2012 Year in Review

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2012 year in Yeah, so the Mayans lied to us Hello

and welcome to the geek cast radio network 2012

year in review. I am one of your host do you

do and Mike and joining me is Will you roll Dan?

Hello. Hello and Steve joker Tron. Hello well

you know there you know you and your death of

the family and take you bastard today we're going

to recap moments from twenty twelve uh... in

general also recap the year that the d cast radio

network has had dan what have you been up to

you make a lot of top lists for the end of the

year and just yes i've been uh... kind of doing

all that was movies twenty twelve uh... putting

everything together in different Best of lists,

different awards that are meaningless but fun

to do nonetheless. I have a few still to come

out by the time this is out. My best female performances,

male performances, my top ten movies, which will

go over this podcast as well as my top ten docs

will be at. Still trying to kind of catch up

on some of the movies I missed this year because

a lot of the great stuff is starting to come

out on home media. So trying to catch that stuff.

So it's been a busy holiday season with all that

and then, you know, all the family stuff too,

like it's in the way. Yeah, that's true speaking

of family stuff. We have a Megatron jr. Amongst

us now Congratulations to Steve and his wife

for the birth of their first child yes in November

Yes, he's actually giving us some sleep at night

What have you been up to Steve besides Taking

care of your mini you well, that's where it gets

a little complicated Aiden, what the hell is

Complimicated? It's a slang word from Flint,

Michigan. Apparently so. Yeah, candy ass. You're

not even from Kentucky. Anyways, I still talk

like a hick. And you do a mighty convincing job

of it, so. No, I with my son being born it kind

of Put a lot of my my shows at a standstill because

obviously life comes first and then also So that's

why some of our shows have been kind of that

at least involved me have been kind of MIA temporarily

also, I Due to the terrible terrible job market

here in Flint Michigan area I'm going back to

school so that I can try and get a Degree so

I can try and get a job even if it means I have

to move afterwards, but so that starts in January

and I'm not looking forward to going back to

school That's where the Billy Madison song would

Come in but uh But yeah, so I mean I got to do

that and Then in addition to that so I will be

very scarce over the following year unless I

find a job that Pays enough to let my wife stay

at home to watch my son. Otherwise, it's going

to be a hectic hectic freaking year coming up

And also I got my my webcam for Christmas for

my wife. So I should at least be able to do my

altered geek show and some various other stuff

on my YouTube channel, which will be also syndicated

over on geekcastradio .com. And I'm going to

try and do the occasional show if I can get time,

but I have no idea how that's going to be with

school and everything else. Yeah. Well, like

you said, life comes first. I still will have

the behind the scenes presence, but I may not

be on very much. Show -wise for a bit. So we're

at least gonna eventually try and get Legends

of the Dark Knight to episode, you know after

the films and then kind of cut it off before

beyond If we can squeeze right in there somewhere.

So Yep And for myself Been trying to get Tooncast

Beyond Season 2 done Scheduling conflicts abound

which is fine Tooncast Beyond was It's been great.

It's been what I wanted it to be with changing

the entire Tooncast classic format into seasons

and doing more of reviews of stuff that is happening

now versus the classic stuff and that was Had

had that vision since I think about episode 90

of Tooncast classic of you know doing it cartoons

in the now but after going through oh I don't

even know how many DreamWorks movies. I am just

burnt out on that show So Tooncast Beyond is

gonna be retired for this year It is still an

active show. It is still one of our flagship

shows But Season 3 will not happen this year.

We haven't even finished Season 2 yet. It will

not happen in 2013. It may possibly start late

2013 into 2014. I don't know. It's one of those

things where you do something long enough or

you do one thing long enough where you need a

break from it and I just need a break from it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get to that in a second

never doing that again but Yeah, Tooncast Beyond

is still one of the flagship shows that always

will be it will come back eventually But I need

to step away from it for a while and and do other

stuff uh... let's see what else is going on uh...

yeah dan mentioned and wire and the bond spotlight

that we did for them like the last five weeks

of twenty twelve uh... i'm kinda glad we did

it now celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of

bond versus doing it where i had it scheduled

in them were a couple years down the line uh...

i'm glad that it's over yes we only reviewed

eighteen out of the twenty three films but let's

face it those other films well a couple of the

other films just no one needs to ever see them

Bond in Space give me a break look see a day

and I had done that M wire will obviously come

back in 2013 we're gonna do 90s movies we're

gonna do Star Trek and then close to the tail

end of the tail end of the year we're gonna do

the Muppets we're gonna review Muppets stuff

for M wire GCR will continue. GCR on Wars is

supposed to make a huge comeback next year. A

whole bunch of stuff. For this year, shows that

Kevin and I started, Optimus Solo and I started,

Mass Mayhem and Powers of Grayskull series. Tales

of Eternity is going strong. That show is gonna,

we're gonna, we're just blasting through that

show. He and I are having fun talking about that

cartoon. Mass Mayhem? I honestly don't know.

Yes, we will finish it before the end of 2013,

but as of right now I have no interest to watch

any more mass cartoons than we already have that

that show is just So horrible So yeah, that's

that's pretty much what I've been up to Also,

we have to thank Everyone that has contributed

to the network, you know Dan and all of his blogging

the occasional blog from Steve and all the podcasts

that we've done for 2012. Even though they had

a rough year with that nine month pregnancy pushback,

we have to thank What's on Joe Mind and the whole

retaliation stuff and everything they've done.

Star Joe's has been a nice addition with more

so a general pop culture type of comics and assembly

of everything. Stuff that we probably wouldn't

even talk about, so thank you to them. Not that

I set out to break records every year, especially

with this next topic I'm going to bring up. When

I approach an agent or a person for an interview,

it's because I really want to talk to that person

or because myself and Michael Wilson or Steve

or whomever really want to have a conversation

with that person. It isn't to get our interview

numbers up, but we did. break last year's record

of interviews. We had 15 new interviews this

year and we have to go down the list and thank

every single one of those people because it was

so amazing for them to take out their time out

of their day and night and whatever to sit there

and talk with us. In January, we had for the

second time back, we had Rob Paulson on Tooncast

Beyond. We talked about his podcast, his upcoming

book. All that good stuff Optimus Solo and Steve

talked to John Delancey in February. Yes Q Yeah,

that was awesome for you guys. Mm -hmm. Yeah

Steve myself and Tara Talked to Lauren Lester,

the voice of Dick Grayson Robin from BTIS also

in February. That was a cool interview. I love

talking to Lauren. I could talk to that guy all

day long. Oh, I know. That was such a great interview.

So amazing. And he liked my Joker. Yes. Yes.

In March, Michael Wilson and I talked to Dan

Gilbazan, who started calling Michael Terry for

some strange reason. Because he didn't want to

call you guys Michael and Michael. Yeah, I know.

How about I just call you Terry? Yeah. In April,

Baltmatrix and I talked with author Leonard Kinsey

about his book The Dark Side of Disney. That

was really interesting. I know a lot of people

go to Disney World and a lot of the Disney parks

for the stuff that's there, but if you want a

full -on adult vacation that has nothing to do

with the actual parks, read The Dark Side of

Disney because he gives you all kinds of insights

on where adults can have adult fun at the Disney

parks. That was very, very interesting and awesome.

uh... in may uh... we did a uh... until michael

our project crossover with gcr where they talked

with phil lamar for about an hour so so that

was cool government get them that interview we

had two interviews in june the first being the

god damn batman himself it only took me about

a year and a half to get that interview but we

talked with uh... kevin conroy that was awesome

yes yes it was Yes, we're still holding out hope

for Mark Hamill. I'll be working on that in 2013,

hopefully. For the goddamn Joker! It doesn't

work the same way, sorry. Also in June, Michael

Wilson again and I talked with Greg Berger, voice

of Grimlock, that was very cool. over on from

the command center in july uh... scottie cash

and i've scottie cash from pop culture network

and i talked with uh... jason david frank the

green white red black however many color rangers

he was as tommy oliver that was freaking awesome

uh... you know if you told the thirteen -year

-old self of myself when i was watching that

show back in the nineties that i would eventually

talk to that guy i would have never believed

it Sadly, I didn't schedule the next one properly

because Steve kind of got cut out of it. Sorry,

but I talked with Chuck Durant and Stacey J.

Eswad from View Buzz Weekly in July as well.

In August, how many of us talked? Was it just

me and Michael? It was three. It was me, you,

and Michael, right? Yep. Steve, myself, and Michael

Wilson talked with Steve Bloom. That was freaking

awesome. That was so cool And then I who was

on the Keaton interview you guys yeah, I think

it was me and Michael Michael and I Michael Wilson,

and I talked with Josh Keaton voice of Hal Jordan

Green Lantern Jack Darby from Transformers Prime

All that good stuff very very awesome interesting

interview I of course because something happened

in the land of old school Transformers this year,

had an update interview with Stan Bush again

talking about his The Touch power remixes since

Fall of Cybertron came out and he had a new version

of The Touch in there, which you can find in

ATTF version 2 .0 episode 28. Michael Wilson

actually brought us an interview, Imari Williams,

who is... The Voice of Boulder on TF Rescue Bots,

very, very cool. What I find interesting about

the Josh Keaton and Amari Williams interviews

is that both of them have said, have told us

that they would just want to come back and just

talk geek with us. So that was very, very cool

of them. And the final one we did, it was something

I did. There's a web show out there on EpicLevelTV

.com and you find it on YouTube as well called

Space Guys in Space. It's this little web show,

very, very awesome, stars Jason Marsden, Nicole

Pacent, and Dave Levine. And it's got voiceover

by Phil Lamar. It's even got an episode with

Phil in it. Space Guys in Space, very, very,

very awesome, so cool. But yes, thank you to

everybody who... who took time out to talk with

us this year. That was so, so awesome. So what

additions in 2012 did we add, Steve? As far as

the website? As far as the website, as far as

new people to the network, I know we added Star

Joe's. Yeah, we added Star Joe's, the lunch table

crew. joined us full -time in the sense of they

started doing XRG, taking over from the failed

attempt that we did the previous year. Of course,

they do it when they have time because one of

the guys is married, has kids and everything,

so that kind of takes away from it too. Then

we also got I'm trying to think. Having a little

bit of brain damage here. A lot more blogs from

all of us, mainly Dan and you. I got some DC

-related reviews loaded on the site. We got some

of Michael Wilson's stuff syndicated over. Yeah,

very awesome. We attempted to launch GCRN live,

which failed miserably. I'll work on that for

2013. Now that I have a webcam, I'll try and

play around with that a little bit in my spare

time, especially because my college courses are

going to be predominantly audio video in reference.

Sweet. So yes, I shall have professional experience

by the end of it. So when we say we are professionals,

we really mean it. Yeah Yeah I've revamped most

of the website color design everything. It's

no longer the plain blue It's no longer Pete

kes radio .com. It's G Sarah and media and entertainment

There's still a lot of stuff where we're branching

out we're Still growing in a lot of different

areas as far as the site We will be involved

with a convention next year due to the fact that

I am now their graphic designer. How I have time

for all the random shit going on, I don't know.

But yet I do. So we will have a presence at Grand

Con in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September of 2013.

So it'll be myself and the XRG crew there. But

I'm pretty sure, I think that's about it as far

as site features. I mean, besides some menu reorganizations,

some new categories, added articles, reviews,

it's gonna get another facelift. 2013 the menu

structure mostly not the entire site But something

will change the show categories thing on the

main page will be removed and replaced with something

else at one site figure out what Yeah, but there's

not gonna be that many main website changes in

2013 No, not in year four. We are working on

slowly, because you have so much on your plate.

We are slowly working up and keeping our eye

out for year five. Once we hit year five here

at GCRN, the entire site will change. And that

will be whatever those changes are will be our

main design, finalized design type of thing to

where we're not changing it every single year.

Yeah, it will be for the foreseeable future.

And then, of course, I'll add. things here or

there like I've done with this edition. Right,

exactly. But I don't plan on doing heavy again

for a while. Alright, so we've got to take a

moment of silence here because a lot of people

have passed away in 2012. Yes. The one that is

strangely coming to my mind is Whitney Houston.

I don't know why. That's the only one I can think

of without actually looking at a list. We had

Michael Clark Duncan, I think. Yeah, Michael

Clark Duncan passed away. We had Tony Scott.

Yeah, he passed away. That was really sad. We

had Dick Clark, who will not be there for the

first New Year's since, what, the 60s? Yeah,

I think so yeah somewhere around there really

70s at least but Damn what were you gonna say

Dan any Griffith that passed away Andy Griffith.

Yeah. Oh, yeah Adam Yoch does I'm a big fan of

the Beastie Boys and MCA passed for this year.

Yeah, I'm Etta James the famous singer Mike Wallace

the The anchor for 60 minutes, you know, he's

been an icon in for news media for a long time

Sherman Hemsley, mr. Jefferson, you know, the

Jeffersons passed away this year One of the astronauts

from the 60s, oh, yeah Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong

passed away as well. And again, we're not looking

at a list at a list currently. So these are just

our top of our head. Most memorable in our minds.

Yeah. Yeah. He also wants to remember the most.

Yeah. Oh, and the and Ernie Borgner. Oh, yeah.

Poor Dom. Oh, man. I remember. Mainly remember

him from air wolf. He was awesome as Dominic

Santini and air wolf He wasn't so much TV's movies

and his career is extensive Yeah, there was a

Yeah, there was a Christmas movie like one of

those hallmark life Hallmark lifetime ABC ABC

family movies a cult like a year and a half or

two years ago Where he played a grandfather and

I was like I didn't even know the guy was still

alive Honestly, I had no idea at the time and

I was like, oh he looks pretty good for his age

I think the sag awards. I think it was last year

gave him their Career Achievement Award and right.

