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It was explained that after the whole thing she was found wandering the road and because of the beating it was assumed she had amnesia. So I'm assuming she just really repressed the memory until the final scene with her in the car with Cassavetes where it apparently comes to her in a flash that the worst guy in her town is the one who killed her boyfriend, beat the piss outta her, and then kidnaps her everyday after her shift.

I was coming here to ask the same thing! I for sure thought it was going to be revealed that Quaid was getting a kickback from the stolen cars which is why the gang was allowed to run amuck like they were without repercussions. That, or it was going to be revealed that Cassavetes was going to be revealed to be Quaid's illegitimate son or he was using another name so as to not hurt his dad's re-election as sheriff. Question: Also, did anyone else think that Sheen and Fenn were driving off to the same location Courtney Cox and her boyfriend were going to in Masters of the Universe? It was basically the same thing where they were leaving their fully furnished homes that had no parents inside and they were just riding off into the sunset. As for the missing eyes and disappearing parts of Sheen's suit, I have to wonder if as some part of his deal with coming back from the dead he had to pay it back to whatever deity that allowed him back that he had to offer up pieces of his foes in order to stay in the land of the living?

Let's do the checklist of a HDTGM movie: Clint Howard in the starring role, check! Nude scene featuring the aforementioned Howard brother, check! Male version of Carrie, check! Over the top gore and practical effects, check! Conjuring Satan through an old Apple computer, check! Richard Moll as a Spanish Satanist, check! I just got this from Shout! Factory and it is fantastic. Howard does a great job of coming off as the down on his luck lead character and you really feel for him and what happens to him, similar to Carrie White. The effects in the unedited cut are pretty good for the time and the climax has a really good buildup. Definitely worth an episode of the show.

I honestly never heard of Downfall, but now I want to watch every episode. Jericho never gets the love he rightfully he deserves as a mic worker in wrestling because he was in the middle of the pack of guys including The Rock, who really was great and making snappy catchphrases but was okay overall, and Steve Austin who could keep an audience on the edge of their seats whenever he spoke. The man really has the gift of gab and if they ever remake this movie I have fingers crossed that he is brought on as Killian.

This could either be a dud or a spectacular comedy with the number of names attached to it, I'm hoping for the latter.

Yeah while I didn't get to meet Piper I did meet Jerry Lawler who told some great stories about Piper. And if you ever get a chance to go to a big event like a Wrestlemania, there are always outside companies doing meet and greet conventions. So while I didn't go to Axxess, I went to another convention that had dozens of guys including Terry Funk and Ivan Koloff (easily two of the nicest people that I've ever met), Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Bad Influence, Hillbilly Jim, Vader, and Ken Shamrock (easily the biggest jerk I've ever met at one of these things).

Can totally see Paul as a wrestling nerd. The only unfortunate thing about the Wrestlemania that I went to was that he was out either injured or touring with his band at the time so he wasn't on the card or at the Axxess event signing autographs, but he's definitely one I'm hoping to meet one day. Almost as bad as I when going to a comic convention I was hoping to meet HDTGM all star Roddy Piper and he sadly passed away the week prior. Hoping that doesn't occur again this year as the big wrestling name for this year is Ric Flair.

So glad this is the version of him Funko is making a pop of.

Hey Smigg, got a simple question for you, who wore it better?

After hearing that both Christopher Reeve and Patrick Swayze were considered for the lead in the movie, I have to believe that the movie was first made to closely resemble the original story which was more of a suspenseful thriller rather than a bloody action flick. It seemed that Arnold was interested in doing the story as well. yet once Arnold was signed on they changed it to resemble is style of movies.

3 appearances - Jesse Ventura - Batman & Robin, Demolition Man, Running Man 2 appearances - Dweezil Zappa - Jack Frost, Running Man 3 appearances - Sven-Ole Thorsen - Jingle All the Way, Batman & Robin, Running Man 5 appearances - Thomas Rosales Jr. - Bad Ass, Face/Off, Con Air, Escape From LA, Running Man

