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The cast of this movie is a trip. Zero Cool from Hackers, evil mummy lady from the Fraser Mummy movies, the super pale detective from Cold Case, Pinocchio, and my hat is a like a sharkfin lyricist LL Cool J are all on board. Its even more hilarious that the "senior" actors on the film were Val Kilmer and Christian Slater who at that point in their careers had firmly established themselves as lunatics.

I don't even understand the logistics of it, so he's renting out the theater, producing/starring/directing a play. Then he invites a bunch of talent scouts/agents to take time out of their schedule to watch an entire production of a play that even by that point has already been mocked endlessly in a variety of mediums. Couldn't he have just taken that money and just hired an agent. Like if he has money to fund his own production of a Streetcar Named Desire, he has enough money that a number of talent agents would be more than pleased to represent him if only to relieve him of that money even if they don't believe in his talent as an actor.

They should definitely do this movie, the Val Kilmer marionette scene alone is worth it.

I was thinking about this movie recently, did they ever explain how the praetorian symbol that would just randomly send the user to some seemingly random login screen for various government and medical sites ended up at the bottom of Mozart's Ghost? Like was that the only program that Gatekeeper was installed on that caused the issue with that symbol showing up on it? And how was that the only copy of that program, wouldnt the developer have had more of the disks let alone the computer with the original file on it?

Yea Hartnett is kind of a trip in this movie his performance is bizarre and all over the place. Harrison Ford's wasn't much better but for him it was definitely more obvious that his was due to poor writing and dialogue. Like even taking into account that he's playing someone who with zero irony thinks that a self-funded production of A Streetcar Named Desire is a legitimate launchpad into acting stardom, his character is incredibly weird. If someone told me that Hartnett's character and storyline were written based on the life of Tommy Wiseau i'd have a hard time disbelieving them. They were also not overly fond of each other throughout filming which explains why they are so awkward together onscreen.

Genuinely strange movie about a group of ghosts who get magically tethered to Robert Downey Jr. Who in the space of one movie is made to do impersonations of Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgewick and Tom Sizemore to mixed success.

I love that this movie had the gumption to think it was going to end up being as successful as Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor.

Have to bump a movie whose DVD gives you the option of selecting one of five fucking endings to conclude the movie with.

I feel like the gang needs to start tackling some of the delightfully terrible psychological thrillers in Robert Deniro's filmography.

I really wish I could have been in the room when Baldwin's agent pitched this movie to him as being the next Hunger Games.

Poor Michael Huisman, he deserves so much better than shit like this and World War Z not too mention the later seasons of Game of Thrones.

Just have to recap some of the craziness that goes on in this movie who are unaware how insane this movie is. Harrison Ford is a real estate agent/Homicide Detective who is in a relationship with an actual psychic who previously dated another cop in Internal Affairs who is trying to arrest Harrison Ford's character for crimes that the movie seems to concede that he actually committed. To the extent that in the middle of an investigation Harrison Ford is interrogating the witness to a murder and mid-way though their conversation tries to sell him a house. Even the climax of the movie has Ford negotiating the price of the house in the middle of the big action scenes at the end. At one point Ford manages to track down a witness because he makes the connection to the witnesses last name to a former back-up singer to Aretha Franklin who by perfect coincidence he just happened to recall offhand. Josh Hartnett's character is a Homicide Detective/Yoga Instructor/ Struggling actor. Who just so happens to have a father who was murdered on the job by his father's former partner who by sheer happenstance is the henchman of the villain of the movie. And even more coincidentally is also in in cahoots with the internal affairs detective hassling Ford's character. Hartnett's character and performance are both very strange. Its absolutely insane that Hartnett's commitment to being a cop seems as tenuous as a teenager taking a summer job at Hot Dog on A Stick.

Yea it was kind of a bummer. Like I had friends who played videogames but the only games we'd ever talk about would be stuff like NFL Blitz or Smash Brothers. The thought of being able to discuss things like Final Fantasy or Kings Quest was almost inconceivable.

Whats even worse is that not only are you not rooting for Cusack to get back together with Zeta-Jones, Cusack is so unlikable in this movie that I actually felt bad for Julia Robert's character for ending up with him in the end. I think credit has to go to Julia Roberts for her performance, she's the only likable person in this movie by a landslide. Its hilarious how much the end reveal with the hidden cameras is played as a joke. Like John Mctiernan went to prison for doing something similar on the set of Rollerball. And given that Mctiernan's recording device was audio only I can only imagine the fact that he has cameras even in places like the costume dept or hair and makeup would be an even more severe charge.

