Loose Canons Ep. 19 The Warped Ones This time our youthful minds get warped by the sun and we gain the power of indiscriminately acting like apes. Timeline: Warped Ones00:00-00:50 We are Podcasting Sisyphus 00:50-01:25 Reuben can’t pronounce the director’s name 01:25-03:00 Meet our (varyingly nasal) voices! 03:00-09:00 Liked It (Patrick, Basil), Disliked It (Reuben, Ilya) 09:00-09:40 Reuben wants to murder Akira 09:40-12:30 Patrick is wrapped up in Akira’s awfulness 12:30-14:00 This movie does have one (magical) black character 14:00-14:45 Fights are for people who can’t appreciate jazz 14:45-17:00 Warped Ones & PT Anderson 17:00-18:10 Warped Ones & Japanese Cinema History 18:10-19:40 Reuben’s Sun-Crazed Kryptonians Theory 19:40-23:20 Reckoning with historic trauma through accusatory, fucked-up characters 23:20-24:50 Nobody has written anything about this movie (jk) 24:50-25:45 Donald Richie – The One Man Wrecking Crew of Japanese Film Criticism 25:45-29:15 Basil – our Donald Richie 29:15-31:45 Every country on earth has a New Wave ‘cept the U! S! A! 31:45-34:05 This movie has really dumb opinions on modern art 34:05-37:40 Akira is crazy vs. Akira is boring 37:40-40:20 Doing whatever you want without consequence? Not that wild! 40:20-42:50 “Rebuilding is pointless and everything is the worst” – Japan 42:50-43:50 Akira did just get out of prison, for what it’s worth 43:50-44:30 Patrick feels bad for the happy couple 44:30-46:20 Wait, what happy couple? 46:20-48:00 The Kryptonians may just want the same things everyone else wants 48:00-50:00 That really doesn’t work out well for them, though 50:00-52:30 “We really need to talk about the past but we just won’t” - Japan 52:30-54:10 Erasing the past in A Town of Love and Hope 54:10-55:10 Most (movies about) young people are boring 55:10-58:30 Assuming audience awareness and the movie’s setting vacuum 58:30-01:00:30 Patrick was with the movie all the way 01:00:30-01:03:00 Ilya liked the phrenology scene and what it says about acting 01:03:00-01:06:00 Making fun of character psychology 01:06:00-01:07:15 Mona Lisa needs a mustache 01:07:15-01:09:45 Reuben thinks Kids had better things to say on similar subjects 01:09:45-01:10:50 Basil wasn’t bored cause the movie moves quickly 01:10:50-01:11:20 Nobody’s really a good person in this movie 01:11:30-01:12:15 Except for Gill, the magical black guy 01:12:15-01:13:50 Akira’s (and everyone’s) dream: swim off into the sunset with a black person 01:13:50-01:15:00 RIP Pimp C 01:15:00-01:17:40 This podcast is as long as the movie! 01:17:40-01:18:57 Thanks for listening, everyone (Michael)!