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    It's not even people you want to see cameos of, it's mostly Richard Simmons level of D list actors.

     

    when Donald trump can get better actors on his show Celebrity apprentice you really are in trouble.

    Like PlanBFromOuterSpace didn't make it to the end, so I guess the sharks won this time?

     

    22% fresh on rotten tomatoes. as of Aug 2 2016 2:30pm

    I have it on right now in the background and NOTHING is really getting my attention. With no reason to really talk about it, it's no fun to even try to get through at all. As mentioned here already, everyone has about seven seconds of screen time, so it seems like there's no reason to give a shit about anything.

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    I'd do a double feature with the first one as that was basically an attempt by the studio to make the monster an icon by having it kill a bunch of actors from other horror movies like Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, just to name a few. What's funny about this series is that the third and fourth movie were made by a different production crew, and were a mix between straight-to-video horror and softcore porn.

    This reminds me of something I saw in a guitar magazine a long time ago. I remember one time seeing an article about the worst guitar albums of all time. One was by some dude I'd never heard of, and the album cover featured him pissing on what was supposedly the graves of Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, and maybe Joe Satriani. The writer said something about that image maybe seeming offensive at first, but hey, if pissing on the graves of our heroes is what keeps HIM from picking up a guitar, he can do it all day long.

     

    That's kind of how I feel about movies like this that think they're having the torch passed to them. You're going to break your own arm patting yourself on the back before anybody thinks you're hot shit for killing Kane Hodder in a movie, pal...

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    Yeah this movie unfortunately was just playing catch up to the games which by that point exploded with new characters and backstory, most of which players didn't know about if they didn't read the game manual or watch the waiting screens if they let the game sit too long without pressing start. Now at least they do a better job of incorporating it into the games. Also, was it really so bad that we didn't see this fucking asshole?008_Stryker_MK3.png

     

    Also Smigg, I like that it is basically you and me keeping this thread/dream alive so here's to you.

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    I have a lot to say on this one, but the CIA has me too busy pushing pencils :(

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    Watched the 3 hour version yesterday. Jesse Eisenberg should be banished from Hollywood for the performance he turned in, and Zach Snyder can go with him allowing it.

     

    The dream sequence is easily one of the most jarring scenes I've seen in a movie in quite some time in terms of how little it connected with both the movie and any semblance of making sense.

     

    The whole Martha/Martha bullshit was fucking crazy. And then the next fucking scene Batman tells Diana Lane he''s Superman's friend, I just about lost my mind.

     

    It's like dude you just spent the last two hours telling me how much Superman needs to die, to the point of designing special weaponry meant to specifically kill just him. The last thing you could be called is his fucking friend.

     

    Wonder Woman was easily the best part of the movie. Gal Gadot fucking crushed it in this movie. I really hope her solo film is handed off to a more competent team.

    If these were the days before digital, I would have sworn that there was a reel missing or out of order when that dream sequence happened. It's a "What the fuck?" moment in the worst possible way, because it just simply DOES NOT belong.

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    I was waiting for Hirsch to bite it after the baby scene thinking that they were just going to knock characters off one by one until it was just new people. Pullman was chewing scenery hard in this movie and the point when he volunteers to help is about when I yelled "oh for fucks sake" and left. Honestly, I would have loved to have seen a movie about the in-between decades when humans were reverse engineering shit and fighting the remaining aliens on Earth, maybe from the point of the Congo soldiers as that General was fantastic. You talk about Spiner's agent being amazing, how bout the agent for the accountant character who somehow made a guy, who's only other real big role was a tour guide in Emmerich's White House Down, a focal character of the movie while at the same time being possible the most unlikable character on screen.

    The alternate future history was an interesting concept, and I like that the ground war continued for a bit, but unfortunately, we didn't see much more than how the technology has been used to make better weapons and vehicles. They then spend the rest of the movie playing Keep Away with that ball thing that was there to help them that they stupidly blew out of the sky, even after the people that know their shit said, "Hey, let's not do that".

     

    Also, that nerd/lawyer/company guy/whatever only exists to be an uptight pain in the ass that finally gets to do something cool in the end that's in EVERY movie like this.

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    Yeah the deaths that occurred were like they were trying to pass the torch to the next generation but it doesn't make sense as this is only the first sequel, so there is no desire by fans for a torch to be passed. at one point I thought "holy shit are they going to kill everyone from the prior movie?" I don't need to see any Hemsworth on screen that isn't Thor and I did find that the woman from It Follows was pretty good as Pullman's daughter. Also, if I never see Spiner's ass again it would be too soon.

    Yeah, after seeing HOW involved he got, I was wondering who, besides Brent Spiner and Brent Spiner's agent, really thought he needed to be such a big part of this thing? OH, and of course, because it's a Roland Emmerich disaster porn, someone has to stay behind to protect a baby or something, and they end up dying like a fucking dummy. So then we get about a second and a half of grieving from the hero(?) of our film, who then goes on to not really do anything particularly memorable. Pullman was fine in this before also getting a chump's fate, and Fichtner was a boss. How about Judd Hirsch and those shitty kids when things go all Cloverfield in the finale?

