nthurkettle
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I totally buy the poster selling this as a man/robot clown love story. The composition recalls this classic romance:
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The crazy cross-dressing terminator was referred to by the filmmakers as "Roboslut". Check out this interview with the actual special effects supervisor on F/X2, who refers to himself as "the Norman Schwarzkopf of effects," whatever that means. http://www.ew.com/article/1991/05/31/eric-allard-effects-man I like that Bluey the robot clown was played by mimes. It's like you peel the skin off one nightmare, and another nightmare is underneath it. I wonder what horrors are inside the mimes?
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Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
nthurkettle replied to Jacob McCraw's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
The arc of the whole Hellraiser franchise is kind of beyond the scope of what HDTGM covers, but I have found it fascinating ever since I binge-watched the entire saga over the course of a few days where I was couch-bound with a cold. Once they started going direct to DVD and sticking Pinhead into unrelated scripts to ride on the value of the name, you really got to see every bad idea in a generation of movie horror inflicted on one universe. Shyamalan-esque lame twist endings? See Inferno and Hellseeker. Lame self-referential Scream ripoff meta-horror combined with "grownups pretend they understand video games"? See Hellworld. Microbudget single-location with a long stretch of "found footage"? See Revelations. In the third Hellraiser movie you can really tell the filmmakers didn't quite understand what makes Pinhead unique and tried to just make him a quippy goth Freddy Krueger. Worst thing that happened in the whole experience is that one night after watching two back-to-back, I had chili fries for dinner. They looked pretty much exactly like something that had been ripped apart by Cenobites and I wanted to barf.- 11 replies
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There were so many movies, good and bad, in the 80's whose message was "Hey suburban white kids, if you don't like what's happening at home - just leave! Go to a cave, downtown, cross-country, outer space - doesn't matter! Things will work out great!"
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The crazy thing is that the lost Vatican gold WAS the plot - it was the McGuffin the whole conspiracy was ultimately about; not that it's at all easy to make sense of that when your hero is Macgyvering baked beans into an assassin-deterrent.
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Brian Dennehy is the perfect illustration, I think, of when you're hired for a first movie as a serious actor: And for the sequel, your agent convinces you that you're a movie star now and should look and play it that way and make those big happy sequel bucks.
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He's just like Indiana Jones, except that instead of a bullwhip he uses a body-suit controlled ROBOT CLOWN. It's the ultimate Mantzoukas Nightmare Fuel.
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Remember the scene where Christian Slater's character shoots a bunch of the zombies/infected/whatthef*ckevers in broad daylight with a gun he wrestled away from a cop and then just nonchalantly walks home? Does, like, NO ONE in the world of the movie even want an explanation from him about what just happened?
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Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
nthurkettle replied to Jacob McCraw's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
This could be a live show double feature with "Jason X" - horror sequels that decided "f*ck it, let's go into space!"- 11 replies
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When casting for the role of a childlike psychotic with a full-sized Torture Fun House who decides to wage a one-man campaign of blackmail and psychological terror against a kindly suburban family, who might you cast? Jack Nicholson in his prime? Anthony Hopkins? How about pillow-faced English music icon Phil Collins? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4msZGBzS0AM
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This movie didn't make me laugh in the way I'd want for a bad movie for HDTGM. Mostly it just made me sad. Emilia Clarke actually did a worthy job as Sarah Connor, and I think they could have pulled off some really balls-out-crazy comic book crossover event style timeline shenanigans, which this franchise is uniquely suited for. "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" started to delve into this before it was canceled, with so many characters getting sent back from the future that they started realizing they were coming back from different alternate futures and so had different memories about what was happening in the war. Instead, the movie they made...I can't believe no one looked at the script and pointed out that, while Cameron's movies were about tying the fighting instincts of motherhood in with hope for the human race to outlast its instinct for destruction, this movie can be read as two hot young people deciding to murder their child so they can have a cooler life without him. How is that supposed to leave us feeling?
