PhillipMedoc

Sorry man, did not intend to cause pain. It was just the most blatant offender I could think of offhand -- probably not the best thing to post. Shitty thing is that everyone who quoted it has to edit. Probably should have thrown up this instead: (Written and directed by Larry Cohen, who made The Stuff, a movie people have suggested on this forum.) I think blaxploitation was super interesting in hindsight because it gave black audiences films to rally behind (like Cotton Comes To Harlem, both making fun of white racists but also reflect on issues within the black community; poverty, urban crime, etc) while, as you said, reinforced and contributed to stereotypes for white audiences. Lots more to be said about this all but I don't know anything; I have a degree in music. ( is a fucking awesome movie, incidentally.) Again, I apologize for not thinking my post through. Have a piece of summah gum? Friendz?

"Howie Michael Motorcycle" Aaaaah, I can't possibly love this show any more. Summah gum: that blue ice cream with stale gumballs in it Summah cocktail: Grasshopper (1 part each: creme de menthe, creme de cacao, vodka). It's a nice sipping beverage. Mint Juleps are wonderful but you can never find a bartender who'll make you one. Summah secret: http://youtu.be/5BF_LrRF3Q4?t=1h25m35s

De Niro gave a fair performance in last year's Being Flynn, which was an otherwise unremarkable movie -- but was based on a memoir with pretty much the greatest title ever: Another Bullshit Night In Suck City. Good read.

Duder, I suggest you just drop it and move on. PM me your address and I'll mail you a bottle of vodka, some Mexican food, and a couple of Jim Jarmusch DVDs.

Knowledge bomb there. I mean, I love Fred Williamson but... yikes... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072725/

How many Jasons are there? Do they have reunions or at least play poker together? Are there enough of them out there that they make greeting cards for Jasons? Like pre-printed "Happy Birthday Jason! With love, Jason."

It's legit good times. This is Gene Kelley's last movie, right? I'm too lazy to check. But he looks like he's having a blast in it. And ELO is on top of their game; I can't even call them a guilty pleasure because Jeff Lynne can write a fucking jam. Also, in my mind, this is actually a sequel to The Warriors (which came out the previous year).

Yay, this means I can take the missus to the movie. It's a nice trend that we're starting to see equal opportunity eye candy in our summer blockbusters. Also glad to see facial hair but especially body hair making a comeback. Like, I'm sure a lot of people are psyched for Thor 2 because whoa Thor but I know at least one lady (maah wiife) who will see anything with Handsome McMuscles in it.

I just wanna rep for these books, because they are some of the greatest fantasy fiction I've read in a long time. Harry Potter can suck it. Golden Compass takes a while to get into with the world building and all, but they are outstanding stories, for all ages. The second and third books get super intense at times and it ends in a really lovely way -- there's no big bad guy (though there are some "bad guys" in the usual sense) or big showdown that has to happen. I was so fucking pumped to read the third one that I actually took a day off work and marathoned the whole thing at once. I went out of my way to avoid seeing trailers or posters or anything, because the books are wonderful and I did not want anything to replace my memories of them. GO READ THEM. I'll send you mine, even.

You're weird, but don't let that stop you. Are you being meta? Like he's dropped the Cake Boss weight? I didn't realize he was chubby or anything. Thank you!

I still think if Troma is HDTGM territory, they should go back to the ultimate classic -- Toxic Avenger. Get Lloyd Kaufman as a guest, he's in San Diego next month for Comic Con, it could happen. I would love to hear everyone's reactions and Lloyd's stories of how he really did get that made! It must have been crazytown.

Holy shit, this needs to be cross-stitched on a pillow or something.

I haven't seen Tango & Cash and I don't even need to look up IMDB, because your reaction can only point to one man: Robert Z'Dar! Dude has been toiling around in Z-movie muck for decades, he's the greatest. Unfortunately he doesn't look the picture of health these days, though he makes the convention rounds. If you want a hilariously bad/good movie, check out Samurai Cop, he's one of the bad guys -- bet you couldn't guess that, eh?

I have nothing to add, except to say that as a parallel Stallone franchise, the Rambo movies are all waaay better than all of Rocky. I actually just spent the last couple of weeks rewatching all the Rambo films, working backwards from the 2008 one. There's a fair dip in quality in Rambo 3 (he doesn't fire a shot until 43 minutes in!) but they're mostly pretty decent films. Although they really get away (far, far away) from the source material, the last movie is nicely bookended with the first one. And the second one is a straight up awesome action flick. Rocky 4 is a total piece of shit and there was no need for any more.