Yeah. He I mean he you can tell like he was he

was getting up there He seemed pretty good though

for his age, but you know, fortunately, you know

as As it comes he passed away not not too long

ago Yeah So may they all rest in peace and they

will be missed but never forgotten. Up next we're

going to talk about some top lists. Each of these

will be their own segment and you will hear different

possibly themes or clips like mini clips from

each of our lists. First up is top five artists

or albums. I'm pretty much going to be the only

one doing this so check it out as we listen to

this musical clip. Originally when I wrote this

list up I put top five artists or albums last

year when we did the 2011 show. It was just albums

and I kind of went back to that. I do have to

give a huge honorable mention and shout out to

a lot of the voice season three contestants.

The winner Cassidy Pope, absolutely love her,

glad she won the show. Terry McDermott, very

very awesome Scottish rock singer. Adriana Louise

Devon DeLora Liz Davis love all those people

as well so the voice season three this year was

absolutely amazing getting into my list here

number five I never thought I would ever do this

again and the last time I really bought an album

from this person was when her debut came out

back in the 90s this year I got Alanis Morissette's

havoc in the bright lights I got another recommendation

from one of my Facebook friends Chris Sunday

And it's a damn good album. I didn't think it

was going to be that great. I've liked Alanis'

songs here and there over the years, but I've

never liked whole albums from her. But this whole

album is pretty damn good. Number four. A man

that knows how to make music for movies and television.

Brian Tyler's Transformers Prime season one soundtrack.

This is amazing. When I first saw this on Amazon,

I was like, oh, because usually Amazon only shows

like a certain number of tracks. When I first

saw it pre -order on Amazon, I was like, oh,

so it's going to be 12 or 16 tracks. Uh -uh.

25 tracks of music from this guy. You may have

also heard his music in Fast Five and Paparazzi.

A bunch of other stuff that he's done. Absolutely

amazing. it just goes to show you how awesome

Transformers Prime is because the music in it

is just stellar. Number three comes in with Stan

Bush and the Touch remixes. There are two versions.

There's the Power Mix and then there's the Epic

Guitar Mix. The Epic Guitar Mix is featured in

Fall of Cybertron, the new Transformers game

that came out this year. Again, Stan just kind

of knocked it out of the park with these two

remixes a lot better than when he tried to do

the Sam's theme version. I wasn't too much of

a fan of that. Number two is one of my all -time

favorite rock bands, 12 Stones, with their new

album Beneath the Scars. Very, very cool of them

that they released. And number one... And again,

it's because of the voice that I even paid any

attention to this. Christina Aguilera's Lotus.

Absolutely love that album. It's such a great,

great album. So there you go with that. And up

next we're going to talk about some TV shows.

We'll be back after this clip. This is not a

story about forgiveness. When I was a little

girl. My understanding of revenge was as simple

as two wrongs don't make a right. Do you know

how much I love you, Amanda? Infinity times infinity.

But when everything you love has been stolen

from you, someone has to pay. It's one of the

most expensive zip codes in the world. Welcome

to the Hamptons. You won't find a better address

than this. I'll take it. Their lives are private.

Do you think I'm tan enough for my first day

on the beach? What you need is another bathing

suit. This is practically a burka. Their community

is exclusive. Gray's suit boy is kinda cute.

That's the tragically privileged Daniel Grayson.

Their secrets are shocking. And one woman will

do whatever it takes. Emily's new to the Hamptons,

but she really wanted to take part in your fundraiser.

To destroy them. I try to give back as much as

I can. Coming to ABC. I'm Daniel. Emily. Welcome

home, Daniel. Hi, Mom. I'd hate to be on her

bad side. Yes, you would. Some forgive. Have

Miss Davis escorted off the boat. You're not

a part of this. But I can be just as powerful

an enemy as any one of them. But all she wants

is revenge. To chance meetings. To an unforgettable

summer. ABC's Revenge. Coming Wednesdays this

fall 10 .9c to ABC. Come on Sheldon, Star Wars.

I'm pushing play. I mean, if we don't start soon,

George Lucas is gonna change it again. That's

nice. Too bad it's wrong. What do you mean wrong?

You made an arithmetic mistake on page two. It

was quite a boner. No, no. That can't be right.

I don't make arithmetic mistakes. Are you saying

I do? Oh no. No, of course not. I was thinking...

Oh gosh golly. I made a boo -boo. And I gave

it to Stephen Hawking. Great. Another feature.

So let's talk some TV. This will be our top five

TV shows of the year. This can also include stuff

that's returned from the previous year or years.

Let's get the honorable mentions out of the way

first. Dan, what are your honorable mentions

for TV for 2012? Two that dismissed the list

for me were Modern Family and Falling Skies.

Two good shows just didn't make it to my top

five. And then there are some shows that Haven't

finished washing or in the process of finishing

so I didn't include them which are Louie breaking

bad and madmen So I didn't consider them eligible

since I haven't I'm still catching up on all

those seasons. So right, right What is your your

actual list for your TV for the year Dan, okay

Well starting at number five is community. I

probably would be higher on my list if it had

more episodes Okay, he's a showrunner so we're

young people curious how that's gonna turn out

But I think still an amazing show losing season

3 I think it ended off at a high note some amazing

television that I can't believe was actually

on Network TV on NBC But like for example the

near the end of this and they had an entire episode

of the on of like 8 -bit, you know video game

And that was it, which was crazy for a network

television program. But that was my number five.

It has a great heart. It's a funny show. If you

like geek culture, it's a perfect show. And it's

really surprised me the way it's gone and how

it's developed over the last few years and continues

to get better and better. They had an awesome

Law and Order episode, which was the best homage

and parody I've ever seen on television in recent

memory. What's your number four? Number four

is Game of Thrones. I actually didn't start watching

this until this year. I kind of marathoned season

one. I think I watched us all season one within

a few days and couldn't wait for season two to

come out and I thought that was just as good

as the first season. Major production value being

on HBO definitely allows them to get away with

a lot, but it's... If you never watched it, if

you're a fan of things like Lord of the Rings,

I never read the books, unfortunately, but I

love the movie, I love the TV show, and I can't

wait to see what happens in season three. But

yeah, that's my number four, Game of Thrones.

My number three is The Walking Dead. I think

it's now in season three. Season two, I think,

ended really well. A lot of people had issues

with its pacing, it was taking a long time for

things to happen. I think season... Two we saw

we started to see it build things up and this

year for season three has been the best season

thus far like every episode is almost like A

season finale with how much stuff happens. No

one's safe Like, you know any character any moment

we can die which really makes for great television

so it has zombies and and a whole lot of fun

and I I can't believe what that gets away with

on cable because it's gory, it's disgusting,

but a lot of fun. My number two. Is new girl?

Yeah, she's the only common. Well, I guess the

second comedy on my list on Fox It's a show I

initially dismissed because I thought it was

just kind of about you know, so he day Chanel

She's too she's cute, but too weird to get guys,

but it really isn't that at all. It's hilarious

I think to me. It's a funny show on television

I don't watch a lot of TV, but it's a show that

I keep going back to again and again the roommates

on that or Outstanding they have the awesome

thing like the douchebag jar There's so many

awesome jokes that are just thrown in there that

you can easily miss like you know IKEA is just

high -stake Legos like all these little tiny

quips that are just thrown in there It's it's

awesome for people who have dismissed that it's

kind of like a girl show It isn't it's it's one

show that I can appreciate and so can my wife

and there aren't many shows out there that can

do that And my number one is a newsroom One of

the few shows so a lot of shows I can watch and

catch up to when catch up with them whenever

but newsroom was when I wanted to watch every

episode Right when it aired huge fan of Aaron

Sorkin. I love the West Wing loves the social

network and sports night So super excited for

this show and doesn't didn't disappoint for me.

I love how they integrated all real -life news

stories into A drama about people and Jeff Daniels

is fantastic. He's both hilarious and can be

really deep and he's a great actor. But yeah,

that was my favorite show by far this year. It

was Newsroom. Damn it. All right, Steve, what

is your top list for TV? Yes, now that I've come

up with mine in the interim redux of this part.

Shut up, you're breaking the fourth wall, you

asshole. You're not supposed to do that. I didn't

break the fourth wall. You are no Ferris Bueller,

sir. Co -founder privilege. What's your list?

You got any honorable mentions first before you

do your list? I don't actually have any honorable

mentions. I actually did narrow it down to what

I've actually watched on television. Well, I

mean, I kind of have some honorable mentions.

Shark Tank is one that I kind of like watching

just because I like to see what kind of stupid

things people come up with. I mean, some are

good, but most of the time they're dumb. And

then I think that's it for my honorable mentions.

Out of my top five shows, I'd have to say that

Last Man Standing is my number five just because

I love Tim Allen comedy shows. And I particularly

like this one over home improvement. I know that

they're more like one off kind of thing more

so. But it's I just find it humorous to watch

the show. My only pet peeve with the show this

season over last season is they changed the actress

for Kristen and then. And then Boyd, the son,

has somehow aged significantly since the first

season. It's the magic of TV. Yes. But only a

year has traveled. And the baby daddy is always

around and he's kind of annoying. East Canadian,

what do you expect? I'm not making that comment.

No disrespect to the one Canadian we have on

board. My number four is revolution This shows

about the lights turning off and everybody fighting

to turn them back on and These two friends that

are on opposite sides of the fence now Trying

to prevent one or the other from gaining control

and it's Proving to be pretty interesting to

begin with I was kind of like, okay, come on

get on with it and then the midseason finale

the bad guy friend Now has access to a powered

-up helicopter So it's about to get very interesting

So that show has potential unlike some of the

other ones that have been on in the past on those

surrounding stations. I don't remember what some

of them were. Right. My next show is Arrow. I

would have ranked this higher only if I could

see it go a little bit further. This year, being

that this is a newbie to the list, Arrow If you're

a fan of DC Comics for one or if you want as

close as you're gonna ever get to Batman on TV

again This is probably your answer The only thing

that my pet peeve with this show is It seems

like some of the stuff is dragging on a little

bit much in areas. I mean I like the show, but

I feel like it's I Still don't quite fully know

what the hell is going on So I'm just waiting

to see what else they do with it. Although it

is highly ranked, so I don't see it getting cancelled.

My number two would be Big Bang Theory, because

that show is funny as hell as always. We're still

trying to figure out if Raj is gay or not in

the show. He doesn't even quite know. I think

the Christmas episode this year kind of sealed

the deal. He wants he wants girls but he wants

to hang with the girls and so it's kind of there

it's like that uh that Pat joke on SNL You will

never know and so that's that's that's kind of

funny, but then then you have you know the Boyfriend

girlfriend stuff going on and Sheldon actually

starting to become more functional in society

because his girlfriend is forcing him to. Yes.

Especially in the episode where she made him

have to touch her all over, pretending she was

sick. Sick, yeah. That was hilarious. My number

one show would be Supernatural because unlike

the sixth and seventh season, the eighth season

has actually picked it back up by its pants and

pulled them up. for once instead of letting them

drag around its ankles for the last two seasons.

Because season six and seven, I don't think they

had a clue where they were going. Season eight,

I can see where they're going somewhat, but it's

it's the writing has significantly gotten better

around. It's gotten the equivalent of season

one through three again, right in the season

eight. So I I'm really pumped for that show again.

But yeah, that's my top five. All right. For

me, as Dan and Steve were talking, I have about

the same amount of honorable mentions as is actually

my top list. Dan mentioned the newsroom. I was

only able to see the pilot of that. Absolutely

loved it. I cannot wait till that comes to DVD.

If it's already on DVD, I need to go get it like

yesterday. As Steve said with Last Man Standing

an error last man standing pissed me off to no

end when it premiered because of the fact that

they did recast Kristen and because Last Man

Standing started airing the second season the

new season during the election it was all electoral

based jokes and i just i just didn't care first

episode actually cared about her actually enjoyed

actually left that was the christmas episode

the fact that he's come up with a hit on christmas

i thought that was hilarious uh... arrow i haven't

been able to keep up with uh... you know i was

out of town for about three or four days and

and everything else and i just haven't kept up

with it uh... but i do like the show i like where

it's going uh... two other ones really quickly

uh... comic book men is in its second season

on amc following the walking and talking dead

uh... comment is pretty interesting they tell

some interesting stories and have some interesting

people come into their store it's basically kevin

smith's friends uh... walt flanagan uh... brian

johnson ming chen michaels absec uh... at jay

and silent bob's secret stash in new jersey it's

essentially comic books mixed with pawn stars

but i think it's really cool and it's it's very

interesting so i'm liking watching that um and

the other one i thought was going to be really

really good and it is i just haven't again i

just haven't kept up with it was vegas starring

uh dennis quaid and uh michael chicliss absolutely

amazing show so great i hope that gets picked

up for my top list uh i only have one new show

on this list um which is number five chicago

fire new show on NBC new show from Dick Wolf

didn't even I didn't see that coming until I

saw the credits when I saw the pilot. I really

like it. I think it's interesting. I think it's

nice that we finally have a firefighter procedural

back on TV. I thought that was really cool. You

can have all the ERs and Grey's Anatomies and

all this other stuff and all the police procedurals

and crime dramas and all that stuff, but I think

it's really cool that they're finally putting

firemen into the limelight for TV again. Law

and order SVU is number four again in its 14th

season still going strong Absolutely amazing

last year They left it on a cliffhanger with

season 13 and it paid off so many times this

year with the season 14 premiere Number three

is the Big Bang Theory this show Does something

that no other comedy on television does it started

off not necessarily making fun of geek culture,

but kind of showing you What geek culture would

be on TV? I enjoy this so much more than community.

