PlanBFromOuterSpace

This reminds me of how in the first film they make it a point to mention the distance they're driving. Vin says "I live my life a quarter mile at a time" or something, and then each race eats up like 3 minutes of screentime, Sure, it'd be lame for the races to be done in like 10 seconds, but it's HILARIOUS to think that a human being can nearly walk the same distance in that same amount of time.

Oh yeah, Rock's stunt double in a lot of his films is his COUSIN, who like Gina Corrano was ALSO an American Gladiator! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715708/ Holy shit, guys! If you ever man the fuck up, face your fears and do "Southland Tales", get this dude! Aside from all the Rock stuff, he's also done a lot of other stuff that'd be awesome to talk about!

But then they reinforce another stereotype when he defeats him with his superior math skills. Or not. Pffft, math in a "Fast and Furious" movie. Yeah, right...

Makes me wonder how they've never gotten around to "Starship Troopers"!

In most movies, I find it hard to believe that some characters are related to one another, like I don't buy for a second that the actors had even MET before they start playing brother and sister, but I think the FF casting people did a great job with this, because Jordana Brewster seems to suffer from the same monotonous charisma deficiency as her fictional sibling, who in turn seems to have sexually transmitted it to Michelle Rodriguez.

I haven't seen the film, though I've heard the song from it about 80 times now while cleaning the theater over the last few days. I think it's in the beginning too. Anyway, it goes "I got ONE chance...something something...TOnight...whatever whatever...even if I got THREE strikes, I'm gonna go FOR it...." Even if you got three strikes, you're gonna for it? If you've got three strikes, you're already out you fuckin' dummy! If it was three BALLS, and you're still going to try to knock it out of the park rather than take a walk, that makes sense...sort of, but the the three strikes thing doesn't work for anything at all.

I know they did "Mac and Me", which is the only straight-up kiddie flick I can think of them doing right off the top of my head (they did "Smurfs", but it was still adult characters I think), and from what I can remember, there were some seriously inappropriate themes and stuff going on that made it stand out from the usual stupid kid flick shitiness, so I'm thinking a kids movie needs to have another level to it to make it worth tackling. That movie alone had child endangerment all over the place, neglect, gun-wielding naked aliens with faces like assholes, a crippled kid falling off a cliff and nearly drowning, some of the most blatant and shameless product placement ever put to film, and so much more. I don't remember much of this particular 3 Ninjas flick aside from it being an easy go-to punchline whenever the subject of wrestlers appearing in movies comes up.

A look at Box Office Mojo showed me that this film did about 17 million in the summer of '98, so it didn't look like it appealed to anyone really. I think I most remember this film from NOT remembering it, or at least not even being aware of it at the time. I spent the summer on TDY in Saudi Arabia, and while we were aware of most of the pop culture happenings going on back home (like the explosion of "boy bands" that mostly came and went during that exact 97-day time period), a lot of the more minor under-performing films of the time that came out over the summer didn't hit my radar until they popped up on VHS that Winter. I was curious that Katie Holmes had been in a film that I didn't remember coming out, and then I saw it, and then I was less curious about Katie Holmes films from that point on.

He's actually done at least a half dozen King adaptations, but I don't think I've seen more than "Sleepwalkers" and "The Stand". Are any of the others any better? They've mostly just been done for TV.

I understand what you mean about him not having much or anything to do with many of the films that have his name attached or are sequels to films he's more closely associated with, which is why I call it the King brand, because there certainly is a lot of rubber stamping going on. I recently listened to a great review of "Lawnmower Man" on "Yeah, It's That Bad", and from what I understand (even from what I knew back then), all the original story and movie had in common really were that a man and a lawnmower make an appearance in both. For "The Stand" to be long enough to work as a feature a film, I think there'd need to be a LotR-type commitment made, like a guarantee that there would be 2 or 3 films or whatever, but those are always pretty risky, because if that first one doesn't do well, it kind of dooms the rest.

There HAS to be a review from around the time of the film's release that consists only of "(Film critic's name) Checks Out".

This was a pretty good bad period for Stephen King-branded movies, with this, "Lawnmower Man", "Pet Sematery 2", and "Children of the Corn" parts 2 through 28 all coming in right around this time. Sure, you had "Shawshank" pop up a couple years later, but man, most of the 90's King-related stuff was pretty terrible. This reminds me, a few years back I remember seeing an article on some news site or another that talked about the Top 10 best and worst theatrically-released Stephen King films, and the best ones tended to be films where he had no actual involvement in it besides having written the book. If he wrote the screenplay or directed or came up with an original story for a film, it usually ended up being not very good.

I'm pretty sure this is on here already somewhere, or maybe it was just the first one. Hmmmmm.....

How about we see the two main characters as teenagers that are roughly the same age, but then we see them as adults, and Cage clearly has a decade or so on Eva Mendes? Also, what genius in the marketing department decided that a poster with two giant floating heads of the leads with Ghost Rider standing around doing nothing was BETTER than just a money shot of a biker with a flaming skull for a head tearing ass on a motorcycle made of fire? Yeah, way to go. Just take an awesome visual and neuter it...

Also, if you can explain the craziness in writing in a single short paragraph, it might not be a good pick. I've seen that on here a bunch, like someone's said "You should review this because this and this and this happens", they give away anything that would be interesting, and then there's LITERALLY nothing left to talk about. Many of the films they talk about on the show HAVE to be experienced and can't just be explained away.

But it had "regular" people in it!

Was this the regular version of "Waiting to Exhale"?

I have a friend that saw this six times in the theater, each time with a different group of gamer friends. I'm pretty sure that they made up for about a third of the overall ticket sales for this thing. I mean, not just at my theater, I'm talking worldwide.

OR using the hip lingo of the day. At one point though, Kirk DID say something about Spock throwing him under the bus, which doesn't sound all that dangerous in a day and age when buses can fly.

This is ridiculous. I mean, I think we can all agree that the sci-fi in "Bad Boys 2" was pretty solid, which is ironic considering that the first one was so full of holes despite being a direct adaptation of the story by Ray Bradbury. I could be wrong. I'm probably wrong...

They could probably LITERALLY copy and paste their "Burlesque" show and you'd have it right there. It's like the same movie keeps getting made and remade every couple of years.

What? Oh, I thought someone was calling me. Plan NINE, got it... I'm sure I've seen the first half hour or so many times, and if I remember much of anything, I think I remember it just being very, very boring. I may have to give it another try though to see if anything leaves an impression on me other than the complete ineptness on display.

Absolutely nothing. It's just that when anyone brings up guests that have been on the show that have nothing to do with the movie they're talking about (or they're there to talk about something other than the movie), Smith is my go-to.

The thing with Smith is that he's a known personality, and there aren't a lot of screenwriters with the type of fan base he has, so all of a sudden pretty minor things like that become somewhat interesting trivia (as long as you haven't heard the story a billion times) to people that normally don't pay attention to who writes what. I remember back when Smith was a bigger deal, before he started telling his giant spider story on the lecture circuit to anyone that would listen, people in my comic store would be like "Did you know that KEVIN SMITH wrote a Superman script?". No shit, so did dozens of other people before a new Superman movie actually got MADE. Smith's just the only one that's any sort of household name among sci-fi/fantasy/superhero/geek culture fans.

And Kevin Smith was on the "Wild Wild West" episode where he told that story for the BILLIONTH time. Something he was forced to write into a script ended up in another movie when that script didn't get made, but the way he explains it (all billion times), that's never happened to a screenwriter ever in all of recorded time. He also had nothing to do with "Wild Wild West".