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    I kind of go back-and-forth on whether HDTGM should do a few of the really bad Christian films that have come out the past few years.

     

    On one hand, I understand why they haven't, both because they're low-hanging fruit and because uber-religious people can get so obnoxious and blow things like a silly podcast episode completely out of proportion.

     

    But at the same time, you have shit like God's Not Dead, which is so fucking crazy that it would probably make for an absolutely awesome episode.

    I've found with many of those films that they're all premise, like they sound like they'd be completely ridiculous, but then they end up being just super boring once the story sets in.

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    How dare you say anything bad about Hatebreed! (I just remember that song from it, and I hate to admit, I really liked it).

     

     

    Although, I've just looked at the soundtrack, there are two sides, "The Heavy Metal Side" and "The Xander Side".

    I think the only Hatebreed song I've heard that I can remember was the "Refuse/Resist" Sepultura cover from "Punisher: War Zone". It's okay, but they made the classic cover mistake of changing one of the better parts of the song, which in this case made it a little LESS crunchier. That's right, Hatebreed made a song sound lighter.

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    I hope to have one of these threads one day. I hope that I bump the thread for Dreamcatcher or The Happening and someone says "You're in luck" and points me to an already recorded episode on said movie.

    I'm picturing the end of "Good Will Hunting". Ben Affleck is knocking on Matt Damon's door, but there's no answer. There's a smile on his face, as he realizes that after years and years of hoping in vain, his wish has finally come true...

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    Poor Billy Gunn, as long as he keeps his dirty drug tests secret for a year or so, he should be back with the E in no time.

    It was weird, because I think it was something he was taking for bodybuilding that's legal there, but not in WWE, or vice versa, I'm not sure. He wasn't competing in-ring though, so it's strange that it would immediately cost him his job.

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    and what would be bad weather in Pittsburgh?

     

    sounds like it would be a walk in the park in Edmonton alberta.

     

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    if it makes matters worse thats outside a day care. I told you I live in crazy town.

    I'm outside of Pittsburgh, and it never got that bad, but a lot of the surrounding area where a lot of the guys are coming from was a lot worse. We were supposed to have recently-fired WWE wrestler/NXT trainer Billy Gunn, but he was snowed in somewhere.

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    Ok, I am ready to answer.

     

    Underrated: I just finished watching The Martian, and it occurred to me that I have had a big old crush on Kristen Wiig for a long time. Like since she was Dr. Pat on the Joe Schmo Show 13(!?!?) years ago. She is smart, funny and beautiful.

     

    Overrated: Scarlett Johansson. I mean, she is is way out of my league, a fantastic actress and seems like she would be very intellectually stimulating, but is often touted as the most beautiful woman alive and she is just not my type for some reason.

    I got to see Scarlett in person when I got to work on "Winter Soldier", and I think she looked better when she's trying to blend in in the mall scene (I walked right between her and Evans in a couple of takes) than when she was decked out in the Widow gear. Speaking of which, I saw Chris Evans up close both then and also when he was in full Cap mode, and he is quite the handsome gentleman. What do the ladies generally think of him?

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    This is kind of how I feel about all these Cannon films. There are a ton of bad movies out there; we've done several Cannon films. Can we move on yet?

    I do think it gets interesting though when you start throwing in other factors, like when they have to work with a toy company to make "Masters of the Universe", or when they get handed an established film franchise like "Superman". I mean, the end result is almost always a disaster (and they were going to make MARVEL movies...), but at least it's not just "...and the movie only made half its budget back, because they overpaid Stallone" again.

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    Hey guys, there's been something that's been bugging me for the last couple of weeks and I wanted to put it out there as a conversation starter. This may be a bit controversial, but just know I'm not trying to be negative just to be an asshole--I am writing this with the best of intentions.

     

    Ready? Okay...here it goes...Do we really need the Blake Harris articles?

     

    Now, before I get into my issues with them (and yes, I get that I don't have to read them) let me say this: I think they are incredibly well-written, fascinating, and often offer surprising insights into the movie industry. In and of themselves, I think they are great, but I don't know how I feel about them as a companion to HDTGM. I get why it's a good move for both Blake and (to a lesser degree) HDTGM, but I do have some questions.

