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The entire ordeal looks totes ridic... which is sad because I like Charlie Day. But giant robots boxing low-grade Godzillas in the middle of a crowded city, using what appears to be a 1900s steam powered ocean liner as a baseball bat.. sounds great for an anime, less so for a live action Michael Bay-esque affair.

RIPD doesn't even look like it would be a fun bad... just bad. Pacific Rim also has a strong possibility of being a bad movie contender.

Jack and Jill BETTER be the next movie.

Yeah, I don't think these guys had ANY intention of creating a campy soap. Not even in the slightest, according to this panel. Just a full blown fail.

So when the mother says to her son "I hope those balls know what they're doing", was that also written in this book? If so, we found someone worse than Stephanie Meyer.

And for fucks sake, every other thing one character says to another is desperately trying to be witty and fails. Hard.

Her accent is the WORST. Keanu Reeves does a more convincing southern accent in Devil's Advocate than she does an English one here. Its embarrassing. Whats worse, is all the dialog and narration in this is written to sound like that early 1900s HP Lovecraft effect. Kind of like this: Only Garrick Hagon is awesome, HP Lovecraft is amazing, and everyone involved with Hemlock Grove deserves to be beaten with a cane by an angry Singaporean dungeon master. Maybe they should have set this in the UK and hired an all English cast.

Seriously, when watching this bullshit, watch it with the Subtitles turned on so you can SEE and READ the bullshit they are saying. Its, to use a 'zoukism, Next Level Bonkers. Especially when there is music with lyrics. Its like the show was written by ESL foreigners through Google translate.

This show is BAD. Some of the worst writing I've ever seen, and I'm counting The Room and Birdemic in there, too. I STRUGGLED to make it through 2 and a half episodes of this terrible show. What have they done to my lovely Famke Janssen.....

Decided to watch Hemlock Grove on Netflix after Paul's mentioning it.... Holy shit, guys. This is bad. This is REAL bad. This is by far some of the worst writing I've ever encountered, on every level. Birdemic's dialog was better written than this shit, and maybe even better acted in some regards. Why is my beloved Famke Janssen a part of this??

Bahahahaha holy smokes. Wow, I had NO idea. That makes his reaction perfectly understandable now. I have masterful timing, it seems. He didn't mention any amount of that.... that must have been even more awkward when the host said to his face that Veronica Mars raised 5 million on kickstarter. I wonder why he would think he wouldn't need to market his kickstarter campaign.

http://drafthouse.co...rrection/austin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un3Sov5Vxvk I know there are a couple of Austinites here, and this doesn't look like its sold out just yet. Anyone else going?

"stay under that boat tarp" NEVER too soon. hilarious

I remember liking this movie when I was a kid. I haven't watched it since.

Ok first, he announced Birdemic 3 here, too. Said the plan is for it to be in 3D (I think he actually called it something like Birdemic 3D: Seagull or something). At anyrate.... Every time he spoke, the answer inevitably went to "budget", and how hard a time he had raising money, convincing studios to give him money, etc. He talked about how he paid for Birdemic out of pocket with his paychecks, and how he had to scale things down in Birdemic 2 because of the budget. So I asked him "Would you ever consider crowdfunding resources like Indie Go Go or Kickstarter for Birdemic 3?" He almost seemed offended from the start. Like maybe he thought I insinuated that he couldn't fundraise traditionally....? I'm not sure why, but his answer was strange. He sounded like he dabbled in it before, and failed. He calls it a "last resort". He stressed that if you are a movie maker, to go the traditional route first; find a producer, talk to studios, fund raise, etc. The moderator made the note of pointing out to Mr Nguyen that Veronica Mars just raised 5 million dollars crowdfunding, but that didn't seem to steer him away from his thinking. He's pretty against the idea of crowdfunding, unless its an absolute last resort. His producer seemed to be a bit more open to the idea. What is weird, I noted, is that he trumpted the spirit of independent film making all night, and in the film, and lambasted big studios for getting involved with the creative process. With crowdfunding being as "No Strings Attached" funding as humanly possible, you'd think he'd be all over it.

