I Have Some Notes

Last month Colin retired as host of I Have Some Notes, so we decided for our bonus Side Notes episode we would salute the man who's given us so many laughs over these past three years. With that, we give you the very BEST of Colin MacIntyre. Thanks for everything buddy, we love ya!

Our break is nearly over and season five is just around the corner, so stay tuned to our Twitter and Facebook feeds to get your notes in for the upcoming season premiere!

The Green Lantern has got Blake Lively in it and not much else. We're used to watching some colourless DC comic book movies around here, but Green Lantern might be the drabbest. However, the blander the script the greater the challenge, Right? And we've got Edmonton comedian Liam Creswick aboard to light the blackest screenwriting.

This episode is bittersweet for us, as it is Colin's swan song as host of the show. As a founding member of I Have Some Notes, Colin helped shape our movie fixing podcast into the hilarious, insightful show it is today. I've always felt Colin's positive energy and brilliant sense of humour set the tone for the show, and probably prevented Scott and I from downing ourselves in the obsessively nerdy details. 

We wish Colin and his wife Crystal all the best as their family expands by one more. The show must go on, but there is only one Colin MacIntyre. Thanks for everything buddy, we'll see you again soon, because you are now top of our guest list.

Yup, we're criticizing another DC movie in The Dark Knight Rises. If at this point you feel like we're just picking on DC film it would be hard for me to disagree, because we're even rewriting the good ones now. So…fine, we're DC haters and Marvel fanboys. You caught us.

It's also somehow our second Chris Nolan film. Yikes.

In our defence, The Dark Knight Rises is a film that legitimately could use some tweaks, and that is what we're here for. We rearrange the the rising and falling and rising again of Batman into a film I think we all truly wanted to see.

Also, stay tuned at the end of the show for some news about coming changes to the show.

The White House is being attacked by North Korean terrorists who are setting the monument ablaze. You're probably thinking "good, let it burn", but this script is pre-2016, back when it was occupied by someone worthy of respect and you might have cheered Gerard Butler on save it.

And save it he does, in the blandest, most mind-numbingly average way possible.

But not to worry, Colin, Gregg and Scott hold cabinet positions in the Department of Movie Fixing. We do a White House tear Down and raise the I Have Some Notes flag over top the house we rebuilt in its place.

In 1995 the internet was a new, fledgling technology and baby boomer screenwriters were super scared of it. They imagined a world in which all your information is stored online by a giant, nefarious software company who can use your data against you. Crazy boomers, so paranoid.

Of course today the internet is a totally safe place for everyone, a place where we can look back at Sandra Bullock's THE NET and laugh. HA HA…ha…ha………

Abdul Malik of the Kino Lefter podcast joins Colin, Gregg and Scott to upload a patch for this 90's "thriller". 

For the first time we set our sights on a 3D animated kids movie, proving that no film is beyond the reach of our desire to cynically rewrite Hollywood's most popular movies.

Colin, Gregg and Scott peak inside the Secret Life of Pets to find weak motivations and convenient plot devices and together discover they're wasting their lives. How has it come to this, seriously discussing the merits of a Louis C.K. dog movie?

Christopher Nolan may be the most prolific and successful blockbuster filmmaker of our generation, so naturally we felt the need to pick apart one of his movies. His films are brilliant, fun and inventive, but they aren't perfect. There's always room for improvement, and who better to launch a reimagined Interstellar into the atmosphere than a rag tag crew of middle-aged, arm-chair screen writers? No one, that's who.

This episode has been a long time coming. Years back, when Colin and Gregg sat down at the Route 99 Diner to hammer out a new movie podcast, Godzilla was on the early list of film to go through the notes process. How it took us 4 years to get to it is anyone's guess. Let's say a health fear of giant, city destroying monsters.

But good kaiju movies come to those who wait, and we've got some atomic fixes for this Gareth Edwards monster mash. Now smash that play button!

Once a year we look to the stars for another Star Trek movie to fix, and this year it is Star Trek: Insurrection's turn. Admiral Beever, Captain Bourgeois and Acting Ensign Colin MacIntyre lock and load for a battle with sci-fi mediocrity.

We keep picking on Next Generation movies, for good reason, they aren't great. But we've only got one more to go, and then we're one to other Trek movies. I've personally go my phasers locked on those J.J. Abrams films.

You knew this was coming. At some point we were going to get around to Michael Bay's bombastic robot punch fest, Transformers. It was inevitable. 

None of your hosts wanted to watch this movie. It's long, it's obnoxious, and it assaults all your senses all of the time. The things we do for our audience.

Spoiler alert: the first cut we make is Michael Bay. Not particularly surprising, but you may find some of our other keeps, cuts and changes surprising.