They should absolutely do this movie. I think they're almost guaranteed to get to it eventually barring a potential situation where they might not cover it because they might know Fred Savage personally. I'll offer up a weird defense of this movie. As someone who grew up in the same era as all these games coming out I think this movie was the first one I saw where it didn't portray the people playing video games as being essentially agoraphobic and by the end of the movie they've more often than not learned some moral that playing videogames is some character flaw. Everyone just liked playing video games in this movie, all the kids played them even Fred Savage who was portrayed as the cool kid. Even Slater and Beau Bridges are into games by the end. And the climax of the movie is a grand moment where playing Super Mario 3 saves the day. I think it was the first movie that made me not feel shamed for playing videogames as a kid.

Yea this movie is perfect for the podcast in so many ways. This movie paints itself as essentially as an insiders look at how big rom-com ares made and marketed etc. But its absolute nonsense from start to finish. It doesnt help that everyone in this is thoroughly unlikable, even Billy Crystal.

What blows my mind about that the most is that the business rival even in the three hour cut is never fucking shown. Like they didn't even do the lazy thing of having him appear via video conference.

I agree with Jason, they 100% need to do this fucking terrible movie. It's 3 hours long with such a simplistic plot they easily could have done this in an hour and a half. Besides what other movie do you get to see Death try peanut butter for the first time? Edit: Aaaaaand I posted this in the wrong forum. My deepest apologies, this just hasn't been my afternoon

I watched this movie again recently after having not seen it since it was on VHS. Its something else, it blows my mind how well received this movie was critically. In at least two separate occurrences in this movie it is decided that the best possible solution to providing help to a gay man who has been the victim of a horrible crime is to have is openly antagonistic neighbor care for his dog and provide him with transport on a roadtrip to his parents house. Like how on earth is forcing someone who is openly hateful to your friend and client a better idea than paying someone to house sit with the dog or finding a friend who could actually be trusted to take care of the dog well. Later on in the movie Kinnears agent again finds himself in a bind and rather than hire a driver/ find a friend to drive, he again enlists someone who up until then had been incredibly rude to Kinnear. And this is all before getting into the outright absurdity of Helen Hunt being paired with Jack Nicholson romantically, who is the better part of 3 decades older than Hunt.

I think we are though, or at the very least we're meant to empathize with him. Throughout the movie he doesnt really suffer any consequences for his behavior. I mean with the third act he has not only managed to get his ex-girlfriend back, but also gains the attention of Lisa Bonet.

I think the most hilarious thing about this movie is how the overriding concern of Baldwin's character is looking like an idiot in front of bosses. Like rather than explain that their encryption was potentially flawed in that a small child was able to decipher it. He decides to murder: The boys parents, two NSA coders, as well as numerous attempts on FBI agents lives in an effort to hide the obvious flaw with Mercury Rising. In terms of plot insanity, why in the hell was Baldwin ever allowed to walk around freely and set up his ambush on the roof of that building. Chi Mcbride's character had just confirmed that not only did Baldwin murder two of his underlings but he had tangible proof of it as well, he even showed it to the FBI director. But rather than arrest beforehand, he's basically just given one more opportunity to kill the kid for absolutely no reason at all. Also how fucking dumb was the assassin that Baldwin hired. The lie that dude told to get himself in the kid's house would have also given him the excuse to talk to Simon. Rather than ask the parents to see Simon, he just shoots both of them and then has to run out of the house before finding him because the dad was able to dial 911.

Even the random dude killed in the first 15 min of the movie is Jason Lee. Jack Black's role in this one is my favorite because it's so out of character and not a super exciting character, but he still does manage to have a little bit of personality in a otherwise boring role. Even Gabriel Byrne shows up for a scene or two that completely caught me off guard. It is amazing because of how this movie is cast its almost impossible on a first viewing to guess who's going to around for the rest of the movie.

This would be an absolutely amazing movie for the team to discuss. The fictional technology, the insane plot, gabriel byrnes inexplicable involvement with the film. Starring a in his prime Will Smith and of course the serpentine Jon Voight. If you havent seen this movie, do yourself a tremendous favor and do so. To make it even easier the whole movie is on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg8T1zKKrXM

Yea its a special kind of terrible to accept a role and then spend all your time on set being resentful towards everyone for his decision to take a job he felt was "beneath him" Bear in mind this is after starring in a movie about the government trying to murder a severely autistic child for being good at puzzles.

Bump for the scene in the movie where they use a footage from a stationary video camera to guess what the non-visible side of the bag would look like.