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I've been pushing for a Virtuosity episode for a while now because it is so over the top crazy and both leads actually play their characters really well despite the movie being insane.

My problem with Interstellar was it took so many things from other sci-fi movies and tried to play it off as new, like the scene where wormholes are explained is literally bit for bit a steal from Event Horizon. I was more interested in the goings on in Earth that Nolan created like the aggro-centric society that tried to whitewash man's successes in technology and space, but the movie sort of fell flat when you could see the twist coming from a mile away with time and wormholes. It also didn't help that the end was basically what the How I Met Your Mother finale was in regards to the relationships between key characters.

To be fair Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption were more novellas and had a lot more meat to their stories in order to create fully realized worlds on film.

I forgot about Arrival, that movie is the kind of hard sci-fi movie that Intersteller wished it was. It worked well and how it handled timelines and linguistics worked really well. As for people expecting it to be an action movie, for some reason when some people see and explosion or big alien they expect it to be an action movie without looking any further into it. That reminds me of the woman who sued the makers of Drive because they thought it was going to be like Fast & Furious rather than a slow burn thriller.

Yeah the puzzle so much wasn't finding the missing piece from the row above but more like an IQ/Mensa question where you have to figure out the pattern and find the next logical step. Even below you can see O, Q, P, which would make be believe R is the next square.

Well technically his body doesn't disappear as in the sequel, he is found after the explosion buried under the rubble, leading to having to have his legs amputated. I think they meant to portray him as more powerful online as he would have worldwide range at that point then, rather than the small area within that town. Also remember that at that point the internet wasn't anywhere near wireless and the number of things that were using it were very limited, but if a person picking up a phone could be taken over by Jobe, having access to all phones was a huge get for him. While it is dated, that was what VR was back in the early 90s. I remember going to Great America where they had a VR game you could play for 10 minutes and the graphics were about the same level and the user friendliness wasn't the best, basically leaving your avatar to continually run into walls or shoot blindly. What I want to point out was that the kid in this movie, Austin O'Brien, who has at least four HDTGM quality films to his credit (the two Lawnmower Man movies, Last Action Hero, and Prehysteria). All of these movies need to be done on the show because they are all next level crazy and O'Brien basically becomes a more unlikable character with each progressive movie. As for this movie's connections to the short story, the only things that connected it were Jobe's job, the mower that runs on its own, and the cops talking about how the abusive dad's remains were also in the birdbath. That's a Paul Hogan level of lazy plagiarism right there.

I'll just list a few that I've watched this year that just blew me away for a variety of reasons. Blood Father: Mel Gibson as a recovering addict/convict who gets pulled into a escape plan from the Mexican Cartel by his estranged daughter. Gibson shows he can still act the shit out of an action movie while being comedic at the same time. Also watch Get the Gringo starring Gibson which can be seen as a spiritual sequel to Payback. Hell or High Water: an amazing modern western/heist movie that mixes Heat and No Country For Old Men, if Ben Foster doesn't at least get nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars it will be a crime. The Accountant - surprised me with where the movie took me and one of the rare times where a trailer doesn't completely spoil the movie for you. The Death of Superman Lives - a great documentary on the failed Tim Burton/Nic Cage Superman movie. Goes real in-depth with almost everyone involved with the project and shows how far a movie can be made while not actually ever being made.

Oh I know I haven't updated myself on the thread I started a while back about what movies that have been done on the show that you have seen and/or own so I will say now that I own BOTH Lawnmower Man movies because I love shitty movies. The sequel was weird in that it picks up right after the first movie and then jumps forward years in the future where Cyberspace is everywhere and Jobe had reconstructive surgery after the accident in the last movie so as a way to cover the fact that they replaced Jeff Fahey with Matt Frewer. Another interesting thing is that there is a director's cut of the first movie that is over THIRTY MINUTES longer than the theatrical release, which apparently was better received by viewers but is also how Stephen King found out about New Line still using his name in the marketing. From looking at the comparison, there was a huge scene cut out where the monkey actually escapes the science lab rather than getting killed and comes across Jobe at his home. It leads to a giant hostage situation between the government agents, the monkey, Jobe, and Brosnan is acting as the negotiator. It all ends with the monkey going out in a blaze of glory and getting mowed down by machine guns in a very vicious manner, this is why when we first meet Jobe his boss asks him what he did to make the priest so mad. Then near the end Jobe psychically takes over Brosnan's ex and has her shoot a couple government agents before they murderize her with machine guns, all while Brosnan watches tied up in the VR chair. I wish I was making all of that up and kinda feel like it as I'm a little high right now but I shit you not that is real.

