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This movie is nuts with the storylines too, from Huey Lewis being a karaoke hustler to Andre Braugher taking a constantly high Paul Giamatti along as he runs from the law. This would make for a great episode as I suspect this was where Gwyneth Paltrow started to believe that she could have a music career or at least sing.

Well this is surprising that James Wan is not going to be back as director for the next movie in the series, especially considering how well the last one did at the box office. Apparently F. Gary Gray, Louis Leterrier, and Adam Wingard are the final three choices for the spot, but what was most shocking was one of the names past up for the job was Vin Diesel! I can only image what the hell the next movie would have been like with him in the director's chair, I assume nonstop talks about familia and a car that runs on Corona. http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/and-the-furious-8-directorial-search-is-down-to-three-242

You're lucky that's what you got, could have ended up a very different search depending on current trends.

Holy shit I realize after re-listening to this episode that I might have been in the same motel as the characters were where their feet turned black. The hotel I was in used to be a Motel 6 and just walking across the room once made my feet look as if I walked through a coal mine. That or all bay area Motel 6s are utter shitholes.

Ah yet another movie in a long line of films in the 90s where kids get the better of adults through incredibly devious ways, similar to Home Alone, Blank Check, Getting Even With Dad, and Man of the House. I like that this movie is basically Stockholm Syndrome brought on by your kids. The only way this movie could have been better would be to have the parents having their kids arrested for kidnapping, and then getting back together once they realize that it was their kids who drove them apart in the first place.

I had a chance to ask McDowell about this movie recently, as he was one of the featured guests for Wizard Con here in Sacramento. Unfortunately he wasn't in the best of moods as he has no one in line waiting to get his autograph, and when I mean no one, I mean I literally walked right up to him and got an autograph and shook his hand. This was only made worse by the fact that the person whose booth he was next to, Danny Trejo's had such a long line that there was an overflow line that went on the other side of McDowell's booth, so I figured he wasn't too keen on talking about a crazy porn movie he had a role in in the 70s.

I remember renting this and having absolutely no idea what was happening or who was responsible, only that Josh Hartnett was trying to get an agent or some such bullshit by renting out a theater to crapily perform Streetcar Named Desire for them.

I watched this movie and I have no idea how they could have made it as bad as they did outside the fact that they did not have the technology to create Eternia at that time. It makes me wonder why they didn't just go with an animated movie instead of live action, but I think the failure of the Transformers movie the year prior played a part in that decision.

Just rewatched this last night, this might be the most 90s movie ever made, can we also mention the spinning telephone booths:

A straight-to-video horror flick about a defense attorney who believes her client's innocence despite him admitting he killed his son and a slew of other kids. She soon receives a Pinnochio puppet as part of the case evidence and her daughter takes it as her own. Of course weird things start happening and the daughter gets the blame. This movie takes the Stephen King route to killing characters where quite a few are kids under 10 being almost killed by this puppet, like when a girl is run over by a SCHOOL BUS and is then pulled out from under it with only a couple bruises on her face. Then every female looks ready to be in a Skinimax movie, from teachers to the main character they wear curve hugging clothes that appear to need to have them cut out of every day after shooting. The puppet itself is creepy looking and the overall quality of the movie is on a bonkers level with some of the kills and the reactions from people who witness them. Definitely worth a watch.

Holy crap this movie is nuts. Rather than have the ambiguity of the first act of Child's Play, this movie just says screw it and shows the titular dolly as alive and murderous. The kills are crazy because some have no rhyme or reason, like one guy getting his hand stuck in a sewing machine, ripping open his shirt, and then falling to the ground dead of what appears to be a sudden heart attack. Then there is the fact that the movie completely ignores its own rules by showing the doll in multiple spots within the same scene, despite there being only one doll. For example in the aforementioned shirt tearing scene, the doll spooks the guy by knocking a box off a shelf over his head and can be seen standing on the shelf, yet it is also apparently running the sewing machine where he gets his hand caught, complete with its hand pushing the foot level of the sewing machine, thought its eventually revealed that there are multiple dolls in a toy factory being possessed by demons or some such nonsense.

HOLY SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT THE ALIENS! Weren't they also making fun of one of their own because he was a nudist?

I was surprised at how much I ended up liking this movie after seeing the first trailer which made it seem really low budget in a bad way, but after watching it it's actually really well done all around. Featuring a cast made up almost entirely of character actors like Jeffrey Combs and John Heard along with Brittany Snow and ex-porn star Sasha Grey, the movie revolves around a group of people who are brought to the house of a wealthy philanthropist offering to take care of one of them financially and otherwise for the rest of their lives, so long as they win his contest. They play the old game "Would You Rather" where they have to choose between two options, but instead of banal questions they are rather painful acts like shocking a person with a car battery or caning a person. A person is removed from the game when they can't continue or are unable to choose an option or follow through with their choice in a set amount of time. The movie is well acted and it builds a good amount of suspense as you watch these people perform the various challenges. While not being the craziest movie outside of the initial plot, especially in comparison to other HDTGM movies, I still feel it would make for a good episode as that host break down the overall game and what they would do in those situations.

This movie to me came off as a similar attempt to bring in a young crowd for the X-Men when Fox did a TV movie for Generation X where it was to feature almost zero of the X-Men that were known and loved, outside of Banshee and Emma Frost who were only slightly known at that time from the comics and cartoon. Also, the posters for both are kinda similar as they both try to be the most 90s poster and most 2010s poster of all time.

