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Omission: Don't know if this was brought up or not but not only did Bronson talk to a bunch of psychics to prepare for the role, he also took advice from noted supernatural believer Shirley MacLaine in who to talk to about the subject. Apparently her advice was so good that Bronson paid homage to her in the film by having a picture of her tacked to the wall of his bedroom.

2 appearances: Stuart Pankin - Congo, Second Sight 2 appearances: James Tolkan - Masters of the Universe, Second Sight 2 appearances: Michael Lombard - The Devil's Advocate, Second Sight

I now want to see a video of the neon paint salesman who made his millions by selling his wares to the makers of this film. As for this film being bad or nutso, I think the only thing that stood out as being crazy outside of the whole sucking info out of people's brains was the fact that Nicole Kidman's character was involved in a love triangle with the other two parties being the same person. I also find it funny that recent Batman characterizations, in both the comics and film, have been accused of breaking Batman's "cardinal rule" of no killing, forgetting that Batman basically killed someone or caused the death of someone in each of the films, outside of B&R and The Dark Knight. This one he literally causes his old friend to fall to his death by toying with his compulsion, which is similar to the first appearance of Two-Face in the comics, when Batman killed him by knocking him off a ledge onto a wire behind a drive-in movie screen, hanging him for everyone to see.

Yeah for me the best parts of the Schumacher Batman films were 3 out of his 5 villains (Two-Face, Riddler, Mr. Freeze) because the actors I felt realized the type of movie being made and decided to go all out in the campiness. Probably as soon as they saw the neon decor they realized it needn't be a serious performance.

I've started my DLM challenge for this year, since I spent 2017 catching up on TV shows and binging ones I wanted to see but couldn't because of my 2016 DLM challenge. So far two new ones in the can, and both fairly bad (Galaxina and Bad Kids of Crestview Academy).

I'm sure if you're listening to this podcast you also listen to Doug Loves Movies and have heard about the DLM Challenge. The overall goal is to see if you can watch 365 movies in a single year and it can be pretty daunting if you lose pace at any point, I barely made it last year mostly due to binging a bunch of movies at the end of the year. Yet this year I'm really going for it and know Fister Roboto is as well, but wanted to know if anyone else is doing it and how well. I'm currently at 169 movies after seeing Keanu.

See for me BWO was made to look like, Tour De Pharmacy almost made my top list because it was hilarious and I'm glad John Cena is doing more dirty comedies as he really excels at it. I've been wanting to see I, Tonya but it doesn't come out near me until this Friday and I'm in the process of watching Brigsby and Ingrid. I thought It Comes at Night was good, but I felt the marketing really hurt it since it's more of a drama set in a horrific world than the horror movie that it was portrayed as, definitely worth a watch but I feel people need to let go of their ideas of what they think it is.

Since it's the end of the year I thought I would find out what everyone's favorite and least favorite films of the year are. For the list, they should be limited to films that were released this year, not ones that you might have seen this year but were released earlier, though that can get mixed up at times as IMDB posts the release year of a film as its production year rather than when it was actually released. Here's my bottom 15: 1. Kuso 2. WTF! 3. Dirty Dancing (remake) 4. Underworld: Blood Wars 5. Power Rangers 6. Red Christmas 7. Bad Frank 8. XXX: the Return of Xander Cage 9. Jackals 10. Life 11. The Vault 12. Geostorm 13. Live By Night 14. The Hitman's Bodyguard 15. The Bad Batch Top 15: 1. The Disaster Artist 2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 3. Logan 4. Get Out 5. It 6. The Shape of Water 7. Logan Lucky 8. Wonder Woman 9. John Wick Chapter 2 10. Thor: Ragnarok 11. Spider-Man: Homecoming 12. Baby Driver 13. Split 14. Wind River 15. Shot Caller/Brawl in Cell Block 99 (Tie)

I don't try to see things I would hate, I just end up hating them after. I was hoping Power Rangers would be good and then just left the theater furious, and Geostorm was amazingly awesome shit and I knew it would be, but in terms of the movies I saw this year it falls near the back end of the spectrum. Then there's things I feel will be utter shit like CHIPS or Baywatch and I just don't even bother, so they won't make my list since I didn't see them.

Did just realize that my two true honorable mentions for the year are Kong and Better Watch Out, which if you haven't seen is a great twist on the precocious kid getting the best of unwanted guests in his house, backed by an amazing trailer campaign that revealed NOTHING of the true premise of the film.

This year was a bit harder for me as I didn't see as many movies as I had last year when I did the Doug Loves Movies Challenge, so the last five of my bottom fifteen really aren't unwatchable films, but they were still really bad. Kuso was a disgusting and unwatchable nightmare.

Are any of those comics Sex Criminals, East of West, or 100 Bullets? Though to be fair, each of those series would be better suited for TV.

It's on my watchlist as I'm currently finishing up American Gods, and I think I'll only be able to get through a few episodes of JCVJ since the new season of Black Mirror comes out this Friday.

