CaptainAmazing

Two other reasons why I haven't switched to non-physical media that I thought of: Cost and simplicity. Cost is simple: A lot of these movies I bought from a $5 DVD bin years ago (still especially proud of getting Jurassic Park that way in about 2013 before the price spiked with Jurassic World). Other than re-purchasing my movies outright on digital at maybe $10 each, the only option I know of is Vudu has this pretty cool thing where you can scan your DVDs at home and then buy the digital versions for $2-$5 each, with just a couple of smallish catches, like Disney won't allow their movies to be included. But at about 100 DVDs, that's still more than I'm willing to spend. Plus Vudu is probably the most likely non-obscure streaming service to go the way of Walmart's iTunes knockoff (which, BTW I can't even find the name of on Google). Other annoyance would be simplicity. Some movies are cheaper on one service, others on another. Plenty of discs nowadays come with a free digital copy to a single streaming service, and you don't get to pick which one. So you're either going to pay a little bit more to get all of your movies on one service, or you're going to have to hop back and forth between them, sometimes hunting for a movie that you can't remember what service it's on. Granted, the majority of your movies will probably be with your favorite service, but not all. IIRC, the purpose of UltraViolet was to create a unified portal to have them all in one place, but we know how that went. Disney's MoviesAnywhere may or may not eventually take up that role if the other studios go along with it. Also, I guess this is just me, but I can count on zero fingers all the times that I was out somewhere and really wished I could watch a specific movie that I owned at home. I can certainly imagine being on vacation or something and wanting to see a specific movie that I own, but it has yet to happen. Maybe if I had kids and an iPad. There's also the small side issue of movies from Apple will only work on Apple devices, and the others (Google, Amazon, and Walmart's Vudu) are owned by pretty evil corporations. And Apple's really no saint anyhow. But really, none of the studios are that squeaky clean to begin with.

In your example, is the 3-star rating out of five? 3 stars out of 4 getting 75% sounds dead on to me. From what I understand (read: vaguely remember from a 538 article about three years ago), the main difference between Metacritic and RT is that RT sorts everything into "fresh" (positive) and "rotten" (negative) scores, while Metacritic is a tiny bit more nuanced with a third category that basically "mixed review."While there are of course more than three scores a movie can get, it's still a better system than RT. Or am I missing a point? I guess the only way to make a perfect system would be to take something that can make a separate category for every possible rating (0 stars, 0.5 stars, 1 star, etc.) in every commonly used rating system (0-4 stars, 0-5 stars, 0.5-5 stars, A+-F, A+F-, etc.) and that sounds hard. Plus you'd have a hard time finding out if their system bottoms out at zero or something like 0.5 instead. And you'd run into problems like an automated system not knowing the difference between a zero-star rating and a review without a rating.

A few years ago while re-watching the six then-existing Star Wars movies in the run up to TFA, I got to thinking about the streaming vs. physical media debate. Particularly about how my Original Trilogy Special Edition VHS tapes were now worthless, and maybe I should be worried about my DVD collection as well. Asked in a geeky group that I'm in on Facebook what they thought about the physical media vs. streaming debate, and every single response anyone else made was pro-disc/anti-streaming. A lot of that was because the places that you buy streaming movies on technically still control them in a sense, and your movies could be lost if they ever shut down or just decide a few years from now that you need to buy them again to keep watching them. Only way that could ever happen with discs is a very strict firmware update for disc players that includes DRM, and good luck getting one of those onto my bargain basement Blu-ray player with no Internet connectivity. I haven't owned a gaming console since 2010, so that's not a concern for me. Also, the death of UltraViolet had me thinking that people weren't purchasing movies on steaming anymore, just watching whatever was on streaming services. That said, half the articles on UV's closing give me that impression, and half of them are PR doublespeak that make my head hurt.

