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I was only half paying attention after the first 40 minutes or so, but it seemed like the whole movie was just a bunch of vignettes strung together, like it only handles one thing at a time and nothing has any effect on anything else. For instance, they get offered Virginia Wolfe, they star in Virginia Woolfe, they're nominated for Oscars and Dick loses. That ALL happens in like 5 minutes, but I'm sure it had to have taken up a year of their lives, and some of the other stuff in the movie is probably taking place at the same time. The whole movie is like that, just segments strung together, with them fighting and making up every 2 minutes until Dick just dies at the end. Pretty lame.

Jesus, I'm a half hour in, and all it is is a run-of-the-mill generic garbage bio-pic. It's not astonishingly bad, though it's certainly not good, and there's about zero entertainment value to get out of it. I think I'm just going to stop watching it, as it doesn't seem like there's going to be much of anything to discuss aside from the fact that they have LITERALLY gotten together and broken up eleventy zillion times in the first third of the movie. I really hope this isn't getting anything more than a mini episode. If anything, watching this makes me want to pop in "Walk Hard", which is the perfect bio-pic because it's EVERY bio-pic with LITERALLY umpteen kajillion percent more self-awareness. "Liz and Dick" is just bland and boring.

I'm watching "The Soup" from a couple of nights ago, and there's a clip from QVC where they're literally saying "literally" before everything, whether it literally needs it or not...literally. It literally starts about halfway through the clip... ...annnnnndddd I still don't know how to post the video crorrectly. Anyway, it's literally the Anything Goes---Literally clip on their clips page. http://www.thesouptv.com/clips

Is it LITERALLY "How Did This Get Made"? Like, how did this project, a film starring Lindsey Lohan, reach completion and manage to find itself in front of an audience of human eyeballs?

I noticed that too. It seems like the Corrections and Omissions Department needs a correction.

Also, possibly one of the craziest fake last names ever: MATRIX? A friend of mine brought up something interesting about the opening daddy/daughter montage that I didn't realize, which was a pretty good catch on her part. She pointed out that when they're eating ice cream, they're sharing their cones, but THEY BOTH HAVE VANILLA. Why do you need to share when you both have the same thing?!?!? Cars going from being smashed up to perfectly fine again are completely acceptable, but it's the ice cream that's ridiculous.

Ah yes, the mid-90s, when Hollywood screenwriters' idea of someone that was really good with computers was someone that looked like Angelina Jolie or Sandra Bullock. Yes, more like Beyonce Knowles than HARRY Knowles.

While it'd not reason enough to watch the whole thing, or the 4 movies before it, I caught most of the big fight at the end of the new Twilight over the last few days at work, and the violence and sheer number of decapitations can only be measured in BONKERS. Seriously, it's crazy violent and actually pretty well done, for a Twilight movie anyway. I'm sure not going to see the rest of the film, but I can't wait for you guys to discuss it.

http://youtu.be/z4l-1JFW59A This. Fucking THIS.

While I can appreciate the film a little more now, I remember being sooooooooo disappointed when it came out, as more than anything, it wasn't the kind of movie that it NEEDED to be. I remember the marketing and merchandising really being aimed at kids, and then seeing the film and knowing there were going to be a lot of upset parents at my theater, not because of the adult themes or anything like that, but because no one does anything but TALK for the first hour of this very long movie. Also, I like Eric Bana now, but at that point in his career, he'd been in a few things people would have seen, but he was still essentially an unknown. That is NOT the kind of actor you need in a movie like this where all you have is the actors spouting jargon back and forth for the first hour. If nothing else was different, having Edward Norton the first time around may have at least made this a more tolerable movie for general audiences. I liked him in the second film, but they could have put anyone in that thing. It's like the casting was backwards in that regard, like Eric Bana ordinarily would have been the guy that you would have gotten to replace Norton if he was a prick to work with the first time around or tried to hold out for more money or whatever led to him NOT being invited back for Avengers. I liked Ruffalo as Banner, but it would have been cool to see them bring Bana back into the fold.

It's a good thing that Stallone didn't start doing this earlier. I mean, with as many liberties as he's taken with the character over the course of 4 films, an animated series, and a toy line, David Morrell should thank the gods every day that he's STILL the author of "First Blood" and the creator of John Rambo.

Nothing beats the Robert Tepper "No Easy Way Out" montage from the previous year's "Rocky IV", which seriously STOPPED in the middle of the film to recap everything that had happened in the first half in music video form as Rocky drove around for a while. You could seriously replace the national anthem with any song from the "Rocky IV" soundtrack, because it's LITERALLY that good.

Cage also teams up with fellow future ex-husband of Patricia Arquette, Thomas Jane!

