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  1. RyanSz

    HDTGM and the Oscars

    This is the final batch up to the most recent episode. Teen Witch None The Covenant Winner – Tom Rosenberg for Million Dollar Baby Bloodsport Winner – Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland The Quest None Can’t Stop the Music Nominated – Valerie Perrine for Lenny Solarbabies Nominated – Charles Durning for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and To Be Or Not To Be Winner – Walon Green for The Helstrom Chronicle Hell Comes to Frogtown None The Avengers Nominated – Uma Thurman for Pulp Fiction Ralph Fiennes for Schindler’s List and The English Patient Winner – Sean Connery for The Untouchables Jim Broadbent for Iris The Boy Next Door None Simply Irresistible Nominated – Patricia Clarkson for Pieces of April Mannequin 2 None The Shadow Nominated – Martin Bregman for Dog Day Afternoon Alec Baldwin for The Cooler Ian McKellan for Gods and Monsters and The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring The Phantom Nominated – Robert Evans for Chinatown Winner – Alan Ladd Jr. for Braveheart Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago Gods of Egypt Winner – Geoffrey Rush for Shine Stealth Nominated – Mike Medavoy for Black Swan W.D. Richter for Brubaker Sam Shepard for The Right Stuff Winner – Jamie Foxx for Ray Vampire Academy None Dreamcatcher Nominated – Lawrence Kasdan for The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist, and Grand Canyon Winner – William Goldman for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby Gamer Winner – Tom Rosenberg for Million Dollar Baby Vampire’s Kiss Winner – Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas The Lawnmower Man None Grease 2 Nominated – Michelle Pfieffer for Dangerous Liasons, The Fabulous Baker Boys, and Love Field Escape From L.A. Nominated – Peter Fonda for Easy Rider and Ulee’s Gold Winner – Cliff Robertson for Charly Highlander 2 Nominated – Virginia Madsen for Sideways Winner – Sean Connery for The Untouchables Airborne Winner – Bruce Davey for Braveheart XXX: Return of Xander Cage Nominated – Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction Toni Collette for The Sixth Sense Surf Ninjas None Body Parts Nominated – Brad Dourif for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Sleepwalkers None The Lake House Winner – Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side Christopher Plummer for Beginners The Fate of the Furious Winner – Charlize Theron for Monster Hellen Mirren for The Queen My Stepmother is an Alien Nominated – Laurence Mark for Jerry Maguire Dan Aykroyd for Driving Miss Daisy Winner - Kim Basinger for L.A. Confidential The Running Man None The Wraith Nominated – Randy Quaid for The Last Detail Ninja Terminator None Timecop None Chopping Mall None Hard Ticket to Hawaii None The Garbage Pail Kids None Bratz Winner – Jon Voight for Coming Home Miami Connection None The Last Dragon None Virtuosity Winner – Denzel Washington for Glory and Training Day Russell Crowe for Gladiator Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Jason X None Ultraviolet None As of right now The Tourist and Winter's Tale have the most Oscar winners at five, followed by Toys with four. For the most part there weren't many surprises as to who won Oscars outside of the dad from Kazaam winning three times or the producer of Airborne having an Oscar for Best Picture. Over the course of my research I did find quite a few all-stars that haven't been listed yet, but I think I'll give it some time before delving back into the HDTGM research hole.
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    HDTGM and the Oscars

