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    You know what's depressing? For nearly twenty years, Francis Ford Coppola was taking on mostly "for-the-paycheck" movies to pay off the debts he incurred making "One from the Heart." After "The Rainmaker," he had pretty much paid it all off, and was able to make the movies he wanted to make.

     

    Then it took ten years for him to make another movie. It was "Youth Without Youth," a bizarre, confusing mess. Then he made "Tetro," which was good but not great. And now his latest movie is "Twixt," yet another confusing mess. Which means that most likely, the best, most genius films he made were made in the studio system, and the movies he wants to make are mostly bizarre and confusing.

    Damn, that is depressing when you put in perspective like that. I wonder if the making of Apocalypse Now coupled with the debt incurred from One From The Heart just kind of drained him creatively. That would break just about anyone. The fact that he's still making movies at all is heartening, at the least. But that trailer for Twixt really does make it look awful, like it's just one of the hundreds of straight to VOD movies that are on Netflix.

     

    I also find it amusing that he's passed on his "good but not great" genes to his kids. CQ and Virgin Suicides were both pretty decent, but neither of them have produced anything near the quality of those two pictures.

     

    Is Tetro worth watching? In spite of myself, I enjoy Vincent Gallo, but I don't recall that film ever playing in my city.

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    Jeff Krulik came to Olympia for their film festival back in 2002-ish; in addition to showing Heavy Metal Parking Lot, he had Neil Diamond Parking Lot, Harry Potter Sidewalk, and Raver Bathroom -- all amazing. Go buy the dvd, there's a ton of extra stuff on it. This is Youtube before Youtube! Amazing.

     

    The best part about that video is the guys calling punks fags and all the girls saying they wanna bang Rob Halford is that he was a closeted gay man at the time (hello, "Jawbreaker"?). And I love the security guard who is just shaking his damn head at these crazy heshers.

     

    Fantastic guest, Jake. Thanks.

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    The Fogelnest Files talked about this movie with PFT and Jon Daly. If a How Did This Get Made episode were to get made, Jake Fogelnest would be a shoe in I think.

    Why hasn't Jake been on HDTGM yet? He's perfect for the show -- his love and enthusiasm for weird shit is a perfect match for this podcast. He'd be good for any movie.

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    Stupid question: Why do the (ex?) KGB agents talk in English when they're by themselves? Why wouldn't they talk in Russian? I know it's a action movie trope to have a bad guy speaking to the good guy(s) in heavily accented English, but there's no reason for a group of ESL antagonists to not talk among themselves in their native tongue.

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    Aww, I kinda feel bad for Anna Nicole Smith. Unlike Cindy Crawford, she didn't graduate at the top of her class, y'know. She was just kinda used by everyone who could take advantage of her and make money off her. (I still can't believe the Sham-wow guy managed to successfully sue her for $3 million, and for that we got InAPPropriate Comedy.)

     

    Seeing the outtakes reel feels like taking on this movie would be shooting fish in a barrel; she's obviously out of her mind on whatever drugs got her through each day. I feel bad for laughing at her.

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    I'm so happy that they managed to cover every beat and ridiculous part of this terrible movie -- pretty much everything everyone mentioned in the minisode thread: Cindy's braless running, her body being tossed away from that explosion, "KBG. Computers. They found the house.", the acting, the cops smoking, the bongos, EVERYTHING.

     

    It makes perfect sense that this film was directed by a guy who had done Remington Steel, Spencer For Hire, and The Equalizer. Fair Game is the kind of movie that would result from giving that guy $50 million dollars.

     

    Fantastic episode.

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    Cat & beard, shockly I did know that, just as you knew that lotr's is based on a book. but I bet the studio behind Dungeons & Dragon didn't know what you just said about it being based on a board game.

     

    Because none of the dice and game players are shown in the game. I sort of take this movie as being based on the video game world. rather then the game it's self. It would of been more like tron but with D&D, that would of been cool.

     

    not really sure why I pointed out LORs to you.. as it's clearly well known.

    I didn't mean to insult your intelligence by pointing out D&D's origins. Apologies. And you are almost certainly correct about this being based on a D&D video game (something which I'm too lazy to look up right now); it absolutely feels like a terrible Uwe Boll video game adaptation.

     

    I guess I was just trying to say that there is a huge amount of history and stories in the D&D world that they could have drawn on to create a movie. Like, how could you not even have a Mind Flayer or Gelatinous Cube?

