TJ and Joseph before and after (but mostly before) episode six of The MovieByte Podcast. They talk about TJ’s preamp, the show outline, Joseph’s audio, ads on websites, Captain America casting, The pronunciation of Anna, YouTube copyright claims, Joseph leaving his car windows down at a theatre in Atlanta, Tech support with an ExpressionEngine third party ad-on developer, Twitter, social media, and email newsletters, the shame of Joseph not listening to Build and Analyze or Hypercritical, RSS feeds and Yahoo Pipes, Mac Power Users podcast, The Verge and how cluttered their RSS feed is, Caffeine and loosing weight, and more.

“Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo” In this week’s episode TJ and Joseph discuss films from TJ’s Box Office Overview Article - ‘The Hunger Games’ and it’s critique of modern culture, ‘The Avengers’ and Joss Whedon, ‘Brave’ and where Pixar veered off track, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and its great box office success yet still overshadowed by ‘The Avengers’, and the box office failures of ‘Total Recall’ and ‘The Bourne Legacy’. And they also discuss Mel Stuart’s ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ as well as a little discussion of the newer Tim Burton remake, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (spoiler, Joseph and TJ thought it was a horrible film).

We still have a few more films to go this year, but I thought it would be interesting to take a few moments to compare the box office results of the films so far that I care about (in other words, I’m not going to talk about ParaNorman, just for instance) and talk a little bit about the results. There’s a couple of films here that came out before we launched MovieByte so I want to talk about them a little bit anyway.

The films I’ll talk about are, in order of release date, The Hunger Games, The Avengers, Brave, The Dark Knight Rises, Total Recall, and The Bourne Legacy.

The Hunger Games

There were no red carpets, no paparazzi, no celebrities and definitely no God at the recent annual Atheist Film Festival.

Instead, there were more than a dozen films, long and short, about separation of church and state, freedom of religion (and no religion), the conflict between science and religion in public schools and a couple hundred people eager to see them.

“If we don’t do this, who will? said festival organizer Dave Fitzgerald, as people picked up atheist-themed books and T-shirts at the Aug. 10–11 festival. “Atheists are not well-represented by Hollywood, and a lot of people…

Movie superheroes tend to be faithful boyfriends, sticking with a single love interest for the entire duration of their franchise, or at least a couple of installments. But alas, the specific circumstances surrounding Captain America’s romance with Peggy Carter (i.e., the whole “being frozen in a block of ice for six decades” thing) make it impossible for the pair to reunite in proper fashion.

So the search is now underway for a new lady to star in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and directors Joe and Anthony Russo have reportedly whittled down the options to three excellent…

The Avengers won’t hit DVD and Blu-ray until late September but some of the special features are beginning to pop up online, including a must-see 4-minute long blooper/gag reel. After the jump you’ll also find a two minute extended scene between Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård) preparing and planning. While you can definitely see why this scene was shortened, its interesting to see the conversation that was lost on the editing room floor.

The blooper reel is not embedable here, so be sure to click through for that. The extended scene is… Read The Rest

The only segments really worth tuning into are a longer version of the movie’s clever propaganda film-within-a-film and an all too brief featurette called “Preparing for the Games: A Director’s Process.” In that chapter, Ross walks us through a couple of scenes from the movie, splitting the screen into three parts. He simultaneously shows us the shooting script, the cool storyboards, and what we ended up seeing in theaters. It’s fascinating stuff for film nerds, offering a real sense of the nuts and bolts of how movies get made. Sadly, it’s only on the Blu-ray version and it’s only three…

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