I just I cannot get I cannot laugh at community

at all Maybe I need to see the 8 -bit episode.

I don't know how many episodes. I just how many

episodes of community have you watched? Like

three or four from the first season. I mean the

first season I think takes it takes a while for

it to really get its feet guy Just yeah, I just

couldn't get into a bit but big bang. I've been

there from the beginning absolutely awesome This

season is just absolutely great. They just had

their Christmas episode as I mentioned and it's

just What I love about big bang is that it as

I said a second ago in the beginning it started

You know kind of showing you geek culture and

all that stuff and kind of made fun of it a little

bit But as the shows progressed over the five

seasons six seasons It's now focusing more on

character driven stories amongst this group with

this year They brought in Stewart almost full

-time because Rob because not Raj Howard went

to space this year So they had to bring in someone

for Raj to hang out with while Howard was in

space and they brought in Stuart, the guy that

owns the comic book store. So I thought that

was really interesting. So keep on truckin',

Big Bang. Number two is The Voice. Second season

in a row that I've watched. I've watched season

two and season three. Absolutely love that show.

Best musical competition on television. Number

one was Revenge. Revenge is back with its second

season this year. I missed it last year. I know

Optimus Solo really gave the show high praise

and I don't disagree with him. I marathoned the

entire first season about three days before the

season two premiere and this show is amazing.

It's just, it's so freaking awesome. I absolutely

love it. So that's it for TV. Let's get animated.

I haven't seen one of those since 1974! 74? You

had a perm back then! Stay off the internet,

Carl! Skirpin' tidal waves, creating nanobots,

or locating Frankenstein's brain. Finding a dodo

bird, painting a continent, or driving her sister

insane. As you can see, there's a whole lot of

stuff to do before school starts this fall. So

stick with us, cause Phineas and Ferb are gonna

do it all. So stick with us, cause Phineas and

Ferb are gonna do it all. a marching band that

needs a major act. That's right. We love cartoons

here at the GCRN. Dan, what is your top five?

Because Dan mixed his, we're doing movies and

actual cartoons on TV with Dan's list. I didn't

do that, but he did, so we'll allow it. But what

is your top five list for cartoons or animated

features? Well, I appreciate you allowing me

to bend the rules for this category. Yeah, unfortunately,

there's not just so much TV I watch, so I kind

of combined both of us here. But for number five,

it's an oldie but a goodie, and I'm still surprised

on how much this cartoon can still stay strong

over 15 years on air, and that's South Park.

I know it's not a comedy for everyone, but its

ability to take stories that are happening right

now and put it into its framework is amazing.

It's not as... It's not as steady as it used

to be, but even in its fifth, you know, whatever

season it's on now, it's still incredible. I

mean, they had a great episode right after the

election where they actually take footage from,

you know, the election night and put it into

their episode. But I love South Park. I love

its social commentary. It's one of the few true

satires out there. And when it's on, there are

a few shows that can match it. So that's my number

five. Number four, it's the first... movie on

my list, and technically a 2011 film, but really

2012 for American audiences, and that is The

Cat in Paris. It's a nice little French film,

it's a hand animation, which you don't see that

much anymore. It's a cute little movie, great.

Jazzy soundtrack just about like a cat burglar

a cat and a young girl who gets lost in the mix

It deals with some really strong issues, but

does it in a very cartoonish way? Not but what

was a huge surprise to me. I absolutely love

the animation. It looked beautiful and One of

my favorite cartoons of the year number three

is the Avengers Earth Mightiest Heroes I love

how this cartoon I really wish it a got a season

three, but I love how it combines elements from

Marvel's movies Marvel's current comics and the

comics of the old all into one show it seems

to take the best of all the different categories

and put it into One season and I love it. It

surprises me every Every year I honestly watched

the second season I don't know, within two days,

once it came on Netflix, I marathoned it and

went through it all, and I really wish there

was a season three. I really can't believe they're

ending it after only two seasons. It deserves

so much more, because there's so much more they

can do and so much more they can tap into. Well,

you know the reason why they're ending it, sadly,

is because they need something to tie in with

that huge... Movie that they had yeah, but I

I think I think this already ties into it pretty

well I mean, it's not completely tied into it

But I think you can see definitely see the influence

and how it's the characters I mean the Tony Stark

Iron Man is completely a representation of Robert

Downey jr But I understand why they're doing

it I just wish they kind of kept going with a

good thing because there's been some horrible

Avengers cartoons some really really bad the

the one in the 90s makes you question reality.

So that was my number three. My number two is

another, I guess, directed DVD movie, and that

was The Dark Knight Returns Part One. To me,

the first DC animated movie that really took

advantage of the PG -13 rating. It was adapting

one of the most iconic Batman comic book stories

of all time. We've seen people try to do that

before with The Watchmen, and that hasn't turned

out very well. This was amazing. The voice acting,

the animation, the artistic look, it looked great.

It kept true to the story as much as it possibly

could. I can't wait for part two, but... Honestly,

I think it's the best DC direct animated film

that's come out since they've kind of redone

that format So yeah, I love that cartoon and

number one another movie and that is paranormal

I know a lot of people aren't huge fans of this

movie, but honestly, it's one I dismissed but

really love I love stop -motion animation This

is great. Great for a cast combination of you

know, young children and rising stars again at

Kendrick I love the story. It has a really deep

heart to it, and it really goes into some really

dark places. And it surprised me where it was

willing to go and some great homages to classic

horror and in some unique ways. So that was my

number one animated movie slash TV show of the

year. Yeah, we'll have to agree to disagree on

that one. All right. Say you at least need to

watch it. I don't know if you've checked it out

yet, but it's worth a watch. Between that and

Frank and weenie. I'm done with Halloween themed

Type crap from animation studios Alright so for

me I did top five cartoons as well my animated

stuff will show up in the movies list number

five Green Lantern the animated series They started

season two with the Manhunters And then Cartoon

Network pulled out its dick and put DC Nation

on hold until January or February of 2013 because,

hey, we want people to watch DreamWorks, Dragons

of Berk, Riders of Berk, or whatever the fuck

that stupid Dragons cartoon is. I saw exactly

like four episodes from GL, TAS, Season 2, and

then Cartoon Network just stood up. Fuck you

guys, fuck you DC people, we're just gonna push

it back till January. But Green Lantern continues

to be awesome, very very cool. And number four,

oh god. I get so much mail on this no first of

all no we are not gonna ever do a podcast on

this franchise or review show on this but I have

been going back and I have been watching my little

pony friendship is magic and I am NOT a brony

I do not claim that title whatsoever I am NOT

even original brony when I was a kid my little

pony was for girls damn it Or people who like

girly toys. Hi, Jason DeVall. But no, My Little

Pony Friendship is Magic. It's a damn good show.

I'm currently watching through season one on

Netflix. Really, really enjoying it. Certain

things that just kind of... don't sit right with

me but I will cover that in the blog post in

a future date but it's a really well done cartoon

very good characters great voice acting Tara

Strong is in it very very awesome number three

is Phineas and Ferb as always this show just

amazes me what they can do and what kind of adventures

they go on again it's one of those few cartoon

shows that remains an individualistic type of

episodic cartoon at the same time keeping some

sort of continuity. Very, very awesome. Number

two, Transformers Prime Season 2 was so awesome.

Oh yes it was. They amped it up so much. Oh my

god. I don't care what anybody says about Anything

that happened in season 2 it was fucking awesome

Even the even the way the clip show episode was

done where they had to go and see Fowler's superiors

needed to tell the story of it that way of storytelling

was absolutely amazing and season 2 of transformers

prime was just oh My god it knocked you on your

ass if you're a transformers fan because it was

so good Yeah, I definitely loved how they amped

it up this season. I'm waiting for season 3 2

Oh yeah, yeah, Beast Hunters is going to be quite

interesting next year. And my number one show

is a brand new show. It's only had about 9, 10,

11 episodes. Eleven. Eleven. Okay, there you

go. It's back, ladies and gentlemen, for a new

generation. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012.

With the voice talents of Jason Biggs as Leonardo,

Greg Sipes as Michelangelo, Sean Astin, yes that's

right, Rudy as Raphael, and returning as a different

turtle, Rob Paulson as Donatello. Also stars

Clancy Brown as Bradford aka Dogpound, and Kevin

Michael Richardson as Shredder. Kevin Michael

Richardson is everywhere. He was in G .I. Joe

Renegades, he's bulkhead in Transformers Prime,

he was panthro in Thundercats for as short as

that show lasted. The dude is just everywhere

and now he is Shredder in Turtles and oh my god

is his Shredder, his Shredder voice might be

the best Shredder of all time, honestly. I have

to agree. This show is just so awesome. Any other

thoughts on Turtles before I... The only thing

I don't like about Turtles? We are the Krang

and you are... I'm getting used to it. It's okay.

I'm getting used to it, but I still don't like

it. I want to know where the main Krang is. Yeah,

yeah. The thing about the Turtles cartoon is,

at first I wasn't really hip on the theme song.

I love it. I'm coming around to it and I see

the influences it kind of takes from the 87 version

Someone actually on YouTube put up the 87 version

tried to match it to the 2012 visuals It doesn't

work for me at all It just doesn't people that

do that kind of crap need to leave the stuff

alone and leave, you know The classics be the

classics. I'm sorry if people if people like

that, that's fine That's that's their opinion,

but I didn't really care for that YouTube video

but what i love about this show is it combines

traditional cgi animated style with anime style

with comic book style as it's like taking everything

from turtles history and meshing it into one

thing and it's absolutely amazing everyone needs

to watch the turtles cartoon it's so awesome

i agree yes so now let's hear some uh trailers

from what are uh Our movie list is gonna be we'll

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Alright, we're gonna keep those film reels rolling

and we're gonna talk about our top ten movie

list for 2012. First of all, Steve or Dan, do

you guys have any honorable mentions? I do, actually.

I have a bunch, but I can just limit it to ones

that just barely missed it. Okay, so this might

surprise a lot of people That it's not my top

ten and it honestly wasn't just until a few days

ago And that's the Dark Knight rises just missed

my top ten I know that's a movie. I loved but

the more time out more times. I watch it the

more issues I have with it. I still love it,

but It's it just honestly it Last year would

easily made my top ten this year. It's just a

really strong year. So I just it just didn't

make it Beast of the southern wild is another

honorable mention moves around moves around kick.

Yeah Wow moves Ryan Kingdom and my last and Bernie

also just missed my list But honestly, it's a

been a great year for movies in my opinion. So

Steve any honorable mentions for me I'd say total

recall I'd put on my honor roll mention only

for the fact that it took an old movie and updated

it to modern times. Granted, no, did it really

need to be redone? Not really. But like a lot

of films that they keep going back and redoing,

there was a lot of 80s cheese in the old one.

Granted, you still can't replace Arnold, but

I still liked it for what it was. And then the

kind of differences that they had in some of

the film compared to the first original. But

that would be my honorable mention, because I

have the rest of them in my top 10. Awesome.

For me, I had a hard time thinking of any honorable

mentions of ones that I just barely missed my

list. And it's not because of the fact that it

missed my list. It's because of the fact that

I based my list on stuff that I saw this year.

I did not base it on stuff that I'd only seen

trailers for, unlike most people seem to think

I do. But we gotta talk about Bully because this

2012 was the year of the anti -bully campaign

and this movie was just gangbusters everywhere.

I still have yet to see it. I want to see it.

But but that was my honorable mention. Alright,

so how this is gonna work is we're going to each

go around the table So I'll do a 10 Dan will

do a 10 Steve will do a 10 etc, etc, etc and

so on until we all reach number one Dan, what

is your number 10 on your 2012 top 10 films?

Um, this is one I long we debated over I only

watched a few days ago if I'm like I caught up

to it and it's the one that not not Doc Dark

Knight rises from the ten spot and that is Django

unchanged Haven't been able to write a view of

it yet, but it was everything I would ever anticipate

for a Tantino take on Western it it was a lot

of fun like great music great dialogue Tertino

is king at individual scenes and they're some

of the best scenes of the year. I know a lot

of people haven't had the opportunity to see

it yet because it just came out, but if you're

a Tarantino fan or even a Western fan or a fan

of Blacksploitation, I would advise checking

out Django Unchained. Steve, what's your number

10? My number 10 film is That's My Boy because

every year I have to have an Adam Sandler film

in there. Let's face it. This is better than

another piece of shit that came out in 2012 Where

he played brother and sister So yeah, this is

the better of the two to begin with I was very

turned off on it on our Preview and wire show

after having seen it at home Found it to be very

funny and then they had a bunch of References

pop culture references and everything from earlier

on such as the Buds Weiser's was up and everything

else you had vanilla ice in there Basically being

vanilla ice but working at a like hot dog stand

It was all kinds of crazy. There was tons of

Saturday Night Live people and it just It was

interesting to say the least I I liked it I wouldn't

say it's the best film, but it was better than

some of the other ones that came out this year

All right, my number 10 is something that probably

no one else at least out of the three of us has

seen besides myself because no one else probably

cares One for the money Starring Catherine Heigl

Catherine Heigl. I've seen that You've really

you've seen it. Yeah, it was good You should

read the book. It's based on oh my god. You will

laugh as you read it No, I kid you not I've told

this story many times before I'm gonna tell it

again here back in 2000 2000 2001 somewhere around

there. I was at a books a million and I had just

moved to a city in Mississippi and The clerk

there the lady clerk there said, you know one

of these two franchises you might be interested

in one in her left hand was about a boy who was

supposed to become a wizard. One on her right

hand was a former lingerie buyer turned bounty

hunter. I'd take that over a fucking wizard any

day. Written by Janet Ivanovich, One for the

Money was an absolute great book. The Plum series

is still going strong with Stephanie Plum. They

just released Notorious 19, which was on my Christmas

list this year, but One for the Money, I've been

waiting for this movie for years, people. I've

been waiting for this book to be made into a

movie for years and they finally did it and they

did it so well. It's not a movie that's going

to make a lot of people's lists. It's not a movie

that a lot of people are probably going to notice,

like I said, but just seeing the book come to

life on screen is absolutely amazing. Dan, what

is your number nine? My number nine is what I

also called, for me, was the best science fiction

film of the year, and that was Looper. Ryan Johnson

directed and starring Joseph Gordon -Levitt and

Bruce Willis. It was a great take on time travel.