I really enjoyed Fantastic Beasts and am also not the biggest Redmayne fan, though he's really low key in this. I enjoyed Farrell and how he didn't completely chew up scenery with his performance. I will say though that the twist completely surprised me as I was expecting what happened in a later movie as various things had been confirmed for the sequels. I was kind of bummed when reading about the book Fantastic Beasts that Newt and the female lead in the film don't end up together, at least at the time of the Harry Potter novels when he is married with kids to another woman. Also I would have like a bit more of Jon Voight as the newspaper magnate, though I wouldn't be surprised to see him become a bigger part of the next four movies of this series. Getting back to Lawnmower Man, I just started to rewatch it and I completely forgot about the cold open with the Weapon X monkey who goes on a shooting spree after being stuck in a gyrosphere with a VR headset.

Why is Sesame Street spelling letters with flying double headed dildos?

He did but he was mistaken, Trucks, the story the movie is based on is about 20-30 pages depending on the edition of Night Shift you are reading. The Lawnmower Man has to be the one he was really thinking of because that is 3 pages long.

Now forever when I hear of that movie I just think that I would go the Steve Harvey route for survival in that situation. As for a scene I can't really watch, that is easily the final execution scene in the Green Mile where John Coffey tells them not to put the hood on his head because he's afraid of the dark and I'm like "oh fuck you feels."

Yeah I watched about 45 minutes of it before I had to turn that level of craziness off. I stopped a little bit after the guy does a frame by frame watch of the clouds in the beginning of the film where he says an image of Kubrick can be seen. When he finally shows the frame and outlines where the face is supposed to be, it comes off as people who see Jesus in their toast.

Near Dark is an amazing Vampire Western and you also forgot to mention that the female vampire is the same woman who played John Connor's stepmom in Terminator 2 and Private Vasquez in Aliens.

How he treated he wasn't the best, but Kurbrick admitted that he rewrote the character that way, like he did with the other characters in the book. What I remember from the interview where he talked about the film and said that for him the plot was the biggest thing that connected with him when he read it, while he felt he could alter the characters to fit the changes that he would make. The Shining is probably the most overt movie that Kubrick ever did, despite the amount of theories created about it since its release, because in the same interview Kubrick is asked the usual big questions that are for this film like about the two Gradys and the photo at the end of the movie. Kubrick actually explains what those mean like how the photo featuring Jack in 1921 shows that the Jack in the movie is his reincarnation. It's actually a pretty good interview on a great movie and worth the read if you have the time. http://www.webcitation.org/5QSnEvFKT

This movie was originally meant to be just called Cyber God, but according to Wikipedia, New Line had the rights to the King story so they decided to cannibalize what they had and rename it and attach King's name in the hopes of getting a bigger draw at the box office, similar to how a lot of video game adaptations of movies are made. While King won his first two lawsuit to have his name removed from the title, New Line basically said "fuck that" and released the home video version with the original name, causing King to sue them for a third time, winning again and getting 10k per day that the name remained and any profits that the movie made until the name was changed, which should have been a pretty penny as this movie was a surprising hit, making three times its budget at the box office. The book is great too, though the Jack character doesn't start out as a total jerk to his family as he appears in the movie and there were some scenes that were removed because they really couldn't have been done well at that time like the hedge animals that come to life. There were also other changes with the other characters' personalities, namely Wendy and the manager of the hotel. I get why King would be mad on the character changes, especially Wendy who went from a strong independent character to a screeching weakling as played by Shelley Duvall. I can't wait to hear the hosts talk about what is basically Flowers For Algernon with computers and the fact that this somehow didn't completely kill Brosnan's career, though for a couple years he languished in Hollywood, doing a few TV movies and B-grade crap outside of his role in Mrs. Doubtfire, before finally landing the role of James Bond in Goldeneye and revitalizing his career.

