joel_rosenbaum

I remember seeing this movie during its VHS release in the early 1990s. Dolph Lundgren vehicles are all over this forum, and for good reason. Although it came out a few months earlier, this movie feels like a ripoff of Predator 2. Like so many movies of its era, this movie is loaded with drug war tropes. Compact disc technology plays a huge role in this film. The bad guy has about one line in the movie that he repeats ad nauseum. Trailer: https://www.youtube....h?v=Pim4GLxxr00

Paul, Personal question here. How do you and June maintain your work-life balance? I imagine that acting and comedy calls for a lot of unconventional scheduling, and that can be difficult with a new kid in the mix. On a related note, do you guys use a daycare? Is it awkward running into other parents who recognize you from TV/movies?

Cuba Gooding Jr. clearly using insufficient steroids for the role.

Sean Connery in a Lorenzo's Oil scenario. Lorraine Bracco (badly) channeling Laura Dern in Jurassic Park. Exhausted noble savage tropes. Is this peak ponytail for Connery? Might need someone else's opinion on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQs9NrHc7qo Perhaps most noteworthy for ending the incredible early-career run John McTiernan had (Predator, Die Hard, Hunt For Red October).

I was going to ask, how many times will Jason bring up the words "You mean like a Jacob's ladder scenario?" during the review of Jacob's ladder?* *Assuming live episode, of course.

Most anything "camp" -- usually too self-aware to be funny, and also too difficult to make fun of properly. Obviously, there have been a few episodes covering these kinds of movies, but a classic example is the Eric Idle "Alan Smithee" movie that coincidentally became an actual Alan Smithee movie.

I mean, it's hard to skip the first one, but the premise of Chris Penn as an elite martial artist already bends the limits of belief. At least he dies right away.

Nevermind (was posted above).

The Coreys. Q.E.D.

They have to hold off on Short Circuit (1 or 2) until Aziz is available to guest.

It would be impossible to outdo RedLetterMedia on this movie. However, if the gang were to try this, Mike Stoklasa would have to be the guest.

I remember attending a local computer camp for a string of summers during the early 1990s; I didn't realize it at the time, but the hacking culture was huge there. One of the things that seems impossibly hard to believe is that access to a computer (never mind home computing) was really a luxury at that time. An entry-level computer would run you a grand, plus the costs of peripherals like a modem and the associated dial-up usage. Even for people who could afford it, owning a computer wasn't really that appealing unless you needed one. There was no internet in the modern sense. Videoconferencing was absolutely mind-blowing and only available for people who had the best systems/data connections. And gaming on a computer was pretty weak in those times, too; pretty much every one of my cooler friends had consoles. Anyways, I don't know why I attended this camp (actually, I do, it was my parents' idea). I was never much of a hacker, I was crappy with robotics (couldn't solder worth a damn) and although I poked around on BBS' to download pirated software, I sure as shit wasn't cracking anything. I was as far from l33t as you could get but it was fun to hang around with the kids who were. I just remember being peripherally part of something different, cutting edge, instead of the boring-ass suburban world playing baseball and being forced to listen to Vanilla Ice. So this movie brings back some nostalgia. In a lot of ways it touches on how the community saw themselves, and, as an aside, they nailed the soundtrack. You could see where they were trying to go with this movie, even if the film gets nowhere close to anything resembling reality. Of course, it's easy to forget that something close to realism would not even be remotely plausible in that era. The early-mid nineties were the apex of the big, dumb, action flick and no one was going to watch some subdued flick about teenagers hacking into DOD, or bumming free phone calls off of NYNEX. At the end of the day, the movie was pretty bad. Not really in an enjoyably bad way, just kind of long and tedious. The actors seemed like they were out of their element, here. Jonny Lee Miller was just a year away from an incredible performance in Trainspotting, and Angelina Jolie was a little further from reaching her potential. The whole thing was cornball as hell but I can see why people embraced it. Anyways, I think the crew did a pretty good job of milking some humor out of the whole thing. It was not an entertaining watch for me, nostalgia aside.

Imagine Mortal Kombat, except based on Tongue of the Fatman instead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHKnU-YkOE4

Most memorable aspect of this movie was the main character running over the old lady while getting a BJ.

Apropos of the Jackie Collins cameo, maybe she was cast because she was dealing with a terminal disease? Get one last bit of media exposure before she's gone for good?

Here is Sub-Zero! Now, just plain zero. .. What's amazing about this movie is that about 1/4 of it takes place *before* the Running Man competition.

I searched the forums high and low and did not see this movie recommended in any title anywhere. I consider this a major oversight. People have mentioned it an awful lot in other contexts. Therefore, it's not merely a bad movie, but a landmark bad movie. Bruce Willis is a talking baby. Anyone younger than thirty will hard a hard time remembering that there was a time that Bruce WIllis as a talking baby was enough to be one of the highest grossing movies of the year, but there you have it.

Jumping straight to the sequels just feels like like cheating to me. I don't know why. But it's absolutely true that the sequels (at least the first one, didn't watch the second) were pure dogshit.

Arye Gross is one of the classic "that guy!" actors of all time. He had quite a second banana run in the eighties: Just One of the Guys Soul Man Tequila Sunrise .. and this steaming pile of horseshit. I feel like this movie was the last thing Travolta did before he resurfaced in Pulp Fiction, but nope, there was the whole Look Who's Talking franchise, which reminds me...

Maybe the gang could invite Art Spiegelman as their special guest if they ever watch this.

Doom as a prequel also makes a lot of sense in that Shanghai during World War II was occupied by the Japanese. Meaning, restricted airspace, etc. Jones would have had a hard time catching his flight.

Oh god, yes. Maybe Michael McShane can be the guest for this one?

Those would be the Terracotta Warriors. The main tourist attraction of Xi'an, China.

I would argue that this could be argued the other way, too. I mean, anyone can hang a shingle and call themselves a critic these days, and studios have been known to influence a few here and there. And the standards have changed -- campy movies can get good reviews now, even if they are fundamentally bad products. That said, the biggest surprise was Devil's Advocate getting 60+ percent. It was an enjoyably bad movie, though.