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I'm thinking of seeing this on my day off but really aren't looking forward to it. Everything I've read about it makes it come off like the Hulk movie with Eric Bana in that it took a while to build up to anything and then really didn't deliver. I'll try and keep an open mind about this, but I ain't expecting greatness.

Well I don't know if this is a good trade or not but since Piper passed he is no longer going to be attending Stockon Con this coming weekend. So who do they replace him with but none other than Bai Ling. I know she ain't in the same stratosphere as Piper, but that might be an equally entertaining celebrity meeting.

I know right. What's even more upsetting about his death is that he seemed to have his head on pretty straight as a pro wrestler, you never really heard stories of him abusing drugs or steroids, in an era when most everyone was, and he had maintained a decent relationship with his family despite being on the road for most of the year. Was hoping to meet him next week at a convention if only to see if he'd sign a picture of him wearing the explosive codpiece from Hell Comes to Frogtown. Also, can we agree that if there was ever a Mt. Rushmore of B-Movie stars it would have Bruce Campbell, Robert Englund, Roddy Piper, and Lance Henriksen?

Now there's the story that he wants to make Top Gun 2 as long as he can fly the jets again. Why didn't the Jackass guys get him to cameo in their show like they did with Brad Pitt, I'm sure whatever they would have come up with he would just look at them and go "sure I'm down for that."

Apparently Craig Kilborn is as well since he was able to get Teller to briefly speak on his version of the Daily Show.

Yeah when Good Morning America was reporting that it was 2 to 1 for her living I got a sense that this was like most public voting on entertainment where it was predetermined what was going to happen.

After the first theme park scene I stopped counting how many cameos there were because the guys were right in saying that nearly every person was a cameo of some kind. The NASA people were a mix of people from pop culture and current events like Mohawk NASA guy or UFC fighter Josh Barnett as Sergeant at the military base. Here is a link for the most concise list that I could find that even still missed names like George R.R. Martin, Steve Gutenberg, and a couple actors from Stargate SG-1 http://thornography.weei.com/sports/boston/2015/07/23/all-55-celebrity-cameos-from-sharknado-3/. So with over 60 cameos if we're including the various ones missed by the list, they have almost TRIPLED the number of cameos from the previous movie. I can only imagine what number 4 will be like. As for #AprilDies, I have a feeling that she's going to unfortunately live most likely for the fact that they have Reid contracted for another movie. Even if she did die I would expect them to bring her back in either flashbacks or a spirit guide for Finn.

Same, I don't know what it is about Cruise, I used to find him barely tolerable in public for the longest time, but over the past few years I have really begun to enjoy his work. It also helps that he's still doing his own stunts no matter how insane they are and how many other A list stars can you point to and say the same thing?

I'm sure you're all like me in that you started listening to this podcast because you already had a love of bad movie and now may even be buying some of them on DVD or watching them on demand in order to prep for a new episode. So I was wondering where everyone stands in regards to having seen the movies or having them in your personal DVD collection. And by seen I mean having seen at least half of the movie or enough of it in pieces to get and understanding of how the whole movie plays out. Here's what I have seen or own: Episode #5 Drive Angry (own) Episode #6 Battlefield Earth Episode #8 Sucker Punch Episode #9 Fast Five Episode #13 Crank: High Voltage (own) Episode #14 Green Lantern Episode #18 Gigli Episode #19 The Wicker Man Episode #20 Punisher: War Zone (own) Episode #23 The Room (own) Episode #26 Jingle All the Way Episode #28 Crank (own) Episode #31 Birdemic (own) Episode #32 88 Minutes Episode #37 Speed 2: Cruise Control Episode #39 Godzilla Episode #40 Judge Dredd (own) Episode #41 Spiderman 3 Episode #42 Batman & Robin (own) Episode #43 Wild Wild West Episode #44 Jaws 4: The Revenge Episode #45 Road House (own) Episode #46 Barb Wire Episode #47 Super Mario Bros. (own) Episode #48 Sleepaway Camp (own) Episode #49 Cobra (own) Episode #52 Reindeer Games (own) Episode #53 Anaconda Episode #55 Devil's Advocate (own) Episode #56 Nothing But Trouble Episode #59 Spice World Episode #60 Street Fighter (own) Episode #63 Fast & Furious 6 Episode #65 Howard the Duck (own) Episode #66 Demoltion Man (own) Episode #67 Sharknado Episode #68 Over the Top (own) Episode #69 Crocodile Dundee in LA So overall I've seen 38 of the films done by the show and own 18 on DVD.

