YouTube Transcriptions: JeremyJahns' 'Contagion' Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xztrD8Fhl44&feature=feedu

"Nukes in movies – cool!  Zombie apocalypse – awesome!  Pathogens – scariest s*** ever!

‘Contagion’:  All right, now as some of you may know, I’ve been lookin’ forward to this movie for a while.  I love these kind of movies.  Specifically, ‘Outbreak’ – I was a big fan of ‘Outbreak’ back in the day.  I loved the Hell out of that movie.  So now, I felt like this was gonna be ‘Outbreak’ 2011.  So how did it hold up?  Well, here it is.  Now I might compare this movie to the movie ‘Outbreak’ a few times, but, in all fairness, you know, viruses… people dying… ‘Outbreak’ – ‘Contagion’…  Now, if you don’t know what it’s about, ‘Contagion’ has an all-star cast and it’s about a virus that’s just wiping out mankind.  And no one really knows where this thing came form; it’s like the Plague back in the day or Bieber Fever two years ago – it just sprung onto the scene; just started doin’ damage.  Now we gotta deal with it.  But this virus wasn’t messin’ around.  I mean, it was really cool to see.  This thing kills you in like a day.  You get it; you feel a little ill; by that night, you’re dead.  So it really kinda freaks you out; you’re like, “Ahhh, maybe I should wash my hands more often”.  Now, what I liked about this movie were the performances – the performances were solid.  And it really focuses on Matt Damon.  Usually movies like this, the movie takes place in like the span of seven days, so it’s like one of those, “Oo, the virus is gonna break out; in seven days, we deal with it; fix it; life goes on”.  This movie takes place in the span of months.  So, it all just happens, man.  I mean, the virus comes out; people start dying; people start getting scared; people start looting; people start killing; people are m-are freaked out.  It really shows what would happen in a situation like this.  I mean, ‘Outbreak’ was like, “Oh, it’s in the town and we can’t let it escape the town; let’s not let it escape the town”.  ‘Contagion’ is what happens when the virus escapes the town.  Yeah, we’re all screwed.  But in that, the movie spans months and is condensed into a two hour movie.  It feels like it was filmed to be a four hour movie and then it was like edited down to two hours.  So it feels like things are missing in the movie.  Like, some of the characters are useless.  Marion Cotillard or Coti - however you say her last name.  I hate silent l’s.  I hate - I hate ’em.  In any case, she’s in the movie and then at a point you don’t see her for like an hour.  Easily an hour.  At least an hour.  And then later on, it shows her again; you’re like, “I forgot that chick was even in this movie; that’s right”.  And then there’s a scene where she’s like, “Oh, Holy c**p, I need to get to this town; I need to get there right now”.  And she goes and she’s running and she’s hauling a** – and then it changes to the next scene, which she’s not in, and then you never see her again in the movie, ever.  It’s the last time you see her, what happened to her?  Did she – did she get to the town?  Did she get into a car wreck?  Did they edit it out?  Did she find Jimmy Hoffa?  She’s just gone now, I guess.  So in that, the movie kinda felt a little disjointed.  And it’s a really serious movie, too.  The funniest part was when it’s all talking about how people touch their face like two thousand times a day and they’re shakin’ hands with people and spreadin’ germs, and it shows and concentrates on someone like putting down a glass and someone else pickin’ up the glass, and you’re like, “Argh, you just transferred a virus!”  And I’m sittin’ there – I really was; this really happened – I’m sittin’ in the auditorium opening my candy wrapper with my teeth while it’s explaining this, all like, "Yeah, yeah, it’s spreadin’ viruses; you guys shouldn’t do that; it’s pretty careless.  Ahh, there we go.  Don’t be dumb.  Wash your…hands."  That was pretty funny.  Rest of the movie is dead serious.  I like the fear; I like seeing people loot; I like seeing Matt Damon kinda adapt to the situation.  He goes from normal family guy to the guy survivin’ in the apocalypse in the span of a hundred and somethin’ days that this takes places.  But then the movie just cuts off; it just ends!   Like, ‘Outbreak’ – to compare it – the movie comes to a head and then there’s just this intense situation; you’re just bitin’ your nails, and you know you shouldn’t bite your nails because now you know there are germs under your nails and you’re gonna spread African Motaba to everything, but you’re biting your nails and it’s really intense!  This movie went on and then it ended and then…end credits and that was that.  So if you like these virus movies, you’re gonna enjoy this movie, but you’re not gonna like the end; you’re gonna feel like it was a bit choppy.  But I will say it’s a good time, no alcohol required.  Be a very realistic and scary time in which you’re gonna be convinced that you’re gonna catch a virus going home and die the next day.  I wanted to like it more than I did.  But I still did enjoy it.  So, virus movie; virus scenario; ‘Outbreak’/‘Contagion-type movie – what’s your favourite?  Comment below; let me know!  And, as always, if you like what you’ve seen here and you wanna see more, click right here to see more!"

