1. It’s the 90’s! - A very dated supercut from the Everything is Terrible people.

  2. Before They Were Famous - A few of these blew my freaking mind… JGL on Roseanne? What?!

    - James

  3. EW Thinks Breaking Bad Is Awesome…Take Our Word For It! The season 4 premiere is this Sunday at 10pm EST and the buzz about it is very positive. New York Magazine has a great breakdown of showrunner Vince Gilligan, whom revealed he’s an agnostic but still believes in heaven and hell. I believe he should shit or get off the pot when it comes to religious beliefs but I still support his show 100%. Also revealed is the show does well in mid-western states but the big hubs on the east coast seem to want to talk about the show more than they want to watch it. Yeah, if there’s one thing Americans excel at it’s wishy-washy ideology that fails on the follow through. Just watch the damn show, already.  Finally, we’re going to take EW’s example for the next Rotcast and not source any of our news stories. Never let it be said we don’t steal ideas from the very best. - Dave

    EW Thinks Breaking Bad Is Awesome…Take Our Word For It!

    The season 4 premiere is this Sunday at 10pm EST and the buzz about it is very positive. New York Magazine has a great breakdown of showrunner Vince Gilligan, whom revealed he’s an agnostic but still believes in heaven and hell. I believe he should shit or get off the pot when it comes to religious beliefs but I still support his show 100%. Also revealed is the show does well in mid-western states but the big hubs on the east coast seem to want to talk about the show more than they want to watch it. Yeah, if there’s one thing Americans excel at it’s wishy-washy ideology that fails on the follow through. Just watch the damn show, already. 

    Finally, we’re going to take EW’s example for the next Rotcast and not source any of our news stories. Never let it be said we don’t steal ideas from the very best.

    - Dave

  4. Game of Thrones D&D Alignment Chart This is frakking brilliant. I love how Robb and Jon look alike in many ways, giving credence that both came from the same father. Dany as Chaotic Neutral is inspired. Very well done. (Via stickingupforsammy) - Dave

    Game of Thrones D&D Alignment Chart

    This is frakking brilliant. I love how Robb and Jon look alike in many ways, giving credence that both came from the same father. Dany as Chaotic Neutral is inspired. Very well done.

    (Via stickingupforsammy)

    - Dave

    (via yourfandomsucks-deactivated2011)

  5. If I Buy This For You, You Have To Wear It To School Otherwise the deal is off. It even makes a PULSING SONIC SOUND so the bullies will know your every location.  - Dave

    If I Buy This For You, You Have To Wear It To School

    Otherwise the deal is off. It even makes a PULSING SONIC SOUND so the bullies will know your every location. 

    - Dave

  6. Because Fuck You Is Why

    Because Fuck You Is Why

  7. Doctor Who “The Doctor’s Wife”

    In just one scene Matt Smith conveys more subtext of The Doctor’s guilt regarding his actions during the Time War than David Tennant did in his entire run. The exchange also applies to many of our own human lives here on the planet Earth. This scene came from the excellent Neil Gaiman penned episode called “The Doctor’s Wife.”

    - Dave

  8. Joel Says Hello - Dave

    Joel Says Hello

    - Dave

  9. Game of Thrones Recap Ep. 6 “A Golden Crown”

    This can be a hard show to watch if you shy away from violence and sex. Fortunately, I had my card punched for a one way ticket to hell about 14 years ago so I have no such hang ups. I imagine if you’re reading this, neither do you, so at least I know I won’t be alone in that lake of fire. Could be worse. You could have colored hot caramel poured all over your head. Then where would you be, Mr. Delicious Head? Dead, that’s where.

    This week opened with Ned waking to see his king and his, ahem, wife standing over him. Cersei accused him of being a whorish drunk and Ned fired back that she was a raging, incestuous See You Next Tuesday. Well, maybe in not so many words. Robert wanted nothing of it because he is but not a man who favors the path of least resistance. He ordered Ned to have Cat release Tyrian and make up with Jamie Lannister. He then put Ned in charge while Robert went on a long hunt.

    Meanwhile in Winterfell, Brann finally got to ride a horse again as the saddle Tyrian designed was completed. Theon rubbed it in about Robb needing to be the man of the house since both Ned and Cat were gone, and Robb told him to mind his own fucking business. I know Theon has got issues what with his own house fallen and he being a ward of the Starks, but Robb was a real dick to him in this scene and particularly the next one. Brann was accosted by some brigands from farther up North, and in the rescue attempt Robb nearly bungled the whole thing. A well-placed arrow from Theon saved the day and scored the Starks a new servant. Hey, wait…

    That looks suspiciously like Natalia Tena, a/k/a Nymphadora Tonks from the Harry Potter movies. Wikipedia pulled through but an initial glance at imdb revealed nothing about this character or this actress. Hmmm, strange. It’s almost as if Harry Potter fans want nothing to do with this show and will militarize to white-wash anyone’s involvement in it. Nah, they aren’t that pathetic, right? I mean, it’s not like they’re a group collectively suffering from arrested development and need to grow the fuck up about matters more serious. I’m totally not trolling a group I belong to here.

