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    What was Willy trying to protect Colin from during the soccer game? You're SUPPOSED to stop the ball on your chest or foot or hit it with your head or whatever. That's not dodgeball. Canadians have no idea how soccer works, do they?

     

    Now my main issue with this film.... umm was Willy on some sort of medication at the beginning? If he wasn't he probably should have been because seriously, he was mentally ill. I'm not talking about vivid imagination and phases kids go through and stuff, no, no, the kid had serious mental issues, seeing and hearing things, talking about a "safe place" and all that... now I'm no child psychologist but I do think this is some serious stuff. right there This film was terrible but it did manage to make me feel really, really bad for this child and the scary part is, I don't think after Gooby's gone he's gonna get better. How's the father and son bonding, gonna solve anything? Maybe at some point the dad's gonna realize: "I've not been paying enough attention to this child but now that I've spent more time with him, boy does he need some serious professional help!". And the cool kids ONLY led him in their circle because a guy in a bear suit who they thought was his dad let them see an R rated film. The bully ONLY left him alone because a creepy man in a bear suit made him piss his pants. Willy did not learn anything out of this, he still won't be able to make friends and he'll still be bullied and he'll probably get his weird schizo episodes back after Gooby's gone, nothing's resolved, really, aside from him and his dad getting closer.

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    It annoys me so much when they analyze a silly movie like the movie isn't intentionally silly. "Oh, so the laws of gravity don't apply to him?" Yeah, it's supposed to be silly, you goddamn weirdo. I remember this happening a lot in Jingle All the Way where I was just yelling at my computer "Yeah, that's the joke!"

     

    I thought this movie was great. Ernest is wonderful and loveable and a dummy.

     

    Oh my god in Ernest Scared Stupid when Ernest says "I guess there's nothing in that bag for me" I cry every fucking time. If you don't like Ernest, I don't like you.

     

    Iiiiii... kind of know what you mean? Like there was a joke in Superman III, when the evil businessman guy told Richard Pryor "I ask you to kill Superman, and you're telling me you couldn't even do that one, simple thing.". I thought that joke was really funny and it made me laugh. Then in the show Jason went: "This is SUPERMAN, Gus is RICHARD PRYOR!" and I thought... "yeah, that's the whole point of the joke in the movie and it's funny"... Same thing with all the Hudson Hawk moments of intentional cartoony silliness. It works when a joke is shitty and doesn't land and the guys accent on that but when they don't treat the joke as a joke it... just... kind of doesn't. Not very eloquent, I know but you get what I mean.

     

    Still, I wouldn't get all emotional about it like you did though. I still love the podcast, I don't think things like that take away from the quality. The guys can't be all perfect all the time, they make a lot of errors (that's why we have the corrections and omissions) and in fact I often disagree with them. I don't think the point of the show is for them to present a well formulated, deep critical analysis, I think a HUGE part of the appeal is the guys' frustration when trey try and figure out what the fuck is going on, also the chemistry between them.

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    Oh yeah and Roadhouse of course. And also I genuinely think the Super Mario Bros movie had some really interesting ideas and was a lot of fun. If it was just a movie called Dinoland or something with no connection to the game and no attempts to shoehorn the Mario Bros franchise in it, I think it could have been really good.

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    OMISSION:

     

    I'm not 100% sure, and can't be bothered checking now, but I think Chuck and Bobby were actually twin brothers. They have appeared together in other Ernest films, and like Ernest, they got their start in advertising.

     

    From Bill "Bobby" Byrge's Wikipedia:

    In 1986, Byrge began appearing alongside longtime co-star Gailard Sartain in a series of "Me and My Brother Bobby" commercials, produced by the Nashville advertising company Carden and Cherry, the same company responsible for the Ernest P. Worrell commercials with Jim Varney. Basic premise was Sartain and Byrge were, "Twin brothers who didn't look anything alike", while the schtick was loud-mouth Chuck (Sartain) would endorse a certain product, and in some cases, would bungle something in the process, while his quiet and collected twin brother Bobby (Byrge) would mostly agree with whatever Chuck's sentiments were with a simple, yet enthusiastic nod.

     

    So, Chuck and Bobby were the original "twin brothers who didn't look anything alike".

    Suck it, Schwarzenegger and DeVito.

     

     

    They made it clear in the film that they were brothers. When love interest enters the bank creepy mute brother blocks her way, silently asking for ID (I assume?) and tubby brother goes something like "Come on, show it to him, big deal, even I have to do it every day and I'm his brother". Not a direct quote but something along these lines.

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    Listen. You can't fool me with your arguments, my position on this movie stands and it is that it is fucking awesome. Not as good as the original, yeah, but which movie is really? So yeah, Robocop 2 is a pretty awesome movie. There's the failed prototypes, there's the child drug lord wannabe, there's the drug addicted robot villain with the mario 64-like facescreen thing, I can go on an on, I can write a whole 6 pages long essay on why this movie is awesome.

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    I loved the man as a kid and I idolized him. I think he's a piece of shit now.

    Maybe it's a touchy subject and you deliberately avoided mentioning it but here's a clip of him and his piece of shit son Nick talking on the phone. The son was in prison for turning another kid vegetable as a result of a drunk driving crash. Father and son Hogan both agree that it's only the other kid's fault for ending up that way:

     

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    Remember when in the Bad Ass episode Danny Trejo himself said McConaughey was one of these scary people who when you look them in the eye you see a little something that you just don't know?

    Watch True Detective and see how spot on Trejo was when he said that:

     

     

    The best thing on TV by right now by the way.

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    3: if people in the colony need to be in their rooms during the air drop and pick up, then how does JCVD know where to go to hitch a ride on the plane? he would have no idea what side of the island the plane would be, nor would he have known enough info for that plan to work; unless he's left his room a few times, but he never did.

     

    That's exactly what I was wondering as well! My assumption was that he had used the sliced off fingerprint several times before the escape in order to go out and observe the air drop. But I am probably wrong since that was just my brain intuitively searching for the most reasonable explanation and things that happened in that movie were anything but reasonable.

     

    Why did that tiger keep stalking JCVD without doing anything? It could have jumped and ripped him apart at any time, it didn't have a problem killing that thug with the ponytail. But with JCVD it was just walking to him in a threatening Tom & Jerry manner. It almost felt like if it had come any closer it would have started stepping really slowly on two feet raising his paws and opening his mouth wiiiiide realllyyyyyy slooooowwwwly, giving Jean Claude time to escape right at the moment it's teeth snap... Or shove a grenade down it's throat, because why not this movie loved grenades.

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    That's why I think the best combination would be just one or two podcasters knowing the backstory (if it's something with an in-depth mythology or whatever). That way, you can have the reactions to the crazy shit on screen with no foreknowledge of what is happening, and then someone in to explain (with jokes!) why it is so shitty.

     

    Also, has there every been an episode where one or more of the hosts had no idea what movie was the subject of an episode before seeing it? Maybe Paul did that to June at some point? That could be a fun thing, even if arrangements could be made for none of the hosts being aware of the actual film, so they all go in blind.

     

    Exactly. The Street Fighter and Daredevil episodes were some of the best and funniest and they had had both people who knew the source material and ones who didn't know anything about it. I think that's the best combination possible.

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