You know.... a couple of things on that: 1. I had fun, and I think everybody there had fun too. We all knew what we were in for, and Alamo kept the beer flowing. Someone asked Nyugen before the film started what we needed to get into it, and he said "A strong buzz.". So he seemed like he was along for it, too. The whole spirit of the night was just like a festive watch party. 2. I can't say too much about shit I saw because, at its core, it was Birdemic. I'm not going to give any sort of movie review over it because honestly, it didn't seem like it was a movie so much as it was a Birdemic-follow-up-event. There were some neat moments, some funny homages to classic movies, some HILARIOUSLY awful CGI, etc. There were moments where the movie was obviously winking too hard at the audience, and there were moments that were genuinely funny. Most of the fun was had interacting with the cast and such. Alan (Rod) stated that after Birdemic, he started taking acting classes, to which everyone applauded and cheered. Was he better in this one than in the first? I'm going to say "maybe". Lots of call backs and cameos, and "Hanging Out With My Family" guy debuts a new jam while the gang jams out in a Nicaraguan contras bar. 3. The Q&A was fun. I asked what I thought was a harmless question and he seemed to be genuinely offended by it, which is odd since to me the saddest moment of the night came when I thought someone else asked what could be viewed as an offensive question: "Why do YOU think Birdemic got popular?" James Nyugen (who, btw, LOVES to talk) started on a very long, rambling answer about how the first film had passion and humanity and talked about the indie spirit of the film (that was a big theme for the night, and a big theme in Birdemic 2). You couldn't help but get the sense that either he was talking himself into thinking that people weren't just outright laughing at a mindbogglingly bad movie, or he just genuinely didn't know. Nobody in the crown laughed or chuckled when he delivered this answer very seriously, so for what its worth I guess people are on board with humoring him to a certain degree. But I personally couldn't help but feel kind of bad for laughing all night at his bad movie, and then having him go off on such a long and personal answer for why HE thought Birdemic became popular. It was a bummer to me, at least. The actors I think kind of knew what was up, I think Alan smirked knowingly a couple of times during James' answer. BTW, Alan seems like a pretty cool guy, even if he is an alien from another world struggling to learn human emotions (as Jason described him).

It was at Lake Creek because its close to my work and Jesus loves me. Shame, you missed out on quite a thing. James Nguyen was there, as was Alan (Rod), one of the new cast members, and Jeff Gross, the producer (who I thought for a second was Jeff Ross).

I watched this a long time ago, its pretty rough. Well worth the 0% I'd say, but honestly I think I enjoyed it more than quite a few of the movies the squad has done already (Suckerpunch, Battlefield Earth, Nothing But Trouble namely)....

I want to record to show that black dolphins should NOT be getting married. REGULAR dolphin marriages only, like GOD intended.

There needs to be a new segment on the show called "Jason Mantzoukas Gets Schooled", where message board loons individuals go out of there way to correct one of the many politically incorrect messages Jason espouses on the show ala Conan O'Brian's Fan Corrections. Jason's first lesson: Black People Are Regular People, Too. YOU HEAR THAT, ZOUKAS? YOU CAN'T IGNORE US ANYMORE, IN YOUR IVORY TOWER, WITH YOUR IVORY WEDDINGS. YOU OBVIOUSLY NEED TO WATCH A HEALTHY DOSE OF DHALSIM'S GOOD GUY BRAIN WASHING VIDEOS. MAYBE THEN YOU WILL SEE THAT TWO BLACK PEOPLE GETTING MARRIED IS THE SAME WHEN TWO WHITE PEOPLE GETTING MARRIED. But not Asians, those guys are nuts.

Mother of God.

This is what I said at the time: "Whoa... that Blackie stuff was starting to get kinda rough...." And that was it. It was just a passing comment, certainly not a social-political indictment of THE SYSTEM. I certainly didn't have a protracted, mightier than thou, self righteous message board screed about it. If it bothered me that much, I'd stop listening to it. I did it when Adam Corolla slammed female comedians. Its no big deal to not listen to shit that bothers you, especially in a comedic environment because - guess what - comedians often feast on people like you, regardless of what they may actually really believe. So once again, I implore you; stfu or gtfo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-tdYMGQ9FM 1:45 is where you can see Raul Julia's fancy bathrobe and scarf. Also, the director seems to think that the story for this movie is analogous to Operation: Desert Storm, when Saddam Hussien kidnapped a gaggle of hostages and demanded that ???? deposited 20 billion dollars into his seemingly very public Swiss bank account. Also, the actors playing Ken and Ryu eeeven look a little gay in this interview. They are way too close to one another to not have immediately follow this interview up with a makeout session.

I think I made a comment at the time about that part being a bit rough, although the gang made a note of that in the episode itself. I guess my point is that you should probably stfu because nobody cares about your, or anyone elses, "outrage". Its a comedy podcast, not an NPR symposium.