    Tyrian, poor chap, had a most rude awakening.

    Indeed, more than once I saw either Caprica or Bill (mostly Bill) stretch and roll right off the bed. Then they would try to play it off like it was nothing. I doubt Tyrian would have been so suave, what with being dead and all. He ended up making a deal with Mord, the jailer of The Eyrie, promising him gold in exchange for getting a message to Lady I’ve-Texted-Your-Bitch-Ass-Sixteen-Motherfucking-Times-Why-Haven’t-You-Called-Me-Back. The sequence that followed was pure gold (not a pun). If Peter Dinklage does not receive some official recognition for his work on this show it will be an outrage. With the help of Bronn, in a most righteous battle of champions, Tyrian won his freedom. It was nice to see Lady Arryan keep to the law of the land, much as it displeased her. There was also this exchange:

    Lady Crazy-head: You do not fight with honor!

    Bronn: No. He did.

    Epic.

    Little Lord Fuck-pants, also called Joffrey, appeared to soften up on Sansa, giving her a gift and promising her a lifetime of queenly stuff. Well that just melted Sansa right down (lots of that going on in this episode) but it was not to last as Ned ordered both Sansa and Arya back to Winterfell. Neither girl was happy about the arrangement but Arya seemed to accept it the quickest. After all, she could keep Syrio and her fighting lessons; Sansa would go alone. Ned promised her to arrange a marriage with a nice Northern (read: Canadian and bland as shit) boy but Sansa wanted nothing of it. In fact, she revealed just how much she cared for Joffrey.

    Finally, Viserys Targaryen met his maker this episode in a scene that had a Tension to Minutes ratio of 250:1. I know it’s satisfying to see a villain get his comeuppance, but there’s always the enjoyment of a slow burn. Also, glibness aside, that has got to be one of the worst ways to die, and Harry Lloyd sold it brilliantly. Oh, and I should clear something up. I’ve heard people (read=Goons) speculate that Daenerys doesn’t appear to feel pain or get burned because she’s suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Even after she says, “He wasn’t a dragon. A dragon can’t be killed by fire,” those goons still think she’s the fragile broken creature. Sure, not only does PTSD numb you from pain, but it also prevent your skin from physically burning and scarring. Idiots. I hate it when people try to project real world bullshit into fantasy shows.

    Episode 7, while shown after episode 6 Sunday night, will not be recapped until next week, after it has aired properly. Thanks for reading!

    - Dave

  10. Game of Thrones Recap Episode 5 “The Wolf and the Lion” 

    I’ve watched this episode twice now, does that make me a pervert? I tried to tell Andrew and James way back when on The Rotcast that this show was icky and filthy but they didn’t believe me. “How can a fantasy show have tits, Dave? Girls and fantasy don’t mix, Hermione Granger not withstanding.” Idiots. I hope they’re happy because this show also had cocks. 

    The show started with Ned trying to figure out how Ser Hugh rose to stardom only to become so much wormfood. He learned only that Hugh was a loner and King Robert was planning on jousting himself. Not having any of that foolishness, Ned went to talk him out of it. It was there the show finally starting giving back to the women in the crowd.

    That’s right. This scene set up Ned starting to finally realize his friend had become something different, something more…drunk. At the joust we were introduced to this shows Legolas, the dashing Ser Loras Tyrell. Now when I say “this show’s Legolas” I mean a character girls can desire because he looks like one and that makes me them sexually confused, more so than they already are. Misogyny, ha! Oh but this young lad is not for our girls, no siree bob.

    Girl: Mommy, what is that boy doing to that man’s waist?

    Mother: Haven’t I told you to go to bed already?

    Ah, who am I kidding? Kids today know more about sex than a French whore. Thanks, internet. Arya continued her dancing lessons, this time literally chasing a cat around the grounds. She ended up in a basement of some sorts where viewers finally got a look at “da’ dragons.” If you had picked episode 5 for first appearance, you won your office pool even though technically they were dragon skulls. Still counts. You can point naysaying bitches to this post. Anyway, Arya overheard Varys the Spider gabbing with Ser Jorah, who clearly traveled a hell of a long way. She learned, well, she learned the plot of the first book in A Song of Ice and Fire and went to spoil it to her father since he, you know, is a part of it. He was about to lay the verbal smackdown on her for being missing when a member of the Night Watch came to say Catelyn Stark had taken The Imp.

    Yeah, taken him to The Eyrie, a big tower connected only to land by a narrow stone bridge. The perfect place for important people to flee, refugee like, in a later episode. Cat reached her sister’s no longer 100% sure of The Imp’s involvement in the Lannisters’ shenanigans. He saved her life during an Hill People ambush and successfully planted the seed of doubt when the party reached The Vale. Unfortunately, Cat hadn’t seen her sister in some time, nor her nephew.

    Wow this was a loaded scene. I could easily see Sansa Stark sitting on that throne, breast feeding an eight year old boy. Not as she is right now, you pervs, but growing into batshit crazy the way some people ease into a hot-tub. Even Cat’s face during this scene showed she could tell the score and it read “Insanity - 6 Lysa Arran - 0”. Poor Tyran was thrown in an open air dungeon, his only method of escape involving time, patience, and someone opening the door for him. Hope he doesn’t have vertigo. 