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    There really isn't a single death that means anything in this movie, is there?

     

    What there IS is a shit ton of "Ignore the smart guy that saved our asses last time" moments, as it doesn't really matter at all what Bill Pullman or Jeff Goldblum have to say, even though they're the ones that saved the fucking world the first time. What we're left with is a bunch of new, young leads that certainly are saying and doing things, with making us care NOT being one of them.

     

    Oh, so that scene where the doctor says that Spiner's been in a coma for 7300 days? That WOULD equal 20 years...if it wasn't for the four leap years in between.

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    Guys... Guys.

     

    I'm new here. Been lurking for years and come close to joining with a couple films that were just too insane not to want to join the discussion here.... but this did it. This movie did it, you guys!

     

    I kept reading the string of tv show theme songs in the minisode thread, enjoying every one of them, but I couldn't help but wonder why near NOBODY was talking about this movie.

     

    As somebody already posted, like the best HDTGM films, I was legit yelling WTF 5 mins in, and every 5 mins after that.

    It's Insane.

    I'm sorry, but longtime lurkers/first time commenters are only allowed to reveal themselves if they're going to complain about the audio from the live episodes.

     

    I DON'T MAKE THE RULES!

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    Forgot about both of those last two. I can't remember if there was weight loss for the Revenant, though I know he was eating all the actual stuff being shown on screen.

    I didn't really think about it, because EVERYONE looks like shit in that movie, and Leo spends two hours trying not to die from everything, with malnourishment being the least interesting of his would-be assailants.

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    I think we must and that's where my confusion lies. It seems like Blank Check gets mentioned at least once a month.

    It might be whenever we discuss movies with terrible kids in them, like it always ends up with "Man, that fuckin' Blank Check kid though...".

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    Holy shit I've just seen this since it's offered on Amazon Prime, I think only because it's a Troma film and all of those recently got put on Prime.The acting his horrible from most of the wrestlers which is odd since many of the wrestlers were good at cutting promos. The gore isn't bad but it's Troma cheap so you get what you get, and the plot is understandably ridiculous while also allowing for bitter wrestlers like Shane Douglas to air their grievances against former promoters who they are still angry at even 10-15 years after the initial issue occurred.

    Oh wow, I didn't realize that this thread had been around so long, because my last comment here was BEFORE I'd met most of the people that worked in it! It's even cheaper than Troma cheap, and was sort of released already before Troma picked it up and gave it a better (?) release. When I first got involved with working Indy shows in Fall 2013, this had recently wrapped. Aside from some of the bigger names (although Shane Douglas and Kurt Angle are from here), most of the wrestlers in the movie are Indy guys from western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and I guess it was a blast to work on, but I don't think annnnnnnnyone is under the impression that it was good.

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    I saw this film once, which was 20 years ago in the theater. I think I remember feeling pretty cheated, because while the first part had the cool robots and stuff, it wasn't long before they settled into the tried and true "The new model looks just like people!" method of keeping the cost of the movie down.

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    I think the key with Deadpool is that Rob didn't write it, and talented comedic screenwriters with an understanding of a budget did..also, concerning Deadpool.. David Goyer writer of Blade tried to make the film around the time of Blade: Trinity, when the project wasn't even at Fox..

    Deadpool wasn't in the cards back then, but I was afraid that with it being so huge now, and Liefeld being his co-creator (even though DP wasn't any good until he was long out of the picture) that some of his "original" works would start getting some traction again, which has thankfully not been the case. the extras on the Deadpool blu-Ray are pretty great, and it does go into how Ryan Reynolds was introduced to the character while working on "another movie" or something. It's weird that they don't mention the Blade movie by name.

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    While Crow made a slight profit, Blade did better but no one really knew it was based on a comic because the character didn't have a comic for quite a while and Snipes' version was very loosely based on the comic. But this article about the how the movie came into production shows that they intended it for PG-13 while trying to maintain its darkness because of a string of R rated comic adaptations, namely Barb-Wire, Tank Girl, and Judge Dredd.

    http://articles.latimes.com/1997-01-12/entertainment/ca-17749_1_comic-book

    Comic adaptations outside of Batman were still also a bit of a novelty at that point, and it was kind of the fault of whoever owned the rights of the characters for jumping at the first and/or only deal that came along. I can't imagine there was any kind of bidding war over Barb Wire, and it got the shitty failure of a movie that it deserved. Oh jeez, remember when Rob Liefeld was claiming every so often that one of HIS garbage books would be headed for the big screen? I'd like to think that he's been fine tuning that "Doom's IV" script for 20 years now...

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    The only reason that I can think of them going PG-13 with this was that as the comic was at its peak with readers, who were early to mid teens, it was parents who were outraged by the content of the comics. So to combat that stigma, they made it PG-13 to appease parents who were already mad while allowing the fans of the comic to be able to talk their parents into letting them see the movie. To be honest, not much was really cut out from the R rated version to this, mainly just blood and I think a couple uses of the f word. The new X-Men was way more violent than what was shown in the R cut of this film.

    Also, remember that 1997 is the year that brought us other superhero shitstorms in the form of "Batman & Robin" and "Steel". It was par for the course.

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