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    Bruce Campbell might be a fun guest if they did it, although from what I read in his autobiography, there may not be much for him to say about it.

     

    (Basically: He accepted the movie in part because it meant he'd get to travel around Costa Rica on Paramount Pictures' dime, since he was barely required in the movie. He was also miffed that the producers and director didn't want him to deviate from the script at all, not even to insert an "um" in the dialogue. His guess was that the writer—who also wrote "Moonstruck" and went on to make "Doubt"—had a clause in his contract saying his writing couldn't be changed.)

    That didn't stop them from getting Kevin Smith for "Wild Wild West", which used an idea that got scrapped from a script that wasn't used on a movie that Kevin Smith ALSO wasn't ultimately a part of. That said, I should totally be a guest if they ever decide to do a show on "One For Money", if only for not including me in the excellent "Abduction" episode. Look it up, people!

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    Roger Ebert is a national treasure I've always loved his reviews, but in the last few years he's become more cynical about movies and his reviews are the first I go to because they cut right to the chase. He would be great on this show, but unfortunately, podcasts are not the best medium for him right now. If he doesn't already listen, he would love HDTGM.

     

    On that thought, it would be great to have Leonard Maltin on the show; Doug Benson certainly has a connection.

    Maltin had a pretty good line on Benson's podcast a couple weeks back when talking about "The Hobbit", where he said something about how at 48 FPS, he was able to get bored at twice the speed or in half the time or something.

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    The night vision scene was fucking bonkers, because there's NO set-up or reason for it at all. I haven't seen this movie in a decade or so, and I don't remember much of it, but I still remember THAT. They're driving around in a van or something, right? I thought at first that maybe it looked that way because that's how the inside of the vehicle was lit, but then the next few minutes look like that too. In a movie full of gimmicky bullshit, why use it here? I could totally see it being used nowadays in a found footage movie, like in "Chronicle" or something like that, and it might make sense. Here, it's just so fucking weird, because it's the only time they do anything different. I remember watching this the night before it came out at my theater and thinking we'd better post a sign telling people that this was supposed to happen, because I figured we'd have people complaining that something was wrong, but no one ever complained. Then again, no one really came to see "Rollerball" anyway...

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    Speaking of "Piranha", have you guys thought about recording a couple of extra episodes where you'd basically be your own guests, because they're YOUR movies? I know you guys love a good "Back-Up Plan", and it might not be such a bad idea to have some "rainy day" episodes in the can in case schedules don't work out or a guest flakes out on you or something.

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    To be honest, some things have happened in society that come from Demolition Man. Groups trying to ban swearing, people calling for cops to use tactics that are more like positive reinforcement, and I think I saw three sea shells in the bathroom of a Applebee's.

    My Taco Bell still doesn't have valet parking yet though :( Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous, but "Demolition Man" IS actually closer than a lot of the more futuristic futures we've seen on film, so I was only half-kidding about the documentary thing. You know what I miss about the futures that were promised to me as a kid? All the 80's fashions and colorful street gangs.

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    I looked up Surviving Christmas and the story behind its release is kind of crazy. It was released early so that it wouldn't hurt Paycheck's box office. This movie was so bad that Paycheck was the masterpiece between the two of them.

    I think that "Surviving Christmas" was actually on DVD BY Christmas, which was probably the best thing for it, because even successful CHristmas movies usually take nearly a year to hit home video, as no one's buying holiday flicks in the spring or summer. I've been reminded of this by the lobby advertising at my theater, which has been running the trailer for last year's holiday dud, "Arthur Christmas", non-stop for the last 2 months to promote it's DVD release. I think...I think I actually kind of want to see it now...

     

    Seriously though, if you make a Christmas movie and it makes no money at the time of year when ANYTHING can make money, you have no business making movies.

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    A different haircut is the international symbol for "See? Time has TOTALLY passed!". I remember being so disappointed by this movie when I was a kid, because the trailer made me think that it would be like 2 hours of race cars launching into the sides of bridges or whatever. That was a pretty awesome visual, and I don't remember much else about the rest of the movie. I know Jagger was a bodyguard or something and didn't end up being such a bad guy after all.

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    The one before it isn't so hot either. I remember that the third one was supposed to get a theatrical release at one point, but then it just got shit out on to DVD a couple years later. While that one had SOME production value and a co-star that was about to hit it bigger (Kirsten Dunst), Wicked Prayer is practically an Asylum production by comparison.

     

    I was a huge fan of the first Crow as a teenager, and the character was a musician, so it made sense that he'd maybe talk the way he did, but why, in all the sequels, when the main character returns from the dead, do they start spewing shit that sounds like bad poetry or song lyrics when there was NOTHING about their characters before that would leave you to believe that they'd act like that?

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    Last year, it seemed like Joel McHale couldn't choose a good movie script to save his life. In fact, besides maybe "Spider-Man 2" and "The Informant!" I don't think he's made a good movie yet. Last year was bad; this, "Spy Kids 4," and "The Big Year," all coming out within a few months, all looking awful.

    Come on, he was the sort of villain in "Ted" this year! He was great!

