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    I think that would be interesting. I mean, sometimes I'll watch a movie that I like and literally think, "how DID this get made?" I mean, 'Phantom of the Paradise'? 'Intruder'? (the 1989 slasher flick that was made for about no money... set in a grocery store). Even something prestigious and classy like 'Diving Bell and the Butterfly' ("anyone want to make a movie about a paralyzed Frenchman who can only move his left eye so he writes a book via blinking?")

     

    I'd be interested in hearing discussion about how you take these unappealing, unmarketable subjects (from GG Allin to paralysis) and make compelling stories about them in the visual medium of movies. However, I feel that unless the material is appropriately whacked-out and the filmmakers themselves are guests (like your suggestion for the Todd Philips movie), it's reaching into the territory of a different type of podcast. This one is more to celebrate awfulness or, at least, outrageousness..... which characterizes GG Allin rather succinctly.

     

    tl;dr That'd be cool, just as long as it doesn't veer too far from the purpose of this podcast.

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    Mere serendipity... or something more sinister?

     

    This movie, 'Anaconda,' stars Jennifer Lopez, famous for her shapely and voluptuous rear end. The legendary song by Sir Mix-a-Lot, "Baby Got Back," about just such butts, contains the world-renowned couplet "my ANACONDA don't want none unless you got buns, hon."

     

    I suspect the involvement of the Illuminati. What about you guys?

     

    Also, the first appearance of Eric Stoltz features him attempting to present his character as manly in front of Jennifer Lopez. HILARIOUS.

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    From the writer of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen AND Transformers: Dark of the Moon comes... this movie. Oh man, what a piece of shit. Yet another example of how being an Oscar-winning screenwriter doesn't prevent you from choosing awful scripts to participate in. Oh, Ben, you would go on to make such good movies...

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    Because Woliner had a podcast on Earwolf and HDTGM isn't really known for having "characters" on the way CBB does, I approached the interview thinking it was real, but soon realized it was a bit... it just seemed like the bit had no jokes or direction. It seemed to vacillate between attempting to pass as for-real and the utterly ridiculous.

     

    As for 'Liz and Dick'... it is most unfortunate. Both Burton and Taylor were scandal-prone, to be sure, but anyone who's seen something like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' knows they had some serious fucking talent and intensity to go along with their insanity-prone lifestyles. It would be an actually interesting story if a movie about them was done well, so it kind of pisses me off that such a narrative was crapped out with this.

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    The insanity of a movie like 'Crank 2,' while admirable and entertaining, seems conscious and intentional. 'The Story of Ricky' has the sort of madness that seems to come from a primal place; uncontrollable by conscious thought. The most utterly shocking thing about this movie is that it exists, that such imagery could be created by individuals who are also capable of an organized endeavor like making a movie.

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    ...and it's not like the Chinese will resent being arbitrarily interchanged with Koreans as the villain. After all, every azn is just like every other azn...

     

    Also, how the balls does North Korean invade the US? I kind of want to see the remake just to find out what kind of idiotic explanation is put forth for such a scenario.

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    Since the Red Dawn remake is on the verge of being unleashed upon the world like so much Commie propaganda, I figure it might be a good idea to examine the awfulness that was the original, or doing a joint episode where both are dissected for comedic effect. I have not seen the remake, obviously, but I'm pretty confident from the trailer that it's going to be not-so-good. North Korea invades the US, huh? Sounds likely! "How DID this get made?" indeed.

     

    Just mocking the original would be wonderful. It has Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen as siblings, Swayze's future 'Dirty Dancing' co-star Jennifer Grey, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Harry Dean fucking Stanton, and Powers Boothe being manly while talking around a camp fire. Are there age-inappropriate/potentially statutory rape-ish googly eyes made in Powers Boothe's direction? Hell yes! The plot is basically a series of militarily impossible situations that have the Keystone Cops of the Soviet Union and their dirty Mexican Latin American allies invading the US via the choke-point of American power: Calumet, Colorado. With the help of John Milius's dicrtion and screenplay, it all adds up to the least subtle bit of Reagan-era propaganda this side of a 'Just Say No' after school special.

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    Personally, I'm offended by "Jews run Hollywood," "gay florist," "women aren't funny/don't know sports" jokes, not because of their content, but because they are just really hacky and cliche. If you make those jokes, it just seems like you don't respect your audience; like you expect them to laugh at the easiest punchlines you can muster.

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    Back to Jaws... I kind of feel like most of Michael Caine's scenes were written on the day of shooting. How many nonsense monologues does he have in this movie? It's like if he was paid for the day, they just kept rolling on him, talking random stories, as long as a writer could feed him lines, in order to get the maximum value out of their one big-name actor.

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    I'm pretty sure the Sklars themselves, a pair of very non-racist individuals, have said more racist things than that on this very podcast... and they still weren't actually racist. That tweet is like... something I wouldn't say if I were speaking to a class of second graders or something. You can find it not funny, but calling something so innocuous "racist" devalues actual racist behavior, the kind we should be admonishing.

     

    Anyway, to give Ken Shamrock the benefit of the doubt, I've always thought that maybe, for MMA guys, fighting outside of the ring is like comedians telling jokes off stage or chefs cooking 7 course meals at home. You know, the last thing a stand-up wants to do at Thanksgiving Dinner is be a joke monkey for his or her Great Aunt Myrtle just because the job is to be funny in a specific setting. Maybe MMA guys are just like, "ugh, I just spent 8 hours training to punch dudes in the face, can't I get some time off!?!? I just wanna buy come chinos at the Gap!"

    -Moral of this story: Should have gone to Bonobos.com

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    I liked it too. Sure, it's a massive ego trip and totally plotless (as opposed to the ego trip that Southland Tales was, which had a thousand plots piled on top of each other), but it's a fun, well-choreographed series of foot chases and brutal murders. I wasn't a fan of the little bits of hand-held,low-resolution cinematography that inexplicably popped up, but that was really my only major complaint. The best movie? No. But I enjoy it.

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