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Kumail on being shocked:

His mom ate the PB&J sandwich and went rabid as it fucked with her diabetes, his dad had to shoot her with a tranquilizer that was mixed with her insulin. It was weird.

This was made based on a book that was based on a various newspaper articles of the time that connected D & D to Satanism, the book itself was batshit insane, but because Satanic fear was a growing trend they made this hunk of shit.

Correction: When Mitchell goes off the roof of the parking garage, there are a few construction workers that watch him make the jump onto the ramp, though from the various shot cuts, they go from being there to not being there. As for the PB & J Burger, I've tried that at a local restaurant and it is maybe the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten. The jelly actually works well with a burger for a salty/sweet kind of mix, but the peanut butter melts and coagulates and is totally inedible.

What's more telling about how they felt about their son is that they took the dog on their trip instead of him. Sounds well and good but in the world of this bonkers movie I think it just boils down to them hating his fucking guts. I mean really, who could love a kid who brings a goddamn surf board with him to Cincinnati and forgets to leave the more applicable means of transportation in his roller blades at home? Another thing I wanted to mention in that Mini-Me hooked up with his wife through Seth Green isn't so far fetched when you consider Green has basically kept a Rolodex of celebrity friends from prior work in order to help fill out the cast of eight seasons of Robot Chicken along with multiple specials for that show.

Okay the first time Blaine is introduced in this movie is dark as shit for a teen movie in that he basically tries to dance rape Nikki in front of a crowd. It was completed of course with the over the top hair flips and was he dressed like he was going to a snow lodge? It almost seems like he was told that he was the bully in a snow town and he just assumed that meant ski bully. And was I the only one who wanted to beat Mitchell with his laid back, new age guru bullshit while he is also passive aggressively starting shit with everyone? Fuck him in the face.

Okay just started rewatching this before the episode as it's been years since I've seen it and listening to the parents sell the main kid on staying with relatives for six months basically makes the kid's point as to why he should be able to go with them to Australia. They argue that they can't remove him from school for six months, so apparently these dumb dildos think that there are no schools in Australia, and now their kid will be more unwilling to adapt to an environment he doesn't want to be in so he's more likely to not make friends or connections with people, unlike Australia where he'd be more apt to embrace local customs and people. Then they say that he gets to see how other people live and broaden his horizons, which I'm sure he would get more of in Australia than in Cincinnati. This leads me to believe after watching how the parents recoiled when the son asked "when are we going," that they FUCKING HATE their son who talks through gritted gameshow host teeth. Also watching the opening credits reminded me what hell it was on my calves rollerblading. Just watching those clasps get locked in just brought back chills and reminders of the blisters if my socks slid down into the blades so then my bare legs were pressed against the ungodly material those devil shoes were made out of. Lastly, the only person I want to see wearing those rose red, circular glasses, is Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, not Seth Green in whatever fashion setup he was going for with his beret and frilly leather jacket.

Hadn't heard that episode, what did he do or was he just bad at the games?

I can see that as they have similar aesthetics. Isn't it amazing that after the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit that all of the subsequent attempts at making another live action/cartoonesque movies have failed fantastically. From Cool World to Monkeybone to Looney Tunes: Back In Action have nowhere near the success of Roger Rabbit. The only one that really got close was Space Jam, though that hasn't aged as well as Roger Rabbit.

I like how she tries to make it seem that somehow changing the name from Dark Town to Downtown to Monkeybone, a movie based on a little known comic that wasn't a big enough seller on it's own to continue past the first issue, was the reason for this hunk of shit failing so hard. Also I like her not so subtlety hinting that her scenes and that half of the movie was the true masterpiece and would have sold tickets. That's sort of like how Dave Chapelle has been saying that the Daily Show started to get popular because he was the lead-in show once a week, despite the Daily Show already having grown in popularity a couple years prior.

