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They were soooooo close to mentioning it I thought with the rapping about sharks and the Will Smith movie theme songs, but NO ONE brought up "Shark Tale", which starred Will Smith and probably featured a shark rapping or a rap about a shark at some point.

So, if this bird was a figment of LL's imagination, a manifestation of all the self doubt and negative shit, does that mean that the bird getting killed was him finally shedding all that stuff and becoming the confident hero he was always meant to be? Symbolism, y'all.

I think Sam Jackson's origin story about horrible shit happening that we don't get to see might be an "homage" to Quint's story in "Jaws", which is what the long-rumored prequel would be about. It'd be great if "Deep Blue Sea" followed suit, only with "Deep Blue Sea: Origins" taking place on a fucking mountain.

Deep Blue Sea 2: Deeper Blue Sea! Or maybe Deeper Bluer Sea...

WHY DO I REMEMBER THESE THINGS?!?!?

I believe there was also a Dollman vs. Dangerous Toys or Puppet Master too.

I think what it basically comes down to, why lightning can't really strike twice, is that the filmmakers are so BAD at trying that they missed the mark completely in most cases, which is why something becomes bad movie gold. They see that after the fact, after their creation gets a second shot at life, and they think "Hey, we'll try to do something just like that again", while still failing to realize that they're terrible at what they do. They're not comic geniuses just because their attempt at drama had unexpectedly hilarious results. Just because you're terrible at one thing doesn't mean you're going to be great at the other. You just might have no place trying to be a filmmaker. Hence, when the makers of a hilariously bad film TRY to make a bad movie, it ends up being the worst kind, an unfunny funny movie with nothing else to fall back on.

It's pretty horrifying, because either way he's a dead man, and here he is being used as a weapon. He's just so, SO fucked...

OR the Sharks aren't really murderers, they're just on the run from said abusive husband.

Nicolas Sparks stories create genuine emotion in me alright, and that emotion is apathy. Gee, I wonder who ends up/is already dead in the next one?

If Cage was the lead in "Safe Haven", it would have blown the end reveal, because HE would have been able to see the ghost of his wife the whole time. And she would have been breakdancing.

Yeah, "LOL" seemed to take forever, because I remember it was being taken off of Netflix right before they recorded it, we talked about it nonstop here for a couple weeks, building up the Shit Dick mythology and a fear of raw chicken, and then there was no activity for a while. I was starting to get angry about having watched it. Jesus, that fucking movie...

With his hat being like a shark fin, they were no doubt able to make it to safety before too long.

For me, main character lady's death was more of the shocker, but not in an "OH SHIT, no they di'int!" way, so much as an "Oh wow, they actually committed to killing off this protagonist that actually deserved it" kind of way. Come to think of it though, the movie itself was a lot more clever than it deserved to be between that, the Jackson thing, the opening attack that didn't turn out how those things normally do, and the real hero of the movie being the biggest nobody actor there at the time. I mean, it's not like Saffron Burrows or any of the character actors in the film ever really achieved superstar status, but they were certainly more recognizable than Thomas Jane, who I'm not sure I even recognized/remembered at the time as having been in "Boogie Nights", which was already on its way to becoming my favorite movie ever.

I don't get that either, but at least it wasn't like other movies where the picture that's being shown around is CLEARLY just a still from the movie. I think it was "Expendables 2" where at the end they're leaving some stuff for Liam Hemsworth's girlfriend or something, and the picture of him is clearly a posed shot from when they were in the forest that he was killed in that would have had to have been taken at a time where everyone was sneaking around and stuff.

So, this piece of shit is on American Movie CLASSICS right now, and to say that the effects don't hold up, when they weren't even up to snuff in 2003, is an understatement. I just caught the scene where Rome is experiencing an electromagnetic storm or something, and the lightning effects look straight out of "Krull".

So WHICH scene is the most jaw-dropping? It's got a couple.

See also: "Extreme Ops"! Do the Dew...MOTHERFUCKER! Snowboarders versus the terrorists from "Cliffhanger", but minus Joth Lithgow! Yeah, this one's getting a thread...

Wow, how did I not see this thread before? Huh... Anyway, it's kind of just aping the first film, as those characters were just whatever the actors' names were. Of course, that film was playing up the realism and wasn't as scripted and when you're getting more real reactions from folks, you don't want them fucking up by calling each other the wrong name. The sequel wasn't using the same gimmick, so it just seems sort of lazy, but I'm sure that some asshole in the creative process claimed it was an "homage". This was such a shitty film, but the director (Joe Berlinger) is an awesome documentarian, and just about anything else he's done would be worth checking out. I saw this opening night, and it was the first movie that I ever saw at the theater I've been working at for forever. It was one two screens, but there were maybe a dozen people in my showing.

It's the movie that (sort of) killed a studio! It's practically "Cutthroat Island".

I kind of would have liked to see Blomkamp on a Marvel movie or something after doing "District 9", as I think that a lot of the success of Marvel's films, whether it's Marvel Studios or even the Marvel films set up at different studios, came from picking these directors that came from lower-budget backgrounds in completely different genres or television that may have had different ideas that really knew how to stretch a buck. You had guys like Singer, Raimi, Vaughan (who dropped out of "X-Men 3" AND "Thor" before finally ending up with "First Class"), Favreau, and then even Branagh, Whedon, Gunn, and Black. Creatively, there have been some shake-ups here and there, and a lot of those films are expensive as hell, but I've NEVER heard of any of the Marvel Studios films going crazy over budget or falling behind schedule once the productions are officially up and running. I'm not sure if they have anyone tapped for them yet, but I think Blomkamp's sensibilities could be an interesting fit for "Black Panther" or "Inhumans".

I'm glad that Joss Whedon went on to greater film success so that the stories of how HIS vision of "Resurrection" was different from what ended up being the finished film would kind of go away. It probably wasn't going to be a whole lot better than what it was, but because he's a name that we know, it got brought up at every turn, when in fact, screenwriters get their stuff changed or rejected all the time and they're hardly the first ones to get a pass at it. See also: Kevin Smith's "Superman".

The problem is that it would make a great movie, like a nearly dialog-free tale of these two races just duking it out for two hours (y'know, like the opposite of what the actual AvP movies were), but on the printed comic page, even if it looks great and the visual storytelling is fine, it takes little to no time to blast through and isn't really worth paying for, especially more than once, and there isn't much in the way of an ongoing story if it's just those two going at it.

I'm interested, as it sounds kind of like they're going to "Halloween: H20" it, like pick up from the last installment that people seemed to enjoy and go another way with it. That creates a continuity nightmare, and while I was okay with "Alien 3", I won't necessarily miss it or anything else that followed. I'm also pretty jazzed that the "Alien" series and "Prometheus" films will be separate things, and while it remains to be seen just how good or bad the films will be, just the fact that there will BE a second "Prometheus" makes up for issues I had with the first one only teasing me with the "Alien" stuff that I really wanted to see. Regardless of what the stories end up being, I like the look of Blomkamp's films, so that should be interesting. Speaking of "Alien", Dark Horse Comics recently did a crossover series with the Aliens, Predator, and Engineers from Prometheus, and it was fucking garbage. The problem with the Alien and Predator comics have always been that you have to have people in them to actually have some sort of story, and they're just so hit and (usually) miss.

This is bringing me right back to my angry letters to Santa after my parents slipped one time and I started to doubt his existence...