PlanBFromOuterSpace

I don't know what's so confusing. I mean, we all know that Jason's the one with the beard.

Which is strange, because even young Donald Sutherland never actually looked like a young Donald Sutherland. He was seemingly born with old man face.

And she's also looking mighty good these days, at least in the documentary. Also still hot: Finola Hughes.

Funny you should mention Cobra Commander and Destro creating a rock band. It happened!!! This may be the actual making of "The Apple"...

I wouldn't say it was a turning point so much as it was one of the nails in the coffin, as it launched a pretty terrible angle (David Arquette: WCW World Heavyweight Champion) they never really recovered from after a pretty bad couple of years of them kicking their OWN ass with horrible mismanagement and creative what-the-fuckery, as the WWF had corrected their course for good in late '98 or so and just extended their lead from there. If you're interested in the story, I highly suggest reading "The Death of WCW" by RD Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez. A new updated 10th anniversary edition came out last year.

I think that could work well and then be re-translated back into film, combining hard-hitting football action with dance choreography. Also, I'd forgotten that Jason was actually the director of the stage play version of "Karate Kid" on an episode of "Community"! Just thought of another one: "Red Dawn"! Even though it exists only in my mind, the musical film adaptation of what would surely be the multiple Tony Award winner is already AT LEAST the second best "Red Dawn" movie.

Question for y'all: Sometimes Hollywood gets accused of being creatively bankrupt, what with all the sequels, remakes, reboots, etc., but it seems that Broadway is no better, as they've taken some unusual films and made musicals out of them, and then some of THOSE have been turned BACK into movies. What films would you a) like to see turned into an unlikely musical and then B)/> turned into a musical movie? I'm going to start with "The Karate Kid". Can you IMAGINE the climactic performance of "The Best Round"?!? GO!

I think that it being so heavily hyped and overrated didn't help my perception of it when I got around to seeing it. As I mentioned before, it was exceptional on a technical level and very well made for what it was, but no way was it something that should have been winning "Best Picture" left and right.

Sorry if there was any confusion, but I didn't mean to make it sound like "Chicago" was one of the ones that re-used popular tunes. Anyway, I didn't want to see "Chicago" in the first place, as I got hauled to it by my girlfriend at the time, which probably didn't help the experience, and then it totally bored me on top of that. Like I said, for what it was, I can admire that it was very well-made, but as I mentioned, there just wasn't enough story there. It wasn't embarrassing to watch at least, which I can't say about a lot of other (mostly) post-"Chicago" film musicals that I've seen at least big enough chunks of to know I couldn't make it through the rest. "Rent" makes me cringe whenever I come across it. "Rock of Ages" is a huge offender, as well as "Across the Universe", in the category of musicals that seem to base their gimmick around you already knowing the songs, yet they'll still stop every so often to say "GET IT?!?!". To bring it around to the next HDTGM film, they're like Cannon, who don't seem to understand why the thing they have in their hands is so popular and just run the wrong way with it. Man, the Beatles sure are great, but their music would be so much better if we just let a bunch of actors jack off with their entire catalog to incredibly mixed results, you know? And I sure like 80's rock music, but I wish that someone would cut the balls off of it and take everything away from the songs that make them what they are. *Sigh* Maybe I'm just upset that no one's taken me up on my idea of a musical version of Thomas Hardy's "Jude The Obscure" set in the 1990s and featuring the music of Weezer and Everclear...

I saw the movie, and it felt to me that there was about 15 minutes of story stretched out into 2 hours. It was a technically well-made film of course, but I was totally bored throughout. I don't specifically remember if the songs added a lot to the story, but my problem with a lot of the recent film musicals I've seen is that they do not. Things happen, and there's a 10 minute number about the thing that just happened. Wash, rinse, repeat. Seems to happen a lot in ones where they're reappropriating classic songs and just riding that gimmick into the ground.

It was on Netflix for years, and I didn't check it out, but then I finally want to watch it...

I would go "Modern Sport" or just "Sport".

This makes me think of the bad movie that's trying to be a bad movie. I think we've talked about it elsewhere, like how "The Room" works, because Tommy Wiseau wasn't trying to make the film that he ended up making. Same with the guy behind "Birdemic". But if those same filmmakers go out and try to replicate the "success" that they had, it just ends up being bad bad and not entertaining bad, because the whole reason the earlier films were so "good" was because they knew absolutely jack shit about what they were doing. They tried to be dramatic and created unintentional comedy, so I can only imagine how lousy it would be if they tried to be funny on purpose.

You'd be amazed. I've worked on a few films where minor extras were used, and there have almost always been scheduling issues with things running behind or with cancelations, because when you have minors around, their guardians have to be there too, which means mom or dad has to take off from work, and unless they're ALSO working on the film, they're not getting paid to be there. So much of the extras casting is pretty last minute too, which doesn't work well with a regular 9-5 schedule. When I worked on "Abduction", there was the added problem of Taylor Lautner being hot shit with teenage girls at the time, and they made up such a high percentage of the turnout for the casting calls. Right off the bat, most of the extras that were hoping to work were more interested with just seeing the star and screaming his name than with actually working and following direction, and that's the exact opposite of what you want in set. I've only worked in the Pittsburgh and Cleveland areas though, so maybe it isn't as much of an issue in the larger markets where there's a bigger pool of interested people to draw from, and the novelty of the latest teen idol shooting a movie in your town has worn off a bit. For more on my mostly misadventures on "Abduction", read my comments on THAT episode's thread!

I don't think there's a single thing worth talking about as far as "Elektra" is concerned. It may be one of the most boring, generic, uninteresting action films that I've ever seen in a theater.

There haven't been any complaints about the audio in live episodes for a while now. It's like this place doesn't feel like home anymore!!!

I'm just a lowly extra and sometime production assistant, so if anyone is going to go on at great lengths about how awesome the free meals are, it's going to be us. I expect more from the star of "Eddie and the Cruisers". Speaking of which, I was working on season 4 of "Banshee" this last summer, and one day, between scenes, there was a guy at catering making quesadillas that looked so delicious, but RIGHT before I could get him to make mine, we got called back to set. I returned after they were done with the shot, but Quesadilla Guy was gone. I'm not exaggerating when I say that that's probably the worst thing that happened to anyone during the production of that, or any season of that show. Fuckin' Hollywood, man. They'll chew you up, spit you out, and deny you a fucking awesome quesadilla... In happier news, "Outsiders" debuted tonight on WGN. In that show, I appear as a cop that somehow manages to work at every desk in the police station at one point or another during the course of the season. My shining moment will be when one of the main characters hands a prisoner off to me in the eighth episode or so.

Speaking of "Renegade"... ...and because I mentioned them earlier...

But would they use their hammers correctly?

Wasn't that "The Spirit"?

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen ANYONE get attacked with a sledgehammer properly. You're just hitting your HAND, Triple H!

I want to see the deleted prologue where the President's men, rather than decide to go with some sort of military strike or covert op, decide "We'll just send in a couple of 1980s street toughs to get the job done. A couple of really...bad dudes."

And your best bro by your side! Or in the case of "Final Fight", your girlfriend's shirtless mayor father...and your best bro. Holy shit, I also just remembered "Bad Dudes"

I was kind of bummed to see that Jessica Pare (Don Draper's actress wife on "Mad Men") is of no relation to Michael Pare, but that doesn't mean that we can't add it to Wiki and IMDB trivia...