On The Subject: Is Kung Fu Hustle Cinema

Riffs and references fill this action comedy from 2004 , we the OTS crew decide if that makes it cinema. This episode is Kung Fu Hustle.

KUNG FU HUSTLE

In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Director: Stephen Chow

Writers: Stephen Chow, Kan-Cheung Tsang (as Tsang Kan Cheong) | 2 more credits »

Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released Dec 20th 2004

Budget: $20 Million

Cumulative:  $104 Million

Opening Weekend: $17 Million

Opened  5 runs 23 weeks

  • #1 Interpreter

  • #2 Amityville Horror

  • #3 A lot Like Love

  • #4 Sahara

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On The Subject: Is Captain America Winter Solider Cinema?

Captain America: The Winter Solider

As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Writers: Christopher Markus (screenplay by), Stephen McFeely (screenplay by) | 2 more credits »

Stars: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released April 4th 2014

Budget: $170 Million

Cumulative:  $259.7 Million

Opening Weekend: $95 Million

Opened  1 runs 23 weeks

  • #2 Noah

  • #3 Divergent

  • #4 God's not Dead

  • #5 Muppets Most Wanted

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

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On The Subject: Of Films for folding laundry

Let's face it chores are never fun, in fact we usually only do them to ignore other tasks or wait until we have completely run out of socks. It background movies baby!

This episode: Zach, Malcolm and Logan get together to discuss what they watch when it comes time to do some chores. Its Films for folding Laundry.

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On The Subject: Is The Iron Giant Cinema?

This episode features Logan’s pick in the series on cinema vs “cinema”… The Iron Giant.

Logan defends his position on his childhood favorite film and the OTS crew discuss the impact Iron Giant has had since its mild release to rise as a cult classic.

IRON GIANT

  • Created in 1993. Limited release Aug 3rd then wide release Aug 6th 1999.

  • WB ignores Iron Giant to favor its promotion on Wild Wild West. This means it had basically no exposure to hype to build from.

Set in cold war era 1957, the film is a superhero movie and does such a spectacular job in its mere 86 minute run time. Its a tight film that hits all the beats and goes deeper than its simple synopsis. Its a story adapted from Ted Hughes' The Iron Man. Originally the adaptation was going to be a musical with Pete Townsend of The Who at the helm.

A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.

Director: Brad Bird

Writers: Tim McCanlies (screenplay by), Brad Bird (screen story by) | 1 more credit »

Stars: Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released August 6th 1999

Budget: $70 Million 

Cumulative:  $23.1 Million

Opening Weekend: $5.7 - 8.3 Million

Opened #9 22 weeks

  • #1 The Sixth Sense

  • #2 The Blair Witch Project

  • #3 Runaway Bride

  • #4 The Thomas Crown Affair

  • #5 Deep Blue Sea

  • #6 Mystery Men

  • #7 Inspector Gadget

  • #8 The Haunting

  • #10 American Pie

Issues a challenge

    • Does your nature define you?

    • Like so many other superhero comics and films, the consensus from mankind is that what is different should be feared.


  • QUOTES

    • You are who you choose to be

    • Its bad to kill but its not bad to die.

    • A soul is something inside all good things and Souls dont die.

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On The Subject: Is Collateral Cinema?

This episode starts like any other episode but podcasts always have collateral. Zach picks his film in our series Cinema vs "Cinema" and chose Collateral directed by Michael Mann.

We dissect the film and decide whether or not its cinema worthy, does it live up to the standards or left on the cutting room floor, find out!

Collateral

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

Director: Michael Mann

Writer: Stuart Beattie

Stars: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released Aug 2004

Budget: $65 Million

Cumulative:  $101 Million

Opening Weekend: $24.7 Million

Open

  • #1 The Village

  • #2 The Bourne Supremacy

  • #3 The Manchurian Candidate

  • # Little Black Book

  • #4 I,Robot

  • #5 Spider-Man 2

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On The Subject: Is Black Panther Cinema?

Kicking of this seasons big question of cinema vs "cinema" is Black Panther. Malcolm, first entry in the series we will be exploring this entire year. We discuss its merits and decide where is lands on the scale.