    Girl: Mommy, why can’t that little girl walk?

    Mother: That’s not a little girl, that’s Brann Stark. Go to bed!

    Normally the end of the third act gives me what I like to call the Douche Moment of the show, but episode 5 didn’t have that. Instead it was jam packed with intrigue as King Robert learned about Daenerys’ pregnancy and raged most righteous. Ned wanted nothing to do with the plot to kill her and her child so promptly resigned when pressured. As he was packing to leave, Littlefinger showed up to take Ned to the last person Jon Arryan visited, but it ended up being just another bastard child. As he was leaving, Jamie showed up, having learned of his brother’s arrest. Ned called an audible and took the full responsibility, protecting his wife. For that Jamie had his men killed and Ned hobbled. I couldn’t quite figure out why Jamie just rode off at the end of the scene instead of taking Ned prisoner. But then, it wasn’t like Ned was going anywhere. Jamie probably need to go let off some steam, relax. Maybe listen to some music.

            

    5 episodes down, 5 to go. 

    - Dave

  11. TARDIS Murphy Bed The above photo is a result of a contest called Where’s The TARDIS, sponsored by BBC America. A Murphy bed is one which can fold up into the wall and be used in rooms with small area space. Click through for bigger and to see it opened up. Quite neat.  (via Geek) - Dave

    TARDIS Murphy Bed

    The above photo is a result of a contest called Where’s The TARDIS, sponsored by BBC America. A Murphy bed is one which can fold up into the wall and be used in rooms with small area space. Click through for bigger and to see it opened up. Quite neat. 

    (via Geek)

    - Dave

  12. About The Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Movie Party Down truly was a show ahead of its time. Stiltskin, played by J. K. Simmons, produced a movie about Edgar Allen Poe as a Buffy-like demon hunter. Henry (Adam Scott) tried to get into the movie when Party Down catered Stiltskin’s daughter’s Sweet 16. That was in season 1. The screenshot above is from Season 2, after the movie came out.  Roman (Martin Starr), who has his very own important movie blog, tells it like it is. You can watch both seasons of Party Down on Netflix.  - Dave

    About The Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Movie

    Party Down truly was a show ahead of its time. Stiltskin, played by J. K. Simmons, produced a movie about Edgar Allen Poe as a Buffy-like demon hunter. Henry (Adam Scott) tried to get into the movie when Party Down catered Stiltskin’s daughter’s Sweet 16. That was in season 1. The screenshot above is from Season 2, after the movie came out. 

    Roman (Martin Starr), who has his very own important movie blog, tells it like it is. You can watch both seasons of Party Down on Netflix. 

    - Dave

  13. The Walking Death - Every zombie death from AMC’s six-episode first season run of The Walking Dead.

  14. The RotCast Episode #95 - The Waking Dead

    News

    Review & Discussion

    • The Walking Dead (TV)

    What We Watched

    • Dave: Survivor (TV), Fallout: New Vegas (Game)
    • James: RED, Altitude, Paranormal Activity, The Crazies, Zombieland

    Full Runtime: 1hr 44min 31sec

    DOWNLOAD MP3 - SUBSCRIBE: iTunes / RSS

    Agree or disagree with something we said on the show? Have a movie recommendation? Send us an email at james@filmrot.com and we’ll read & discuss it on the next show! Don’t forget to include your URL if you want a plug!

    THIS WEEK’S MUZAC

    Segment #1 (News)
    1. Kisses - 01 Kisses (4:25)
    2. Gold Fields - Treehouse (3:20)
    3. Family Of The Year - Chugjug (4:16)
    4. Slaptop - Lost (3:03)
    5. Matt & Kim - Block After Block (2:55)
    6. Miami Horror - I Look To You (Tim Fuch Il) (4:35)
    7. Weezer - Unbreak My Heart (Toni Braxton Cover) (4:10)
    8. The Radio Dept. - On Your Side (3:08)
    9. Crystal Castles - Not In Love (ft. Robert Smith) (3:46)

    Segment #2 (Review)
    1. The Cranberries - Zombie (4:10)
    2. Forever Silenced - Zombie (4:20)
    3. Un-Kind - Zombie (5:27)
    4. Cranberries - Zombie (Ligui Ad Remix) (6:01)
    5. The Cranberries - Zombie (MTV Unplugged) (4:19)
    6. Miser - Zombie (6:11)
    7. Andrew Spencer Vs. The Vamprockerz - Zombie (3:46)

    Segment #3 (What We Watched)
    1. Grizzly Bear - Knife (5:14)
    2. Lindstrøm - I Feel Space (5:57)
    3. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move (5:14)
    4. Animal Collective - Leaf House (2:42)
    5. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken (3:49)
    6. Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better (4:26)
    7. Johnny Boy - You Are the Generation… (3:09)
    8. Ted Leo - Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? (5:02)
    9. The Field - Over the ice (6:56)

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