PlanBFromOuterSpace

Yeah, it's like "We're talking about this in class right now, and this is the only movie on the subject, so we're going to watch it", and it's almost always pretty bad or borderline offensive in the way it treats the subject matter. Once in a while though, a good one sneaks in. I remember having to watch "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" in a government class one time, which I ordinarily probably would never have seen, and I fell in love with it. Depending on my mood, it switches back and forth with "Boogie Nights" as being my favorite film of all time.

He's one of these guys where I simultaneously enjoy AND dread his involvement in something, as his resume is such a mixed bag of hit and miss, so you never know what to expect quality-wise, but he's usually fun to watch. He's like a slightly less picky Christopher Walken in that sense.

Awwwwww shit, I get it! Y'know, when I brought up "Battleship" before, I was actually going to start talking about water as well, so I almost mentioned it before you did.

The bit about it being like turning a switch, like how he can go from likeable guy to raging abusive asshole.

Mine would be Griff Octane. That's my go-to totally fake action star/wrestling name if I ever need it.

I hate when people talk about how stupid a lot of American movies are (like other countries don't make anything but prestige pictures or something), but a lot of the time it's the rest of the world that eats that shit up!

It reminds me of the "Dolphin Lundgren" category (features Dolph Lungren, a dolphin, or both) that I knew was "Johnny Mnemonic" that kicked around forever until someone FINALLY picked it.

Exactly. I remember hearing about all the crazy problems and the stuff about the budget, but I still saw it opening night, and when I did I just thought "All of that talk about...this?". If it hadn't at one time been the most expensive movie ever (which is EARNED by being a nightmare to make, not like today when studios willfully piss away 200 million on something that doesn't have a chance), I don't think anyone would still talk about it. It wasn't even really a bomb either. it made just over half it's budget back in the States, which isn't GREAT, but it did pretty well internationally, which is comparable, or even a little better than "Battleship", which didn't even do a third of it's budget here, but fared OK overseas. This movie had a lot of dumb stuff in it, but I think people want to think it's crazier than it is because of all the negative hype, and it's still not nearly as stupid on paper as a lot of films that were worse that had even poorer box office performances.

Dammit, that's exactly what I thought when I'd read the kid's birthday party thing, but you jumped on it pretty quickly!

Roller-skating has-beens? And the HDTGM crew had a hard enough time believing that ARM WRESTLING was a big deal!

There's a pretty big discussion on this one already.

On top of that, Juggernaut's not even a mutant in the comics. He found some magic crystal thing and BAM, superpowers. They may have retconned it later on though to have it make more sense when he actually joined the X-Men. In fact, I'm pretty sure they did.

Speaking of which, the box art for "Scream" has always stuck out to me, because the pictures are insane. Skeet Ulrich is clean-shaven in the film, but is in full late-90s Depp mode on the cover, and then Arquette, who has a cop 'stache in the film is clean-shaven on the box.

Does Stallone's hat have different settings when he switches it, like that cyborg hillbilly with the dial in "Judge Dredd"?

Hey, so how come in his action movies where he's a one-man army or a cop that (get this) plays by his own rules, Stallone is an unstoppable force of nature, but in his "serious" sports films, they always try to make him seem like the underdog, like he MAY not win, so they throw in some stupid rule to sway things in his favor in case he fucks up or finds himself nearly defeated, like the no TKO rule in "Rocky IV" (he LITERALLY gets knocked down like 128 times in one round) or the double elimination (double elimination, double elimination, double elimination...) rule in this? Also, a sequel/reboot/re-imagining of this film would of course have to be called "THE Over the Top".

Why would that be a reason to pull them? If anything, it gets more people to watch them! For a nearly 30-year-old movie to become relevant again, if even just for a little while, would be any studio or television station's DREAM.

And that was "Outrageous Fortune" in it's third week! Aside from vaguely remembering that I saw every movie that was on Showtime from 1987-1991 or so, I wouldn't even know what "Outrageous Fortune" is!

Also, it's not any sort of honor for Audible to be your sponsor, because they'll let ANYONE run a train on them. I mean, I thought Stamps.com was a slut, but Audible's been giving up that ass for years and years and years...

Sherman Hemsley's character was killed by a small-time criminal named Rollo Tomasi, or at least that's what I call him to make him seem more real.

I just got home from watching this tonight after work, and I think I had more fun with this movie than any of the summer's other superhero/comic films. I mean, it's not fun in the sense that it's a laugh riot or anything, it's a pretty serious story for the most part, but it's the character being what the character's supposed to be in a setting and story that make sense, and that was incredibly enjoyable to see. I dug "Iron Man 3", but Tony Stark's become a little too Jack Sparrow, and I liked "Man of Steel" just fine even if it seemed confused as to who and what Superman is supposed to be, but "The Wolverine" just fucking nailed it with the character and tone, with a minimum of out of place elements (Viper served a purpose but seemed kind of unnecessary). I'm not giving anything away, as it's right there in the trailers and TV spots, but it was also refreshing to see a story about a hero that loses his powers and/or wants to stop being a hero in a franchise that's six movies deep, not in the second film RIGHT after we met the guy, a la "Spider-Man 2", "Dark Knight", "Superman 2", and some others I think I'm forgetting. While watching this film, I was reminded of other great "white guys squaring off with Japanese baddies" films such as "The Last Samurai", the criminally underrated Christopher Lambert classic "The Hunted", the Dolph Lundgren "Punisher", and "Black Rain". Also, does anyone remember when it was a big deal that Wolverine called someone a DICK in the first "X-Men"? We've certainly come a long way, but I don't think we'll see his new catch phrase (first introduced in "First Class") on kid's t-shirts anytime soon...

For a second, I thought that said "Vocal by James Cromwell".

I LOVE this movie, but I haven't seen it in forever. I heard about the upcoming BLu Ray release when ALex WInter was on The Nerdist podcast last month. I never realized that he'd done so much on the other side of the camera since seemingly dropping off the face of the Earth a couple decades back. But yeah, this thing used to be on cable non-stop back in 1994-1995 or so, and I rented it numerous times as well. It's totally absurd, and I can't wait to revisit it again soon. That sure is a lot of milk men...

Wait, holy shit! He's ALREADY been the poor man's Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson BEFORE he was the poor man's Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson! "Walking Tall: The Payback", still polluting the $5 bins at your local Wal Mart!

He doesn't know it, but for nearly twenty years, he's been the poor man's Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson! "Hercules: The Thracian Wars" opens at a theater near you in July 2014!

I think we still have a couple more to go before that. I mean, we haven't even had the chapter that introduces the out-of-left-field supernatural element yet.