I love Ryan Johnson's style. great ability to

take a certain genre like noir with brick or

kind of the heist film with Brothers Bloom and

Take what's best about that genre and kind of

twist it on its head and he did that with a science

fiction and with looper some great scenes one

of the most haunting moments I've ever watched

as We see what happens when the mob tries to

get a runaway looper. It's it was frightening

of it wasn't meant It wasn't a horror film but

of all the movies I watched that scene kind of

stuck with me and I love the interplay between

Gordon Levitt and Bruce Willis There's a diner

scene where they're simply talking and it's a

great moment two great actors showing what happened

what can happen when with good writing and A

director who knows what he's doing. But yeah

looper to me one of the best movies of the year

I do want to eventually see it and it actually

comes out the day. This will air on New Year's

Eve. So nice. I'm gonna see it, too I didn't

have it on my list, but that was one I wanted

to see. Be warned, it is slower. The second half,

or I would say the second act, it does take its

time. It's kind of twitches itself on a pen really

quickly because it's really building up and things

start to kind of simmer out. I personally liked

it. I liked what they were doing, but there's

a lot of interesting interplay. What's really

great about that movie is how it says as much

about you. As a movie is like your take on it

and who you consider the villain who you considers

in the right There's really no heroes or villains.

It's just a situation and uh, that's what I loved

about it What about you steve what's your number

nine my number nine Is 21 jump street nice good

choice. Yes, I Oh stop I like the film just because

of the comedy of it and the fact that it's poking

fun at the original show because these two guys

that are training to be cops Jonah Hill and Channing

Tatum go and get themselves in trouble and then

they're like, yeah, we're bringing back a 1980s,

you know You know defunct group and Project called

21 Jump Street and then Guy screwed up to begin

with and then it was just it was interesting

to say the least and then at the very end You

get to see Spoilers for those that haven't seen

it, but you should have seen it You have Johnny

Depp and one of the other original 21 Jump Street

guys Who don't make it past the end of the film,

but I thought that was a nice touch having the

originals in the movie. Yeah, I agree with you.

I thought that didn't make my top 10, but that

was a huge surprise to me. I kind of went into

that movie with not expecting much, but I thought

it was hilarious. I thought it was Jonah Hill

and Channing Tatum, who I didn't think could

be funny was actually pretty hilarious. You said

you actually had a really great year this year

with that and Magic Mike, which I... movie I

didn't love, but I thought he was pretty good

in it. That's a definitely good pick. Those who

might have been apprehensive, not wanting to

see that because of the stigma that's with that

movie, it's actually, to me, one of the better

comedies of the year. It was one of the more

intelligent comedy movies of the year. Yeah,

it was dumb but smart comedy in a way. If you

wanted a dumb comedy, you would have watched

That's My Boy. Yeah, but if you wanted a smart

comedy, you would have watched 21 Jump Street

Yeah, there was a lot of great jokes in that

and I agree I loved how a poke fun of itself

and it realized yeah, this is You know, we're

rehashing an old You know old project that didn't

work. We're gonna do it anyways because you can't

come up with any new ideas Yeah, and then I love

the part in that film where they're trying to

blow stuff or they're thinking they're gonna

blow something up and then they ended up blowing

up a truck full of chickens Yeah, and I love

how high school has changed and what's cool back

in the 80s isn't cool now. The blogger, the tech

geek is the cool kid, not the sports jock. So

I thought that was pretty funny too, how they

kind of dissected what high school like is these

days. I assume, I have no idea, I'm not in high

school. Yeah, that kind of hit home for me. the

fact that everybody comes to me for help now,

and back in the day everybody used to make fun

of me and everything, so that really was a nice

touch for me. This is just me generalizing about

Jonah Hill. Everything I've seen a preview of

him in, it's him doing the same damn role. But

it fits him well. I would say that, but I also

say check out Moneyball, because he definitely

takes more of a straight... Role in that film.

I thought he was really good. I thought the same

thing, but he surprised me with Latin Moneyball

last year But yeah So I might make you appreciate

him a little bit more as he actually tries to

do a little bit more than be the funny fat kid

Yeah Something I just saw tonight was absolutely

amazing watching a New Year's Eve The Expendables

2 comes in at my number 9 I think Chuck Norris

might be the only thing older than Roger Moore.

He boxed a lot in that movie. He might be the

only thing that acts worse than George Lazenby.

Well, let's hope Looper isn't as slow as On Her

Majesty's Secret Service. But no, Expendables

2 is... essentially it's... Both the Expendables

movies to me are 80s action movies done today.

And Expendables 2 was just absolutely amazing.

Absolutely loved it. So awesome. What is your

number eight, Dan? My number eight is actually

a French film called Police, spelled P -O -L

-I -S -S -E. And it's a film about basically

police officers and the juvenile section. in

in france and the best way to describe it it

kind of takes stories that you would find in

an order svu episode and uses the sensibilities

of the wire and and that tone and that kind of

you know trying to do it as it is not kind of

hype it up in a way and i think that really kind

of hit me Right at the sweet spot because I loved

how it combined those a lot of great performances

in a way It's almost like watching a documentary

and how straightforward it is And it also has

a lot of great dark comedy as you see these cops

try to deal with the most horrific Situations

possible, you know child abuse neglect and things

like that and how it affects them and how they

try to get over it and It was one of the I just

kind of threw it on one day on Netflix I saw

it pop up and I absolutely loved it in So that

my number eight was police All right, Steve what

about your number eight my number eight is this

means war Just for the fact that it's like almost

like a spy versus spy kind of situation and You

have Chris Pine and Tom Hardy Captain Kirk and

Bane Going head -to -head for this one woman

who is Reese Witherspoon and I just it's it's

a Actually pretty funny action comedy And then

you've got both of them kind of they're supposed

to be doing a mission which they botched in the

beginning So they're grounded so they both get

this girlfriend that happens to be the same girl

and then they're using the CIA's computer systems

to Basically cyber stalk each other To screw

each other's plans of having sex with this girl.

So it's it's just The whole film is very fast

-paced, but it's hilarious watching the antics

that they do to each other. Awesome. Very cool,

very cool. My number eight, again, is one I just

saw as this episode releases. Safe House. I was

finally able to see this one. Wow. Between this

and flight Denzel has had an amazing year this

year And finally a movie where Ryan Reynolds

actually acts Thank God for that none of that

Green Lantern bullshit You know you give him

a lot of shit for that, but it was the writing

that was bad not him Yeah, that movie could have

could have had Denzel Washington in it and it

wouldn't have been any better Oh God, Denzel

is sinestro, I can see it now! No, it could have

been as... Who's that other Green Lantern guy?

John Stewart? Yeah, John Stewart, you could have

played him. Yeah, yeah, I can see Denzel as John

Stewart, too. You played good John Stewart. Oh,

hell yeah! Maybe that should be the next direction

for Green Lantern. Ain't that the truth? All

right. So yeah, my number eight was Safe House.

Absolutely love that movie. It's so great. It

reminds me of the old classic Denzel movies,

kind of like Ricochet and stuff like that. Absolutely

awesome. It's essentially, it could almost, Dan,

would you say it can almost be like a training

day too? If training day was. was shot by Tony

Scott. It reminds me a lot of a Tony Scott movie.

When I saw the previews for it, I couldn't believe

it wasn't shot by Tony Scott because Tony Denzel

and him have done a lot of great movies together.

But yeah, I would say it's along those lines,

like along the lines of like Man on Fire. But

yeah, I thought it was a great little action

movie that came out earlier this year. But yeah,

I agree. I enjoyed Safe House. What is your number

seven, Dan? My number seven is The Master. I

don't think there's a movie that made me more

uncomfortable in a good way than The Master this

year. Some great performances by Joaquin Phoenix,

Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, all are some

of the best performances of the year. It's about

this cult, some people say Scientology, it's

never really stated, but it seems like it is,

but Paul Thomas Anderson has a ability to kind

of really come at you as a director and I think

he likes he Makes moments that are so eerie and

so odd and you feel awkward but it's an experience

like you don't watch his movies you experience

them and The master was one of the better movie

experiences. It's not something that you'd say.

Oh, I love that. I enjoyed it It's something

that you kind of weathered through which may

sound like a bad thing, but it's like Climbing

a tall mountain. It's it's a challenge but accomplishing

it feels you feel better about yourself at the

end So that was my number seven to the master

What about you Steve your number seven? Um, I'd

have to say the Hunger Games Would be mine. I

Did not read the books Like my wife did who happened

to read the entire series prior to the film coming

out So I was not familiar with it prior to that

other than what she'd kind of told me. She's

like, oh, you should read this blah blah blah.

And I'm like, yeah, I'm not gonna read anything.

So don't bother. And I went and saw the theater

with her and actually was very impressed of all

the things people could be watching at it, whether

it be, you know, Harry Potter, Twilight, all

that crap. I'd prefer people watch this over

those. I just like the whole war aspect of it

and the fact that you know civilization kind

of sucks Yet it's it's advanced yet. Everybody's

kind of been stomped on kind of like modern day

You know in you know this one girl and guy from

the 12th district happened to stand up and say

fuck you and Take a stand in these bullshit games,

so I'm with that, you know film taking place.

I'm looking forward to the next one which comes

out next year. So Yeah, and I'm kind of curious

because Philip Seymour Hoffman is gonna be in

the next film So that really makes me intrigued

and I agree I like the the Hunger Games what

I think I really loved about it was Jennifer

Lawrence's performance and that character It's

great to kind of see it's I named her the hero

of 2012. I'm just great to see it like an actual

female Protagonist that's not you know Fawning

over, you know a werewolf or a vampire and actually

doing something and taking charge So I oh I know

it's one of those movies where you can actually

you know it Not be ashamed if you're someone

you know is a fan of it. So yeah, yeah exactly

You know the Hunger Games pretty much is taking

the place of Harry Potter Twilight Lord of the

Rings. Twilight. Thank God is done Yeah Yes,

the best moment of 2012 Blast fever Anyway, no

the end of it. That's the fact that we never

Yeah, yeah, I wish the end of it could have come

like five years ago All right, so for me and

number seven We have Twilight meets the Avengers

in Snow White and the Huntsman because you have

Kristen Stewart's and Chris Helmsworth in this

Um, by far, in 75 years since Disney released

their Snow White version, the animated version,

uh, this is my favorite version of Snow White

ever. This is the only one that I will ever watch

ever again. More than MiraMira? Oh, shut the

fuck up. Alright, since since Dan brought MiraMira

up, uh... 2012 was the year of Snow White in

live -action because there were two Snow White

films that got released this year, Mirror Mirror

and Snow White and the Huntsman. Mirror Mirror

is the comedy version and Snow White and the

Huntsman is the more serious take. Comedy. We're

using comedy lightly there. Comedy. Well, again,

I have not seen Mirror Mirror. I'm just going

by, you know. The way it looked in the trailers.

It looked like a damn comedy to me. It looked

like it was making fun of the franchise. So Yeah

snowing the huntsman, I really really enjoyed

that Dan. What is your number six? My number

six is life of pie Ang Lee's latest film which

To me was I'm not a big fan of 3d I kind of never

understood its purpose, but there's a few films

that I think okay I can see where this could

go and Avatar was one Hugo was two and like the

pie was probably the best movie I've ever seen

in 3d just It did things. I never thought were

possible with that with that technology kind

of having things come off the screen adjusting

with aspect ratio and Just In the special effects

in general were amazing and besides just being

a technical a great technical achievement It

was a great movie with a great story and great

performances. It It's one that it it's very upfront

with what it's trying to do It's very heavy -handed,

but it's one of the better movie expanses of

the year it I don't know. It's just some Great

adventure. I love the survival aspect of it,

but it adds other layers to it with this deeper

you know religious theme and The idea of faith

and which you can some people may scoff at and

not enjoy but even if you don't like that part

of it There's a lot there to to experience. So

yeah, I'd like to buy One of the if you're gonna

see it if it's still in 3d and you're hesitant

I would say definitely check it out. You may

second guess or second Think your take on 3d

if you're not a fan Yeah, I I'm not a fan of

3d but at the same time I'm not gonna judge life

of pie without actually seeing it But I didn't

honestly I had to go on wiki and other places

to even read what the plot was because just by

the trailer I didn't understand what the hell

the movie was all about It was one of those trailers

that didn't tell me anything See, I like it when

a trailer just kind of gives you an idea of what

your current experience doesn't give the story

It was maybe too ambiguous in the fact that you

really didn't have a complete idea. What if it

what it was attempting to do, but I don't know.

