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I thought it was the female member of Van Dam's team that said the hummingbird remark.

Holy shit, I forgot about the Village-esque "Colony" that JCVD is sent to after the failed mission at the amusement park and his family is told that he is dead and wasn't there also a basketball parachute? This movie is so many levels of insane I can't wait to hear the episode.

I love it when a movie comes out that just seems destined to be Oscar bait or is talked as being such, and then totally fails on all levels. Either it doesn't get nominated for much of anything despite being the talk of the town and pretty well received (Inside Llewyn Davis) or it gets just trashed by critics once it comes out (too many to name but most recently The Monuments Men). The former is a category that sucks to see happen but the latter is just great because they are movies so clearly aiming to win awards, and the overall effect of trying too hard causes it to crumble. The Beaver falls into this category because of everything going on behind it, the reunion of Gibson and Foster right after Gibson's public meltdown, the fact that he talks using a beaver puppet, and that it was so overly sentimental made this doomed from the start. Oh and does anyone thing that this is a prequel to Payback where in the years between that movie and the Beaver Anton Yelchin (named Porter in this movie) turns to a life of crime?

To be fair that first one is a way better movie than the JCVD one.

Finally a Kliq reference on the earworlf forums.

Wow you can always count on Rodman to keep up kayfabe.

Haven't read Holly's book, but I have read Foley's and a couple other wrestlers'. Holly always seemed like an unnecessary stiff to me, like when he got his neck broken by Brock Lesnar while sandbagging him. I usually take wrestler autobiographies with a grain of salt as a lot of the time they are puffing themselves up or continuing old grudges. I enjoyed the Wrestlecrap ones because they were objective in their story, bashing both major companies when necessary, it was just WCW was more deserving in its final years. The whole Rodman wrestling experiment was something that was great for a short run, but his ego at the time was SO massive that it was destined to explode and leave the company hanging. And as far as acting goes, it's really saying something when JCVD is the strongest actor in your movie.

Yeah it's on the Nerdist, it could go along with the other possible cross-over of having June on the Indoor Kids. The only thing I really liked about "World" is that Robery Carlyle was a pretty cool villain, very Bond-esque.

Own it and have basically read it into tatters, that book is amazing and a real insight into how many stupid people can ruin a fantastic product. Also really showed how much of a dick Hulk Hogan is with a lot of the shit he pulled. I can also recommend the straight up "Wrestlecrap" book and the "Wrestlecrap" book of lists as they dig into some of the shit other promotions have done which were batshit insane, namely the WWF and everything they did in the early 90s that didn't involved Shawn Michaels or Bret Hart.

Yeah he was piss drunk and passed out in the corner, leaving Hogan to do all the work. Then the cherry on top was after being an unprofessional douche doing things like no-showing events and being a dick to almost all the wrestlers not in the NWO, he SUED WCW for breach of contract. WCW, in their infinite fucking wisdom would then REHIRE Rodman a year or so later thinking it would be different, but he would no-show what was supposed to be his first night back.

Goldeneye worked in that it was the perfect mix of the previous Bond styles. It had great action, just enough of gadgets, the romance, and even the humor. Sean Bean was a great realistic foil to Bond while you still had the semi cartoony villain of Xenia Onatop. Yet they went off the deep end in the movies after that and each one was an experiment in how crazy they could get.

I've been asking for a while how much money needs to be donated to make HDTGM a weekly show with mini-eps every Thursday or Friday.

For the Stallone one, what movie is the sixth character from? I can tell that there are the characters from Cobra, Judge Dredd, Over the Top, Demolition Man, and one I assume is for Stop or My Mom Will Shoot, so what's the last one from?

That's fucking beautiful.

I love how we go from a movie based on a game that was originally designed to be a vehicle for JCVD to a JCVD movie that was kinda designed to be a vehicle for Dennis Rodman.

Explains A LOT.

