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    Omission: while Jason was freaking out about not realizing Hootie McBoobie the landlady was Professor Sprout from Harry Potter, how come no one talked about how 'Bibi' is none other than Catherine Mary Stewart-star of the "Omega Man" meets "Valley Girl" 80's classic, "Night of the Comet"?Night-of-the-Comet.jpg

    And she's also looking mighty good these days, at least in the documentary. Also still hot: Finola Hughes.

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    This would be a great movie for the podcast. It was made in an effort to bring wrestling (WCW) to the mainstream. Not only was it panned by wrestling and non-wrestling fans, it was one of the turning points in the Monday Night Wars. Would the HDTGM gang enjoy this film?

    I wouldn't say it was a turning point so much as it was one of the nails in the coffin, as it launched a pretty terrible angle (David Arquette: WCW World Heavyweight Champion) they never really recovered from after a pretty bad couple of years of them kicking their OWN ass with horrible mismanagement and creative what-the-fuckery, as the WWF had corrected their course for good in late '98 or so and just extended their lead from there. If you're interested in the story, I highly suggest reading "The Death of WCW" by RD Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez. A new updated 10th anniversary edition came out last year.

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    Great question! I actually think "Karate Kid" would be a great as a musical! I'll probably be putting a lot of thought into this over the next couple of hours, but the one that came to mind first, and this is a bit out of left field, but I think you could make a pretty good musical out of Rudy. Granted, the real-life Rudy is kind of a douche, but I'm a real sucker for underdog sports movies. Which is funny considering, I have exactly zero interest in sports in my real life--at least, watching them. I can't explain to you how tedious I find the idea of watching a game of football. For example, I think the Super Bowl may be this weekend...and if it is, I have no idea who's playing. Carolina, maybe? I mean, I really should have warned you all to brace yourselves. I know this all has to be extremely shocking coming from the guy who just 5 or 6 posts regarding a Broadway musical...

     

    But, I think Rudy, as seen on film, has the correct plot trajectory, hits the right beats, and if done right, has the potential be something kind of cool.

    I think that could work well and then be re-translated back into film, combining hard-hitting football action with dance choreography. Also, I'd forgotten that Jason was actually the director of the stage play version of "Karate Kid" on an episode of "Community"!

     

    Just thought of another one: "Red Dawn"! Even though it exists only in my mind, the musical film adaptation of what would surely be the multiple Tony Award winner is already AT LEAST the second best "Red Dawn" movie.

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    Question for y'all:

     

    Sometimes Hollywood gets accused of being creatively bankrupt, what with all the sequels, remakes, reboots, etc., but it seems that Broadway is no better, as they've taken some unusual films and made musicals out of them, and then some of THOSE have been turned BACK into movies. What films would you a) like to see turned into an unlikely musical and then B)/> turned into a musical movie? I'm going to start with "The Karate Kid". Can you IMAGINE the climactic performance of "The Best Round"?!?

     

    GO!

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    I don't know if I can really explain it because it just didn't sit well with me. I get the whole thing of fame through crime and trying to remain on top, but it does come off as stretched out and replayed throughout the course of the movie with numerous femme fatales. Movies like Grease and Rocky Horror Picture Show are movies that incorporate the music into what could be a standalone movie, not the other way around where a movie is stapled to music. I do appreciate musicals with original music rather than appropriating a bunch of different songs that have no place in that time, fuck you Moulin Rouge for your bunch of horseshit. I know my answer probably won't sate anyone wanting to know, but it's just one of those movies I can't explain my disdain in clear words.

    I think that it being so heavily hyped and overrated didn't help my perception of it when I got around to seeing it. As I mentioned before, it was exceptional on a technical level and very well made for what it was, but no way was it something that should have been winning "Best Picture" left and right.

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    I have a problem with this assessment, mainly because I feel you don't substantively give reasons for your analysis. I follow the Judge John Hodgman rule that "People like what they like and don't like what they don't like" but I think you're missing the point of this musical.

