Ocean’s 11

Jun

2018

Ocean’s 11 (1960)

This podcast has really taken a dive if you know what I mean.

This week we kind of mildly tortured ourself with the original Ocean’s 11. Like, the one that was released in 1960. Not the new one, the good one, the Steven Soderbergh one. We watched the old one, the Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin/Sammy Davis Jr. one. It’s Ocean’s 11, released on August 10, 1960.

Show-notes:

2:28 Spyros was played by Akim Tamiroff.
3:13 Check out our Blake’s 7 podcast Zenith if you want.
4:22 Here’s the title sequence. It is pretty cool even if I don’t care for the soundtrack.
25:30 Bamboozled.
32:01 Looks like there are a couple disputed origins for the “Rat Pack” name. You can decide if they’re “good reasons” or not.

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May

2018

Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen

Well, at least I can read the movie and watch the book.

This month we watched something that’s been on my list for a long time. They’re pretty different from anything we’ve watched before actually, these are the first proper “heist” movies that we’ve watched for this podcast. We’ve run through quite a gamut of genres so it’s kind of cool to find one we haven’t found it. It’s Oceans Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen, directed by Steven Soderbergh and released in 2001, 2004, and 2007.

Show-notes:

1:40 Logan Lucky is Steven Soderbergh’s new movie.
2:18 More about the Rat Pack.
4:56 Check out our episode on the Bourne trilogy.
5:07 Don Cheadle has done movies a little more than he’s done tv according to his wiki page.
9:42 It’s Circle, and it’s actually 3 years old.
18:01 It was George Nolfi’s script Honor Among Thieves.
22:58 One of these foxes is actually a cat.

Kiyan’s Recommendations:
Tristram Shandy (I said this was by Henry Fielding but it’s actually by Laurence Sterne)
Pamela & Shamela
Don Quixote
Tale of Genji
The Back Room
Frankenstein in Baghdad
The Meursault Investigation (a response to Camus’ The Stranger)
Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet
Ever 17

Ocean’s 11/12/13 stuff:
5 things you didn’t know about Ocean’s 11
Ocean’s 11 making of documentary thing from HBO
Extensive look at Ocean’s 11 production
Ocean’s 12 b roll from screenslam
Things you never knew about Ocean’s 12
Warner Bros’ behind the scenes of Ocean’s 13
Julia Roberts getting pranked
Don Cheadle’s terrible accent
Actors playing themselves
Making Ocean’s 11 + 12 video
Ocean’s 12 production notes
Soderbergh on Ocean’s 12
Bad article about Ocean’s 12 and metafiction
How 9/11 affected Ocean’s 11
Ocean’s 12 unpopular opinion review
In defense of Ocean’s 12
New York Times article about Ocean’s 13

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