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You mean a guy who paid homeless dudes a pittance to beat the piss outta each other might have been a shrewd thief? Say it ain't so?!

Him and Aaron Eckhart have been doing this a lot recently, and usually in their direct-to-video/streaming movies, I'm thinking to try and hide that they are actually in the movie in the first place, to the point it makes me wonder if they just aren't the same guy trying to see which version will be a hit actor, failing at both, and now stuck doing twice as many shitty movies. Jane has always had that kind of slurred talking out of the side of his mouth speech pattern which makes him come off as either a stroke victim or incredibly drunk, but man this one really took the cake with how far he pushed it.

You mean the series made by guys involved with Dr. Phil completely jumping the shark as a legitimate therapist?

Got a big order in from Amazon today and was reminded of a fantastic series that finally came out of hiatus from Image, Manifest Destiny. It's about the real reason for the Lewis & Clarke expedition after the Louisiana Purchase, which is focused on cataloging the strange creatures of the land such as killer plants, centaurs, and plants that take over a person and turns them into zombies, among other things. The writing is great and the character building of the crew, which is made up of expendables in both soldiers in trouble with the army as well as prisoners looking for a quick shot at freedom, and the art is fantastic. It took a bit over 18 months for the most recent volume to come out from the last, but that can tend to happen with owner created stuff, especially with Image where the writers and artists tend to get signed to exclusive deals from the big two which causes them to put their great self-owned series on hold for an ungodly amount of time.

Man v. Man gladiator fights Man v. Apex predator (tiger, shark, bear, etc.) Going back to my original comment in this thread about Andy Lawrence basically cribbed a bunch of ideas from other movies, the one he kind of failed at stealing from the most was the direct-to-DVD third film in the Hostel series. That movie is set outside of Las Vegas and in this version people aren't really paying for the ability to torture someone, they are betting on how they will either die or how long it will take. One guy the bet is how many arrows it will take to kill him and another I think was how many pounds of live bugs would he have to ingest before dying. It wasn't bad given that the movie was a rush job for the straight to video market, but the games offered in that movie were a hundred times better than what was in this one.

That's what I meant to say, as I was thinking of the one my guide gave me on the VIP tour for Universal Studios, basically saved my phone from being destroyed on the Jurassic World ride as the biggest wave of water I've ever seen on a ride is dumped on the car you're in about midway into the ride, while everyone else in my group was beyond soaked.

Even there they were ill prepared as evidence of the woman's face covered in the middle Lawrence's blood when he shot himself under the chin, you really need a plastic poncho like they sell before some water rides in order to get the best protection.

If it's a .22 you may as well not even bother for both spray from the victim and the hole left in the canvas, if there even is one. You want something like a .45 at most, especially if it's a larger canvas, that way you have a hole to tell a story about and a good portion of the canvas is "painted." You use something like a .50, especially from something like a Barrett, then you're just going to destroy the canvas and your lackey will look like the crowd who went to one of the first Gallagher shows and didn't know what the Sledge-O-Matic was.

Depends on how you sell it to a potential buyer, it's all about the story of the piece and how it's told. Explanation: So if I'm going to guess why Rumble set them up in the first place in order to "hire" them for the Money Plane job was to see if they could pull it off in the first place. All he really knows about the team is that Edge is up past his eyeballs in debt to various criminals which is why he's still doing these risky jobs, which continues to show his reckless nature which isn't good for a mega heist. So Rumble hires them to steal a painting that he already owns in order to see how they work on their toes when numerous wrenches are thrown into the plan, which is further noted by Edge saying that there are now numerous armed guards and new security systems from when they cased the joint a few days earlier. So once Rumble sees that they can handle themselves on the fly, he comes off looking like a semi-gracious benefactor there to get their butts out of the fire, and they are more willing to do this even riskier job for him. If they had been killed/arrested, then he's only out so much of what he paid to buy their debt, which is nothing compared to if he gets a team that can get him the billion in crypto on the Money Plane. He doesn't plan on them finding out he already owns the painting, mainly because he doesn't know about Tom Jane which is ultimately what screws him up. Also, for the two Russian guys who were drinking before one took an axe to the other. What I was able to gleam from watching it was the criminals were betting on how much it would take for one guy to use the axe on the other. That's why the female assistant to the bookkeeper was raising the amount of rubles higher and higher until it was something like 200k. Once the axe is used the guy looks up at the camera and takes another swig of vodka, so it's clear that they have a intercom or something in the room giving them the offer and they are giving themselves either liquid courage or trying to pass out so they don't use the axe on one another. The Asian crime boss then says something to the tech guy along the line of she used to cut peoples' arms off with an axe for free.

