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To go along with that supercut I would like a supercut of all of Judd Nelson's satisfied smirks.

A restaurant run out of her house. I think Steel 2 will be Grandma Steel vs. The Zoning Board.

I am having trouble figuring out a time issue with this movie. The listed running time of Steel is 97 minutes. And I am sure that scene of Shaq chasing the robber through the train yard was 45 minutes long. So did the rest of the movie take place over just 52 minutes? That doesn't seem possible. Confusing!

I was happy to hear how on board Howard and Ku are with Nathan For You. My favorite show right now.

Loved the talking raccoons. And that made me recall this all time classic Dinosaur Comics strip. http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=492

I think that what the movie actually wants us to believe is that Zero Cool has an innate hacking gift and if he got magically transported to the year 2323 he would be hacking those systems in under a minute.

Yes at one point he makes a bitchy statement about not having a lawn. When his character seems like the last person on Earth who would care about that.

Here are a few random notes of things that didn't get mentioned in the (hilarious) episode. Zero Cool's defense lawyer didn't even get a chance to make a closing statement at his trial. It went straight from the prosecutor to the judge dropping the hammer. I wish they had thrown in a quick statement that Zero Cool was going to be put into a detention center in the UK for a few years (make up a reason like the UK doesn't have the internet) so his accent could be explained away. Johnny Lee Miller was typing so painfully slow in the TV station hacking contest scene. I think later the director figured out to tell him "Just throw your fingers at the keyboard don't worry about actually typing the right words." Regarding the sprinklers on in the school prank. I have never designed a sprinkler system but I don't think I'd ever put in the option for a timed sprinkler test which, at best, will cause thousands of dollars worth of water damage. This movie would have had no plot if The Plague had "emptied the Recycle Bin" of the Gibson.

Some notes on the DaVinci virus. The movie seems to put forward that The Plague came up with the virus as a reaction to Joey stealing the garbage file. I would say him whipping that up in a few hours is the most impressive thing in the movie. Even more impressive is he took the time to program in for it to say "Help Me" when it was being destroyed. And finally I am sure that everyone involved was glad that he put leaves over the junk so it is more modest than the real Vitruvian Man. Hackers are known for being a very prudish group.

Unimportant correction: Gibson was the brand of supercomputer (like Cray supercomputer in real life). That is why it was a big deal to "hack a Gibson" The company that The Plague worked for was a made up oil company called Ellingson. I did think while watching this movie about how much sentiment has changed in 20 years regarding the oil companies. Now I think someone whose plan it was to steal millions from an oil company would be considered a somewhat sympathetic character.

It never dawned on me that this was supposed to take place any time other than 1986. They gave the ESA a shuttle and made up the Nerva engine but that was it. No other indication that it wasn't the mid-80s. Also Halley's Comet coming in 1986 was a big deal. People were excited about it and I am sure this movie was made purely to cash in on that excitement. Edit: I thought about this some more and I wonder if the original script even had anything to do with Halley's Comet. It may not have but then when they were actually getting ready to film it was getting close to the comet coming and they figured they could take advantage of that. So initially maybe it was supposed to be more in the future but when they decided to include the comet they got locked into 1986.

Yeah I assume it was something like that. I just thought the explanation was funny.

I guess we are just supposed to assume that Caine got in touch with NATO in time. But I think there is a pretty good chance a nuke was hitting London as the credits were rolling.

I think the 3 vampires from the ship are fundamentally different. I don't think any of the victims on Earth became space vampires. It is more like they turned into energy zombies. But they were not and would never be the same as the vampires from the ship. In many vampire stories a vampire has to choose to make their bite victim a vampire. Otherwise they are just food.

In fairness to the hosts the ESA never had a shuttle program so they didn't have anything like what appeared in the movie.

And now to turn the criticism to Paul himself for a second. June couldn't make the episode because she was filming. Check. But that is also why the episode dropped late? This is Lifeforce level reasoning.

I'd say my biggest problem with this movie which they didn't talk about is that because the plot is so incomprehensible there is A LOT of exposition. That maybe wouldn't be so bad if most of it wasn't coming out of the mouth of the movie's worst actor. I thought Carlsen was worse than Caine. Although I won't fight anyone over that.

I am very glad the guys brought up the reactions. My thought while watching the movie was that (conservatively) 15% of the movie's running time was made up of non-verbal reaction shots.

$225,000 has got to be the funniest dollar amount in podcast history.

Good question. But when he showed it off that is when Michael knew he was the right man for the job.

The end credits should have rolled immediately following this.

The absolute best thing in this movie was the command line interface for the computer (start a command with 'please'). I wasn't the first to point it out though so credit where it is due.

Most of this movie has really airtight logic. But the death of Tom the crooked lawyer at the end made no sense. He was in the sauna to have sex with the blonde grocery delivery girl and his face just fell apart. There was no mechanism for his death whatsoever.

David is introduced in the movie as the creep in the control room spying on and screwing with the gym members. When he is leering at the bench presser and says "Here is something even I can't improve upon." the security camera footage they are watching is the actual film footage from two minutes earlier in the movie.

I agree some kind of tweak is needed to up the guest time. Mixing in new types of charts is definitely a good idea though. Howard was killing it throughout the TV chart. How many Kremer Moments have been lost lo these many years due to unexplored charts?