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Greg T

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  1. I'd have to say this falls somewhere between the self aware intentional bad movie ala Velocipastor and the clueless choices made in Governor Gabbi. At one point it was available to buy on Amazon for $1 million, but now it is free with Amazon Prime.
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    Night of the Living Dead

    I have to agree with Paul that this would totally work as a play and take it a step further. My first experience with Night of the Living Dead was actually watching a stage company do it as an audio play as part of their "Midnight Radio" series. To be clear, they were on stage, but all we were watching was them reading the script and doing sound effects. Even in that medium it works really well, and I think it's largely because it's not so much about the zombies as it is about the people reacting to them. And yes, I absolutely voted yes on this. Among zombie films, I would say Shaun of the Dead is the only one that stands up as its equal, but Shaun can only exist because of what Night of the Living Dead created.
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    Episode 252 - Governor Gabbi

    There is one scene that shows the actual breakdown of the votes and Gabbi received 51% to 48% for the runner up and just 1% for third place. That means she didn't just win a close election in which no one had any interest in either candidate. Among the people who voted for someone they actually heard of, one candidate must have been so beloved that they had almost universal bipartisan support. Gabbi winning was arguably an injustice to the people who were paying attention to state politics.
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    Episode 252 - Governor Gabbi

    I assumed she meant she was taking away the government -owned vehicles from the other officials, not that everyone in the state would be required to ride the bus.
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    Governor Gabbi -- Post-Movie Survey

    Even Tommy Wiseau would be embarrassed by this.
  6. Not only did he heal in 36 hours, he had coordinated the sock underneath the cast with the one on his other foot and the giant one over the top.
  7. I hate to agree with June on this one, but in the end Kelly really didn't contribute anything to saving the building. Once the city decided to pull out of the deal selling to the developer, the 30 day time limit to raise the funds is meaningless. Even if Kelly's parents didn't write a check, Miracles could start doing whatever work they could afford while continuing to raise funds because it is clear that the city will not be rushing to tear it down. Also, if the city was in a position to pull out of the deal, that means the property had not yet officially been condemned and sold to the developer, so it seems that the plan was to destroy city property before it was even purchased.
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    Ep. 249 — Deadly Mile High Club

    With the exception of some high performance military jets, planes are designed to be inherently stable. Turning off the autopilot wouldn't send the plane into a sudden roll or make it pitch back and forth like a fishing boat in a rough sea. It would just mean it wouldn't adjust course for wind gusts. Granted on one of the passes of Tanya's head, the plane's jet engine noise transforms into the sound of a World War 1 biplane's piston engine, so it's almost like they actively tried to be inaccurate.
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    Ep. 249 — Deadly Mile High Club

    The investors in Santa Barbara would never accept her paying Jake more money.
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    Episode 247 - 2:22 (Live in Portland)

    Another good one is a racing documentary called "1" that looks back to the most dangerous era in grand prix racing and the efforts made to improve the almost nonexistent safety features of 1960s racing.
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    Episode 247 - 2:22 (Live in Portland)

    I know Dylan thought he saw the day he died, but he really saw the day everyone missed their train. The movie showed the train on the board as being scheduled for 2:22, so it should be just about ready to pull away from the platform as they all mill about in the Great Hall. Also did the aerial ballet have 2 superhuman performers or was it only like 15 minutes long? I have trouble believing 2 acrobats would have the physical stamina to extend a 10 minute circus act into a 90 minute show.
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    Episode 246 - Swordfish: LIVE!

    Realistically the car should have already stalled when Travolta does the handbrake turn and stops. It's not like anyone is pressing on the clutch. It would be a surprise that Jackman could even get it into neutral to start it then find 1st gear.
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    Episode 246 - Swordfish: LIVE!

    Why do they even bother to spread the stolen money evenly over 5 accounts? It would be understandable if they split it over hundreds of accounts, but $1.9 billion deposits are going to raise red flags just as quickly as a $9.5 billion lump sum.
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    Episode 246 - Swordfish: LIVE!

    This movie isn't really good with money. When Ginger gives the hacker the cash, we can clearly see there is only 4 packs of bills each marker $10,000, yet Ginger says it's $100,000. At the other extreme, in order for $400 million to grow to $9.5 billion in 15 years, it would have to collect interest at an average annual rate of 23%. If it grew at the actual rate of inflation, it would have ended out around $650 million.
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    Episode #245 - Money Plane

    When it comes to the premise of the Money Plane as a flying casino in international airspace, there is, surprise, surprise, a fatal flaw. Every aircraft flying internationally is required to be registered to a particular country. If that aircraft is in a nation's airspace, the nation it is flying over has jurisdiction, but if it is over international waters the nation the plane is registered to has jurisdiction. Of course, none of that matters since the major criminals boarding the plane would all be rounded up in the airport since Money Plane apparently has it's own gate at a commercial airport.
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    Episode 242 - The Boyfriend School

    Not only does he go along with a clearly manipulative plan, he sleeps with a woman who isn't actually giving consent to Gus. This goes beyond fluffing up your image to get with someone. He knows, or at least has reason to believe, she wouldn't sleep with him if she knew who he was and still goes for it.
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    Episode 242 - The Boyfriend School

    The dance they were doing was supposed to be the Shag, which people have been doing in the Carolinas since the 1940s. Of course, there version of the dance was about as accurate as the Southern accents that no main characters bothered with despite apparently being born and raised around Charleston. If it wasn't for a couple minor characters, this could have been Chicago.
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    Episode 240: Megaforce LIVE from Montreal!

    On the subject of the "Nazi guy," I think it was actually supposed to be a Soviet agent sent to provide propaganda as part of a deal to fund the warlord. That would be why he insisting that he has to finish reading before the attack.
  19. Am I the only one that finds the very existence of Alpha to be depressing? I mean we start out with a space station that is meant to bring about harmony among nations and when it gets too big we just jettison it and all of its inhabitants out into deep space with no hope of ever returning. Is there no need to keep the scientists and engineers that would be occupying such a station around or was it serving no direct purpose at all? Second, as beautiful as the planet Mul was, there is clearly a horrifying monster species living on that world. Giant seashells don't exist without giant mollusks to produce them. With very little vegetation, there must be carnivorous snails weighing several tons roaming around in search for food.
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    Driven (2001)

    The fan of bad movies in me wants to see this again. The racing fan in me wants to vomit a little in my mouth as it gets every wrong in the most absurd ways possible.
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    The People Under the Stairs (1991)

    I'd love to see this movie get done, but it would even be better if the TV dubbed version could be found. Nothing like Ving Rhames yelling "Shucks!" as a dog attacks him.
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    American Psycho 2 (2002)

    My understanding is that this didn't start out as a sequel to American Psycho at all. The scenes at the beginning of the film were added into the script when the studio decided to tie the two films together.
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    Cats (2019)

    It's a bad movie in the sense that even without the glaring mistakes in the CGI, the characters often don't feel like they are actually in the scene somehow, especially when tap dancing. There's also the issue of Idris Elba's cat being nightmare fuel when he ditches the coat and hat. Otherwise, I agree that it is a pretty fun movie to watch if you go in knowing that there is no real plot.
  24. I realize there obviously is an evil plan to turn boys into donkeys, but given that there isn't the slightest hint of that for the first hour or anything that suggests any characters know of it, why is Lorenzini presented as a villain? His evil plan at the start of the film is to go to a puppet maker and....buy a puppet to put on a show for kids in a theater? When that fails his plan is to massively overpay for the puppet and keep an old man out of prison? If anything, the sentient block of wood that, in an effort to save inanimate objects, sets fire to a theater full of children is the problem character at that point of the film.
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