I think I'd rather have a story give me not enough

than one that tells me everything. Oh no, I agree,

but at the same time I still had no clue, even

looking at it online trying to figure out what

the heck the plot was, and now that I realize,

oh hey, this is directed by Ang Lee, so this

is essentially crouching boy, hidden tiger. Which

I know that's not what Life of Pi is, but...

I have to make that joke every time I hear about

an Ang Lee film. Steve, what is your number six?

My number six is The Amazing Spider -Man. Okay.

I definitely like this film a lot better than

the Tobey Maguire trilogy. Uh -huh in its entirety.

I like the mechanical web shooters. I like the

more cocky more kind of normal functioning geeky

Peter Parker over the Underneath my desk and

my camera. I mean I still would have I mean yeah,

he still has his camera in this and everything

but uh He's not as awkward as as Toby's version

is yeah, and I think I like him better and I

like the the the suit better a little bit I like

the overall feel of this film Well beyond what

was in the other trilogy All right, my number

six is men in black three wasn't sure what to

think of this film I remember hearing all kinds

of rumors that hell hey it's getting made no

it's not Will Smith doesn't care about it anymore

what I heard all kinds of things up you know

leading up to the actual full -on production

schedule of the film and the first thing I heard

about it was hey we're time traveling and the

first thing I thought oh great this is men in

black redoing Austin Powers nice But no, Men

of Black 3 turned out to be a very, very awesome,

somewhat emotional film. And the way they told

the story was great. Josh Brolin as a young K

kind of almost imitating Tommy Lee Jones was

amazing. Pretty much you put the first film and

this film together and they are original and

sequel. The second film kind of like exists in

a mirror universe somewhere. Well, I do enjoy

the second Men in Black movie for what it is.

This film is far better. And it was very, very

awesome. All right. Dan, what is your number

five? My number five. Actually, halfway through

the year, I did my top 10 movies of the year

so far. And this was number one. Since then,

it's moved down to number five. I still love

it. It's just been that good of a year and that's

the Avengers One of the fun most fun movie experiences

I've ever had Just everything I ever wanted in

an Avengers movie. It gave me This grand experiment

that Marvel did paid off I never thought it would

ever happen and work as well as it did but having

Josh weed in there you can see his work all over

the screen his writing his ability to bring in

pulp culture and seeing all these characters

and all these personalities come into one movie

and then have some amazing action and then of

course cannot talk about the avengers without

talking about the hulk and all of his amazing

moments throughout the movie who completely stole

the show so yeah it doesn't really i don't know

there's any more i can say about the avengers

that hasn't been said but that's my number five

yeah steve number five My number five is Wreck

-It Ralph. I really like this film. It was very

well done. I love the fact that it goes from

like 8 -bit to full -on 3D images. I love the

game jumping. Just every aspect of this film

had that feel of classic gaming the nostalgia

of it plus all of the modern gaming built in

and it was just it was Interesting seeing how

well they pulled it off. I wasn't very optimistic

upon first seeing that And then when I went saw

in the theater, I thought wow, this is was really

well done Yeah, I might get flack for this but

Now that I think about it, Wreck -It Ralph is

essentially an animated version of Tron Legacy.

I love most of the films, but now that I actually

look back on it and think about it, the stories

are outside of the whole, I don't want to be

a bad guy anymore. The stories and the circumstances

are quite similar. Wait, Tron Legacy wasn't animated?

No, you're thinking I was making a joke. So yeah,

but no, I was sorry. That was a horrible attempt

at a joke. Yes. Yes, it was My number five is

the amazing spider -man Absolutely awesome unlike

Steve I do still enjoy the Tobey Maguire Trilogy

however, I think that Like Steve said Daniel

Garf Daniel Jesus Christ Andrew Garfield is Much

better as Peter Parker than Toby McGuire was

I think Toby McGuire did an amazing job when

he was quote -unquote in the suit I do hope in

future films that Sony brings back JK Simmons

for Jameson because J .K. Simmons is by far the

best live action J. Jonah Jameson we've ever

had. But no, Amazing Spider -Man was so well

done. I can't wait to see where they go next

with it. Absolutely awesome. Dan, what is your

number four? My number four is, it's not a small

film, but it's The King of Devil's Island. It

has Stellan Skarsgard, who was also in The Avengers,

and plays this kind of this ruler of, not ruler,

but He looks over this small school that During

like about the early 20th century where students

go or kids go that you get arrested and they

end up going to this island and He talks about

their story. It's a beautiful film a great story

some really up -and -coming actors it is it's

a I believe it's a Danish film. I forget the

country of origin but it's one that really surprised

me and it's one that kind of stuck with me and

it deals with a lot of important themes that

we see today like about kind of tyranny and how

who we put our trust in and how we need to kind

of How that how that can affect our youth and

how those we kind of disregard can surprise us

and it just also it's great cinematography it

you watch the movie and you just feel cold because

this island is like in the middle of Almost the

Arctic in the way just at how how foggy and how

the ice is just everywhere But that's my number

four is that the King of Devils Island? Awesome

Steve number four My number four is The Dark

Knight Returns Part One. I have that in there

because it's PG -13, it's adult. Right. Yeah.

So I really like this film. I actually had first

read the comic, the trade paperback, earlier

this year from my local comic shop. They had

it for sale for like, I think it was like six

bucks, so I bought it. And I was thoroughly impressed,

although I didn't quite care for the art and

the comic. I loved how they portrayed it in the

cartoon, the animated film. And I loved the voice

cast despite the fact that I love Kevin Conroy's

Batman. Robocop played a very good old Batman.

Yeah, Peter Weller is a good 50, 60 -year -old

Batman. Yeah. Conroy's good at the young and

the 80 -year -old Batman. Yes. But Peter Weller

did a great job. I love the fact that it's got

a lot of his rogues gallery kind of climbing

back in there, and then Batman beating the crap

out of the mutants and everything else. And I

just love the tone and the animation style, as

long as... Also the the voice cast it just it

was such a great Animation piece that I cannot

wait for part two which comes out. I believe

next month Yeah, thanks. Oh, yeah very very awesome

Right my number four is Celebrating the 50th

year of a film franchise, Skyfall. This is the

first Daniel Craig Bond film that I absolutely

loved. First out of the three of these done.

Um, it was very, very awesome. All the very different

homages. I like how Skyfall is not necessarily

a sequel to GoldenEye, but it pulls a lot of

stuff. from GoldenEye. And I really, really love

that. I love how they homage pretty much everything

in 50 years of Bond. Absolutely awesome for for

the Bond franchise in Skyfall. Dan, what is your

number three? Well, I will keep the love going

with Skyfall because it's my number three film

of the year. We went over all the Bond films

this year, and this probably was probably the

best part of it was seeing Skyfall. I like Second

everything you just said and I also just think

It had It did a great thing of combining the

Craig era with bond of old and kind of putting

them in the one film It's the first crack big

film. I think that's felt like a bond movie But

it also didn't disregard everything that Craig

did up to that point it has some amazing performances

by Daniel Craig Judy Dench and Ralph Fiennes.

Ralph Fiennes. And Harvey A. Bardem gives one

of the best performances for a James Bond villain

ever. It's also a beautiful film. Roger Deacon's

cinematography is gorgeous. It adds so much to

the action scenes. It's unlike, I think, any

action movie I've seen in recent memory. It's

the first time I feel that James Bond is ahead

of the curve. the fingerprints of things like

the Dark Knight and other franchises on it. But

I think it kind of took what was done before

and went the next step. And it's great to see

another great Bond movie. And I think Skyfall

for me is one of the best ever. Yeah. Oh, I totally

agree because of the fact that to me and I'm

not saying obviously this didn't happen if. From

2002 to 2012 if there were no Bond films and

this was Craig's debut and it was the film that

it is This would have essentially pushed the

reset button on the entire franchise with what

this film does at the end and Just it was so

amazing so awesome Silva is by far one of the

most Chilling Bond villains we've ever had yes

very much and to me he was the villain of the

year and this had like when i was going over

my movies of the awards year this just took a

lot of them and it arguably could be higher um

but and again i think my finer tool i enjoyed

a little bit more but yeah if any i think any

bond fan can appreciate skyfall even those that

maybe dismissed the craig era because they thought

it was you know unlike any other bond movie it

wasn't true to the to to the bond they know.

I think kind of Skyfall can maybe change that.

I think it changed a little bit of your opinion.

I think you can do that to other people as well.

Oh, yes. So, Steve, what is your number three?

My number three is. Men in Black three, because

in my opinion, I liked it a lot better than the

first two films I. also felt that it was more

interesting out of the out of the total of the

three films. I like the kind of going back in

time and showing what happened to Jay's dad and

why he was never in his life as far as he knew

and then going back and fighting with the young

K which Will Smith Made a comment. He says oh

you must have some city miles on you Yeah, because

he's saying I'm 29 And he's like oh you got some

city miles Which I thought was hilarious Yeah,

no like like I said before men in black 3 is

essentially a sequel to the first film Yeah,

2 is kind of non -existent I like 2 for what

it is, I like 2 for some of the comedy bits.

One of the main reasons why I like Men in Black

2 is... It's about time you guys showed up. That

lady in there is causing all kinds of hell. The

guy in the lobby of the MIB building, I like

that line. But no, 3 was just so... It was such

a heartfelt story and it was just so, so awesome.

Alright, my number 3... I saw it just before

Christmas, finally. It only took me a month and

a half to see it, but I saw Wreck -It Ralph.

Best video game movie ever, end of story. Wreck

-It Ralph does an amazing job of homaging all

the classics, games, and stuff like that, while

at the same time telling its own story. I thought

that was very, very unique, and there are even

rumors of a sequel, potentially. Can't wait to

see what happens there. Dan, what is your number

two? My number two is Argo. I remember when Ben

Affleck was nothing more than a punchline, and

he's grown into a really great director with

Gone, Maybe Gone, The Town, and Argo, which I

think is probably his best film. He's finally

done a movie outside of Boston, and he kind of

went all the way to Iran to do it during this

period piece about a really dark time in American

history. It does a great job of taking a crazy

but true story and bringing it to the breaking

screen. Some really great tension along with

some really great laughs. I loved Alan Arkin,

John Goodman. Great performances, they were hilarious,

but there was also some really edge of your seat

type of moments, like beginning sequence as you

see the... embassy being overtaken by all these

protesters and there's a really great moment

of just them in a van slowly going through this

crowd as People are touching the glass on the

cloud and the final moments of them trying to

get on the airplane but it was it was well directed

it's deserving of all the praise and If you haven't

checked it out when it comes out, it definitely

would advise it because I think it's one of those

movies that's Crowd pleaser but also deserving

of critical achievement, which we don't see much

It's a movie made for adults, which I love seeing

more of those coming out I'll have to check it

out. Um, although I do love His other films that

were done in Bob's probably because I'm originally

from that area I love seeing films done there

and done based on stuff that happened there.

The town was absolutely amazing. I'll have to

check this one out. What is your number two,

Steve? My number two is the Avengers. I was pleasantly

surprised when... saw this movie in the theater

and I happen to see it in 3d IMAX I don't typically

go for the 3d but the IMAX part that's what I

really was there for and that film I love the

the comedy with the Hulk in it I love Downey

Jr's role which he basically is the Marvel Universe

I liked how they brought everyone together in

that film, and then they had to learn how to

work as a team. They didn't just function and

say, oh, hey, here we are. But there were a lot

of nice comedy bits throughout the film that

made it really enjoyable. Like the guy playing,

what was it, Galaga in the background? Yeah.

and Tony Stark calls him out on it. He was over

there playing Galaga, which was hilarious. But

no, that whole film, between the action and the

comedy of it, it was very well done and gave

me hope other than Iron Man and Captain America

lines for the future of the Marvel Avengers universe.

Yeah. My number two... I find this so funny because...

My number two is The Dark Knight Rises. I love

the film for what it is. I do agree with Dan,

though, on multiple viewings. I'm seeing more

and more stuff that I have issues with. I'm not

saying that it takes away from my enjoyment of

the film I can watch this film and I can look

at it as you know as its own thing but it is

meant to be looked at as a period on Nolan's

trilogy and I absolutely love it for that aspect

of it but if you like sit down and are really

gonna you know analyze the hell out of it there

to a lot of Batman fans there may be a lot of

issues with it I know a lot of people love it

I know Steve loves it and I love it as well I

like that Bale spit half the gravel out that

he was using in Dark Knight and his Batman voice

in this sounded slightly better. Bane was just

absolutely amazing. Great villain. Quite possibly

one of the best Selina Kyle's we've ever gotten.

Oh yes. Hannah Hathaway. And the reason why I

say Selena Kyle is because they never actually

the entire film they never actually call her

catwoman Yes, she's wearing a cat suit. Yes.

She's wearing kind of like Cat ears headgear,

but they never actually call her catwoman. So

love that Love the action. I don't give a shit

if people have a problem with the bat I thought

it was cool, I thought it was a nice way to bring

in a flying vehicle into the real world Batman.

I thought that was pretty cool. But yeah, that's

my number two The Dark Knight Rises. Dan, what

is your number one film of 2012? My number one

film was one that it stayed with me for a very

long time. It's not one that I think while watching

it I necessarily was in love with it, but it...

