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I specifically remember there being "Over the Top" ACTION FIGURES, so you could play with toys that could arm wrestle each other instead of just arm wrestling your friends. I don't know of a single person that owned any though.

Agreed. We didn't even HAVE any Stallone here until about a year ago, right?

But even though it's bad for me, I might actually enjoy what led me to that diarrhea. I know it's Taco Bell,and I know I'm going to be regretting later, but I love that fucking food. I do not enjoy Tyler Perry or Uwe Boll films.

"Left Behind" IS on the horizon. A re-boot of the classic Kirk Cameron franchise? It WILL be done. Oh, it has to be.

I have not, but for a while there Netflix kept suggesting it to me! I'll have to check it out. There's a podcast I listen to with a couple of Jersey-based indy guys that talked up CSTC for a long time before it actually came out, so it was really cool to finally get to see it when it finally hit Netflix last year. I also highly suggest "Heroes of World Class" if you haven't seen it. Combined with the WWE produced "Triumph and Tragedy of World Class", it's one of the most depressing looks of the business that you'll ever see.

"Beyond the Mat" is one of those ones that's interesting to revisit every so often, seeing as a lot of things have changed in the wrestling landscape since then, whether it's deaths or other instances of reality butting in making you look at things in a different light. Recently, FYE had a big sale on WWE sets, including a ton of pre-death of Benoit/Guerrero documentaries, and they're so sad to watch with knowing what happened in the next few years. If you have Netflix, I also suggest "The Backyard" and "Card Subject to Change".

If there's a more prolific performer of awesome movie tunes, I challenge them to come forward. Seriously, I will fucking fight them. Maybe. But Jesus, Kenny Loggins ruled the '80s soundtrack scene between this, Caddyshack, Footloose, Top Gun, and the criminally underrated "Nobody's Fool" from Caddyshack 2, not to mention any pre-existing songs that have popped up in things. If I made a movie that took place in the '80s, I would pay the man whatever he wanted to write the music for the whole thing!

Sounds like it was the "Couples Retreat" of it's day!

I had this mixed up with the other resort-themed film "Private Resort", starring a young Johnny Depp!

Perry is like the Wayans Brothers to Spike's Martin Scorsese.

I really don't think that Perry even has a "Malcolm X" in him though. On a related note, I'm really surprised by HOW badly Perry's "Alex Cross" did considering that it looked like something that could appeal to white folks and people that don't dig Perry's cross-dressing comedies, but even his dedicated fanbase didn't turn out for it. You just know there were more than a few people that were like "I really like the Madea movies, but man, THIS looks stupid".

I'm not saying he really knows his audience, but I hear Tyler Perry puts the 15-minute intermission at the BEGINNING of his movies. OK, not really... Seriously though, I'm not being racist if I tell you that I can't tell any Tyler Perry movies apart, right? I swear, they DO all look the same!

On a related note, I suggest checking out "Battle Pope", one of the earliest works by Robert Kirkman of "Walking Dead" fame!

Speaking of that though, they actually DO (or at least used to) dub movies over there in their OWN language, which is kinda crazy. I mean, we expect the dubbing to be pretty bad when it's dubbed into OTHER languages, but it turns out it isn't so great in the first place either.

That's actually the plot of like EVERY "genetically-engineered (insert type of animal here)" movie on SyFy. For some reason, the military thinks there's some value in experimenting on alligators, snakes, starfish, worms, goldfish, etc. to turn them into some sort of secret weapons, but (waaaaaait for it) something always goes wrong. I'm thinking that "Sharknado 2" will reveal this!

You can provide all the proof you want, but I still know of some people that claim that the Robot Holocaust never happened.

You have to look at the kind of audience that actually saw the film though, and while I work at a theater, I'll be damned if I know if there WAS a type of audience for this film. I think it was mostly kids trying to sneak in that were easy to catch (yeah, not too difficult when we sold only a handful of tickets for any given showtime) or people that go to those God-awful "Movie" movies that probably forgot they saw them by the time the next one came along. These aren't the people that create any sort of buzz that boost a film to cult status, and it's not likely to be discovered by anyone that will. Speaking of that, I'd like to see what the DVD sales are like for the Seltzer/Friedberg films, as I imagine they have no shelf life whatsoever since their gimmick is "OMG! We're referencing things that were popular two weeks ago!". This thing made 30 million, sure, but most of that was international, and even then, that's just a drop in the bucket. I'd guarantee that the fact that there were like a million recognizable names in this thing helped make this thing way more money than it would have made otherwise.

Brilliant! And of course the HurriCage can only be defeated by an Expendables-like team of virtuous, heroic Cages, like "National Treasure" Cage, Cameron Poe from "Con Air" Cage, "Croods" Cage, and Tim Burton's "Superman" Cage! To paraphrase another HDTGM favorite, to catch a Cage, you need a Cage. And holy FUCK that's perfect, because a cage is an actual thing you'd catch things in!

Holy shit, guys, how has no one said "HurriCage"? If our hypothetical sequel/spin-off/whatever is going to take place in New Orleans, it only makes COMPLETE SENSE! Nothing else does, but that title would be oh so right!

Well yes, NICOLAS CAGE needs to make this!

"Sharknado" was definitely made in the vein of early Peter Jackson or Sam Raimi, at least in the sense that no one wanted to give THEM any money either. Oh, holy shit, I almost forgot, but did anyone notice in the driving around scenes that that the wheels of the car were really bad CG? Like they were doing those almost ground-level shots from behind the tire and the whole thing looked like something out of a PS1 game. Also, magical disappearing/reappearing water...

I suggest Whalewind before, which I think has better crossover potential, because Sharnadoes and Whalewinds are natural enemies, but I'd TOTALLY be down for "Sharknado vs. Bearicane vs. Whalewind" somewhere down the line.

"If the sequel came out tomorrow, people would see it. I don't know about the day after tomorrow..." Well, there you go! "The Day After Tomorrow" meets "Sharknado". It's literally "Sharknado" times a million billion. After the beating "White House Down" has been taking, Roland Emmerich might be up for it!

Remember, he's half Ian Zeiring's kid, so he probably shares the same "I'm a teenager in my thirties" gene that afflicted much of the teenage population of Beverly Hills in the early 90's.

"End of Watch" meets "Sharknado"