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    But seriously, I really did like the pairing of Emily and Rob with Howard. It was a great episode. Rob; you're the man for remembering the Pokemon days, and Emily - I'm with you - fuck military shooters :P I'm still waiting for a single FPS with half the creativity of Turok 2 - how can no one have made a cooler gun than the Cerebral Bore in 15 years!?!

    psst -- it's Ron, not Rob. And he has a young boy so I'm sure they've collectively logged hundreds of Pokemon hours. Super cool dude.

     

    how can no one have made a cooler gun than the Cerebral Bore in 15 years!?!

    *cough* Portal

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    Posehn talking about the "Dungeons and Dragons" movie would have to be a million times more interesting than listening to him PLAY the actual "Dungeons and Dragons" game. It's not a knock on him at all, as I listen to a lot of podcasts about things I'm not particularly interested in because I like the personalities involved, but role-playing games may have proven to be my breakpoint. I lived with a gamer once, and when you have a living room full of those people in your own home, and you can't block out the sound no matter how many doors you put between you and them, it's truly maddening. I gave "Nerd Poker" a try for a few episodes, and I ordinarily love Posehn's stuff, but man, it's still a bunch of people taking an hour to describe how they're going to try to cross a room or go up some stairs in a manner that wasn't all that funny or entertaining for a bunch of comedians :(

    Yeah, I like Posehn's comedy but just can't get into Nerd Poker. Maybe because I don't have a background in tabletop role playing at all. I do really enjoy the D&D segments of Harmontown though; I guess because they're mostly riffing on each other and it's considerably less serious.

     

    BTW cat & beard LOTR's is based on a real book this is based on a video game, so it's not got any legs to stand on from the first place.

    Well, Dungeons & Dragon isn't primarily a video game, it's a pen and paper game with a rich history, actually. There's a ton of worlds in it with pretty dense histories and mythologies created over the last few decades by a lot of people. The problem with the D&D movie is not so much that it's ostensibly based on D&D but that it's just a bad movie with that label slapped on. People have made interesting entertainment with the premise of role playing games -- the much loved episode of Community, for example, or Earwolf's own Nerd Poker (which does have a lot of fans).

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    Yeah, this was pretty bad. Also weirdly adult, as I recall.

    Yeah, Pee Wee super pervs out on his girlfriend during that picnic in the beginning. I think the problem isn't so much that this is a terrible movie, but that its luster is shadowed so much by the first Pee Wee movie. Tim Burton was just beginning his fantastic streak of wonderful films and his presence is very much missing from Big Top Pee Wee. It's like the director and writers threw in a bunch of Pee Wee Herman tropes without much though behind them -- talking animals, wacky prop comedy, zany characters, and fuck it, a circus.

     

    I really do like that talking dog, though; the voice actor is hilarious. Probably the best part about the movie.

     

    I haven't seen the new Broadway show, I'm kind of afraid to watch it because the reviews are pretty middling.

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    That fucking television explosion! How much C4 or whatever is in that tv? Like the top half of the house completely blows the fuck up and there's that awesome ragdoll stand-in for Cindy Crawford getting tossed out the window like at least three stories but guys, water is completely safe to fall in at any height.

     

    THIS MOVIE IS SO STUPID. I'm pretty sure even in 1995 cops couldn't just smoke cigars in the station. And the costume designers were so lazy -- they totally went to JC Pennys and bought like three packs of generic blue shirts for the cops. Everyone is wearing a nice, crisp, out of the bag 3-for-$20 blue shirt.

     

    And yet, after sitting through this insanely chauvinist wet dream, I still didn't understand why the Russians needed Cindy. Why? I obviously missed some line in the beginning, because they never really talked about their motives. Did they want to know what hair products she used? Because her hair looked fucking immaculate in every scene.

     

    Despite everything, I did truly believe that Cindy Crawford was trying her best. I can appreciate that. It must have been incredible to be on that set and act around those line readings of hers without eyes rolling straight out of heads.

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    What in the fuck was the thought process behind this commercial anyway? "Oh, Cindy is a supermodel so she must be able to sing too, right? Right. Let's pair her with an elderly and cartoonishly effeminate rock star from the 1950s and call the perfume "Charlie" because that is the name of neither of them! It will appeal to women... because they love being confused."

    I agree with everything you're saying -- I just want to point out that Charlie has been around for decades; it's basically like the Brut of women's fragrances. It smells like your grandmother kissing you.

     

    Also, Little Richard totally stole his entire shtick from Esquerita. Well, maybe not totally, but history has unfortunately forgotten him.

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