We recorded so much, it had to be split into three levels. Stay tuned for Levels Two and Three, coming soon!

In .1 Nicholas, Chris, Jon, and Jay discuss the film of the week, Inception. They cover Christopher Nolan, discuss the ending, and Nicholas gives us the movie as a metaphor for film theory.

In .2 the quartet begin with the film’s chances at an Oscar, and continue on with more on the director and cast. There are a whole bunch of tangents, including video games, and summer films in general.

In .3 is full of deleted scenes. More on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, summer films, and we — for some reason — talk about M. Night Shyamalan. Mostly unrelated to Inception, you can safely skip this.

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We recorded so much, it had to be split into three levels. Stay tuned for Levels Two and Three, coming soon!

In .1 Nikolas, Chris, Jon, and Jay discuss the film of the week, Inception. They cover Christopher Nolan, discuss the ending, and Nikolas gives us the movie as a metaphor for film theory.

In .2 the quartet begin with the film’s chances at an Oscar, and continue on with more on the director and cast. There are a whole bunch of tangents, including video games, and summer films in general.

In .3 is full of deleted scenes. More on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, summer films, and we — for some reason — talk about M. Night Shyamalan. Mostly unrelated to Inception, you can safely skip this.

Follow each of us on Twitter: about12minutes | jay | chris | nikolas | jon

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Brady, Vanessa, and Jay plan to answer the question Which movie was scarier, the Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity? They also talk about M. Night Shyamalan and go into depth about the movies.

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Brady, Chris, Jay, and Nick sit down and talk about this year’s summer movie season. How did it turn out, did it meet expectations? That’s the first half hour. The second half hour trails into

I’m really happy for you—Imma let you finish—but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time. Wonnada best videos a’all time!

anthropomorphic fighting panda bears to the definitive Joker to William Shatner, Firefly, Jon Bongiovi, October road trips and the Renaissance Faire, and then ends with Nicholas Cage, and Kevin Smith.

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Chris, Brady, and Jay get together for over 30 minutes of complete and utter randomness! Or so it appears from the beginning. Also, Nicholas pops in requiring you to buy something.

Topics covered this week:

• Bob Barker and Trending Topics
• Extract
• Gamer
  
• Jennifer’s Body in Jennifer’s Body
• Guitar Hero 5 andBeatles Rock Band

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In this episode—which is not late like the previous episode—Chris, Nick, and Jay go over G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and District 9, and of course go off on tangents, including—and you HAVE to hear this one—exactly how this G.I. Joe film was, “the best Star Wars film since 1983.”

Some of the tangents include Star Trek‘s green chick, Goldeneye on the N64, and how Batman can beat God or Jessica Alba’s No Nudity Clase. And other video games. And Vera Farmiga.

In case you cared about seeing Orphan, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, or District 9, see it BEFORE YOU LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE. We tend to ruin the movie for people who haven’t seen it yet.

Follow us on Twitter: Chris, Nick, Jon (thanks for calling in your thoughts to District 9, by the way), and Jay. And of course, About 12 Minutes!

GO SEE NICK’S BAND TONIGHT AT SOME CHURCH IN FAIRLESS HILLS or Levittown I forget which is which. [link]

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Thanks to GC and Melissa for joining in for a moment to talk about Melissa’s mashed potato bar, which is quite odd and strange and yet very interesting, indeed! Aaaand now I’m hungry.

Today, which was supposed to occur about four days ago, Brady and Jay cover a couple entries from the blog, including Brady’s friend (pictured, right) who is on a VH1 TV show. And then there’s the mashed potato bar.

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Since Jay was out of town all week, content was provided via phone calls to About 12 Minutes’ messaging line. Topics include—

• Dramatic Reading: The Life and Art of Bass Playing by Tony Levin [link]
• Review: Watchmen Director’s Cut Blu-Ray DVD
• Urging: Moon [link]
• First Impressions: G. I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Thanks to Nick, Jon, and Matthew (of Robots and Racecars) for all of this week’s contributions.

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(please note that there is a moderate amount of swearing in this episode, so don’t listen to this around your children)

Brady and Jay answer their first FD&RA column question and then talk about Kittens.

And then, picking up shortly (about 2 minutes) after the previous episode ended, Jay, Vanessa, Nick, and Sarah with an ‘h’ tangent into fan fiction before getting back on track with Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Beware, spoilers abound! [see the previous episode here]

Other tangents brought up:

• Harry Potter fan fiction and slash fiction, and Barry Trotter
• Nick’s blog entry he wrote early this week — 2012, Alaskan blob, zombie cart
• Hamsters biting fingers
• And somewhere in the background, Nick and Jay talk about Brazil, another movie Jim Broadbent (Slughorn) was in
  • (and other background topics)
• Who would win in a fight between J. K. Rowling and J. R. R. Tolkien?
• The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• What Sarah needs to make her butterbeer
• Matthew’s obsession with carbonation
• Penis-shaped things

Actual topics covered (something we should do when topics last more than five minutes):

• Age discrepancies between book and movie
• ALAN F**KING RICKMAN
• Scenes dropped from the movie which would have made the movie better, and Translation vs. Adaptation in more detail
• Having to pee during these movies
• Opening night and some of the weird stuff fans do

And at some point, Jay cackles in a very creepy way and then pretends to be Joe Edwards.

And then Brady and Jay debut their new advice column, the Friends, Dating an Relationship Advice Column. Call in with your questions at 484-994-2126!

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Our long title would have been longer if I didn’t shorten the Harry Potter bit. Our show would have been longer if I didn’t shorten the Harry Pottery bit!

Today brings Jay, Nessa, Adam (bulletproofheeb), Nick, Kati, and Sarah (whose ‘h’ I keep forgetting) into the studio-basement-cave thing to discuss as many random topics as:

• Who would win in a fight between ______ and ______?
• The worst ever movies you could find on Netflix
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

This episode is so big IT CANNOT BE CONTAINED IN ONE EPISODE!!!! So, basically, stay tuned for next week when we continue the discussion. [part two can be found here]

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