    Junior Nominated – Ivan Reitman for Up In the Air Danny DeVito for Erin Brockovich Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon Winner – Emma Thompson for Howard’s End and Sense and Sensibility Xanadu Nominated – Lawrence Gordon for Field of Dreams Gene Kelly for Anchors Away Tango & Cash Nominated – Stuart Baird for Superman and Gorillas in the Mist Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed Michael J. Pollard for Bonnie and Clyde Winner – Jack Palance for City Slickers Zardoz Nominated – John Boorman for Deliverance and Hope and Glory Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years Winner – Sean Connery for The Untouchables Safe Haven Nominated – Lasse Hallstrom for Life as a Dog and The Cider House Rules Deap Blue Sea Nominated – Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction Winner – AkivaGoldsman for A Beautiful Mind Lake Placid None Con Air Nominated – John Malkovich for Places in the Heart, In the Line of Fire Winner – Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas Face/Off Nominated – David Permut for Hacksaw Ridge John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction Joan Allen for Nixon, The Crucible, and The Contender Winner – Barrie M. Osborne for Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas The Island of Dr. Moreau Winner – Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront and The Godfather part 1 Hercules in New York None Jupiter Ascending Nominated – Grant Hill for The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life Winner – Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze None Runaway None Sharknado 3 None Top Dog None Theodore Rex Nominated – Armin Mueller-Stahl for Shine Winner – Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost Furious 7 Nominated – Djimon Hounsou for In America and Blood Diamond Maximum Overdrive None Masters of the Universe Nominated – Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon Perfect Nominated – James Bridges for The Paper Chase and The China Syndrome John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction Death Spa None Lifeforce Nominated – Peter Firth for Equus Frank Finlay for Othello Hackers Nominated – Felicity Huffman for Transamerica Winner – Angelina Jolie for Girl, Interrupted Fisher Stevens for the Cove Steel Nominated – Quincy Jones for In Cold Blood, Banning, For Love of Ivy, The Wiz, and The Color Purple Star Wars Christmas Special Nominated – Harrison Ford for Witness James Earl Jones for The Great White Hope Diahann Carroll for Claudine Winner – Art Carney for Harry and Tonto Alec Guinness for The Bridge On the River Kwai Kazaam Winner – James Acheson for The Last Emperor, Dangerous Liasons, and Restoration This honestly surprised me to see the shitty dad in this movie had won more Oscars at that point than fucking Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, and Al Pacino. Streets of Fire Nominated – Lawrence Gordon for Field of Dreams Diane Lane for Unfaithful Amy Madigan for Twice in a Lifetime Willem Dafoe for Platoon and Shadow of the Vampire The Apple None
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    Trailer Talk

    If you haven't seen it already I highly suggest watching Brawl in Cell Block 99 starring Vince Vaughn and Don Johnson. The trailer reveals almost nothing as to what this movie is about and that's for the best as Vaughn gives one of the best performances of his career. The fight scenes for the most part are very realistic and up until Vaughn is sent to a maximum security facility, the film is a pretty good representation of a prison environment, although in no prison would officers be walking the halls or yard carrying firearms. Once Vaughn gets to the titular cell block, the film becomes a mix of a prison exploitation film from the 70s and a horror flick, but the performances remain great despite that fact. Also be warned that this film incredibly visceral and brutal in its violence, and isn't for the easily squeamish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stQ2Pif1gL4
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    Geostorm (2017)

    Yeah I've seen those from time to time and they are utter pieces of this, unlike this film which is a great piece of shit.
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    Episode 175 - Ultraviolet: LIVE!

    Rothrock and Nielson were in a female Expendable type film called Mercenaries with Zoe Bell, Vivica A Fox, and Kristanna Loken.
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    Episode 175 - Ultraviolet: LIVE!

    Sort of like how the Devil is a bad dude, but the Super Devil is REALLY bad.
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    Episode 175 - Ultraviolet: LIVE!

    Watching this 30 million dollar budget movie made me realize how much the people making had to have embezzled every single penny of that because I recently rewatched the first ABCs of Death anthology and there is a segment set in a similar dystopian future and has way better CGI and with a fraction of the budget.
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    Geostorm (2017)

    Having just watched this glorious piece of shit I now fully endorse it being covered by the show. For a split second I thought that Roland Emmerich had made this, but upon seeing that Dean Devlin was in the director's chair as well as the writer and producer, I realized he was just making what I assume Roland Emmerich describes as porn. It's as if he thought "let's see if I can make a movie with a heavier handed climate message than The Day After Tomorrow" and then succeeded on EVERY SINGLE FRONT of that. While the science is shitty, at least it's dumbed down enough to a basic rock-paper-scissors logic to seem plausible enough for this film. The one thing I am bummed about is that it wasn't revealed in the end that Butler was the bad guy behind the whole thing, because that twist not only could have made this movie an instant B-movie classic, but would have been better hid than the Law and Order-esque way the Big Bad was revealed in how there were only so many known name actors in the film that i had to be one of them. Also at one point Butler proclaims that his brother and he were born in the UK but raised in the US, and if he isn't pulling his full-on Scottish accent while the brother has a full American accent, then someone has got to be fucking kidding me.
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    Episode 175 - Ultraviolet: LIVE!

