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Okay folks, this week we made a valiant attempt to produce an all-star Avod, only covering DTV movies in which slumming celebrities appeared. Things didn't go according to plan when the Jason Statham movie proves far better than anticipated, and our third celebrity: Steven Segal, proves so terrible that nothing he does can be classified as 'slumming'.

Still, we gamely covered it all, and had a good time doing it! You can share in that good time by right-clicking here to download it to your very own computer/science-infused portable device!

It's an Avod Saturday!

That's right, a new Avod is available for download right here! If you right click and save the link as, of course. Otherwise you'll just wind up listening to it.

No show notes this time around, as I've been informed that unless they're accompanied by funny videos, they come off as condescending.

So now, apropos of nothing, the funniest and most heartwarming video in the history of YouTube.



Have a good rest of the weekend, everyone!

Death Race 2008

Maybe I’m crazy, but shouldn’t a movie make even the littlest bit of sense?

It’s not like the original film ‘Death Race’ was a brilliant piece of filmmaking. It was a delightfully mean-spirited romp with a wonderful premise and some decent performances. What it had going for it was some honestly biting satire about American Car/Sports/Death culture mixed in with a 70s ‘paranoia about governmental fascism/overpopulation’ theme that managed to hold together over the course of the entire film.

It had that, and the fact that the plot, no matter how absurd it may have been, logically progressed forwards, the characters actions make sense, and everything followed a clear and (basically) understandable internal logic.

Would that I could say the same thing about ‘Death Race’ by Paul Anderson.