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  2. Posted

    Okay, much like tomspanks, I also took notes, like some kind of live show nerd. I would type them all up now, but my notebook's juuust out of reach, so I'll lead off with one thing I noticed that both dates and places the film.

     

    The hockey playing twins spend all of their time in hockey jerseys - the only figures who actually wear hockey-specific shirts, if I recall - and the costume designer did a bang-up job of figuring out what a hockey kid would wear in Cincinnati in 1993. Both of them are wearing jerseys from the Cincinnati Cyclones, an International League team whose most recent iteration now plays in the ECHL. Here's a picture of the boys in their shirts.

     

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    As you can see, the Cyclones jerseys are fairly memorable, but most importantly, they were only worn by Cincinnati for one season - the 1992/93 season. So, the team was new in town and the costumer stuck the twins in Cyclones jerseys, which were immediately voted as having the worst logo in all of hockey, voted on by The Hockey News. As a result, the Cyclones immediately flipped their logo into one that didn't look like Jason Voorhees caught in a high wind, and, of course, opted for an anthopomorphised cyclone with a stick, missing teeth.

     

    Go to the authoritative sportslogos.net for more information:

    http://www.sportslog...93/Primary_Logo

     

    What I find coolest about this is that it gives us a definitive date and location for this film, all based on the prominent use of two jerseys featuring a failed logo.

     

    EDIT: Ooh! And I'm just noticing! In the pic above, they're wearing Cyclones sweatshirts, whereas at school, they're wearing Cyclones hockey jerseys. So, I guess they had a range of stuff for them from the same team store.

     

    Also: MOST TWINS DON'T DRESS ALIKE, MOVIE. Particularly not in their teens.

     

    I have way more notes but meh, it's a long week.

     

     

    If my hockey bin isn't in storage I'll look through it this weekend. I'm pretty sure I have that copy of the Hockey News.

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    Given that this is Mel Gibson's production company, this logo feels vaguely threatening and ominous. Strangely though, at the same time it also feels like it really should be the logo for Paint Shop software for Windows 3.1 and not exist in 2017.

    or that

     

    if you'd zoom out to the entire piece of art it would be extremely anti-semetic.

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    I've played hockey most of my life. Now, I'm not going to get into any crazy minutiae about equipment or technique, but I will say that the game they are playing on the rink has to be a informal pick-up game.

     

    There are no refs that I could see.

    There are no uniforms. Also, whoever made-up some of the jerseys seems to have gotten hockey and football confused because never in my life have I seen a team with numbers on the front that take up the entire area.

     

    with that said, if its informal why did they NEED 5 skaters? It would have been just as easy to go 4-on-4 and give the other team an extra sub. In hockey there are line-changes (substitutions) throughout the game. Anybody playing an entire game would be absolutely exhausted by the middle of the second period if they were playing with the intensity that is implied.

     

    Also, these are the most impoverished "Preps" I've ever seen.

     

     

    Also relating to the wondrously off-topic discussion, who in their right mind would drink alcohol mixed with energy drinks if they were over the age of 12? What is wrong with everyone? Even if you don't care about the taste there are cheaper and more efficient ways to fuck yourself up. I know alcoholics who wouldn't touch that shit.

     

    Red Bull and vodka is pretty damn popular. Also, I remember being in Germany and trying Mixery. Beer and soda. It was god awful yet popular.

     

    HOW THE FUCK DID SETH GREEN NOT KNOW THEY WERE SIBLINGS?!

     

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    Especially since Wiley seemed to be the kind of kid that craved bullshit HS gossip.

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    I messed up my ankle last year in a bike accident, and when I went to the urgent care clinic, they took my vitals, and the nurse was like, "Your BP is a pretty high. Have you heard that before?"

     

    I said that I hadn't been to the doctor in years, and they asked a few other questions. One was how much caffeine I drank.

     

    At the time, I was drinking 2 16-oz cups of coffee every morning and a SF Red Bull every afternoon.

     

    They were like, "Yeah...so that's not good."

     

     

    I came here to see where the best place to watch Airborne was, but got caught up in all the other hullabaloo.

     

    I'm on...7-8 espressos a day and sometimes a 5Hour Energy. I mean, it's that or develop healthy sleeping patterns. I'm no chump.

     

    Guess I should ask my dr about this.

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    I just want to mention something slightly sad in regards to the comments about Kesha. From wikipedia concerning her relationship with her manager and producer Dr Luke.

     

    In October 2014, Kesha sued producer Dr. Luke for alleged sexual assault and battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, emotional abuse, and violation of California business practices over their 10 years of working together. She claimed that Dr. Luke repeatedly drugged her, with and without her consent, and that his abuse caused her eating disorder.