    The only way I can explain the mini-backpack that is carrying a child is that it was using that time loop/lapse technology that was used for the sword. That way they could fit a full child inside the space of essentially a laptop. As for the apparent romantic angle between the kid and Mila, he had another movie with Nicole Kidman called Birth where he played a kid who claimed to be the reincarnation of her dead husband, leading to a controversial scene where they bathe together.
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    HDTGM and the Oscars

    Update through episode 99 88 Minutes Winner – Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman Abduction Nominated – John Singleton for Boyz N the Hood Sigourney Weaver for Aliens Winner – Shawn Christensen for Curfew The Adventures of Pluto Nash Nominated – Eddie Murphey for Dreamgirls Martin Bregman for Dog Day Afternoon Randy Quaid for The Last Detail John Cleese for A Fish Called Wanda Burt Young for Rocky Alec Baldwin for The Cooler Tiptoes Nominated – Gary Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Winner – Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyer’s Club Patricia Arquette for Boyhood On the Line Nominated – Justin Timberlake for Trolls Speed 2: Cruise Control Nominated – Willem Dafoe for Platoon and Shadow of the Vampire Winner – Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side Bad Ass None Godzilla Nominated – Ted Elliott for Shrek Terry Rossio for Shrek Michael Lerner for Barton Fink Judge Dredd Nominated – Michael De Luca for The Social Network, Moneyball, and Captain Phillips Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed Diane Lane for Unfaithful Max von Sydow for Pelle the Conqueror and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close James Earl Jones for The Great White Hope Spider-Man 3 Nominated – Thomas Haden Church for Sideways James Franco for 127 Hours James Cromwell for Babe Rosemary Harris for Tom & Viv Willem Dafoe for Platoon and Shadow of the Vampire Winner – Alvin Sargent for Ordinary People and Julia Cliff Robertson for Charly JK Simmons for Whiplash Batman & Robin Nominated – Uma Thurman for Pulp Fiction Winner – George Clooney for Syriana and Argo Akiva Goldsman for A Beautiful Mind Wild Wild West Nominated – Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness and Ali Kenneth Branagh for Henry V, Swan Song, Hamlet, and My Week With Marilyn Salma Hayek for Frida Winner – Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda Jaws 4: The Revenge Winner – Michael Caine for Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules Road House Nominated – Hilary Henkin for Wag the Dog Barb Wire None Super Mario Bros. Nominated – Roland Joffe for The Killing Fields and The Mission Bob Hoskins for Mona Lisa Dennis Hopper for Easy Rider and Hoosiers Winner – Fisher Stevens for The Cove Sleepaway Camp None Cobra Nominated – Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed Breaking Dawn Part 2 Winner – Bill Condon for Gods and Monsters Liz & Dick None Reindeer Games Nominated – Chris Moore for Manchester by the Sea Gary Sinise for Forrest Gump Winner – Isaac Hayes for Shaft Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting and Argo Charlize Theron for Monster Anaconda Nominated – Owen Wilson for The Royal Tenenbaums Winner – Jon Voight for Coming Home The Odd Life of Timothy Green Nominated – Peter Hedges for About a Boy Lin-Manuel Miranda for Moana Winner – Diane Wiest for Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway Common for Selma The Devil’s Advocate Nominated – ArnonMilchan for L.A. Confidential and The Revenant Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton Winner – Taylor Hackford for Teenage Father Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman Arnold Kopelson for The Fugitive Charlize Theron for Monster Nothing But Trouble Nominated – Dan Aykroyd for Driving Miss Daisy From Justin to Kelly None In the Name of the King Nominated – Burt Reynolds for Boogie Nights Spice World Nominated – Elvis Costello for Cold Mountain Bob Hoskins for Mona Lisa Winner – Elton John for The Lion King Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot Nominated – Ivan Reitman for Up In the