Year Two of the Damn Dirty Geeks podcast starts off big with our first podcast guest of 2016, director/executive producer/special effects master Greg Nicotero, who joins the DDG for two hours discussing one of our favorite films, Steven Spielberg’s thriller JAWS. In Part 1 of our evening with Greg Nicotero, he shares how seeing JAWS in 1975 prompted many nightmares and his earliest aspirations to learn how such movie creatures were made.
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Recorded in late 2015 but unleashed now, saddle up for this rollicking fun podcast episode taking aim at WESTWORLD, Michael Crichton’s 1973 futurist thriller, with side trips to discuss what the Damn Dirty Geeks love about 1970s cinema. While being a superb representation of cinematic tastes in 1973, WESTWORLD also proved highly influential on science fiction/action films to come amid the burgeoning computer boom in the decade.
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As we publish Part 1 of our Damn Dirty Geeks podcast episode with special guest Greg Nicotero about JAWS, we have two extra barrels to tag the shark with in our arsenal that you’ll enjoy: two comedy short films poking fun at JAWS that were made by our very own Frank Dietz, Frank Woodward and Jack Bennett. Though made decades apart, three of our DDG team made a couple of biting parodies of JAWS we now include with our episode to further illustrate how Steven Spielberg’s 1975 beach-emptying thriller firmly embedded its teeth into pop culture.
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Year Two of the Damn Dirty Geeks podcast starts off big with our first podcast guest of 2016, director/executive producer/special effects master Greg Nicotero, who joins the DDG for two hours discussing one of our favorite films, Steven Spielberg’s thriller JAWS. In Part 1 of our evening with Greg Nicotero, he shares how seeing JAWS in 1975 prompted many nightmares and his earliest aspirations to learn how such movie creatures were made.
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Throughout the Damn Dirty Geek’s four podcasts (and counting) discussing the STAR WARS films, we have discussed, debated and argued about how George Lucas’ Prequel Trilogy changed the meaning and context of classic moments from the Original Trilogy films. Meanwhile, a fan made video has edited some Prequels scenes into a flashback through Alec Guinness’ memorable speech describing Anakin Skywalker’s death to his son Luke, that comes surprisingly close to supporting our podcast point about the Sequels.
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