but I couldn't wait to see it any longer, so I bought the rental of this through the Xbox Video Store last night. It's available in Standard and High Definitions, and for these ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/02/28/dvd-review-justice-league-the-new-frontier/ In Spain, the President of the united States is attending a summit on the global war on terror, and as he's ready to give a speech to the citizens of a Spanish city, a shot fires from above and the President is struck down, as all hell breaks loose around, ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/02/25/theatrical-review-vantage-point/ In this newly recorded episode...  You read that right, this one is brand-spankin' new! ... we welcome a new host to the show. Adam is an experienced podcaster and a welcome addition to the show. Our way of welcoming Adam is to put him on the spot and discuss all five of ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/02/22/fbsd-episode-049-harry-potter/ David Rice is a young man with a unique gift- at the age of 15, David discovered that he could teleport himself to anywhere he can see, and with that talent, David has ran from home (due to troubles with his father) and has spent the last 8 years, giving ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/02/18/theatrical-review-jumper/ List of Links for the show. Bad Buddhist Radio - www.badbuddhistradio.com Gameheads the Movie - www.gameheadsmovie.com Manticore - www.imdb.com/title/tt0417943/ Alien Siege - www.imdb.com/title/tt0437803/ Song of the Dead - www.songofthedead.com Morevi: Remastered - www.morevi.net Info on the Contest: The DVD is Region 1. If you can't play a Region 1 English Only DVD, you'll only win a shiny ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/02/08/fbsd-episode-048-four-for-the-price-of-one/ Outside the border of civil war torn Burma, a group of missionaries are trying to contract a mysterious snake trapper to take them up the river and into Burma where they can hope to administer aid to innocent Burmese caught within the conflict. The snake trapper is former super ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/02/06/theatrical-review-rambo/ There Will Be Blood, the latest film from director Paul Thomas Anderson started as a writing exercise for him adapting some of Upton Sinclair's work and eventually it turned into a full-blown film. There Will Be Blood follows the story of Daniel Plainview, a turn-of-the-century prospector turned oil man ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/01/28/theatrical-review-there-will-be-blood/ Right off the bat, it's immediately shown that what you're about to see in front of you is video tape footage of one of the more personal instances involved in New York City around a military operation that has been named Cloverfield. As this personal video unravels, we're shown ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/01/24/theatrical-review-cloverfield/ In pre-recorded (like from June or July) Tony and Tony discuss the Mel Gibson flick Apocalypto. Promo for Fear the Froot http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/01/18/fbsd-episode-047-apocalypto/ In the Kingdom of Ehb, a power struggle is starting to occur, with the Mystic, Gallian and the king's n'er-do-well nephew, Duke Fallow working together to overthrow King Konreid, while in the back ground the struggle hits close to a peasant named Farmer who's much more than he seems. And simply ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/01/15/theatrical-review-in-the-name-of-the-king-a-dungeon-siege-tale/ So anyway, it's that time of the year again to put together a Top 10 list of what I thought was the best movies that I saw all year. 2007 was a pretty darn good year and I know I certainly saw a lot of films that I had ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/01/09/the-best-movies-of-2007-and-the-worst-as-well/ Join us as we have a few drinks and discuss Ghostbusters. We also discuss how the movie came to be and the sequel. Join in on the fun. Note: Apparently I was drinking when I posted the episode, too. Sorry for the mix up. The proper file should ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/01/08/fbsd-episode-046-ghostbusters-fixed/ In our present day, a cure for cancer has been found. By taking the measles virus and genetically altering it, it has been turned into a cure for cancer and as our story starts, it's 100% reliable. Three years later, the vast majority of the world's population has ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/01/08/theatrical-review-i-am-legend/ Moments after the climactic events of the first Alien Vs. Predator, the predator ship departing from Earth, meets with major trouble within, and finds itself turned around and crash-landing back on the planet near the small town of Gunnison, Colorado. There, captured Alien parasites get free of the wreckage ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/01/03/theatrical-review-aliens-vs-predator-requiem/ In Victorian England, a barber by trade, Benjamin Barker who had a lovely wife and daughter, found his wife to be the object of desire by a malicious public official, Judge Turpin, and through trumped up charges, Barker was banished from London, leaving his wife and daughter to the wiles ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2008/01/02/theatrical-review-sweeney-todd/ This is a pre-hiatus era recording that was made at Gen Con earlier this year. More show notesSobald Sie verbunden sind, haben Sie die Möglichkeit mit dem Spielen anfangen und am Ende poker spielen Sie den progressiven Jackpot online Kasino Spiele , als Real Account Spieler haben Sie Zugang zu allen ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/12/21/fbsd-episode-45-top-gun-at-gen-con/ American Gangster is based on a true story. In 1968, Harlem was essentially "ruled" by gangster Bumpy Johnson and with his death, his right-hand man, Frank Lucas was somewhat left to fend for himself, even though he had some small support from others. Frank figured that the only ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/11/16/theatrical-review-american-gangster/ Even after his death, and he is clearly dead at the start of the film, the legacy of the Jigsaw killer, John Kramer lives on, with more mysterious murders happening in which the victims are forced through some sort of personal mutilation to save themselves.  This becomes very personal to ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/11/06/theatrical-review-saw-iv/ Superman - Doomsday is the first in DC's direct-to-DVD animated features utilizing some key storylines from DC Comics rich history. This one starts it, and then next year will see Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier and then Marve Wolfman's and George Perez's Teen Titans story The Judas Contract following that. ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/10/26/dvd-review-superman-doomsday/ Michael Clayton is an attorney for the New York law firm of Kenner, Bach & Ledden and he's what's described as a "fixer" or a "janitor," the type of guy who's called in to handle the extremely unpleasant occurrences, he's supposed to clean them up and keep them as quiet ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/10/25/theatrical-review-michael-clayton/ After a stunning opening credits sequence in which we're presented with a simplified by-the-numbers version of the United States involvement in Arab Oil production, our scene shifts to an American community of oil workers in the Saudi city of Riyadh, where men posing as Saudi police charged with the protection ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/10/24/theatrical-review-the-kingdom/ In Alaska, some places undergo a natural phenomenon where they go a full month with absolutely no sunlight whatsoever, one of those places is the small town of Barrow, and right as this is about to occur, the small town is prepping for it with a full 80% of the ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/10/23/theatrical-review-30-days-of-night/ Big news for us.  It might not ever mean anything to you guys, but this new partnership should prove to make our lives easier in bringing you Fanboy Smackdown. Farpoint Media/Podango Partnership We, at FarPoint Media (www.farpointmedia.net), a leader in creating, producing and distributing quality audio entertainment, are happy to announce that ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/09/28/farpoint-mediapodango-partnership/ It's been some time since Resident Evil: Apocalypse and now the T-Virus has spread globally, not just laying waste to humanity, but to the environment as well, leaving much of the planet a dusty, desert wasteland. Small pockets of humanity continue to survive, but always on the move. ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/09/28/theatrical-review-resident-evil-extinction/ In London, a young Russian girl goes into a pharmacy looking for help. She's clearly disturbed and pregnant and soon falls unconscious, due to a disturbance in her pregnancy. Once taken to a hospital, she falls under the care of a midwife named Anna, and unfortunately the mother ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/09/28/theatrical-review-eastern-promises/ Hey folks.  I meant to do get this message out to you much, much earlier, but things got out of hand pretty quickly. The title says it all. This podcast (I'm posting this to both TLI and FBSD) is on hiatus. As you may, or may not, know my wife is pregnant with ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/09/26/fbsd-hiatus/ Based on Korean Legend, every five hundred years, fierce dragons and evil mystic warriors appear to keep a legend from being fulfilled, with it's last attempt at fulfillment being thwarted in the year 1507, consigning the planet to again experience these creatures again, now in the year 2007. Two ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/09/17/theatrical-review-d-war-dragon-wars/ It's the old west, after the Civil War. Dan Evans is a struggling rancher who's lost his leg in the war (and now wears a prosthetic) and is losing the respect of his sons and his wife as he's watching his ranch being taken from him over a debt ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/09/11/theatrical-review-310-to-yuma/ It's the middle of the evening and a lone stranger is sitting on a street bench, munching on a carrot. A pregnant woman runs past him, clearly upset and in pain. A car comes into the scene and a deadly killer gets out clearly in pursuit of the ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/09/10/theatrical-review-shoot-em-up/ Nicholas Hume is a man who has everything, a loving wife, two wonderful sons, a secure job- everything is going his way, or as he puts it, there is order in the universe. His eldest son is a hockey prodigy, and one night, coming home from a big game, Nick ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/09/06/theatrical-review-death-sentence/ In the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, something evil and destructive is brewing. Young Michael Myers is the disturbed product of a highly dysfunctional family: an abusive drunk who's his "father figure," a stripper mother who harbors no respect from anyone, and a promiscuous sister, who shows him little regard, ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/09/05/theatrical-review-halloween/ FBI Agent John Crawford lost his partner in a revenge killing over an FBI investigation of Yakuza activity in San Francisco. The killing was carried out by am outside source, known only as Rogue. Three years later, Rogue has resurfaced as a war between the Yakuza and the Triads ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/08/28/theatrical-review-war/ Magnolia Entertainment has done a fine job lately of bring over some very cool Asian cinema to both theatres and DVD lately. With releases like The Host and Tears of the Black Tiger we get some highly entertaining looks at other cultures, all wrapped up in very good films. ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/08/23/dvd-review-yo-yo-girl-cop/ The year is 1855 and the location is Thailand. Thailand has just entered into a treaty that brings them into the forefront of world trade. But farmers can't keep up the production with their normal resources, so they need more buffalo brought into pull their plows. ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/08/22/dvd-review-dynamite-warrior/ A space shuttle landing disaster has brought an intelligent virus to the planet. This virus mixes with human DNA and changes it's host, going from an individual mind to a collective. It doesn't happen all at once, but the process does spread rapidly, but at first, not overtly. A psychiatrist, ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/08/19/theatrical-review-the-invasion/ In this screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' fairy tale/novel, we see the story of a mystical world in England called Stormhold, that's guarded by a wall from humans from the outside coming in. A young man named Tristan, who has more to him than meets the ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/08/14/theatrical-review-stardust/ Wow... America got that one all wrong. Zach was eliminated this week.  I am totally shocked. This has opened the competition though, and it should be interesting to see how it plays out. The log line, chosen by a viewer, that is the theme of this week's films is: "A man wakes ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/08/10/fbsd-episode-44-on-the-lot-112/ In what seems to be right on the heels of The Bourne Supremacy, Jason Bourne is still on the run in Russia and now having flashbacks to his early indoctrination. A British reporter gets wind of everything going on with everything with the CIA and the program that gave ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/08/08/theatrical-review-the-bourne-ultimatum/ This week the theme is Road movies.   For this week, each director had to feature a car in his film. The lowest number of votes this week went to, as predicted (even a broken clock is right twice a day), Andrew Hunt. The highest number of votes went to Jason.  For ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/08/02/fbsd-episode-43-on-the-lot-111/ It's approximately 50 years in the future and scientists on Earth have discovered that soon the sun will burn itself out. Seven years prior to the start of the film, the Icarus project was initiated with the plan being to deliver a tremendous nuclear payload into the heart of ... http://www.fanboysmackdown.com/2007/08/02/theatrical-review-sunshine/