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    Yeah after hearing all the news stories about the games being found I wasn't so much watching the doc to see them found but the amount of work that went into trying to find these things and the crowd of people that showed up to see people digging in dirt was pretty astonishing.

    I just remembered too all the Indiana Jones talk, like it was some grand quest to unearth a treasure that the world was waiting to see. Well, at least they were doing something outside, right? NERRRRRDDDDSSS!

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    Atari: Game Over is a great doc about the recent digging up of the ET Atari games and Indie Game: the Movie is okay as the some of the subjects of the film are a bit pretentious about their work and standing inside the gaming industry.

    "Game Over" was okay, but what I knew about it going in was a little misleading, as it turns out that there is no mystery at all as to whether or not the cartridges were out there, it was just a matter of getting to them. It was kind of interesting though to learn about how dangerous that task could actually be, as you've got thirty years of who knows what piled on top of it, which could include hazardous materials. It was also funny how completely unimportant an uninteresting the quest was to the people whose job it would be to do the digging, as mass disposal of product like that is pretty ordinary.

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    I never saw the movie but I did get the DC movie graphic novel adaptation when it came out.

     

    Its bad.

     

    really bad.

    That's about par for the course as far as movie adaptations go.

     

    That reminds me, I had the Judge Dredd adaptation, which was actually drawn by the character's co-creator, so the art was really good. It had to break his fucking heart though, because Dredd had never been unmasked in the books, but I guess if anyone was going to draw him unmasked for the first time, he was the one that should do it.

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    By the way, as Judd Nelson's character was using an arcade as a front for his activities, were arcades still a thing in 1997? Or just in the midst of their decline?

    That reminds me, has anyone else seen the documentary "Chasing Ghosts"? It's about a bunch of guys that were hot-shit gamers in the early 80s when arcades were a huge deal. Anyway, a lot of these guys were just never the same when their arcades closed down, and you'd figure they had at least a few more good years, right? Well, at the end, they ran sort of an "In Memoriam" tribute to the places featured in the movie, and in many cases, these places that were hot in 1982-83 were lucky to have made it past 1984.

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    The San Francisco based porn company Kink.com, kinda already did that with a scene where a girl dreams of having a gangbang with a bunch of guys in panda outfits, acting like pandas. And there is a whole site dedicated to girls banging people in panda outfits. So I guess the lesson to remember is that for the internet, always Rule 34.

    Come on, if there's one thing we know about pandas, it's that they DON'T want to fuck. There are so very few left of them, and apparently they're all ugly.

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    That should be a new segment on the mini episode, "would this have worked better as an adult film?"

    Some of the films are pure nightmare factories anyway, so I don't want to have to imagine what an adult film version of "Goobie" would be. Now YOU'RE thinking of that too. You're welcome!

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    As for me, well I don't recall any weird cartoon crushes. The first fictional character I remember having a crush on was Kelly from Saved By The Bell. The first non-living crush I remember is probably Fairchild from Gen13. Oddly not so much for the way she was drawn (and J Scott Campbell can draw women) but I was so attracted to her smarts and nerdiness more. It also probably deep seeded in my love of Ninja Turtles growing up and her looking like a less 80s April O'Neil.

    Holy crap, I was going to say Fairchild too, but I was trying to think up an actual cartoon character! She looked EXACTLY like this girl that I was super crushing on in junior high and high school that was nerdy cute before just getting hot. Instead of Amazon-ing out though, she basically just lost the glasses, "She's All That"-style. Super cool person though and pretty down to Earth, considering her dad was in the House of Representatives at the time. He's a senator now.

     

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    Van Peebles (who I must say is easily the best part of the movie and despite sounding like a bad Harvey Firestein impression is a pretty menacing villain) is trapped in a cave for 500 is years in Japan and when he comes out he is somehow totally aware of Modern English and technology? Even to the point of knowing how to drive a car like a stuntman? This movie only makes slightly more sense than the 2nd.

    Which brings up the question, which I'm sure they didn't think of at the time of the first one, why is Lambert getting the Quickening in the first one treated like it's the last time it's ever going to happen, like he has ALL of the power, if Van Peebles is still buried alive in a cave somewhere?

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    Shaquille O'Neal plays a rapping genie. You know you want to watch Shaq's big, dramatic emotional climax. Not to mention random Da Brat cameos, a confusing plot about bootleging, and a major villain that doesn't show up until over halfway into the movie. The whole thing is on Youtube, here's just a quick trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TAE-7Q5DU

    I prefer my Da Brat cameos to be more carefully calculated, to be more woven into the tapestry that is the otherwise flawless storytelling of the film.

     

    She wasn't an unlockable character in "Shaq-Fu", was she? She should have been.

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    Thank you! Yes, this movie is horrible, but is it Mano: The Hands of Fate, Birdemic: Shock and Terror or The Room bad? Not even in the slightest.

    The article was like "These other movies are zero percent too, but there aren't AS MANY bad reviews up", which means jack shit, because it's not like they don't exist. They just didn't make the jump to the Internet age. I can understand why, when it came time to make a website and make some sort of digital archive, my local paper didn't find it necessary to preserve their reviews of "Leonard Part 6" or "Return to the Blue Lagoon" for all times. The door swings the other way too, as I'm sure there are some "perfect" films on RT with bad reviews that also didn't make the jump, which are the reviews that I'd actually most like to read. For instance, it's a well-known fact that Orson Welles wasn't particularly liked by a newspaper PUBLISHER, so it's safe to say that there had to be some negativity out there despite several of his early works rating on RT at 100%.

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    Tell me about it. I for one am outraged -- outraged!!!!! -- at the hosts' GLARING OMISSION of the fact that the alias Fisher Stevens uses when trying to escape on the plane is "Mr. Babbage", an obvious reference to Charles Babbage, inventor of the Difference Engine, a 19th century precursor to the modern computer.

    I'd be surprised if it even goes that deep. As a child of the late 80s-early 90s, I remember Babbage from Babbage's, one of the early mall video game stores, which I'm sure is named after that guy. If I ever write a cyber-thriller, I'd modernize things a bit and give my antagonist an alias like "Mr. Software Etc.", because I'm all about the subtle winks...

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    The lights of the buildings at the end spelling out their names? COMPLETELY believable.

     

    I saw a video on Cracked a while back (although there are probably similar ones elsewhere as well) that showed why real hackers would be terrible in movie situations, where they did the typical "They're coming to get us! We've only got 60 seconds!" thing, but of course they didn't make it in time, because their tech guy wasted all that time getting their action figures and other bullshit out on their desk first.

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    Paul_draws, Penn had the password on the screen, but at least he didn't have it on a posted note on the side of his computer monitor like some people do..

     

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    To be fair though, in that movie, Sandra Bullock is clearly a homely, freakish recluse with no friends or anyone coming to see her, except for the pizza delivery person, who I imagine has to pass the box through a grating of some sort, TMNT-style. I mean, for God's sake, she's Dennis Miller's side piece. His SIDE piece!

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    Not sure if anyone mentioned this but there is a scene where The Plague and his PR Woman accomplice(i forget her name) go down an escalator, walk a few feet to the left and she goes back up an escalator. It was the best escalator-and-talk I've ever seen.

    The screenwriter of Hackers is like the Aaron Sorkin of escalator-and-talks for sure.

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