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An erotic thriller starring Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth as versions of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin who broke up after a corpse was found in their hotel suite and they were investigated for the crime. It flashes back to their peak when the crime occurred to fifteen years later when a writer is ghostwriting the autobiography for Firth, but she is also receiving the other side of the story from Bacon by reading excerpts from the autobiography that he had written. The movie garnered a bit of controversy when it was released it got a NC-17 rating for graphic sex. The director and Bacon claimed it was because of homophobia as there is a lesbian sex scene and a moment when Firth's character, who's revealed to be bisexual, trying to enter Bacon from behind during a threesome. To be fair though all of the sex scenes are fairly graphic as you see Bacon's balls from behind and multiple frontal shots of women as the hump Bacon and Firth. It's actually kinda of weird watching the movie as seeing Firth lay waste to a church full of people in the Kingsman is less awkward than seeing him get a double BJ from two escorts. The movie is crazy in that it's a lot of he said/he said between the two leads about the night of this murder while Alison Lohman gives a wooden narration as the ghostwriter for Firth while cheesy background music plays over the "big" reveals of what really happened. Definitely crazy on the scale of Color of Night and would make for a great episode.

I caught most of the cameos for guys that were wrestlers/MMA fighters and a few crappy reality stars like the Christleys, Dog the Bounty Hunter, and the Millionaire Matchmaker. I still cannot for the life of me figure out who the guy was at the slot machine who asked "who's that guy" before tugging his jacket collar up, I feel that he's either some 70s/80s bad TV star or comedian, I just haven't been able to figure it out. I thought Busey and Hasslehoff's daughter gave the best performances and really loved the bit where Busey deadpans that the ashes the Finn family thinks are Tara Reid actually belong to their dog, which makes me wonder did he just kill the dog so he could have ashes to give them? Another thing I missed while watching this but what happened to Finn's Son's wife? I looked away for a second and she was never shown again in the movie. I doubt I will sit through the fifth one, because now it is just so self aware it's not even worth it. The only way I might tune in is if the cameo list for the movie is bonkers good with people like Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Leonardo DiCaprio, showing up just to make people break their necks from doing such hard double takes to see that these people actually are in a movie like this.

Okay, now there is a robot Tara Reid, an evolving tornado, and for some reason a nod to the horror movie Christine by Steve Gutenberg, despite him having nothing to do with that movie, making the nod worthless. Also Tara Reid literally is shocked that the baby from the last movie has aged five years, despite her giving birth to the kid five years prior in the timeline of the movie.

Holy shit this starts with a Ian Zeiring reveal of him chopping wood in the most trope-tastic way as a guy who's done with it all. This is clearly now just about cameos, as in about 3 minutes I've counted almost ten cameos, and not even hugely recognizable names like Frank Mir and Roy Nelson (UFC fighters), one guy who I'm sure is a cameo who actually says "who's that guy?" and then Vince Neil who for no reason says "girls, girls, girls" while rolling dice at a Craps table, and Corey Taylor from Slipknot who most might not recognize outside of his trademark mask. I don't mind the bad graphics since it's a bad SyFy movie, but this movie is winking so hard it might as well be Popeye.

Wow holy shit, so far got a number 1 ranked team for the week, thanks Nerve.

The movie The 40 Year Old Virgin.

I've always loved the zombie subgenre of horror as to me it is the most plausible and able to occur, outside of slashers which are usually based on real people to begin with. I'm not talking about the dead rising to kill but rather the 28 Days Later type that are created by bio-engineering and are basically still living people minus all inhibitions that would usually prevent them from tearing a person apart. 28 Weeks Later was actually a lot scarier than its predecessor as you got to see the full extent of a hopeful society crumble before your eyes, in a matter of minutes. Plus Robert Carlyle is one of the most underrated villain/psycho actors of this generation and he is truly unhinged in that film. It also doesn't hurt that it has Jeremy Renner, Imogen Poots, Idris Elba, and Rose Byrne giving fantastic performances. In the same vein of that series there is a series of comics out called Crossed which follow a similar storyline of a contagious virus that turns the infected into amoral psychopaths, denoted by the rash on their faces in the shape of a cross. The series was started by Garth Ennis of Preacher and The Boys fame, but it has since included other great writers and artists. I will warn you though that if you are squeamish then this might not be for you because this series pulls absolutely zero punches in the content department. Since it's published by an independent company and not Marvel or DC, they let them put whatever they want on the page and there have been times I've gotten a little queasy.

