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  1. Posted

    Finally watched this for the first time. I didn't think this was really a bad movie at all and a lot of fun at parts, but holy shit do you need a lot of patience. I was ready to throw in the towel at the 45 minute mark and then it started getting good. Strange the read that the studio fucked with the final product so much and kept it so long.

    Did I read that the studio insisted on a happy ending? I would have preferred a standard dark Romero ending. For example, Allan wakes up from a coma in an empty hospital. As he is putting on his pants, he finds a penny, but the head on the penny is Ape Lincoln!!!! ... No, that would be dumb. Sorry.

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    Yeah, whose monkey do we have to spank to get a new episode around here?

    Mr. MondayCity wishes to apologize to any helper monkeys that may have been offended by his insensitive remarks. Since his previous post, he has entered rehab for a sex addiction in a hypocritical attempt to escape the blame for his otherwise inexcusable behavior. He has also donated an undisclosed sum to the circus.

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    I'm wondering if maybe they bumped the episode until next week so it's closer to Halloween. That would make sense.

    They need time to make and ship the masks that we are all supposed to wear when we listen to the episode. Now that they have obtained that large piece of Stonehenge, the plan should move along more quickly.

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    Not only that, but apparently anyone could mind meld with the monkey simply by injecting the syrum. Allan never took the syrum though. That was actually my biggest complaint with the movie, they just kinda half assed the explanation of all of that. Ella gets injected with random human brain cells, forms a telepathic link with allan as a result, but then Doug can get inside Ella's head by simply injecting the syrum into himself?

     

    Great point. That came out of nowhere, but Geoff expected it to happen as a logical result of his experiments. What? In comparison with that part, the rest of the science looked like an episode of Nova on PBS.

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    It would have been a nice irony if the case they were discussing in the law school class illustrated the legal principle that if you jog down the middle of the street with a bag of bricks strapped to your back, it is an assumed risk that estops you from bringing a negligence claim against the operator of any vehicle that strikes you.

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    Ella was played by Boo, whose one bit of IMDB "trivia" is, "Boo is a monkey." Under what circumstances is the fact that an actor is a monkey considered to be trivial? That seems like the kind of thing that should be front and center on the resume. "Great read, Boo, but I think we're going to go full-on homo sapien for this part."

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    So I'm watching "Monkey Shines" for the first time in forever, and this monkey is an incredible actor. I'd never realized until now that "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was such a shameless rip-off. Andy Serkis wishes he could be HALF the monkey that Ella is.

    And in "Twilight", Ella would have been a better Bella.

  18. Posted

    I think that Leonard Susskind must have seen this movie because whenever someone proposes a helper monkey for Stephen Hawking, Susskind says it's a filthy idea and then gets really quiet. One time, I joked that maybe the helper monkey would poop in a black hole, but then Susskind ranted about how the poop would still be there even when the black hole evaporates.

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    Whoa, whoa, Cornballs. Let me talk you off the ledge. You are obviously in the second stage (i.e., anger) of the Kubler-Ross model of reactions to watching the movie "Temptation." I admit that anger (stage 2) and depression (stage 4) occupied substantial amounts of my energy after I watched "Temptation." But the episode was really funny and the board has been great. Besides, if you give up on the show now, Tyler Perry wins.

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    You realize you're saying this about a show where one of the guests referred to a black actor as "Blackie" for the duration of an episode and no one seemed to bat an eye, right? Suggesting that they get a black perspective on a controversial movie made by a black filmmaker with a primarily black cast marketed to a primarily black audience is pretty far from "so PC", bro.

    Gilly, in "Abduction," was played by Denzel Whitaker, who had previously won an NAACP Image Award for his work in The Great Debaters. It would have been legit to bemoan the fact that John Singleton chose (or agreed) to assign the petty criminal activity in the movie to the only black friend of the white hero or to express regret that black actors must often take lousy or stereotypical roles out of economic necessity. However, it seems to me that referring to Mr. Whitaker's character by a racial epithet throughout the episode only had the effect of punishing the victim.

    Movies are commercials for social, political, and moral beliefs and actions. It's really important to expose what they are selling. I appreciate whenever that is done effectively.

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  22. Posted

    I know we've seemingly analyzed just about every awful detail of this POS, but there was another ridiculous moment that I don't think has been mentioned yet on this thread - Demi Moore's character's choice to blindly trust hotcop and hop on his motorcycle immediately after meeting him. Instead of reacting like a sane human adult (which is to say, being creeped out and telling him to fuck off), she just accepts that he's a cop and goes for the joy ride home. And even if she did have some objective evidence that he truly was a police officer, that still doesn't make it acceptable to get on his motorcycle. He's a complete stranger and a creeper. She's extremely fortunate that she didn't end up face down in a ditch out by some Chicagoland access road.

    1) I want to be on this thread for historical purposes and B) Why was Demi at the courthouse without her car?
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    Has it been mentioned that in 2001, John Titor posted a prediction that HDTGM would never do "The Happening" in ANY universe resulting from the infinite outcomes of quantum mechanics? He said that in our universe, the controversy would result in a civil war that would divide the US into 5 districts, including one especially aggressive population in a territory known only as "Spice World." At the time of his post, many skeptics said that Titor was one panel short of a "Nancy" comic, but who's laughing now?

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