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The End of Physical Media, The Best Visual Cinema Experience, Star Wars, Aquaman, Rocky III & Great Gatsby

/Film Weekly

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4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On the November 20, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and tv news, including Star Wars, Aquaman, Rocky III and Great Gatsby. And in the mail bag we’ll talk about your television show recommendations and answer questions about physical media and movie theater presentation. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it).   Opening Banter: Staff are traveling, hopefully, we’ll have a water cooler tomorrow. In The News: Chris: Mark Hamill Pitched George Lucas The Idea To Have Boba Fett Revealed As Luke Skywalker’s Mother HT: Most of ‘Aquaman’ Will Be Presented in Full Screen IMAX Chris: The Original ‘Rocky III’ Idea Involved Rocky Hanging Out with the Pope HT: ‘Gatz’: A ‘Great Gatsby’ Origin Series Featuring a Young, Hot, Mixed-Race Gatsby is Coming to YouTube Premium In The Mailbag: Yesterday we were talking about YouTube’s ad-supported movies. Don H writes in “Did you now VUDU has been doing this for quite some time now?  I’m not sure how long, but I found old marketing e-mails from them going back to March 2017 offering free TV shows with ads. They have over a 1000 movies and TV shows to choose from and they change up the selection monthly.”   Peter asked for TV show recommendations, here are some of the responses: Banshee is my first suggestion. I would argue it's the greatest action television show ever made. The fight scenes throughout this show get progressively more insane and unbelievable in all the best ways. The only thing I'll say is you just need to get over the initial premise, and if you can do that you will have so much fun with this show, and the final season (not only was chosen to end by the creator instead of being cancelled) brings everything home in truly the best way it all can.   Rectify is another option if you're open to a bit of a slow burn that will literally make you cry every episode, and not for the reasons that Parenthood or This is Us do. The dialogue and the uniqueness of the main character makes this show very much worth the time to invest.   Man Seeking Woman. Hilarious and unique sketch type show that also is able to tied together a coherent story from season to season and again I feel the way they choose to end the show is just perfect   Those are my top 3, at least of current shows. Hope you check em out and can't wait to hear you talk about how awesome Lucas Hood and Kai Proctor are!” Jacob Chandler Mississippi: “Hey Peter, I heard you were looking for a new show to watch and you have a list of criteria for what kind of show you want it to be. I’m not sure if this show meets all the criteria but it’s definitely worth checking out if you haven’t already. I would highly recommend looking at Amazon Prime’s Patriot. It’s a dark comedy about a U.S. spy coming to Luxembourg to interfere with the Iranian election. And as generic and uninteresting as that sounds, it is actually one of the better shows in the “sad hitman” genre. It’s really quirky with a very complex plot and a whole lot of ridiculousness somehow wrapped up in a decent emotional struggle. Check out at least the first three episodes and if you don’t like it by then you probably won’t be able to get into it. But I highly recommend it.  Love the show” Matt Y: “Long time listener, first time writer as they say. Love the show! Last week you guys discussed super hero one-offs and a couple of other examples of one of style shows like Black Mirror. I wanted to recommend that you check out an episode or two of Room 104 on HBO. The first season from the Duplas brothers was zainey and unexpected.  Each half hour episode takes place in the same nondescript motel room. The era, visitors, and metaphysical rules are always different. The first season episodes split pretty evenly into a third of the episodes as ju Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome slash film daily for Tuesday November 20th 2018.

0:04.3

On today's episode we're going to talk about the latest film and TV news and try to answer

0:07.8

some of your questions at the mailbag. This is slash film editor-in-chief Peter Sorretta and joining me on today's podcast is

0:14.0

slash film writers, Why Tran Bowie.

0:16.0

Hey everyone.

0:17.0

And Chris Evangelista.

0:19.0

Hello.

0:20.0

Now, alert listeners might notice that we have not had a water cooler this week.

0:26.8

That's because a bunch of our staff is traveling and or sick and we're hoping to have our regular water cooler segment of the week

0:35.8

tomorrow but if not we will have it on Monday of next week so you can look out for

0:41.4

then but let's jump into the news and as I predicted.

0:46.0

My prediction came true guys.

0:49.0

I mean, I am a psychic.

0:51.0

The news slowed down to like a really like almost a halt. We have very

0:58.1

little to go on here but we'll try to make the most out of it. And then we'll jump into the bag of mail.

1:06.2

But let's start off first with the idea

1:08.8

that Mark Hamill pitched George Lucas for Bobaf Fat when the first movies came out.

1:17.0

Chris, tell us about this.

1:19.0

Oh yeah, this almost sounds like it's a joke, but Mark Hamill confirmed it's real unless he's playing a really long

1:26.2

game with this joke but according to him he originally pitched the idea that Boba Fett would be Luke's mother in the films and that that was a way to top Vader being Luke's father and he even pitched this idea to George Lucas and as we all know George Lucas did not go for this

1:46.2

so Boba Fett did not turn out to be Luke's mother in disguise. I don't know it's to me

1:51.2

this sounds like an incredible idea Chris.

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