Air Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed Joyful Noise Nominated – Broderick Johnson for The Blind Side Andrew Kosove for The Blind Side Queen Latifah for Chicago Dolly Parton for 9 to 5 and Transamerica Kris Kristofferson for Songwriter Fast & Furious 6 None After Earth Nominated – M. Night Shaymalan for The Sixth Sense Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness and Ali Sophie Okonedo for Hotel Rwanda Howard the Duck Nominated – Willard Huyck for American Graffiti Gloria Katz for American Graffiti David Paymer for Mr. Saturday Night Demolition Man Nominated – Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of King George Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed Winner – Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side Sharknado None Over the Top Nominated – Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed Robert Loggia for Jagged Edge Winner – Stirling Silliphant for In the Heat of the Night Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles Nominated – Paul Hogan for Crocodile Dundee Gymkata Nominated – Robert Clouse for The Cadillac and The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes The Glimmer Man None Toys Nominated – Valerie Curtin for …And Justice For All Joan Cusack for Working Girl and In & Out Winner – Barry Levinson for Rain Man Robin Williams for Good Will Hunting Mark Johnson for Rain Man Jamie Foxx for Ray Congo Nominated – Frank Marshall for Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Color Purple, The Sixth Sense, Seabiscuit, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Kathleen Kennedy for ET, The Color Purple, The Sixth Sense, Seabiscuit, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, War Horse, and Lincoln Sam Mercer for The Sixth Sense Laura Linney for You Can Count On Me, Kinsey, The Savages John Hawkes for Winter’s Bone Winner – John Patrick Shanley for Moonstruck Grant Heslov for Argo Halloween 3: Season of the Witch None Daredevil Nominated – ArnonMilchan for L.A. Confidential and The Revenant Michael Clark Duncan for The Green Mile Winner –Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting and Argo Fair Game Nominated – Salma Hayek for Frida Hudson Hawk Nominated – Robert Kraft for The Mambo Kings Danny Aiello for Do The Right Thing Winner – James Coburn for Affliction Crossroads Nominated – Dan Aykroyd for Driving Miss Daisy Deck the Halls Nominated – Arnon Milchan for L.A. Confidential and The Revenant Danny DeVito for Erin Brockovich Jack Frost Nominated – Michael Keaton for Birdman Mortal Kombat None Double Team Nominated – Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler Winter’s Tale Nominated – Marc Platt for Bridge of Spies and La La Land Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness and Ali Graham Greene for Dances With Wolves Winner – Akiva Goldsman for A Beautiful Mind Russell Crowe for Gladiator William Hurt for Kiss of the Spider Woman Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront No Holds Barred Nominated – David Paymer for Mr. Saturday Night Color of Night Nominated – Billy Ray for Captain Phillips Lesley Ann Warren for Victor Victoria Brad Dourif for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ernest Goes to Jail None Easy Rider: The Ride Back None Mr. Nanny None Gooby None Sharknado 2: The Second One Nominated – Judd Hirsch for Ordinary People Staying Alive Nominated – John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction Norman Wexler for Joe and Serpico Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed Glitter Nominated – Laurence Mark for Jerry Maguire Terrence Howard for Hustle & Flow Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor None Monkey Shines Nominated –Stanley Tucci for Lovely Bones Rhinestone Nominated – Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed Dolly Parton for 9 to 5 and Transamerica Richard Farnsworth for The Straight Story LOL Nominated – Michael Shamberg for The Big Chill and Erin Brockovich Stacey Sher for Erin Brockovich and Django Unchained Winner – Fisher Stevens for The Cove A View to a Kill Winner – Christopher Walken for The Deer Hunter
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    Episode 174.5 - Minisode 174.5