I've read most of the series and get why they are mad because Lee Child made Reacher this larger than life character in the books. After the casting was announced Child did come out and tell everyone to cool it because "Reacher's size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force," but admitted that the physical appearance of the character was completely unrealistic. and that "Cruise portrays in his own way." In comparison to the book I thought the movie did a really good job of getting the overall story across and the fight scenes in Reacher books do usually have a comic tilt to them leading up to the big final fights.

Well let's be fair, Lister seemed like a more reasonable and approachable President because if you had to tell him something he gave you twenty seconds to get your point across, rather than ten. Doubt you would get that from James, who from the trailer shoots a Smurf while it is mid-dance.

Yeah not surprisingly there is a big crossover between porn companies and nerd pop culture. There was a great interview with Dana D'earmond on the Nerdist and she talked about how she was in a parody of Star Trek Next Generation and it wasn't done as a parody but rather a regular episode that just showed boning, and an X-Files parody that they made as if it was the following season of the show. Fortunately there has not been a TMNT parody to my knowledge, because those scenes would be utterly terrifying though there are numerous comics online featuring the turtles just ravaging April, search Akabur as the artist if you want a new fetish or nightmare depending on your preference.

Did anyone notice that they tried to cram the entire trope of "seemingly good politician who is actually a bastard getting his comeuppance" into Bill Engvall's three minutes on screen? He starts out being friendly to Finn and a couple minutes later he is yelling at Secret Service agent Rick Fox that he deserves to be saved more than the President before he is eaten by a shark that falls through the convenient window in the bowels of the White House. As for the voting I can bet that a lot of those votes are done by bot accounts or people within the production company. No way would they dictate an actor's contract on a tweet poll, even a C level actress like Tara Reid. Even if they were honest and killed off the character, they would still find a way to put her in the fourth film some way, hopefully as a terminator so that it can crossover with the Asylum's shitty knockoff of that franchise.

I had high hopes for Funny People too as it looked to be a great look at the life of standup comedians, rather than a lampooning of Sandler's career. It's second half is just indicative of Judd Apatow's film structure, because while he can create a decent first half, he almost always makes his movies 30 minutes too long and a final half which takes a turn from comedic to fairly serious. His movies even feature some of the same scenes like in 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Trainwreck, and Get Him to the Greek (which he produced) there is an awkward board room scene/boss meeting which features a coworker of the main character having a nervous freakout in front of the dick boss. The second halves also feature some serious moment that causes a turn for the characters which is ultimately resolved 15 minutes later.

I had a discussion with some coworkers/friends about how I can't stand any of Sandler's work after The Waterboy while they have liked various pieces of his recent work. I explained that when Sandler made Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison he was 29-30 where it made sense that he acted as a doofy, foul-mouthed frat boy, especially considering at that point he had two amazing comedy albums out which he based a bunch of his characters and side characters on in his films. Then he did Big Daddy and started to try and segue into more serious roles that occasionally would have bathroom humor and they just didn't work for me as I don't need a message in my Adam Sandler films. When it became apparent no one was going to take him as a serious actor he went back to full on bathroom humor which now at nearly 50, is kinda sad. If this movie had been done 15 years ago, it probably would have worked better for Sandler, or if they did it today without Sandler, I think this movie would be a lot better. And if you haven't heard them yet I strongly recommend listening to Adam Sandler's comedy albums, mainly the first two and Stan and Judy's Kid because it is an amazing comparison to the work he is known for now and the material he was putting on those albums with the cast of comedians that he was using, especially the Stan and Judy Album which had a few long scenes that are hilarious slow burn humor scenes.

Well Bo Derek was May and Tara Reid was April, so there hopefully won't be any hinky screen writing trick to get her back if they kill her off. I'm sure this is all setup to make viewers think the vote mattered when the production company has final say anyway a la American Idol. This movie made it seem like they were really pushing the Nova/Finn love angle more and more so maybe this is a way to write out Tara Reid and give fans the real love story that they wanted from the beginning. Also did anyone else get a comparison between April's chainsaw hand and the Blade doll from Puppet Master? https://twitter.com/...030395726737408

This was me every two minutes: I almost have no words for what I watched, I'm honestly not surprised/surprised by the SyFy channel's answer to the Jason Todd Death in the Family poll concerning April. These movies are becoming the Family Guy chicken fights because you think that they can't be topped but then another one comes out and your mind is blown.