YouTube Transcriptions: Anne Hathaway ('One Day') Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvptkSv_nig&NR=1

Interviewer: ‘Eminanne’ – that’s what they’re calling you since you did your paparazzi rap.  Did you hear that?

Anne Hathaway: ‘Eminanne’?

Interviewer: ‘Eminanne’, yeah.

Anne Hathaway: Oh, that’s so funny.  I have a different name for myself.

Interviewer: Oh, really?

Anne Hathaway: Yeah.

Interviewer: What is it?

Anne Hathaway: ‘Lady Creamsicle’ (?)

Interviewer: [Laughing] Oh, that’s lovely.  Did you have any other nicknames when you were younger?

Anne Hathaway: Oh…

Interviewer:  Any rude…

Anne Hathaway: Any rude nicknames growing up, no, no.  I didn’t have-have any; they were just very banal like AJ and things like that.

Interviewer: OK.  Pre-teen.

Anne Hathaway: Yeah, I got - I got saucier as I got older.

Interviewer: [Laughing] Oh, that’s another interview entirely.  Erm…for the majority of Emma Morley's twenties, she’s quite directionless and lost and [Anne Hathaway: Mmhm] doesn’t really know what she’s doing, and we were watching you on-screen for most of your twenties, but I just wondered – people probably wouldn’t associate you with being directionless and lost, but I’m just wondering…can you - could you relate to those experiences of ‘Emma’, I guess, when she was younger?

Anne Hathaway: Oh, yeah.  Yeah, of course.  I mean, I just - I feel very lucky because, erm I-I grew up knowing that acting was a possibility.  My mom’s an actor - an actor, and I-I grew up being supported.  You know, my parents didn’t want to be a child actor, but they said, “When you grow up, if you wanna do this, that’s fine”, so I had my dream endorsed.  It took ‘Emma’ a long time to be able to say out loud that she wanted to be a writer and, erm…so we-we differ in that way…but, I mean, you can be dir - have a great career and still feel directionless and still feel lost and still feel intensely vulnerable and have no confidence, an-and I definitely related to that.  I’ve been someone who - I’ve gotten happier as I’ve gotten older.

Interviewer: OK.  Erm, do you - I mean, do you think that - I mean – when-when you met Jim, did you – erm, I heard you had to do this chemistry –

Anne Hathaway: Yeah…

Interviewer: – read, which I think sounds so ruthless –

Anne Hathaway: It’s –

Interviewer: [Laughing] It’s kind of like, “Chemistry, now!”, you know, and it’s –

Anne Hathaway: Well, I’m like…what’s the most sure-fire way to kill chemistry is, like, observe it.

Interviewer: [Laughing] Make yourself conscious about it.

Anne Hathaway: Yeah.

Interviewer: How did you - I mean, did you - how did you kind of just kind of loosen up around each other, I guess? To –

Anne Hathaway: Never, we just –

Interviewer: – Obviously you did something right.

Anne Hathaway: I think - I think both he and I were just like, “Let’s just act”.  “Let’s just act and see what happens and…”  So we did the scenes together and ‘Emma’ and ‘Dexter’ have chemistry, so therefore Jim and I had chemistry, and then we got to know each other as the movie went on.  And it turns out we do have chemistry in real life, but I-I think the chemistry thing gets kind of overblown as like this ‘other’, when it’s really just part of the job.  It’s…it’s like if you’re a writer, you know how to put words together; if you’re an actor, you know how to have chemistry with people.

Interviewer: Yeah.  I’m told our time is ???? up –  

Anne Hathaway: Already?

Interviewer: – but I’m trying to think about, er, ways that I can trick you into talking about ‘The Dark Knight Rises’.

Anne Hathaway: Go on!  Go on, go, go, go.  But you probably shouldn’t tell me that you’re trying to trick me.

Interviewer: Isn’t it terrible what happens to ‘Cat Woman’ at the end?  That was shocking; I read it on an illegal version of the script…this isn’t working, is it?  What can you tell us?  What’s the official line? The endorsed line that you can give us about ‘Dark Knight Rises’.

