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FINALLY!

I watched this recently on Amazon Prime and was kinda disappointed, especially after how good the first movie is. The whole idea of clone robots replacing people was really out of nowhere and it seemed like they just went with every sci-fi cliche rather than something original like the first movie had.

Me hearing that they are finally covering Dreamcatcher.

Okay now I want them to cover the reboot because holy shit the trailer made me angry, as it's basically a mix of Breakfast Club, the new Fantastic Four, and Chronicle, which is funny as Max Landis wrote the original script for the new movie, was fired, and then a few new writers came in and made it basically a Chronicle knockoff. The idea that these near modelesque kids are being told that they are ugly by equally modelesque kids is batshit enough, but then they have to go and alter the entire premise of the original series. The kids in the first 6 seasons of the show were basically chosen because they were able to adapt and be molded into a viable fighting force and were already skilled in athletics/karate, they had no superpowers and were never given any. Yet in this trailer the kids have super strength, the ability to leap huge distances, apparently breathe underwater, and apparently are impervious to low levels of pain as a bully headbutts one of the kids and the bully gets knocked out after it sounds like he hit his head on metal. This is all after they are not selected by Zordon, but rather find a crashed meteor/spaceship in the hills and blow up a part of it, releasing their eventual Power Ranger emblems. If they wanted to get gritty with the reboot and have it grow like the audience has maybe they should have gone with this version instead.

Question: One question I still have is how long are students at the academy? We hear from various students that they don't know what a hashtag is or what an iPhone is, so are they in the academy from birth, or is it only the non-royal vampires because at the beginning we see Lissa and her family out in the world for their accident to happen? Then you have the scene where the main characters are at a mall, but it's also other students there as well, so are they just oblivious to the world around them or is it one of the biggest continuity errors in movie history?

Omission: I am amazed that the amount of viciousness in the Mia character was not brought up in the show or the fact that she was offering her body as payment for male vampires to do her bidding along with the fact that for vampires, apparently their blood becomes a type of hot spray during sex that they can use to write words on walls. Also, as for the cameras watching the backpack, yeah it was set up by Gabriel Byrne, but it was for him to get video proof of Lissa's healing abilities. I'm assuming he did this so as to not just kidnap her and find out she can't do it, thus setting him down a path towards serious punishment with no reward of de-aging.

I see that Refn's birthday is today and for some reason every time I see a picture of him I swear it looks like he's trying to subtlety eek out a fart, but failing.

Deadly Friend or Chopping Mall would make for amazing episodes.

I saw it on Amazon and thought it was a bit better than Only God F orgives, though that's not saying much for some. It is visually stunning at times and there were scenes that really teased with my visual understanding, like when Fanning's character was in the photo shoot with the all white background, and how it's shot makes it seem like both characters are floating in a white void.The Keanu Reeves role was truly creepy and unnerving and there were times when it felt like an old school horror movie from the 70s-80s, but there wasn't much offered beyond the beautiful visuals. Which looking at that may be what Refn is commenting on in regards to the modelling industry. Regarding Only God Forgives, I saw it in an old theater that mainly shows limited releases or foreign films and it might have been one of the funniest viewing experiences I've ever had. There was about 20 people in the theater, quite a few couples and a few people over the age of 70, both of which I found kinda odd as everything I read about the movie up to that point was that it was anything but a couple's movie or a movie for the feint of heart. You could tell that the couples were there because the boyfriends sold their girlfriends on the fact it was the new Ryan Gosling movie and that was it. Then when it really got nasty and gruesome, the boyfriends started almost immediately trying to preemptively apologize or makeup with the girlfriends, by nuzzlng their shoulders or kissing their cheeks, trying to lessen the fallout of how mad their significant other was going to be at the end of the movie.

This would be a great episode as it is batshit crazy, though I felt it was visually intriguing and Vincent D'onofrio was pretty good in it.

To put in perspective of how bad that is, this movie, which does have a decent fanbase for the source material, couldn't get the movie made, while Uwe Boll finally got the funding for his "final" movie, Rampage: President Down, after TWO failed crowd funding campaigns.

Holy shit Ducky never got friend zoned harder than the Joker from Gotham has in this movie, and from reading the wiki of the books, the poor bastard never gets out of it despite doing some truly heroic things.

Okay Mia is officially the most senselessly vicious and evil character I've seen in any movie for this show, surpassing Alexa in From Justin to Kelly.

