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Every week, Scott Davis and Austin Kennedy check out the latest, but not always the greatest films in the multiplexes. Everything from the biggest blockbusters, to the smallest indie films to the latest foreign films. Scott and Austin are film geeks by birth, keeping a critical eye on things, but bringing a lot of humor and energy to the proceedings as well. They don't always agree, but it's always entertaining.

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  Date / Time: 3/8/2009 4:35 AM UTC

  WATCHMEN BABY!!!
  

   
  Hello film geeks, Scott here:
  This week promises to be our most intense episode of Film Geek Central yet, since we'll be adding an enticing new spin on things.
  THE FAN AND THE VIRGIN - WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?!?
   
  
   
  Well, it's out. And though we are separated by over a thousand miles, both Austin and I have watched the WATCHMEN.... er, movie that is. This film, which I named my most awaited film of 2009 back in Episode 2, hits the screens with a lot of buzz sure, but possibly also with quite a bit of controversy.
  Here's the thing - while I have read the graphic novel a few times and hold it high as possibly the greatest thing ever done in the comic form, Austin has purposely not read it. As early screenings began to happen, he noticed how many early viewers were so-called "fanboys" and thus decided that he would not touch the source material until after the film was released. Hence, you are going to hear two views on the film. For myself, I will look at the film through the eyes of one familiar with the story, but simultaneously trying to separate any preconceptions about the material into an honest critique of the film. Meanwhile, Austin has a task far more daunting. Having no familiarity with the story, how does the film hold up to the millions who will go into the film completely blind? It's a dicotomy you won't see most places.
   
  But that's not all....
   

  

   

  20th Century Fox tires for some counterprogramming by bringing us STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI. The film stars Kristen Kruek (SMALLVILLE), Robin Shou (THE MATRIX 2-3), Michael Clarke Duncan and a straight-from-MIAMI VICE Chris Klein (AMERICAN PIE, ROLLERBALL). This is the second American film based on the STREET FIGHTER video game, the first being the campy Jean Claude Van Damme vehicle from the early 1990s. Will this one hold up better, or will be pray for the more innocent times when Raul Julia could levitate on screen?

   

  

   

  Lest ye believe we're all about the action at Film Geek Central, we will also be taking a look at James Gray's new film, TWO LOVERS. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Vinessa Shaw in a morose love triangle. Is this the little movie that could?

   

  

   

  It's a good thng it's a big week at theatres because DVD pickings were slim this week. One major exception - AUSTRALIA from Baz Luhrmann, the director of ROMEO + JULIET and MOULIN ROUGE. It didn't make much of a dent on this side of the globe. We'll be taking a close look at telling you if you missed a gem or dodged a bullet on this one.

   

  So, that's the show this week. It promises to be a good one. Hope to see you all tune in SUNDAY MARCH 8th at 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on the Film Geek Central Website at BlogTalkRadio.

  If you do miss the show - shame on you. But don't worry. You can still stream the show at a later date, or better yet, download the whole thing to your hard drive.

   

  Hope to see you there, Film Geeks!

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