It's amazing looking at Besson's filmography and seeing he made crazy movies before but this one is just like "well they gave me a nice check and two huge leading actors, let's see what they will let me get away with." To me it's like reading certain comic book writers who have worked for both the big two (DC/Marvel) and then independent or smaller publishers (IDW/Boom/Avatar/Self published). When they work under the leash of editors at the big two they do great work, but the writers and various fans go about how much greater they would be out from under the thumb of these busy body editors who stifle their creativity, prime examples being Alan Moore, Gail Simone, Grant Morrison, and Frank Miller. Yet when these same writers are given total control of what they put on paper, more often than not we see why they are put on a leash to begin with because the end product is something so attempting to be heady while just being apparently drug or crazy induced that it's almost unreadable. Alan Moore and Frank Miller are probably the biggest culprits of this as those two are certifiably insane and it clearly shows in their work, Holy Terror being a prime example for Miller and The Century Trilogy of the League of Extraordinary Gentleman for Moore where he has Harry Potter revealed as the Anti-Christ who then kills Alan Quartermain by shooting a lightning bolt from his dick, yes I'm serious. I feel that it's almost reverse for Besson where he worked outside the major companies and had huge success but when working for the bigger Hollywood studios, he's given an good size of money for an non-reboot/sequel/adaptation and is apparently left to his own devices with what's been given to him, and the previous success in the vein of being enjoyable doesn't translate as well.

I enjoy the F&F movies from 5 on, but the first four I think are either basic, terrible, or boring. The more recent ones embrace action and create some beautiful set piece action scenes to where you can ignore how the movies ignore basic science and physics, although they are teetering on that line between awesome and "oh come on this is getting ridiculous." The XXX movies have always just been too hammy to me because they go straight to the latter of those two options. It's a mix of Diesel having full ability to play up the Xtreme-ness of his character with no other name characters to reign him in unlike in the Fast movies. Then you have the aspect of making extreme sports more extreme to where you are hoping that these douches turn themselves into a Failblog video because of their stupidity. The first couple Fast movies had this problem where it was basically car porn and a cop/robber story tacked on after the fact, but when they reigned that in in later movies the end result came off a lot better. In the same way that the original Point Break plays it real with the stunts that happen to where you can imagine people doing that stuff, the stuff you see in XXX is just too absurd for me, to the point that I can look at the Fast 5 safe scene and say "I'd believe that could happen more than any shit in this movie." I'm sure this is coming off as confusing but it makes sense to me. Another way I can explain it is that this movie to me feels like what a grandpa would think an extreme sports movie is and then tries to make it while the Fast movies were made by people who researched the world they were making a movie on then amped it up for an action movie experience. In Point Break terms, the Fast movies are Bodhi's gang while the XXX movies are the poser gang with Anthony Kiedis that attacked Keanu in the beginning of the movie.

I just can't bring myself to watch this hunk of Monster Energy drinking shit, guess I'll just read the wiki.

How has this not been suggested let alone done?! From Jolie's platinum blonde dreadlocks to Nic Cage going Evel Knievel all over the Vincent Thomas Bridge, this movie deserves at least a 90 minute episode. Then nearly everyone has a GI Joe style nickname and every car could have its own credit in the movie since they have their own names as well. Also, the final fight involves Nic Cage holding the bad guy's chair hostage.

When I first saw this trailer I figured the elevator pitch went like this: "Okay so you know how everyone cries at dying/hurt dogs in movies like Old Yeller, My Dog Skip, and Homeward Bound? Well what if we do it a shitload of times over the course of the movie, but people will watch because somehow we will make it nice by having him end up with his original owner in an uber-sappy way. We are so gonna win Oscars for this! Now let's high five and do some coke!"

Every time I see that jacket I just anticipate the word "douchebag" to flash over Vin's head.

Yeah the cameo worked for me because I remembered Unbreakable and had liked that movie. Yet since that movie came out 17 years ago, many of the people who saw this movie aren't old enough to remember it. While I thought Unbreakable was a good movie, it sort of disappears in the shit storm that is M. Night's career after it came out. He's spent that time since making increasingly worse movies that people don't remember the good ones outside of the Sixth Sense.

This can be watched from home unlike Unbreakable or Signs which really benefited from a theater surround sound system. As for the third movie in this trilogy, I want M. Night goes crazy with Easter eggs/cameos to where we see Haley Joel Osmont working as a supernatural investigator, Mel Gibson doing television sermons, and Mark Whalberg teaching a class at the high school the girls from this movie go to.