I'm watching this now and feel that this should be the last one because the the jokes are becoming really on the nose, like the thing with recreating the Iwo Jima flag moment or that you spend more than half the time trying to catch every single cameo. Also regarding The Asylum, there was a great article on Cracked from a guy who tried to get a screenplay greenlit by the company but was never able to. It's definitely worth a read as for a company that makes movies like Sharknado, they honestly think they are shooting the next big Oscar winner. http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1698-5-ugly-realities-making-mockbusters-like-sharknado.html

If we're doing after school specials we need to do the one with Ben Affleck abusing steroids that was shown on HBO I think.

This guy knows how to raise the bar.

Yeah I believe it was LOL. As for the expectations being met or not met for a movie, just look back at the summer of 2013 when this board was basically a dumping ground of trolls recommending each big movie that came out that week. It was a bit more murky as they were mostly comic movies (Iron Man 3, Man of Steel) where there will always be polarizing view points, but still each week there was something posted because it didn't meet a person's idea of how the movie should have played out.

Yeah I caught that as well, I don't know if it was her way of trying to snap him out of his degeneration into a manchild or if she truly wanted to bone. If it was the latter, that would be a horrifying deleted scene or image thread on 4Chan.

I'm rewatching this as part of a double feature I'm doing at my job and holy shit I forgot how dark this movie is, especially as a kids PG movie. There are an attempted suicide by Hook, Smee telling Hook he will make him feel better by taking him out "to go kill some Indians" and Hook saying he is tired of killing them and children. There is also the Boo Box scene with Glenn Close that is a total nightmare. I do like that it kept in line with the darker original version of the story where Pan would kill Lost Boys who got too old, I'm just amazed at how this got a PG rating. Though I guess it's in line with PG-13 movies of the 80s showing boobs.

This came up a month or so back on this board where a couple people, who I think were just trolling, were suggesting movies that were not only well received by both audiences and critics, but were also not in line with what the show usually lampoons. Yet when called on these things, these people lashed out and said how everyone else was fucking idiots and that WE didn't understand the show, one even went as far to say that if a movie had a good RT score that it should not be considered. When I mentioned that Face/Off would then have to be disqualified because despite being a batshit crazy movie had over 90% on RT, he said yes it should not be included along with the 25% of other HDTGM movies that were rated "fresh." I think the problem in when it comes to the board is the phrasing of the tagline for it,"Which stinking pile of Hollywood bullshit should we talk about next?" It makes it seem like it's just movies that didn't fare well with critics or box office-wise. If it was something more along the lines of what crazy flick should be talked about, or something along those lines, it would probably clear it up for some. It won't stop trolls, but then again they are few and far between on this board and you can usually tell who they are by seeing that they usually create a thread about something that won't be touched with a ten foot pole, leave a couple mean comments, and then just disappear. I've said it a few times before that I am amazed at how in today's society online that this board hasn't been inundated with trolls or straight up assholes, a la the IMDB comment sections, yet those ones we get are pretty bad. Just look at the thread about the changing of the theme song. As for this movie, it doesn't have any real craziness that sticks out like some of the movies that this show has done. Eastwood as a director has always gone above and beyond to make movies that are really grounded in reality, and he makes it work. You can maybe make fun of his singing, but I don't know how you can stretch that into a 80-90 minute show.

I just re-watched this and it needs to be done for the show. Not only is there a dog swallowing a cat whole, the same dog pisses acid on both a hydrant and a man's face, camouflages itself like a Predator, basically rapes another dog, and seemingly at times tries to bang Ally Sheedy. Henriksen's character states very nonchalantly that he did all sorts of illegal testing on this dog as to make them a perfect guard dog or some such nonsense, but the dog has to be on a steady stream of medications to keep it in check. There is also a horrifying scene where a junkyard owner hits the dog in the back of the head with the shovel for the slightest issue, and in reality the dog's head should have been caved in but it just shakes it off like the goddamn Terminator.