Anne Hathaway: Chris will - Chris will have my head if I say anything to you specific. 

Interviewer: Are you –

Anne Hathaway: It’s gonna be good.

Interviewer: Are you in training at the moment for it?

Anne Hathaway: Erm, you know, I don’t go back to set for a couple of weeks, so I’ve given myself a three day absence, and last night I had this thing called Tipsy Cake and, oh my God, it was so good.  It was like bread and custard and alcohol and it was like…hot and I just loved it.  So, at the moment – this exact moment – no.  But I really do need to get back –

Interviewer: Could you – could you kick my butt right now?

Anne Hathaway: I could kick your ass right now.  I won’t, I won’t…but, erm –

Interviewer: [Laughing] I’d like to see that.

Anne Hathaway: No, can I tell you?  I’ve gotten into almost three fights while the movie’s been going on; I think my testosterone levels have been going through the roof.  But like, I’ve been in bars and a guy’s been misbehaving and I’m like, “I can settle this”. 

Interviewer: Wow.

Anne Hathaway: It hasn’t happened yet, so –

Interviewer: We’re gonna - we’re gonna need a new nickname for ya –

Anne Hathaway: ‘Bad Ass’!  ‘Bad Ass Hathaway’.

Interviewer: That’s it.

Anne Hathaway: Thank you very –

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(http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/08/18/so-youve-seen-anne-hathaway-rap/ - A link to a video of the awesome Anne Hathaway's rap.)

YouTube Transcriptions: JeremyJahns' 'Warrior' Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHKj0dEXHn8&feature=relmfu

"Dead tired, but you know what?  I gotta do this review right now.

‘Warrior’: All right, now I’ve heard about ‘Warrior’ for quite some time.  People are calling this like the ‘Rocky’ of 2011, so I was really interested to see it, ’cause we all love an underdog story and it’s directed by the guy who directed ‘Miracle’, so I was there!  So the first thing you see in ‘Warrior’ is Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte and you can tell there’s some history there.  Nick Nolte is Tom Hardy’s father and he’s sober now, but you can tell back in the day he was like a really s***** alcoholic abusive dad.  And then there’s Tom Hardy’s brother, the main character of the movie – you know, the good guy.  I call him the good guy because Tom Hardy, he has a complicated past, but all-in-all…he’s kind of a d***.  But the main character – the hero of the movie – is the guy who actually played ‘Owen Lars’ in ‘Attack of the Clones’.  And he’s a high school teacher; he’s really down on his luck; the bank’s about to take his house.  And so he’s like, “I used to MMA fight, I need to MMA fight again”.  And then there’s big event – it’s like the Superbowl of MMA – so he’s like “I’m gonna work towards that; it’s like a five million dollar cash prize”.  Who couldn’t use that?  Especially when the bank’s about to take your house.  Only thing, his brother, Tom Hardy, he’s also entering that competition.  And you can tell, Tom Hardy, he has a grudge; he is damaged; he wants to hurt some people.  Now this movie’s really well-acted and really well-written.  Like, all of the performances are awesome.  Tom Hardy was really good – you remember when Tom Hardy was like built like me when he was Picard’s clone in ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’?  But it’s really interesting ’cause you remember ‘Inception’ – he was the funny guy; you’re know, you’re like, “Oh, I like that guy; he’s great”.  In this movie, dude, he is a machine.  He doesn’t like people; he doesn’t wanna talk to people; he just wants to punch people and watch them drop, and he does just that.  Some of these fights he gets in, dude, you’re like, “That was so gratifying, I’m actually laughing right now”.  Yeah, it’s like those kinda knock-outs.  Wonderful to watch.  And Nick Nolte was really good in the movie – every character in this movie where you’re like, “Dude, I sympathize with you”, he also has that moment where you’re like, “Dude, you’re a d***”.  And every d*** in the movie, you’re like, “Aw, man, that was brutal, why’d you have to show me that?  I feel bad for you now” – except for the main guy; he’s a good guy all around.  You don’t hate ‘Rocky’ in ‘Rocky’; he’s just good.  Other people, though, complicated people.  And all-in-all, this movie did the MMA fights really well.  Sometimes when someone wins, dude, you wanna jump up out of the auditorium chair; you’re like, “Fuck yeah!”  Other times, it’s like the first fight in ‘Gladiator’ where it’s like really close; camera’s shaking everywhere; you’re like, “I don’t know what’s happenin’; people are getting’ hurt though”.  And I’m gonna level with you guys – by the end of this movie, you’re like, “Aw…aw, man, tears – stop!”  Yeah, you wanna cry.  It’s just the way it is.  Everyone’s been ranting and raving about this movie and I was like, “All right, even if I love this movie, I’m gonna give it one notch down”, just because like everyone’s gonna just be like “Aw, ju-just see it; it’s the Oscar winner of the year”.  I just gotta, you know, fight the system and s***.  But I watched the movie and I was like, “It’s good… Really good actually”.  It’s like if you took the Darren Aronofsky family issues from ‘Wrestler’ and mixed them with the Danny Boyle overcoming obstacles celebration of life kinda thing, you’d have ‘Warrior’.  And any movie where I leave the movie theatre and feel like, “Dude, you know what?  Let’s go conquer some obstacles; let’s go do something – let’s go ice-skate uphill and win!”, that’s something.  So I gotta say, ‘Warrior’ is awesometacular.  It was a good movie: it was good; it had good characters; it was well-acted; well-written; it moved me.  And, yeah, the point of this movie is to overcome obstacles with ‘Owen Lars’ and his whole situation; you know, he is the good guy; you wanna see him succeed, but this movie serves a different purpose, and that is the Bane audition tape.  Yeah, after watching this movie, I was like, “Yes, Batman’s in for a bruising; Tom Hardy’s gonna beat the living s*** out of him; he is hardcore”. So, your favourite underdog story – what is it?  Comment below; let me know.  And, as always, if you like what you’ve seen here and you wanna see more, click right here to see more!  (Official MMA punch right here.)"

