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Yeah having listened to the recent crossover episode of HDTGM and How Did This Get Played where Paul and Jason shared their gaming history as they discussed Street Fighter: the Movie: the Game, both discussed their love of the series and overall the episode was fantastic to listen to. I know that ever since the first one came out a movie has been in development hell, but it's one of those story types that doesn't translate well into a feature film, especially the first one who's twist is reliant on player interaction. Plus the sheer cost of trying to make a film based on those games would be gigantic as it would have to be almost completely CGI for sets and effects.

Top 3 in no particular order for me are Fassbender/Kilmer's department in Snowman, every cop not in the Zombie Squad in Cobra, and every cop not named Tango & Cash in the titular film as they were just acting like dumb assholes.

Taped in January you say??? That's nothing! They did a show for Swordfish that they taped a couple years ago that still hasn't come out, with the belief now that it may never get released, thus ending up in the lost episode hole along with The Smurfs and for a time Green Lantern.

I'd rather just play the Bioshock series again, it deals with the ideas of the book a lot better than the filmmakers ever could. Also it is amazing that they could not get a single actor to return from one film to the next, as if three different studios were tasked with making the movie, and the person in charge of it all just said "fuck it, we'll take pieces of each and make one saga." The only reason I could see them covering this series is that it is chock full of HDTGM All Stars from a cursory glance of the casts.

So watching the opening scene gave me a lot of vibes of playing an online game, with the Ninja being a griefer, just a dude who's there to ruin the game for everyone else. He literally just runs up on the scientist and starts slaughtering his party and makes a point to kill and/or maim everyone in it. Then when the police arrive he continues his rampage when there were numerous moments where he could have made his escape. Then he basically had infinite ammo and health cheat codes on with how many damn ninja stars he was whipping around and the fact he kept getting up despite being shot more times than Tony Montana. So then like in an online game like this the mod eventually intervenes and kicks the dude out of the server, which could be seen as the scene where he drops dead in front of Christie and passes his soul onto her. The basic idea that the ninja thought the cops are in the wrong for doing their job of stopping his was fucking insane, especially as he racked up a body count in the dozens by the time he's died. Questions: How did none of those cops end up shooting each other as they were shooting the ninja? They were in a complete circle and there's no way every bullet hit him, statistically there had to have been some friendly fire. Also did anyone else notice that the important scientist with a team of bodyguards was not so important as to be playing on a public municipal golf course? When the call to the cops goes out the operator mentions it's at the municipal court, which are usually the cheapest courses to play on in comparison to non-city owned or private course, so maybe he made it a bit too easy for the ninja to get to him by being on a course that any Joe Blow can walk onto. Omission: The crew were wondering what was eye-patch's motivation for hunting the ninja, it's revealed in a quick flashback that the ninja was responsible to killing eye-patch's entire clan and making him watch, thus making him want revenge against the ninja. Also during the opening fight I'm amazed no one mentioned the stunt where the ninja knocks a cop of his motorcycle in front of the water hazard, and the stunt man is clearly seen landing on the ground as his bike starts to flip, but the very next shot shows him and the bike being rocketed into the water. It was some of the laziest and choppy editing I've ever seen. Also I know there was talk about connecting to the other two Ninja films, but neither movie is connected to one another as well, they basically just share a title and the fact that ninjas are in them, they don't even have a supernatural element to them. And I never thought two things would happen on this podcast: 1. That there would be a more 80s movie than Death Spa. 2. That there would be a longer tangent conversation on the show than the parental/relationship tree of Sleepaway Camp, but the V8 conversation easily passed it.

Oddly wasn't coke that did him in, just old age/natural causes. Plus given how Evans lived his life, I don't think poor taste is in his vocabulary.

And now I feel like a goof as I remembered today that Evans died at the end of last year.

After reading that book I'm honestly alive that Robert Evans is still alive at this point, the dude might as well have cocaine for blood at this point.

What's more nuts about this is how the ending essentially spits in the face of its basic premise. The reason that Statham and Delroy Lindo are hunting bad Jet Li is if he becomes "The One," it could destroy the multiverse, but in the end he is sent to a prison colony where is he last shown fighting an endless army of other inmates, all of whom have presumably been convicted of similar crimes that he has. So even though Bad Li is only one of two Lis left with near god-like powers, the numbers game will eventually catch up to him and he will be killed by his opponents, leaving good Li as the only one in the multiverse. Also how the hell did they not show the Good Li universe's version of Statham like they did for Lindo? This movie also has another sign of a bad movie in that it features a song on its soundtrack that doesn't really fit with the movie and has been used in numerous movies, especially movies that were released in close calendar proximity to one another as I think this was the third movie to have Papa Roach's "Last Resort" featured heavily in the movie along with Ready to Rumble and Pay It Forward, which were two that I could remember off the top of my head but I'm certain there are more.

