PlanBFromOuterSpace

I don't know if you've heard of it, but the Now Playing Podcast, another movie review podcast, is in the middle of what will be a years-long retrospective of movies based on Stephen King properties (as well as their many sequels), and their episode on "Maximum Overdrive" and it's remake (?) "Trucks" just hit within the last couple of weeks. They've been reviewing the films in the order that the source material was published, so the timeline hops around a lot, but they give a lot of good insight about what was going on at the time of the making of the movie, where King was in his career, etc. After doing the new "Transformers" movie (they'd previously done a series on the others) and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", they're jumping into the "Children of the Corn" films, which should keep them busy for a few months.

I haven't seen the whole film, but I have caught several scenes over the last few days, and one of them was this whole discussion about how the guy was too old for the daughter, and how the kids didn't think so, and they're citing statutory laws, all while (I assume) they're being hunted by the government and giant killer robots. ALL of these Transformers movies are super fucking long, and it's because of bullshit like this. Need more time between the sensory-numbing madness? Throw in a conversation where a 20-year-old guy explains why it's OK to fuck the protagonist's 17-year-old daughter...

Have we not discussed this elsewhere already, or do I just talk about how terrible this is THAT much? I got into an argument at a wedding reception with the BRIDE over how truly terrible this movie is. People seem to like this one, and I really don't get it, as it's pretty generic and boring compared to the other films in the series and just other similar movies in general. The first film was fine, and I remember REALLY liking the third one, "Cube Zero". You could skip that second one entirely and not miss a thing, really.

Sleazy Rider. *Extends arm, drops microphone that no one knew he had*

Also, I usually make it a point to imply that I've already slaughtered their friends and loved ones, and that I saved them for last. I mean, I usually haven't, but it's so satisfying to make those the last thoughts that they have before sending them off to the sweet hereafter. That's just me though.

Did anyone else hear Missile Command being played during the Harry's spot, or was that just my speaker? Also, is this expensive razor blade thing really the epidemic that these sponsors make it out to be? I don't shave EVERY day, but my blades seem to hold up for quite a while, so I'm not spending much on that stuff. Harry's and Dollar Shave Club essentially sound like needle exchange programs for hipsters and Hunger Games cosplayers.

Please post separately. Also, a quick search will show that there's a Happening thread that's already several pages long.

"Escape from Edge of Tomorrow": a movie shot entirely in a theater showing the Tom Cruise flick. BAM. "Edge" was pretty awesome, one of my best of the summer so far as well.

I'd like to think that Asylum is working on a knock-off that was filmed entirely at Knott's Berry Farm.

You're right, and that's exactly why they need to do an episode on "Constantine"!

And it's still only a little less awkward than this... I swear, she danced like she was having seizures for two straight hours.

He looks like a less masculine Tilda Swinton.

We never got it and I've never seen it, but I think that that movie followed in the wake of "Fireproof", which did similar business and was made by the same people, but starred our boy Kirk Cameron. This latest wave of religious films has performed frighteningly well, and I fear that March may become for religious films what October is for horror.

I recently posted my biggest gripe against Double Dragon over in that thread. I'm not going to spoil it here...

I've been championing Southland Tales for a long, long time based on its rampant what-the-fuckery, so that's at the top of my list, but I'd really also like for them to do Miami Connection, because it's SO much fun, and I'd love to have another reason to re-visit it.