     

    So, Kesha might be a real-life Bibi with Dr. Luke as her Mr. Boogalow.

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    I grew up in a Showbiz Area. I was kind of sad that it became Chuck E. Cheese. I preferred not eating rat or mouse pizza.... although I can't remember the Showbiz characters.

    I agree, I don't want a rat serving me pizza. I think showbiz was a bear or something? Their characters were cuter.

     

    Yes, a hillybilly bear IIRC. I also remember a trailer-trash bird of some kind. There was one in Delaware that I used to go to when I visited my dad. Had two rooms, arcade up front, theater in the back.

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    Am I the only one that was thinking Paul accidentally found a fake trailer and posted it? I saw this movie when it came out and not since. I knew the dialogue was terrible, but even the VO for it was atrociously amateurish. I don't ever recall hearing that VO-preview voice before and it threw me for a loop.

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    Weird as I was just thinking about this yesterday and trying to find it online without paying for it. I remember it being on HBO and it being terrible. Not where on the spectrum it was. Enjoyably bad? Frustratingly bad? Terribly bad?

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    Despite the terrible story I kind of enjoyed this movie. The action scenes were straight out of a video game and I could watch C-Tattes fly around ragdolling Mila behind him all day (which was 1/2 of the actual movie so cool by me).

     

    During the episode I thought this could have been amazing video game. Then I remembered The Matrix for XBOX.

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    She's an illegal alien and is presumably very careful about giving out her real name and address (especially to a shady fertility clinic). Therefore she used her friend's name as a false name.

     

    I can buy that. But i agree with Cameron H. The "illegal alien" bit seems forced. And as referenced in the episode (got to listen to a few minutes) what happened to the families money? Was there more that happened forcing her mother into abject poverty that wasn't covered?

     

    That confirmed Jupiter as the recurrence of mama Abrasax, securing her legal position and her ownership of Earth. Before she was confirmed as a recurrence Balem could have killed her and kept the Earth without problems and Titus would have gained nothing from marrying her.

     

    Fair enough

     

    After the bees swarm around Jupiter, Stinger kneels and says "your Majesty" - it then cuts to Jupiter looking confused and bewildered before the kitchen scene. I can only presume that they tell Jupiter that she's a royal recurrence in the scene before the kitchen scene, but I do agree that it's bizarre to cut something like that.

     

     

    Obviously it's fantastical, but "royalty" is a man-made idea. Unless the Abraxas family is genetically superior to others or somehow marked genetically marked for the bees to recognize them. Otherwise anybody can proclaim themselves as a Sovereign and the bees recognize them? It was reaching.

     

    And Jupiter is endlessly asking questions and demonstrating curiosity and bewilderment at her situation - she's always trying to learn what's going on but doesn't even know where to begin. She studied the 'entitled code' because she had it with her and hoped to find some kind of stipulation which might have been of use to her, which she did.

     

     

    She seems fine to get a piece of the story and leave the rest of it hanging. I get that it moves the story, but her lack of urgency is aggravating.

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    This film and Stealth tried so hard to make Josh Lucas a Hollywood leading man, but after those two completely bombed, we haven't heard much from him since!

     

    He is fucking terrrrrrrrible. My hate for him kicked up a notch after (or during) Glory Road where he did his best McConaughey as a southern basketbawl coach.

     

     

    5. Maggie observing Dylan "clocking" Maggie's finger - twice. Stilted dialogue from here on out.

     

    Apparently Maggie goes for the creepy predatory type because she was all about him from the get go.

     

     

    6. Fergie - again. Plasticine under hot lights.

     

    She might have been the best floatation device on the ship.

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    I dont know if they covered it because I just finished the film and will listen to the episode tomorrow. Here goes:

     

    I forget which episode they talked about taking Oscars away for bad performances. Eddie Redmayne....give it back! If the rest of this movie was on par with Citizen Kane it would still be unwatchable simply for his performance. Because of his wheezing my wife and I had to turn on the Closed Caption which then forced me to have to read this piece of shit in addition to watching it. If only they had a way for me to taste and smell it too I could get the full experience of what it would truly be like to live in the world that is this cinematic turd

     

    "Bees are programmed to recognize royalty"...Um, no. No, they're not. If Wills and Kate go on a picnic bees do not acknowledge their status and back off. And where would it end? Do bees obey Aretha Franklin as she is the Queen of Soul? I really want to know if Elvis was ever stung.

     

    Why did Jupiter have to pretend to be her friend Katherine, to sell her eggs?

     

    The wedding sounds similar to a Christian ceremony. Are we to believe that in all the time before and since that type of ceremony came into practice the original humans did not have their own rituals?

     

    What was the point of the hologram tattoo? Other than to introduce Terry Gilliam and have him say "my condolences" giving Jupiter doubt.