Oscar award winning (3): Costume, production and score.

BLACK PANTHER

T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

Director: Ryan Coogler

Writers: Ryan Coogler, Joe Rober Cole and Stan Lee

Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B Jordan, Lupita N’Yongo, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel KaluuyaWinston Duke, Sterling K Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis.

BOX OFFICE  Released Feb 16th 2018

Budget: $200 + 150 million 

Cumulative:  $700 Million 1.23 Billion

Opening Weekend: $202 Million

Opened #1 

  • #2 Peter Rabbit

  • #3 fifty Shades Freed

  • #4 Jumanji: Welcome to the jungle

  • #5 15:17 to Paris

  • The Greatest Showman dec 20th

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On The Subject: Of The &'s Awards 2020 (Films)

The Oscars come and go but here at On the Subject our awards are forever, well at least one year. In 2020 we bring you THE &'s Award Show!

Hand picked winners from our own special categories! See what films and actors will win this years award show.

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On The Subject: Of Big Daddy

A debt is settled in this episode. Back in 2019 a bet was swaggered and Logan won so he picked a film, this episode is that film. The OTS crew sits down to watch a childhood favorite of Logan, Big Daddy. Does it hold up? Who knows but we look at this film and how it ages as well as reflect on its storytelling merits.

We also setup a new bet for 2020, follow along and see who wins the next time.

BIG DADDY

A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.

Director: Dennis Dugan

Writers: Steve Franks (story), Steve Franks (screenplay) | 2 more credits »

Stars: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released June 25 1999

Budget: $34.2 Million

Domestic: $163.4 Million

Cumulative:  $234.8 Million

Opening Weekend: $41.5 Million

Opened #1 run 19 weeks

  • #2 Tarzan

  • #3 Austin Powers: They SPY Who Shagged Me

  • #4 The General's Daughter

  • #5 Star Wars EP 1: The Phantom Menace

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On The Subject: Of Cinema v. "Cinema"

This year on the podcast we bring up our thoughts up on film with a thesis from Malcolm. This with be how we look at films through out the episodes and cover new movies as well as old.

Thesis:

Cinema vs. "Cinema" and the impact of the blockbuster in the modern era. Basically, what do you consider film or "just entertainment"? Where is that line? Consider all the genre and what makes a movie better than another or higher art than another? We plan to break that down and decide for ourselves.

We will also have criteria and a rating system. Each host will be bringing in their own films to debate and we will figure this out!

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On The Subject: Of the best films of the decade (2010-2019)

We bring in the new year and new decade by looking and our top 10 films from the past (decade)!

We create the definitive list of films from the past 10 years, the movies that shape a decade and gave us great joy, from storytelling, to stress and laughs, always laughs!

Checkout our lists below:

Malcolm's

  • Cloud Atlas

  • Interstellar

  • The Master

  • Black Panther

  • Avengers: Endgame

  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  • Creed

  • Still Alice

  • Mission Impossible Fallout

  • Inception

Logan's

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

  • Captain America: Winter Solider

  • Interstellar

  • Baby Driver

  • Arrival

  • Logan

  • Get Out

  • What we do in the shadows

  • Mad Max Fury Road

  • Lego Movie

Zach's

  • Magic Mike

  • Spring Breakers

  • Killing of a Sacred Deer

  • Green Room

  • Red Turtle

  • John Wick

  • Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol

  • Call Me By Your Name

  • Popstar

  • Green Room

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On The Subject: Of Terminator Dark Fate

Reunited the On the Subject team discusses a dark fate and fixes the timeline by ignoring the ones that didnt work. In other words we breakdown the entire Terminator franchise by looking at its final (for now) entry.

Terminator Dark Fate

An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator, from hunting down a young girl, who's fate is critical to the human race.

Director: Tim Miller

Writers: James Cameron (story by), Charles H. Eglee (story by) | 8 more credits »

Stars: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released November 1st 2019 (35 years after the original)

Budget: $185 Million

Cumulative: $249 Million

Opening Weekend: $29 Million

Opened #1

  • #2 Joker

  • #3 Maleficent

  • #4 Harriet

  • #5 The Adams Family

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On The Subject: Of Terminator Salvation VS Genisys

The time has come, the year 2019, the podcast On the Subject. Three podcasters have been searching film franchise and lost each other through time. Now they must discuss Salvation and Genisys in order to get their team back! Join the resistance as we continue our journey through the Terminator film franchise.

