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  1. Joven

    What film got you into the podcast?

    Same, more or less.
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    EPISODE 117 - Theodore Rex: LIVE!

    So is this movie better or worse then Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? Which had the same plot, and also had dinosaurs and robots and crappy special effects.
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    EPISODE 116 — Top Dog: LIVE!

    Not to mention the fact that the people he was pointing the gun at were standing side by side.
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    Black Dog (1998)

    I've never heard of this, I kinda got the title confused with White Dog, and they are clearly somewhat different movies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhkrvBNnAcw
  5. The protesters were kinda weird, because when I was watching the movie I did pause to read the signs. So there was the Fin for president one, and several urging the killing of all sharks, but smack in the middle of all that was one person who clearly read the tweet for the flashmob wrong and had "Sharks have feelings too!" written on it. Its not even like there was a counter protest, since that was the only person I saw with a pro-shark poster, but they were smack dab in the middle of all the anti-sharkers and acted just like them when it came time to be a nuisance to the car to impede Fin's progress. Also, agree, the mascara tube thing didn't really confuse me either. Well, it kinda did as to why the guy would have looked at those and thought they were makeup in the first place since they were huge, but it just looked like "well, sure we made her a bad-ass, but if we don't make her girly in at least some ways no one will like her."
  6. It wasnt as bad as I was expecting, though obviously worse than the 2nd, which was worse than the 1st. It never made me want the movie itself to get eaten by a shark to death. Anyway, few things I jotted down while watching it: Fin has a doofy run at the beginning, am I wrong about that? And all that rush and urgency was just for a stupid medal ceremony? I get its supposed to be stupid fake out...but just a medal ceremony? Also, who is this doofus they have playing the President, hes like the least presidential guy ever, I feel they should have got the President of the Navy from NTSF:SD:SUV instead. I honestly don't get this exchange, could someone maybe elaborate/translate? I feel it was supposed to be a joke, but am unsure. This is more of a general pop culture point as it bleeds into zombie crap too, but fuck chainsaws. I'm done with them. That shark in the Lincoln memorials lap was cute, that was a nice touch I thought. Where did that shark in the tunnel come from, not even talking the one past the vault door, but just randomly there was on that materialized in a hallway to take out a guard. They couldn't even afford recoil effects on the guns in Finn's little slide maneuver I'm pretty sure they stole from Transformers? (although, the Asylum has shown they are perfectly willing to steal from Transformers.) Bonus points for Finn for actually kinda pulling the triggers on the guns, though. They also couldn't even afford a new theme song? Just reuse the shitty one from the second? The intro animation was pretty neat though. Ok, I can see using Ann Coulter as a joke politician, but I thought even Sharknado should have been above Michelle Bachman. Roller coaster person: "Hey lady you forgot your phone", well a. no she didn't, the VIP tour guide lady straight didn't give it back to her, and b. she totally should have heard all the people yelling at her about it. That is a pretty sweet RV. It said they evacuated or are evacuating the whole east coast, why is everyone in Orlando just going about their day like its nothing? That was the dumbest "hitting on" scene I think I've ever seen, and that includes creepy/rapey OK Cupid messages I've seen women post online that they've received. Thats not a military base...thats a summer camp holding a military themed camping day. In the 1 or 2 years Nova has been roaming around, she managed to, as a civilian, get 100 hours flying things like F15 and F22's? Is this like that pepsi thing where you get a million bottle tops and win a harrier? Why is the "failsafe" secret anti-shark thing, a.) a self destruct system, and b.) on the roof? 100 hours of fighter jet flight lady, helpless in a spin..."Eh, I can fly a little, I guess" guy pulls out a safe crash landing for her... Also, why did the jet crash make them basically naked? The only person ever effected by wind in these movies is Finn, either he has bird bones, or everyone else is made of star matter. I did like the shark on the roller coaster loop, thought that was a nice touch. Nice high tech football pads...err, I mean space suit, nice high tech space suits. WHY IS THAT DINGUS FROM THE AMUSEMENT PARK STILL HANGING AROUND?! April was NOT that pregnant, either that baby is gonna die in like 30 seconds cause its super premature, or she just found it in the shark. #AprilDies
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    EPISODE 114 — Runaway

