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If I remember right, nearly all of Malkovich's scenes take place in front of the same stone map-wall. I pretty much believe his contract said he'd get a big payday to be the main baddie in movie #2 but meanwhile they'd have him out in one day by lunchtime on this one. This look just screams "Do I *need* to go to another set or can't I just do this evil blah-blah right here?"

I want to bump this because while I think it has some legitimately amazing qualities to it; it is indeed crazy-weird-disturbing for a kids' movie, AND it's relevant that since this thread was last posted on, the movie's director George Miller went back his roots and made a little movie called Mad Max: Fury Road. I would just love to hear the gang process the idea that the same filmmaker made both these things.

They really spend a lot of time making the third finalist, Mora Grissom, look like a big, useless, loser. I bet she's pretty cool, actually. She made it to the damn finals! Hashtag justice4mora, you guys.

Frankenstein's Monster wants to know WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY this movie hasn't been done yet.

Just realized that HDTGM has not done a single movie in which John Lithgow plays a psychopathic creepfreak. Not this, not Cliffhanger, not Buckaroo Banzai, not even Santa Claus: The Movie where he invents Christmas 2. There are so many options! Someone needs to get to the bottom of this rampant Anti-Lithgowism.

It's Richard Gere's dodgy Irish accent versus Val Kilmer's dodgy EVERY ACCENT.

A fast-paced trailer, in which every other shot is in slow-motion.

The product placement in this one was next-level ironic, because why would characters whose every meal and activity are dictated to them would even NEED brand names?

In theory I am with you on this as a candidate, but I have all my Roland Emmerich chips right now on them doing 2012 because 2012 has the Emergency Giraffe Airlift and I feel strongly about my life choices.

Life sucks for Baby McDreamy when a mobster's son drunkenly kills himself on a countertop next to him and literally everyone in town is super-corrupt and MEGA trigger-happy. He's still got time to make cute jokes, though! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpcO-cUR_1A Ending features perhaps the only example I've seen of someone being killed by a dog track mechanical bunny. May be a challenge though since no one even thought it worth putting on DVD in the U.S.

I don't know, guys...are you sensing any kind of subtext in this marketing imagery?

The makers of "The Taking of Beverly Hills" seemed to misunderstand the "Die Hard" ripoff formula of "Blue Collar guy in enclosed environment", substituting it with "rich asshole defends wide open city of rich assholes." "Wiseguy" star Ken Wahl plays a millionaire pro quarterback who is left behind when thieves (led by Hall of Fame Badguy Robert Davi) fake a chemical spill in order to evacuate and then loot the city of Beverly Hills. Wahl teams up with good guy cop Matt "Max Headroom" Frewer, makes about 2,000 sh*tty football-related one-liners, uses his football skills to throw Molotov cocktails at the thieves, and crashes a luxury car in slow motion to the tune of Faith No More's "Epic". So, a WEE bit of a time capsule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3m5eyFNjk

I remember when Will Patton's cult shares their special cult laws, and it gets to the law that any member can challenge the leader in hand to hand combat. I just immediately wanted to raise my hand and say "Excuse me Mr. Will Patton, your cult management plan has a flaw with this open hand-to-hand challenge thing; the flaw is that you are Will Patton." Like, they throw a line in about this big, hulking henchman, saying he was the last person to challenge Will Patton and Will Patton tore his tongue out; and it is just...the least plausible thing. And so we get the glorious slow-motion climax of middle-aged men awkwardly tussling for the future of humanity.

So the villain, running the corporation M.A.R.S. that is nominally pretending to not be evil at first, has a hidden underwater base in the Arctic. It has the company logo painted on the side. THEY PAINTED THEIR LOGO ON THE OUTSIDE OF THEIR HIDDEN UNDERWATER BASE. When I saw that, I was sort of deliriously happy, since that sets the bar of stupidity up SO high.

Since the "Bratz" episode recalled Jason's fear of clowns, it seemed like time to bump the "Robot Clown Fight" movie.

Bumping because it needs bumping. He defuses an atomic bomb by playing electric guitar in 4/4 time.

Was hoping someone would have pointed out the moment where Arnold is in the prison work camp just carrying a giant girder: Immediately made me think of his introduction in Commado, where he is carrying what looks like most of a tree: I wonder if in that same 80's contract where Arnold got to smoke cigars and say "I'll be back", it was required that he get at least one shot where he carries something shaped like a massive dong.

Now that McConaughey has an Oscar I don't know if he'll ever give a performance this totally demented again - it's a treasure.

I saw this specifically because of the real-time gimmick, years before "24" - but in order for the innocent regular fella to be maneuvered into the right place to undertake the assassination, literally EVERYONE around the Governor has to be in on the conspiracy - her staff, her security guards, even her damned husband. So when 20 people with intimate access to the Governor all want her dead, why risk their entire scheme by handing a live gun to a desperate rando they find at a train station? Also, must bump for the action climax where Charles Dutton beats someone with his own wooden leg:

I drove a limousine for years and not once did Amanda Peet make babies with me, so I'm calling BS on this movie. Also, everything is destroyed because mumble mumble neutrinos? That sounds suspect as well.

This movie is up there as among the ones I am most truly amazed that the podcast hasn't made it to, yet; because it was made by grownups who legitimately thought they were blowing the lid off this astonishing, world-defining secret that you could add and multiply numbers and thus make them into other numbers.

Aw, the movie where Jack Nicholson uses the awesome powers of the werewolf to edit a record number of manuscript pages for his high-powered publishing house.

Bumping this for fond childhood memories - this was the very first movie my parents rented for us to watch on our very first VCR. The plot is absurd - a comic book writer who tries to build a real-life flying suit patterned after the superhero he writes is asked by his CIA employee friend to stand-in for him at what's supposed to be a low-level file exchange; because CIA employees are constantly asking civilians to do solids for them like that. Instead, the writer bluffs about being an elite operative code-named "Condorman", the Soviets mistake him for the real thing, and a beautiful KGB agent decides she wants to defect but only if he handles it. So he basically blackmails the CIA into building him a laser car and superboat and other stuff painted in garish, not-at-all-covert Condorman colors and then it becomes like a neutered "From Russia with Love" knockoff for kids. This didn't stop child me from thinking the Condormobile was the RADDEST THING EVER. For the rest of the world, Michael Crawford will always be The Phantom of the Opera. For me - Condorman For Eva.

I think Mr. Farley Flavors is excited about the idea of HDTGM doing this as well: http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m91l207zRj1qm6uzxo2_250.gif