Question: Did anyone else get the feeling that Andy Lawrence was going to betray the team out of anger for being relegated to tech support on the mission? They really linger on him being pissed about it and then have Edge make Tom Jane his backup plan "man on the ground." With how flippant the character was acting on the ground I was waiting for there to be some kind of turn where he's either taken the crypto or informed the House about what was going on in the flight. Another thing I remembered watching this was how unrecognizable upon first sight Joey Lawrence is without his trademark hairstyle from Blossom or even the more cropped look on Brotherly Love. I took me a solid 90 seconds to recognize it was him in this movie with whatever the hell that hairdo was that he had and in another movie he did, Rest Stop, he was completely bald and I didn't know he was in it until I saw his name in the credits.

That there was no burst of air when they opened the door on the plane I was almost furious because that means they really weren't giving a shit by that point, or the plane was basically flying a hundred feet in the air over wherever they are. This was what I was thinking with how he was talking and having an underling named P-Roach, that or Grammer saw Vince Vaughn as a wannabe gangster in Be Cool and thought he could do it better, including listening to club rap/trap music whenever he calls someone. The only thing missing was him spraying Crystal on everyone he talked to. As I was watching this, it was clear Andy Lawrence basically pulled/stole ideas from the movies he enjoys watching because this was filled with so many tropes from the thief in heavy debt going for one last job, the previously thought impenetrable big money mark is hit by a crack team of specialists, to the inevitable double cross by the client, among other things. It is also clear that the Lawrence brothers learned not much from their decades of acting experience in regards to making a movie because this was all so cheap and old looking. Like when Edge was going over that basic as hell plan of how they were going to rip off the plane, I was assuming that nothing was going to be according to plan and they'd have to improvise to complete the heist, sort of like A is For Amateur from The ABCs of Death 2 where the imagining is nothing like the reality. Also what is more telling about how low budget this is, this was not released under the WWE Films banner, which is par for the course any time a contracted wrestler, which Edge was at the time of this filming. They could not even get a bit of promotion or funding from there and they have produced some truly shitty movies Lastly, in regards to a dude putting his bare feet up in a casino and Thomas Jane's kookyness, he apparently loves going barefoot at public events as watching a show on youtube, one of the hosts talked about going to a red carpet premier for one of the Walking Dead season premiers and Thomas Jane was near him, and he walked the red carpet barefoot and then proceeded to talk through the episode as if he'd never actually seen a TV show of any kind before let alone one about a zombie apocalypse. Also, whenever I hear of someone being barefoot in a casino this is the scene that instantly comes to mind because of how disgusting it just looks and what seems like the proper response to it.

I also enjoyed Palm Springs and how it dealt with the time loop scenario, although I do feel that there could have been a bit more JK Simmons in it. Another I would recommend is You Should Have Left with Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried. In my opinion a very well done take on a haunted house film while adding in a psychological element of guilt following a traumatic incident and how one copes with it. Blumhouse has been doing great with these type of films though I am starting to wonder if they are just using the inside of Jason Blum's own home for sets as this, Invisible Man, Upgrade have very similar interiors at a few points.

See I never understood the hate for that movie outside of some of its campyness. Even watching it years later I can still find it fairly enjoyable, mainly due to John Ritter and the kid having a pretty good report with each other.

Definitely looks like him and even after reading press releases they aren't announcing much in the way of the cast yet, though I am interested in how it is a dark take on the superhero genre with the lead character claiming to be a dimensionally displaced one but no one really believes him.

Yeah they tried that as well in the Netflix shows, for at least the first season of each show, but it was only coming down from the films, there was never a mention in the movies of the massive ninja attack in New York, the fact a skyscraper collapsed around a hidden dragon tomb, or an ex-Marine going on a killing spree against criminals mentioned in any MCU film.

