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I still laugh at near the end when they are almost out and the stairwell gives out, causing Stallone to fall back into a pool of water and causing him to tell the group to leave him and save themselves. Amy Brenneman, who has basically been his apparent love interest for the bulk of the movie, basically leads the pack in a basic 'fuck him he's gone' kind of way, but gives a half-hearted attempt to bring him back up, only for herself to fall in as well and then like a spaz flop around in the water screaming for them not to leave her to die, in a complete 180 of where her mind just was. Also this falls into the great bad early roles of Viggo Mortensen before hitting it big with the Lord of the Rings series, along with Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 and Albino Alligator.

Just started watching this on Prime and it totally deserves an episode. The basic setup is basically "how can we have a more fucked up beginning story arc than Death Wish," in having the handicapped sister be attacked and raped by the gang from every beat-em up video game from the 80s. The sister, who apparently is so mute she can't even scream during her attack as she is literally mouthing a scream but not making noise is made to seem almost mentally disabled as well in how simple she acts around everyone she meets, makes it the attack more uncomfortable to watch. Then having white bread Linda Blair playing the badass gang leader was hilarious, especially when watching her fight the cheerleader in the shower where for no reason another fight between two naked chicks is happening. Also somehow this movie somehow featured what I can only describe as a dual rape as when the sister is attacked, the first guy on her is literally forced himself after he begins to realize the gang is taking it to far and tries to get away.

I would love for them to get Black for this episode because his early resume was either silent muscle who stood in the background or annoying guy who died in brutal fashion.

Not in my library since I'm the one who buys DVDs and I make sure to have it stocked with HDTGM films. Also, we get atrocious donations sometimes and I'm the one who weeds through them. Seriously I can't tell you how many times I've gotten bootleg copies of bad attempts at mixing urban comedy with sports like snowboarding and kart racing or shitty Air-Bud knockoffs, those we would definitely judge you for checking out.

Thanks, the library is a friend to all, except those who shit in our chairs. We never judge checkouts unless it's something really shitty like Dean Koontz's recent books, those suck ass.

Yeah Jackson gives a great performance in what ends up being a kinda ho-hum film. I will say though that the first trailer was great advertising in how involved his character was going to be with the lead couple with the reveal of him being a cop, as it seemed like it was just going to be a white/black film but adding in that the guy might be an overly-aggressive cop was a good touch for the film. If they do cover the movie, I at least want a couple minutes of discussion on the scene of Jackson watering his roof with a garden hose at half power while a roaring wildfire approaches the neighborhood, because when I saw that I just thought yeah that's going to save your home.

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Holy shit I'm 15 minutes in and every character has just been a caricature of one trope or another. I knew it was going to be crazy as soon as I saw a mom hit the best friend with a crucifix and that every other sentence began with "my momma said." I'm always leery watching films like this in that they are basically coattail movies.One genre movie or book does incredibly well (Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games) and then the publisher or production company fire out a similar thing as quickly as they can to hopefully catch the same win that happened before. I knew vaguely of this book from kids asking for it in my library, but I never really heard good things about it after they returned it, the movie seemed to have the same result in regards to its reception at the box office. I do enjoy that Banned Books are apparently a focal point of the film as I feel that's a topic the average Joe doesn't know about all that much. Also I swear to god the set of the Ravenwood home entry is the same set used in the SNL Compulsion/Calvin Klein Obsession commercial.

Things in public that are used by everyone everyday are never going to be fully cleaned and at best will be somewhat hospitable since the cleaning crews working in these areas are usually lowest bidder companies. Having worked in a public library for nearly fourteen years now I can attest to how utterly disgusting the public is. People think I'm joking when I say that if you used a black light on a library it would glow bright enough to see from space, but I'm not kidding at all. We literally had three teens SHIT IN THEIR HANDS and smear it on a chair for literal shits and giggles. Then the amount of fooling around by people or hobos getting sick or coming inside with soiled clothes. So whenever you're in public, just realize there is bodily grossness around you somewhere and then just push it to the back of your mind.

It's because of that great role I now use the term "unfuck" in my life. Also RIP R. Lee Ermey.

Correction: In the senate hearing, Butler wasn't coming in hot at the guy in charge just to be a dick, the Senator was hostile from the start, by giving half-truths to the various things Butler had done like hitting an inspector, when Butler had in fact saved the guy from electrocuting himself by putting his hand on a open wiring system. The senator was also upset Butler started Dutchboy ahead of schedule without consulting the government committee, even though the world was being ravaged by natural disasters at the moment. So Butler was just meeting dickishness with dickishness, It's just a long-running trope for Devlin films where there is some bureaucrat just making life difficult for the lead every-man character. Also, Butler was running everything when he got back on the space station as he was assigned by his brother and Ed Harris to troubleshoot what was going wrong with the station and if it was being hacked, since he basically knew everything about the station as he led building it.

That's the thing I'm waiting to see because Willis clearly takes himself too seriously so I see this being like the Chevy Chase roast where he just stewed in his seat and gave a half assed rebuttal at the end of the roast.

Okay we also need to start one for Bruce Willis, because if he's doing THIS now after the few years of straight-to-video he's been doing, I honestly won't be surprised if he's going to be in the final Sharknado.