Just finished finally getting around to unpacking and organizing my DVD/Blu-ray collection after a move and finally also integrating in a bunch of movies from my sister's boyfriend that he no longer wanted, so I'm feeling especially qualified for this one. My movies are alphabetical, and the one exception is when it's a series. Sometimes I ran into the same problems as everyone else with how to categorize a series. Led to a Mel Brooks 3-pack of History of the World Pt. 1, Young Frankenstein, and Spaceballs going under "M." I think I've also decided that movies that start with "A" should have the "A" ignored, just like it's customary to do with "The." Also, the collection is really heavily biased towards titles that are further up in the alphabet. The halfway point is only up to about G or H. Must be because producers were worried about theaters that list movies alphabetically or something. Had a roommate in college that kept all of his individual discs to two giant CD binder cases, but also sorted them alphabetically. Also had an entire separate smaller one for movies that he had gotten semi-recently and hadn't yet had the chance to move everything down a slot for yet. Genre may have worked better for him. There was also this awkward moment where he flunked out and was gradually moving out and had already taken one binder home. This meant that the other roommate and I could borrow any movie of his we wanted, so long as the title began with a letter that came earlier in the alphabet than G. Had an ex who had something like 1,200 movies and sorted them in several shelves of varying sizes around her living room, I wanna say by genre.

I read Nathan Rabin's writeup of this, and it's honestly even more racist than it sounds. As unbelievably terrible/bonkers this movie is, it's so racist that I don't think it deserves the free publicity/revenue that this podcast would give it. Maayyyybe several years down the line when it can't benefit from them as much.

Yeah, that also makes sense. Maybe it's both? But yeah, RT launched in 1998, and the reviews from before they launched and right when they first launched are two totally different animals. Basically: Post-2000: Literally any review that they can find, from sources as lauded as major publications, right down to bloggers that are just a tiny tick above using a free WordPress site. Pre-2000 (Becomes more true the farther back you go): 30% critics giving orgasmic reviews to the kind of classic movies they do on Unspooled, just because they want to. 50% reviews from when something was first re-released on DVD or Blu-Ray. 5% modern reviews from critics of lesser-known or cult movies that they just wanted to do 15% archived reviews from top-level critics and/or major publications from when a movie first came out

I think they definitely mean critic scores. That's what I say it should be as well. Audience scores are garbage, and are especially susceptible to toxic fandoms and even the occasional round of vote-brigading. AFAIK, they finally fixed that "early-voting" problem after the Captain Marvel snafu. Looking at their main page right now, there doesn't seem to be an audience score for anything that isn't already in sneak previews. Agree that the audience score is garbage in general though. There's a reason why "Second Opinions" is one of the best segments on the show.

I feel like the "Came out in your adult life post-2000" has the obvious flaw of "Assuming that you're a certain age, but not even making it clear what age that is." So until I hear an argument for a better age, let's just replace that one with "Came out in your adult life post age 20." I'm picking 20 because I don't feel like my judgment was fully formed until at least that age.

My thoughts after reading the thread and watching the trailer: -Why haven't they had Nathan Rabin, the author of the Onion AV Club article on this, on the show yet? He's pretty much the world's foremost authority on the subject of terrible movies. Plus he has plenty of podcast experience. -I saw the title around randomly a few times and was 100% convinced that it was a Disney imitator B-movie from the 1950s until I came into this thread. That's just what it sounds like. -I laughed pretty damn hard at the way the cat's mouth moves. It's like an entry-level editor did that in five minutes using the same editing program that the basic cuts for the rest of the movie were done with. Speaking as a video professional, I could have done that in college and still gotten the syncing better. -Surprised nobody's talked about the titles in the trailer yet. They're in powder-blue Comic Sans, there's waayyy too many of them, and sometimes they screw up very basic capitalization. The whole trailer is really like a below-average teenage kid tried to throw together something for YouTube.

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Yeah, and the first one also has the added bonus of Mel Gibson in a more-or-less pre-fame role.