I manage a theater, so I've been subjected to them all No one's really said it, but I'm going to guess that this round of so many widely-released religious films was timed to capitalize on the release of the very high-profile "Noah" movie, which itself was kind of sort of close to Easter (like releasing a Christmas movie in early November, hoping it'll get a good 6 weeks at least), but then the success of these films sort of overshadowed the big Hollywood movie that was expected to be a big hit. "Son of God" was the Jesus one, and all THAT was was an edited down version of the Bible TV mini series from a couple years back with a couple of deleted scenes, and apparently, they really didn't market it as such, because we did have customers that left it that were like "Ummmmm, I think we already saw this. Was this on TV?". So yeah, shady as fuuuuuuuuck. They'd already made all their money back with "The Bible" TV and DVD sales, so "Son of God" was a triple-dip, QUADRUPLE now with this week's DVD release. The audiences for these movies have been kind of dumb, as they've just been told to go see them, and with so many religious films out and often overlapping, there's been mass confusion. I mean "Son of God" and "God's Not Dead" both have the word God in the title, and they were told to go see the God movie, so what to do? At one point, when we had both "God's Not Dead" and "Heaven is For Real", someone came in and was like "I'll take one for Jesus is Alive", which didn't really sound like either of them, and then we went back and forth for a bit before he finally said "the one where the kid sees heaven", which is really what he should have led with. That's par for the course though when trying to figure out ANY movie where the customer doesn't know the name. They could be unsuccessfully trying to explain what they think "Blended" is before finally blurting out "the Adam Sandler movie".

More like last two MONTHS (which I'm sure you were getting at)! Oh man, have you seen any of "Heaven is For Real"? I've seen a lot of it in bits and pieces, and the adults seem to do just fine (I'm kind of a Greg Kinnear fan), but the kid in it is fucking brutal. I Imagine in every shot that he's either wearing an earpiece or his mom is standing JUST out of frame mouthing his dialog to him, because it's so awkward and stilted and the kid seems so fidgety and disinterested. But JESUS, so everything gets a pass, I guess. Also, there's "God's Not Dead", about a kid that's taking a class that he shouldn't be fucking taking in the first place if he's a total holy roller. Kevin Sorbo is the evil philosophy professor or something, and he makes his students sign or write something saying that God is dead or God doesn't exist (which are actually kind of two different things, aren't they?), which accounts for like half of their overall grade. That sounds fucking crazy anyway, like something that wouldn't really happen, and this kid, rather than change his schedule to something more appropriate, sees it as a challenge. I saw a scene where someone DOES basically say "Hey, how about changing classes instead of being an asshole and telling someone else how to do their own job and being the kid in class that everyone wishes would shut the fuck up?" (but in a totally PG manner), and he responds with "I think God WANTS me to defend him, so there's no way I'm quitting". Contrary to what Robert Tepper led us to believe all those years ago, there IS an easy way out, but this little prick stuck around to pick a fight. Sorbo ultimately loses the debate, because the script said that he had to, and to add insult to injury, he's run over by a car and killed. Because Jesus, guys. Because Jesus.

Come on, "Like Father, Like Son" is RIPE for a remake.

The original was playing in our biggest auditorium the week I started working at my theater, and I had seen it on DVD at Wal Mart months before, so I wondered what the hell was going on. For some reason, I also remember that the poster wasn't even a full 27x40, like it didn't even fit in the case. Why the fuck do I have a hard time remembering the IMPORTANT things...

Anyone else remember Commander USA's Groovy Movies on USA? It was kind of sort of a precursor to Up All Night. Anyway, that's where I first saw CHUD.

In that case, look no further than Danny Boyle's "Sunshine"! Sort of. Harder sci-fi that becomes more of a horror flick later on.

He usually has a couple of expensive co-stars at least, and then the wife/girlfriend/whoever is usually a part that's filled by a big name. This looks to just be the Adam and Drew show, and maybe it was cheap to film this one because of tax breaks or something. Oh, and I haven't seen the film in it's entirety, nor will I ever, but I've seen the end credits several times, so to those of you that are asking yourselves "This doesn't look like one if Sandler's funny voice movies, but does he at least sing a terrible song?", the answer is yes. Yes like a motherfucker.

Did Paul apologize for mispronouncing Avril's name and then thank someone for doing "reach-search" 5 seconds later? Pffft!

If he hadn't been typecast so, so hard, he looks like he could have been like a Chris Cooper or something.