YouTube Transcriptions: Jason Bateman ('The Change Up') Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGgvvUn3WYQ

Interviewer: Jason, it’s such a pleasure to finally meet you.

Jason Bateman: Thanks very much.

Interviewer: Thanks for joining us.

Jason Bateman: Thank you for having me.

Interviewer: Erm, I have to let you know that I walked into this and from the get-go, was really laughing –

Jason Bateman: Really?

Interviewer: Out loud.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, out loud.  So, but, when you were offered the script, the - when you were told the premise of this film - did you think, “Oh, God, another body-switch movie?  What’s going on?”

Jason Bateman: To be honest, I didn’t really have that impression or that-that sort of bias because I’ve never really seen any of those movies ’cause they’ve never really appealed to me ’cause they’ve always been family-friendly –

Interviewer: Yeah.

Jason Bateman: – sort of soft movies.  Er, all I thought about was that the guys who wrote ‘The Hangover’ wrote it and the guy who directed ‘Wedding Crashers’ is gonna direct it, and-and I would be able to play two parts, so I was very excited to read it based on that and-and, you know, it’s the funniest script I ever read and so when I finished it I actually immediately emailed the head of the studio and asked them, you know, “Please, please”, you know, you know, “let me have this movie”.  And, er, it took a while to sort of find the right, er, other actor to-to, you know, in this case it was Ryan.  Thank God it was ’cause we’ve-we’ve been friends for a long time and that worked out well for us.

Interviewer: Yeah, did that help? –

Jason Bateman: Yeah.

Interviewer: – ’cause I suppose when you’re playing the two different characters, you’d have to know a bit of his mannerisms and personality.

Jason Bateman: Ye – well, that would be helpful if we were trying to do impressions of each other, but-but we-we both agreed that that wouldn’t be very appropriate for this because anybody who’s gonna go to see an R-rated Comedy – or in this case, 16, I think –

Interviewer: Yeah.

Jason Bateman: – er, you’re not really looking for some super acting lesson; you know, they don’t wanna see that crap.  They wanna see some-some funny stuff; some stuff that might make them feel a little uncomfortable.  You know, it’s not a - not a family movie

Interviewer: Uh huh.  [Laughs]

Jason Bateman: Yeah, so, we just wanted to accomplish that and-and I think we did.

Interviewer: You did.  There’s a lot of stuff that’s out there.  Was there anything off limits?

Jason Bateman: No, no –

Interviewer: Really?

Jason Bateman: We stuffed it all in there, erm…  I - you know, I don’t think - I don’t think - everything was-was - the rules were, “Anything that makes you laugh, let’s do it” –

Interviewer: Yeah.

Jason Bateman: – and so we-we love this movie, but it’s not for - not for your parents, I don’t think, yeah.  Or your kids.

Interviewer: No, no, no, kids definitely stay away.  But, erm, there was even a scene where you had to get naked.

Jason Bateman: Yeah.

Interviewer: What was that like?  Looking good, by the way.

