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    It's not Citizen Kane, but I always thought of it as a classic superhero movie. Or at least one of the earliest superhero movies to do it right.

    Watching this again after "Captain America", you can see that Joe Johnston (who directed both films) was sort of ahead of his time as far as being able to pull off a period comic adaptation. I think it was pretty influential, but it may not have seemed that way at the time because the films most similar to it that followed, like "The Shadow" and "The Phantom", weren't very well received at all. Slam evil!

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    This seems to be a recurring theme in Jennifer Garner roles. In Juno, I always wondered why she was still allowed to take the baby considering she was a recently divorced single mother who works full time.

    I'm curious to see how they conclude the "Jennifer Garner playing barren women who adopt kids with wacky origins" trilogy. I'm pretty sure that the next one will be from space or an alternate dimension or something.

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    Sadly, no. Although he did have one good line in his capsule review:

    This is what happens in movie universes where David Copperfield, Kris Angel, and David Blaine don't exist! Nuclear threats, planes full of convicts crashing on the strip, and a lot of other craziness that only Nic Cage can save us from! It's like he's forever indebted to Las Vegas after it won him his Oscar.

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    Anyone else think that Voight skipped the Tony Montana level of accent and went with an even bigger knockoff by using the Razor Ramon version of the Scarface accent?

    Have you ever heard Scott Hall speak WITHOUT any kind of accent? Like when he's not drunk? It's...uncomfortable. To his credit though, I admire him for never sinking to the depths of "Say 'ello to my li'il fren'!" and for being a more convincing Latino than Academy Award-winner Jon Voight.

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    God that horrible hologram room with the two virtual campers who show their ample tits and ask Jason if he wants premarital sex was just laughably bad, and this is from a series which featured a killer who drowned as a boy SWIMMING to Manhattan.

    From drowning victim to Olympic-class swimmer over the span of 8 movies, and people claim there's no character development in these films? I know, it's pretty subtle, so you may have missed it. Of course, that subtlety would get hacked to pieces and buried in an unmarked grave once Jason became a demonic force of nature, which was before he became an astronaut...

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    Can you ever REALLY be an ex-cannibal, or is it like alcoholism, like you just spend your life as a "recovering cannibal"? I mean, good for them, they were able to beat their addiction, but where's all the praise for the people that grew up in that environment that never took up cannibalism in the first place? Huh? Or do THEY need to start eating people to get attention too?

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    Oh, I just remembered something else! After talking about the outbreaks in 1968, 1978, and 1985, they mention ANOTHER outbreak in 1990 that was almost exactly like the 1968 outbreak, only gorier! You see, that's when they made the the first Tom Savini-directed "Night of the Living Dead" remake! *LAUGHOUTLOUD*

     

    Hmmm, Savini seems like someone that would be game for this too...

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    Last night on Netlfix streaming, I watched "Bernie" and "Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation". Both were films about funeral directors with questionable hobbies, but while one was a creepy, suspenseful, darkly funny, unexpectedly great and well-paced film, the other was the burning shit pile that was "Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation".

     

    This is the sequel to the equally shitty 2006 "Night of the Living Dead" remake from 2006 or so, starring Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster!) as the character previously played by Sid Haig. The fact that he didn't come back is very telling, because Sid Haig (of the world famous acting troupe "The Rob Zombie Players") isn't exactly picky when it comes to projects. While we're on the subject, I'd like to suggest "Creature" again. Apparently, this latest "Night" takes place IN the Romero-verse, making reference to zombie outbreaks in 1968, 1978, and 1985, but then there's also a discussion about whether or not these new zombies or slow or fast, causing one of the (and I use this term loosely) characters to talk about Romero zombies. Also, there's someone that's supposed to be Sarah Palin and some jabs at Fox News, because apparently that's still a thing.

     

    I read something on the IMDB message boards about the crew not getting paid, and other problems on the set, so maybe Mr. Haig would have some insight if you could get him on as a guest to talk about this film or the one he was actually in, as it looks like the same guy made both of them.

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    I only saw it once, but from what I remember, they didn't seem all that interested in the Black Dahlia story at all. Didn't it go off on it's own tangent for about an hour before going back to Black Dahlia stuff in the last twenty minutes or so? This was just a shitty, sloppy movie, and the opposite of something like "L.A. Confidential", which did a great job of intertwining the fictional story with real life events. Oddly enough, James Ellroy wrote the novels that both films were based on, so I guess it really DOES make a difference when it comes to who is adapting your work.

