Hello From Obscurity
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di Wesley Erickson, Peter Clark, Lily Lenarz Hooyman, and Sam Pavich
The year is 2003, visionary film director Ang Lee has taken on a Big Green Task, adapt the Hulk for the big screen in the modern age. Can he, Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliot, and Nick Nolte take this metaphor wrapped in muscles and give a pre-marvel studios audience the action and emotion they're looking for? Or is it doomed to burn up in the gamma bomb of obscurity to our new Mark Ruffalo (or even Edward Norton) worldbreaker? Find out this time on Hello from Obscurity!
The year is 2014 and if you're living in South Korea, you are loving the new box office smash The Pirates at your local movie theater! However, if you were in America at the time, you've probably never heard of it. This movie features Pirates, Bandits, Imperial Generals, Emperors and a multitude of winding subplots. Will this action adventure be known outside South Korea? Or will this spectacle fated be only popular in within its country of origin?
The Year is 1998, an up and coming actor by the name of Ben Stiller is starring in a gritty dark comedy/drama about writer Jerry Stahl. Following his journey with drugs, working as a TV writer, and his green card marriage that leads to parenthood. Also featuring Elizabeth Hurly, Owen Wilson, Fred Willard, and Maria Bello is this biopic worth the trip down memory lane, or is it better left in the graveyard of old sitcoms? The gang dives deep in this episode of Hello From Obscurity.
The year is 2016, James Gunn has written script eerily similar to The Suicide Squad. An ordinary day at the office becomes a horrific quest for survival when 80 employees (John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona) at the Belko Corp. cross between Battle Royale and Office Space, The Belko Experiment attempts to show the heartlessness of corporate culture. Does it succeed or does falls short and recedes back into sea of oblivion?
The year is FRANCE and Anton Yelchin and Bérénice Marlohe (a french person) are FRENCH in New York City, Meaning of course: Anton is starting a relationship with a married mother of two without knowing of this fact. Will he continue pursuong thre relationship with this added FRENCH knowledge, or will he cut it off and thus cut the movie short? Wesley, Peter, Lily, and Sam explore this FRENCH question on this episode of Hello from Obscurity (in FRANCE)
Content Warning: Disturbing Imagery, Cults, Loss of Pregnancy, Murder, Body Horror The year is 2016 and a couple of very talented friends specializing in SFX decide to make a movie. A very, very, gory movie. And what's more: They've gone to the crowdfunding site IndieGoGo to help raise funds specifically for the effects, all of them to be practical. With a creepy hospital to shoot in, a cult to follow their characters, and as much blood and gore as you could possibly imagine will this team truly create something no one has seen before, or was it better left in their dark imaginations? Find out on this episode of Hello From Obscurity!
The year is 2017, a small distribution company named A24 starts to produce its own films. One of their first films ever produced is A Ghost Story. A movie featuring Mara Rooney, Ben Affleck and pie. Is this think-piece on the meaning on life and death worth sticking around to haunt us or will it go through that door of light into the realm we like to call Obscurity?
The year is 1985, forty-six years after MGM's classic film The Wizard of Oz, comes the the release of not-so-classic spiritual sequel, Return to Oz. Instead of the whimsy of the first one, we are introduced to the horrors of Oz. Instead of the wonder of Emerald City, we return to the hell-scape it has become. And instead of Dorothy's three delightful companions, we are introduced to a whole other set of weird puppet friends. However, just because it is different, the question "is it good?' is still yet to be answered. Come join us as we review Return to Oz.
The year is 2004, or is it 2034? In this sci fi action mystery loosely inspired by the works of Isaac Asimov, WIll Smith is a jaded detective with a major distrust of the ubiquitous robots that have been integrated into society. He is called to investigate an apparent suicide of the creator of all these bots, but was is truly a suicide, or was there more nefarious, more mechanical reasons behind it? Join us as we delve into this early 2000s hit (an oddity for us) and find out whether or not the future's looking bright and shiny, or if we have nothing but rust and darkness ahead of us.
The year is 2002, Pokemon is riding high at some of it's greatest hits continue to enthrall children around the world. They release their 5th movie in the series, set in a version of venice, featuring cat burglars, mysterious legends, strange new pokemon, and lengthy conversations about ice cream. Was this just another in a string of hits for Ash and the gang, or does one of the shortest movies the studio ever made fall short of expectations as well? Find out with Wesley, Peter, Lily, and Sam on this episode!