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I just love that the footage the hackers are watching in Nikon's apartment (prior to blade and razor's show) is from the future arrest of Joey. Take a look below. Also on Joey... he is the only legitimate actor who is a teenager (16). All of the other talent ranges from 20 (Jolie) to 25 (Lillard.) [/img] [/img] - Pete, The S Man

I adore Jason and all of his horrendous thoughts, but this line in the film literally made me cringe. What is the thoughts behind this? It's so out of the blue for Cereal Killer's character. Yes he's weird and wet his nipple... but EWWWWWWW. - Pete, The S Man

What is it with the secret service and how they storm a room or arrest someone? Is it by law that they must wait quietly outside a shower or apartment window, guns drawn... and not arrest someone till the curtain is opened? - Pete, The S Man

First and foremost, forget my wife and two loving children - What I'm most thankful for is this podcast and June's continuing fear of robots. Now on to Hackers... So within the first few minutes of watching this film, I was floored by a few things: 1) Zero Cool, as an 11 year old boy, crashed 1,507 computers in one day. The front page of NY Times called it the "biggest crash in history. So based on this information, I think we can assume it equated to millions of dollars lost and a large amount of people losing their savings. So what's his punishment... Don't use a computer or a touch tone phone for 7 years and $45,000! $45K? I mean they should have hit his family with a $500K penalty or something that would make us feel that his punishment put the family in ruins, thus causing late night arguments between his parents and eventually leading them to divorce. 2) I can't get a handle on Dade's mom. We all know that on his 18th birthday, Dade is allowed back on a computer. First of all, what 18 year old is now mature enough to not cause mayhem? Be that as it may, his mom asks him on the day he is allowed back on a computer... "What are you doing?" How does Dade reply, " I'm taking over a TV Network." No concern comes from the mom. But then when she confronts him in the shower, she gets angry that he's back online. But isn't he allowed to by law and honestly, did she just think he was playing Doom or Duke Nukeum? 3) If Dade stayed true to his 7 year sentence of staying offline, is he a genius? After that kind of hiatus, he does he know all the ins and outs of hacking? Are we too assume there has been no advancement in security systems since he last hacked a computer? - Pete, The S Man

By the way... nice "garden." I mean that is where Katharine supposedly lit herself on fire. This is straight up the desert

It's true... there is an insane amount of blood in just your hand.

So during the party, the lawyer breaks in to Michael's office to mess with his files. While there, someone else enters which forces the lawyer to hide. What is completely insane is that he is barely out of the way before the other person enters the frame. Like even if you want to say the room is dark and the 2nd person didn't notice the lawyer... they are looking right at the lawyer.

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Although this movie is 100% bonkers, it technically does follow a somewhat normal time flow. Day to Day... Event to Event. That said, the continuity for the wardrobe is completely off. So after the woman who gets stabbed in the throat and goes missing, the cops come back to the spa to investigate her whereabouts. They interview Michael and eventually go away. What has to be a few days later, they show up to David's house with Michael. All three of them are wearing the same clothes as they were when interviewing Michael at the spa. So yes, for production reasons, they may have filmed the actors playing the cops in a few back to back days. But that is no excuse to the laziness of the script supervisor or stylist.

quick question... how do you post images? when i click the image icon, i can only insert images with a URL. I can't upload an image from my desktop.

So my biggest question is... Why was Katharine doing this? Why is she mass murdering a lot of innocent people? Sure, there are some women who want to have sex with David, but it's not like they are vocal about their joy of Katharine's death. I just don't know why she is so vengeful. Why?

Thank you Paul for calling out how this was financed by the producer of "A Hard Day's Night." Cause with that information, it's finally explained why the film is playing in the background when we first meet David. When seeing it, I'm like... "Are those The Beatles? Why are the Beatles on the TV?.... HOLY SHIT! WHO'S ON FIRE?!?!" Also, being the producer of "A Hard Day's Night" means he has rights to that footage? I don't believe so.

Hey LA Folks! The whole chanting of "ZZZUUUUUKKKKEEESSS" and "JJJJUUUUNNNNNEEEEE" is a NY thing! Come up with something else! You get to see the ringmaster Paul, lovely June, and insane Jason so many times throughout the year. Just leave us New Yorkers with something special dammit! If you don't, well... ;) :wub:

I wasn't a huge He-Man fan, but I was familiar enough with the storyline to know that He-Man is like Superman in that they have alter-egos. So I'm just surprised that once He-Man lands on Earth and sees that no one around him is dressed in armor... that we didn't get to see Prince Adam and his gorgeous hair style. Also the whole freakin point of saying "I have the power of greyskull" is to morph into He-Man. Really bummed I never got this payoff in the movie.

I totally forgot to mention this earlier, but when Courtney Cox comes in to the casting session... she is simply referred to as "the girl in the Springsteen video." I mean as an 80s kid growing up in NJ, I memorized that video by heart. Hell... she did the Carlton way before Fresh Prince. I just love this is what's Cox is known for before MOTU.

