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I'll agree with that, I have found the Smith children quite grating.

Yup, he plays Robin Williams' cousin.

After Earth actually looks as though it could be decent, but I don't trust M Night so I remain skeptical.

It is easy to get spoiled, I mean there were a few months there that were solid gold - Brody, St Clair, Zouks, Adam Scott, Thomas Lennon, Huebel, Weird Al...it was quite a ride!

The only film he's made that I actually enjoyed was Stargate, and that one mostly skates by on the combined charm of James Spader & Kurt Russell.

Ahh, it was the writer not the director. It's been a while since I've listened to that one. I just remember that he was a special effects guy because the guys that made it were special-effects guys and it was kinda-sorta based on them.

I made it about halfway through 'cause I loves me some Kuku & WieWie, but that's as far as I could go before I had to go look at pictures of dogs wearing hipster glasses. But hey, we'll have a live Whooch with PFT tomorrow and that will surely be a delight.

When they did the follow-up episode with the director he confirmed that Faison was playing a special-effects guy.

This would be a slamdunk. I'd love to see them do it.

I love the way Howard pronounces Biz Markie.

I concur. This movie is perfect for HDTGM. Joe Don Baker! Tim Curry as a Romanian count doing a Dracula impression by way of Egypt! A young Laura Linney looking lost and confused the entire movie! Also animatronic apes. Oh, and Bruce Campbell appears for 5 seconds.

I actually like this film, but it does deserve discussion because it is absolutely insane. There's a toy war, Joan Cusack is a robot, there's some kind of sentient water demon toy, Michael Gambon plays a crazy military commander. LL Cool J is Robin William's cousin, etc. Plus the movie wildly switches tone from one minute to the next, it will be a family-friendly fantasy and then suddenly get really adult. I think at one point Robin Williams has sex with Robin Wright. It's nutso.

I'll have to take your word, I sort of hate Seth MacFarlane so the likelihood of me renting that is pretty low.

Yeah, it was not a subtle film. It also kind of felt like a 'bottle episode' of a sci-fi/fantasy show - one of those episodes where there isn't much of a budget so they have to contain the action to one set. I don't think they ever leave the apt complex, except to go to the pool. It all felt rushed and poorly thought out.

Krull is amazing-bad while Beastmaster is laugh-out-loud bad (Marc Singer & Tanya Roberts deserve lifetime achievement awards from the Razzies), but I think Ladyhawke is actually solid b-grade fantasy. All the key players are solid actors as well as charming, Michelle Pfiefer looks amazing, and John Wood makes for a particularly nasty antagonist. It's also beautifully shot. I guess I'm the 80's fantasy defender tonight!

Well, I'm going to be the odd one out on this one and say I fucking love this movie. I tend to like Tom Cruise best when he's playing against type (in things like this and Interview With A Vampire), so I enjoyed him in this. It's not a perfect movie, but I think it has a lot of redeeming elements. Actually, they filmed those scenes on 5 massive soundstages. The fake trees were 60ft high! If you ever have the opportunity I recommend watching some of the making-of special features, they show how amazing that set actually was. I can understand the movie not being everyone's cup of tea obviously, but the production design on that film is pretty amazing. But no way is it worse than Willow, which is just George Lucas ripping off The Hobbit.

I think it's very self-indulgent. He cast himself as the savior of mankind, more-or-less. And the story is just kind of...blah.

Never saw Ted, was there something in there about Flash Gordon?

You definitely need to see Flash Gordon. That movie is amazing. Very deliberately campy and fun.

As bad as Superman 3 is, this is 10x worse.

I'll have to look into that, but I thought this was an interview on a chat show. I may have just dreamed the whole thing as some kind of wish-fulfillment.

I swear I saw an interview with Paul Giamatti where he talked some serious trash about this movie, but I can't remember what it was for and have never been able to find it since.

One amazing thing about this movie they never got into is the fact that the trailer shows Eddie Murphy meeting Eddie Murphy, thereby giving away the plot twist. http://www.reelz.com/trailer-clips/26323/the-adventures-of-pluto-nash-trailer/ God, this movie was awful.

They did get into this, though. Quaid was 'a '63', not 63 years old. As in, he was made in 2063. I think Lennon brought up the fact that we never see any more of his model, and it was explained that Eddie Murphy kept him around because he had '20 years of secrets', so presumably all the other Randy Quaid robots were retired. Why they made the robot look old in the first place is a real mystery...

Small correction: Red Tails *did not* do well. It didn't even make its budget back.