At this point I think they are just hoping to release it to try and make any kind of money off it. To me it's sort of like what Monster Trucks was a couple years ago where one studio started making a film and then it just got handed off to one owner after another who did reshoots and caused the budget to balloon to where it could no way make a profit. I'm interested in seeing it as well, but after the last mutant film, I'm not having high hopes for it.

I remember that being an original plan for Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, where it would run on TV for a season or two between three larger films. Maybe Hollywood should just stop thinking that this type of branching media crossover will actually work.

Seen 50 of these but the list really needs to be weighted, as it's only qualifier is 20 reviews, so a movie could have 20 meh reviews and get a worse ranking thank a movie with three times as many bad reviews but had some good ones mixed in. Also noticed a lot of Stephen Dorff on that list, should there be another thing added to the list of "how to know if a movie will be terrible" list that's on this forum?

Just watched this last weekend and it should be done if only for the insane amount of people in this cast. Add to that the batshit plot along with the fact that Geena Davis at one point gets so into her horny vampire role that her boobs are almost popping out of her outfit as she womanhandles Begley Jr. Then you have Michael Richards' puppet routine and the dad from Beetlejuice as a weirdo mayor, this movie is made for this podcast.

Yeah it was me and I've seen that, and since it's the original team coming together to work on it again, I'm excited. The artist for that series Rob Guillory called Farmhand which is in the same humor vein as Chew and centers around a farm that grows replacement body parts and organs for people. Great mix of dark and light humor with Guillory showing he can write as well as he can draw.

I know that they put out a kind of omnibus a decade or so ago called Palomar and it was a good few hundred pages, and it's a helluva lot easier for a comic fan to get into a series these days as almost any series of note has any combination of fan wikia, Wikipedia page, online reviews, or Youtube breakdowns, so a potential reader can easily fill in the blanks on a given story. It's definitely helped me as I'm going through the Stray Bullets omnibus where basically every chapter is out of chronological order and there are numerous connections between characters than span years.

Yeah the Watchmen series served as a good spiritual sequel to the book with some great performances from the leads and a few of the Before Watchmen stories were really good, like the ones on the Minutemen and Night Owl. In regards to Dark Knight Returns, the one cowritten by Brian Azzarello I thought was actually pretty solid, because it was later revealed Frank Miller was really only involved in name since he's become batshit insane, and adds an interesting twist where the jarred Kryptonian city of Kandor was probably jarred for the best rather than be a fully grown city. Though that also may be in part because I love Azzarello's work ever since 100 Bullets. Miller and Moore are a couple writers, along with Grant Morrison and Gail Simone, who I've come to realize really need a handler to keep the leash short because otherwise they go so insane with creative freedom it becomes an utter dumpster fire. With Miller you have things like Holy Terror, Morrison with his Animal Man run, Simone with Clean Room and Moore with the independently published sequels for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen where the main storyline is Harry Potter is the Anti-Christ and shoots lightning from his dick. Yes that actually happened.

@theworstbuddhist Yeah Peter Cannon is on my reserve list on Amazon and I'll probably get it with my next paycheck. Doomsday Clock works fantastically because Geoff Johns really treats the original with reverence and keeps everything in character. As for Tom King I was lucky enough to meet him and Mitch Gerards at Comic Con last year and he might easily be one of the nicest comic creators that I've met, he was also amazed that prison inmates were reading his novel, A Once Crowded Sky, which if you haven't read I suggest you pick it up as it is a very interesting take on the fallout of the epic crossovers we as comic readers have become used to seeing every year or so. Great list all around, loved Wicked + Divine, starting the second volume of Die and waiting for volume 2 of Exorsisters, and I can't wait to read the final volume of Sex Criminals.

Yeah it's in one of my Amazon lists I just haven't gotten around to ordering it. Kirkman has another series with Chris Burnham, who's art style I just love, called Die! Die! Die! which is kind of like a Manhattan Projects but set in the spy/secret society world.

I saw this too but this was a change made over a month ago, so it couldn't have been anyone who heard the mini-ep and decided to do this. To be fair though from one look at the main character you can tell he's a dude who just drops ass as soon as he's in the middle of a crowd of people, and not silently but just rips it.