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OpKino Classic: The 2nd Quarter Quell (Feb. 22nd 2012)
Guess what? We’re coming up on our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell!
What is a Quarter Quell?
For fans of The Hunger Games book series, a Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and something about those Hunger Games is different. In Catching Fire, the movie and the book, the Quarter Quell features a culling from the surviving tributes and…now this has nothing to do with the podcast.
A podcast Quarter Quell represents a break in our usual format. Every 25 episodes, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e stop talking about current pop culture and cover a topic/movie that let’s you know a bit more about the four of them as people.
It’s humanizing, like naming a cow before the slaughter.
Leading up to Fighting In The War Room 25 (June 3rd!), we’ll be seeding our previous Quarter Quells under that other podcast name.
This week on Operation Kino, we’re throwing out the usual format and celebrating our 50th episode with our second Quarter Quell. Last time each of us brought in a movie that represented how we thought about film, but this time we’re getting nostalgic, with each podcaster revisiting the first movie that ever got them really into film. We kick things off with Da7e, who fell in love with monster movies at an early age thanks to this obscure foreign monster Gojira– or, Godzilla to us Americans. Then Patches recalls how exciting it was, as a sheltered youth, to come across the comedic insanity of The Blues Brothers. David takes us back to his film school days with the experimental travelogue Sans Soleil, from the same director who brought you La Jetee. And Katey wraps things up by reviving her pretentious 15-year-old self who thought she was really, really smart when she first saw American Beauty. We do have a lightning round in this episode, so we end, as always, with your lightning round answers for dessert.
Format
00:00-01:08 Lightning Round
1:28 – 2:43 Introductions and explanation of the Quarter Quell
3:23 – 17:20 Da7e’s tribute: Gojira
18:03 – 32:28 Patches’s tribute: The Blues Brothers
33:05 – 49:54 David’s tribute: Sans Soleil
50:28 – 1:06:20 Katey’s tribute: American Beauty
1:06:20 – 1:12:34 Dessert!
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022 – The 2014 Binge Summit
Plus The Godzilla Legacy and 2014 Top Movie Trivia
This week, Da7e returns and demands everyone spend a few more minutes talking about Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla and how it fits into the grander tradition of Godzilla movies now that we know there will be a sequel. Then, Katey has devised a round of trivia comprised of quotes from the Top 20 Box Office hits of 2014. You’ll be surprised what’s made it up there. Finally, all four hosts discuss binge watching and how it’s transformed our view. That plus a lighting round question about dream duos that have duo’d poorly in the past.
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich) Patches (@misterpatches), Da7e (@Da7e) and David (@davidehrlich or @CriterionCorner).
We also welcome your feedback!
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Call and leave us a voicemail at (914) 410-6450– if we like it, we may play it on an upcoming show.
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FORMAT
00:00 – 01:16: Lightning Round: Duos That Could Duo Better?
01:16 – 01:46: Intro: Welcome To Episode 23!
01:46- 14:40: Da7e Tidbit: Da7eZilla
14:40 – 22:25 – Mini-Segment: Katey’s Cine-Quote Madness Trivia Round
22:25 – 42:23 – Segment 3 – Binging Stories
42:23 – 46:46 Outro
This week’s music:
“Do You Know Where Your Children Are” by Michael Jackson
“Fancy” by Iggy Azalea
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REVIEW – Godzilla Should Not Be Destroyed, He Should Be Studied.
RRRRRAAAAAARRRRRNNNNGHHHH!
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@KateyRich) Patches (@misterpatches) and David (@davidehrlich)
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022 – We Don’t Know About You, But We’re Feeling Disaster Blockbusters In Our Dark Souls
The human level of blockbusters and video games.
This week, no one played Reigns of Catsamere at Katey’s wedding, so she’s back in the hot seat, Da7e’s hot-seat, since that guy isn’t around. David probes Dark Souls the video game along with his own dark soul to discover what – if anything – the co-op system has in common with movies. The group picks their favorite post-Jurassic Park summer movies before delving into a conversation on whether summer blockbusters really need characters. Do half-baked pawns stand in the way of true spectacle?
Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich) Patches (@misterpatches), and David (@davidehrlich or @CriterionCorner).
We also welcome your feedback!
Find us and like us at our Facebook page
Call and leave us a voicemail at (914) 410-6450– if we like it, we may play it on an upcoming show.
Have you noticed you’re getting new podcasts? Check out what you’ve missed on STORM OF SPOILERS here.
Please subscribe on iTunes and KICK US A REVIEW if you like what you hear! It helps us with expanding to new listeners, especially in these early days of the new podcast!
FORMAT
00:00 – 01:10: Lightning Round: TV Stars to Film!
01:10 – 02:50: Intro: Welcome To Episode 22! Thanks for the review!
02:50- 16:03: Da7e Tidbit: Defining Spider-Man through absence
16:03 – 24:34 – Mini-Segment: Favorite Blockbusters
24:34 – 42:08 – Segment 3 – Disaster!
42:08 – 44:43 Outro
This week’s music:
“22” by Taylor Swift
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