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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, joshg said:

    Is it just me or are audiences more obnoxious these days? It didn't seem so long ago when people would behave respectfully at a show.

    I can forgive some of it.  It was the late show, people had been drinking, and the theater was sweltering.  But yeah, editing is an art.

    I did genuinely love that Tall and Jason only referred to Brent Spiner as Data throughout the entire thing.  I'm sure June had no idea what they were talking about.

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    59 minutes ago, Jennifermaverick said:

    I laughed very hard at the suggestion that the director just read the book! Haha. What an amazing coincidence that he used the same slow-mo spaceship models, and a light saber!?! Actually the light saber is such a rip off that maybe it was a coincidence. wtf

    The wipe transitions also kind of seem like something that weren't included in the novelization either.

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  6. Posted

    It kind of bums me out that a name as awesome as "Stella Star" was wasted on this crap-ass movie.

    I have to admit, I kind of found the redneck robot amusing.

    And perhaps the most insane piece of trivia, despite their protests that they'd put the script together prior to Star Wars, the producers asked the director to make it in the style of Star Wars.  The director had never seen Star Wars, so he decided just to read the novelization.

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  7. Posted

    1 minute ago, Yobismycopilot said:

    I'm just here to say I don't have a dog in this race but I found the episode exhausting. I'm glad they at least acknowledged that they were basically sweating and yelling the entire episode.

    Yeah, I quit about halfway through, haven't tried to pick it up again, and have no plans to do so in the future.

    A lot of the episodes where there's some kind of strong disagreement, or an element that's confusing, are delights to listen to.  I just got tired listening to this.

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    4 minutes ago, E.Lerner said:

    I suppose I specifically had Paul and Casey's arguments and definitions in mind, but especially I'd love to know what being on Team Sanity means to you.

    Fred is a Beetlejuice-like character going around causing mayhem in Phoebe's life.  Because otherwise, she's mentally ill, and we as an audience are supposed to be sad when the manifestation of that illness goes away.

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  10. Posted

    11 hours ago, gigi-tastic said:

    So out curiosity what's your Drop Dead Fred of the movies we have covered or a movie that we should cover! Mine is Spice World. I fully think it's crazy but it's a FUN crazy that they seemed to hate. I don't know if it's because I loved it so much as a child but I was really disappointed by how they saw the movie.

     

    Hackers.  I realize it's not a good movie, and gets almost every detail about computers wrong, and makes it seems like hackers are hanging out in cool clubs.  But it has actors that are surprisingly committed to their parts, starred guys that I was into as a teen newly hatched from the gay egg, and had Matthew Lillard as a somewhat gender- and sexually ambiguous character when that was pretty uncommon for mainstream movies.

    And it has a great soundtrack.

    In a similar vein, one they haven't covered is Empire Records.

    Hack the planet!  HACK THE PLANET!

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  11. Posted

    This episode is EXHAUSTING to listen to.  I've had to follow June's philosophy of breaking it into 10-minute chunks.  I'm only halfway through, and I'm not sure I'm going to finish it.  I usually listen to lighter-themed podcasts at the gym (unless I want to rage lift and get my dander up), but I was getting so frustrated, I had to stop.

    I know a lot of their reactions are exaggerated for comedic effect, but everyone taking it so very seriously just drained all of the fun out of the exercise.

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    I'm playing catch-up because I got really behind on my podcast consumption, but I had two takeaways here:

     

    1) When they kept calling the surgeon "The woman from Sherlock," you have no idea how disappointed I was when I discovered it wasn't Mrs. Hudson. I don't tend to watch them beforehand, have occasionally seen them in the past (Hackers, a movie I actually really enjoy, and a few others), and on very rare occasions, end up seeking them out. So you know, in my mind, it was Mrs. Hudson the badass evil surgeon.

     

    2) Claudia and Jason have a very similar sense of humor. "I was edging the entire time" sounds even funnier in an Australian accent.

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    Most of this movie gave me a post-traumatic 80's tummyache. But something I was surprised to like, as a gender-studies major, was all the super-sexy shots of Brad.

     

    Well, I'm not a gender-studies major, and I am a decade older now than Dan Gauthier was then, but he was frigging hot back then.

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    Can we please discuss in omissions the freaking toast kabobs? He is eating ten pieces of toast freaking skewered on sticks! Love this freaking movie!

    I'm pretty sure they were Pop Tarts. Which is even weirder.

     

    This is only the third time HDTGM has inspired me to immediately go watch the movie after the episode. And one of those times was Hackers, which I'd already seen, so I don't think it counts. I'm either the same age as Paul and June or close to it, so I totally grokked the movie. And now I'm also compelled to watch Can't Buy Me Love.

  22. Posted

    Incredibly fun documentary now streaming on Netflix about Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, the Israeli cousins behind the studio that brought you three (and counting) HDTGM movies--Lifeforce, Over the Top, and Masters of the Universe.

     

    Any number of Cannon's other offerings would be great podcast fodder. They go into a reasonable amount of detail about each of the movies, and how the relatively large budgets for Over the Top, Masters of the Universe, and Superman IV basically bankrupted the studio.

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    Also, we can agree that this movie would have NO legacy whatsoever if it wasn't for the early appearance of Angelina Jolie, correct?

     

    I think it would have a certain cult appeal, but perhaps not as much as it does because of her performance.

     

    Man, she looks like a Vulcan.

     

    I will also say that I think the movie does have a great soundtrack.

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