    Holy shit I forgot how terrible this movie was. The graphics alone are like they are from 1992 when CGI was kinda starting to be in movies and why the hell did the opening credits have fake comic covers splayed everywhere, except for making a short lived anime series in Japan a couple years after it came out?
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    HDTGM All-Stars

    3 appearances: Cameron Bright - Breaking Dawn part 1, Breaking Dawn part 2, Ultraviolet
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    The Snowman (2017)

    Since no one saw this crapfest, there isn't a full summary on Wikipedia, and even the wiki for the book is incredibly vague and doesn't say who the killer is. The one good thing I found is that the character's last name is meant to be pronounced "holy" which I still don't understand why it wasn't changed for English speaking audiences who would misinterpret it.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    Oh Sleepaway Camp is easy, divorced dad is at beach with his kids and gay lover while his understanding sister, who is certifiably insane, is coming to meet them after she dropped her son off at a summer camp.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    Yeah I had to look again at the twins to see if there was a way to tell them apart, which ended up being their shirts, so I didn't catch the switch at first. And of course all the characters except for the Final Girl are supposed to be incredibly terrible and killable, since they basically represent the deadly sins. If you haven't seen it already, I highly recommend The Final Girls starring Malin Ackerman and Taissa Farmiga about a group of people who get sucked up into a cult B-slasher that starred one of their moms. It doesn't play the satire as straight-faced as Cabin In the Woods, but is still amazing in how it breaks down the tropes of the genre, to the point they basically have to tie up the slutty counselor so she doesn't take her clothes off and in turn start the final act/massacre of the film. With this Friday film, I was honestly surprised that the first one killed was the smart girl of the group, because they made it appear as if she could have been the Final Girl for the film, especially since the only other actress who came close to non-shittiness was the female doctor. Also, if you haven't heard it, Pablo Francisco has a great bit about the stupidity of Friday kids and how they end up on the wrong end of a blade. Yeah he was great in that my mom has dated guys like that who were that affable and truly trying to be my friend. Reiser I liked as he seemed to me that he could either be a total villain or a guy just having to do his job, unlike Matthew Modine was an uber asshole from the first time you saw him and you knew he was up to no good.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    Almost done, but so far have really enjoyed the additions of Astin and Reiser.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    Okay I see where the disconnect is. That's Paul she was trying to steal from his girlfriend . Ted was going stag as the typical "edgy/cool guy" of the group . After rewatching the scene I concur that they did WWE style "twin magic" and switched who they each were going after at the party.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    That was the other twin,who was trying to get Paul to cheat, and then after Ted, the guy with the invisible fuck calculation computer, tried to basically molest her on the couch in front of everyone, she wanted to leave and have her sister come with her in an act of solidarity, but she was all up in Crispin Glover's biz so she told her to buzz off. This of course led to her getting shanked in the rain. There's a great documentary called Crystal Lake Memories that covers the entire series and gives in-depth interviews with not just the stars of the films but also smaller characters in order to give a better understanding of the films. It's kinda interesting in that Corey Feldman talks about how he was supposed to have a bigger role in part 5, rather than a teen version of the character, but he was contractually obligated to be in The Goonies, so he could only do a cameo in the cold open of part 5. Feldman actually states that he was furious that he couldn't do a bigger role because he had much more fun in his Friday movie than he did in Goonies. Beware though that the documentary is 8 hours long, but it's definitely worth watching if you're a horror fan. I know way too much about these movies.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    I see your clip of the robot dance and shall raise you Crispin Glover's seizure-fu dance from Part IV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgj9tewHso And just so you all understand, after he danced like THAT, he got laid as apparently chicks who lived in the woods have no taste or concept of good dancing.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    In that same article he also did an early version of Doxxing by giving away the addresses to both the chairman of Paramount's parent company as well as Betsy Palmer, which is so horrifying for anyone, let alone a professional movie reviewer to do. I love Avatar as it basically is over the top gory series like Crossed and adaptations for various horror films. Unfortunately, a lot of their stuff based on horror films isn't getting published anymore so to get the paperbacks for them is gonna cost a bit. The comics have also in a way become canon in regards to Pamela Voorhees' relationship with Jason's father and how she was actually pretty crazy before Jason's apparent drowning, that was just the final straw for her to go completely homicidal. They've also done a good job of creating a coherent storyline between all of the Texas Chainsaw movies whose overall history is convoluted at best.