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Yeah up to that point Keaton's roles had basically just been comedic roles (Mr. Mom, Night Shift, Johnny Dangerously, and Beetlejuice). It wasn't until after Batman that he started doing more serious roles or roles as psychos (Pacific Heights, Much Ado About Nothing, Jackie Brown, Desperate Measures). Now he seems to bounce between the two genres which is really working for him. I loved the Constantine movie as it apparently hit the idea of Constantine being a guy always on the lookout for the big con, even in a mystical world and all of the actors did great in their roles. Keanu gets a lot of shit for his acting, but if he's in the right role, which is usually a gruff badass, he is fantastic. Constantine along with Street Kings were two movie that came out about the same time and he was great in both. Then of course John Wick came out and he hit it out of the park with an amazing role in a well crafted world.

See the American Oldboy for me was decent in terms of how bad it could have been. While it made the family dynamic of the antagonist a lot creepier, it cleared up how it came to be why he wanted revenge against Josh Brolin, which I thought was really convoluted in the original. Then the American ending was much more pleasing as it came full circle of shame and redemption while the original just had the dude getting a mindwipe so he could guilt free bang his daughter. Michael Keaton was a prime example of trashing a dude for not meeting the requirement of what the character was supposed to look like, it also didn't help that Keaton was primarily a comedy actor up to that point with few serious roles. I also want to say Hugh Jackman faced criticism when he started as Wolverine because he wasn't all that ripped, so then he went WAY over the top in getting big, to where people were telling him to slow down because it was getting out of control.

Constantine was bashed as a whole since it was an Americanized version of a British character/story (though to be honest I never felt the original Hellblazer series was all that great) and Constantine was created in the image of Sting. Affleck got some crap when he was originally cast as many said they couldn't see him as Batman, but that softened a bit when it was revealed he would be an older version of the character and he showed some of his workout routine. Cruise as Reacher was the biggest offender to fans of the book as the character is as the author claimed "a giant force of nature," at 6'5", mid 200 pounds, and with a 50" chest, but Lee Child also then said that he made a totally unrealistic looking character for anyone to play in a movie and that Cruise was his realistic choice. The main complaint that I heard for Larson as Cpt. Marvel is that she's about 5" shorter which is negligible and that she's a bit younger as Marvel in the comics is a Colonel I believe, which is a hard rank for someone to have attained at 26 which Larson is, again negligible and can be fixed by making her a real hotshot who shot up the ranks. EVERY comic character in film gets picked a part for some reason, usually something small that was mentioned less than a handful of times throughout the run of the comics, but that's just how it is with the uber hardcore. I'm honestly amazed people weren't complaining that Blade didn't have an afro and a a bunch of wood stake daggers.

Thank you! As a huge Batman fan it always irks me when people try to say he never killed anyone, that motherfucker straight up murders the shit out of people. Before the Comic Code, he actually carried dual handguns a la The Shadow, but then dropped them after the Code came about, though he did still kill people for a while. Some were pretty gruesome including stomping a guy's head in a window sill to break his neck and hanging Harvey Appolo (the first appearance of Two-Face) behind a movie screen so his silhouette showed to the horrified crowd watching the movie. The movie kills were more accidental deaths caused by Batman but he killed quite a few people in the movies except in Batman & Robin, which didn't have a true Batman kill outside of some of Mr. Freeze's cronies crashing their cars into buildings. As for Superman and Harley, those are basically ripped from the pages of the comics from the last many years, and for me at least it's worked as Superman comes off as more human and vulnerable dealing with the issues of being alone in the universe until Supergirl arrives and basically being a god and Harley has been able to develop into something other than a punchline stooge for the Joker. I haven't seen the Killing Joke yet but the animation does look kind of weak to me, and I understand why they lengthened it as the book itself is only 48 pages. I enjoyed both the Justice League and Wonder Woman trailers, though for Wonder Woman I wish that they would have adapted from Brian Azzarello's recent run with the series as it is a truly epic piece of fiction that melded the Greek Gods into the DC universe and gave Wonder Woman legitimate antagonists in comparison to the Cheetah who i always thought was kinda lame.

