On This Episode: Kevin welcomes Shannon Hood from FrothyGirlz.com to talk about the summer box office slump, why it is happening and what we have to look forward to as the summer season wraps up.
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On This Week’s Show: Kevin and Neil strip down to their jean shorts and scamper through the Magical Studio in the Sky, leaving their man-wolf stank all over in hopes of attracting someone as pale and vapid as Bella Swan. They sink their teeth into The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the shake their heads in shame for the travesty that is The Last Airbender. They also read an iTunes review and lay down an awesome Fat Guy Five: Five Directors Who Could Screw Up a Kids Show Adaptation Almost as Bad as M. Night Shyamalan.
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On July 1, Fat Guy Kevin Carr rolled into the FOX 28 studios in Columbus, Ohio for a weekly movie review segment. This week, he talked about The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and The Last Airbender
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Rated PG-13
Opens: June 30, 2010
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Xavier Samuel and Bryce Dallas Howard
Directed by: David Slade
Kevin says The Twilight Saga: Eclipse kinda rocks!
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSEJune 30, 2010
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Kristen Stewart as BELLA SWAN
Robert Pattinson as EDWARD CULLEN
Taylor Lautner as JACOB BLACK
Billy Burke as CHARLIE SWAN
Xavier Samuel as RILEY
Bryce Dallas Howard as VICTORIA
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Directed by: David Slade
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Steve Carell and Tina Fey have teamed up to deliver a great date night movie, appropriately called Date Night. And that got us Fat Guys thinking while this movie is great for a real date night, there are plenty of film out there that are not.
So, as a public service, we have compiled a list of five movies you really don’t want to take a date to… unless they’re into that sort of thing.
Rated PG-13
Opens: November 20, 2009
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene and Jackson Rathbone
Directed by: Chris Weitz
Kevin says New Moon just barely kinda rocks!
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOONNovember 20, 2009
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Kristen Stewart as BELLA SWAN
Robert Pattinson as EDWARD CULLEN
Taylor Lautner as JACOB BLACK
Ashley Greene as ALICE CULLEN
Jackson Rathbone as JASPER HALE
Billy Burke as CHARLIE SWAN
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Directed by: Chris Weitz
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On This Week’s Show: Neil leads a protest against the studios by refusing to see any of the movies out this week. Kevin suffers through The Soloist while he takes his kids to work (i.e., gets them out of school to see a movie) on Take Your Child to Work Day. Liam and Ben Carr join their dad in the second segment to review Earth and a bunch of kids’ DVDs. Neil comes back to talk about the movies we weren’t allowed to see, and the Fat Guys threaten to get their knuckles bloody over whether Crank: High Voltage was a good movie or not.
Films Reviewed this Week: The Soloist, Earth, Obsessed and Fighting.
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Kevin’s picks on DVD this week: Punisher: War Zone, The Three Stooges Collection: Volume Five, Twilight, The Zeta Project: Season One and Bunnytown: Hello Bunnies!.
Stinker of the week: Mr. Belvedere: Seasons 1 and 2
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TWILIGHTNovember 21, 2008
STARRING
Kristen Stewart as BELLA SWAN
Robert Pattinson as EDWARD CULLEN
Billy Burke as CHARLIE SWAN
Ashley Greene as ALICE CULLEN
Nikki Reed as ROSALIE HALE
Jackson Rathbone as JASPER HALE
Kellan Lutz as EMMET CULLEN
Peter Facinelli as DR. CARLISLE CULLEN
Cam Gigandet as JAMES
Taylor Lautner as JACOB BLACK
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
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Rated PG-13
Opens: November 21, 2008
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli and Cam Gigandet
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Neil says Twilight kinda sucks!
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Kevin says Twilight SUCKS!
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On This Week’s Show: Kevin and Neil swoon over the CGI Disney dog and show their fangs about a certain high school vampire. They also talk about their favorite vampire movies and run down their Fat Guy Five to discuss which fake movie-within-a-movie they’d like to see the most. Neil gives some love to the new Star Trek footage while Kevin proceeds to offend him with some smarmy suggestions about the forbidden love of Bella and Edward.
Films Reviewed this Week: Bolt, Twilight and Special.
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On This Week’s Show: Kevin and Neil come at you from sunny San Diego as they cover the Comic-Con International. After a couple days of sleep deprivation, they struggle to stay awake to update everyone on cool Comic-Con news, like Klaatu Keanu, Twilight psychosis, GI Joe shenanigans, general fanboyisms and Wolverine promising to cut people’s heads off.
Films Reviewed this Week: The X-Files: I Want to Believe and Step Brothers.
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