sillstaw

I prefer to make jokes at the beginning of "Law & Order" episodes, when some random bystander happens upon a corpse. Like some people are going through a hotel food cart scavenging, and they come upon a body: "We just found the meat!"

Probably won't happen, if only because Paul and June were both on "Happy Endings"* with Elisha Cuthbert. Unless she's willing to talk about the movie... * Still sad they cancelled it.

That "So Undercover" trailer's picture looks so filthy. And I'd say that even if I wasn't seeing it in the wake of the VMAs. On "LOL": It did come out in theaters. The only problem is that it opened on May 4, 2012... the same day as "The Avengers." Even if it had a wide release (according to Wikipedia, it only opened in 105 theaters), there was no way anybody would have noticed it. As for her twerking (sigh) and all the stuff about her appropriating black culture, I wouldn't say that's all automatically bad. After all, most of rock 'n' roll has its roots in white people imitating black people's music, and you'd be hard-pressed to find too many people complaining about that. If she does it and the music still sucks, then complain about the latter.

From Roger Ebert's review of Besson's "The Messenger":

I recall a while back they did this with "Slumdog Millionaire." It became a news item when several of the rental discs made it into for-sale boxes. Apparently nobody took that as a bad omen for the plan.

Yeah (although I haven't bought "Death Rat!" yet). I've never heard of that book, though; it's now on my Wish List.

Did that era ever really end, though?

I assume they meant Sci-Fi/Syfy/Siffy/whatever they call themselves now and not HBO. I think the channel that shows "Game of Thrones" isn't afraid of showing a movie where someone says "pussy."

I like to think of this movie as "YouTube: The Horror Movie."

I loved this, and I'm saying that as someone who didn't care as much for "Hot Fuzz" and "Shaun of the Dead." Loved "Scott Pilgrim," though. Which made the poster where his face is barely visible all the more mystifying.

I guess I should've made it clearer: Why are there so many adults that love it?

I'm pretty sure at first, the leader of the group was the Red Ranger, and he was white (not Native American, which would have cinched it). I also heard (from the Nostalgia Critic) that at some point they switched the Black and Yellow rangers' actors and nationalities so the Black ranger was an Asian man and the Yellow was a black woman. Then eventually they brought in a new color or two, presumably to sell more toys, and I'm already bored of talking about this. What mystifies me is that these shows have been going for so long (there are still new series being produced), and there are people out there who have been fans of this show for a long time, despite how utterly silly and frivolous the whole thing is. There are horrifyingly long Wikipedia articles about the show that treat it dead seriously, and at no point do any of the people who edited this page seem to have cared that it's a mix of recycled footage from Japanese shows and cheaply shot American stuff.

Every time I see something about this movie, I think, "Why don't you go away, getaway / Stay away, getaway..."

Without the redeeming facet of dwarf strippers.

That reminds me of the time I was reading an article about directors who slammed other directors' work (coincidentally, it was linked to by Ebert), and Gallo was slamming Francis Ford Coppola as a hack or something. It made me wonder whether that was before or after they made "Tetro" together. Also, there's something hilarious about how Gallo is a conservative who not only made a movie that ends with him getting a blowjob, but also has a page on his merchandise website offering to sell you his sperm for in vitro fertilization.

What really gets me about the poster is that it's advertising an ostensibly Christian movie that warns against wanton sex by showing a sexy naked woman. It's like sneaking a Chick tract into a Playboy magazine and expecting it to be taken seriously. The Bible quote doesn't help (especially since I barely noticed it until now). Also, good work to whoever decided to impose the big T from the title over it all. Never mind that it doesn't fit the picture and makes it look like a cheesy Photoshop.

This is where I heard about that kind of thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kw4IE8Sr1Q

Sadly, the Weinsteins seem to think it's too complex for American audiences, and are cutting twenty minutes out and adding narration to dumb it down. Gee, thanks.

Even further aside: I'd love to see a movie where they defuse a bomb by shooting a bomb at it.

I'll try and list what I've seen, and any sort-of-interesting circumstances around it. If I own something, I'll italicize it. Batman & Robin (saw it as a kid) Battlefield Earth (saw 15 minutes to write about it for another site, watched whole thing with RiffTrax) Birdemic (streamed from Netflix and saw the RiffTrax live event) Burlesque (watched in preparation for HDTGM episode with my sister and mom... oddly, not as awkward as I would have thought) Cobra (streamed from Netflix on bad-movie recommendation from another website) Cool as Ice (the RiffTrax VOD file counts, right?) Crank (saw it in anticipation of the sequel) Crank High Voltage (saw it in theaters, bought a DVD that I couldn't get to rip) Drive Angry (saw it in 2D in theaters, own the DVD, want to see it in 3D) Godzilla (saw it in theaters and on videotape as a kid) Jingle All the Way (saw it as a kid at a cheap theater) Judge Dredd (watched as a kid, barely remember anything from it now) Mac & Me (watched library copy in preparation for HDTGM episode) Over the Top (streamed from Netflix) Road House (watched with RiffTrax and without, including one time at a movie theater shortly after Swayze's untimely death) Skyline (streamed from Netflix in preparation for HDTGM episode) Street Fighter (borrowed from library on recommendation of person from another forum. I loved it, and wish I bought the Blu-Ray when I saw it at Wal-Mart once.) Super Mario Brothers (watched a bunch of times when I was a kid) The Tourist (watched library copy in preparation for HDTGM episode) Twilight: Breaking Dawn, both parts (watched with RiffTrax from Netflix) Wild Wild West (I watched a lot of crappy movies when I was a kid) Partial credits: Anaconda: I think my family taped it off Pay-Per-View. The only bit I remember watching is Jon Voight throwing monkey blood on Ice-T and Jennfier Lopez. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles: One of my brothers watched it on Pay-Per-View; I watched a little bit. The only thing I remember is the scene where Crocodile and his friend go to a Wendy's drive-thru. Demolition Man: I think I've seen about the first half, possibly in edited form. Speed 2: Pay-Per-View as a kid. I remember bits and pieces, mostly from the extended ship-crashes-into-shore climax. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot: My family had videotaped it. The only things I remember are Stallone's dream sequence where he's in a diaper, and the bit where Estelle cleans his gun with bleach, then buys and gifts him an illegal gun to make up for it.

The most depressing part about this whole movie is that the director of "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" has fallen this low. (Yes, I know he's better known for writing "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull," but I really liked "Mishima.") I put the blame on Bret Easton "Kathryn Bigelow is only an acclaimed director because she's hot" Ellis.

Yeah, this is really not an insane movie. (And the band in it is really not like the Beatles at all, aside from the fact that they are both made up of four white guys.) Also, the song itself is pretty great.

Somebody already suggested this. And someone else replied perfectly:

Is this the one where they bury Chuck Norris in his truck, and he manages to drive it out of the hole?

I'd heard that, too; I think it was maggots. It's like he heard about Nicolas Cage eating a cockroach in "Vampire's Kiss" and took it as a dare.