By and far this is one of the best episodes. When are we gonna see some gifs of june's face on cicilian's body in sunshine?

Damn! June bringing the heat!

Know what's also insane... Skeletor is one of Frank Langella's favorite roles. He took it to impress his son Alex! He most certainly killed it!

Supposedly Skeletor's army were robots and not people in armor. Like many super hero cartoons (i.e. GI Joe), no one kills anybody. But for this film to be successful, the director felt Mattel would be okay with He-Man killing robots. So if this was the case, why was there never a throw away line that they were machines? I mean they moved very fluid like real people in suits. Once again... cocaine.

Not a major plot hole, but when looking for the key the evil crew had issues locating it due to a disturbance by the microwave. It is destroyed and Evil-Lynn says... "We can track it from here." Before arriving to the house, the cop takes the key. So if Skeletor's army is tracing the Key... why go to the house and not following the cop's car?

Okay... so is the key a Japanese synthesizer or not?! When Kevin finds it, that is what he tells Julie. It's a Japanese synthesizer. Now when he takes it to his friend Charlie, without any prompting.. Charlie goes, "Yeah I know this. It's Japanese." Kevin then immediately says, "No." Why? Why do you feel it's no longer Japanese? It makes no sense!

I'm sorry, but did I miss it in the podcast? How did they not mention the crazy fact that the heroes first interaction on planet earth is with a damn cow! Just a random cow walking in a fucking forest. They have never seen this creature before and are totally not phased.

So when the crew on the rooftop get ambushed by Skeletor, they are told to surrender. Not a beat goes by before Man-at-Arms just gives up. It was so weird and out of character for a hero. He didn't even throw some shade at Skeletor with some kind of cheesy line or that he's willing to give up so long as Skeletor doesn't hurt Kevin or Julie. What a pussy. And in front of your daughter. Show some backbone!

Great Episode! Thank you. In fact, it's not said enough to the Trifecta of Awesomeness that is Paul, June and Jason. Thank you. Regarding the sequel, the team forgot to mention that Masters of the Universe is one of the first films to feature an after credits sequence. No, Samuel Jackson doesn't show up, but we do get a shot of Skeleton rising from the depths and saying, "I'LL BE BACK!" More about the possible sequel. It was actually announced by the producers at Cannes in 1987. They were aware Dolph had no desired to be He-Man again, so the plan was the following (which I found online): Professional surfer Laird Hamilton was signed to play He-Man, and he would have gone back to Earth in disguise as a football quarterback to find Skeletor, himself in disguise as an evil industrialist called Aaron Dark. Sadly, Mattel pulled out of the production due to non-payment of monies they were stilled owed, and coupled with Cannon’s collapse, the film never saw the light of day. Man were we screwed out of that masterpiece! With regards to the ending of this film, there was also an alternate ending that was discussed but never shot. In fact it later was released as part of a comic series for He-Man. From what I found, "After He-Man defeats Skeletor, Man-at-Arms finds both a NASA flag and United States of America flag. The NASA flag has a date printed on it, stating “Starfinder 5, July 10th, 2221.” I mean this is some kind of M.Night Sham-ala-Ding-Dong shit!

Great Episode. Horrible Movie. I groaned when selecting the film on Netflix and seeing that the running time was 1hr and 45mins. Ugh. So Paul did a solid job at mentioning some of the crazy things that went on during the filming of this movie. That said, there are still a few more to mention: 1) Yes, the filming of this movie was shut down at times. In fact one time it took place just as they were getting ready to film the final duel between He-Man and Skeletor. Executives walked on set and held folders in front of the camera, telling the director he was shut down. After pleading his case, the director was able to film the final battle... but essentially with no lights. That is why they are battling in the dark and just backlit with one light. Also the fight scene itself was very underwhelming, because the actors had little time to choreograph it. Why that wasn't handled in pre-production, I don't know. Finally monies were released and they could finish the film. 2) Mattel and Cannon agreed to split the production budget evenly with Mattel footing the first half. The funds were depleted very quickly, so when it came time to fork over the 2nd 50% Cannon just told Mattel they don't have the money and that if they want the shooting to continue; they would need to pay the remaining budget. Mattel had so much riding on this film, especially with a toy line coming out specific to the movie, they couldn't have it shut down. 3) More woes for Mattel... During filming, the He-Man toy line started to decline rapidly. Major losses for the toy company. Based on these financial issues, Mattel executives changed their original tone of He-Man being wholesome to then telling the director he could have He-Man “kill people, blood, guts, gore, sex…just make sure the movie’s a hit!” To quote the wonderful Paul, "Man, oh, man!" ​PS: I highly recommend searching out the short video that features the director and key crew members discussing the film and it's insanity on set.