Terminator Salvation

In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?

Director: McG

Writers: John Brancato, Michael Ferris

Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released May 21 2009

Budget: $200 Million

Cumulative: $371 Million

Opening Weekend: $51 Million

Opened #2 runs weeks

  • #1 Night at the museum 2

  • #3 Star Trek

  • #4 Angels and Demons

  • #5 Dance Flick

Terminator Genisys

When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.

Ignores all other Terminator Movies a and goes back to Judgement Day being 1997

Director: Alan Taylor

Writers: Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier | 2 more credits »

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released July 1st 2015

Budget: $155 million

Cumulative: $440 million

Opening Weekend: $ 27 Million

Opened #3rd

  • #1 Inside Out

  • #2 Jurassic World

  • #4 Magic Mike XXL

  • #5 Ted 2

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On The Subject: Of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

A new Terminator has returned to the past to stop the resitance this time is Model T-X and its female. This episode Logan is gone (RIP) or lost in time? But the OTS crew, Malcolm and Zach discuss what happens when a franchises continues even with out the full support of its creators.

Terminator 3 duh duh dunnn dun

A cybernetic warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a 25-year old drifter and his future wife from a most advanced robotic assassin and to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.

Director: Jonathan Mostow

Writers: James Cameron (characters), Gale Anne Hurd (characters) | 5 more credits »

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released July 2nd 2003

Budget: $187 Million

Domestic: $150 Million

Foreign: $283 Million

Cumulative:  $433 Million

Opening Weekend: $44 Million

Opened #1 runs 26 weeks

  • #2 Legally Blonde 2

  • #3 Charlie's Angels Full Throttle

  • #4 Finding Nemo

  • #5 Hulk

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On The Subject: Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Over 10 years have passed since the first Terminator tried to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn child John. This attempt failed, now Sarah is locked away in a mental institution while John is just trying to figure out what is going on in his life. But the Terminator will always return and has once more to eliminate John.

This is where we the On the Subject Crew come in to see what does and doesn’t work in this Judgement Day. To help breakdown this franchise and see what is happening with all these Terminators we brought in special guest Ben Brown of the Tourettes Podcast.

Enjoy the show and follow the links for more information.

SPECIAL GUEST BEN BROWN!

TOURETTE'S PODCAST


A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg.

Director: James Cameron

Writers: James Cameron, William Wisher

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released July 3 1991

Budget: $102 Million

Domestic: $205.8 Million

Foreign: $315 Million

Cumulative:  $520.8 Million

Opening Weekend: $31.7 Million

Opened #1 run 12  weeks

  • #2 The Naked Gun 2 & 1/2: The Smell of Fear

  • #3 Robinhood: Prince of thieves

    • Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman

  • #4 City Slickers

  • #5 Problem Child 2

    • The worst child in the world makes an unthinkable discovery - there is another child even worse than him, and that's a girl.

  • #6 Rocketeer

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On The Subject: Of The Terminator

A Cyborg has been sent from the future on a deadly mission, it has been programmed to kill a young woman named Sarah Connor. BUT We can't let that happen! The year 1984. The movie Terminator. The OTS crew is sent back in time to discuss the epic film franchise THE TERMINATOR!

A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from. Nbbb n b/;:6 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against sentient machines, while a human soldier from the same war is sent to protect her at all costs.

Director: James Cameron

Writers: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd | 1 more credit »

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released October 26  1984

Budget: $6.4 Million

Domestic: $38.4 Million

Foreign: $40 Million

Cumulative: $78.4 Million

Opening Weekend: $34.7 Million

Opened #1 run 12  weeks

  • #2 Terror in the Aisles

    • Docu Film  with compilations of horror movies

  • #3 Body Double

  • #4 Places in the Heart

    • Depression-era Texas widow who tries to save the family farm with the help of a blind white man and a poor black man.

