Leaderboard

Hot date?

If nothing else, this episode reminded me to pick up a big bottle of V8 when I was at the store today.

Excited to watch some Gertz for next week!

The true secrets behind the V8 sex scene, the long lost video game “Bouncer,” and more on this week’s mini-sode! Paul offers advice as he opens up the Paul Help Line, goes through Corrections and Omissions for Ninja III, and opens up the Mail Bag. Also, Blake J. Harris interviews Ninja III director Sam Firstenberg. Plus, find out which movie will be covered next week! Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here: http://www.earwolf.com/show/unspooled/ Check out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.com Check out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepubli…wdidthisgetmade Where to Find Jason, June & Paul: @PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter @Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on Twitter Please visit these links: https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.joincampaignzero.org/ https://eji.org/ https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/

It’s funny, a couple of weeks ago I was listening to old eps for the Howdies, and I had completely forgotten about the Blake J Harris interviews. I was like, “Awww, remember those?” and the very next week they were back! I’m pretty sure I Secret-ed them back into existence (as opposed to “secreted” which is way more messy)

Coincidentally, right after this movie he went on to Broadway to star in...Prelude to a Kiss.

You aren't kidding. Guttenberg wasn't in another movie for five years except Three Men And A Little Lady a few months after this. For a guy who was arguably the biggest star in the US a couple years earlier, that's a huge dropoff. I wonder if he was taking a break for a while then couldn't ever get it back.

2 appearances: Steve Guttenberg - Can't Stop the Music, Don't Tell Her It's Me 2 appearances: Jami Gertz - Solarbabies, Don't Tell Her It's Me

It is the most original use of product placement (that I know of).

I have not seen this yet but it looks FUCKING BONKERS!!! Here is the review from the Seattle alternative paper The Stranger: FILM/TV Is Color Out of Space Good-Bad or Bad-Bad? by Leilani Polk • Jan 22, 2020 at 8:45 am I didn’t go into Color Out of Spacethinking it would be great, or even very good. Starring Nicolas Cage and based on a story by HP Lovecraft about a weird alien presence/virus/organism/wtf that comes crashing in from space via meteorite, I figured it’d be entertaining at the very least. And that it was, but it was also tremendously, spectacularly bad, with some classic bad-acting Cage on tap. The set-up: The film's Gardner family has traded life in the city for a house in the country after they inherit a rural family estate located near Arkham, Massachusetts. They are very obviously city folk. Mom’s a commodities trader whose cancer is in remission, dad Cage is the patriarch who’s failed at his calling (he’s a painter who doesn’t seem to paint anymore and has turned to raising alpacas and gardening, where he’s also failing). The daughter is a Wicca-practicing witch who wears a cape, has purple streaks in her hair, and rides a horse earnestly, while her younger brothers are two-dimensional representations of younger brothers. The older is a smart-mouthed pothead (he gets his stash from the old hippie hermit who squats in a shack on their property, played by Tommy Chong), while the younger is barely a blip on a real-person radar, though he’s the first family member affected by the situation that arises after a meteorite crashes onto their front lawn. Of course, shit gets weird from the get-go. The thing in the yard has a strange purple glow before it cools, and then vanishes (or really, relocates). There’s a hydrologist / daughter love interest who seems to be the only one suspicious of the water being contaminated, and really, the only person who seems to give a fuck at all after the preliminary media buzz. It soon starts affecting the local flora (are the plants in the garden more bountiful or just plain bizarre?), fauna (which have disappeared or become skittish and/or vicious), and then, of course, the Gardner family, as matter seems to distort into a bizarre mutation. Is it an alien? A virus? An extraterrestrial organism? All of the above? The question is never answered, nor does it need to be. And really, the plot isn’t important, either. You’re not here for the plot. You’re here for campy-as-fuck sci-fi horror and Nicolas Cage, of which Color Out of Space has both in spades. It has the potential to be the next great (terrible) cult classic, and will definitely find a sympathetic audience in both die-hard Cage fans and D-level horror film enthusiasts. Also, the colors are pretty. IT ALSO HAS A CRITICAL APPROVAL RATING OF 90% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES!!! Here’s the preview:

I watched this movie last night and despite liking it it is HDTGM worthy. Although it is not the best example of Nic Cage doing his Nic Cage acting. This is clearly a horror movie but FandangoNow said it was a drama. Here you go mom and dad watch a nice drama with Nic Cage!

I don't think I could even hatewatch this movie. I'd rather watch actual Nazi propaganda films from the 40s than this. How's that for a poster blurb?

That's great and all, but it's not like you have the boyish charm and roguish sex appeal of a mid-aughts boy band member... Awww, fuck...

Hey! I worked on that production of Love's Labour's at Stratford, as well as the Hamlet that's coming out this week. I work as video dramaturg for all of the Stratford productions, advising on text cuts.

Top 3 in no particular order for me are Fassbender/Kilmer's department in Snowman, every cop not in the Zombie Squad in Cobra, and every cop not named Tango & Cash in the titular film as they were just acting like dumb assholes.

I understand it’s a common phrase, but Piss and Vinegar is still a terrible name for a salad.

I’ll believe my kids are potty trained when I see a certification.

Yes, that cast does exist within one movie, the wonderful D.C. Cab. If you weren't convinced already by the casting of Mr. T and Gary Busey together, then I will tell you this - This marvelous movie was written by Joel Schumacher. Yes, the man that gave Batman nipples in those terrible Batman movies. Even Bill Maher, Otis Day, Paul Rodriguez, The Barbarian Brothers, and Bob Zmuda have some screen time in this picture. What's crazy is the movie tries to teach racial equality, but just comes off completely racist. Then there's also a flame thrower for absolutely no reason, an amazing speech given by Mr. T in front of the Lincoln memorial, and a plot that changes so much that in retrospect you have no idea what the movie was about. You must watch this movie. So bad that it's entertaining. IMDB description: The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.

Here’s the thing: HDTGM actually does GOOD movies. I liked this film as well. A lot, for what it is. It got good reviews. I liked Face/Off. it got even BETTER reviews and they did a show on it. I definitely think this film is bonkers enough for the HDTGM treatment. Plus, if the do an episode on it, itwill get more people to see it (and the film got a pretty limited release). same as above. I agree, but still could be an episode.

Yeah, i legit liked it I think that's the trick with Nick Cage. Mom and Dad and Mandy are also good examples of this. The plot is pretty close to the original story, updated in a believable, very plausible way, the fx aren't amazing, but the budget probably wasn't that big and they use them well, and the narrator being a POC is a really nice FU to H.P. Lovecraft.