Jason Bateman: Thank you.  Very much.

Interviewer: Yeah. [Laughs]

Jason Bateman: Erm…it was, erm…it was cold that day.  So, erm –

Interviewer: Oh, really?  [Amused]

Jason Bateman: I just needed the one hand to cover things.  Erm…it was, er, it was kind of – it was my idea actually to do it completely naked.  It was originally – er, we, er - we shot it and I just had a robe on, which was open, but that didn’t really get done what I was supposed to be doing in that scene, which was be some sort of shocking comedic relief at the end of a very sad, dramatic scene that Leslie Mann dies in –

Interviewer: She’s fabulous, by the way.

Jason Bateman: Yeah, she’s great in the movie and she did such a great job in that scene, I thought, “Well I think I’ve gotta come in with a bit more of a shocking punch at the end”, so I asked to re-shoot that scene without the robe, and, er, that was not very smart, but I was caught up in actually trying to do a good job, you know.

Interviewer: Well, it was brilliant.

Jason Bateman: Thanks.

Interviewer: Erm, and I’m sure you’ve been asked this a million times over this junket, but if you were to switch bodies with somebody, who would it be and why?

Jason Bateman: Hmm, I don’t know, erm…it’s – I’m getting a real good, close-up view of what it’s like to be four years old again – you know, now that I’ve got my, you know, my-my kid seems to be having a great time at this age.

Interviewer: Yeah.

Jason Bateman: I can’t remember being four.  Er, my earliest memory’s maybe five or six, so I wouldn’t mind switching with my kid.  She’s - she watches a lot of TV; she never has to pick up a cheque at a restaurant…that looks pretty good to me.

Interviewer: She gets put to bed; picked up –

Jason Bateman: Yeah, exactly, all she has to do is just squeak a little bit and, you know

Interviewer: Yeah, I can relate.

Jason Bateman: So, her, I think.

Interviewer: Yeah, I-I think that’s good.  Erm, now you’ve been in this business for a while – I’ve been a fan of yours since ‘Valerie’ and you did ‘Silver Spoons’ –

Jason Bateman: Right, yeah.

Interviewer: – before that.  Now I sound like a stalker.  I’m not, I promise, Jason [laughing].

Jason Bateman: It’s OK, I’ll take it.

Interviewer: But, erm, how did you make that successful transition from child star to adult actor?  ’Cause there’s so many people out there who get stuck.

Jason Bateman: Yeah.  Well, I was better about robbing the liquor stores – I never got caught.  And, er, all my drug abu-abuse was done, er, before there were, you know, camera phones, and, er, I dunno, I guess I was just smarter about it, and…er, I got ‘Arrested Development’.  That was - that was a big key to sort of start a new phase in my career.  I think without that show, it would’ve been more difficult, but I like to think I still would’ve been able to do it – I hope – but ‘Arrested Development’ was really, really important.

Interviewer: Yeah.  Do you think – you mention, you know, now it’s the era of camera phones and the paparazzi are everywhere – do you think if you were going through what you went through then, now, you’d get through it the same way?  Do you think it’s tougher for child actors today?

Jason Bateman: I definitely think it’s more difficult to have your growing-up process be private, but it’s almost - it’s almost easier to become famous now because of scandal.  You know, and you - you know, things - people get sort of, if you have this sensational moment in your life, you can use that to get thrown into the media spotlight and then if you’ve got some talent, you can kinda diversify that celebrity into perhaps some success as an actor.  I don’t - I don’t know, I mean, that’s sort of a cinical way to look at it, but –

Interviewer: Quite…right.

Jason Bateman: - there’s a few people who have successfully done that, so I don’t know; I-I’m glad I got mine done.

Interviewer: Yeah.  And finally, you mentioned ‘Arrested Development’ –

Jason Bateman: Yeah.

Interviewer: I absolutely love it!  There’s always talk of “Yes, there’s gonna be a movie; no, there’s not gonna be a movie”.

Jason Bateman: Right.

Interviewer: What’s going on?  Please.

Jason Bateman: Yeah, I’m sorry that there’s always sort of a-a non-update an-and I’ve got the same one.  That ther – I don’t have a-a-a solid announcement to make except that things are still progressing very well and it-it-it looks like we’ll be doing it next year.

Interviewer: Brilliant!  Well, I hope to talk to you then when you’re promoting that movie.  Jason, it’s been an absolute pleasure speaking to you –

Jason Bateman: Thank you very much.

Interviewer: Thank you so much!

