PlanBFromOuterSpace

Didja hear that the giant mechanical spider in "Wild Wild West" was supposed to be in Kevin Smith's "Superman"? HUH?! DID YOU?!?!?!?!

Please, it's best to just remember the good times.

There's a pretty huge thread about this already over in Bad Movie Recommendations.

On the DVD, there's an interview with the filmmakers where they explain that there was some REALLY hateful stuff that didn't make it into the final cut. That's really, really...reeeeeeeaaaalllllllly, really, really saying something. Yeah, you can watch "Overnight" without ever actually seeing "Boondock Saints", and I don't think you'd be missing a thing.

It's like in "Star Wars" when they come across the slaughtered Jawas and Obi Wan says something about how "only imperial stormtroopers can shoot with this kind of precision" or whatever. Yeah, great shot, as long as no one's looking.

Regardless of what you think of "Hearts on Fire", I think we can ALL agree that Robert Tepper's "No Easy Way Out" from the same film is the finest montage song of all muthafuckin' time and deserves to be the national anthem, if that was the kind of thing that could be voted on.

The game was definitely a hell of a lot of fun. I remember being able to taunt your enemies and that you'd actually get more of a bonus for trash talking them AFTER they were already dead. I used to go for so long without actually doing any of the missions, like just fucking around and seeing what I could jump my car off of.

If I remember correctly (and I probably don't), early on when we don't know what it is yet, doesn't it also kill with surgical precision, like it takes the heart right out of someone or something? But yeah, when we see the thing later on, it's just a big smashy alien monster thing.

I recall there being talk recently, like within the last couple of years, about a possible remake being in the works, which makes me wonder this: If they updated the story to make it more contemporary to reflect modern urban culture, would the new Scarface have a "Scarface" room in his mansion? I haven't watched "Cribs" in a while, is that still a thing? I always figured if I made it big as a rapper, I'd have a room in my house devoted to just ANY other Pacino flick, like there'd be a shrine to "Bobby Deerfield" or "Author! Author!". I'd be quoting "Sea of Love" left and right.

An entire episode could be devoted to ill-advised Jim Carrey-less sequels/prequels to Jim Carrey films! "Son of the Mask"! "Dumb and Dumberer"! Whatever that fucking straight-to-video kid "Ace Ventura" thing was!

"Apes" definitely falls into the "How Did THIS Get Made?" category, like "The idea for a new Planet of the Apes movie was kicking around for years, and there had to be so many ideas out there, how was THIS the one that got made?". And to think, Burton's "Superman" could have very well ended up there too if that had been allowed to happen.

How long before Lindsay Lohan is completely phased out of the packaging on this film? She got so much mileage for having like a good 10 months or so of her career nearly a decade ago, but there were a lot of others associated with the film that have gone on to so much more, like Fey, McAdams, and Seyfried. In the future, after Lohan just COMPLETELY drops off the map, I could see this being sold with everyone ELSE's name above the title.

It was a relief to discover that Meyers' name doesn't seem to have any drawing power outside of the "Twilight" franchise, at least as far as films are concerned. This thing taaaaaaaaaanked. We had it for a few weeks at my theater, and while I saw just bits and pieces here and there, it seemed like EVERY part I saw was just the girl talking to the voice in her head, which was kind of funny.

I first remember hearing of it on the Shitty Movie Night Podcast a while back.

Between this and "Iron Eagle", Lou Gossett Jr. was probably my favorite actor when I was 8. This was on HBO alllllllllllllllll the time.

I guess that's what I meant, since he made the movie, which then launched a gajillion-billion TV shows.

Emmerich also brought us the "Universal Soldier" franchise, as well as being responsible for the gajillion or so episodes of "Stargate", which some people have enjoyed.

Your mom's not homophobic, but...

Sorry, I guess I meant the character in general, Bruce or JGL. But yeah, if they'd given us any indication that the kid went full Akira and wasn't just killing hitmen and gangsters, I may have been more concerned for our "hero".

More or less, yeah, but most of them (at least not in this day and age) don't find themselves under a pile of awards when all is said and done. "Les Mis" certainly tried to follow in those footsteps. I think some musicals are fine, but there are some where instead of incorporating the song into the story, they just use them as an excuse to take 10 minutes to spell out exactly what just happened or what's going to happen in the movie. That's when it just seems like padding and when I really start to think "Wow, there really isn't much to the story".

Speaking of "Looper", did anyone else have a big problem with the idea that this "Rainmaker" was actually the bad guy? Oh no, someone's offing a bunch of time-traveling gangsters, but not trying to take over the world or killing off regular law-abiding folks or anything? I'm supposed to feel sorry for Bruce Willis WHY?

To be fair though, I DO think there was that moment where a light bulb goes off in Dillon's head, where he realizes that he's an even bigger asshole than he thinks and sees the effect it has on Thandie Newton, who would almost rather burn to death than be touched by him, but again, NOTHING comes of it because the movie forgets he exists after that. In a movie that's almost 100% free of subtlety, this may be a total fluke, more in the performances than in the writing, and it certainly would have been more effective in a movie that was actually concerned with seeing where that particular story went. This movie reminds me of those "Truth" ads. Anyone remember those from a few years back, those really obnoxious anti-smoking commercials where they'd use shock tactics to really hammer home how bad the effects of cigarettes are? I'm not a smoker, never have been, but the way these assholes went about spreading their message made me want to light up just to spite them, which is really the opposite of what they were hoping to accomplish. OK, maybe "Crash" isn't QUITE like that, because I didn't feel the urge to go out and commit a hate crime or anything like that...

Or "regular guilt" as Jason might say!

I'm not sure I'd even know where to start looking for the higher-end bear costumes...

Gooby is the Skeet Ulrich of talking bears.