     

     

    Mila Kunis didn't react appropriately to any situation.

     

    Other ridiculous bullshit:

    • After the bees recognize her, they call her "Your Majesty" FIVE fucking times before she's even like, "Hey, why the shit are you guys calling me that?"

    Fuck. This. Movie.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    This was one of my biggest gripes. Sean Bean's daughter sincerely refers to her as "Your Majesty". If any rational person went through what Jupiter went through they would be questioning everything! At no point does she stop and go "Hold the fuck up! Tell me what the fuck is going on! ALL OF IT!" But no, this royal dolt is fine with having her entire existence explained piece-meal. She absorbed their entire legal code or some other BS in a matter of hours, minutes maybe like she was Johnny Five. Did they not have their own history in one of those space-Kindles for her?

     

    This movie might have not angered me so much if this was set in the early 1900s at the latest. Any time before we had fucking satellites looking at and spacecraft actually near Jupiter. We would notice spaceships coming and going from the planet. Do the aliens wipe the memory of every NASA and ESA employee? All of the earth?

     

    To top it off, she goes back to washing toilets and fucking a half-man/half-dog...who now has wings.

     

     

    Fuck. This. Movie.

     

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    I think the great part about this movie flatlining at the box office is that it makes the bit on "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" where Titus is happy that "There is no 'Entourage 2!'" so much more real.

     

    I wish I had something to tell a room full of people that could make them as happy as they were in this scene.

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    Holy Shit this looks amazing. The full movie came on right after the trailer. Guess I know what I'm watching tonight. Just a quick IMDB browse shows that the villain was previously on American Gladiators as "Malibu"...Yes!

     

    I was telling a neighbor about HDTGM and he pretty quickly brought up Rowdy Roddy Piper. I forget what his pick was, but I remember Body Slam from when I was really into wrestling as a kid. Even then I saw through my youthful fan-fog and realized it was a terrible terrible puddle of dog vomit.

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    This was the Grease reunion that nobody asked for. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John reunite in this abysmal rom-com involving fate, God and fallen angels who look after our two leads. By the time of its release, Travolta just put out Staying Alive earlier that year and Newton-John's last film was Xanadu so when these two came back together, the critics and audiences soundly rejected them. So please give out your thoughts about Two of a Kind!

     

    Currently available on HBOGo.

     

     

    First off...The first scene looks like the original cut of this film was damaged terribly and thus we only have a terrible quality cut to go with. That or their concept of heaven is not compatible with any attempt at color balance. Also, laziest angels ever. "There's a kid! There's a guy!" No due diligence. Think about this! God will END HUMANITY! You might want to do more research into your horse before placing the bet.

     

    Some other thoughts:

     

    What was the point of giving her giving him a fake number?

    The restaurant scene...

     

    Worse best friend tandem ever.

     

    The sexual chemistry between them is tangible. As in I can feel myself beginning to dry heave.

     

    How did she lose the part? She's been there for 8 whole months! No parts for an Australian? Shit, if there was only some way for a person to change their pronunciation and inflection and tone of their voice!

     

    Oliver Reed is a fucking marvel.

     

    I've never seen a movie where the soundtrack is the first thing listed in the credits.

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  25. Posted

    Just thought I'd put out a list for anybody looking for some films that make you ask How Did This Get Made?:

     

    (* = covered in HDTGM episode)

     

    Netflix

    Age of Dinosaurs

    *Bad Ass

    The Colony

    *Crank

    Cyborg

    Death Warrant

    G.I. Joe: Retaliation

    *In the Name of the King

    *Lake Placid

    Left Behind (CAGE ALERT!)

    Left Behind The Movie (Kirk Cameron's 2000 epic)

    *Leprechaun In the Hood

    Little Man

    *Mortal Kombat

    National Treasure (CAGE ALERT!)

    Rage (CAGE ALERT! Cage in Rage!)

    Seal Team 8

    Tracers

    Transformers: Age of Extinction

    *Trespass (CAGE ALERT!)

    Welcome to the Jungle

     

    HBOGo

    Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

    Agent Cody Banks

    Broken Arrow

    *Catwoman

    Class Act

    Cop & A Half

    *Deck The Halls

    Eragon

    *Fast & Furious 6

    Inspector Gadget

    *Jingle All The Way

    Legend Of Hercules

    The Marine

    Poseidon

    Shout

    *Stop or My Mom Will Shoot

    The Truth About Charlie

    Two of A Kind

     

    Hulu

    (note - Hulu has a TON of Asylumish movies like "Atlantic Rim" and "10.0 Earthquake". I'm listing ones with reallly shitty Rotten Tomatoes scores)

    The Chaperone

    The Colony

    Fire on the Amazon

    *Road House

    Setup

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