PlanBFromOuterSpace

"Moon" didn't have nearly enough of that. Sure, he's essentially alone the entire time, but still...

Believe it or not, he was also slated to direct "Iron Man" at one point. He may have been the last one attached to it before Favreau ultimately got the gig.

It looks like "Josie and the Pussycats" with PTSD. I think we're going to find out that Jem is in some sort of "Jacob's Ladder" kind of situation. Seeing the trailer, I have absolutely no idea who this movie is for.

To me, this movie is most memorable for its standee or banner (I can't remember which one it was), because we cut out the giant Craig T. Nelson head and kept putting it in different places throughout our theater for a good year or so, usually just inside a door or closet or just around a dark corner or something.

I had a bit of a fascination with the Mormons as well, as I spent my high school years smack dab in the middle of Mormon country (Idaho Falls, ID, to be exact) and had no idea what Mormons even were until I moved there. As a kid whose parents pretty much let me do what I wanted because I wouldn't abuse it, I found the weird little rules that some of my friends had to stick to to be pretty odd, as it's not like THEY were weird or anything. I eventually learned of a lot of the loopholes that were in place though that pretty much let everyone do what they wanted when no one was looking. In what I'm sure is no surprise to anyone that knows anything, it's just a tad hypocritical. I know, shocking, right? Anyway, this made me think of the documentary called "Cleanflix", which was on Netflix a while ago and might still be floating around somewhere, which is all about the controversy surrounding the censoring of movies, the people that do it, the people that distribute it, and the turf war that kind of hilariously erupted within that community. What it basically boils down to, like WHY this was such a hot industry, was that Mormons were jealous because they were basically leaving themselves out of the conversation when it came to pop culture. They tried making films for themselves that were tailored to their beliefs (and some notable filmmakers actually started in that scene), but they were all kind of the same and not terribly entertaining. What they really wanted to watch were the movies that the rest of the world was talking about, but that damn Hollywood (they talk about Hollywood like it's a person) always has to load its movies with sex and violence, and their belief was that those things only appealed to shitty people. They wanted to watch and be able to talk about movies like "The Matrix" and "Saving Private Ryan", but without all that stuff that made those movies the movies they were. It's insane what they deemed acceptable and what they didn't, as they'd talk about a movie like "Pretty Woman" being irredeemable because it was still a movie about a whore no matter how much stuff you cut out, but then later in the film I saw fucking "SCARFACE" on the shelf at one of the stores they show. Occasionally, throughout the film, they cut to Mormon college kids that have zero real world experience that pretty much spew the same rhetoric, that Hollywood is garbage and that Hollywood movies only appeal to the lowest common denominator, all the while having never seen the films in question. What I would have liked to have seen was more interaction between these kids and those that had a more normal upbringing, but it doesn't really want to tell that story. Overall though, it's a pretty interesting watch that really hit home in some spots, and I suggest looking for it if you can.

That reminds me of how in about the last decade or decade and a half or so, that kind of became a thing again. Only in this case, it was David Beckham, who I understand is a big deal, but he's the ONE guy I've heard of, and one personality can't make people give a shit about an entire league. The popularity of soccer flares up for a couple of weeks every few years or so if the United States so much as scores a goal at the World Cup, and then we go back to not pretending like we care, which makes it pretty much like the Olympics.

I don't think there's such a thing as being a former Canadian. I think it's just something that's always there that you have to deal with all your life, so just keep following the steps, keep going to your meetings, and keep fighting the temptation to fall back into that Canadian lifestyle. Be strong!

I felt this way when I finally watched "God's Not Dead". I thought it would be cuckoo bananas from all the talk here, and I HAD seen some crazy stuff from it when it played at my theater for six weeks, but when I saw it on Netflix, I was pretty bored by it. It may have been diminished because I'd seen all the "best" parts already, and it was actually fairly-decently acted even if the script was bad, so it wasn't entertainingly BAD bad in that sense. Speaking of my theater, the film that was playing our largest auditorium the week I started there was none other than Kirk Cameron's "Left Behind", which I thought was absolutely strange because that movie had had a home video release first and had been polluting the shelves for a good few months BEFORE getting a limited theatrical run.

