EvRobert

I'm a big fan of Northanger Abbey as well

I've never seen any type of Bollywood movie/musical this should be fun

I'm still in shock that the fish princess was supposed to turn into the moon and not into a fish? what was that about? I would have never known that if I hadn't read wikipedia.

the last big budget, top to bottom trilogy with the same creative team that I can think of is The Matrix films. Now BTTF is superior in every way to the Matrix films, but they did retain the same writers/directors for three films and was wholly their vision, like it or not. there's also the three Austin Powers movies, all directed by Jay Roach, all written and produced and starring Mike Myers. Again nowhere near as good as BTTF.

I voted for the OG, the first, BTTF. It's an undeniable classic that still holds up. I recently tried to watch TEEN WOLF and that movie just drags. You keep waiting for the wolf stuff to happen, but Back To The Future, people have watched it for 30+ years and will watch it for 30 more. The other two, I love, but if I only have time for one, I watch the first one, but it is an interesting debate to have, is the series complete without parts 2 and 3? Do you canonize the trilogy or he one part of it? In a weird way, it reminds me of the (non-existent) WWE Hall of Fame. Is Ric Flair the greatest professional wrestler of all time? Probably and does deserve to be there, does he deserve to be in as a singles wrestler AND as a member of a stable? Arguable, even if that stable (the Four Horsemen) is probably the greatest most influential stable of all time. Back To The Future certainly deserves to be in the Canon. Do parts two and three? MAYBE. BTTF does deserve props for being a trilogy, that stayed a trilogy, worked on by the same creative staff. Very few series can claim that (Nolan's Batman, Rami's Evil Dead? But even that has a remake, even if it was grandfathered by Rami, so maybe ED doesn't count). And parts 2 & 3 are GOOD films, but do they deserve to be in the canon for being good enough to not sully a great part one?

I should be free

well to be fair to Steven Weber he was only a year or two away from Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip...

I can't disagree that about 20 minutes could have been shaved off the movie. I've never seen the stage version, so I don't know how faithful the movie is to the stage version, but I would assume that it doesn't seem as long on stage because you'd have a 10-20 minute intermission to grab a smoke, a drink, stretch your legs, etc. that you don't get when you're watching this on the screen.

As I mentioned, I as considering this for my next pick. This is such a weird strange musical that pays homage to classic musicals (the opening number mentions that the drama club performed Green Grows The Lilacs, which is the play that the musical Oklahoma! is based on, there's that great switch from black and white to color which to me invokes The Wizard of Oz) while playing up the "scare movies" of the 30s (i.e. the original black and white Reefer Madness). Really looking forward to talking about this with ya'll.

Challenge accepted!

I've been waiting for someone to do this

I have memories of VHS tapes with "Stay tuned after the movie for upcoming releases"

I remember in the late 90s/early 2000s, my little town I grew up in (about 6000 people) opened up a second movie theater, and they started doing local ads. You know "shop Ma & Pa's Corner Grocery" "For a great burger go to Al's Drive-In" and then it became a Coke commercial with the "trivia questions" (Batman's sidekick is...) with a coke commercial, then BMW or something along with coke and so on and so on. Now all I see are national commercials.

I loved, LOVED Iron Eagle growing up. I liked it more then Top Gun when I was a wee EvRobert

Paul mispronounces your name? (this mini had my first C&O and Paul called me "eve roberts" it's EV Robert

My first C&O! And Paul mispronounced my name!

If I was Neve Campbell, I'd just claim Bruce Campbell was my brother

Bruce?

Watch The Good Place. A) The Good Place is Amazing Kristen Bell is Amazing in it

DUDE! I was ready to pick this myself. I'm SO excited. Steven Webber Alan cumming Kristen Bell Ana Gasteyer Neve Campbell I'm bouncing off the walls

What ep of the podcast was she on? I am drawing a blank

I’ll admit that I had this reaction when a 30 y/o co-worker told me he had never seen any Star Wars movies

I realized where I knew Lexa Doig from, she was Talia Al Ghul (daughter of Ra's Al Ghul and lover of Batman--NERD ALERT!) on Arrow last season. Which connects to Paul's reference of a spaceship on a CW show since the connected to Arrow show, Legends of Tomorrow, which does feature a spaceship

I just want to add that Todd Farmer, the writer of Jason X (also Drive Angry and the My Bloody Valentine 3D! remake) also acted in this. Not only did he act in it, but he took the role of DALLAS! So Todd Farmer named a character after Tom Skerrit in Alien and then took the role himself.

OMG Zouks was on The Good Place? I've been waiting for this.