YouTube Transcriptions: Jim Sturgess ('One Day') Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cHKo0AHIFk

Interviewer: You’ve had to defend ‘Dexter’ a little bit, haven’t you?  In the course of promoting this movie.  I think people - some people seem to think he’s a right cat or –

Jim Sturgess: Yeah, I had to defend him when we were making the movie.  All the girls on the film set couldn’t stand him, you know.

Interviewer: Really?

Jim Sturgess: We’ve had – it was quite interesting – you know, we would go out and have nights out obviously, and the - and the question would always come u – you know, people would argue about Dexter and Emma’s relationship.  You know, we got into great heated discussions with people.

Interviewer: What’s your take on him?

Jim Sturgess: My take is that he’s a good person.  You know, he’s irresponsible and, and…and irritating.  At times.  But, I mean, people thought that he treated Emma badly and I – and I don’t think he did so much.  I think he was – he kept her at an arm’s length and I think he really cared about their friendship, and he-he’s really kind to her an – Emma’s a nightmare as well.  But, I mean, it’s not his fault that she’s so in love with him, do you know what I mean?  And he can’t handle that and is not ready to deal with that, and absolutely loves her and wants to be around her all the time, you know.  He’s in a night club in the middle of the night and wants to call her and tell her how much he loves her, you know, and all those great things.  And he takes her on holiday, and, yeah, of course there’s a – there’s a  backhanded idea of why he’s doing that, but… but he’s just a fun-loving guy, you know, that gets himself into bit of trouble and gets things a bit complicated and is maybe a bit, er, clumsy with his behaviour.

Interviewer: Are you or have you been the kind of guy to make drunken phone calls from a night club?

Jim Sturgess: Er, yes, of course.  Yeah, everyone has, haven’t they?  Yeah, definitely.

Interviewer: Oh, I’m not answering that.  [Laughs]

Jim Sturgess: Oh, come on, that’s not fair.  If I’ve gotta admit to it, you’ve gotta admit to it.

Interviewer: Erm, I’m wondering have you encount – have you had any kinda strong reactions from fans of the book?  Er, you know, if they see you out and about or if they encounter you somewhere, do they – have they had strong reactions to your casting as ‘Dexter’?

Jim Sturgess: I’ve had it a few times, erm… Yeah, one in particular when I had a conversation with a girl I didn’t know at a f - a mutual friend’s barbeque.  And she was asking – you know, we were just chatting and she said, “Oh, so I hear you’re an actor, you know…  Have you been in anything or are you working on anything?” And I said, “Oh, we’ve just been making this film, er, ‘One Day’”.  And she was like, “*Gasp* Oh my God, yeah, that’s my favourite story; that’s my favourite book; I love that book”.  And then she said, “So d-do you have a speaking part in the film?”  I was like, “Well, yeah, I kind of play, you know, the ‘Dexter’ character in the film”.  And her face just dropped, you know; she was – she seemed so disappointed.  Erm, and, you know, and-and she was like – but then, of course, she has her own version of-of ‘Dexter’, but I did look at myself at the barbeque and I’d had a few beers and a fully-grown beard and was pretty out-of-shape at the time, so –

Interviewer: So you weren’t the great romantic hero...

Jim Sturgess: So I assured her that I look slightly better on camera than I did at this moment in time.

Interviewer: Well, hopefully she’ll forgive you when she sees the movie.

Interviewer: Erm, I’m wondering, erm…you had some lovely scenes in the movie with the little girl who plays your screen daughter –

Jim Sturgess: Yeah.

Interviewer: Are you feeling broody at all?

Jim Sturgess: That bit was lovely and I really enjoyed working with her, I really did.  She was such a sweet girl and we got on really well.  And it’s always great when you have to work that extra bit harder to make it believable for a young person.  So you really have to carry on; when the cameras aren’t rolling, you have to really make that an - a believable platform for them to sort of exist in.  Otherwise you shout “Action” and they start acting, you know, and so we had – so we spent a lot of time together and hung out, and were messing around.  You know, just to sort of build that kind of relationship.  And I really, really, really liked her; she was such a sweet girl.  So - and I love kids, you know; I love hanging out with kids, but then we had to do the scene with the screaming baby and that put me right back to square one.  I was like, “You can…forget about that”.  It was possibly one of the worst days of my life.

Interviewer: Didn’t like it, then?

Jim Sturgess: Didn’t like me at all. Because it was just, yeah, I mean ’cause we had to act with it and interact with the - with this poor baby and it was just – it-it just associated me with a bad time.  You give it to anybody else and it would calm down and be angelic and beautiful and then you hand it back to me and it would…just go for it in my ear. 