    Plus, all the kid was doing was using his tablet under the covers. That's detectable as a power surge? He could have turned on a night light and she would have bitched about it.
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    EPISODE 114 — Runaway

    They got it because there were 2 of the bullets sitting in a pen case on a table in the shootout room, either they were the guys spares, or just example units when he was trying to sell them to the Ivy League Mafia. It looked to me like they froze it (that wasnt a torch, there wasnt fire, and it was dripping liquid and the bullet changed color to look kinda frozen anyway), which according to Metal Gear Solid 2 means it was as good as disarmed. What I found weird about that scene was Ramsay started bitching at that guy for not knowing exactly how it worked literally seconds after he just cut the stupid thing open. Give him some damn time dude.
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    EPISODE 114 — Runaway

    I would just like to take a moment to actually kinda defend Ramsay, at least past Ramsay. So, A. he has a condition, now exactly what that is I would say is up for debate, since movies and people colloquially use acrophobia and vertigo interchangeably, when they aren't the same thing. Maybe he has both, bad vertigo which would disorient him physically when dealing with heights, which could have maybe caused some trauma when he was younger and triggered a fear of heights in general. Or maybe he has one or the other, either way he has a valid condition. B. The building the guy ran into, everyone keeps saying "oh it was just a tall building", but you missed the fact that it was under construction. Now, as the foreman at the construction site they went to explained, a lot of construction sites are very open, no railings, the elevators don't have doors, no real thought to safety because the robots are doing most the work and its the future 80s so who cares. C. The way the guy phrases it when telling the story is vague, he just says "he couldn't follow him". That could either mean, how a lot of other people took it, in that he just never went into the building. But its equally or probably more valid to interpret it that he did enter the building, tried following the guy, but when he noticed how high he was getting and it got to him he broke off pursuit. Theres probably not a lot of ways the guy could have gone out of the building, so if Ramsay had never entered it, he probably could have picked up the chase again when the guy tried to come back down or out, so I would say its more likely he stopped while already in the building and overlooking some open pit, or maybe the classic starting to cross a beam over a huge gap and freeze midway through because you're too scared kinda thing, that caused him to not only stop pursuing but also made him choke and waste lots of time negotiating a way down and some recovery. If Ramsay was prone to epileptic seizures and the guy had ran into a strobe light and binaural dubstep emporium, I'm not gonna blame him when he collapses on the floor and the guy evades him. So, I am siding with the movie, the first incident which caused him to be transferred to the runaway department, was not in fact Ramsay's fault. However, he is still a horrible cop who botches lots of operations and gets a bunch of people killed in the movie with his incompetence.
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    EPISODE 114 — Runaway

    Cut them a break, their insurance didn't cover that. Thanks Robama!
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    EPISODE 114 — Runaway

