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  4. Posted

    I've said before, I don't think that the ratings are going to dip enough for them to stop trying to milk this series. No matter what, their bar is going to be the other shitty Asylum movies. What do these movies get like 500k viewers or so? They can swap in new leads and keep it cheap and obviously they don't have a huge special effects budget. Sharknado has to essentially get fewer viewers than their marginal shitty ironic monster movies that they continue to make.

    That makes sense.

     

    I'm probably putting too much stock in the influence of Buzzfeed but I take small comfort in the fact that the site only have 2 articles on Sharknado 3, and they are both interviews with Tara Reid and Ian Ziering. No GIF articles, and Buzzfeed post GIF articles on everything.

     

    Also, Asylum is notoriously right-wing. They even have a production division called Faith Films that puts out super-conservative religious films.

    I didn't know that. That explains EVERYTHING--the love of guns and other weapons, the disregard for logic and science, the casual contempt for animal lives, the anti-union practices.

     

    Unrelated: #SharknadoYes seems to be winning on Twitter right now. Uuuuugggghhhhh. These movies aren't "getting better," like Scott said. They're just jerking off now and seeing how intentionally bad they can make them.

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    No one on the show seems excited about doing a fourth Sharknado. To paraphrase Jason in the Lake Placid eppy, what could be more fun for the audience to hear people unenthusiastically talk about a bad movie. Let's hope when the time comes HGDTM exercise their veto power.

     

    I really hate movies that perpetuate the idea that animals are enemies to be conquered and killed.

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    Sorry, I'd like to help you (I really would), but truly, my hands are tied. This is your standard, run-of-the-mill Faustian contract; if I break the rules for you, then I have to break them for everyone. As you can imagine, this just muddies everything, and ultimately, dilutes the commodity. So sorry--no hints, no clues. (Unless, of course, I've already hidden clues...)

    (;_ ;)

     

    What can I say, people seem to like to read their sex.

    And people say reading is dead.

     

    OK, just going by what I think are the clues--most of which are leprechaun-related--here are my guesses: marijuana seller, grant writer, candy seller, copywriter...and that's all I could think of.

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  6. Posted

    Some *ahem* sharkdenfreude: Sharknado 3's ratings decreased by 30% from Sharknado 2. The number of tweets about S3 was also down.

     

    Corrections? I guess?:

     

    Scott conjectured that S3 is an environmental film. Jason said if that were the case, then Michele Bachmann would not have appeared in the movie. Not necessarily. If you change global warming to climate change and not attribute it to human activities then there's a good chance that you can convince a conservative to grudgingly acknowledge the bare minimum facts that the weather patterns now are different than before.

     

    This is my favorite pic from the episode page. Paul has been looking particularly ham ham lately.

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    "The box of Hoff bobble heads is great and all, but a cameo would be better."

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    I should also point out that the majority of the titles I worked on were erotic fiction, and although I have no problem with that per se, reading illiterate erotic novels is mind obliteratingly terrible.

     

    However, now that you have chosen to engage in my little game, I should remind you that should you fail to guess my profession in fourteen days your soul will belong to me! HAHAHAHA! Oh, did I not mention that in my previous post? Must have slipped my mind...

     

    tick-tock, tick-tock...

    OK, if the stakes is my soul, as low as that is, I want at least a clue. And non of those BS riddles doled out by sphinxes!

     

    It's fascinating that you got a lot of erotic fiction. I guess everyone wants to be the next EL James, or at least that lady who got rich from writing dino porn.

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    On a separate point, I expected them to bring up the fact that, according to IMDB, the crew was fired when they asked for a union contract, and " the majority of the film was shot with a replacement crew of unskilled technicians."

    Any verification there?

    They did, towards the end of the podcast. They described the firing of union crew and the subsequent hiring of non-union crew as "shady" and "not great." So glad that the HDTGM gang is pro-union.

     

    ETA: The union talk starts at 1:10:49.

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  9. Posted

    Then again, what do I know? I freely admit, just as I don't work in Human Resources, I don't work in the film industry either...but if anyone can guess my career within a fortnight, they are welcome to my pot of gold!

    Agree with your entire post. And now to something more fun than anything in the Sharknados...I guess that you either teach English/Writing or you are an editor.

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    I've got to say--reading through the forums--I feel like my week at the beach my have been slightly more rewarding than watching Sharknado 3, but I'll let you all decide if you think I need to go ahead and watch it before the episode comes out. Just remember, I had a fantastic time at the beach and I would hate for all the surplus chill-age I've just acquired to be squandered on an infuriating movie.