As the more I thought about it and it's one it's

kind of like You know There's something that

sticks with you and you can't get it out your

head and the more more you think about it the

more more We love it. And that was once upon

a time in Anatolia It's a Turkish film about

basically it's a simple story About this guy

who killed someone and these cops are trying

to find the body He did it when he was drunk.

He doesn't remember. So they're going all around

this barren landscape trying to find the body

and where the story lies is just in these conversations

with between this doctor and these police officers

and they get in these really deep just a lot

um solutions regarding truth and the effect of

truth and how knowing the absolute truth can

be benefit you but also can bring absolute it

these are just side conversations that you kind

of dismiss or you easily could dismiss but as

the story kind of plays out you see how they

affect each other and It's also a beautiful film.

They're similar photography that takes like amazingly

landscapes and Makes it look great. It's like

things like Grand Canyon or you know melt our

gorgeous mountains. This takes its most barren

desert plain looking Lance And it's just breathtaking

and how every shot is framed just these short

moments and how someone just told just the camera

It's just something I appreciate it But yeah,

it's it's a very long movie. It's about three

hours. It feels like five hours It's it makes

it there's very little dialogue. It's it's a

it's a track to get through but Honestly, when

I came back of all my movie experiences this

year the movie that really stuck with me the

one I kept going back again and again that most

affected me was this movie. I know it's probably

not a movie for everyone, but when it came down

to it, it was my number one. Steve, what is your

number one film of 2012? Like I didn't already

know. Well, it most certainly isn't The Dark

Knight Rises. Oh, it is. Yes, The Dark Knight

Rises. That would be my number one film of the

year. It was kind of a tough tie between Avengers

and that, but because of my greater love of all

things Batman, it won out for that reason alone.

I really, really, really enjoy this film. Even

with subsequent viewings, I still... I really

like this film. I did see a lot of the holes

in it as I watched it. I still don't care. It

still was a good film and it still wrapped up

the Nolan verse. A couple of my pet peeves are,

yes, despite the fact Bruce Wayne did get away

because everything was fixed and everything was,

you know, as it should have been. How the hell

did he get away when he's still in the cockpit

when there's like eight seconds left and then

all of a sudden boom For the Duke that that was

one thing and then the other thing Bane's voice

Was incredibly difficult to understand it at

certain points in the film To the point it was

annoying while I was seeing it in the theater

Yeah Think it's better on the D. It's it's better

on it's way better on the blu -ray I Have to

say but it was terrible on the film trying to

understand what the hell he was trying to say

Well, at least he wasn't going around saying

bomb or worse saying how would you like to freeze?

And I think what's better watching it on blu

-ray 2 it's not as jarring like I don't have

surround sound so just how it like Because they

put it in front of everything and the theater

is more noticeable But at home, it's I think

it that transition wasn't as like you didn't

notice it as much But I never had an issue understanding

it, but it was kind of just it just sounded odd

But I think after a while I got used to it Yeah

All right, and my number one film for 2012 Avengers

Assemble! The reason why I put Dark Knight Rises

at number two and Avengers at number one is because

while I enjoyed Dark Knight Rises, it was the

end of Nolan's trilogy. Whereas Avengers is almost

a bridge to more Marvel movies because they took

the last five films that they had done under

Marvel Studios and brought them together in this

one gigantic film. Everyone bitches and complains

about, oh, why did Coulson have to die? Think

of it this way. If you're a Joss Whedon fan at

all, you know he kills one major character that

everyone loves in everything he has ever done.

The most standout one to me would be Fred from

Angel in season five. Well, the thing about Coulson

is he'll be back in the... Yeah, I don't TV show

and there's rumors. He'll be back in Avengers

2 Well, and that's fine if they want to bring

him back in the movies. I'm I I Have no interest

in the TV show at this point. They bring him

back into film that it's candid Well, I and I'll

accept that if they bring him back in the film

for the TV show I have not seen anything about

it. I haven't even read up on it. So I'm not

It's just none of my radar at this point The

Avengers was awesome. There's so many awesome

lines in it Seeing all these heroes seeing a

Hulk that actually can work Finally after three

friggin films is amazing and three different

actors, you know over there at the stupid Canadian

sisters network of ours this week in geek they

they heckled me and heckled me for months when

I would bring up stories of Mark Ruffalo being

Bruce Banner the Hulk in Avengers and he is by

far the best Banner slash Hulk we've ever had.

Absolutely love it. I can't wait to see what

Marvel does in the future with Avengers 2 and

Captain America 2 and all that other good stuff.

Iron Man 3 comes out next year. Looking forward

to that. uh... so you know folks that's our our

top ten movies of twenty twelve i'm sure optimist

solo will have his own top list of twenty twelve

blog for the site so next up we have our favorite

moments or moment of the year for me pretty much

there's only two and their t .v. related uh...

season two of revenge premiered in season three

of the voice premiered You know, I could you

know, we just talked about all the movies and

I could mention some of those as far as Anything

else. I honestly can't think of anything else

that really intrigued me this year What about

you, Dan? Any favorite moments of the year? Well,

being a New York Giants fan, my year started

off pretty well with them winning the Super Bowl.

So that was a great way to begin my sports here.

Unfortunately, this season hasn't fared so well.

But that was a big moment for me watching them

win that. Another one was just the election being

over. It got to the point where... I didn't care

who won. I just wanted the commercials to be

off the television and not have to deal with

all the hubbub of the election. So that was great.

Just that was finally done and over with. Other

moments of the year and seeing honestly, I think

the Avengers goes down as one of the biggest

moments just because it was. It wasn't a movie.

It was a moment. Just what it did box office

-wise, how it set records and made over a billion

dollars. To me, if you're going to pick it one

moment of the year for movies, it would be The

Avengers and everything that it accomplished.

Steve, what about you? Any favorite moments of

the year? My son being born. Yay. Yes, that would

sum up my... Number one favorite time of the

year, so Yes, that's right, we're gonna be talking

about some epic fails the Mayans enough said

You know, like Dan said with his favorite moment

of the election just being over, I always hate

election years. And I know this is, you know,

the whole election coverage is tied into, oh,

which network wants it or which network is going

to pay the most for it to have the coverage as

far as the TV stations. I honestly wish there

was a television channel on cable somewhere or

even on broadcast TV that was just political

crap. That way it could stay off of all the major

friggin networks, off all the damn cable networks.

Honestly the closest election coverage this year

I watched was Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

That's it. I hate politics. I did vote. Sadly

I voted for the lesser of two evils. I almost

wish Hillary was in the running this year, but

anyway Yeah, the election for me is just no What

about you Dan any epic fails for 2012? Well on

the movie front, I think probably the biggest

epic fail this year was a movie I loved but John

Carter because it was It was it failed on so

many different levels Just calling, you know

changing it from John Carter from Mars to just

John Carter how it lost so much money It was

one of the biggest flops of all time It just

it just set up to be a huge franchise and just

was dead on arrival And again, I think it's a

decent movie I just think it was just pissed

for management and Horrific marketing made people

just not interested in that movie and also on

the movie front While I understand why they would

put it back in your squad because of what happened

in Colorado I just I don't agree with that. I'm

changing or reshooting scenes I think I have

no issue with him like saying okay, then pushing

it to January. That's fine But I just don't like

the idea of like changing someone's vision or

changing a story because of us You know an event

because I think that could go down What story

changed? They're retaking they're taking out

scenes. There was there's moments where you know

scenes out of what gangster squad Oh, okay gangster

squad. Okay. Yeah there I mean there was a there

was a scene where you which I understand why

they're taking it out, but I think it's it's

a tightrope to walk because to me like art and

entertainment or they're separate from real life

and I think I don't know to me like you had things

like Dr. Strangelove came out right around the

time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. They didn't

change it, they pushed it back, but they kept

what was there intact. I think it's fine to push

it back to we're not affected by it, but I just

think it's kind of a wrong message to send to

saying, okay, it's kind of admitting guilt when

I don't think they should have to. Steve, any

epic fails of the year? Hearing too much about

politics and all this other various crap that

you know I mean obviously besides the Mayan BS

which now they're concluding that it's gonna

happen in the first quarter next year but you

know whatever that that would pretty much sum

it up that the whole presidential election and

in politics crap surrounding it then the the

the fake Mayans thing that Somehow, you know,

oh we miscalculated No, actually with leap year

probably would have been six months ago. So you

guys are you know, right on the money ball there

jackasses All right, so now it is time to talk

about the GCR in in 2013 Talk about announcements

and new stuff coming up We're going to be doing

a whole bunch of new blogs. Obviously, Dan will

have many, many, many movies to blog about. We've

got several new blog things that have kind of

launched here in 2012, but will continue in 2013.

I launched something called Trailer Talk, where

if there's a trailer that we want to write a

blog about, just first impressions, and if we're

going to go see that movie or whatever else,

so there's Trailer Talk. I did it with... Despicable

Me 2 and Iron Man 3, which are two movies I'm

absolutely looking forward to next year. And

then later, I don't, I think it's sometime in

March that Dread comes out. I forget. Whenever

Dread releases to home media, I will be launching

a blog called Disc. Versus disc that's right

DVD disc versus disc and I will be comparing

and contrasting the original Stallone Judge Dredd

with the new Carl Urban Judge Dredd This blog

post is not just my thing it can anyone can use

it Anyone that any one of our staff can use it

as far as if there's Steve I know you you know

you mentioned in in your Earlier in the show

about total recall if you wanted to do a comparison

with that I'm not saying you will do it I'm just

saying like any film that has a remake from the

original version like Robocop like total recall

like Judge Dredd That kind of stuff that's what

disc versus disc is all about that's what that

blogs all about is taking an original film and

Comparing it to a newer version like something

like oceans 11 or the Italian job or something

like that What other blogs are you going to be,

besides your regular reviews, Dan, what other

blogs are you going to be doing in 2013? Well,

I think one thing about a movie critic is understanding

their personal taste on films. I think if you

read my reviews and listen to episodes of M .Y

.R. that I've been onto, you kind of get a good

idea. But to give you a better idea, what I'll

be doing is I'm going to do my top 100 favorite

films. These are my favorite films. These are

not what I consider the greatest films, just

so people can see. what I personally like. Hopefully

you can maybe it'll a few films that you may

have never heard of you'll take a look at or

just that way you know you can understand where

I'm coming from as a movie fan because I think

that's really important when you're reading a

review is understanding that what type of movie

review you are because you know everything's

subjective films are subjective. There's something

I may love and other people may hate, and it's

not because that movie is good or bad, it's just

because it affects us in different ways. So that's

kind of the method to that madness. And I have

a few other ideas. I think I might be doing some

director retrospectives where I pick out a director

and look into their photography picking out.

Going film a film and kind of dissecting their

careers And I have a few ideas of who I might

do that with and I think I'm probably gonna start

with John Carpenter Just because he has such

a huge filmography with different films and he's

such a great geek Centric type of director with

great movies and some of that I need to catch

up on I really am slacking when it comes to his

his movie. So I think it was something that People

can follow along with and experience with me

as I go through all his movies just in different

blog posts So that'll be coming this year Along

with you my normal reviews and I'm sure I'll

come up with different ideas as I As a year goes

on but that's what I'm currently planning on

Awesome. Awesome Steve, even though you're gonna

be scarce in 2013. What do you got coming up?

Um, I'm planning on doing some more I'm planning

on doing some more blogs at some point. I'm also

planning on... I'm gonna be doing more Altered

Geeks, of course. I'm gonna try and do some other

video -related shows because that'll be easier

to do a couple five -minute shows here or there.

I'm hoping to be able to get into some of my

podcasts again at some point. But it just kind

of, like I said, depends on the time. Right.

For me, obviously Optimus Solo and I will be

continuing on with Tales of Eternity, the first

of four Masters of the Universe podcasts in Powers

of Grayskull series. We will finish out Mass

Mayhem at some point during 2013. Tooncast Beyond

Season 2 will finish hopefully by March 2013.

um i think january probably january through march

or somewhere about there uh mwire movie we can

review episodes 90 to 99 will be recorded by

the end of march uh mwire will go on a break

until steve is ready to start the star trek spotlight

that we'll be doing over the summer and let's

see what else um oh yeah June 21st, 2013, TV's

Mr. Neil will be joining the GCRN for Pixels

in the Animation. We are going to be reviewing

nine video game cartoons in one podcast. We're

going to go through each cartoon individually

as a normal review series, but instead of reviewing

nine, having nine separate podcasts for these

things, we're going to be doing nine cartoons

in one show. Super Mario Brothers Super Show,

Legend of Zelda, Captain and the Game Masters,

Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, New Adventures

of Super Mario World, Mega Man, Sonic, Donkey

Kong Country, and that's pretty much it. So that'll

be launching in June this year. That's pretty

much the only new podcast. Yeah, I think so.

That's pretty much the only new podcast we're

going to launch in 2013 because we've got so

much stuff that launched in 2012 that we're still...

That Power of the Grayskull series, Kevin and

I are going to be at that for a couple of years

because that's four separate podcasts, four separate

cartoons, so that'll be ongoing very, very much.