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Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997)
nthurkettle replied to maggotlimbo's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
One reason I think this movie is a must is that there is such an insane number of characters brought in from the games with literally no exposition or explanation - most of the time you don't even get their names. Which is why I would so love to hear our hosts agreeing upon alternate names for everyone as they attempt to discuss the plot. For example - HorseBro: -
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
nthurkettle replied to JSacks06's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
Since this movie establishes that you can revive a character who died in a previous chapter just by yelling their name really loud; I would love to see how this could be applied to other film franchises. Spider-Man could just be like: "UNCLE BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!" Then lightning would strike and Uncle Ben would be back and then Spidey would just be like "Okay, I'm good, no need to fight crime now." -
The whole climax is shot in first-person to look like the game footage; only, of course, the audience can't control it. So, basically, they spent $60 Million to give you the experience of watching somebody else play a videogame.
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Wing Commander (1999)
nthurkettle replied to JoshuaMacPhetridge's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
This was really during that peak post-Scream period when Hollywood wanted ALL MOVIES to be HOT TEENS. (Like, Hollywood always wants that at least a little, but this was a special time). The strongest memory I have of this was their way of coping with the deaths of fellow pilots would be to just immediately respond to every mention of their name with "HE NEVER EXISTED". Which, is like, one step away from covering your ears and going "I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA." I'm sure any therapist would be totally on-board with this method. -
When Disney struck up an agreement to distribute the works of legendary Japanese animation producers Studio Ghibli, they got the rights to release such beloved family classics as Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and Ponyo. They also got Pom Poko. Pom Poko is about a group of magical raccoons who use their shape-shifting powers and giant scrotums to infiltrate, terrorize, and sometimes MURDER the human construction workers encroaching on their little forest. I repeat - the raccoons with giant scrotums kill people. Disney released this movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7cowIHjCD4
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Irons might be the only actor there who realizes he is in a terrible movie; and plays it perfectly.
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Definite vote for this. It's like a two-hour, all-star cast middle finger to the Myth Busters guys.
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This movie has a prime example of what Matt Gourley on the James Bonding podcast calls "Pierce Brosnan Hurt Acting". The scene where he's saying "You're trying to get into my head, Jobe!", you keep thinking "no, that's your hand, Pierce. It's not mind-power, you're just pressing your hand into your head really hard." Also, the treatment of chimpanzees in this movie really demands some scrutiny by June.
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So young Frank Dux is caught trying to steal a sword and then lying about it, and then Master Tanaka trains him to live a life of "martial science" - which, who knows what that means but it seems to mean honor and balance and all the usual stuff that serene old Asian men teach white people in movies. Then, in order to pay tribute to his dead teacher, Frank Dux enters - a no-rules murderfest built on secrecy, gambling, and vindictive cruelty. And then makes a movie bragging about how he did it. Frank Dux is really bad at this honor thing.
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There is so much nonsense here, I think you could ask every member of the cast and crew what the plot of this was, and none of their explanations would line up. The Hand is chasing The Treasure; only Elektra was maybe the Treasure instead? Or also? And an Evil Woman at one point is like "I used to be The Treasure." So is it a title you can be stripped of, like Miss America? Also, I love that when The Hand wants to have Elektra followed, their really subtle way of doing this is with a giant CGI bird.
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This needs a bump, because it tries to be so serious when its premise is: "If an alien who looked like a really hot woman wanted to bone you, and that boning would destroy humanity, would you still do it?" And they hired SO much acting talent to explore this idea.
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So down for this because it really substantiates that Denzel Washington is one of the greatest actors to ever live because of the number of crazy scenes he has to sell as if they are totally not crazy. Like when he defuses a hostage situation by stripping naked. Or his summation speech to a jury that doesn't involve a single legal argument, just him spazzing out and screaming to imitate how the jury was going to feel cooped up in a room but that they had to stay in there until they reached a guilty verdict.
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The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
nthurkettle replied to Skeevins's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
I've wanted to see this for YEARS but it is not an easy one to find; I think you can buy a DVD for $30 but that's it. I'm in love with this clip, though; where Sir Christopher Lee thwarts his heroic nemesis by SINGING HIM INTO ALCOHOLIC RELAPSE: -
Episode 128 - Streets of Fire: LIVE!
nthurkettle replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?
Also - not sure if Blake Harris will cover this, but I believe when Rick Moranis appeared on the Nerdist podcast he indicated that when this project was pitched to him, it was right after producer Joel Silver had made enormous money with "48 Hours", and that Silver told him that this would be an action-comedy hybrid that would do the same thing for his career that "48 Hours" did for Eddie Murphy. Moranis did not indicate how much cocaine Silver was on when he claimed this.