Interviewer: Erm, er…the way the date of July 15th is really important in the movie, I’m wondering if there is a specific date, apart from your birthday or something, that is very important to you or s - equal significance to you.

Jim Sturgess: Yeah, well I’d – I have to say the anniversary of when I met my girlfriend, you know.  Course, yeah.

Interviewer: Do you know what - can you remember what date?

Jim Sturgess: No...  No, it was the 20^th of May.

Interviewer: OK.

Jim Sturgess: Yeah, we met at, you know, yeah, so we-we had…that-that moment where you just meet and connect and - I mean, we never sort of, we never went out with each other; we never went on a date; you know, we never - I never asked her out; we just started hanging out with each other, you know.  But that was a special day when we really sort of spent a lot of time together.

Interviewer: And lastly are you ready to be a sex symbol after this movie or…what does your girlfriend make of that?

Jim Sturgess: It’s just the weirdest question 'cause it’s just so – yeah, of course I’m not and I don’t think about it and I can’t, you know, perceive myself in that way and I can’t even believe many people fancy ‘Dexter’ at all, to be honest – not with that hairstyle.

YouTube Transcriptions: JeremyJahns' 'Apollo 18' Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dSU7X59zbQ&feature=feedu

"Just a few short hours ago, one man set up a camera to review a movie.  This is that footage.

‘Apollo 18’: And yeah, I’m not gonna keep that effect on the whole time.  Some of you may think you want it, but it’s kinda like electing a president – at first you’re like, “Ah, yeah, it’s a good idea” and then, you know, three fourths in you’re like , “Yeah, tha - yeah, that actually sucks”.  Trust me.  So Apollo 18’s the latest in one of these “found footage” kinda movies, which these days they’re like a dime a dozen.  Like, ten years ago they were just unique as Hell; now they’re everywhere.  It is it’s own genre now.  But as the Apollo missions have gone, we’ve sent up seventeen of ’em and supposedly never an 18^th, but now they have the footage and they’re gonna show us.  There was an 18^th mission, and this is why we never went back.  Which is funny ’cause this summer we already found out why we went back – Decepticons; I got the footage right here!  Yeah, check that s*** out; there it is – Sentinel Prime ’n’ all that.  Too late on the draw, man.  Which, no matter where you’re from, Decepticons trump little creepy moon crabs any day of the week.  And, yeah, that’s what they are in this one – little creepy moon crabs.  You saw ’em in the trailer crawling through the guy’s face mask.  You don’t really get a good look at ’em, but best you can figure, they’re the Rachni that you saved in ‘Mass Effect’ one.  So if you have a shot in ‘Mass Effect’ one to kill these things, do it – so the Apollo 18 crew can rest happy.  And, yeah, they like get inside your body and they drive you mad, and we all knew it was gonna be like that because the trailer showed that and that’s what these things do in these kinda movies.  When you have a small set, a small budget, and a small crew, and you can’t get a good look at the aliens, it’s all right; just make one of the crew go crazy because of the alien.  And it - done – it’s a done deal.  And the thing about these found footage movies is that they’re actually really slow.  And I’ll admit that I like the found footage movies, but they are slow.  So you have to be really interested in the subject at hand.  I myself like out of space – the moon, planets, all that kinda stuff.  But this movie’s not for everybody; it’ll bore the s*** out of like 90% of the population.  I mean, ‘Quarantine’ I thought was better than this; ‘Cloverfield’ better than this; ‘Paranormal Activity’ a lot better than this.  I mean, it does its job well of making you feel like you’re actually watching found footage, but you know, it’s nothing new.  If you don’t like the found footage movies now, this is not gonna be the one to bring you over to the side.  You’re not gonna watch ‘Apollo 18’ and be like, “I see now what I’ve been missing; it’s like all clear!”  It’s not gonna happen; not with this one.  If it didn’t happen with ‘Paranormal Activity’, it ain’t happenin’ now.  And the movie wasn’t that creepy.  I mean, in ‘Paranormal Activity’, this demon’s like harassing people in their beds.  We all sleep in beds, so we’re all like, “Oh, dude, I’ve been there”.  I’m not an astronaut; I’ve never been to the moon; I’m never going to the moon – space crafts are like the least of my worries.  And they should be the least of yours, too.  If they’re not the least of your worries, I-I want your life; it sounds as exciting as Hell.  It’s nothing new.  It’s not as exciting as a lot of the other found footage movies.  It’s not original by now.  It’s not really menacing.  I jumped a couple of times; that was because of jump scares – you know I hate that s***.  In the end, it’s all right, but you’re not gonna remember it in t-minus one night.   With the moon logo!  ’Cause I’m thematic like that and kinda cheesy sometimes.  But I’ll tell you this – they built this really legit-looking moon set, and they film it to look like it’s 1970 something.  If the conspiracy theorists were bloggin’ before about how we never landed on the moon; it was all a set – yeah, they ain’t stoppin’ now.  All right, so found footage movies – what’s your favourite found footage movie?  Comment below; let me know.  In any case, if you like what you’ve seen here and you wanna see more, click right here to see more!"