Five minutes in and I already hate this piece of shit. It tries so hard to be on the nose and mix pieces of everything in vampire lore along with Harry Potter, and fails so miserably. The scene where the new girlfriend tells off the princess was basically as cliche as it could get for a teen romance scene. It reminds me so much of why I avoid YA fiction, and unfortunately for my job I have to order materials for teen readers so I have to keep abreast of current YA trends, though that is more geared towards graphic novels rather than fiction.

Hey now let's not denigrate the great Demolition Man script and its near psychic abilities to predict the future.

I'm not surprised as the movie only covers the first book as there is enough content in the books for a single movie for each, unlike the Lemony Snicket movie covering the first three books because those books are very quick reads as half the pages are illustrations. My problem with YA books is that they pull punches when it comes to how they detail content, because publishers treat their readers like infants still. Hunger Games broke through that a little bit with the first book but the subsequent novels just fell a part when they tried to take a class warfare and propaganda storyline and mix it with the content of the first novel, which showed as that film series continued and the final two movies were just unwatchably boring. Divergent is interesting in that they have gotten so progressively bad that now they are making the final entry a TV movie using different actors, which I have never seen happen with a film series. That's not to say that there aren't series that can be adapted well to film, the I Hunt Killers series comes to mind as it wasn't overlong in books and it treated teen readers like adults. I just hope that if they ever do it they stop this damn trend of splitting the final film into two movies because none of these series are Harry Potter where there is enough content in the final book to fill two movies.

Damn now I have to watch this shit.

This should be a live double episode with When the Bough Breaks as they are basically modern updates of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Fatal Attraction.

I can almost bet that they were watching Sharktopus on SyFy and the son said something about monster trucks, and that dude thought that should make for a great movie. I can't remember but didn't Disney say something about how they were expecting John Carter to lose money, they just didn't know how much?

I'm assuming that they are either going to condense or remove the Pieces of Eden stuff and the idea of a different character playing the Assassin in the flashback would keep in tone with the game, though I'm assuming Fassbender will be kept on as the main person in the machine since they are hoping for this to be a franchise starter. The game series is interesting as the first game had this huge twist where it is revealed to all be a hologram of your characters past, which made a lot of people happy after they were complaining about the game looking glitchy and not ready to be released after it was shown at the various game conventions. I kinda wish they had followed a similar path with the movie but since there have been close to a dozen games made in the series and it's been a while since the first game came out so people would know the twist, and it would possibly confuse newcomers to the series in a way that Sucker Punch was confusing for some with the story within a story within a story.

I think this kid would be the only one who cares. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE-vhp6gXBo

As stated already, the studio is preparing itself for huge losses, I don't know if it will be on the level of Ben-Hur's losses as kid's movies tend to bring in some money even if they are terrible, Mars Needs Moms and Doogal being prime examples of the minority. Even when a movie does fail, the public and investors never really know how big a loss is for the most part as studio math comes into play to muddy up the situation. Ben-Hur and Ghostbusters are two prime examples of this as they have stated losses from the studio, but there are other sources that contradict those that make it seem that they aren't as huge. Ben-Hur has reported losses of 100 million but it estimated to be more due to a late promotional run towards its release date while Ghostbusters was reported to lose 70 million, but Paul Feigi himself said that the movie needed to make half a billion in order to break even and even then he said that was a generous estimate. Yet even if these movies fail, no one really loses anything as they just go to a different studio or get a new deal with their current studio, Jon Peters in the early 90s was a prime example of this while Robert Evans was the example in the 80s. The failure literally needs to be a Heaven's Gate scale of failure for serious change to be made, and even then it eventually reverts to what it was. The interesting thing will be in 2018-2019 when sites like Cracked have predicted for the blockbuster bubble to burst because studios have scheduled so many huge potential blockbuster movies to be released at the same time, that they will just cannibalize each others' potential box office take in. The carnage in its wake could lead to complete overhaul for how movies are released, at least for a few years.

I got this as part of a double feature DVD with ROTOR (another great choice for the show), this movie is nuts in that they tried to mix Terminator with the Airplane disaster movies of the 70s and a little bit of Blade Runner. Hell the show should just do the double live episode featuring this and ROTOR.

Holy crap I remember seeing this as a kid but for some reason I always remembered it as Daryl Hannah being in the role of V. I love that basically the early to mid 90s was an experimenting ground for filmmakers to ask themselves "you think this premise will make a lot of money at the box office?" and were then given funding to make these batshit crazy movies.

Would have thought Salt N' Pepa's "Push It" would have been a more apt song for that moment.