The main focus for 2013 people is GCR, GCR and

Wars, and movie we can review as far as the flagship

shows. For geek cast radio the podcast we're

gonna have We're gonna start doing our our versions

of an AFI type of list like top ten spy movies

top ten action movies that kind of thing Kind

of in the same format as what you heard us do

in this episode with them with the top ten movies

So we'll be doing that GCR wars We've got some

sort of tournament thing that we're gonna be

doing though that we'll have more information

on soon next year uh... so it's going to be a

big year for us we're just kind of we're not

necessarily launching so many new things but

we're focusing on what we've currently got on

our plates and i do want to finish out toy cast

uh... episodes ninety nine ninety eight ninety

nine hundred so that'll be that And now that

show will officially retire. I do want to bring

in another toy centric podcast to kind of replace

it I gotta talk to the people about that. So

we need to have a meeting on that eventually

off -air But 2013 bigger and better we're gonna

be getting more and more interviews for 2013

I've got a lot of people I want to talk to I

should also mention, before I forget, from the

Command Center, our Power Rangers podcast that

is a crossover between us and Pop Culture Network

with Scotty Cash, we will be doing the RPM and

Samurai episodes. After that, from the Command

Center is going to go on hiatus because we're

going to go all the way back to the beginning

and Scotty and I are going to start recording

commentary episodes, which we're going to essentially

start all over and go more in depth rather than

an overview. of of the series we're going to

talk about episodes from Mighty Morphin every

Power Rangers series we're going back to the

beginning so after we finish the Samurai episode

we're going to go commentary style for 2013 Command

Center probably won't come back until maybe September

or October of 2013 we will release um RPM and

Samurai in January and February After February

from the command center is going on hiatus for

the year. So there's that Anything else we need

to bring up Steve for the 2013 stuff? I don't

think so. All right Very very awesome. It is

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what's up? This is Kevin Michael Richardson,

the voice of G .I. Joe Renegades, roadblock,

and you listened to What's On Joe Mine, motherfuckers.

Welcome to this GCRN Gear Review Special Edition

of What's On Your Mind. If you've never heard

of us, well, first of all, shame on you for not

listening to the GCRN's number one show. I am

one of your co -hosts. Gary, joining me as always

is our showrunner and GCR legend in his own mind,

the Chuck Dog. Chuck, Chuck, how are you? I'm

doing alright, Gary. How are you? Fantastic.

He is new for 2012, but that new car smell has

worn off. It's Beachhead Mike. Mike, how are

you? Smelly as ever. I've never had a new car

that smelled like mine. Thank God. I thought

we were trying to keep this quick. Sorry. He

is the Ayatollah Trollmany of GeneralJose .com

and General Hawk Justin. What's happening? Just

go with Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla. That works

too. Yeah, the Ayatollah Trollmany. Alright,

well done. We have been asked by TFGI Mike...

to put together a top three and bottom three

list of the events of Joe from the past year.

And then we have to fit that all within 10 minutes.

But anyways, we have put our list together and

here's what we come up with. Starting at the

bottom, number three. Black luster movie toys.

Well, yeah black luster might seem a little harsh

because these were some really solid figures

It's just that with the limited articulation

and not as Detailed paint schemes a lot of these

first wave retaliation figures which were on

shelves before the movie pale in comparison to

Cobra and 30th anniversary renegades figures

But as I said, they are some solid figures and

you should look into them And as it looked like

the later waves fellas looks like they are considerably

better than early waves, right? Oh definitely,

yeah. A lot of the first wave stuff was kind

of in progress before they really had all the

final designs and everything for the film, so

they're still kind of flying at the seat of their

pants a little bit. Still some neat character

design in that first wave, they just didn't quite

execute. Number two on our bottom three... It

was a challenging year for the GI Joe Collectors

Club, wasn't it Justin? Yeah, it was a little

bit. They are coming out pretty much on top.

They're ending 2012 on a high note with the release

of the figure subscription service, the first

wave of that. But yeah, they had a little bit

of a rough year. They had some issues with their

software security system where some credit card

information got leaked, which was unfortunate.

They built their convention this year kind of

a lot around a retaliation screening that of

course then couldn't happen because the movie

got delayed. To add to that, they had some little

hotel snafus and they actually had to cancel

their hotel plans or their hotel canceled the

plans on them and they had to delay the convention

and reschedule much to the chagrin of many GI

Joe fans out in the community. The release of

the FSS. preview pictures was met with some mixed

response. Some people concerned with the character

selection, some people concerned with the artwork.

It's just been kind of an up and down rocky road

for the club. They had challenges getting their

store online. They didn't really have any product

to sell. It's been rough for them this year,

but things like I said, they're looking up at

the end of 2012 with the FSS hitting mailboxes

as we speak and hopefully kicking off 2013 with

the rest of the FSS and some really exciting

news for JoCon 2013. And number one on the bottom

three to Absolut - no one's surprise. G .I. Joe

retaliation gets delayed. We'll set it around

the horn, fellas. Yeah, it's tough to really

put into words exactly kind of what that news

meant to a G .I. Joe fan. Us G .I. Joe fans are

kind of used to getting kicked in the gut a little

bit over the past several years. We've always

kind of been second fiddle. Over and over and

over again. Yeah, it feels like we're kind of

the redheaded stepchild in some cases. And when

you hear of a movie year and a movie coming out,

you think, finally, oh, this one's going to be

our year. Hasbro's putting all their focus on

us. Hollywood's doing some good things for us.

this will be the year that we actually get the

attention we deserve and slam on those brakes

not so fast. Not only did the movie get delayed

but there's all these rumors about why it got

delayed about whether it's Channing Tatum or

about whether it's a conversion to 3D whether

screenings were terrible. For a movie year it

wasn't a very fun year and that was a pretty

big bummer for us GI Joe fans. I know it took

the wind out of a lot of people's sails and that's

just unfortunate. Just one bit of resolve and

just got to dig in and look towards the future.

Yeah, can't add too much to what these guys have

said without just completely blowing our time

limit sky high. We've seen the tough part of

the storm at least. We've been through the bulk

of that time and get through Christmas and before

you know it, it'll be the end of March and there

we go. It was certainly a surreal day back when

that happened. I mean it happened so quick. Yes.

Out of the blue, one day. We're recording a podcast

and pretending the movie and the con are 30 days

away and the next day, done. Yeah, I was in a

meeting. It was kind of funny without blowing

our time when we were totally out of the water.

I was in a meeting for work and throughout the

entire meeting, my phone was like, I'm like,

what the heck is going on? Trying not to be too

obvious about checking my phone. And I finally

got to the desk and fired things up and I'm hammered

with like 18 different tweets about what is going

on? What is this? And it was just a crazy, crazy

day. It was bizarre that we were finding out

about that news the same time as most of the

people at Hasbro. Yeah, it certainly seemed that

way. Here's our top three list. Number three,

fan initiatives of 2012. helped keep brand optimism

high. Yeah, it was a great year for fan -driven

shows. We, of course, had the long -standing

shows in Canada and Atlanta with Joe Lana. Coil

Con rolled into its third year with some well

-received exclusive. New Jersey Collector's Convention

really hit big with that metalhead figure that

they had. Iowa really got things going with Assembly

Required in its second year. Roll Out Roll Call

over in England rolled into its third year and

had those great snake exclusives. There was all

kinds of great fan product out on the market.

It seems like collector groups regionally and

nationally really in what wasn't the greatest

attended convention for the big con. These regional

shows really picked up the slack and met the

needs of a lot of Joe fans out there in various

communities. Props to everybody. Number two,

Dollar General Joe's keep the brand alive for

2012. We've already talked about the movie line

having lackluster sales and feedback. The opposite

was the Dollar General Joe's, the basic assortment

line, six figures. pretty much using existing

tooling and stuff that's already out there, and

they hit a home run solidly with four of these,

and the other two are kinda eh, but they still

are pretty good figures. They come with a figure

stand, which the mainline figures don't come

with. Basic stuff to get the kids interested.

Well, I don't know about getting kids interested,

but definitely the collectors were interested

to the point that there was frenzies about not

being able to find these things for the longest

time. Now I believe supply has met up with demand,

and there's going to be a running change to these

particular figures. and looks like that will

be hitting sometime in 2013, but the dollar general

Joe's, as a lot of people call them, or the basic

assortment figures, as they're really called

by Hasbro, truly saved the year for collectors

in 2012. And the number one Joe news item for

2012? Well, we're gonna swerve in here. It was

a movie! Yeah, I mean we kind of have to put

that at the top and at the bottom because I got

to admit for the first four or five months that

movie talk was going strong. It was a hell of

a ride. Yeah, it was really great. kind of beginning

of the year to be a GI Joe fan, we had John Shue,

the director of the movie, pretty active on Twitter,

talking back and forth with all the fans, talking

back and forth with us on the podcast. And it

was a really great immersive environment, a lot

of fun, a lot of updates. It seems like every

week there is new updates, new trailers, new

posters, new information, just all sorts of cool

stuff leading up to the film. I just think it's

a big story. I mean, whether or not the delay

was a negative for us, it's also a big news story.

So you can't argue that it shouldn't belong in

both places. So I think the movie and it was

all -encompassing for 2012. First, it was the

excitement leading up to the movie, and then

it was the movie delay, and then it was declaring

lack of a movie. Whatever the end result was,

it consumed all of 2012. It's the biggest G .I.

Joe story by far. All you can say is, whenever

something has to be delayed to make it better,

it's a good thing. We'll see. You know, it's

one of those where they delayed the movie and

they promised us much bigger stuff and much...

Better stuff is going to be going in there. Proof

is in the pudding. Fans are going to be expecting

a better movie as a result. So I hope they can

follow through on the promise and now the increased

promise after the delay that this is truly one

of the big movie events of 2013. Fingers are

crossed. I really want it to be successful. I

would agree with that. I mean, G .I. Joe fans

especially live and die by our toys. And if a

successful movie, whether or not it thrills us,

if a successful movie brings more toys to the

aisle, more good toys to the aisle, then I can

live with being disappointed for two hours in

order to have... a couple of years with a decent

twist. Well, it was a hell of a run. It's always

a good time getting to the store, finding new

product. It was always great to hear those trailers

on TV and see them. I enjoyed the buildup and

we get to go through it again and hopefully it's

better and it pays off. Yeah. 2013 for the first

half of the year should be fantastic. So let's

go. Moving on. I think that's all we got. I think

we're coming up on 10 minutes. We don't want

to make Lee Mike River's name is. We want to

make lunch it angry. So for our show winner Chuck

goes Justin and Mike. I'm Gary, sending all our

men and women serving. God bless, God speed,

and come home safe. Thanks to all of our guests,

our generous sponsors, and to all of our friends

who made 2012 happen. Thank you for another great

year. Good night, folks, and thanks for listening.

We'll catch you next year in the next episode

of What's on Jill Mine? Happy holidays. Happy

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A blank sign for all... and this is Ryan from

the Star Joe's podcast. Unfortunately, today

Chuck couldn't be with me, but we wanted to make

sure that we got in front of you guys and let

you know all the great geeky news that came out

in 2012. So when it comes to movies, there was

never a year in the past like there was for 2012

when it came to the geekiest movies, the best

movies that could be out there for us. So obviously

the biggest one that was out there was Marvel's

The Avengers. almost at a billion and a half

grossing sales is ranked right now at the number

three of all time sales when it comes to movies.

So just an amazing, amazing movie. I'm sure all

of you have seen it once, if not multiple times

by now, especially with it being out on DVD and

Blu -ray. Closely following that was actually

The Dark Knight Rises, which was the third movie

in the Batman trilogy by Christopher Nolan. And

that's actually number seven of all time now

with over a billion dollars in sales. For those

Bond fans out there, Skyfall just recently came

out, and believe it or not, Skyfall is already

number 14 of all time grossing movies. And I

can imagine it's just gonna go up from there.

It's almost made a billion dollars worldwide.

Also, this year, not only did we have Avengers,

not only did we have Batman, we also had Amazing

Spider -Man, a brand new take on the classic

character that is sure to have at least a trilogy

of movies in total when it's done. But that one

has actually come in at number 46 of all -time

grossing movies, which is actually pretty amazing

when you think about it, no pun intended there.

The Hobbit, which actually just came out just

within the last several weeks, this has actually

already made $244 million worldwide. I don't

believe it's actually even hit every country

yet, so... And then last but not least, number

19 in 2012 was the movie Prometheus, which was

the precursor to the Alien movies done by Ridley

Scott. And this made only 126 million, I know

that sounds like still a lot of money, and it

is, but it only made 126 million in the U .S.,

which really would not have been a success for

it because the budget for it was about 130 million.

But when you look at it worldwide, it made over

$400 million. So is there a chance we'll see

another one? Possibly. I don't know. Certainly

keep our fingers crossed on that. Would love

to see another movie come out. When it comes

to comics, big year for comics. We had Marvel

Now. And Marvel Now was pretty much, even though

they won't say it, was Marvel's response to the

DC relaunch. What Marvel did was starting in

October of 2012, so just a few months ago, They

decided they were going to reboot a lot of their

titles back to number one and come out with some

other new titles. Move around some creators.

We had Brian Michael Bendis who was known for

his run on Avengers titles move over to the X

-Men now and he's going to actually be... not

only is he working on all new X -Men, but he's

also gonna be working on the new Uncanny X -Men

that's gonna be coming out very soon. That started

in October, and what we have seen so far is at

least one, if not multiple, number one titles

coming out every single week from Marvel. So

several, several titles, and this started with

the title Uncanny Avengers. Now tied into all

this, what we're about to see come out very soon

in 2013, is Superior Spider -Man number one,

which actually takes place after the events of

Amazing Spider -Man number 700. Now this just

came out this week, so I don't want to spoil

what happens in it for you, but I will say if

you want to have any idea of what's happening

in the world of Spider -Man, number 700 is the

issue you need to get. In fact, I would recommend

getting issues 698, 699, and 700 to get the full

story of what's happening and who is Superior

Spider -Man. Also this year, we saw The Walking

Dead reach its 100th issue. Obviously a huge

successful title, but also a huge successful

TV show. It's in its third season now, and it's

been doing nothing but going up to being viewers.

