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    10 minutes ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    Okay, at one point Jerry Orbach leaves his office with the woman cop to go discuss something, leaving Gnorm with the other skeevy rival detective (Kaminsky) to watch him. Then Gnorm escapes and Kaminsky is behind the desk . . . naked? Why did either he or Gnorm take his clothes off? I can think of several potential explanations for this, all of them disturbing.

    Such a great omission. Pair this with Gnorm’s ability to make people fall asleep...I think he might be a predator. Should we be nervous for that pooka back home? I pray they didn’t film scenes of the (alleged) assault on Kominsky. 

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    5 hours ago, Doctor Suessicide said:

    Also, while making that compilation I noticed Gnorm's kryptonite: glass doors. Bullets are no big deal, but two of his escapes are foiled by transparent bonk walls.

    I thought about this too! He’s smart enough to trick the guy into falling asleep but has no clue about glass doors?

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    How did he get Gnorm into the cage seemingly without feeling or looking at him? He was shocked when he got it back to his house and got a clear look - but he had to pick Gnorm off the floor, load it into the cage, carry the cage against his body, load it in his car, load it OUT of his car and walk it into the house. Not a peek? That entire time?

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    8 hours ago, ChunkStyle said:

    I 100% agree with Jason the joke about commandeering the hearse was very funny.  It got me thinking that we need some kind of Hollywood Joke Clearinghouse where they can gather up the truly great jokes from otherwise bad or just unseen movies and give them to new movies in the future.

    Once of my favorite little things in the movie was early on when Zadar was whisper dictating to Reggie who was on the phone with the cops each line Zadar said got quieter until at the end he just mouthed "have a nice day" without vocalizing at all.  It was such a weird and funny choice.

    Anthony Michael Hall's car had a custom license plate that said OYNK.  Is that his way of joking about being a cop?

     

    Just like Jason, I laughed out loud at the CPR attempt on the corpse. It was so smart, and completely surprising. I’m laughing again just remembering it. 

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  8. Posted

    When the nutcracker left on Christmas Eve, didn't the card say "See you next year"? I swear it did, and at the end of the movie all I kept thinking was how awkward things were going to be....or how amazing for MJH.  I need that sequel where he comes back to life and soldier boy is there frosting her cookies and suddenly Barry Watson pulls out his sword.  That's an instant holiday classic.

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  9. Posted

    Did anyone else notice how many times she changed her pants? She would leave her house in jeans and a sweater, then get to the bakery and change into weird yoga pants.  Then she would change into different pants to sit on her couch and work on spreadsheets.  3 pants a day? She might be able to save some money in laundry soap and her water bill if she just wore the yoga pants from the get go.  

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  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, SaraK said:

    In the beginning of the movie did MJH's boyfriend just straight up admit to cheating on her and blaming it on her being a busy, successful baker? And no one seemed really upset about that? It bothered me through out the whole movie that she was more upset about being single for the ball instead of just pissed he was apparently cheating on her the whole time. 

    My main take away from this movie are these two images I immediately sent to my friends while I was watching this movie. Barry Watson is great at being a terrible actor. He has another made-for-tv movie where he's a robot and its god awful and --- he's the best part of it. 

     

    The ex-boyfriend INFURIATED ME! He was so nonchalant in how he broke up with her.  I'm not saying he wasn't correct - she had no time for him, I can see why he broke up with her - but what a real d-bag.

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  11. Posted

    All of these posts are so thoughtful and well written. I’m bringing none of that. 
     

    The tap dance in iambic pentameter to me felt like what they probably did on day 1 of their 3 week rehearsal so that Matthew Lillard could understand how to read and deliver the text. That was some real ta-ta-tee-tee-ta 3rd grade music class stuff right there. 

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  12. Posted

    I watched this movie the night before Biden was announced as winning the presidency, and listened to the podcast hours after the media outlets FINALLY called it. My biggest wish now is that we live in the world that Governor Gabby takes place where you vote one day, the winner is called the next, and that person IMMEDIATELY takes office and begins to govern. 
     

    You guys talked about how crazy it was that she was in school to get a degree in baking - but I’d love to know what the curriculum entails. Clearly there is no crossover education with general culinary skills as she is completely unfamiliar with the term “ala carte.” I also can’t figure out why she was outsourcing the baking of the brownies to Stoner. Maybe cut out of yoga a few minutes early and whip the batch up yourself? Not to mention when the “mud pie” is served at the State Dinner (which looks like a backyard with a giant fountain) - she says SHE made it! AND they use canned whipped cream. What self respecting baking student would use canned whipped cream? Disgraceful. 

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    Did anyone notice when Jake was in the guest room at his friends house he was reading “The Rickenbacker Biography.” Ed Rickenbacker was, according to Wikipedia, an American World War 1 Flying Ace. Reading up on him, his dad told him not to waste his time trying to be a pilot - THEY HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON.

    This scene comes right after he meets Gonzo at the party, and I can’t decide what I like to imagine more - that he’s been reading this book for weeks because he’s so dedicated and obsessed with becoming a pilot, or that he just bought the book after being inspired by Gonzo. He’s not very far into the book so I assume the latter. I mean, nothing says non-fiction book choice like meeting a guy named after the phallic-nosed muppet. 