This should be a fantastic episode. What's interesting about this is that during the Maxmimum Overdrive episode one of the audience members incorrectly stated that that movie was based on a three page short story by Stephen King, when it was actually about twenty-five which allowed for it to be fleshed out enough to create a basic plot for the movie. THIS is the movie based on the three page King short story and because there was no real story in it outside of a guy being killed by a weird lawnmower service that he hired, the screenwriters for this movie went completely off the rails in making a storyline. It was so bad that King sued to get his name taken off the posters and the title of the movie was changed to just "The Lawnmower Man" and not "Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man," which now think about that in concern to some of the other movie adaptations based on his work and you'll realize how bad this movie is.

I might have to give that a shot since the art looks pretty good and they are getting ready to release omnibuses for it next year. For me the best art in comics right now is hands down at Image comics, everything from Nailbiter, The Wicked + Divine, Birthright, Revival, Thief of Thieves, and more are all so good, also read those series if you haven't because they are goddamn amazing along with Southern Bastards, which while the art isn't usually what I'd go for the story is incredible and makes up for it. Also if you haven't read The Fix by the creative team of The Superior Foes of Spider-Man, do so because it's all of the humor of that series but way more adult and screwed up since it's from Image, and if you haven't read Superior Foes yet, I don't want to know you because that series was one of the best out of Marvel's Marvel Now lineup.

I just did a quick search and apparently a woman said there was something wrong with a guy's dick and that he might have AIDs. It was all out of context because the site was just listing the subtitles and not who was saying what or what they were doing.

I'm going off topic here but I've been listening to old episodes of the show and now strongly feel that if the makers of the upcoming Gilmore Girls restart, they need to cast superfan of the show Zouks...as Rafi. If I can hear this line: then the show will be incredible and forever amazing.

My only worry about this adaptation is that it will be like Jungle book in that the overall story and acting will be good but the singing will be very lackluster, like it was in the Jungle Book. From looking at the cast, they have great actors providing the voices, but none of them I can really see selling the music outside of Stanley Tucci, Josh Gad, and maybe Kevin Kline.

I'd say Broken Hardy is more in line with Cage's character in Deadfall action-wise, while his speech is patterned similar to this character.

Yeah if I had a tablet I might consider getting the app, but I was never a huge fan of the artwork of that era as it was all so similar to one another, which especially considering how everything was supposed to be X-Treme back then, it didn't help. The artwork might be the biggest selling point when considering getting a comic because if I don't like the style, I will most likely hate the story, even if it's done by one of my favorite writers, case in point Symmetry by Matt Hawkins seems like a decent concept of a Utopian future hiding a dark secret, but the art is a type of cell-shading that comes off looking like early 90s CGI, leading me to skim through half the paperback. It's unfortunate because Hawkins' other works (Think Tank, The Tithe, and Postal) are all amazing pieces of work that need to be read by any comic reader.

To me this movie had a long of analogous pieces with American Psycho in concern to a man completely losing his mind over the course of time, to the point where he can't even trust what he's thinking or saying to himself. Yet another movie that was brought up in my mind was Lucky Number Slevin, in that the tone changes SO drastically compared to what I thought it was going to be. While that movie was about a man caught between rival mob bosses and there was some heavy violence in the beginning of the movie, basically the first two acts of the movie are played as a quirky indie rom/com movie with how characters talk to one another and the lackadaisical way Slevin goes about dealing with the current situation that he's in. Yet at the start of the third act it takes such a hard left towards violent mob film that you're going "holy shit I wasn't expecting that, what happened to all the fun word play?" To all extents, Vampire's Kiss looks like an 80s comedy, but then you're watching a very dark psychological horror movie that leaves you speechless by the end credits.

It's amazing how badly a movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, and Naomi Watts, and directed by Gus Van Zant can go, but The Sea of Trees finds a way to do so. McConaughey is a professor who goes to the Suicide Forrest in Japan and meets another suicidal man played by Watanabe. While it would seem that this would be the perfect setup for a hard drama about coming to terms with ones life and the lives of those you love, this is in fact a meandering mess that gets into M. Nigh Shaymalan levels of absurdity. In the end it really doesn't know what type of movie it is and it would be a chore to watch if it wasn't for the fact that the viewer gets drawn in to the overall suckiness of this movie. This movie was actually up for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, but made headlines for the audience loudly booing and laughing at it during the first screening. Although I doubt the show would cover it as Katie Asleton has a part in the film, it is interesting to see how this movie went so wrong.