But when it comes to the comic book itself, it's

already up to issue 100 with no end in sight,

so just a great milestone for independent comic

out there. Speaking of independent comics...

For those bronies out there, we had My Little

Pony, presented by IDW, came out in November.

It sold over 80 ,000 copies for number one. For

an independent comic, a property comic, cannot

say enough great things about it. Also, when

it comes to independent comics, we saw Saga,

Brian K. Vaughn, and Fiona Staples. It went into

its fifth printing and it sold over 70 ,000 copies.

Absolutely incredible. It's an amazing space

story. Highly recommend checking it out. When

it comes to toys this year, we had Maddie Collector

come out with their pre -orders for the Castle

Grayskull Playset. Playsets, I believe, were

a thing of the past, but not so. Maddie has come

out and has taken pre -orders for the Castle

Grayskull Playset, which is going to be massive.

And it comes out next December, but you can put

your pre -orders in now for it. Speaking of playsets...

They weren't the only ones doing that. We also

saw the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle playset.

This huge, like, three -foot tall playset with

a sewer playset with a street scene. Perfect

toy with a hot item this Christmas. You can also,

if you're on the higher end of things, we also

have pre -orders come out this year for the Masterpiece

Soundwave and Sideswipe for Transformers. That's

right, the Masterpiece was able to get their

licensing for the Lamborghini so they could actually...

do the size white figure and I'm sure we're going

to see Sunstreaker come out pretty soon shortly

after that. Also sideshow when it comes to GI

Joes they came out with the pre -orders for Baroness

and Major Blood this year so those you can expect

to come out next year but the pre -orders are

out there now so you want to make sure you get

those they're absolutely amazing reveals that

were shown this year. I don't think there was

anything bigger than Star Wars and Lucasfilm

being purchased by Disney. And this is probably

why we were asked at Star Joe's to give the news

of 2012. There was no news bigger than this.

Absolutely floored everyone out there. People

of course thought Lucas would never let go of

the reins of Star Wars or Lucasfilm, but he did.

And in my opinion, and I know in Chuck's opinion,

this could not have been a better thing that

happened. What we are going to see with the announcements

that have been made so far is... We are gonna

get a new movie. It might not even be every year,

but at least once every couple years. And they're

starting with the sequels. So we're gonna get

episodes 7, 8, and 9. We've already heard that

Mark Hamill is interested, Carrie Fisher is interested,

and we've even heard Harrison Ford is interested.

We've also heard that Darth Vader might make

a new appearance in these sequels. And I know

you're probably thinking, how could that happen?

He died. Well... There's things you can always

think of. There's clones in Star Wars. This can

be used as a shock effect to throw Luke Skywalker

off. We also have Luke has touched the dark side

at some point, so maybe he takes on the mantle

of the name Darth Vader. Who knows? But it's

going to be absolutely amazing. We have right

now, like I said, Disney just purchased Lucasfilm.

It finally went through on December 21st of this

year. So even though the news came out months

ago... The final purchase went through this past

21st of December, and it sold for $4 .06 billion.

We have, working on the first sequel, writer

Michael Arnt, who was known for his writing on

Toy Story 3, which was actually, probably in

my opinion, the best Toy Story of all three.

So we have a good, solid writer on that. Lucas

is still involved as a consultant. He's not going

to have his hands in it. directly, but he is

going to be there as a consultant, someone they

can turn to if they have any questions or some

advice or anything like that. When the sequels

are done, we're going to get some spinoff movies,

spinoff stories, maybe we'll get a Boba Fett

story, maybe we'll get Origin of Yoda, maybe

we'll get a Rogue Squadron movie. Who knows?

The possibilities are absolutely endless. What

this also means for comics is, as you may know,

Disney also owns Marvel Comics. And what is going

to happen is we're going to see Dark Horse when

their license is over with Lucasfilm for doing

the comics. License will then go to Marvel and

Marvel will start doing comics. And they've already

announced that the licensing is going to end

in the upcoming year. And Marvel Comics, you

might see them doing Star Wars comics as soon

as about early 2015. So we might go about a year

or less without seeing any Star Wars comics.

Then it's like gangbusters and I'm sure Marvel's

going to put out a lot of Star Wars titles and

I for one am looking forward to it big year for

movies big year for comics big year for toys

and Huge year when it came to the Star Wars franchise

and I can only imagine that that's going to cause

Huge movie toy and comic news for the future

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I want to thank GCRN for having us on this episode.

I want to thank them for their support throughout

the year of 2012. and I look forward to their

continued partnership and community in 2013.

Take care everyone. As it wasn't mentioned in

the transition into this ad break with the segments

from the other parts of the GCRN, here now is

JT from Saskatoon with comics. Hey guys, JT from

Saskatoon here. Being that I read more comics

than is medically recommended by four out of

five parents, it falls to me to discuss some

of the bigger comic stories and news from the

year. So in order to avoid boring you with all

the minutiae of comicdom, I'm going to talk about

three of the biggest events that happened in

and around comics this year. And yes, I am going

to discuss DC's new 52 somewhat. I promise to

keep the swearing and death threats towards Dan

to Dio to minimum. Maybe. I make no guarantees.

One of the Marvel Comics' biggest stories in

2012, and probably the hardest to miss, was Avengers

vs. X -Men, a 70 -plus issue company -wide crossover,

also known as AVX. The crossover saw the universally

powerful Phoenix Force making its way back to

Earth, the implications of its return bringing

the Avengers and the X -Men to blows over how

it should be handled. Mutant leader Cyclops believes

the Phoenix return will resurrect the mutant

race, while Captain America and the Avengers

think it's going to lay a lease to the world.

Hero fights hero across the world and into outer

space before the phoenix arrives, and when the

Avengers' giant man and the beast attempt to

use the device to disperse the phoenix, it's

split into five pieces that inhabit Cyclops,

Emma Frost, Namor the Submariner, Colossus, and

his sister, Magic. The so -called Phoenix -5

then makes sweeping, miraculous changes to the

world, while the Avengers are driven into hiding

after the Phoenix -5 demand that the world submit

to their rule. However, it's not long before

the story starts making like Highlander, as each

member of the begin to fall and their powers

split among the survivors. Eventually, before

you can say there can be only one, Cyclops absorbs

all of the Phoenix Force and becomes Dark Phoenix.

And in a last -ditch effort, Professor X, the

Scarlet Witch, and the mutant messiah known as

Hope team up to take down Cyclops before he ruins

everyone's day. The Marvel Universe is irrevocably

changed by the events of this, at least until

the next crossover. Mutants begin appearing all

over the world again, Cyclops and majority of

his supporters are either in jail or on the run,

and the Avengers are recreated yet again, this

time adding some well -known mutant faces such

as Havoc and Cannonball to the roster. The crossover

drew some criticism from fans, but was an overall

successful storyline. The ending of the series,

which resulted in the surprise death of a longtime

X -Men cast member, and Cyclops becoming a fugitive

mutant freedom fighter, finally moved the X -Men

comics forward from the species on the verge

of extinction place that they had been since

2005's House of M event. AVX also resurrected

the classic Marvel 2 -in -1 team up -titled in

the new A plus X series, rebooted the uncanny

X -Men yet again, and set up a hero and mutant

status quo in the new uncanny Avengers comic,

which also sees the Red Skull do some interesting

things to himself in order to screw with the

team. Seriously, just read the first issue and

you'll know what I'm talking about. Most regular

comics fans may have read or at least heard of

the Valiant Comics universe from back in the

late 80s and early 90s. Valiant boasted many

diverse titles. Some featured reconceived gold

key comic characters like Magnus Robot Fighter

and Turok Son of Stone. They also had original

concepts like the voodoo -influenced Shadow Man,

the sci -fi barbarian action of X -O Man of War,

and the superhero buddy comedy in Archer and

Armstrong. The Valiant comics were so successful

during their time that most of the titles were

as popular, if not more so, than some of Marvel

and DC's characters. The company and its characters

was eventually sold to a video game company Acclaim

Entertainment in 1994, where in hopes to boost

sales they were retold with a more 90s attitude,

in hopes to spin them off into video games, toys,

and animation. The switch didn't last, and by

1999 Acclaim decided to shut down publication

of the comics in order to save money after suffering

losses from a number of their video game ventures.

Fast forward to 2012, where Valiant Entertainment,

a retooled version of former parent company Voyager

Entertainment, began publishing new versions

of the classic characters based much more closely

on the original titles than on the 90s reboots.

Thus far, the five core titles Shadow Man, Harbinger,

Exo Man of War, Archer and Armstrong, and Bloodshot

boast such artistic talents as Cary Nord, Clayton

Crane, and Phil Hester on art, while writers

like Robert Venditti, Fred Van Lenti, and Patrick

or handle the words. The new Valiant has only

been around since April of this year, and they're

already garnering some critical acclaim from

fans and critics. But with its first crossover

coming next year in the form of the Harbinger

Wars, and even more Valiant resurrections planned,

time will tell if this new version of Valiant

will make as much of a mark as it did the first

time around. Last year amidst the cries of readers

everywhere DC decided to reboot their entire

universe except for Batman and Green Lantern

because Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison have spent

the last five years setting up storylines. Throughout

the last year DC has published three successive

waves of titles allowing DC to keep control on

ones that are successful and canceling low -selling

titles such as Hawk and Dove and Justice League

International to keep things moving along. DC

also established separate stables of titles such

as Justice League, The Edge, and The Dark which

allows writers to focus more on characters and

particular genres while still allowing for tightly

controlled crossovers. Besides well -known characters

such as Superman, Batman, and The Flash, DC also

resurrected titles such as National Comics and

DC Comics Presents in order to shine the spotlight

on more obscure characters like Kid Eternity

and The Blue Devil written and drawn by rotating

creative teams. Like some of their characters,

DC has been reintroducing classic concepts and

certain ongoing stories from their previous continuity.

The reinvention of the multiverse in the New

52 has been slowly and somewhat teasingly been

introduced throughout titles like Mr. Terrific,

Earth -2, and world's finest. Out in space and

on Earth, Green Lantern of Sector 2814 Sinestro

and anyone else wielding a ring must contend

with the Guardians of the Universe plan to rid

the entire cosmos of emotion with their zombie

-like minions in the current rise of the Third

Army storyline. Also, the Joker is back in a

big way after having his face peeled off in the

early parts of the new 52. Following the hit

Night of Owls storyline, the clown Prince of

Crime is taking part in the death of the family,

seeing him enacting a diabolical new plan to

kill off all of his and Batman's sidekicks just

so they can go back to how things used to be.

See, even the Joker preferred the way things

used to be. Take note, Didio. Outside of the

reboot, DC also decided to offer same -day releases

of both printed and digital issues of their comics,

something that many saw as a bit of a gamble

but has paid off very well for the company. However,

not everything is coming up roses for DC. Many

fans, still feeling betrayed by the reboot, recently

sabotaged a poll on the DC Facebook by adding

extra choices such as stop with all the 90s -esque

reboots and sell all your characters to Marvel

and let them fix the problems. Needless to say,

the poll was very quickly removed from the page.

And when asked about fan favorite characters

such as Stephanie Brown, the former Batgirl,

or why there aren't more female creators at work

for DC, Mr. Dan DiDio has yet to give fans a

clear answer either ducking the questions outright

or just completely ignoring them. Also, many

writers and artists at DC, such as George Perez

and Rob Liefeld, have commented that the behind

-the -scenes of DC Comics is a mess, with artists

and writers either voluntarily leaving the titles

or being shuffled around like a deck of cards.

The moves are very often been described as the

left hand not knowing what the right is doing.

And then there's Gail Simone being fired and

rehired all within a week just before Christmas,

and no one knows why. All in all, much to my

chagrin, DC Comics hasn't completely sucked in

the last year. And while this fanboy is still

not completely sold on the idea, I will admit

that some, not all, but some of the reinvented

concepts are pretty cool. And if Young Justice

can get a cartoon, where the hell is my Captain

Carrot in the Zoo Crew series, dammit? This is

JT from Saskatoon, signing off for 2012. Stay

safe, people. I'll see you all next year. technical

difficulties let's move on shall we hi this is

Kevin Conroy and you're listening to the geek

cast radio network Houston we have a problem

this is Kevin Conroy and I am the goddamn Batman

thank you once again to Ryan of the star Joe's

one half of the star Joe's podcast and the what's

on Joe mine crew Gary, get it right, it's TFG1,

not TFGI. Seriously, dude, come on. Pretty awesome

year for 2012. I think we've had, you know, year

three was damn good. A lot of great content,

a lot of constant content, a lot of different

content. I know we do want to eventually reach

out to other people and get more content on the

site that isn't stuff that we produce, but is

still... the same quality as what we produce

and different topics that we may not be talking

about, so we'll be working on that in the future.

Steve, any final thoughts on 2012? No, bring

on 2013. That's right. Dan, any final thoughts?

Like you mentioned, it's been a great year overall.

A lot of stuff has happened. Honestly, I'd like

to thank both of you guys for letting me come

on because it's really been my 2012 I started.

Very at the end of 2011, but this has been my

first full year and I've been a great opportunity

that I've really enjoyed so Hoping for more in

2013. So yeah. Oh Yeah, I'm sure there will be

plenty of stuff for you to do in 2013. So for

now closing out 2012 I'm TF2 on Mike with a mover

of old Dan Steve Megatron Phillips Thank you

for listening and we will see you in 2013 You've

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