     

    In Roxy Hart, we see Roxy's psychological state and her delusional relationship with fame. In Cell Block Tango, we learned about Catherine Zeta-Jones' case, her marriage and her relationship with her sister. In Richard's Gere tap dance courtroom scene, we see how hard he working that "razzle dazzle" (another solid song).

     

    Also, Chicago doesn't appropriate any classic songs from the era, they are all originals.

     

    I'm curious as to what musicals you're referring to that appropriate classic songs because the only ones I'm thinking of are Rock of Ages and Pennies from Heaven. I think you're conflating problems you have with modern musicals, which again I'm not sure to what you're referring, with Chicago.

    Sorry if there was any confusion, but I didn't mean to make it sound like "Chicago" was one of the ones that re-used popular tunes. Anyway, I didn't want to see "Chicago" in the first place, as I got hauled to it by my girlfriend at the time, which probably didn't help the experience, and then it totally bored me on top of that. Like I said, for what it was, I can admire that it was very well-made, but as I mentioned, there just wasn't enough story there.

     

    It wasn't embarrassing to watch at least, which I can't say about a lot of other (mostly) post-"Chicago" film musicals that I've seen at least big enough chunks of to know I couldn't make it through the rest. "Rent" makes me cringe whenever I come across it. "Rock of Ages" is a huge offender, as well as "Across the Universe", in the category of musicals that seem to base their gimmick around you already knowing the songs, yet they'll still stop every so often to say "GET IT?!?!". To bring it around to the next HDTGM film, they're like Cannon, who don't seem to understand why the thing they have in their hands is so popular and just run the wrong way with it. Man, the Beatles sure are great, but their music would be so much better if we just let a bunch of actors jack off with their entire catalog to incredibly mixed results, you know? And I sure like 80's rock music, but I wish that someone would cut the balls off of it and take everything away from the songs that make them what they are.

     

    *Sigh* Maybe I'm just upset that no one's taken me up on my idea of a musical version of Thomas Hardy's "Jude The Obscure" set in the 1990s and featuring the music of Weezer and Everclear...

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    I might need you to explain to me why you think Chicago was the worst musical, plot wise, lol

    I saw the movie, and it felt to me that there was about 15 minutes of story stretched out into 2 hours. It was a technically well-made film of course, but I was totally bored throughout. I don't specifically remember if the songs added a lot to the story, but my problem with a lot of the recent film musicals I've seen is that they do not. Things happen, and there's a 10 minute number about the thing that just happened. Wash, rinse, repeat. Seems to happen a lot in ones where they're reappropriating classic songs and just riding that gimmick into the ground.

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    The Apple is a hard movie to find if you don't have Amazon Prime. There's only one torrent of the movie but it's the Rifftrax version.

     

    One of the main actors in The Apple was in a Kitchen Nightmares episode.

    It was on Netflix for years, and I didn't check it out, but then I finally want to watch it...

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    I DVRed this movie because of the description. I didn't know that this future sport would actually be called "Future Sport". Even when it's been played for several years? Doesn't change to Present or Current Sport? Terrorists from Hawaii are fighting for liberation. Somehow, Dean Cain gets the authority to settle the issue on a game of Future Sport.

     

    I would like to see some Israeli guy overrule everyone and decide that the Palestinian territory will be decided by a Parkour competition.

    I would go "Modern Sport" or just "Sport".

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    Most anything "camp" -- usually too self-aware to be funny, and also too difficult to make fun of properly. Obviously, there have been a few episodes covering these kinds of movies, but a classic example is the Eric Idle "Alan Smithee" movie that coincidentally became an actual Alan Smithee movie.

    This makes me think of the bad movie that's trying to be a bad movie. I think we've talked about it elsewhere, like how "The Room" works, because Tommy Wiseau wasn't trying to make the film that he ended up making. Same with the guy behind "Birdemic". But if those same filmmakers go out and try to replicate the "success" that they had, it just ends up being bad bad and not entertaining bad, because the whole reason the earlier films were so "good" was because they knew absolutely jack shit about what they were doing. They tried to be dramatic and created unintentional comedy, so I can only imagine how lousy it would be if they tried to be funny on purpose.