CORRECTION: Paul was kinda right in how The Running Man story ended with the airplane crashing into the Games Network building, but there are missing parts or things that were different from everything else he said. In the book, Richards leaves his rundown home on the wrecked side of the city to sign up for a gameshow in the hopes of earning enough money to buy food and money for his sick kid and to help his wife not have to keep prostituting herself in order to make ends meet. He is given a physical and psychological test that has him picked to be on The Running Man. In the book, he doesn't fight costumed Stalkers, but is let out onto the streets with 12 hr. head start to run and hide from Hunters who are essentially bounty hunters. For every hour is isn't captured he gets $100, $100 for each cop or Hunter he kills, and the grand prize of $1 billion if he survives 30 days, which no one ever has. The public is also against him as they earn cash for calling in tips to the authorities about his whereabouts and they get more if it leads to his capture, and if he's killed the money he earned to that point is given to his family. He also has to send in video recordings giving updates of his condition or his mindset twice a day, otherwise he forfeits the money and is still hunted. After a long battle for survival, he eventually takes a woman hostage after carjacking her to get to the airport. He then bluffs his way onto a plane and takes the lead Hunter hostage as well. He then calls Killian who explains that the viewers love him and he offers him a job as lead hunter, but is informed that his family was murdered in a home invasion while he was still taking the tests to determine what show he would be on. From there he decides to let the woman go and kills the lead hunter, and flies the plane into the Network building, killing Killian countless more. As for Captain Freedom being a 10 time champion, the only thing I can think of is that over the course of the season on The Running Man, they keep a tally of how many kills each Stalker got, with the most kills making a certain Stalker the champion. If you have never read the Bachman stories I can't recommend them enough because not only did Stephen King write in a different genre, as the Bachman books are more action/thriller oriented, but he did really well at it.

I just couldn't believe Moore was 89, he looked maybe 70.

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Oh I know WCW was Turner's baby, but by 2001, it was completely out of his hands since he was basically just a figurehead after the merger with AOL. As for Kellner, while he had good ideas for television, he was also a bit behind the times with his mindset on where the medium was going, hence the cancellation of a lot of beloved shows. WWE did outdo WCW's highest ratings at their peak, but I find it odd that the ratings that they are getting now are around the area that WCW was getting when it was decided to close up the promotion. Also, if you haven't read The Death of WCW, read it, because it is a glorious book that doesn't pick a side between the promotions and the re-release actually offers up new information that just became public, along with how current promotions are either learning or not learning from WCW's biggest mistakes.

What still amazes me is that Turner turned down the first true offer for WCW that came earlier that year, which was 500 million. I have to imagine that they were kicking themselves hard, especially after how hard AOL-Time Warner tumbled after their merger saw them take a loss of just shy of 100 billion in 2002.

I find it hilarious that one of the most three dimensional and fantastic action movie villains is just a parody of lesser villains in other action movies. The character was just perfect from head to toe and I can't imagine anyone besides Dance in the role.

Charles Dance ruled that movie so fucking hard as Benedict. The 4th wall breaking monologue where he figures he would be God if God was a villain is so much proof that he knew the type of movie he was in and just decided to act the shit out of the material.

WCW was basically on life support at that point so they were looking for splashy headlines to bring in viewers. Unfortunately the title win was rightly mocked by EVERYONE, including Arquette who didn't want to win the belt because as a lifelong wrestling fan he knew that fans would absolutely hate the angle. WWE started making a turn in the ratings about a year after Stone Cold Steve Austin's infamous "Austin 3:16" speech, which led to big name celebrities like Mike Tyson getting involved with the promotion bringing in the desired publicity from the mainstream media. From there the WWE couldn't really do any wrong and generate huge ratings while WCW could do absolutely nothing right and the ratings started to free fall. It got so bad that in the span of 6 months in 2000, the WCW title changed hands 20 times as an attempt to build ratings, while prior to that the title it evolved from, the NWA title, changed hands the same number of times over the period of 1963-1983. So playing hot potato with the belt only went on to devalue the big belt that these wrestlers were supposed to be fighting for and the fans just stopped caring. It was only a matter of time before the company folded, it was just shocking that Vince McMahon bought his biggest competitor, once valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, for just over four million.

I'm assuming this was something mentioned in the mini-ep because otherwise this just seems like a really random comment on a bad movie chat thread.

There's a pretty good thread in the recommendation forum about this movie because it needs to be done. Not only was a side story of this movie that Arquette actually became the WCW Heavyweight Champion to help promote it, but a subplot of the movie is how the main characters get free slurpees by sticking their hands up their own asses.

This definitely falls in the category of aging better over time. With horror movies today that are blending comedy or irony in along with their gore, this would have fared a lot better than when it came out. To me it's like Last Action Hero which failed to land when it came out, and led to a massive overhaul at Sony, but over the years has been better regarded in concern to how it dealt with tropes in action movies and Arnold movies in particular.

Finally figured out which movie it is, The Initiation starring Daphne Zuniga, which would also make for a great episode.

I FUCKING LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!! Also probably one of the few movies that improves upon the story that it is based upon, which is pretty impressive as the story is really good.

Yeah I imagine that was the best that they could get considering most of the wrestlers were just starting actresses, models, or stuntwomen who basically only ever worked in GLOW, so I have to figure the nightmare it would be to get likeness or name rights from many of those involved. The promotion has also changed ownership a few times over the years so I bet that just compounded the difficulty in obtaining rights. Hey at least they have a Rocky 4-esque robot that gives out cocaine, so that's a big win.