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    I didn't take it as them being in heaven. I thought it was an Inside the Actor's Studio type thing, as if Liz Taylor and Richard Burton themselves were actors portraying "Elizabeth Taylor" and "Richard Burton".

    I didn't think they were dead either, but I also don't think the movie was smart enough to be THAT meta. It just seems like another made-for-TV movie convention, like you would see that framing device being used, and you would never make the mistake that this was a REAL movie. More than "Inside the Actors Studio", it seems like a play, because they're still coming off as just completely insincere performances. They're still "on".

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    I enjoyed listening to this, but I couldn't help but be bothered by a lingering sense that this episode will come off as being in pretty poor taste in another few months if and when Lindsay Lohan is no longer among the living. Maybe this is not likely, but it's certainly not unlikely.

    Hey, that's on HER, and this is hardly the only place you'll find anyone bagging on her and her lifestyle. If anything, shame on the makers of this film for exploiting the Lohan situation, because like they keep pointing out, the movie is one big wink to the audience. It's based on ANOTHER person, but it really seems like a big excuse for Lohan to basically play herself.

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    Does anyone remember about 10-15 years ago, when VH-1's "Behind the Music" was at it's most popular, they started producing biographical flicks that more or less recreated all of the bullet points of the BTM episode and blew it up to 90 minutes? THIS. That's exactly what this is, only the narrators are the characters and not the voiceover guy.

     

    That said, I LOVE when huge real-life events like big concerts or the making of big movies are reproduced on basic cable made-for-TV budgets. I wonder at what point in the pre-production stage they just give up and say "Fuck it, no one's going to buy it anyway, so let's just film the 'Cleopatra' scenes in my garage. My backyard can be Spain".

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    Yeah they were Eastern European if I remember right, but with how loose they played with locations and people in this movie who knows. You had German metal band Rammstein in a concert in the beginning, then you have various European locations afterwards, so who knows. For all we know they are from Japan, either way it doesn't help make any sense of this shitty movie.

    I do remember in the opening scene that there was a spy in a tuxedo that got killed pretty much in plain sight while Rammstein was playing. Y'see, spies that dress all nice and stuff are total squares, and they dress like that ALL THE TIME and don't know how to blend in, because they aren't x-treme enough...or something. On a related note, "Skyfall" is on it's way to making a billion dollars, and about 12 people paid to see the "xXx" sequel.

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    This movie was nuts. From the over-the-top stunts and how they completely ignored physics. Also, for a guy who has committed only what can be seen as misdemeanors or small felonies, he is blackmailed into joining this extreme agency or face copious jail time. And Anarchy 99 has to be the worst terrorist group name ever, "they want anarchy and were formed in 1999," real original.

    They were based out of Russia or somewhere in Eastern Europe or something, weren't they? Why would their organization's name be in English? That reminds me, when I was a kid, I drove myself nuts trying to figure out what the hell KGB stood for until one day I realized and thought to myself "Hey, whatever it stands for, I'm not gonna know what the hell THAT means either!".

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    I think I mentioned this in the "Resident Evil: Flaming Shitball of a Fifth Movie" thread, but "End of Days" has one of my favorite supernatural horror cliches: Bullets don't work...until they do. I only saw "End of Days" once or twice, but I seem to remember someone saying something along the lines of "bullets won't hurt him", but does that stop Arnold from shooting the shit out of everything? Bitch, please...

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    I think the Virginia Woolf stuff lasted all of 5 minutes in the movie. We see them get the movie, we see them make the movie, and we see Dick NOT win an Oscar, all in one segment. Like I mentioned before, the whole movie just seemed like a bunch of vignettes strung together. Something happens, and then we get thrown right into something else that happens, with no transitions, continuity be damned.

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    I haven't seen it very recently, but did Lucas go back and digitally replace "Jefferson Starship" with "Starship"? Man, if he keeps fucking with the original, I'm afraid I just won't be able to take it seriously anymore. Speaking of which, I'm actually kind of disappointed that they didn't add the ghost of Bea Arthur to the celebration at the end of "Jedi" when they put out the Blu-Rays last year :(

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  24. Posted

    This is why I was waiting for all the Harry Potter movies to come out... every subsequent release from like the 4th on, they'd update their various box sets. Actually, anime companies figured it out a long time ago... you know how much product you're going to be releasing over an unknown time frame, so sell the first volume bundled with a box that is large enough to eventually hold them all!

     

    Thanks for taking one for the team, though, PlanB. Guess I'm waiting til next year for Bat's Man as well.

    I actually wondered the same thing with the new Bond Blu-Ray set, like what's the point of buying the whole thing now when there's a movie IN theaters that you'd likely be picking up as well. They actually mention on the packaging though that they've included a spot for the Skyfall disc whenever that comes out, so that's cool. Still, when the NEXT movie comes out...

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    The FP is clearly aware of how much of a joke it is, so I don't think it'd work for this show, necessarily.

     

    But if they could get the Trosts as guests, that would be pretty awesome. They've got the Crank connection, as the one of the brothers has worked on all of the Neveldine/Taylor films, so it shouldn't be too too difficult to get them to appear.

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