PlanBFromOuterSpace

I don't know. I mean, did you see the SECOND Snake Plissken movie? Then again, your mileage may vary, and that might make anything you watch after that seem more enjoyable. Speaking of that, the second "Resident Evil" movie was one of the worst films I've ever seen in a theater, but I remember liking the third one quite a bit, and I don't know if it's because I thought it was genuinely good, or if it was because the one before it was THAT bad.

It's the reason the Razzies exist! Well, this and "Xanadu"...

It's pure nightmare fuel. We had the talking standee in our lobby for like 3 months, and I still didn't believe it was going to be a real movie. It seems like one of those fake movies within a movie that's supposed to satirize how stupid kids movies are, but sure enough, it's real. I caught a couple minutes of it here and there, and it seems like it's a movie for 2-year-olds that was written by 6-year-olds...on cocaine.

I THINK the studios make their own cuts of their films for use on network or basic cable TV, as I've noticed a lot of cuts in things (especially in older films that pre-date there being a billion different niche cable networks) on channels that have original programming that features more graphic material or harsher language than the edited-for-TV versions. SyFy is like that. You'll see something like "Robocop", which has violence that's pretty brutal but a LOT more acceptable today, that will have memorable bits cut out of it, but then one of the "Saw" sequels will be on later, and it might just have nudity blurred out, but none of the gore will really be missing. Hey, does anyone else remember the bathroom scene from "Dumb and Dumber" being COMPLETELY removed from the TV version back in the late 90's? It used to be on TBS all the time, and it would just be gone. I saw it on Comedy Central not too long ago, and it's there again. As far as cutting for time, I was watching the TV version of the Thomas Jane "Punisher" a couple years back, and while that was a movie that was slow and too long before, it seemed like they cut quite a bit and made it faster-paced to fit into the time slot. They probably did away with or sped up establishing shots and scenes where there's literally nothing going on.

Man, you are ANGRY at that shit. You look like you just watched it throw one of your kids out of a moving vehicle or something!

More important than all of that, it's the movie that killed Anne Bancroft. Man, is THAT ever an indication of how long a movie sat on the shelf, when it features the work of someone that had been dead for three and a half years already...and of course Freddie Prinze Jr. in the lead.

I don't remember what the taglines for the other "Jaws" films were, but I'd like to think it was something like... Jaws 2: "It's strictly business" Jaws 3: "OK, we're trying to keep this professional here, but really dude, that was uncalled for. I mean, my feelings got hurt a little bit, and I'm not quite sure it WASN'T a direct jab at me as a shark..." Hey, I've been in AT LEAST one movie that you guys have reviewed ("Abduction") and have some behind-the-scenes stories that pertain to THAT specific film! I'm not the one that asked the "Can I be a guest" question, but technically, that makes me more of an authority than a lot of the guests you HAVE had! Sure, they might have a little more name value than me (OK, a lot. In fact, way more...), but if you guys ever decide to do "One For the Money"... I can see it now, Paul in "Doubtfire Begins"! "Delgo" holds the distinction of holding the record for least-attended film in the history of my theater at exactly ZERO. Ice Cube's "The Glass Shield" was the previous record holder with a total of one customer. More people paid to see "Creature", "Marcie X", "Black Water of Echoes Pond", and "Undiscovered". Yeah, look them up... In closing, "Yur thuh Zizeez, and uhm thuh kyoor....".

1) "Freaked" is incredible! I saw this movie SO much when I was in high school. I need to see it again, it's been so long... 2) Where the hell is all the spam on this site coming from all of a sudden?

The INSANE thing was that Mel Gibson made another movie in a dead language, this time with no real hook or any known names, that came out AFTER he started his descent into madness, and it was a hit. I mean it wasn't a "Christ"-sized hit, but it DID kick the shit out of "The Nativity Story" and managed to scrape up 50 million (and another 70 million internationally) even though it was released in the December death slot. Also, it was technically a Disney (Buena Vista) movie. Even though he was publicly doing wrong, it still seemed for a while still that he couldn't do wrong at the movies.

She was in at least the second season of "Hung" (I haven't seen the third season yet), and there was some nudity involved. If I remember correctly, it was her birthday...

I was wrong last week in saying that Smith's involvement would seem like a waste for this episode, that they should have saved him for "Southland Tales" (holy shit, guys, get on that one already!), as this week's show was pretty interesting. I saw "Wild Wild West" once in theaters, and bits and pieces since, but it's not one I'd particularly bother to re-visit, so I didn't mind the discussion straying from the film all that much. It's not so outlandishly bad to where you can discuss it endlessly like "Batman and Robin", it's just kind of there and didn't work, which is almost worse, as it doesn't really have a legacy. It didn't help any careers, but it didn't kill any either. I don't think it's really anyone's go-to when you want to show someone an enjoyably bad film. Speaking of the Superman stuff, I highly recommend the book "Superman Vs. Hollywood: How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an American Icon" by Jake Rossen. It covers Superman's entire history in popular media until shortly after the release of "Superman Returns". It's funny how after the Christopher Reeves series went down in flames and Burton's "Batman" became huge, Warner Brothers' model for Superman became "What works for Batman? Fuck it, we'll do the same thing for Superman, because all that comic shit is the same, right?", because DC Comics was and forever will be WB's bitch. There's also a book called "Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over The Marvel Comics Empire...And Both Lost!" by Dan Raviv that shows the exact opposite situation happening over at Marvel, how they were being controlled and run into bankruptcy by people that DIDN'T want to utilize their characters in other mediums, only to be saved by people in their own subsidiaries and turned around into a self-sufficient powerhouse. It only covers through the release of the first Spider-Man movie, before they started their own studio and later got absorbed into Disney, so it would be pretty interesting to see a follow-up.

