PlanBFromOuterSpace

Wasn't this one of those movies where the crime gets caught on tape, but instead of seeing the POV of the camera from wherever it was sitting (I think it was behind a wall), the characters are watching the MOVIE ITSELF when they're seeing it later? Yeah, it had some pretty great angles and was edited together very well for a tape that was sitting in a camcorder in a closet or something.

Not often enough, or else they would have caved in and done "Southland Tales" by now, the bastards...

June should have dedicated the show to her mom, for being a doer.

"How Did This Get AIDS?" Oh, come on, how has NO ONE said it?!?!?

I'm pretty sure I discovered this film for myself around 1988 or so. I was 10 and was just getting into slasher flicks. Over the course of 2 or 3 weekends, my parents sat me down with all of the Friday the 13ths and Nightmare on Elm Streets that were out on video at that point and watched them along with me. I was pretty much the last of my friends to see these, and my mom had been worried that they were too much for me. Over the course of these marathons, I learned that my mom was just so, so weak, that she'd get creeped out by anything, so if the movies weren't enough of a blast, me and my dad also had fun just picking on my mom. So anyway, I think it was around the time that Friday the 13th part 7 had hit VHS. I went looking for it at the local Blockbuster, but being a new release, they were out of copies, so I ventured on over to the recently-unlocked-to-me horror section. I saw the cover for the SECOND Sleepaway Camp, which featured a girl with a backpack that had a hockey mask and Freddy's glove in it, and it looked like the most awesome thing ever. Having never heard of this series, I picked up the first film, which had a very Friday the 13th-like cover. I figured it would totally be the same thing, right? I don't think my pre-teen mind even really caught all the gay stuff, and aside from the girl having a weiner at the end, I just remember it being a shitty Friday the 13th clone. It would take another decade or so and another viewing to truly appreciate all the what-the-fuckery on display, but even then, it was still a shitty knockoff, albeit a fantastically bad, highly watchable, gay as the day is long, unintentional comic masterpiece of a knockoff. Still haven't seen part 2 except for bits and pieces here and there, but from what I understand, I'm not missing a fucking thing...

As far as other stuff in the mini episode is concerned, I've always made the argument that you could take any song from the Rocky IV soundtrack, and replace the national anthem with it. It's the least we could do for that film, what with it single-handedly ending the Cold War and all. Please rise for Robert Tepper's "No Easy Way Out"...

You forgot about all the half-shirts!

Didn't they mention "Cobra" quite a while ago? Anyway, "Sleepaway Camp" is such a bizarre film. While it has overtly gay elements, it's also one of the most UNironically homoerotic films I've ever seen. It's like Top Gun without the planes. It's like "Nightmare on Elm Street 2", minus the unironic homoeroticism.

Did you see how much this thing made? I don't think ANYTHING sold this show...

Remember, he's also got a big Marvel movie that he's working on, "Guardians of the Galaxy", that features a team of intergalactic heroes consisting of such creatures as (no shit) a talking raccoon and a tree. I never imagined we'd live in a world where moviegoers still aren't too big on Superman, the cinematic future of Batman is uncertain, and Justice League has yet to rise above rumors, but Marvel is so, so far ahead of the game that it seems like they're just making some movies because someone dared them too. I picture some sort of "Trading Places"-type scenario where one old guy is betting another old guy one dollar that they can give a Troma guy 200 million bucks to make a Rocket Raccoon summer tentpole movie, and that it'll be a hit. I want so fucking bad for Nic Cage to be the voice of that talking rodent...

Actually, the guy before me did mention bear-fighting, but the best part is how it's so obviously NOT a bear.

Someone else in the thread already beat you to it. It DOES make sense though.

The DVD is fantastic, because you have the choice to listen to either Arnold's original voice track or the dubbed voice, and you can only take so much of either one for so long, so switching back and forth works out pretty well. To me, it seemed very similar to a lot of Jackie Chan's movies, only in the case of those films, it's clear that there are various languages being spoken, and the actors aren't so much acting as they're waiting for the other person to stop talking so that they can say their line before they forget it.

One of the brothers that made this was actually the cinematographer on Crank 2 and Ghost Rider 2, so he IS from the Neveldine/Taylor camp, and has also worked on a bunch of other stuff, including some Rob Zombie films, so I'm sure that plays a hand in the crazy aesthetic. I liked this movie a lot, and I thought it was much more of a throwback to the 80's style than a lot of bigger movies that claim to do the same. It's streaming on Netflix, but I suggest picking up the DVD or Blu-Ray to see the special features, as it was pretty damn impressive to see how they pulled all of this off with a microbudget.

Indeed, Episode I is the deadest horse there is, and I think it's worst crime, more than a decade removed from having any sort of relevance, is that it is insanely boring. I don't think it's outrageously bad in any way, and seeing as how the other films in the prequel trilogy were kind of lackluster as well, it's just the most disappointing of an altogether mildly disappointing series. I tried re-watching Phantom Menace recently when I picked up the Blu-Ray set, and I don't think I even remember a good 50 percent of the movie at least.