YouTube Transcriptions: JeremyJahns' 'The Debt' Review

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkX5mNvGNgo&NR=1

"A movie called ‘The Debt’ that’s not about the financial peril of the US government.  That’s…that’s cool.

‘The Debt’: Now, going into this movie, I didn’t know anything about it; it could’ve been about anything.  But ‘The Debt’ starts out with Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, and that guy who played Julius Caesar in ‘Rome’.  It takes place in 1997; you can tell they all know each other and some of ’em have, like, friction between each other.  But there all these war heroes and someone wrote a book and it’s all great…  Then the movie flashes back thirty years prior where they’re looking for this Nazi war criminal.  And it kinda shows how they became these war heroes.  So thirty years prior, Helen Mirren’s played by this really - she’s a hot chick.  I dunno who she is, but she’s hot.  I’ve seen her somewhere before.  Guy Julius Caesar from ‘Rome’ is played by Sam Worthington, and Tom Wilkinson’s played by…some dude.  But I suck with faces; that’s just me.  And you’re watching the movie and you’re like, “All right, it’s interesting enough”.  It’s kinda realist specials ops kinda stuff.  I like that.  Because in realistic special ops like this, things don’t always go according to plan.  And when it turns to s***, you’re now in a s*** situation, and they were in a s*** situation.  Like, you know a movie where people try to pull off a job and now they’re stuck with this prisoner; they don’t know what to do with ’em?  That’s kinda this movie.  And there’s this really cool twist in the movie – I can’t really tell you about it ’cause it will ruin the movie.  But when you see it, you’re like, “Oh, Holy s***, look at that”.  And then you start thinking to yourself what would you do in this kinda situation.  It has this really cool moral dilemma on it, and I like that.  You know, moral relativisms, it’s kinda what keeps this world spinnin’.  I wish the world spun on puppies, rainbows, Christmas and, you know, candy and all that good stuff, but in the end it-it is moral relativism.  Now, I liked the characters in this movie.  Helen Mirren, I-I-I liked her character.  I’ll always – it’s Helen Mirren.  She could play anything and I’d be like, “She’s a great actress and I liked her character; she did a good job as the Green River Killer”.  Sam Worthington’s character’s kinda funny for me because he plays this really stoic, emotionless agent, which is pretty much Sam Worthington in nine tenths of his movies.  All four of ’em, which the math makes sense (somehow, somewhere).  But I can’t tell you much about this movie without ruining it, but in the end I like the characters; I like the acting; I like the premise; I like the moral dilemma in the movie that makes you go, “Dude, what would I do in that situation?”  I will say it’s a good time; no alcohol required.  The movie kinda felt like ‘Munich’, but, you know, one tenth the length, ’cause ‘Munich’ felt looong.  This movie’s a two hour Drama and as a two hour Drama, I would watch it again for the sake of being like, “Hey, friend of mine, watch this movie; I’ll watch it with you”.  I would be down for watching this movie again, for sure.  But I don’t know that I’d be sitting on my couch alone being like, “You know what?  I’m gonna grab myself a cold one; I’m gonna watch ‘The Debt’.  Alone”.  But it’s worth watching; you’ll walk outta the movie going, “You know what?  It was well done; it was good”.  So even though it’s still summer, it’s September now, so I feel like this is a fall movie and it looks like the fall movies are gonna surprise me.  For the most part.  And the podcast I did with the Schmoes from Schmoesknow in which they interview me is up now.  I put the links below; go check ’em out.  It’s a podcast in which they interview me about me; you know, how I got into YouTube.  All that good stuff.  It’s like a Jeremy behind the scenes kinda thing.  So it’s good to listen to if you’re like cleaning your house; driving; staring at your computer doing nothing really.  In any case, if you like what you’ve seen here and you wanna see more, click right here to see more!"