Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with the Slate's boiler special

podcast on 127 hours, the new Danny Boyle movie starring James Franco. And joining me from our DC studio

is Dan Koyce. Hey, Dan. Hey, how are you? Critic for the Washington Post, contributor to Slate,

occasional contributor to every place, everywhere else. Under. Yeah. And we saw this movie separately.

I have read your review of it.

I think that you liked it more than I did, but I wanted to get your general reaction before we get started spoiling.

Yeah, I liked it more than you did, it seems like.

So this is the movie, as pretty much everyone knows.

It barely even counts as a spoiler to say this is the one where James Franco cuts his arm off.

Yeah, that's going to be how it's treated this weekend, as people are asking their girlfriends out on dates and planning what movie to see, right?

You want to see Franco cut his arm off or what?

Yeah, all right.

Nobody's going to know the title.

Right. I, in fact, while filing my review to the Village Voice, I sent it under the title 127 days because I just forgot what its title was.

Right. And Danny Boyle made 28 days, so whatever.

Right.

So anyways, I really liked it a lot.

I mean, I liked it mostly in spite of Danny Boyle at times, although I think he made a lot of choices that I liked better

than you liked to them, but I liked it mostly because of James Franco, who I think is very well

suited to this role and whose public persona, I think, is played with in this role in interesting

and fun ways. And it really does to me feel like a movie that will

make him turn him from a guy who everyone likes to an actual legitimate movie star who opens

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