  • #5 Thief of Hearts

    • Erotic Drama about a thief and valet stealing from the rich

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On The Subject: Of Scream 4

When a horror trilogy becomes a horror quadrilogy and when it spans over 10 years you get Scream 4! Its a new decade with new rules AND a new cast of characters up for murder.

  • With four installments, this landmarks the Scream franchise as being one of the only horror franchises to have both its main characters as well as its director (Wes Craven) return for all of its sequels.

Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface Killer.

Director: Wes Craven

Writer: Kevin Williamson

Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released Feb 4th 2000

Budget: $40 Million

Domestic: $89.1 Million

Foreign: $72.6 Million

Cumulative: $161.8 Million

Opening Weekend: $34.7 Million

Opened #1 run 17  weeks

  • #2 The Hurricane

  • #3 Stuart Little

  • #4 Next Friday

  • #5 Eye of the Beholder



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On The Subject: Of Scream 3

Rules of a trilogy: Chapter one sets the rules. Chapter two bends the rules. But in the finale...forget the rules. In this episode we scream over the final act in this trilogy (until they make a 4th one a decade later).

No one is safe, all bests are off and the past comes back to haunt you in SCREAM 3

While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.

Director: Wes Craven

Writers: Kevin Williamson (characters), Ehren Kruger

Stars: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released Feb 4th 2000

Budget: $40 Million

Domestic: $89.1 Million

Foreign: $72.6 Million

Cumulative: $161.8 Million

Opening Weekend: $34.7 Million

Opened #1 run 17  weeks

  • #2 The Hurricane

  • #3 Stuart Little

  • #4 Next Friday

  • #5 Eye of the Beholder

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On The Subject: Of Scream 2

http://www.geeksrising.comComing out one year later its the follow up to what I'm calling a suspense thriller or simply a "who done it".Also Known as Scream Again. This time the crew goes toe to toe with Ghostface in... college (shrug).

The world has Timothy Olyphant thanks to Scream 2 , it was his first role was .

Two years after the first series of murders, as Sydney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghost-face costume begins a new string of killings.

Director: Wes Craven

Writers: Kevin Williamson (characters), Kevin Williamson

Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released Decemeber 12th 1997

Budget: $24 Million

Domestic: $101 million

Foreign: $71 Million

Cumulative: $172 Million

Opening Weekend: $ Million

Opened #1  run   7 weeks

  • #2 Flubber

  • #3 For Richer or Poorer (Tim Allen Kirstie Allie)

    • A real estate hustler and his wife hide from the IRS among the Amish.

  • #4  Home Alone 3 ( The reboot with new kid)

  • #5 Amistad

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On The Subject: Of Scream

Don't Answer The Phone. Don't Open The Door. Don't Try To Escape. Just listen to the podcast. This month we are taking a STAB at the Scream Film Franchise. The murder mystery series from Wes Craven. We discuss the meta film culture that this movie monopolizes and creates at the same time.

What’s your favorite scary movie?

Let us know by commenting social media or giving us a review.

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

Director: Wes Craven Writer:Kevin Williamson Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released Dec 20th 1996

Budget: $14 Million

Domestic: $103 Million

Foreign: $70 Million

Cumulative: $173 Million

Opening Weekend: $6.3 Million

Opened #4 run 19 weeks

  • #1 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

  • #2 Jerry McGuirre

  • #3 101 Dalmatians

  • #5 One Fine Day

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On The Subject: Of The Legacy of The Matrix

This Year marks the 20th anniversary of the Matrix! We talk a lot on this podcast about the impact a film has and how that changes or influences other films over time. We are plugging in one more time to look how the past 20 years have be changes by The Matrix Franchise and whats to come for this universe.

The fourth Matrix film has been announced so we give you our predictions and speculation on how the franchise might continue plus some fun games!

The Matrix was a valuable reminder that brawn and brains don’t have to be mutually exclusive in film.

The Matrix (1999) became the highest-grossing R-rated film in history, a title it held for 13 years until Deadpool happened.

  • By 2002, the famous ” Bullet Time” sequence had been spoofed in over 20 different films.

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