Damn you're right. Think I got it mixed up with Thinner which was a Bachman but sold separate of the first four Bachman stories. Hateful 8 I really enjoyed, as it is kinda of a whodunnit in a Western setting with great performances from the small cast. I would not be surprised if he starts doing either TV episodes like he's done in the past or a miniseries, which technically isn't a movie.

Yeah the book, which was a Bachman, was a bit more heavy on the kid being a fanatic about the Holocaust and what happened there, and there was a shit ton more killing than what was in the movie, especially in the altered ending which features a shooting spree from the kid. As for the third Kill movie, I remember QT basically saying it would be a revenge film attempted against the Bride featuring the survivors of her killing spree in the first two films, it would have Daryl Hannah shown to still be alive and working with Lucy Liu's assistant who was butchered by the Bride, and that they've trained Vivica Fox's daughter to get her revenge for seeing her mother killed in front of her. It definitely could work depending on the genre he wants to influence the movie.

Oh there's definitely an edge of a person who didn't reach the heights they were hoping for going after those who did in their opinion, especially after hearing from her former partner who produced the film with her how their partnership imploded shortly after the movie and book came out. While NBK is no perfect film, I think it's made solely on the various characters in it rather than the peyote fueled ramblings of the director. It's an odd thing as despite what the story is, which is a condemnation of modern media and then celebrity culture, the characters are fantastic on their own with amazing, if not over the top, performances from two leads as well as Robert Downey Jr. Rodney Dangerfield, Tommy Lee Jones, and Tom Sizemore. As for Apt Pupil, that was one I enjoyed for the performances of the leads, especially Ian McKellan, even though it is a very watered down adaptation of the source material. As for QT's final movie, I don't know what it could or should be but at this point I don't think it should be something like a TV show adaptation, especially given how fandom reactions can get to anything that strays even the slightest from the perceived canon and style. And with how many things he's talked about making over the years, I'd love to see the Kill Bride movie that he's talked about. Also if there was ever a person that has a filmography made for HDTGM, it's Hamsher's former partner Don Murphy who was the producer for Double Dragon, the entire Transformer series, League of Extraordinary Gentleman, and Splice, among others.

All I've found was that it was basically written and submitted to the film company after he found success with Reservoir Dogs, so it should have seemed like a sure thing it would have been made, I'm guessing it was a bit too off-brand for what a studio was thinking a comic book movie should have been at that time. If you want an interesting read on Hollywood at that time regarding QT movies, check out Killer Instinct by Jane Hamsher, one of the producers of Natural Born Killers. It basically details how they got the original script for a steal because it was right before Reservoir Dogs premiered and all of a sudden they found themselves holding the hottest script in town once that movie was a hit and every studio was trying to buy any and all scripts he touched. Also if Tarantino does stick to his claim of retiring after his tenth film, I'd want either him or a film historian to publish a book on all of the films he wanted to make and/or talked about making but never got far into the process for, because that could easily fill 300-400 pages with how many things he's talked about doing over the years.

I remember seeing this in theaters and not having much problem with it, though it's not a great film. I also remember being the most pissed at Smash Mouth just taking the bag of money and assuming it's a donation for their benefit concert. They straight up Putin the racers in seeing the money and grabbing it from them, then putting it on the tally board with the sense of "yeah be an asshole and say that this isn't a donation now."

So according to the wiki page for this movie, all of the vehicles have a self destruct ability that can be activated if it's clear that the rider needs to abandon it or they are killed. I can't remember if that was shown in this movie since it's a blur of total nonsense, but that's the given reason for why they so quickly leave their murder vehicles.

So did anyone else notice in the first scene the Megaforce is revealed that one of the stunt drivers almost completely bites ass on his bike and crashes? It looks like his front tire hits one of the blown up bits of those balls they were shooting and lost traction to where he almost wiped out on the desert terrain. Also, there is probably now worse way for a weaponized vehicle to have a main attack than by forcing the riders to have to be in a wheelie for their main action of shooting machine guns and missles.Not only is it incredibly inaccurate to fire, but the rider is already doing a bit of work to keep themselves level on a single wheel, so why not make their vehicle more unstable by having the front end of said vehicle launching all types of high velocity projectiles from it. The movie did have some success though as inspiration for such things like Team America: World Police after Trey Parker showcased his knowledge of the film during a DVD commentary, and the flying bike would later become a vehicle that could be purchased in Grand Theft Auto 5 Online.

It being in Cleveland reminds me of the Family Guy cutaway where Quagmire thought he could make a low budget movie with B list actors for a low budget action flick which stars Jeff Bridges and Laura Linney, a couple years before both their career resurgences, in Danger in Cincinnati where they deal with a a bomb that has an invisible explosion and decide to walk to their HQ rather than take a helicopter since it's not in the budget. As for the Action Star show, I remember VH1 doing a similar thing with their show Scream Queens which the winner of each season got a "leading role" in an upcoming horror movie. The winner of season 1 was in Saw 6 while the following season had a role for Saw 3D. The first winner basically had a five minute scene in an opening trap where she ends up taking off an arm to escape, and with no real lines except screaming at her opponent, and she did get a quick cameo in the next film. The second winner didn't get better as he role was just screaming while trapped under a car while Chester Bennington of Linkin Park tries to escape from the trap and save his gang.