What the fuck was that? The last comment I mean. That's the first time I've seen SPAM in here...

I remember that this movie was predicted to have an awesome opening weekend because it had the latest "Phantom Menace" trailer. Yeeeaahhhh, didn't quite turn out that way.

Also: Christopher Plummer and David Hasselhoff as father and son

Ho-lee shit. A "friend" showed me the trailer for this one a while back, and it's streaming on Netflix, so I decided to give it a go, and I am NOT disappointed, meaning that I AM completely horrified. This Corman gem (which pre-dates his own "Battle Beyond the Stars") features sets and effects that look like they'd be at home in a Scorpions video, and nearly all the male cast members I've seen so far (I'm only 20 minutes in) look like they could be in Air Supply. The made-up science and jargon is incredible, as since this was one of the earliest "Star Wars" imitators, they didn't have the fake sci-fi speak worked out quite yet. Hot damn, Caroline Munro is smokin' in this and....oh my God, I just saw a giant metal fembot running around Harryhausen-style on a beach...

Like Catwoman, Steel is a character that just shouldn't be bothered with if they're going to exist outside of whatever franchise they're known for, as they are both very much reliant on the existence of that flagship character. Oh, and I love how Steel is clearly a seven-foot tall black man, there really isn't any way to hide the fact, and people STILL DON'T IMMEDIATELY MAKE THE CONNECTION between him and his civilian identity. This reminds me too, there was a time when there was talk of there being a Venom movie that had no ties to Spidey. I don't remember if it was while the Spider-Man rights were still up in the air, but one studio (maybe New Line) had the Venom rights, and it was possible (a slim possibility I'm sure...) that that would have beat Spidey to the silver screen.

More like "Wild Wild WORST"! Amirite?!?!?!

Cage's multiple performances can be used as a checklist of criteria that it takes to win the Nicolas Cage Lifetime Achievement Award, because I'm sure that he's done SOMETHING in all of these films combined that inspired all of the other categories as well. Like if you looked hard enough, Cage could win every single award we come up with. This may be a controversial stance, but in the spirit of competition, I don't think think that the spirit of vengeance should even be nominated in any of the other categories since the Lifetime Achievement Award is basically a career highlight reel. Otherwise, we might have a clean sweep, and really, there are so many other performances that also deserve recognition. I'm totally going to self-like this comment!

If you guys ever are able to get Kevin Smith, DO NOT waste him on this. As others have mentioned, the story's been done to death, and all we'd really get is him telling us what we've already heard through his various interviews, speaking engagements, etc., and there's no shortage of those. If you're able to get Smith, it would be a perfect reason to finally do "Southland Tales". We've talked it up quite a bit on the forum here, and I'm pretty convinced that you guys are afraid of it. I know he's buddy-buddy with Richard Kelly, so I don't know how much he'd be willing to knock on the film, but Smith was in it, and out of all the people involved with that trainwreck, he'd probably be one of the more interesting people to listen to. But yeah, the giant robot spider thing is SUCH a dead horse...

Super Mario Bros. opened at the end of May 1993 (the same day as Cliffhanger), so that certainly counts as "summer" as far as movie releases go. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if "summer" becomes March before too long....

I had the Taco Bell Alicia Silverstone Batgirl cup for a pretty long time. That thing took a beating and tasted every flavor of booze under the rainbow. It was glorious.

You mentioned the Cage Superman stuff, which I've also gotten a look at, and what a LOT of people don't remember (if you weren't paying attention to comics, you probably didn't even know) is that in early 1997, Supes got a pretty big overhaul. I'll be damned if I remember what brought it about in the story (in the real world, I'm sure it was a sales stunt), but he was given electricity-based powers and an ultra-90's-looking glowing blue suit that didn't have a cape. It was blue and white, and the Burton designs looked a LOT like this look. In the comics, it lasted about about a year (Superman also split into two during this time, into a red and white variant...or something...), it was shit upon by all, and they just brought the classic look back without any real explanation. If WB had gone through with Burton's version, they would have either kept electro-Superman around longer, or (more likely) the film would have already been completely out of date. No. He certainly is not... "By the Superman Writers and Artists"? Yeah, no one wanted their name on this shit.

D'oh! I was about to point that out too!

That's a category that should ALSO be rigged so that Cage wins it every year. They need to cover "Face/Off" already, which he briefly sings in. "Best Musical Performance in a Film: Nicolas Cage for 'Face/Off' (1997)". There you go!

Hey, sometimes only 2 or 3 movies get nominated in a category in the Oscars. That never made sense to me, because I mean EVERY movie has sound effects and sound design. Same with visual effects. They're categories that exist to recognize big loud action films, and it's reason why there are Michael Bay films that can be called *shudder* "Academy Award-Winning".