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That was around the time of Tiptoes, they would bounced between 3-4 weeks due to scheduling, any other time there hasn't been a down time so much as something like the Howdies are put in place to create a break, as they are just a clip show, or the Disaster Artist episode which is just The Room episode with new interviews at the end.

Rocky II in a way continues the story of what actually happened to the guy that Rocky is based on, who tried to turn his fame from both his fight with Muhammad Ali and this movie into a cash grab, and only became more destitute in the end, so much so he was reduced to freak show fights to earn a living like when he boxed a bear, I would have loved to see Rocky do, although they did recreate Wepner's fight with Andre the Giant by having Rocky fight Hulk Hogan in Rocky III. Though they went for a happier ending in the film for the reasons that have been stated, it is a big step up from one of the original endings for Rocky which saw him die in the ring because his body couldn't handle the onslaught of a world class athlete. Also if you haven't watched the movie Chuck, starring Liev Schreiber as Chuck Wepner, do so as it's a great biopic about a man who's story we all know because it belongs to someone else at this point. Yeah with my rankings, while the top 5 are not tied, the things separating the rankings are razor thin, because I thought Balboa was great and carried the best part of V, his relationship with his son so well. IV is easily the first Rocky movie that should be covered by the show for the fact that Paulie, the most deplorable character in movie history, is fucking the ever loving hell out of that robot to the point where I believe he talks about having its tubes tied. That along with Rocky basically ending the Cold War would make for an amazing live show. It is possible because combat sports like boxing and MMA are the epitome of the "any given night" saying because at any point the fight can end, prime examples being Buster Douglass, the 42-1 underdog, being the first man to professionally beat Mike Tyson or Holly Holm, who had just as high of odds, completely starching Ronda Rousey from the opening bell of their fight to when she knocked her into the following week with a headkick. While Chuck Wepner was a nationally ranked heavyweight fighter when he fought Ali for the title, EVERYONE saw the fight as being one of a few warmup fights for Ali to get him ready for his rubber match with Joe Frazier, yet Wepner would shock the world by not only knocking Ali down, one of the few men at the to have accomplished that feat, and then be 19 seconds short of going the distance with arguably the greatest boxer in history before the ref called the fight after an extremely bloodied Wepner got knocked down.

That's sort of why I have 1 and 2 of each series bouncing between each other, because of how well the character arcs mirror each other. If any of the Rocky film were to be called boring it would be V because it really isn't a boxing movie so much as a family drama, topped with a horrible street fight at the end. 3-4 are the uber 80s versions of the series complete with friendship beach runs, robots, and taking down the Soviet Union, while Balboa mixes the family drama of V with the heart and boxing of I. Stallone plays the character, based on Chuck Wepner, to a T and it's in that first movie you see as complete a movie as you can see, especially from a first time writer. Creed II is surprisingly good, especially after how incredibly the first was, basically blending elements of Rocky II-IV, but making it unique in that it isn't just a Rocky/Adonis story, but also a Ivan/Viktor story, where the viewer gets this incredible ying-yang type story where in essence Viktor is playing the same role Rocky did in the first two Rocky films, albeit as the aggressor in the coupling.

Perfect Stranger Winner Halle Berry for Monster's Ball

Rocky Ranking for me would be this order: 1. Rocky 2. Creed 3. Rocky II 4. Creed II 5. Rocky Balboa 6. Rocky IV 7. Rocky III 8. Rocky V Also since this is my 3,000th post I make my official request for an episode to either be Last Action Hero or Ready to Rumble, because how those two films haven't been covered yet is mind boggling.

Unfortunately I can remember enough of this that I may not have to rewatch it right away, it's that fucking insane. I remember this getting a lot of promotion at the time because you had two actors still pretty well regarded in Hollywood together for the first time and the premise seemed like a good suspenseful thriller, but boy did they ever shit the bed on this one.

Thanks, I had it in an earlier edit but lost it when I lost the file and tried to rush through what I already did in the new file.