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    He could have, but I've seen the choke hold some of these companies like Wizard Con have on the guests in terms of how business is conducted with these signings, especially the marquee people. They usually have two, if not three, workers with the performer making sure that the money is collected and enforcing any set rules. I got an autograph from Michael Rooker this year at a convention and since he was the big name as Guardians 2 just came out, he had two Wizard Con workers behind the table with him along with two outside the line confirming that everyone had already pre-bought their ticket to get an autograph and that there was nothing else being asked of him while meeting him, like getting a photo with him there, as they had a photo op session with him set up later in the day. Since these people are contracted with these promoters, they usually don't want to rock the boat in fear of losing out on guaranteed paydays. Another explanation is he could have been like Michael Rooker was and been completely hungover and just not wanting to deal with people for an extended period of time.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    Jason is meant to be more sympathetic than the other killers in various franchises, solely for starting as a handicapped kid who was thought killed via negligence. He was pushed into the lake but bullies while the two counselors were meant to be watching him were off having sex, causing Pamela Voorhees to snap. He someone survived and because he was a model camper, as shown in the reboot, he thrived in the wilderness with the survival skills he learned at camp, only to see his mother decapitated. He then takes up her cause of seeing the park stay closed so that nothing like what happened to him happens to another child. As for the story of Kane Hodder and the kid, I can almost guarantee you that him charging 20 bucks was him being incredibly nice to the kid. In many instances at these conventions the biggest names are always paid in advance, so any money they are charging for autographs or photos are price set by the company who hired them in order to recoup their cost and make some profit hopefully. And at a horror convention, Hodder would be THE top-tier name, so he would cost probably 75-100 for a photo/autograph combo. When I met Robert Englund at one of these I think I paid 85 for a combo with him, so for the kid to get a photo with the most famous actor to play Jason Voorhees at 20 dollars was definitely a nice guy thing on Hodder's part.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    Also, the whole hologram Crystal Lake scene was basically them doing a Scream-esque nod to the camera about the tropes of the series it is a part of and how Jason always killed the kids who smoked dope or had sex everywhere. And as mentioned previously the sleeping bag kills were an homage to the scene from part 7 where he slammed a woman against a tree after she thought hiding in her sleeping bag would protect her.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    Cronenberg has a weird history of cameos, made more so as he has made some snooty comments about various film genres like superhero and comic book adaptations, despite making one himself with A History of Violence. Not only did he appear in this one, he was the hitman in To Die For with Nicole Kidman, also had a cameo in the Tom Arnold megahit The Stupids. Having just re-watched the entire franchise for my annual October horror film binge and they are my favorite horror franchise, they weren't completely circling Jason in the opening of Jason Goes to Hell, but rather a semicircle and then just unloaded on him, the scene did hold the Guinness record for most squibs used in a single scene for about a decade). I was going off the F13 wikia and those two weren't counted, but neither were the millions in the space station that was blown up. Also, writer Todd Farmer upped the ante of his cameos as in both Drive Angry and My Bloody Valentine, he showed full frontal before being killed in both films. One correction I have is about how Jason is revived by the nanites. When he is killed by the cyborg he knocks over the surgery table as he falls back and damages the system. The table then glitches and tries to revive him, but because he's all dead tissue and there's nothing readily available on the table to use in it's place it pulls material from the surrounding technology and furniture to rebuild him, making Uber Jason. In regards to a Jason film in an urban area, Jason Takes Manhattan technically was that film, even though only the third act of the movie took place in the city. Jason in the snow was also going to be the plot setting for the cancelled F13 film that was supposed to come out this year but was shelved after Rings and Blair Witch tanked at the box office. As to Jason's apparent powers of teleportation and sneaking up on people, he really didn't develop those until he was resurrected in part 6. From parts 2-4, which take place over the course of a few weeks in the film timeline, was very human in how he acted, running after victims and sneaking around to attack but was fairly clumsy at times. After being completely killed in part four, he is resurrected two films later and that's when it seems like he can teleport at will or just appear behind a person since he's now a supernatural being. So much so that it's a part of the recent F13 game that was released this year, where he can teleport around the game map or zip around after victims or sneak up behind people.
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    Episode 174 - Jason X: LIVE!

    Weird thing about this entry in the F13 franchise is that it has the second highest kill count of a Jason film at 24, behind Jason takes Manhattan at 25, but is also tied for most survivors at the end of the film with 3 (tied with Jason 5). I don't think this would have been as bad of a film if it weren't for the god awful CGI, but at least it follows other horror series that have taken to space (Hellraiser, Leprechaun), now all we need is a prequel/flashback movie set when the camp was first open.
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