Lando

I can sum this movie up in one meme:

It's not that I think Shia is a bad actor, it's that Hollywood seems to think he's a leading man, when he's clearly no more than a sidekick at best.

I was trying to come up with some really bad movie ideas once, and several of them involved Shia LeBeouf. ie Mutt Williams and the Spear of Destiny and a Dirty Harry reboot with Shia as the titular character. Just a sidebar

I was pleased to hear Paul suggest this movie because I watched it over the weekend. I think it would work well. I kept trying to figure out which previous Schwarzenegger character he was supposed to be (Commando, Predator, Kindergarten Cop?) and ultimately came to the conclusion he was reprising his role from Jingle All The Way.

First off, you guys have yet to do a Stallone movie. Second, both of these movies are incredible. Over The Top has a Kenny Loggins song written for it and the guy arm-wrestles for the love of his son. Tango & Cash may have the first script whose dialog is composed entirely of zingers. There is not a scene in the movie where Tango & Cash do not trade some kind of smartass remark.

It's not gasoline, it's motor oil, and apparently he did it for real. I know WAY too much about Over The Top. It's a movie that, as children, my brother and I knew was ridiculous and could enjoy it for its absurdity.

Is there one named "Steal" that I'm unaware of or do you mean the one with Shaq called "Steel?"

I kind of get it. Cameron did create a very visceral and beautiful world and I think people get wrapped up in it and the story is merely a byproduct of of the world. Add 3D and it's even easier to get wrapped up in the world. However, I thought that it's a sloppily made world. They use bows and arrows that are exactly the same as our bows and arrows, including giant feathers, except that not a single animal on Pandora has any inkling of anything other than skin except for the Na'vi and they have dreadlocks. Plus why does every animal have 6 limbs except for the Na'vi? Every animal is an adaptation of something from earth with blue skin and two extra limbs, which is lazy and uncreative, and then that principle is altered slightly for the anthropomorphic creatures that we're supposed to sympathize with more than our own species.

I think people just enjoy discussing movies here and this forum is the closest thing to a "movie discussion" forum in the HDTGM section.

I don't remember them going back in time to bring whales to the future in this one....

I think what sets Gonna Fly Now and You're The Best apart from Push It To The Limit is that they fit within the theme of the movie (where Hearts on Fire does not fit in with Rocky 4, it sounds like it belongs with a geek-to-sheik makeover montage). That said, I would like to see a fighter come out to Push It To The Limit non-ironically.

I remember a couple of years ago Adam Carolla was talking about how great this documentary was and how much of an ass Troy Duffy appeared to be in the movie and word got around to Duffy so he wanted to come in to defend himself on the podcast. He basically tried to explain that the documentary was an unfair assassination attempt on his career, but basically unintentionally just made the case that it was a fair representation of what went on.

Not gonna lie, big fan of Best Around, also a big fan of Karate Kid 2's Glory of Love (but that's more of a date montage than action montage song).

I have no problem with Push It To The Limit as a song, but it's more that it feels like it belongs in a sports movie not a gangster one. If it was in a film about an underdog basketball team and they were training really hard it would fit right in, but it's not, it's about a cocaine lord from Cuba. Also, it's by no means the worst montage song from the 80s:

Bookies want to steal his heart to put it into the frozen body of Len Bias.

Oh my god, after reading the description I HAVE TO SEE THIS MOVIE

Did he have to keep getting electrocuted to keep his pacemaker going?

There are a lot of other rise-and-fall gangster movies that are able to show the same sort of story without the scarface level of insanity. Just look at Goodfellas, it tells of the rise and fall of Henry Hill and remains modest throughout, which in my opinion gives it a lot more emotional impact than Scarface. Plus, at no point is there a montage of DeNiro, Pesci and Liotta making buisiness deals while a cheesy synth 80s song drowns out audible dialog. Now, remember, I am NOT saying that Scarface is a bad movie, just an insane and over the top one.

A couple of my gripes with this movie are that: a. IF the accent is on purpose, and it's supposed to be a reflection of the character's pretension, they never really make that clear and b. it's not entirely obvious that the character has rabies. I LOVE the premise and it demonstrates a descent into madness really well, but had they made these two things clearer (which you have to read about the movie to find out) it would have been a less confusing movie.

So during the gospel songs, am I the only one who kept thinking of Eric Cartman's Faith +1?

Last week bumps Stallone up a level.

If you think 2 months is bad, someone submitted Avatar 2, which isn't due until 2015!!!!! At least RIPD has a trailer which looks like it might be worthy of an episode. I'll say I think it's perfectly acceptable to suggest a movie that is by all measures positively received, so long as you make a case for why it would make a good episode of HDTGM. The burden of proof lies on the person suggesting the movie when everything points to having a minority opinion on the film.

I'm mostly just wondering what's going through people's heads and whether or not they've ever actually listened to an episode of the show. Like, I get how someone could suggest Face/Off or Speed, and I get that someone thinks they're cleverly trolling when they submit Schindler's List, but Amistad and Lost in Translation have neither insane action sequences nor bizarre twists.

So I gave it a shot and it appears to be sorting them as text and not numbers (ie the 90%s appear, followed by the 9%s, followed by the 80%s, followed by the 8%s, etc.). Nothing urgent, just thought I'd let you know.

Oh my god yes! I hated those commercials. I always thought that they were a subversive attempt at increasing smoking via spite.