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  4. Posted

    One counter someone mentioned was, "what about LOTR? They were all directed by Peter Jackson and they have his creative DNA all over them." While I think this is a valid point, they were also based on a huge best-selling trilogy. I'm trying to think of the last top-to-bottom big budget trilogy that retained the same writer/director throughout its entire course. In the episode I post that it's the BTTF trilogy, but I'm open to counterarguments on this.

     

    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.

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    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?

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    I really dig this flick. I agree that the movie goes on just a bit longer than it should, but most musicals feel that way to me. But at some point, it just starts to feel like an extended fantasy scene from That 70's Show. Still, I laughed a lot and the music was decent.

     

    Random notes:

     

    1. Were we really still giving Steven Weber a shot in 2005? I thought we'd cashed in by now ...

    2. It dawned on me while watching this that I've never disliked Kristen Bell in anything I've seen her in. (Full disclosure: I've never seen Veronica Mars, but The Good Place is forking awesome. But does anyone remember her crazy, over-the-top character in Deadwood? Where she's so crazy that the other characters are all like, "I know she's only been around for a couple of days, but it's clear that she's nuts ... we should just go ahead and kill her, right?") Anyway, I thought she was great in this.

    3. I want a gif of Ana Gasteyer covered in blood ripping out Steven Weber's heart. Somebody please make it for me.

    4. Alan Cumming is EVERYWHERE!

    5. I LOVE when the electric chair is played for laughs, like in Bugs Bunny or The Green Mile.

    6. The whole town would've gotten so high when Jimmy torched those weed plants.

     

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Impressive research, Ryan.

     

    I'm still crossing my fingers for Lou Gossett Jr., who immediately followed up his Oscar winning performance in "Officer and a Gentleman" with an unending stream of appearances in D-level schlock (Enemy Mine excepted).

     

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

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    I cringed at that question soliciting advice in the event her kid doesn't like her entertainment. The answer is, "Don't be so precious about your entertainment."

     

    Those are the same people who freak out when you admit you haven't seen their favorite movie/TV show/whatever. The adult response in those situations is, "It's great, I think you'd like it," not, "OH MY GOD WHAAAAAAT-"

     

    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

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    Jason X became a personal horror movie for me because when Lexa Doig appeared on screen I thought she looked familiar. I checked IMDB and saw Andromeda. I had completely forgotten about the existence of that show and I'd say I watched at least half the episodes. Normally something like that would jog my memory and I'd remember bits and pieces. This time there was nothing. I can't recall and single character name or story line or anything at all about it. So watching Jason X was an undeniable marker of my cognitive decline.

     

    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

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    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.

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