Four-color Film Podcast

The crew watches Jon Favreau's 2011 film, Cowboys & Aliens, featuring a ridiculously stacked cast headlined by Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. Witness, as we learn how an ultimately mediocre film was born from the ultimate Hollywood/comic book scam.

The crew celebrates John Hall's birthday with a decisive agreement on the merits of the 2011's Joe Johnston directed Captain America: The First Avenger. Conversation careens wildly between the film at hand, the lesser moments of the career of Tommy Lee Jones, the varying values of shout-outs from celebrities via Cameo, and much more.

Alan Hardy joins the crew to discuss one of the biggest disappointments he's ever faced as a fan of superhero films. 2011's Green Lantern, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Ryan Reynolds, is a cavalcade of bad decision making, questionable editing, and poor writing, from a team of filmmakers that really should have known better.

The crew watches 2011's The Green Hornet, and the only things they can agree on are that Christoph Waltz is always good and that Seth Rogen isn't very good at writing a Seth Rogen movie.

After days upon days of delays, delivered to our door by a diligent delivery service, it's Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, on DVD.

Allen, Gerald, Lacey, and John Hall join forces to talk about X-Men: First Class and... fetish gear. Gerald wants to wear leather pants to goth clubs, and Allen questions his sexuality whenever faced with Michael Fassbender. The film itself was a tremendous push for all of the principal actors, and everyone who says they don't like Jennifer Lawrence is lying.

Via special listener requests, the regular crew watches the 1993 Disney-produced The Three Musketeers. A childhood favorite of Allen's, this odd action-adventure-comedy take on the classic tale is made even odder by its cast, with the primary cast being entirely American or Canadian and never attempting to hide it. Tim Curry stars as the villainous Cardinal Richelieu, with a wonderful henchman in FCF Legend, Mr. Michael Wincott. And don't you ever forget Herbert Fux.

Skipping ahead due to the unavailability of Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, John Hall joins the crew to talk about the Kenneth Branagh-directed Thor, the 4th Marvel Studios film. Laying the foundations for Thor as a character and the cosmic side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the film isn't really still on anyone's lips when discussing the MCU, but it's ultimately one of the better efforts from the studio.

Allen and Gerald watch 2010's RED, starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Richard Dreyfuss, and Karl Urban. This movie is all over the place, and so is this episode.

John Hall joins the crew to talk about 2009's Surrogates. We all learn a lot, like that a Harvard education can't help you write a good movie, that the only technology that will progress by the 2050s is robotics, while cellular phones and cars regress to a time before this film was made, and that everyone you've ever heard of is probably a bad person. 

Allen and Gerald go back and pick up 2009's Whiteout, and wish to god that they hadn't. Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, and Tom Skerritt do fine with bad material and director Dominic Sean continues his streak of underwhelming films by adapting a graphic novel by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber. 

The crew watches 2010's The Losers this week, but talk routinely devolves into discussions of regional fast food, misguided advertisement campaigns targeting millennials, and... some kid's dad's Instagram. The film fails to capture anyone's interest for any extended amount of time, but we all do what we can to get by in this world.

Gerald prepares to defend another morally questionable piece of fiction from the Allen/Lacey purity tests as the crew talks out 2010's Kick-Ass. The Matthew Vaughn directed adaptation of a Mark Millar comic received mostly positive reviews in its day, but is it showing its age nearly a decade on? Come on in and find out! RSS: https://fourcolorfilm.libsyn.com/rss Email: fourcolorfilm@gmail.com Twitter: @fourcolorfilm Facebook: facebook.com/fourcolorfilm Website: fourcolorfilm.com The Four-Color Film Podcast is part of the Flickering Myth Podcast Network.

For Allen's birthday, the FCF crew sit down and watch almost objectively the best film this podcast has ever covered. Blade Runner is Allen's favorite film, and there is no better time to cover it than the beginning of 2019, the year in which the film is set. This dive is deep, and this is a 2 hour episode that is shockingly entirely on topic.

Allen, Lacey, and Gerald are joined by Alan Hardy to discuss the Edgar Wright cult classic, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Everyone discusses their year, and what they hope for in 2019. And once again, the Four-Color Film Championship is on the line in a rousing game of Hi-Lo Rotten Tomatoes!

The Four-Color crew is joined live and in person by Mr. John Hall and Lillian McKinney, as they gather 'round the fire to regale listeners with tales of animated superhero Christmases past: Justice League - "Comfort & Joy," as told by Lacey Day Batman: The Animated Series - "Christmas with the Joker," as told by John Hall Batman: The Brave and the Bold - "Attack of the Secret Santas!" as told by Gerald James X-Men - "Have Yourself A Morlock Little Christmas," as told by Lillian McKinney All of this, and Gerald presents a rousing game of "Miss the Mark," as he tasks Allen, John, Lacey, and Lillian to discern between titles he made up and titles of actual Hallmark holiday specials!

This week is 2010's Jonah Hex! Much maligned upon its original release and forgotten in the years since, we revisit this adaptation of DC's fantastical comic book cowboy to see if it really is as bad as the 12% Rotten Tomatoes score would suggest, or if perhaps the world simply expected too much of a comic book Western. RSS: https://fourcolorfilm.libsyn.com/rss Email: fourcolorfilm@gmail.com Twitter: @fourcolorfilm Facebook: facebook.com/fourcolorfilm Website: fourcolorfilm.com The Four-Color Film Podcast is part of the Flickering Myth Podcast Network

Alan Hardy joins Allen and Gerald to discuss perhaps the most undeservingly maligned film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  

Allen, Gerald, and Lacey watch the justly maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine and unexpectedly find in it a lengthy conversation that is surprisingly on topic throughout. Also: Kate Winslet is unduly deified, a plan is made for a Fantastic Four spec script.

Allen and Gerald are joined again by Mr. Alan Hardy to discuss 2009's Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder and all of the questionable decisions involved in the existence of this adaptation of Alan Moore's most lauded work.