• Major spoilers for Twilight (the movie and the first book)
• Bella was played by Kristen Stewart
• Edward was played by Robert Pattinson
• This list of reasons the movie is better than the books really highlights some of the best moments in the film.
• This is an interesting interview with Stephanie Meyers about her input into the film.
• Twilight has made well over $200 million thus far.

• There are minor spoilers for Australia!, but only in the second half - the first half is completely spoiler-free.
• Elizabeth has a never-updated blog at All Girls Are Obese.
• Baz Luhrmann started as in theatre - his first film Strictly Ballroom was originally a play.
• “Come What May” is indeed the only original song in Moulin Rouge!. This is an interesting interview with the musical director of the film.
• The Baz Luhrmann-directed Chanel No. 5 commercial went for 180 seconds (3 minutes) and cost upwards of $50 million.
• Nicole Kidman was given $12 million for her role, and Baz Luhrmann is rumoured to have been paid more than $20 million for directing. 
• In 1940 less than 7000 people lived in the Northern Territory. Anywhere between 2000 and 5000 of those people lived in Darwin.
• Alledgedly in an earlier draft of the script, the Drover’s name was a major plot-point.
• The little boy - Nullah - was played by Brandon Walters. It was his first time acting - in fact, when he was chosen, he hadn’t heard of Nicole Kidman or Hugh Jackman, or seen many movies, or ever been to a city.
• If you’ve seen Australia!, please weigh in - did you feel that actual magic was shown in the film, or just superstition? Do you agree that there were plotholes at the beginning of the film, or do you think it all came together smoothly? Did you think that Ivan’s character suffered a huge character jump? Email podcast@thechainsawblokes.com with your thoughts!

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• Guest starring Jason Nash

• Spoilers for Quantum of Solace and the Twilight series.
• “The Dark Preachers” can be found here.
• Peter and Gavin got most of their information about Twilight from here.

Edited by Gavin.

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• Gerard Butler is Scottish, not French.
• Tom Wilkinson is the older gentleman.
• “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People” is based on the memoir by Toby Young of the same name.
• Simon Pegg plays Sidney Young.
• Kirsten Dunst plays Alison Olsen.
• Megan Fox plays Sophie Maes.
  Bill Paterson plays “Richard Young”, Sidney’s father.

Edited by Gavin.

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• Spoilers for Scary Movie 3, I Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Again; the plots of these films are not the reason you’re going to watch them. 
• There are apparently 10 Wayans children. Keenan Ivory Wayans directed Scary Movie, which was written by Shawn and Marlon Wayans. Shawn played Ray, Marlon played Shorty, and Keenan cameoed as “the slave”.
• Simon Rex’s character, the wanna-be rapper, was indeed supposed to be Charlie Sheen’s character’s brother.
• Charlie Sheen appears as the drug addict in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, not Pretty in Pink or The Breakfast Club. Peter and Gavin have only seen these movies once; they watched through all 3 of them on the same day, last year, which is why they have blurred together a little.
• Despite both Peter and Gavin having separately heard the story, no websites can be found regarding Leslie Nielson’s role in Flying High (or Airplane!) parodying a role he played in an earlier movie.
• New black best friends in Kevin Williamson horror sequels seem to be mandatory.
• The legal drinking age in the Bahamas is 18.
• You can hear Gavin complain about Marty McFly in more detail, in the second ever In-Joke Podcast.
• The phrase “Fridge Logic” is often attributed to Alfred Hitchcock.

Edited by Peter.

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• Spoilers for Teeth and Scary Movie 2, but as we say in the podcast, you probably aren’t going to watch either of these movies for the plots. If at all. Which you shouldn’t, because they’re terrible.
• Teeth currently has 82% at Rotten Tomatoes - 83% from “Top Critics”, and 63% from the Rotten Tomatoes community.
• We say “vagina” quite a lot in this podcast.
• By “chasticy”, Gavin means “chastity”, and by “cloitus“, he means “coitus”.
• This may be the first podcast ever made to contain the phrase “She becomes a secret undercover hooker.”
• Malcolm X is indeed the film Peter was thinking of - directed by Spike Lee, its gross revenue was $48 169 910 (according to the ever-reliable Wikipedia.) By contrast, Scary Movie 2 made $71 277 420, and Scary Movie made $278 019 771.
• Thinking about it, the fact that the characters are now in college in Scary Movie 2 had absolutely no bearing on the plot whatsoever.
• “Anna Faris” is the name of the main actor from the Scary Movie movies.
• The actor in Scary Movie 2 is Christopher Masterson. The actor playing Hyde in That ’70s Show is Danny Masterson. Neil Patrick Harris is famous for the roles of Barney in How I Met Your Mother, and Dr Horrible in Dr Horrible’s Singalong Blog, among others.
• Mild spoilers for What Lies Beneath
• Any suggestions for future podcasts, questions or feeback about the current podcast, or naked photos of yourself can be sent to the podcast’s official email address: podcast at thechainsawblokes dot com. Thanks for listening!

Recorded on time, but uploaded late because of technical difficulties and Peter-stupidity.

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• The NaNoWriMo website can be found here.
• Patrick Stewart’s character in Star Trek, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard says “Make it so”, not “Let it be done”.
• There is a real Dawsons Creek near Kevin williamson’s childhood home.
• There’s a beach in I Know What You Did Last Summer called “Dawsons Beach”.

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• Spoilers for I Know What You Did Last Summer. 
• The movie that Peter’s thinking of is Silence of the Hams. As Silence of the Lambs was made in 1991, it’s quite unlikely for a movie to have parodied it in the late 80s.
• Dawson (of Dawson’s Creek) is actually called Dawson Leary. Cotton from Scream is Cotton Weary.
• Can’t Hardly Wait is the Seth Green film that Peter can never remember the name of.
• “Whassup?” was a TV/radia commercial campaign for Anheuser-Busch Budweiser beer from 1999 to 2002.

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• Spoilers for Swept Away.