    I thought that too, and was waiting for it either to be an emotional thing like hes reluctant to do it for like a half a second before he does the patented 'throw his coat over it and then bash it to death' maneuver (coats are like robot's weakness, its like throwing a silver razorwire net soaked in garlicy holy water on a vampire, if this movie is to be believed), or if he would somehow talk the robot out of its rampage by emotionally connecting to it, like the T800 in Terminator 3, or Tails' plane in the Sonic Boom cartoon (if anyone has ever seen that...Tails is definitely fucking that plane.)
  12. So having just watched this, I'm hoping in the episode theres some talk about comparing this movie to Halloween 3, because especially at the end when its just a lot of silence while a big mustachioed man lumbers around the place in the dark feebly breaking robots in an attempt to turn the main villains own tools against him so he can get with the frizzy haired chick and save his kid, it just really reminded me of it. Maybe I'll watch the rifftrax for that again, now that I'm reminded of it. Also, looking back, this isn't a movie about Runaway robots. I mean, I guess the implication is that there WILL BE more if that guy wins (although its still something you need direct access to a robot in order to do, since it needs a new chip installed to go rogue, and at that point you might as well put a bomb in it, probably more reliable method than hoping the roomba gets your target), but after the 2 at the beginning, there's hardly any robots, especially runaways (the robotic spiders don't count, since they aren't runaways, theyre doing what they were made for.) Criminal Mastermind.
  13. So I'm 26 minutes in, and so far what I'm mainly getting from this so far is. This little neighborhood at the start feels so much like its just on a sound stage I wouldnt be surprised if the ghost of Ed Wood is somewhere in there shooting another movie. Its like a row of too small looking houses on a itty bitty stretch of road in a black void. **edit**, hmm they go back in the daytime, so maybe not, it just felt like it. Speaking of Ed Wood, the acting from the side characters is so great lol. Also, so far all the cars in this have been like really adorable, which is kind of a change from how the 80s depicted any kind of futurey stuff, and they're mostly pristine white, its like they're giant toys. This villain really needs a mustache to twirl, they probably had it in the script, but it fought with Selleck's and he had to shave it. This is a really annoying future, these god damned robots never shut up. Its like they never watched Star Trek and realized theres a reason you have to start off with "COMPUTER" before it should start responding. Just start talking to anyone anywhere near one of these dumbshits and they start yammering on or acting out commands. So theres freedom of the press, and then theres this movie. Its like the cops really take the "my taxes pay your salary, that means I'm your boss" thing seriously and they'll let pretty much anybody on to a crime scene. Kinda looks like they really wanted a 'deliver a baby in the elevator' scene, but couldn't manage to cram it in, so figured 'what the hell, she's got a bomb in her arm, lets just do that.' I'm sure it'll come up, but this kid is on the spectrum, right? Everybody has their own unique heat pattern, here, I happen to have both of ours 5 keystrokes away on this computer so I can illustrate. Why wouldn't they think the bug tracking thing was a trap? Its like bad guy 101. In a world where facial recognition MUST be a thing (theres retinal scanners, on the fly infrared biometrics and shit, they have to have facial recognition), a multiple cop killer is just allowed to waltz into the tech lab of the police station...its like they're trying to lose. He seems a lot more distraught over the loss of his robot then he does about his son. Also, why wouldn't the bad guy have just put one of those murderbot chips in the maid robot? I kinda looked away for a second...what the fuck happened in the final fight? Of all the things they could have done, it wasn't Ramsey vs whatisface, it was Ramsey vs the elevator. I mean, I'll give it 2 seconds of thought, which is more than the makers of the movie did...remember that thermal pattern crap, bullet with your name on it stuff...and its hinted they have all kinds of masking clothing for stuff, do something with that, stupid little fight and things leading up to it happen, bad guy pulls out his gun to deliver the killing blow, bullet flies back in his face. They foreshadowed that enough, I felt, but no. Not even so much as a cliched, "I know, I'll spray myself with a fire extinguisher to make myself invisible to his bullets" thing. LOL, these credits, theres the 4 characters that were actually in the movie and a never-ending parade of "some guy"s
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    God's Not Dead

    This movie has 2 things. 1. a thread that already exists in this forum, which you already posted in even... http://forum.earwolf...page__hl__sorbo and 2. a sequel that is going to be made... http://www.thv11.com...-film/29681749/
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    Van Helsing (2004)