I have found over the years some of the best straight to video movies have been ones comprised of only really character actors, since they are usually used to bolster theatrical movies in the first place. Another one that I absolutely loved and mentioned prior on this forum was Sushi Girl which had Tony Todd, Mark Hamill, Sonny Chiba, and Noah Hathaway about criminals trying to find lost loot from a former crew member who just got out of prison. It was very dark like this movie and had great performances from its leads, especially from Todd and Hamill.

I remember renting this from Blockbuster thinking it was going to be a straightforward zombie flick, rather than a slapsticky comedy featuring zombie fish and a cowboy who uses his spurs to hang himself upside down for no reason except to look cool when shooting zombies. Although the super shotgun was a cool looking, albeit unwieldy, weapon.

I'm sorry but that is incorrect, you are missing one VERY important aspect of that joke:

They had Jonah on for the Wicker man, and Maltin would be great especially because he gets the humor behind these types of podcasts, just listen to the episodes of Doug Loves Movies that he's on.

Stallone is a former CIA explosives expert going after his former mentor James Woods with the help of skanky looking Sharon Stone. She wants revenge against the mob family that Woods works for, especially Eric Roberts who killed Stone's parents, who in flashbacks has not aged a day while Stone ages a couple decades to current time. This was made in the time that Stallone was IN LOVE with computers and the internet, similar to plotlines in Assassins, which is made more hysterical by the fact that Stallone looks completely out of place when using any sort of technology that isn't a car or a gun.

My mindset is this, I just come here to talk about movies, which I consider my kind of religious experience, I don't care about the other shit, plus there isn't really trolling here unlike IMDB which is a huge plus. I could give a crap who you are and what your background is, all I care about is you want to talk movies, alright let's talk. I look at sites and read articles where people are so stuck in the cement in their mindsets about how things should be that it only makes things worse, especially now where any person with a blog or social media account can literally destroy another person's livelihood because they don't agree with their opinion. So with that I usually just keep to myself and my close friends because there is where we can not worry about being ourselves. Hell, it's why I work in two libraries, one public and one prison, because it's a quiet environment for the most part and I'm not being bothered by outside shit. I know I'm wrong about stuff all the time, believe me the people who used to read my sports articles would tell me about it. The idea we have this need to separate ourselves so much and battle it out with other groups just boggles my mind, on all sides because it only drives people further away. Shit I read an article on Azalea Banks losing her mind on an airplane and the comment section was just unbelievable with people on both sides of the argument who had their heads so far up their asses, and the discussion was stalled even before it started. It sort of reminds me of PCU when Jeremy Piven talks to the various student groups about how they are always at each others' throats for various stupid things when they should just be relishing in the fact that they have their whole lives ahead of them and could do so much more by working together.

To be fair though, while many criticized the story and characters, there were good number of reviews and critiques that said King did have a flair behind the camera and showed promise with some of the scenes that he created. And while it might seem like a cop out to use drugs as this being a bad movie, King was REALLY into getting drunk and high, usually in combination. Can't remember where I read it but I believe it was Dino de Laurentiis who said he didn't realize King was as fucked up as he was because he was coherent when talking to people but just pretty spaced out on set and kinda lethargic. It was later he found out that King was drinking mouthwash in massive quantities along with the various drugs, including Xanax, cocaine, pot, Valium, and more, he was taking to maximize his high. He also admitted in On Writing, that he can't remember writing a few of his books from the 80s, including Cujo. The other part of the 80s were his author books where he tried confronting his addictions through his work, which seemed to help a bit as he would get sober in the late 80s/early 90s. So while it may seem like a cop out, it most likely is true as he was on a Hunter S. Thompson road to addiction. As for him not doing another directing job, that could be a point of realization for him, knowing how he was when he did the movie and realizing even if sober, it still might not be so great, recognizing his limitations.

With book adaptations, there is usually a lot lost in translation because you have to cut something from a book in order to fill a 90-120 minute long movie. King adaptations have usually tried to stay close to the source material when feasible, hence there being no hedge monsters in The Shining, or changing it a bit to give it a happier ending like the kid living at the end of Cujo when he dies in the book. Then there are adaptations that just say fuck it, like Under the Dome, which followed the book for the first couple episodes then veered off into full on insanity, and basically had a final season which was a bad remake of The Tommyknockers, which is sad because Under the Dome the book is really amazing with a wide and varied cast of characters and small town drama brought to the forefront of paranoia. Though with recent adaptations for King books like It, The Stand, and The Dark Tower series being multiple movies, it seems movie studios are trying to be faithful to these huge stories. Dreamcatcher didn't work because for some reason they put stuff in the movie without explaining it like Thomas Jane singing the Mighty Mouse theme song or many of the flashbacks to when the main characters were kids. Then you have the ending that turns Donny Whalberg into a goddamn alien for no reason.

Key and Peele for anything Liam Neeson has done in the last decade. Daniel Tosh for RAD. Will Sasso for anything wrestling, preferably Ready to Rumble. Will Wheaton for something like the Wizard or Arcade.

Oh and if you're looking for Maximum Overdrive on the cheap, you can get it on Amazon in a double feature DVD with Raw Deal starring Schwarzenegger for 15 bucks.