This is Moisés (Monty Cristo) dropping by once again.
I recorded the audio of the BNAT16 Q&A for The Interview.
I did this simply for reference, to take notes from after the whole show ended. Then, as you're probably well-aware, all sorts of insanity broke loose in the days following. I enjoyed the movie very much, especially Randall Park as Kim Jong-Un and Diana Bang as Sook. I suppose the white guys were ok, especially Timothy Simons. If anything, I think it's a much more canny take on satirizing modern media culture and journalism, much more so than being Hot Shots Part Trois: North Korean Style.
If looking for a review that goes into more depth than that, I'd recommend looking at critics you follow, rather than Rotten Tomatoes or similar aggregate scoring, or even whatever random stringer a tech or gaming site pulled in as their "movie person rushing back to family after filing a 'hot take' piece".
I started planning, recording, editing, and cutting an episode of my podcast Electric Shadow that would use excerpts from said Q&A. I made a new version of that episode once (or twice) a day for the following week. It includes a discussion with Mashable's Christina Warren (she has a podcast of her own, too).
Just as I was set to release it the morning of December 23rd, when the new Christmas Day release plans were announced, I hastily added a pre-roll advisory and "post-credits stinger" to reflect the news, vowing to release the full Q&A audio on Christmas Day.
That uncut audio posted at around 11pm yesterday as episode #57 of Screen Time, the supplementary "uncut interview" feed I have for Electric Shadow. It's around 26 minutes long.
The full Q&A audio is a waste of time if you haven't seen the movie, and not just because it is completely full of spoilers. Unlike most DVD/Blu-ray featurettes, it doesn't make sense unless you've seen the movie and know what the hell they're talking about contextually.
Pay for it if it's available in your territory, and if outside the U.S. and not already familiar with a tool like TunnelBear...well, there it is.
If you enjoy both the uncut audio and the fully-produced, radio-style podcast, there's a combo "channel" that includes the main show (Electric Shadow), the uncut interviews (Screen Time), and related offshoots (Criterion Collected). If you want to subscribe to Electric Shadow in iTunes, you can do that here (likewise Screen Time, Criterion Collected, and the whole channel).
Thanks to Harry for giving me the ok to use and post this. Under ordinary circumstances, I think the veil of "had to be there" that cloaks much of BNAT would've remained in place. This whole Interview thing is the definition of "extraordinary".
Moisés Chiullan / "Monty Cristo"
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