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I'm sure they just licensed it, because it's at Dark Horse Comics now. Still, I'd think that the popularity of the Marvel comics had more to do with the movie FINALLY getting made than the original books. I guess it had been in development for quite some time, possibly pre-dating the comics, but they actually had Roy Thomas, one of the comic writers, work on an early version of the script, so there was that other Marvel connection. Anyway, I'd still say that Conan was more of a Marvel movie than something like "Men in Black", which was sort of based on a comic published by a company that Marvel bought after the fact.

So, is this a prequel or a sequel to "Valentine's Day"? When they get around to October, can we expect a film where Michael Myers hunts down a star-studded cast of romantic comedy stars? Holy shit, can you imagine that? That would be fantastic, if for no other reason than I'd really like to see Gary Marshall direct a "Halloween" movie...

I was actually jealous that my sister, who was nowhere near the Hulkamaniac I was, got to see this in the theater, and I was off at stupid camp or something. And then I SAW "No Holds Barred"...

No one ever ever ever ever mentions it, but I believe CONAN was the first Marvel movie! The first 2 Conan flicks and Red Sonja were both out before this, but maybe they don't get talked about as being Marvel movies because they weren't original Marvel creations. Still, there were roughly a million billion zillion Conan comics put out by that point.

When you guys were talking about how long it took for the effects guys to get the feather boner to work, I pictured a scenario not unlike James Spader being all burnt out and disheveled for weeks trying to crack the Stargate.

I don't recall the reaction to the film at the time, but it strikes me as one of those movies where people would say "This athlete/singer/dancer/other non-acting personality is surprisingly good" when they're essentially playing themselves and doing the only thing they know how to do.

And of that remaining 25%, about 90% of that was Canada. Also, there's a pretty amazing Blu-Ray set coming out in September that has ALL of the films together for the first time (the previous DVD sets only had the Paramount releases), probably with like gajillions of extras. The book it comes with though seems to just be an excerpt of the excellent "Crystal Lake Memories" coffee table book that came out in '05. I recommend chasing that book down if you can. I've had mine signed by Kane Hodder and like 4 other Jasons.

That's got nothing on "Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot". If I remember correctly, everyone just stopped talking about the movie and started talking about Woody Allen's filmography for like 4 pages.

I did see it, and what I guess I was trying to say was that it was nice to see a movie where De Niro gave a shit, which doesn't happen a lot these days. It already seems so long ago, late 2012...

Exactly! I think I've mentioned that before, how it should be more about how something exists in the form we ultimately got it in. For instance, with "Batman and Robin", we know HOW it got made, but the real question was how the hell we ended up with a neon fucking nightmare of a feature-length toy commercial when the earlier installments didn't seem to indicate it'd be heading in such a direction. Bringing it back around to THIS particular franchise, it's interesting that the 80s-90s Batman franchise followed pretty much the same trajectory as the Superman one, at least in terms of where the ups-and-downs line up and where everything just goes off the rails. And then when "Superman Returns" rolled around, it wasn't the worst thing in the world, but after nearly two decades between Superman films, it was just NOT the movie we needed or expected. It's like, all the time it took and that's what we got? How did THAT get made?

I'm pretty sure that "Rocky IV" holds the distinction of being the first (and finest) theatrically-released feature-length montage. To this day, if I've had a bad day and I may or may not have been responsible for letting my best friend get beaten to death, I crank up Sir Robert Tepper's "No Easy way Out" and drive around my block a few times.

I already miss last year in "Silver Linings Playbook" when De Niro busted out his "I give a fuck about the movie I'm making" accent for like the first time in forever.

This was one of the last in a line of expensive fantasy franchise non-starters that seemed more concerned with convincing you that it would be the start of an entire franchise of films and wasn't at all concerned with just being a good movie that people would actually want to pay to see. It's the first chapter in the Whateverthefuck Saga? Great, now tell me what that fucking means, right? At least it wasn't like "Eragon", where the big hook was that it was based off a book written by a fifteen-year-old. "Is it any good?" "The author is fifteen!" "Great, so is it any good" "I said, the author is fifteen!" "What does that have to do with the quality?" "He got shot NINE times!" "Wait, what?"

*SPOILER* OK, you know those people towards the end that Zod was going to burn a hole through? Is it just me, or did they look perfectly capable of escaping on their own? I mean, Supes pretty much had his head in place, so they could have gone UNDER the beam, or they could have moved along the wall or whatever they were up against in the opposite direction. Of all the places that people get trapped in this movie, this seems like the easiest situation to escape. Instead, they stand there like idiots and force Superman to become a murderer.

*slow...clap*

What about his "Swordfish" get-up?

It's just that when someone that's never posted here comes rolling into the forum like a stranger offering candy out of his van, we get a little skeptical. I mean, most of these new faces usually just show up to request ridiculous (and by that, I mean not ridiculous at all) movies to be on the show, and they're never seen again!

Ahhh, back when you could call something retarded without the retards getting mad. That in itself is pretty hilarious though, mad retards. It's the retard strength (That was my Guitar Hero band) that you have to look out for!

I think they resembled the "War of the Worlds" tripod things more than anything particularly spidery.

Speaking of Mr. Van Sant, who in the WORLD could that plaid-clad gentleman sitting to the left of Titus Welliver (and right in front of Frances McDormand's ass) in the under-seen "Promised Land" possibly be? Annnnnd that didn't work. Why can't I ever get pictures to work? Maybe this time it will...

That's what he gets for firing Peter Parker way back in "Spider-Man 2". Karma's a bitch, yo...

This is probably a far more common thing than you'd think. I mean...ummmm, that's what a friend told me. Right, a friend...

Depending on where you stand on "Jaws 3-D", "Orca" is better than AT LEAST half of the "Jaws" films.

You forgot "Martin Lawrence explaining what just happened for the vision impaired". I don't remember much from this at all, but I specifically remember a scene where a guy falls or gets knocked down or something, like right into a big ol' pile of shit, and Lawrence exclaims "Awwww man, you just fell in SHIT!". You see, when he does that, it's funny TWICE! Right? No? Anyway... This reminds me of a perfect bad movie idea I've had in my mind for a LONG time that either Martin Lawrence or Ice Cube would have done. It's about a black hockey player that gets suspended or injured or something, and he wants to get back in the game, but he's damaged goods, he needs to get back in shape, so he does the only REASONABLE thing he can to get himself in shape for a comeback, and that is...becoming a figure skater. Hilarity (and about a thousand "jokes" about black people not liking the cold or not skating) will ensue. The title: "Black Ice".

Not until "K-23" or so when they finally go to space. That's when you KNOW the series is dead...until maybe the next one when it goes to the 'hood. Hmmm, this could keep going for a while, but I really want your cross-stitching to be as complete as possible.