Actually liked this as an alternate reality where mythical creatures exist in modern times and those elements are mixed with a cop thriller. I felt Smith and Edgerton had great chemistry and the idea that a magic wand would be considered a WMD in this world is an interesting idea. I did feel some of the elements were haphazardly done, like the group of cops going from zero to corrupt in a second flat was a real flat cliche, and some of the mythology wasn't that fleshed out like the Dark Lord aspect. Also felt it was kind of weak that David Ayer re-used scenes from his other movies in this i.e. the scene in the Orc hideout with the gang leader's son was almost beat for beat the same as the scene in Training Day when Ethan Hawke is almost killed in the bathtub by the gangsters. What's funny is this is getting trashed by reviewers but pretty well received by viewers, but one review in particular from Indiewire where the reviewer doesn't so much review the movie but talk about how he was offended by it and its take on social situations, caused Ayer himself to respond saying he loved the review since it generated such a strong response and that the reviewer should write scripts as he tended to like string big words together, and that he'd love to read any script that man wrote.

While it's unfortunate we couldn't get a Christmas movie for the Christmas episode, I felt it prudent to send you all a Merry Christmas message.

Question: Did they dub someone else's voice for Jeremy like they did for Nuclear Man? I ask because that kid maybe looked like he was 12 if a day and his voice sounded like he hit puberty at 6. Also did Lenny mug someone from Death Race 2000 to get his car, there is no reason for there to be four gramophones on the outside of the car as a surround sound system, and there definitely shouldn't be people interested in that fact enough to just blindly sit in this random person's car. Finally, Gene Hackman needs some kind of humanitarian award for giving the performance that he did because he was legit trying and crushing in this film. It was so good I can honestly see how it shaped Luthor in the comics with his mannerisms and superiority complex, especially in titles like All-Star Superman or Superman: Red Son.

I'm so utterly pissed that Bridges got the Oscar nomination over Ben Foster who in my opinion stole the show in that film while Bridges just redid his Rooster Cogburn that he had been doing for the last few films. As for other Taylor Sheridan films, I would love to see Gil Birmingham get a Supporting Actor nod for Wind River as he did a fantastic job of a grieving father trying to work with outsiders in finding his child's killer. One of my favorite things this year was to see how desperate IMDB was to create listicles on certain dates, usually for someone's birthday. The usual headline was "how X actor has changed/evolved over the years," which made it funnier when both Cara Delevingne and Sofia Boutella were the subject of those lists and I think between them they've made 20 films over the last 3-4 years when they started acting.

Okay I'm watching Superman and I will lose my mind if Cryer's nutso car isn't discussed along with the fact that a strand of Superman's hair can hold up a 1000 pound weight but easily be cut by regular bolt cutters.

I have to assume that is part of the Guild rules in regards to credit and contracts, sort of like how there have to be two credit runs in a film no matter where, which is why we now get animated credits followed by the standard text crawl over a black screen at the end of the movie.This reminds me of a few years back when The Departed won Best Picture, as Brad Pitt technically should have won an Oscar for that as he was a producer on the film, but for some reason the Producer Guild and Academy decided that only Graham King would get the Oscar. It was originally said that was because Pitt was a more involved producer on other nominated films, but looking at it just now, there really isn't a clear reason given. Same goes for Walton Goggins, who actually accepted an Oscar for his short film The Accountant, but again to various rules, is not credited as an Oscar winner.

That would be Fresno.

To be fair both are horror movies, and if you don't think that's true about Lady Bird, then you obviously have never lived in Sacramento.

The motherfuckers, and lest we forget the great shunning of arguably one of the greatest horror films of all time:

I don't hold it against multi-winners getting wins simply for being them but rather the use of them as bait to get awards. And considering the fact that these award shows are basically ways for studios to bilk out a few more dollars from audiences by attaching some random award to the poster and wrapping it in Laurel Leaves, making them think this movie needs to be seen because it won a fan award at the Vine Film Festival in Santa Rosa. I think now the actors do it more so for the swag bags which can run in the tens, or in the case of the Oscars, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Before winning an award like an Oscar would be used to increase one's value in contract negotiations, but now box office is a bigger player in determining that, so award shows are basically ego wank fests. The Oscars have never been kind to the horror genre, albeit Get Out is more psychological/thriller like Silence of the Lambs was, rather than a slasher or ghost film, so it may stand a better chance of nomination on the big show. Remember that the Oscars included the Twilight series as part of their homage to horror a few years back, but they never seem to want to acknowledge that almost EVERY A-list actor in Hollywood got their first big break in a horror movie (Clooney, Bacon, DiCaprio, etc.) or some summer softcore skin flick like in the case of Kevin Costner or David Duchovny. I don't know, I would be stunned if Frances McDormand doesn't win for Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri, though to be fair there were so many more layers to that role outside of concerned mother. As of right now here are my guesses for the top three categories: Film: Dunkirk, Three Billboards, Darkest Hour, The Post, Lady Bird, The Disaster Artist, The Shape of Water, Get Out (maybe), Logan and Wonder Woman (big maybies) Actor: James Franco, Gary Oldman, Tom Hanks, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale (maybies) Actress: Frances McDormand, Meryl Streep, Sally Hawkins, Margot Robbie, Judy Dench, Saoirse Ronan (maybe)

They need to change comedy-musical to a general category, because that's what it's become over the last 15 years. It's basically used as a catch-all for a nominee that they couldn't find space for in the drama category (Matt Damon in The Martian) or a film that doesn't fit any of the three genres but they want to nominate it anyway (The Tourist).

I liked Smith fine, but I felt there were points where his mind wandered onto another topic and then another. Also, Smosh Games did a video with Wiseau where they play an escape room based on The Room and it's fantastic, more so because Wiseau is actually involved and playing it straight, rather than being hammy like he was in the Tommy Wi-Show.