What an eclectic mix of topics we've got for you today. Some, in fact, we don't even get to. You'll hear me tease another edition of "Jenkem Watch" and "Breaking News" at the top of the show... but we don't make it that far. So those will be stashed in the reserve for next week extending the meaning to that broadcast term, 'tease'. What did take up the show's time you ponder? My answer, Zac Efron. Nooo, just yankin' yer chain. He does come up though at the start of the show. Having contracted dermatitis while on a recent camping trip, he's prime Who Asked You? fodder for a comment he made about treating the condition. And it sounds to us like he's been yankin' his own chain. You'll hear all about it when you tune in.
Finally, there's a lawsuit the movie studios have filed that we are on board with. It seems another one of those "censored" DVD companies has been cutting up blockbuster films, burning them to DVDs and reselling them to parents who are incompetent and lazy. Copyright violation and piracy? Ummm... shit YEAH! You can't take someone else's work, manipulate it and then resell it for your own financial gain without telling them. There have been several of these companies over the years that have all met their demise. The latest one, FAMILY EDITED DVDs, is no different. So the studios went after the moron who runs it and shut him down. He also has to pay a fat chunk of green too.
And speaking of stealing from people and large sums of money. Michael Bay explodes onto our show again in our segment devoted just to him. This time the almighty director's offices are the scene of a real life crime. Bay has stated many-a-time that he has friends in "high places" and according to a short, vague announcement on his site regarding the instance, he's called in some of those pals. We're talkin' at the federal level. At this point I think Michael Bay is the only person who could call in the National Guard or FBI to investigate a missing lap top or leaked page of some flick he's working on.
One of the countless things you've probably learned over the years on this show is Dennis' favorite movie being BLADE RUNNER, a 1982 sci-fi movie starring Harrison Ford. Unlike so many of our cult science fiction darlings, BLADE RUNNER has managed to evade the dreaded re-imaging. And it appears it'll stay that way for the foreseeable future. The owners of the movie did it right! As they get ready to hand the off the licensing and rights to it to another production company, they made sure it was stated, on paper, that the film could not be remade. However, our Replicant pals could appear in a sequel film, a comic book or even a TV show. And one of these is already in the works. Find out which by tuning in!
The eclecticity — yeah I know that's not a word — continues. You could say it flies right into your face, because it's 3D news from here on out! First up, George Lucas. Yep... I don't even think I need to finish this sentence for you to know what he's doing but for the sake of search engine optimization, I will. George and his ILM company are hard at work converting all 6 Star Wars films into 3D. Given these movies weren't shot in 3D, we may have a CLASH OF THE TITANS lackluster transfer here. But then again... it is ILM working on it... but then again, they're starting with Lucas' own EPISODE I. For 30 years this guy has been riding his space-based fairy tale. Is it time he move on? We'll wonder about that on this episode.
And we're not finished with news of crap breaching the 3rd dimension. Perhaps the thought of your Wii remote being accidentally hurled at the $5,000 3D-TV you just bought was too much for Nintendo to bare. The company probably shuddered at the prospect of making dozens of YouTube playlists of kids and adults smashing holes in their 3D plasma screens while playing some newfangled 3D title. So the company went a safer, smaller, Apple iPad 2-like route. Introducing the new-but-yet-old 3D Nintendo DS... the 3DS. That's right, the 250-clams you just dropped on a DS Lite could've gone to this 3DS and you would have had Netflix support. Would that have made it worth the wait? Or the price? Charlie and Dennis wrap today's show with one of their famous lengthy debates on this conundrum. You can weigh in as well; send us an E-Mail with your thoughts and let us know if you plan to buy a 3DS in this week's "We Ask You Online Poll."