Also, the Michael Jackson song “Billie Jean” came out two years before this movie. Either they had only written the script and didn’t care enough to change it, or they consciously hoped to steal from its popularity a little.

I’ve actually defended Spider-Man 3 on these forums before. No matter how many times they said it, it was not a “franchise killer.” Raimi wanted more time to do a fourth one and the studio wouldn’t (couldn’t?) give it to him. Also, the infamous dancing sequence was meant to show that Parker was tragically unhip, that trying to be cool didn’t fit him in the slightest, and that the symbiote made him into something that he wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong, it has a lot of flaws and I haven’t seen it in ages, but the movie has a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, which sounds about right. It’s really not on the level of the terrible movies that HDTGM is supposed to be about.

I saw about 3/4 of this on VHS back in the day and couldn’t believe how bad it was, partly because of how many times sitcoms had done the “Faustian bargain” plot when they were totally out of ideas (only one I can remember anymore is the The Mask animated series). It was actually doing it even more poorly than them. Also, his absurd level of shyness + infatuation with that girl is so high that it passes comedy and is just weird and creepy. Not gonna lie, this movie is so bad that I later assumed/misremembered it as starring Rob Schneider.

I mean, I’m sure she is, but that watermark kinda makes her look like part of the Borg.

Everyone reading this needs to watch that Cage cameo. That fake nose is so bizarre that it takes away from the incredibly long pointless laugh.

Does it matter that they did another movie with the same title during their recent East Coast tour?

Starting to wonder if Apple just deletes the ones that it knows I’ve finished.

So I went to the Durham show and it managed to even beat my high expectations, but there was no special guest. Granted, I’ve realized that no guest is definitely better than a bad guest, because the regular hosts know how the show works (and each other) so well. Are they just not doing guests for this tour, or did something happen to the particular guest for that night? An interview with Paul in a local indie paper suggested that there was going to be one, but that their identity was under wraps. Hopefully I’m not breaking any forum rules by posting this really minor episode spoiler. Oh, and if they’ve taken up a policy of dropping guests who didn’t actually watch the movie, then more power to them.

Not 100% sure because I haven’t done it myself, but Jason made some offhand comment during the Durham show about “I hope you’re coming to meet & greet,” which implies that it happens afterwards. I’m surprised that there aren’t more details with your tickets.

Was a fan of the show as a kid, which I later learned was usually pretty formulaic. Saw the movie as a tween, and I could probably list everything I remember about it: -Gadget was a security guard who wanted to be a cop and got severely injured in a “wacky” accident involving a bowling ball that he had rolling loose in his car while chasing the bad guys. Someone with the necessary resources found him to be the permanent candidate to give the Six Million Dollar Man treatment to. -A gag heavily featured in the trailers where he was making out with a girl and his being turned on makes a rocket fire out of him. Turns out that was just a sequence in his imagination and didn’t even “really” happen in the movie. -He uses a ridiculous number of magnifying glasses to finally read “SI” on a small clue, and then asks for a Spanish translation. A robotic voice from his gadgets says “‘Si’ means yes.” Probably the best gag in the whole movie. -I think I maaaybe remember that being followed up with a scene where he’s riding in a car trying to figure out what “SI” is and a giant truck goes past him with the answer on it and he doesn’t put it together. -Oh, and Penny is in it. I can’t even remember if the dog is in it or not.

Whelp, there were actually at least two babies in the show, although Jason didn’t actually hold either one.

So I have tickets to the Durham show this weekend, and of course, I am psyched! I’ve heard plenty of live shows, but have never been to one, or actually any discussion-based podcast. I’ve read on this forum that there’s a lot more going on at the live show than what makes it into the final podcast. What else can I expect at a live HDTGM show that I wouldn’t know from the podcast itself?

I feel like the chances of this happening now that he’s been convicted are pretty much nil. Too bad, as it looks like it would have been a good one. Mayyyyybe several years down the road, but we’ll see.