I like "The Artist" quite a bit, and I thought it was pretty cleverly made, but I agree that it wasn't exactly the "Best" movie of the year. I always kind of find it frustrating when you get these movies that hit at the end of the year that, if you don't live in a bigger city or if you're stuck in a smaller market, you don't really get to see until after all the hype. I mean, there are certain filmmakers and types of films that I'm pretty sure I'll like, but its hard to honestly root for something if you haven't had a chance to see it. Regardless of what you think about "American Beauty", I do like it when there's a mainstream film like this that IS (was?) popular that came out at a time where a lot of real people, not just critics and people that go to Oscar-nominated films because they're told to, got to see it and not have the awards season hype influencing the way they go into it. Often, you hear writers talk about movies coming out "too long ago" (translation: not in November or December) to really be considered contenders, which is funny, because then they'll talk about how great "Silence of the Lambs" was, which had been out for a full year when it cleaned house at the Oscars. Then you've got stuff like "Braveheart" and "Gladiator", which could almost be considered summer blockbuster tentpole films. "Crash" (ugh, don't get me started on that one...) came out the first week of May, and then "Hurt Locker" was also a summer release that kicked around for months and months, but never played on more than a few hundred screens at a time. On the other hand, there have been plenty of Oscar-bait kind of films that were frontrunners for months...until they were actually released and people saw (or in a lot of cases DIDN'T see) them. "Shipping News", anyone? "Pay It Forward"? *crickets*

I think this movie gets way too much flack though. I've heard things like "Worst Best Picture winner ever" thrown around, to which I usually ask "Did you even SEE 'Chicago'?". Seriously, THAT movie had like 15 minutes of story to it.

Yeah, that's Matt Cross. He makes the rounds in the indys quite a bit and was on the new WWE Tough Enough last year. Anyway, I've never seen anyone explain the light bulbs, like WHERE they get all those damn things to begin with. I imagine they're stolen from dumpsters or something.

This reminds me, there's a documentary from about a decade ago on Netflix called "The Backyard", which is about backyard wrestling and the idiots that populate that world. It's pretty sad to watch, and by sad, I don't mean SAD sad, but like pathetic sad, because these guys don't have a clue. For the most part, they're just the most awkward, socially inept, borderline mentally handicapped, unathletic kids, and to them, "wrestling" seems to mean "You go over there, I'll hit you with that. Now I'll go over there, so you can hit me with that. I'll put you through a table, and then you put me through a table", etc. Real professional wrestler Rob Van Dam does show up in some interview segments though to pretty much say "If you don't actually train and do things the right way, you're never getting anywhere", and I've never heard of any of these other guys, so he must be right.

Didn't Gallo also challenge Ebert to a fight or something? I remember the events surrounding the film sounding a lot more interesting than the film itself.

If you count the TV movies (hell, they don't even count the second theatrical one), there are 6.

All this crazy speculation and ideas about things that are probably more interesting and make more sense than what actually appeared in the film or what the filmmakers intended? This is like the slasher version of "Prometheus" or something, but with way more half-shirts.

I just re-watched Jason Goes to Hell for the first time in forever, and while I loved it when I was 15, I do have to say that it's EXACTLY that bad. Jason X though? That movie is AWESOME.

*Picks up microphone* Leonard Part 6 is a film without equel. *Extends arm, drops microphone, steps away*

Whenever people bitch about Platinum Dunes re-making horror movies and shitting all over the legacies of their beloved franchises, THIS is the movie that I like to remind people of to show them just how wrong they are. I don't think that anyone would even remember it (hell, it probably wouldn't have even been released outside of bootlegs) if it wasn't for the stars of it getting so big so soon after making it. The Texas Chainsaw series as a whole was pretty piss-poor and just mostly coasted on the goodwill of the first one, so depending on what you think of Part 2, the Michael Bay-produced remake from about a decade ago is AT LEAST the third best film in the series. On a (kind of) sort of interesting note, it was around the time that this movie was made that ALL of the big horror franchises were going completely off the rails and adding supernatural elements to what had been otherwise perfectly fine formulaic movies. Jason had just become a body-hopping demon, Michael Myers had become the angel of death for some cult or another, and even Freddy, a character that was already supernatural in nature, had ambitions to escape his cinematic prison and hop into OUR world. The slasher was, for all intents and purposes, dead, and you couldn't even count on a guy (?) with a chainsaw to keep shit real anymore

If i didn't get to see movies for free, I would have given up on watching this series a long time ago, as the second film is one of the absolute worst things that I've ever seen in a theater. It doesn't help that in whatever universe this movie takes place in that Milla Jovovich is supposed to be the coolest person ever, because her shitty acting plus the shitty script makes her one of the lousiest and most anti-charismatic (I'm talking nearly Lautner-level here) protagonists I've ever seen. Oh, and did you know that "They were dead...but they didn't stay dead"? Because that line makes it into EVERY trailer and every opening of every film in the series. Anyone that's seen this particular installment knows that I'm telling the truth when I say that this one in particular is quite LITERALLY a video game movie! Ugh, this thing was such a fucking chore to watch, but SO fun to talk about.

Speaking of things happening "just because", this movie has one of my favorite supernatural action horror movie cliches: Bullets never work...until they do. See also: End of Days. Anyway, yeah, there's this big monstrous thing in this movie that they probably pop about a thousand rounds into, and none of it has any effect, until of course Milla Jovovich does one of her bullshit gymkata (the skill of gymnastics, the kill of karate!) tricks where she jumps over the thing and puts a bullet in the head, and it stays down...for a while anyway. Speaking of which, I'd forgotten that the bad guy had de-powered her until the end when he gives her another shot and says "There, you've got your powers back". Am I wrong, or was she doing JUST as much stupid crazy shit in the meantime? This was just a stupid, stupid fucking movie.