Finally getting back to update this list after not having done so for 10 months, due to putting together a comic convention for my work, so now to get back into the swing of keeping this list up. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Nominated Clive Owen for Closer Ethan Hawke for Training Day, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, and Boyhood Winner Herbie Hancock for Round Midnight Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Nominated Menahem Golan for Operation Thunderbolt Jackie Cooper for Skippy Mariel Hemingway for Manhattan Winner Gene Hackman for The French Connection and Unforgiven Jim Broadbent for Iris Second Sight Winner Tom Schulman for Dead Poets Society Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf None Freejack Nominated Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler Winner Anthony Hopkins for Silence of the Lambs Rock Star Nominated Mark Wahlburg for The Fighter and The Departed Ladybugs Winner Albert S. Ruddy for The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby Johnny Mnemonic None Adore Nominated Naomi Watts for 21 Grams and The Impossible Winner Christopher Hampton for Dangerous Liaisons Geostorm Nominated Ed Harris for Apollo 13, The Truman Show, Pollock, and The Hours Andy Garcia for The Godfather part 3 Beautiful Creatures Nominated Richard LaGravenese for The Fisher King Andrew Kosove for The Blind Side Broderick Johnson for The Blind Side David Valdes for The Green Mile Winner Jeremy Irons for Reversal of Fortune Emma Thompson for Howards End and Sense and Sensibility Viola Davis for Fences Body Rock None Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Nominated Jude Law for The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain Winner Angelina Jolie for Girl, Interrupted Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare In Love Lawrence Olivier for Hamlet The Hurricane Heist None Rad Nominated Tali Shire for Rocky and The Godfather Part 3 Striptease Nominated Burt Reynolds for Boogie Nights Blues Brothers 2000 Nominated Dan Akroyd for Driving Miss Daisy Yes, Giorgio Nominated Eddie Albert for Roman Holiday and The Heartbreak Kid Winner Franklin J. Schaffner for Patton Never Too Young to Die None The Meg None Beastly None Look Who’s Talking Too Nominated John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction Winner Olympia Dukakis for Moonstruck A Night in Heaven Nominated Lesley Ann Warren for Victor/Victoria Carrie Snodgress for Diary of a Mad Housewife Andy Garcia for The Godfather Part 3 Winner John G. Avildsen for Rocky Action Jackson Nominated Sharon Stone for Casino Winner Herbie Hancock for Round Midnight Skyscraper None Look Who’s Talking Now Nominated John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction Danny DeVito for Erin Brockovich George Segal for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Winner Diane Keaton for Annie Hall Olympia Dukakis for Moonstruck

But boy is that hair not GLORIOUS!

It's easy to see why the miniseries isn't available in the US as it seems like one of those cult series that just came out in a crowded TV schedule in both the UK and US. Hell just look up the series on Google and you can see it looks like an 80s soap opera from that time, if you didn't know what it was about. I'm assuming that it will come out to match the release of the movie on video,

My biggest issues with it were that they really showed their hand too early with the twist, and the fact that Cynthia Erivo's character is kinda just thrown into the mix with her having no real stakes in the game. Overall the performances were fantastic, especially Daniel Kaluuya and Brian Tyree Henry who blended calm demeanor with ruthless sinister. It was also amazing to see how Steve McQueen, only directing his fourth film, pulled in such a stacked cast of A-list talent, and that none of them felt underused or overbearing in the film. I feel you won't have to wait too long for the British series to become available, as like with House of Cards, they released the original in America on streaming and DVD now that it's shown to a critical success. It being an old TV series also makes the bit McQeen saying it was a passion project of his during the AMC theater intro video make sense.

If you guys haven't seen them already, I highly recommend both Widows and Creed 2. Both had some slight issues but were still great movies.

YES that's exactly what I remembered! And destroyed is a horrible term to use in front of impressionable kids, though at least the kids don't see the the freezer used to store the bodies that are awaiting disposal pickup, that was unsettling the first time I saw it.

I'm having a a weird Mandela effect moment because I thought for certain I remember seeing a line of NBA dolls similar to the WWF Brawlin/Cuddle buddies. They would have been released around the same time as the WWF one so Barkley would have been one of the athletes chosen, but for the life of me I can't find anything on them. Also, speaking as someone who worked in a dog pound for a summer, there are more reasons that a dog is to be destroyed other than "I wanna kill this dog," and yes destroyed is the term used. It's that term usually because the dog has something wrong with it like rabies or another condition that can affect the rest of the animals in the pound or humans, so they need to be put down, which is the term used more for dogs that haven't been adopted in a given period of time. So Travolta is realistically bringing a very ill animal into his home with two small children and running the risk of someone getting ill or hurt. Or even more realistically, the entire movie is a Jacob's Ladder Scenario for the dog who imagines itself being saved from the pound, saves the family from wolves, and reunites the family in the end.