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    Plenty of great choices abound in the forum, but this has got to be one of the front runners. Martial arts experts abound, and gangster asians too smart for college. Floral dresses, and eyeball collections. A creepy man with mother issues named Stingray. And a perky youth '90s babe (Cynthia Rothrock) just trying to make money for her sister's tuition by fighting for her street gang and pouring coffee for overzealous cops. Watched it twice in 24 hours. Holy christ on a cracker is this a fucking masterpiece of wtf and "so serious it's hilarious" moments. Just watch the link below for a piece of the puzzle. LOVE this movie. Please find and enjoy!

     

     

    The part with Stingray spraying down his Mullet of the Gods is reminiscent of Stallone dressing down in Rambo: First Blood Part 2. And did you call Cynthia Rothrock a "perky youth 90's babe"? I know that these types of movies were famous for 30-year-old martial artists portraying high school students, but Rothrock is only like 2 years younger than my mom, and I myself had a driver's license in '93. That would totally be my luck that I'd pick a fight with a random dude in a parking garage and he'd turn out to be a kung-fu master...

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    This looks like a homemade remake of "Friday the 13th Part 2" that someone was inspired to make after watching "Scream", only any cleverness at all would begin and end with characters repeatedly mentioning how they'd seen "Scream". "We're talking about a horror movie in a horror movie! That's so ironic!", only of course it isn't, but this was also about the time that the Internet definition of ironic became "the exact opposite of ironic".

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    What was Adrien Brody thinking? Probably, "Well, my last few high-profile-ish movies were 'High School' and 'Predators.' What do I have to lose?"

     

    ...just wow. I mean, this might be one of the first things I've ever seen that tries so hard to be offensive (slave jokes! Gay jokes! Asian jokes!) that it not only forgets to be funny, but it can't even be offensive. For one thing, that would require a point of view, something this movie lacks entirely.

     

    I also recall hearing about Vince Offer's first movie, "The Underground Comedy Movie." There's a "sketch" involving a superhero named Dickman who sprays his enemies with semen, which goes to show that he has somehow failed to develop any kind of sense of humor in nearly fifteen years.

     

    One last cheap shot: Offer is an ex-Scientologist. This may be the first time I've ever felt like Scientology had good taste.

    Was "Underground Comedy Movie" the one that had the ad that ran during the Howard Stern Show on E! for years and years? I don't know of a person alive that's seen the thing.

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    Is that in the opening slaughterfest?

    Speaking of that, I LOVE when you see characters go through hell in a movie, you see them fight so hard to accomplish their goals or save the day or whatever, just to have them killed off in the opening of the next movie like they're extras. Having grown up on "Iron Eagle", "Iron Eagle 2" was the biggest offender to me personally. See also: Most horror sequels.

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    I like to refer to anyone that busts out a Tony Montana accent in a movie as being "Scarface"-LESS-than-inspired.

     

    Speaking of that, I've heard talks of an upcoming, modernized remake of "Scarface", which makes me wonder this: Will the new Scarface already have a "Scarface" room in his house?

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    I think Stiller's follow-up was "Cable Guy", which got a lot of hate at the time, but I think it's mostly gone away. Stiller directing, Apatow producing, and Carrey doing something different? Yeah, that would have been better-received on its initial release if it would have been done in the following decade. Instead, it's a movie people claim to hate for reasons that don't seem to exist!

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    Worst (best?) scene ever is when Ben Stiller shows Wynona Rider his commercialized sellout version of her video - given that Reality bites is already the epitome of commercial insincere selloutdom, the director's attempt at creating what he thinks a commercialized video looks like is so insane that if it doesn't give you brain damage, it will make you laugh your ass off as you're upchucking...

     

     

    While he didn't write the film, Stiller himself did direct "Reality Bites", and it's nice to see that with the right creative team around him, he would go on to do some AWESOME satire with "Zoolander" and "Tropic Thunder". As far as other people's films are concerned, he turned in great performances in "Dodgeball" and "Starsky & Hutch", which also did a great job of satirizing (I wouldn't quite call "Starsky" a parody) their respective genres.

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