    I've seen this movie at least 5-10 times, thanks to Quiptracks' rifftrax of it - http://www.theootl.com/zc/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_1&products_id=6. , this movie is hot garbage, but that at least makes it enjoyable to watch. So in addition to the Transylvania horses thing, they look like they definitely rode at least a days ride from the village before the vampires caught up...so they flew in daylight, and they definitely did on the way back carrying whatserface to wherever. Guess they just got really lucky as hell with the cloud cover...Maybe it's only something they have to worry about during their first full moon, like everything else in the movie. Also, I don't know how many people here have watched X-play back in the day, but It hanks to their review of the game based off this movie, I can't not see Van Helsing written or mentioned without thinking it being said like the "toasty" guy from Mortal Kombat.
  16. Kinda correction. They say that Shredder is dumped in the same place as the hideout, which doesn't seem to be the case. Shredder is dumped at a dump, the hideout is a junkyard, they're different places. (also, the part of the opening with shredder shows guys flinging stuff out of dump trucks by hand...is there a possibility that some random sanitation worker just saw a crumpled up and bloodied Shredder and thought, 'eh fuck it, into the pile, someone must have threw him away for a reason.') Do the Foot own that junkyard? I'm assuming they must because they have a fairly elaborate set up with its own dojo and shit, and they'd be found out pretty quickly if they didn't pretty much own it, so are the employees of the junkyard Foot soldiers, too? How annoying it must be to actually be a member of The Foot, you sign up because "ninja criminal" would look badass on a resume, but you spend all your time at a junkyard, maybe up front as a diversion helping some guy find an alternator for a 78 chevy nova or hauling scrap metal, or you're running through the sewers trying to find giant turtles to fight, getting yelled at and beaten by everybody in any leadership position and their pets, and never actually seem to do any profitable crime. They had a good thing going at the start of the first movie, but how are they even recruiting people in the 2nd, seems way not worth it. Speaking of the junkyard Foot hideout...who the fuck is this: The one on the right, pointing dude, has that guy ever been in anything else? I feel like I've seen him before and its kinda bugging me.
  17. The large collectable coins in Super Mario World are Dragon Coins, they feature Yoshi on them. Evidence of Yoshi being a dragon. Could also be said that in the Mario universe, dragons are a subset of dinosaurs, so he could be both in the same way birds are also Dinosaurs and humans are also apes.
  18. David Warner, you are hereby under arrest by order of David Warner. Another movie he was in with a Leonardo.
  19. Well you don't necessarily need knives, the epic battle between the Electro Rocks and the TKO crew in Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo only featured nunchucks, trash can lid shields, leg warmers and guys in copious amounts of studded clothing getting off at each other.
  20. Actually, I guess I was wrong. There were 3 main VHS tapes that I played tons and tons of times back then, TMNT 2, a tape from the Super Mario Bros Super Show with the steamboat episode, and Hot Shots. I guess I got them confused in my mind since just looking it up it looks like it was on the Hot Shots tape, which makes more sense I guess (although for some reason my brain just puts that trailer right next to the BK Kids commercial from the TMNT 2 vhs opening, so I'm sure in a few days I'll just forget which one it was on again.)
  21. Speaking of trailers, I watched the shit out of this movie on VHS, and the main thing that stuck with me was the trailer for The Commitments. Like I'll probably always remember the little sax bit at the end, and that it had Chief O'Brian in it. Yet despite getting that stuck in my head and thinking "maybe that's a cool movie" whenever I watched TMNT 2, I've still never watched The Commitments. Is it any good?
  22. I can maybe buy a scenario where one of the earlier Abrasax's were touring Earth when they were figuring out what to do with whatever species are there already, maybe saw a bee and thought it looked neat or whatever, went to touch it, then it stung them and they lost their shit. They're rich, powerful and probably crazy and entitled enough to decide that this stupid thing should know who they are and they are not someone to fuck with. So they had their genetics guy take a break from splicing peasants with penguins to make sure bees know their place with regards to the Abrasax family. Or they were super into honey, liked it straight from the source so its really fresh but didnt like the beekeepers getup?
  23. The "genetic age" was in reference to how advanced a civilization they are, and thus why Jupiter or at least other humans as a whole couldn't possibly understand whatever bs it was they were talking about beforehand (I believe it was along the lines of "if your people found out they weren't alone, would they be ready" kinda thing). So, "genetic age" would be about the fact that DNA was discovered and understood only fairly recently (especially since in the eyes of someone 14k years ok, 60 years or so would be exceptionally recently). And we're really only on the cusp of being able to really have a good poke at our genetics and do anything really meaningful with that knowledge. It would be like saying we only entered our Computing Age, except their whole thing is gene manipulation and splicing and things, so maybe they prioritize genetic knowledge when judging civilizations vs other technology.
  24. Its probably from concentrate. Is it reusable? How many uses do you get out of a glowing vial? And whats the deal with Jetski McRavergirl tasting it like its a freakin 80s cop movie to see if its pure? What if its not pure? Do you not get as young? Do you get too young? Does it just not work? The whole economy of it is pretty stupid, "as easy as changing a light bulb"...assuming light bulbs take hundreds of thousands of years to harvest and are possibly dependent on the light bulb filaments not eradicating themselves with wars and environmental damage or getting eliminated by disease. This is definitely one of those movies that likes to think it 'makes you think', but really the more you think about it the more stupid it becomes.
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