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    3 hours ago, Cam Bert said:

    Sorry I just need to rant a bit more about this movie mostly the writer/director. Let's look at two claims he made that were read out in the episode.  First the claim that he baked the film and scuffed it up with dirt and grit to add texture and lines to it. For me this story rang some bells. I was a huge Peter Jackson fan loving Bad Taste and Dead Alive from my early teens. Between those movies he made a smaller non-b movie called Forgotten Silver about a made up turn of the century New Zealand film maker. Do you want to take a guess how Jackson created authentic looking lost footage? Hint it involves ovens and dirt. His methods were so good they fooled people. Did anybody notice any grain or artifact like quality to Velocipastor? No it looked digital for for that budget was most likely digital. So if he did what Peter Jackson famously did and fooled people with, how did we not notice it?

    The second thing I want to talk about is his story about how he came up with the idea. He said his phone auto-corrected velociraptor to velicopaster and that gave him the idea. I want you to pick up your phone right now and type in the word "velociraptor." Did your phone autocorrect that word? Try misspelling it. What most likely will happen is it will correct it to velociraptor or just underline it in red. What it will not do is autocorrect it to velocipastor. Why is that? Autocorrect doesn't make up words. Why would it correct it to something that doesn't exist. Now, maybe he wanted to write velociraptor and misspelled it. Yet that's not an as funny story. It's a better story if the phone did it and it inspired me than me just making a mistake and thinking it was funny.

    I'm not saying the filmmaker is a bad guy just the two story they read from him have a distinct aura of BS about them to me. It makes me highly doubt the claims the money came from his mom's friend. More likely like Kevin Smith or other first time film makers he just maxed out his credit cards. Yet that's not funny or quirky as he seems to wants this whole thing to be.

    Im going to benefit of the doubt the auto correct - I bet it didn’t make it one word but “velocity pastor” or something. My phone has done some messed up stuff like that where you look at the sentence and wonder how fat your fingers truly are. 

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  15. Posted

    I have to say, I went into this movie thinking it was really a horror film, and I hate scary movies but I was ready to take one for the team because I love this podcast. It was the 2:25 mark I realized I was going to be just fine. 

    What I’m dying to know is - when did Carol learn the karate?!?! We saw the workout montage, which was mixed with Dino maulings and crotch shots (which I didn’t hate). Nowhere in there is she learning juditzu. So when the lazy karate guys attacked them in Carol’s dorm room, she just reveals herself to be an awesome fighter. 

    If this is the case, why didn’t she just fight off rapist #1 in the park in the first place? Maybe if he hadn’t been so provoked, the nice pastor could have lived his whole life with the Dino inside. Poor Doug. 
     

    I also want to point out that at the end Carol says there is a billion dollar bounty on his head? FROM WHERE AND HOW? I agree this movie is a mix of intentional and accidental bad, which made it so confusing. At the end he isn’t even a pastor anymore so the whole title is negated. Which bumbed me out because it was the best part. 
     

    I am now considering researching ovarian cysts on tik tok though, so this was a few hours we’ll spent. Thanks guys!

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  16. Posted

    Omission: 

    As Jason points out, Dylan works out on gymnastics rings as if he’s training for the olympics. I think we can assume they didn’t come standard with the $20k apartment, which means he hung them himself. He uses them every day, and seems to have a pretty strenuous routine. This can’t possibly be the first time a strap has broken - evidenced further by his comfortability in the repair process. So are we to believe that in all those times of climbing the rafters he never noticed the Jake Redmond satchel?

    Furthermore - why would Jake Redmond have had this hidden? It was his apartment - where he lived alone. I can imagine his lady friend having HER letters hidden, but this makes no sense. 

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  17. Posted

    On 8/28/2020 at 8:54 AM, jimkiler said:

    Did anyone else notice when Dylan first walks up to Sarah in the bar, she asks if he wants to get out of here.  He says yes.  Cut scene to a bar.  But weren't they just at a bar?  If I say i want to get out of here it is because i need a change of scenery but they simply switched bars.   Maybe the first place was a restaurant but it definitely had a full bar and therefore i was confounded on their choice. I was expecting them to go to a park or someones apartment, not another bar.

     

    Second did anyone else notice that the police did not give a f*** about Dylan when he was dying on the floor of Grand Central Station.  Only two cops were shown hovering over Jonas but they were no longer securing the scene, they instead appeared to be talking oblivious to the dying person.  Does this mean the final scene of Dylan as a pilot never happened because Dylan bleed out ( not from a gun shot wound but) from the apathy of first responders.

    He’s bleeding on the ground - should be dead (as we know from history AND THE GIANT GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE GUT). The cops are wandering around the dead dude that they shot!

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  18. Posted

    17 hours ago, Greg T said:

    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.

    And there was no noise as he tried to change gears? I remember 16 year old me trying to figure this out and it’s the worst, loudest sound known to man. 

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    The idea that Stanley does not know how to drive a stick shift, then is forced to drive a stick shift in a high stakes situation - and is IMMEDIATLY amazing at it, is ridiculous. And the idea that John Travolta would risk this with his elaborate plan now in peril - crazypants. That car should have stalled out and jerked to a start. The idea that he hits his stride mid-car chase and then is shifting like he’s on Fast and the Furious? Nope. 
     

    Also I can’t figure out how these message boards work so sorry if I’m a moron and posted it in the wrong place. 

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