Duder, I'm glad you made it and put your name on it and everything but please reduce the size of that banana sig.

Nothing funny about that except that Van Sant felt the need to do a shot-for-shot remake EXCEPT add one extra scene that shows Vince Vaughn masturbating. When I first moved to Portland, I saw Van Sant a couple times dropping off young twinks outside of clubs.

The missus and I rented the damn DVD last night due to this thread, neither of us had seen it. I'm pretty sure at the time this came out I had just started college (Evergreen State, represent) and probably considered myself above mainstream everything for about nine months. Glad that didn't last long! Anyways... I was confused -- the overall tone was so silly that I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be taken seriously as satire or if it's just meant to be a funny action movie? I guess just go along with it and not overthink it? But the dialogue was so ridiculous; after a shootout or something, Sandra Bullock finds Stallone alive and says (and I quote) "John Spartan, I was worried that your life force was terminated prematurely." And everyone in the future talks like this! And they always say everyone's full names when speaking to them. Speaking of the future, boy, are we in the year 2032 or what? Everything is so hilariously "futuristic"; everybody wears weird monochrome robes and hats except for formal wear or bathrobes, which are kimonos. Future cars! Future sex! And there's constant pop culture references that people talk about as though 40 years ago was an ancient, unknowable civilization. And then there's the underground people, who are rebels or maybe not all of them? I dunno. And there's no showers or clothes washing taking place, ever. But there is a perfectly preserved and gassed up 1970 Oldsmobile, unlocked and with the keys apparently in the ignition. Stallone and Bullock have VR sex, which is actually kind of disturbing visually and seems like something out of a horror film. Then he makes her a lovely cable knit sweater overnight, from one skein of yarn. Dennis Leary does a bit that is like 99% straight from his stand up at the time. Wesley Snipes and his henchmen's armor is very obviously made from car tires. TACO BELL! Also, this whole movie takes place in the Los Angeles area; I'm pretty sure we're never told about anything else going on in the rest of the state, country, or the entire world. They explain that the Mayor of new L.A. was the one who developed this whole new system, so is all of America like this now? Did L.A. secede? And I don't really understand his motive for needing Wesley Snipes to kill Dennis Leary, like why that was even necessary? Wow, I could go on and on. But it's definitely a fun movie, and I think it'd make a great HDTGM. Infinitely more watchable than Judge Dredd.

Bill Murray has said that he did the gig because he was friends with Lorenzo Music (RIP), the original voice actor for Garfield, who also voiced Venkman in the Ghostbusters cartoon.

No, no, I just found that particular turn of phrase hilarious and I liked that you were pondering that concept. "They are bear-like in some way". I can totally imagine Howard Kremer from Whooch making that a song. ♪ are they bear-like in some way (NOPE) ♫maybe it could be that they're gay (NOPE) ♪ possibly they might live in caves (NOPE) ♫then why do they have that name? (DUNNO) "I am so connected to the symbolism of turning lead into gold, like how my Gramma used to make lemonade." "..."

HDTGM should totally do Irréversible.

Really great looking movie with some nice moments, but I felt like there wasn't a whole lot of substance once you got past the gloss. I thought it was funny how over-the-top "cool" Ryan Gosling's character was -- driving gloves, toothpick, satin scorpion jacket, etc. And I'll admit that I did expect some better car action; it didn't have to top The French Connection but it could've tried, y'know? It was fun seeing this in a theater because everybody gasped when Joan was, quite suddenly, exploding. Also! Check out the wonderful Lisa Hanawalt's amazing breakdown of this movie:

HOW MANY INBOXES DO YOU NEED??? "They are bear-like in some way" "Bear-like in some way". Dying over here.

Oh man, this looks great, I gotta see this. Check it out, they're brothers from another mother: That's Exeter from This Island Earth, if you didn't know.

Just repeat to yourself, “It’s just a show, I should really just relax".

If by "fought that tooth and claw" you mean had his cake and ate it too, yeah. That dude is kind of a genius -- the V for Vendetta book is seriously incredible and moved me to tears -- but he's well known to be at best, eccentric, and at worst, a asshole. He has "disowned" every movie made from one of his comics. He claims to have not accepted money from Watchmen or V for Vendetta, but he definitely made money from them by selling the rights for filmed version years ago. You know what happens when you sell your rights to a creative work? You either prepare for massive butthurt or you pay off your Mother's mortgage.