Sheehan is set to be in The Umbrella Academy on Netflix as The Seance, which is perfect casting for him, and I think Harris is doing fine as the go-to grizzled character actor. Garcia could probably use the gofundme since I don't think I've seen him in anything outside of this since Ghostbusters.

I would think that but none of the stars are really the kind that can demand 10+ million per movie. Butler maybe would get 8-9 million as the big name, while Ed Harris and Andy Garcia would maybe get a couple million under that. Everyone else are "oh I think I've seen that person somewhere" actors so they aren't commanding huge checks. This is all Dean Devlin trying to make another Day After Tomorrow but trying to skimp on quality for a hopeful tax write-off when it would tank. I assume this is this is the mindset he and Roland Emmerich have:

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See, sometimes I think those actually work pretty good for how the trailer is presented, like in the case of San Andreas and surprisingly Fifty Shades, but maybe because the latter was a complete shitshow of a movie. Another I've noticed but haven't seen a lot of correlation to the film/show being bad is mixing the song with the action hits, where the notes of the song match the beats of the movement onscreen, if I'm describing that well. Examples are the recent Jumanji with "Welcome to the Jungle" and The Punisher with "One," both which did a good job of matching beats to what was being shown, though both examples ended up being pretty good in terms of quality. Another trope I've been noticing with how many bad Prime movies I've been watching is bad or generic ska and rock music. If it isn't No Doubt, Sublime, or The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, then it just sounds god awful and uses too much trumpet. And whenever it's bad rock it usually comes off as either a bad attempt at Alice In Chains or Soundgarden.

FUCKING YES, I would love to hear Cena talk about this film because of the insight he could provide for the industry annd the fact that he's one of those people who is surprisingly funny that most people wouldn't expect, especially as a kid-friendly babyface that he's portrayed for the past 15 years. Yeah the kid was very much a Dean Devlin annoying kid character and I wouldn't have minded her getting hit by a giant piece of hail. I myself was hoping that it was actually Gerard Butler behind the hacking, since it would make sense with how he was removed from his position and he was the most knowledgeable on the Dutch Boy system. As for Ed Harris, this is clearly a Gene Hackman role. Hackman was known for saying he would take roles in mediocre or bad movies because he could use the check to buy new art for his home. We just need to know what Harris is buying with this check and I also assume that the line, "you get to shoot a rocket launcher" was used to sell him on the role.

A movie that is basically the weather dominator storyline of GI Joe starring HDTGM All-Star Gerard Butler, after seeing the satellite system that basically makes the sky clear and that's it now being used by an unknown villain I knew that this would be perfect for the show.

Very much so. I knew about it from my Amazon recommends section but thought it was a full on horror film given the cover of the Blu Ray release. I didn't realize De Palma directed it until I rented it last night and it's insane to see this and realize the same guy would make movies like Scarface and The Untouchables.

The opening 30 which are like a cartoon in how quick everything devolves for the main character and the final 30 when the Paradise is open make this movie a prime candidate for an episode.

I had high hopes for this too as it appeared to want to be a semi-Blade Runner-esque thriller, but in the end it only looked like one. The trailer made it seem that there was some deep, dark secret about the lead character, or that he had some military/criminal background, which made him a foreboding force in trying to find his girlfriend, but all he is is a mute Amish bartender. I do feel if they just focused on his story arc, it would have been a decent movie, but they tried to make that story and Paul Rudd's interwoven that it just fell incredibly flat. I have to believe that they were trying to make Rudd's character come off as bipolar, because his mood swings are so 180 of each other it's insane. When Justin Theroux is not so subtly saying he's a pedophile or making a pass at Rudd's daughter, Rudd almost severely injures him or flat out kills him, but then as you said, a moment later they are BFFs again. It also doesn't help that Rudd's overall connection to the A-story is revealed midway into the movie apparently, but it is glossed over so quickly you don't realize it until the end. I had the wikipedia up for the movie to suss out things that were confusing and that's how I found out I missed it. I did like the role change for Rudd and felt he would be good in more roles like that, just he need's to pick one mood and stick with it for it to really work.

So having finished the episode I was amazed that these relationships were being called incestual, since there was no blood relation shared between either couple. Yes it is very odd that what is basically now a big trend in porn was made into a serious dramatic film with A-list actresses, but it wasn't full-on incest. Now if it they had tried to make a bigger shock at the end where the two couples became a quad and there was mother-son relation, I honestly would not have been surprised due to how lackadaisical the leads were with how they were going about their coupling. Also, one thing that was kinda glossed over in regards to how they can live these seemingly care-free lives at this expensive looking home on the beach was that the dead husband apparently left Naomi Watts a hefty life insurance policy along with some other type of inheritance, which was a bigger part of the novella. And was anyone else waiting for after the kids were taken away by the wives for one of the sons to say, "THANK GOD! Now those that thing I made by accident with that chick is gone, I can get back to my true love."?

So haven't listened yet but honestly, with all of the various things this movie is title in different countries, why not just swing for the fences and call it The Motherfuckers?

Maybe they should hold the DNC there, I mean it has Disneyworld AND Universal Studios Orlando.