Yeah that is normal for marketing companies to include scenes not in the movie as to not give away too much of the final product, but it's kind of a double edged sword where people are expecting that stuff in the movie and then not getting it. There were things that made me think that the final form of Mcavoy was going to be confronted by cops in the train yard as the trailer made it seem, but I felt that worked better than the molestation thing which was so much darker than anything I've seen in M. Night movies, which is only made worse in that it's shot well enough that you don't have to see so much to instantly have your mind go to that scenario. I will say that this was shot in a way that makes me remember that M. Night was a quality director at one point before relying on a twist trope that ruined everything he's done over the last decade. I liked the cameo because I was able to remember the reference, but some of my friends and people in the theater were lost as it is a reference that is older than a good portion of the audience that would be seeing a PG-13 movie.

From what I remember the coins were merely a means for them to Morph which would allow them to take on harder opponents and handle the damage that they could deal out, while the zords were meant for the times when villains grew in size. During the first series the putty patrol were basically fought by the team outside of costume if it was just the patrol, they only really started wearing their suits to fight them when the putty patrol evolved under Lord Zed's rule where the Rangers had to hit a chest emblem on the patrol members which caused them to explode, though after a while they reverted back to normal once they realized the new patrol's weakness and holy shit I remember way too much about this show. As for Zordon and Alpha 5, I also wonder how they will be introduced in this outside of what's been shown in the trailer because in the show they were hidden from man as they anticipated the day that Rita would get free of her imprisonment on the moon. I'll be turning 30 this year.

Actually ended up not hating it as I have other Shaymalan movies and thought Mcavoy was fantastic. The whole clothes removal was pretty bad but I guess made slight sense in how the antagonist viewed "pure/impure" people, though there were other ways that could have been handled and the end reveal for the lead left more questions than answers. The subplot shocked me the most as it was pretty dark considering what M. Night has done in the past. I was thankful that

Here is a more easy to read version of my list on Letterboxd since I've been spending the last week and a half building my profile there due to a login issue on this site. http://letterboxd.com/ryansz/list/2016-doug-loves-movies-challenge/

He in fact does reload his gun literally the next moment later when he gets down the ladder, though he is surrounded by armed guards. Also Snake has blades on his person so what is to stop him from chucking one of those at their smug throats? One thought that popped into my head was what if Snake is a disposable mercenary, to where he is sent in for a seemingly suicide mission, and upon completion he is neutralized and put into a suspended state of animation until he's needed again. While there is usually an immediate fallout from Snake screwing over his handler's, him being put on ice saves them from the extended damage of what he could do while free. In the time between missions, his status as an all around badass and uber-soldier grows similar to the mystique behind Keyser Soze. Snake even believes it himself so as to give him enough confidence to complete his task while also giving him the impetus to complete the task if he thinks that he will be free after finishing his job. The idea sort of popped in my head after watching Officer Downe which features a cop who is repeatedly killed on the job only to be resurrected by the department, and he has no idea that it's happening so as to keep him dedicated to the job and focused on his tasks.

I don't know but for some reason the fighting in that looks too polished to be a true successor to Bloodsport. Bloodsport worked in that it was real practitioners in those styles or could look like they were having a real fight with becoming winded, sweaty, bloody, etc. This one doesn't look so much as that until what look to be the end fights, at least I hope it isn't just that. There was a great movie a couple years ago called Raze that totally had the feel of women in a life or death fight tournament complete with the grit and realism of being in a fight.

Is KISS a band that now basically only work together for a concert or cameo in a movie but otherwise absolutely hate each other? I know Simmons and Stanley appeared in Why Him? but that could have been just for the quick paycheck. I find it odd how these performers can absolutely despise one another yet and want to kill each other but at the same pace drop everything to put together an album/movie/radio show together. The members of Aerosmith apparently couldn't stand each other so much at one point that when they made their "Just Push Play" album, they recorded separately from one another and didn't actually perform the songs as group until they were on tour for the album. Then a couple years ago the Opie and Anthony radio show ended when Anthony got fired and all of a sudden every skeleton in their closets came out and the two had apparently hated each other for 75% of their careers together. I just can't imagine being in a toxic partnership like that for a career.