    You need to save your chill-age, Cam H., especially coming off of Isla Nublar. I don't feel that watching Sharknado 1 and 2 added to my experience of listening to the podcast. I could've saved myself the ordeal and got by with just reviews and GIFs. I doubt it's going to be different with S3. The only vaguely interesting part of S3 was George R.R. Martin's cameo, and only because I get the sense that the people involved with the movie thought it was clever but it just comes off as clumsily on-the-nose.

     

    Speaking of enduring stuff for the sake of something else, I recently suffered through S03E07 of Gilmore Girls (I didn't enjoy the show, but watched it because everybody loved it and I had a case of FOMO, only to tap out after a season and a half.) in order to follow the episode of Gilmore Guys that Jason was on. Worth it. Jason's energy on that show was different, quieter. But of course Jason being Jason, even though the topic was Gilmore Girls, there was funny sexual stuff. He also professed the controversial stance of liking Jess, even though Jess is garbage.

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    I'm sure it will come organically, kind of like how we went for over two pages talking about The Joker/Suicide Squad at the end of the Runaway thread.

    I know. I was trying to be funny. I know that this forum sometimes go off in unexpected directions. In the last 2 threads there was a titanomachy in GIFs, a few forum members were suspected of being enemies of the state, and someone went on-and-on about California rolls. What if I suggest the topic, "Tell us how many times you cried during Inside Out, this is a safe space, you big baby," but then a Doctor Strange teaser trailer comes out. Or what if Sharknado 3 is actually interesting and people take upwards of 12 pages to talk about it (LOL).

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  17. Posted

    I don't think cynical cash grabs make good HDTGM movies. I don't think there''ll be many corrections and omissions for Sharknado 3. We should think about topics to talk about when we quickly run out of things to say about Sharknado 3.

     

    But yes, I can always do with more PFT in my life. Anyone that hasn't listened to the Heynong Man CBB episode needs to go do it now. PFT + Zouks is the best.

    What makes the eppy even better for HDTGM fans are the callbacks to Lake Placid.

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    Seems odd you left out vice-president...

     

     

    Are you lobbying for the position, sixgunbuddy? If so, I'd like to hear your platform. I'll also have to insist on seeing your birth certificate

    Why are you so interested in the Cabinet of the Republic of Texas, Cameron? And so knowledgeable about our laws? It is true that in order to be a government official in the RoT, the candidate will have to produce a birth certificate, to prove that he's a native Texan and a direct descendant of the Old Three Hundred. Either you are a secret Texan or an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. No other explanations possible or entertained.

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  21. Posted

    I love avocado, but I'd be interested to try it with mango. This place I used to go to before I moved to Austin had these lobster mango rolls which were basically the best thing ever.

    I like avocado and mango! But I don't like soft creamy stuff like avocado and cream cheese in sushi and I also don't like fruits in savory dishes. I'm in despair over the salads in restaurants. Half of the salads have fruits in them and the other half are cobb salad.

  22. Posted

    According to Wikipedia, California rolls became popular across the US in the 80s. But I don't remember sushi really blowing up until the late 90s/early 00s. But then again, that's also about the time I became an adult, and I had grown up in a household that wasn't very adventurous with any sort ethnic food. So maybe I just became more aware of it then.

     

     

    https://en.wikipedia...California_roll

     

    From the wiki about California roll, "In some countries it is made with mango or banana instead of avocado." Those countries are currently under investigation by the U.N. for crimes against humanity.

     

    Your post reminded me of minisode 96.5, in which the gang talked about their food histories (starting at 30:50). June and Jason didn't have sushi until they were in college.

     

    Now 2015 we can print our own Sushi with our very own sushi machine coming to a late night tv infomercial real soon, just set it and forget it.

    That machine is making, you guessed it, California rolls!

     

    A couple of days ago I finally watched Rhinestone and one of the things I remember is that Stallone offers to take his Japanese passengers to a sushi restaurant. That movie also takes place in 1984. It was probably seen as something like a "raw fish? that sounds gross" punchline at that point.

    Oh Stallone compared eating raw fish to "walking across a field and chewing on a cow." I guess he's not a fan of steak tartare either.

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  24. Posted

    i think adam pally learned his asian accent from the sushi robot

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y-8zbQU7f8

    OMG, the squinty eyes. Racist neon sign!

     

    California roll sucks. Sushi is so commonplace nowadays that you can get them in any ol' grocery stores. But I wonder in 1984 if sushi was something still very exotic. I wonder if the the audience were supposed to think wow in the future you could get sushi so easily and that Ramsay was Mr. Sophisticated for ordering California roll.

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