If I remember she was the one pursuing him romantically but he was trying to remain professional. Also in true HDTGM fashion this movie follows action film by-laws that uses the same actors in the same roles, in this case Danny Nucci who is the new deputy that is killed to frame Arnold, he was also the young member of the Navy Seal team that is massacred by Ed Harris' Marines.

If anything, this shouldn't be covered as it was a satire for the times and worked well in that regard, what should be covered are either the first remake with Statham or the most recent sequel done by Corman, which is truly awful. The latter is interesting as it loses complete sight of the original's meaning or humor, and replaced nearly all of the practical effects with horrible CGI.

It is also interesting in that there seems to be ZERO breeze when they are on the helipad, which is at or near the top of the skyscraper. At that height they should almost need to be harnessed to the sides so as to not be blown off the side of the building. Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol is again the perfect example as there are real stakes as you see Tom Cruise is being blown against the side of that building while he's trying to hold onto the side of the building with the spy gloves he has, and that building is half the size of this one. Then you add in the turbine which apparently makes a crapload of noise, so I have no idea how much soundproofing the rich guy would need to put into his penthouse to mute that out, because from my experience of having a hotel a mile a way from an airport, the room still shakes quite a bit from passing planes, so his room must feel like a giant earthquake the entire day.

I was surprised hearing the opinions of this, which I felt is pretty ho hum, and Rampage, which I enjoyed for being pretty off the wall for a video game adaptation, in comparison to San Andreas which i though was only good for some batshit scenes and the CGI. The one thing that was missed by the hosts in regards to the overall plan, was that the people Botha worked for were basically coolio with the building owner having the reverse blackmail on them as they had already gotten paid and the building was done. They were upset at Botha for allowing their information to be taken in the first place as he was supposed to be handling that situation, so for the building owner to get one over on him reflected poorly upon Botha, which would mean that the guys he worked for were going to have him killed for his failure. So Botha was trying to get the blackmail material not so much for his bosses, but rather to show he still has value to their criminal organization and that he can clean up his mess. Also I think this movie has topped the remake of 3:10 to Yuma in the unbelievable one legged acting, as after about 15 minutes, The Rock was moving with zero appearance of missing a leg, as at least Christian Bale was limping a bit with his missing leg in 3:10.

I remember my mom loving this movie when it came out, and did think it was a nice twist on the deadline marriage trope by having all of the addendums to the will to make sure it wasn't a one night Vegas marriage to get 100 million, albeit those added stipulations were kind of ridiculous in how to track and who would call bullshit on O'Donnell if he didn't keep up with them, the grandfather's lawyer or his business competitors who were looking to buy the business? Then you think of the logistics of one stipulation being that the couple can't be apart for more than one day per month? Who the fuck would think that's a healthy relationship in that by that thinking you could never work for a company that requires you to travel for business, go on a trip with your solo group of friends away from the spouse, or any number of reasons you might need or want to be a way from your spouse for more than a day, I honestly think the grandfather was trying to kill his grandson with that kind of stipulation, along with the one about having a child within the first five years of the ten year minimum marriage, because what if one spouse is sterile, does that automatically void their chance at fulfilling the will and they get nothing?

Thankskilling is on Prime I think, the perfect Thanksgiving movie that will segue out of Halloween.

Having just seen Skyscraper, it wasn't that bad if not a watered down Die Hard/Olympus Has Fallen ripoff.

The movie was aptly named Frankenpenis. John also did a cameo on WWF Monday Night Raw helping Val Venis, a wrestler who had a porn star character, to the ring after an angry husband of one of the women Val slept with had tried to castrate him with a katana.

Speaking of creepy dummies, I remember as a kid going past a house that had big front windows that went from floor to ceiling and the owner, whom I assume had bought these things from the Chuck E. Cheese that closed down, had the entire animatronic band positioned facing out towards the street. While they were creepy to see in the daytime, they were fucking terrifying at night because he didn't have blinds on the windows and the light was always off in that room so they were standing in darkness, with really only their faces visible to people passing by. I can only the terror a person would feel the first time they walk into the room and seeing the backs of these things not realizing they were robots from a pizza place.