NathanGordon

All the Leonard Maltin talk is making me miss the Leonard Maltin Game from Doug Loves Movies. That podcast just hasn't been the same since they stopped playing that as the centerpiece.

I don't understand why comic book movies never have cool comic book covers for posters. I mean, there's decades to choose from. That Wonder Woman poster is well designed I guess, but pretty unimaginative and forgettable. Why not one of these: Seriously, there's over 70 years worth of these. They should be playing up the patriotism angle, at least in the US -- it hasn't stopped Captain America from being extremely successful. I'm hoping against hope it turns out good; the odds aren't good right now. I'm not so jazzed about Chris Pine as a love interest. Why do we even need a love interest? Is he going to get fridged? (Yes).

I think it has more to do with Mike Love selling out the Beach Boys for anyone offering a nickel.

I'm just here for the cat pics.

You missed out on a terrific cup of hot cocoa! Probably had those little marshmallows in it, for that price.

How could you have never seen Cabaret? Next you're gonna tell me you've never seen All That Jazz!

Huh, he's a good writer -- Near Dark and Cohen & Tate are excellent films. The Hitcher, too.

The director is actually an Iranian named Jahangir Salehi, and he died in 2007. I'm assuming someone at the Alamo Drafthouse (probably Zack Carlson, also responsible for bringing us Miami Connection) bought the rights from Salehi just before he died and decided to change the director's name to "John Rad" for maximum ironic sales potential. This is an unfinished film that was hastily edited together to make Drafthouse fodder for hungry good-bad movie audiences. The marketing for this just rubs me the wrong way -- nothing smells funnier than when ironic "bad" films are forced. It's the same reason why The Room or Birdemic were lighting in a bottle, one time events.

It's pretty straightforward, they're joking about telling dudes they sleep with how huge and amazing their dicks are. This movie is fucking hilarious, even though it is kinda just a lady version of a bro sex comedy -- but considering there's like one of these for every thousand American Pie/Porky's/Blowjob Summer Camp/etc, it's fine by me.

I recently bought this DVD a third time -- it's well worth watching with the commentary by David Schmader. This movie is just fucking crazy. Every single person working on it, from the director to the actors to the wardrobe department, is making the worst possible decision at every point of the film. There's no other way to explain scenes like this: I can't be bothered to find the minisode now, but I swear that Paul said they were doing this film after the break they took last fall.

Oh, I agree, but I just think given the choice between a movie CBB alumni worked on and literally any other film, they'd opt for something else.

It kind of makes sense when you consider that the game and movie were apparently developed at the same time -- the first level of the game is the restaurant.

Cowritten by our own Scotty Auks! Or at least, he was hired to write jokes and "punch up" after the fact. So I think we can safely say it'd never happen.

Well it's not the worst movie I've ever seen but did yo--

YES! CHOPPING MALL IS THE SHIT! Don't forget "Parmestan", from Gymkata!

If it makes you feel any better, in the comics Lady Deathstrike (and friends!) end up literally crucifying Wolvie and leaving him in the Australian desert for days/weeks/who knows. Jubilee actually then makes her debut and nurses him back aaaand that's about when I stopped reading X-Men because I was 14 and started buying weed. I mean Bryan Singer screwed up LOTS of things in those movies and is laying his weird rapey chauvinism on top of comics that are not on super progressive ground all the time (or clumsily so). Speaking of which, I'm surprised there wasn't a Surf Ninjas comic book; 1993 would have been ripe for that. This is SURF NINJAS, not CANOE NINJAS, duh. On the other hand, during their "motosurfing" they're using paddles -- like a canoe! There's never any callback to that, despite the film kinda beating it into the viewer for several minutes.

Good eye! Columns was the bundled game for the Sega Game Gear when you bought the system. It was originally an arcade game and appeared on most Sega consoles. It's sort of like Tetris, but not really -- the aim is to match blocks by color instead of mixing shapes to create lines. Incidentally, the Game Gear is notorious for being a battery hungry system -- it used six(!) AA batteries to run for only 1-3 hours. That kid must have packed a lot of Duracells on the trip to Patusan.

So it appears that the game in the movie is indeed the same one, although a bunch of the scenes shown are different -- there is no octopus selection in restaurant level, for example. It gets kinda meta because you're playing the game within the game . The developers of the Surf Ninjas game went on to make a Beavis & Butthead game and a Motley Crue pinball game before being bought by EA sometime in the 2000s.

Kinda meh on this movie. It really loses steam when they get to Thailand -- it feels like the movie sort of ends at around the 1:00:00 mark. What was the point of Tone Loc's character? There's two musical numbers in this and he appears in neither of them. Most infuriating thing for me was the kid and his Sega game during the restaurant fight; he selects an octopus on his game and says "octopus!", then grabs an octopus from the tank, then says "eat SQUID". You just told and showed us that it was an octopus!

Announced today: http://variety.com/2017/film/news/2017-oscar-nominations-academy-awards-nominees-1201968107/

VLC Media Player (Windows or Android) has a speed function -- immensely useful for these films. I find that 1.25x speed becomes "normal" quite quickly. Never was in question, it's a stone classic. Space Jam is only ironically good-bad, but quite interesting to compare how much better the mix of live action and cel animation is in Roger Rabbit.

You have to admit; the popularity index thing is pretty prescient! Even though it wasn't explored in as nuanced a way as the Black Mirror episode did, it was still a concept ahead of its time. There's something so fundamentally trivial about sports that makes people have a complete lack of imagination when making one up. Like, "yeah, it's rugby or something, but on skates, in the future -- ahh, fuck it". Back when the first Harry Potter books were coming out in the US, I couldn't even believe how much of the book's real estate was devoted to something JK Rowling had clearly overestimated reader interest in. Futuresport though, they could do a whole episode just on Wesley Snipes' performance.

Jeez Cam, I know you have a child, but do you ever sleep? I worry about you! Me on the other hand, I have no excuse.

Makes perfect sense why it's done that way, but I'm surprised a mix-up on this scale hasn't happened before. You couldn't have written a stranger ending! Dunaway: "La La Land wins!" Beatty: "Get in the car, quick!"

Spoke too soon! Emma Stone, quite an upset imho. And I have no idea what just happened during the award for best picture, but apparently Moonlight won amidst confusion bordering on complete disarray.