What's probably the most shocking thing about this movie was that in order to fund it, Carolco cancelled the only other movie that they had in the pipeline at that time, a film called Crusade that had Arnold fucking Schwarzenegger starring in it, to fund this movie. Cancelling that film cost the company 13 million right off the bat and so they also had to sell partial rights to other movies they had such as Stargate and Showgirls. So that's showing how much this company either didn't know what the hell it was doing or how much they thought they had a smash winner on their hands that they would cancel a film with the one of if not the biggest movie star in the world in it in order to make a pirate film easily 20 years past that genre's expiration date. The only thing I actually remember about this was a trailer I saw for it on another VHS that spent more time promoting the various merchandise for the film, such as shirts and birthday party decorations, than the actual movie. This movie is also another example of why I can't stand a lot of the reverence given to Roger Ebert's reviews as he gave this crapfest 3 out of 4 stars, this isn't his worst example as he really gave the rating for what he called the "skill" shown in the movie but he doesn't delve into where he saw it.

A god awful slasher from the guy behind Drive Angry and Jason X, Trick is a bad attempt at misdirection with cast of people who really should know better. Basic premise is a loner goes on a killing spree at a Halloween party, but when it seems he is fatally wounded by the police, disappears and apparently comes back each Halloween to massacre another party. Featuring for some reason Omar Epps, this actually has a decent setup of the killer having possible supernatural origins as basically he's a blur in the high school crowd who has no real record of existence prior to his initial killing spree, but it quickly devolves into a bad version of the Kevin Bacon show The Following. It doesn't help that the kid moves around faster than Jet Li could ever hope to and slices people up like he's trying to get a role in The Raid 3, adding to the sense that there will be a supernatural element to the final reveal, only for it to be "just because."

Okay so I finally got to listen to the episode and can easily bring some prison/crime expertise to this thread and what was discussed on the show. In regards to the sentence Byrne received, I'm assuming the term murder is being used generally to describe his crime, which is most likely negligent homicide/involuntary manslaughter which carries a sentence of 6 months to a decade on average. I'm guessing it was like in Con Air where a fight broke out between two parties, in this case Byre and the guy sleeping with his wife, and in the course of the fight the other guy died by accident, like he fell and cracked his head on something. But rather than put that time and effort into explaining why he was behind bars. the writer just went with murder which in turn just creates more questions. As for his drawing setup in his cell, that is a non-plausible thing as depending on the state, most prison cells aren't bigger than a small storage unit, usually 6' x 10'. Some newer facilities are going with a dorm style unit, called pods, which house around 6 inmates, and those are much larger in size. But that doesn't mean one guy can prop his shit up and just take over space, that will get his ass kicked in no time flat. Also, an inmate can make money while in prison from a personal business venture, they just can't make money off of their crime. A recent example was when OJ Simpson wrote his book If I Did It a couple years back that was very controversial, but he was able to write it and make money off of it as he was acquitted in his criminal trial. Tex Watson of the Manson family tried to do a similar thing at my facility a few years back with both a manuscript and I think some paintings, and that shit got shut down quickly because it was directly linked to his crimes, he also received some additional charges if I recall because of the back channel ways that he was trying to do it. So for a guy like Byrne to just be writing a comic book series and having it sold, that's completely fine, I mean at my facility there are a few guys who have self published books or have sent art out for sale, and they're able to as it doesn't pertain to their crimes.

Yeah Dante's Inferno did have some great set piece moments, but then it tried going for stupid shit like the couple boiling to death in the hot springs or the dipshit grandma jumping out of the boat in the acid water when they were 10 feet from the dock, that really made it just look like a bad dumb film.

Would love to see this covered for so many reasons that have been mentioned already as well as Jones racing timed explosions on a motorcycle. I enjoyed this one a bit more than Dante's Peak as it was the more actiony of the pair, though that's the route I usually go with twin movie releases. Armageddon > Deep Impact Tombstone > Wyatt Earp The Prestige > The Illusionist Olympus Has Fallen > White House Down

Starring Andy Garcia as a cop trying to find a bone marrow donor for his son and Michael Keaton as the sociopath felon who is the donor. Keaton does well as the nutjob killer while Garcia mopes his way through the movie as he can't kill Keaton without destroying the marrow. This movie has so many WTF moments like Garcia stealing a police motorcycle just to literally drive it up and down the street, Garcia talking to his son about if he'd see his dead mom in heaven while Garcia is trying to catch a killer, and Keaton giving away his to-do list in order to escape custody to Garcia, who is too stupid to realize what he is giving a brilliant killer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7kbnZzwGko

Oh yeah you could really see he was trying to make this a breakout role to show himself as an action star as well as a serious dramatic actor, and fumbled on both counts.

Pitt also won a Best Picture Oscar for 12 Years a Slave. Douglas also won a Best Picture Oscar for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.