The Royal Gentlemen's Collective

The Gents toss in a presumably trustworthy DVD of the 1990 live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie to do a commentary track to disasterous result.

We're back. We're not dead.

Just in time for it to probably not be in theaters anymore, the Gents and special guest Shane discuss X Men: Days of Future Past. You'll hear about their opinions on things like its title, whether or not they did a pod about Looper, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart's alarming ways of getting into character, and James McAvoy or Michael Fassbender. Just, y'know, them. Oh and some other legit points about the movie/ the franchise. And golf claps. 

The Gents welcome first-timer Shane to the bunker and bid adieu to the last generation of videogaming by talking about their favorite games from the last 7(?) years, making it very clear that they haven't actually played a whole lot of videogames recently. Also, they address and ultimately undermine attempts to improve after a very fair point from a listener and Ross can't get through the intro before messing things up. Oh and a poignant discussion about hard sci-fi vs. soft sci-fi.   Also this was supposed to be a 20 minute bonus episode. That went according to plan.

The Gents tackle a classic and its very...uhh...questionable remake. Look it's pretty hard to find anything good about Magnificent Seven. Why was Steve McQueen even in this? I mean, he barely was but still. Jeez. But Seven Samurai, what a movie. Seriously. Just watch it. Always. I need to at least once a year. Look I'm really tired and this episode was a pain to edit. Remember Gentlepeople, your fathers aren't cowards!   P.S. Someone remind me to post the painful 20 minutes where we came up with the sign off as a bonus one day.

The gents talk about the 2014 Godzilla flick, but not before a discussion about the new Batsuit, and the Star Wars cast photo. Prepare to hear a lot about Brian Cranston, a few simple ways to improve your film featuring Brian Cranston, and Ross making a world record of 28 mentions of Ben Affleck's dick in the span of one conversation (number possibly inflated). 

The Gents get back to it and analyze the cause and effect of the "shark curse" that has plagued movies since the late 60s...but mainly just the Jaws movies. Ross admits he prefered one of the sequels more than the original as a kid, Gerald has a special request for the listeners, and Conor explains how he's back even though it was established that he died in the last episode. ALSO, the best round of Total Recast yet! Strap in, and watch out for German existential sharks. 

The Gents saw the TMNT trailer and declared an emergency meeting to try to makes sense of it. They cut short a game of Total Recast in order to come up with the TMNT movie they would actually want to see. Get at us, Hollywood. This is GOLD. Oh and there are a ton of tangents, because our brains actually wouldn't let us talk about the new TMNT for more than 5 minutes at a time.

The gents lose their minds when Conor seems a little "off." Hold on guys, sidebar....what's the deal with this episode? It's ridiculous. Are they even talking about anything? No? Well good thing it's funny as hell.    **Note: The audio's a smiiiiidge weird, but this episode is way too good not to post**

The Gents try to start a conversation about Riki-Oh, but things take about 1,000 left turns before the shocking ending of this episode of The Royal Gentlemen's Collective!

The Gents take a break from their cavalcade of endearingly horrible movies to look back on 2013 and talk about the movies they saw that were decidedly not shit. Ross forgets what year it is and says a movie from 2011. Gerbil and Conor talk about y'know, movies from 2013 that are, y'know, really good.

In this second part of the Gents' "Horrible Movies" trilogy, Gerald/Gerbil got everyone to watch House II: The Second Story ("Frightening Strikes Twice!"), the comedy sequel to a movie that no one's heard of where the only likable characters are either secondary or are puppets. How does a group of esteemed gentlemen try to talk about a movie that has no plot and was very clearly a rushed first draft where nothing makes sense where insane things happen for no reason with no explanation? Listen and find out!

The Gents are each subjecting each other to their favorite bad movies! In this first installment, Ross somehow talked everyone into watching Starcrash, the 1978 Italian Star Wars ripoff that successfully does nothing successfully. Somehow they nabbed both David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff AND a valium-loaded Christopher Plummer. Even a robot with nine lives and a southern accent and THE GREATEST LINE IN FILM HISTORY can't salvage this thing. Only a truly sick individual would force his friends to watch this...

The Gents convene after the series finale of Breaking Bad to talk about the episode and the show as a whole. A very distinguished guest comes to answer an important question, Ross gets stabbed, moralities are questioned, and we're all just glad that Todd got choked to death. 

In this exta bit taken from the Elysium episode, the Gents finally figure out how to make a difference in the world.

The Gents are back again after seeing Elysium, a movie they were all very excited for considering their unanimous love for District 9. Do they love it? Hate it? Go on random tangents, lose the plot, have a surprisingly deep and serious conversation about movie violence and how films should acknowledge their ability to influence society, AND make dildo jokes in the same episode? There's only one surefire way to find out, so listen on!

The gang breaks the silence by going to see Pacific Rim, talking about kaiju movies, and losing track of topics. So basically nothing's changed. We missed you. S2 xoxo

**Spoilers all over this episode** The Royal Gentlemen talk Trek, swoon over their favorite melted-candle-faced British thespian, stand on soapboxes, try not to get political, and engage in another go of Total Recast. 

Ross here with a quick announcement. We have a commentary up for download at: www.soundcloud.com/royalgentlemenscollective/district9commentary  Also follow us on twitter! @TheRoyalGents  Email us emails! RGCpod@gmail.com

The Royal Gents are joined once again by Lou as they argue about which is truly the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie before everything delves into chaos and Ross' pale attempt at a legitimate argument gets completely overshadowed by the collective realization that Gerbil is right: The majestic Arnold/ Sinbad team needs to return to silver screen.