And the other thing about the Bond movies is that they are somewhat a reflection of the times in which they are released. Connery was a more straightforward but suave character who didn't rely on gadgets too much in the first few movies. Lazenby seemed to be more of a sleuthy character who romanced his way to a solution, but it's hard to pin that down since he only did one movie. Moore was a chameleon whose movies were reflective of whatever genre was getting a lot of publicity at the time (blaxploitation, sci-fi, even comedy), while Dalton was all about the action/violence of dealing with drug dealers in the 80s and early 90s. Brosnan was a complete gadget Bond, every one of his movies had a 10 minute scene where Q went through the various "random" gadgets that were eventually going to help Bond save the day. Then Craig went back to a more basic, though unrefined/savage Bond who would run through walls and kill opponents with little thought to their overall place in the mission. Unfortunately for Brosnan it became too nutso near the end of his run leading to such things like invisible cars and gene therapy villains.

I think there were small things that carried over from the comics, but not much. I mean those comics weren't even good enough to line a bird cage. If anything, I think the prequel cartoon carried over more story into the games than anything else.

I liked the henchman with the diamonds in his face as that was a very Bond-esque villain, though the guy who went from Korean (?) to a white dude complete with different voice was next level nuts, sort of like when Connery was in yellow face for You Only Live Twice. Also, his reason for being evil wasn't as bad as Tomorrow Never Dies' villain who wanted to control the news using a remote control drill-missle, but it was still pretty bad. And did anyone think that the bad guy was just the kid from The Wizard all grown up?

I think we are stretching the definition of backstory with the first couple games. Yes there were these various people fighting to the death in a tournament, but nothing like later games where characters had gigantic origin stories and there were various factions within the different worlds who fought each other or worked together. Here is the wiki plot to the first game: A very basic story of the different characters and the tournament itself. Here is the plot/story for the most recent MK release: So in just under 20 years, the story evolved from a simple tournament to the death to a epic LOTR/Star Wars style world.

This could have been an pretty decent movie if they went two other directions with it, one in where it is a full on action movie like was portrayed in the trailers, or where its the same film with two more straightforward actors in the lead roles. I liked the whole breakdown of how one escapes from captivity and the way that a person can channel their focus into freeing themselves by means no one thought of, but Stallone was not the guy to be that character. Arnold at least looked like he was having fun in the movie, though he seems to be doing that more now out of office and into playing characters more focused on their age and their later years in life. Plus he has really started to show his comedic side in things from the Bud Light Super Bowl ad to where he dressed up in possibly the worst disguise ever to play a Gold's Gym trainer. Stallone is still stuck in the mindset that he's the tough guy actor in the 80s, when that is clearly not the case. Jim Caviezel did really good as the warden, I just wished there was more of him in the movie. As for who was responsible for putting Sly in the prison, they couldn't have telegraphed it more clearly if they had Stallone hold up a sign with the guy's name on it for five minutes. It would have been more shocking if it was 50 Cent who was trying to show he had the skills to run the company and do what Stallone does.

And this movie was made when the game had no backstory, it was in the later editions where there was a semblance of continuity being created.

It was always "the doc is coming" or some derivation as a nickname for the aunt. She was the dad's sister coming to visit after just dropping the cousin off at camp, which the dad tells the kids when they ask if he was coming to visit as well. The mom of the kids was just out of the picture, either by divorcing the husband when he came out or by dying somehow.

Either Southland Tales or Highlander 2. Though with the announcement of the upcoming live show maybe they can do a Lambert double feature where they cover the first two Highlander movies.

As stated earlier in this thread, this is probably the best adaptation of a video game because it follows the source material so closely, because at the time MK only had a couple games in the series and wasn't so bogged down by the mythology. The movie didn't add anything that wasn't there like other video game movies (Mario Bros. and Street Fighter) or change things completely (any Uwe Boll movie). But after listening to this episode I so want them to do an episode on the sequel which makes this movie look like Citizen Kane. If only to hear Jason blow up over trying to figure out how you go from Christopher Lambert playing an Asian man to even whiter James Remar replacing him to play an Asian man.