     

    First of all, I don't know how I feel about putting a "human face" on the people who make these movies. For example, reading that the director of Kazaam had lost his daughter and wife to AIDS shortly before this movie was made, and how he gained some measure of catharsis through the making of it, almost makes making fun of it (even in the good spirit of the show) seem kind of cruel. I find some of his articles to be kind of like that friend who always sees the rain coming on an otherwise cloudless day. I'm not saying it's not going to rain later or that it's never rained in the past, but for the moment, can we not just bask in the sunlight?

     

    My second issue is: how long until Blake's articles start to dictate the content of the show? In other words, I would rather there be no Blake Harris article than have to sit through episode after episode of Death Spa-esque/Canon level movies just because it's maybe easier for him to get interviews with the people involved with making those films. I'm sure it's no easy feat for him to get the interviews together as it is, but imagine if Paul said they wanted to do an episode on The Last Witch Hunter or the latest Fantastic Four movie. When Blake can't get anyone to talk to him (at least in a way that's meaningful or interesting) because they want to keep getting work, do they just scrap the episode altogether?

     

    Maybe it's just me, but the first half of 2015 was filled with what I consider to be perfect movies for HDTGM (e.g. Deep Blue Sea, Con Air, Jupiter Ascending) and the second half (after the articles started to be published) to be filled with older, lower budget affairs (e.g. Theodore Rex, Perfect, Lifeforce, Death Spa). I'm not saying that the episodes have been less good, but the movies themselves have been next level terrible. If they are choosing these films over, say, Soul Man, because they've been dying to to do them, that's fine. But if they are only doing them for Blake's sake, then I'm going to have to call shenanigans.

     

    I love the show, and God knows I'm not going anywhere anytime soon, I just wanted to get other people's opinions on it. However, let's keep it positive and let's keep it respectful.

     

    P.S. Two points in regard to the quote about script writing and combining disparate ingredients.

     

    Here were the ingredients for Kazaam:

     

    1) Lonely child who spends a lot of time on the streets

    2) absentee father

    2) musical

    3) silly genie

     

    These were the exact same ingredients used to make Aladdin. All writers have to make concessions. Do you really think J.J. made the Force Awakens without tons of notes from Disney? And in the case of TFA, many of the notes probably had a lot to do with merchandising. Don't blame the system just because you don't have the talent to work within the framework.

     

    Secondly...

     

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    "Chicken Breasts with Brandied Cherry-Chocolate Sauce"

     

    All you need to do is garnish it with a couple marshmallows. Voila!

    I don't want to feel that I need to read the articles to get the whole experience, and while I'm a fan of things like director commentaries, anything more COULD end up feeling like homework. Hell, sometimes just watching these movies feels like homework, but because I like the hosts and guests on HDTGM, I'll usually give movies like the mid-90s kiddie garbage that was after my time a try. I don't need to read an extensive tell-all piece to know that trying to build ANY movie around Shaq was a bad idea, and I too don't want it to get to a point where it's assumed that I've read the Blake Harris story and that THAT becomes the launchpad for discussion and not the film itself.

     

    Speaking of spending more time on something than any movie is worth, if I hear someone tell me I need to watch the Red Letter Media review of "Phantom Menace" just ONE more time, I just might scream. Seriously though, I've never seen people devote more time to something they hate than people that continue to harp on THAT film.

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    "Jacob's Ladder" gets brought up a bit whenever someone hypothesizes "What if this was some crazy dream?" or "What if they really died when ___________ happened, and the rest is all just happening in their mind?". I haven't seen it in forever and feel like they may as well do an episode, or at the very least address the reference in a mini ep or something.

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    carlofornia_raisin... Have you seen "The Cabin In The Woods" and/or "Detention" ??? If so... What did you think??? ( This question is also for everybody in the forum :D/> )

    "Cabin in the Woods" is great, and I own and really like "Detention", but I haven't had much luck getting others turned on to it and don't really hear it talked about very much.

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    Speaking of genies and Diane Lane, last week I stumbled upon a trailer for a movie that looks like it has potential to be HDTGM material (but you never know it could end up just being boring) where Diane Lane plays Christopher Lambert's genie.

     

    Apparently they met on the set of this movie and got married and had a child together.

    This makes Diane Lane the most successful thing that Christopher Lambert has ever been in!

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    What does everyone think that they're gonna pick apart this year? My gut is leaning towards 50 Shades or Pixels because of obvious reasons, but my coworker thinks they might go with a ton of Fantastic Four.

    I read that as "50 Shades of Pixels". That's some "Custer's Revenge" shit right there...

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