I imagine that Canadian Netflix is just a strange mix of Degrassi, John Candy films, and the complete works of David Cronenberg. Also, each member of Alpha Flight will be getting their own TV series.

What this probably felt like to fans that wanted an actual He-Man movie...

This makes me picture a GI Joe movie that's really about the kids in the PSA segments at the end of every episode, with occasional cameos from the heroes telling them not to grab downed power lines or not to go in the swimming pool right after eating or whatever. Why were those guys always packing so much heat while walking around the neighborhood dispensing life lessons?

Holy shit, I already forgot what "Self/Less" was, even though I had it at my theater maybe...two months ago? I forget...

To make another comparison, I think that in terms of popularity, films like this and "Mortal Instruments" are to "Twilight" what "Eragon" was to "Lord of the Rings". So many of these franchise non-starters seem more concerned with convincing us that they're the start of something big than actually being a film that anyone wants to see in the first place.

I was actually thinking "Superman 4", which Cannon put out around the same time, but I'd argue that "Masters" did Superman's opening better than the film from the actual Superman series. Oh wow, I just checked Wikipedia, and it looks like "Superman 4" and "Masters of the Universe" were released only two weeks apart!

It has a pretty good pedigree, being one of the first Dean Devlin/Roland Emmerich collaborations. The second and third official sequels, "Regeneration" and "Day of Reckoning", are pretty great as well, with each of the three films in that "trilogy" (fuck "The Return") having a completely different feel to them. Van Damme has quite the interesting arc.

I think if we dig enough (and if we edit their Wikipedia page), we'll discover that Kevin Corrigan wrote "Living in a Box" and that the two Kevins are in fact co-existing, with "Days of Future Past" Kevin not interfering with loser "beginning of the movie" Kevin. HE'S LISTENING TO HIMSELF ON THE RADIO!

They should do an episode on "Sunshine", or any of Cillian Murphy's films, where the "guest" is June, and she discusses the making of the film as though she were in it.

Nice SHORTS, jerks!

I too worked in aviation, and while my shitty little local airport doesn't have dirty, disgusting, poor people with their own planes, it certainly does have dirty, disgusting, not-rich people that do, and they're some of the worst. Also, their planes seem to fit their personalities. When I worked weekends, there was this one asshole that always conveniently managed to show up like five minutes before we were supposed to leave (like the group that comes rolling up to Red Robin at 10:58 pm) that always looked disheveled and had kids that were a pain in the ass. We'd get stuck having to pull his plane, fuel it, and then wait around to find out that he was NOT in fact going to fly, because the weather was shit and had been shit all day. I'll be damned if his plane didn't look like a fucking station wagon with wings.

Judging by the article, it just seems based on that video that was also posted in last week's mini ep thread. My "Street Fighter" comments are currently tearing it up on their Facebook feed. All I basically said was that their slowly dying leading man was actually the least of THAT film's problems...

This episode makes me really, really, really wish that they'd do "Krull". It could have been a nice double feature.

I was like 8 or 9 when this came out, and I remember "Living In A Box" being in it kind of blowing my mind, because it may have been the first case that I personally remember of an actual kind of current song that I was familiar with being used in a movie that wasn't specifically MADE for the movie. For instance, it had been out for a while and the video was JUST a video, not something that was cut with scenes of the film. That was the heyday of that shit with Kenny Loggins, El Debarge, and Peter Cetera all killin' it on the soundtrack scene.

Can we all agree that Gwildor was a sniper with that grappling hook? He no-looks the cosmic key thing through a WORMHOLE, guys. He again demonstrates his prowess by snagging the bucket from about ten feet away, which is admittedly a far lesser accomplishment. Maybe he should have led with that...

Well, we know what hotel June and Paul won't be staying...DAMMIT. They mentioned it AS I was typing. Props for Miragy P. Henson!

Trust me, I'd thought about it, but never at a time when I could do anything about it! I mean, he HAS to have done nude kitchen counter splits at some point, right? Even before all the butt stuff, I was going to post something about him being Dolph's greatest co-star ever, probably with the "Breakin'" GIF...