Lando
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I saw Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot in the theater when I was 12 or so.
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We just had this discussion.
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I don't think of Cage as a tool so much as a resource. A good director can harness this resource to the benefit of the script, but a lesser director will have an explosion of inappropriate Cageyness all over the screen.
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I wish I had some editing skills because I would like to recut the trailer in a darker direction and change it to a story of a chimp with a heroin habit in rehab. It would still be called "Dunston Checks In"
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Austin-folk: Birdemic 2 Tonight @ Alamo Drafthouse plus Cast and Crew QA/Meet and Greet
Lando replied to Wien's topic in How Did This Get Made?
Great recap. What was your question that he seemed to take offense to? -
Austin-folk: Birdemic 2 Tonight @ Alamo Drafthouse plus Cast and Crew QA/Meet and Greet
Lando replied to Wien's topic in How Did This Get Made?
So was Birdemic 2 entertaining at all? I have yet to see an instance where someone released something that people enjoyed because it was bad, embraced the attention for what it was, and then made a followup that worked. They usually have to be deluded into thinking that people like it because it's good for it to continue to work (ala Wesley Willis). -
Except that there isn't a shadow of a doubt that he's going to fight for the side that will allow him to tap that ass.
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I would like for Gary Busey to reprise his role as the mentor agent in the remake, but this time they don't give him a script and just let him improvise. That is the only way that a remake of this would be worth watching.
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I do agree that most of the problems with John Carter stemmed from the fact that it was written a long time ago, although it seems like they did update it some. I think it's similar to when The Watchmen was a huge flop.
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Dude, there's already a topic on this movie ON THE FRONT PAGE
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Oh I know it's a Burroughs adaptation, but had it been a weird movie from another director it would have been out of place. From Cronenberg it fits. It is weird though because he does do some normal movies (The Dead Zone & Eastern Promises for example), but then he has these completely weird films. At least with someone like David Lynch, they're pretty much all weird so it's consistent. It makes me wonder what it is about Cronenberg that makes him decide "my next movie is going to be really weird." I have yet to see A Dangerous Method though.
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My profile picture is President Camacho from Idiocracy. IMO that movie is waaay underrated. The only other person I can think of who died that way is the guy from INXS, and it's all I can think of when I hear their music.
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Generally if I can I watch a movie after the minisode, but if I can't find it by then I will watch it when it becomes available. I keep track of the movies and of the 59 titles they've done so far I have seen 44
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Every time I watch a David Carradine movie and he is on screen I think "that man died while choking himself and beating off." It's pretty distracting.
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The Ninth Gate (1999)
Lando replied to choochoo_the_wonder_slut's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
The more Polanski movies I watch, the more I think he's overrated. He does have some great movies, but he's just such an inconsistent director that I don't think he deserves the hype that he gets. -
Which is still not as weird as the but with a talking anus from one of Cronenberg's other movies around that time: Naked Lunch. His 80s movies were generally pretty weird.
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NOT the original, but the remake. I have yet to see it, but this looks like it's perfect HDTGM material: * Statham *"The rules are simple. There are no rules" *Loud ridiculous action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU4TUCh-HwE
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Oh yeah, no doubt that when I first heard of The Hunger Games it immediately made me think of Battle Royale and it wasn't until I read the books that I realized the Deathrace 2000 connection (note, I specify "2000" because I haven't seen the Statham version, which I imagine is HDTGM fodder). Ultimately the books are a cross between Battle Royale and Deathrace 2000, I think that they're probably like 60% Deathrace 2000 and 40% Battle Royale.
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Good thing they dropped the "of Mars"
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I read that this movie was originally called "John Carter of Mars" but a Disney executive was concerned that movies with "Mars" in the title typically haven't done well at the box office. At the last minute they nixed the "of Mars" and opted for "John Carter." Ironically this movie ended up being Disney's biggest flop since Mars Needs Moms.
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Not gonna lie, I enjoyed it a lot more than Avatar.
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I'm looking forward to when JJ Abrams re-does this.
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I'd actually argue that The Hunger Games rips off Deathrace 2000 more than Battle Royale. I--as a grown ass man--read the Hunger Games trilogy (and enjoyed each one less than the one before it) before seeing the first movie and was pretty lukewarm on the film. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that in the book there is a LOT of internal dialog and they opted to not go that route. Plus there's this sense of how long the games last and how exhausting they are. In the movie the games go by quickly and it seems to take only a little bit of time.