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    Well, if you believe Wikipedia (oh, and why WOULDN"T you)...production began April 1983 and ended August 1983. Diane Lane would have been 18 on January 22, 1983.

     

    Maybe rules were different in 1983, but current laws only apply to 17 and under and say total of 10.5 hours on set, 6 hrs of which are for work, 3 for tutoring (on school days), 1 for break and 0.5 for meals. 8 hours on non school days, still total 10.5 hours.

     

    So, doesn't sound like Paul is right on this one. If there were minors in the crowd, I am guessing they would have recast them instead of having a multi million dollar production shoot around non essential extras.

    You'd be amazed. I've worked on a few films where minor extras were used, and there have almost always been scheduling issues with things running behind or with cancelations, because when you have minors around, their guardians have to be there too, which means mom or dad has to take off from work, and unless they're ALSO working on the film, they're not getting paid to be there. So much of the extras casting is pretty last minute too, which doesn't work well with a regular 9-5 schedule. When I worked on "Abduction", there was the added problem of Taylor Lautner being hot shit with teenage girls at the time, and they made up such a high percentage of the turnout for the casting calls. Right off the bat, most of the extras that were hoping to work were more interested with just seeing the star and screaming his name than with actually working and following direction, and that's the exact opposite of what you want in set. I've only worked in the Pittsburgh and Cleveland areas though, so maybe it isn't as much of an issue in the larger markets where there's a bigger pool of interested people to draw from, and the novelty of the latest teen idol shooting a movie in your town has worn off a bit. For more on my mostly misadventures on "Abduction", read my comments on THAT episode's thread!

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    "It's well known that Rick Moranis is a bit of a ass hole here in Canada, so much so that it's become a derogative term. used in a sentenced like " don't go all Moranis on me now. " you would say to a wife or a guy that got on your nerves "

     

    So long as we are throwing shade on the actors of this film, I fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole looking stuff up on this film and found Michael Pare's "Fan Site," which is amazingly horrible in a delightfully unselfconscious way. It has a 3 page incomplete autobiography by Pare which includes the story of how Pare borrowed a teamster captain's car while looking for an apartment, racked up a bunch of parking tickets that he threw away, then watched the car's owner get arrested for the tickets in front of him and never apologized. Also, this 3-part bio (in which EVERY instance of a free meal on a TV or movie company's tab is documented) just sort of ends with him getting a manager. " Joyce became my unofficial Manager. She was under contract to ABC at the time." THE END. Maybe I'm crazy, but I just got a kick out of the whole experience of this site.

     

    http://michaelpare-fanclub.com

    I'm just a lowly extra and sometime production assistant, so if anyone is going to go on at great lengths about how awesome the free meals are, it's going to be us. I expect more from the star of "Eddie and the Cruisers".

     

    Speaking of which, I was working on season 4 of "Banshee" this last summer, and one day, between scenes, there was a guy at catering making quesadillas that looked so delicious, but RIGHT before I could get him to make mine, we got called back to set. I returned after they were done with the shot, but Quesadilla Guy was gone. I'm not exaggerating when I say that that's probably the worst thing that happened to anyone during the production of that, or any season of that show. Fuckin' Hollywood, man. They'll chew you up, spit you out, and deny you a fucking awesome quesadilla...

     

    In happier news, "Outsiders" debuted tonight on WGN. In that show, I appear as a cop that somehow manages to work at every desk in the police station at one point or another during the course of the season. My shining moment will be when one of the main characters hands a prisoner off to me in the eighth episode or so.

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    Yeah, in that one you're rescuing the president, not your kidnapped girlfriend. TOTALLY different.

    I want to see the deleted prologue where the President's men, rather than decide to go with some sort of military strike or covert op, decide "We'll just send in a couple of 1980s street toughs to get the job done. A couple of really...bad dudes."

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    This gave me a mega nostalgia flashback. Used to love Renegade, Double Dragon and River City Ransom. You couldn't have a side scroller beat-em-up without a kidnapped girlfriend for some reason.

    And your best bro by your side! Or in the case of "Final Fight", your girlfriend's shirtless mayor father...and your best bro.

     

    Holy shit, I also just remembered "Bad Dudes"

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