I think it's safe to say anyone named Cranston is involved with the drug trade. Opium: Meth: Cocaine:

According to Maguire and DiCaprio they thought the film was only going to be shown at festivals and never formally released, this was apparently also a part of their contract with the director, who was paying them each less than $600/day. Then when Titanic became huge and then it was announced that Maguire was signed on to play Spider-Man and that led to the director looking for distribution, which sent both actors into a frenzy. From what I've heard about the movie it's your stereotypical 90s indie flick with no real plot or pacing and shot in black & white. There were rumors that Leo didn't want it shown because his character said he was bisexual and got nude in the movie, but that wasn't the case for either scenario, apparently it's just a bad movie.

Didn't know if it was a draw, but it was pretty fun to play.

Pinball machines were actually great for marketing in comparison to video games, which almost always sucked ass. The difference between the two was with video games a publisher was usually cannibalizing a previous game and rushed it to market to meet the release of the movie, usually with disastrous results. Pinball machines on the other hand, required only a small amount of animation on-screen, a couple different pieces of art needing to be made for the back wall and the main play field. Then you add in a constant stream of fifty cents in from kids every day at multiple locations, and you had yourself a money maker. The only issue pinball makers really had to worry about were places the ball could get stuck and causing a tilt.

Okay the Royal Rumble one is FANTASTIC, great mechanics and fun to play. By far the worst I've ever played, this one at the Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame, is Orbiter 1. The playing field is the bumpy surface that is supposed to be a distant planet and the ball is a landing satellite/drone, the game fucking sucks.

I know there was a Playboy machine and there may have been a Penthouse one but I've only seen digital versions online so it may just be a video game. I can't remember but when I took the tour of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch I believe that they had a custom pinball machine dedicated to Ron Jeremy, as he has a permanent bungalow residence there for whenever he's near Reno. As for their being a Shadow pinball machine, of course there was as since it was a media property released in the 90s it had a pinball machine as well as a toy line from Kenner. I mean who could forget the Philadelphia line of toys and games?

You forgot about Michael Baldwin from the Phantasm movies and is also a practitioner of Eastern Mysticism in real life, so he might actually be The Shadow. I noticed that as well with pinball machines, the best ones were usually based around the shittiest properties. Last Action Hero and Demolition Man are still two of my favorite.

I actually liked Vaughn as Bates, because he's shown a few times over the years that he can do quality work as a menacing character, but the rest of the movie was a dud. It's weird with these shot-for-shot remakes that they tend to fail so hard as the makers of the movies think that by just following what was laid out before them, they will rake in the money, but there are intangibles like how the cast interact with one another that just can be recreated. Funny Games was another movie like this that had the added caveat of it being made by the original director/writer, yet it still got not as much of the love that the original did, though Michael Pitt and Naomi Watts gave amazing performances in it.

Yeah that wasn't in any of the best estimates.

Well this season is about done for me after forgetting to do a lineup one week, which just used the prior lineup. This week also screwed me as the estimates from the "pros" were WAY off.

3 appearances - Thomas Rosales Jr. - Bad Ass, Con Air, Face/Off

Question: I don't know if this was brought up or I just blanked it out, but why does Baldwin need the disguise when he can mind trick people in either not seeing him or completely forgetting about him?

Typo, thanks for catching.