After seeing the trailer, I thought it should have been called "Taken Too".

I was one of about the nine people that saw this in the theater, and I don't really remember anything besides the almost 100% lack of nudity. I know the internet was a relatively new thing, and that it took something like 28 minutes to download a few Pam Anderson pics (if I was lucky enough to not have any phone calls during that time), but it's still no surprise that NO ONE (except apparently me and about eight other people) was willing to pay to see her ACT when you could see the goods for free at home, all with the benefit of not having to hear her say a word, much less listen as she would awkwardly strung several of them together in a sentence. I think at that point, we'd almost all moved on to Jenny McCarthy anyway...

Jeez, Diane Keaton has barely used good decision-making in the decade since. "Because I Said So", "Mad Money", and "Morning Glory" anyone? "Town & Country" is hardly the only blemish on her record now...

That reminds me of another saying regarding sex scenes in movies: "Tits, or it didn't happen."

It may have been closer to the original material. In the comic, it's a secret society of supervillains that rules the world, and Wesley ends up taking his dad's spot in the gang he was in. It's more of an ultraviolent satire of superhero comics, everyone's an asshole, and only the basic premise made it into the movie. It puzzles me when they make a hard-R action movie for adults and decide they need to tone it down. For another PERFECT example of this, look no further than "Kick-Ass", an adaptation of another Mark Millar comic. The original story is incredibly nasty, a lot darker than it's cinematic counterpart, and has twists and turns that are either missing from the movie or completely spelled out from the beginning (like Red Mist's betrayal). Instead of being a down and dirty comic superhero movie for adults, "Kick-Ass" isn't much more than "Spider-Man" with Tourette's.

This is a case of the original film being better left on it's own, because the things I imagined happening later were more satisfying than what actually did, which isn't necessarily the fault of the filmmakers, but they always run the risk of pissing away the good will from before. It gets things off to a REALLY bad start when you're disappointed with where they're at at the beginning of the new story, and when you START disappointed, it's an uphill battle for the film. I liken it to (even though they're completely different films and stories) "Dark Knight Rises". After "Dark Knight", my brain was running wild with all the possibilities of all the adventures that Batman would be having and how the dynamic had changed with him and the cops, but then right away in the new film, they tell you "Yeah, he retired about 2 minutes after the end of the last movie and has LITERALLY been doing nothing for almost a decade". WHAT?!? In the case of both the previous films in the Nolan Batman series and the original "Matrix" film, I still love what came before, but it's a buzzkill to know that you already know that you're not going to be satisfied with the endgame.

Could it have been chapter stops on the DVD and this was just a REALLY shitty transfer to Netflix? That wouldn't surprise me. I think it's Crackle that I've used where the movies are free, BUT they cut in with commercials from time to time at points where it makes no sense whatsoever. It's less like a TV version and more like you're skipping around on a DVD or if you're throwing an ad in every 10 minutes or something. It's very jarring, more than if it would just pause or black out for a sec like you said.

Oh man, I saw this one with my old roommate and his girlfriend. After Jenna Jameson (who's in a grand total of two scenes) gets totally eviscerated, I remember telling the girlfriend something like "Believe it or not, she probably still shows more of her insides at her REGULAR acting gig".

Halloween 6, while much more of a Halloween film than part 3 (which isn't really saying anything), really did it's best to murder the franchise by going the route that already DIDN'T work for the most recent Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th installments ("New Nightmare" and "Jason Goes to Hell") and making the killer a supernatural force of nature. This is the film that Danielle Harris wouldn't come back for (look at her resume, she ain't picky...), not to mention it KILLED Donald Pleasence. In a way though, it was kind of a blessing in disguise in that it introduced us to the unintentionally hilarious dramatic acting of young Paul Rudd, and it failed so badly that we got Jamie Lee Curtis back in a REAL Halloween movie...before the series went off the rails again with Busta Rhymes all of a sudden using his kung-fu skills to beat Michael Myers. I'm not sure I've seen it mentioned yet, but did anyone that's seen Halloween 3 wonder why it seemed like EVERY kid in America had one of the same 3 masks, like they were LITERALLY the only Halloween costumes that year?

While I wasn't a fan of his second Halloween film, I think Rob Zombie catches too much shit for his remake. Same goes for the Platinum Dunes remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as people like to pretend that these franchises were WAY better than they were, when in all honesty, they were pretty much coasting on the goodwill of the original films. Your mileage may vary on the second TCM, but the Platinum Dunes remake is AT LEAST the third best film in that series. Holy shit, the fourth movie, the one with Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey that looks like it was shot on video, needs to be covered here, and with a new TCM coming up, it would be pretty topical...