Cockney Mackem

I honestly don't think Stanley's film would have been good. I don't think he's actually capable of getting a production through from beginning to end. He's full of interesting ideas but too mental to get them on screen.

Frankenheimer saying "get that son of a bitch off my set" is often used as an example of Val Kilmer being difficult. But when David Thewlis was asked about this he said he never had a problem with Val Kilmer and said that John Frankenheimer was horrible on set. He was a complete bully and treated people disgracefully, and felt that Kilmer was reacting badly to that.

A friend of mine worked as an assistant to Richard Stanley on one of several films that fell apart and didn't get made. He said Stanley is absolutely insane and tried to attack my friend with an axe. He is not in the least surprised Stanley got fired from this film because even the films he's managed to make were a fucking mess.

I believe the first scene Cage shot after coming back from Con Air was the prison fight. You see him morph from Stoic Nic Cage back to Batshit Mental Nic Cage as he first puts a shit eating looney grin on his face

Sorry if this is already there, I did search. This is a 2004 film currently rotating on the UK Sci fi channel. It's about a secret society of dinosaurs who disguise themselves as humans to live secretly among us today. It's got a Baldwin in it and, it says here, is based on the novel by Eric Garcia

Deeper! Placider! My skin is like a handbag

I'm occasionally struck by British idioms popping up on the HDTGM podcast that I thought were unknown across the pond. I'm sure Paul or Jason referred to as idea being "nicked" from another film recently...

When the Croc bursts out of the water, Cage should be singshouting YOOO-HOOOOO!

I love a story with a happy ending

Another cool one is Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder. Because his character is an actor who takes the method to absurd lengths, he has that line in the film where he doesn't drop character until he's done the DVD commentary. So on the DVD commentary for this he's in character as Lincoln Osiris until that character melts down, then he's in character as fake Russell Crowe.

You, sir, get a like for that.

Just watching it now. What a stupid film.

OK so I know I'm resurrecting a thread from 2 years ago but I was catching up on the Spider-Man 3 podcast today and I swear I nearly bumped into the living image of Sam Raimi! It clearly wasn't him because I was in a supermarket in London but fuck me it looked like him. Of course I gave him the finger guns. (no I didn't)

I have to say, while I fully acknowledge that Deep Blue Sea is utter chod, I still watch it and thoroughly enjoy it whenever it's on TV. Especially the bit where the super ninja sharks throw a man at the window and flood the installation.

Ted and Whoopi probably had a great time. Nobody who watched that film did.

Do it! This film is mental and kind of pathetic at the same time.

I remember being so disappointed when I saw this film because the concept seemed to be everything I wanted to see in a film - graphic novel / superhero type setting but an antihero with a bit of jekyll and hyde thrown in, darker and bloodied than this kind of thing is normally told. In the end I found it too screwball and incoherent, and the whole pastiche of old Universal horror that he was going for just made the effects and acting seem shit. I know this is a matter of taste because a lot of what I hated is what a lot of people loved.

Also - Youngblood (if that's the US title) - Rob Lowe ice hockey film.

#turdpolishing Or #baitandswitch

What the actual fuck? I had to check that on IMDB because quite frankly I didn't believe you.

Having seen others post on this film, I decided that I wouldn't be able to watch it without harming myself. I settled for the Official Spoileriffic Wikipedia Plot Summary. While reading this I still had to pinch myself to stop losing concentration. You could not pay me to watch this. Everyone involved in the production can fuck right off.

Apologies if this is already mentioned or been done (I did check) but Fire Birds aka Wings of the Apache starring the mighty combo of Nicolas Cage and Sean Young. In case you haven't endured it it's a really pisspoor ripoff of Top Gun with almost no urgency or drama. God knows how they made it so turgid. As I recall the hero's main challenge to succeeding as a pilot is right eye dominance or some similar shite.

Netflix is going to start giving me some really vile recommendations because of this.

I liked "the archaeologists are going to find doggy style skeletons"