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    The one thing I can say about Batman & Robin is, when I think about it, it is probably the Batman movie I have deliberately revisited the most often. Don't get me wrong, it's an objectively awful movie, and it's good that Shumacher never made another one, but I've seen it multiple times, whereas I have only seen each of the Nolan films once and the other Batman films maybe a couple of times each. Batman & Robin is so gloriously inept, that I find it a joy to watch. Then again, I'm not much of a DC fan (and consequently not much of a Batman fan) so I don't have a personal stake in how he is represented on screen. All I'm saying is, if you put Batman & Robin in, I'm probably going to watch it to the end, but when I last tried to watch Batman Forever (which, like Fister, I remembered actually liking when I was younger) I only made it through the first five minutes.

     

    The funny thing is, taking this back to Ninja Turtles, even with a movie as bad as Batman & Robin, I can see--no matter what my personal opinion may be--why some people might like it. However, re-watching Secret of the Ooze has been a painful lesson in humility and the power of nostalgia. I LOVED the Ninja Turtles growing up, but everything I have exposed myself this week just boggles my mind. I question how, even as a dumbass kid, I could have ever liked it. This has been my experience this week: "Wow, that was a lot worse than I remember it being, but the first movie was good. Oh wait...Nope, the first movie really wasn't that great either. Hmmm...well, the cartoon was good. [i watch five seconds of the cartoon] Fuck...."

     

    I guess what I'm trying to say is, a person can watch B&R and still walk away thinking they weren't wrong or stupid for liking Batman, but watching Secret of the Ooze has called into question nearly everything I have ever liked.

     

    This definitely makes me feel validated hahaha. Because not even going to lie the last time I did watch B&R plus many of the opinions I have heard from fellow movie lovers I came away saying, "Was I just a dumb kid who was wowed by everything that is Poison Ivy? Did the bright colors just appeal to me? Did George Clooney's George Clooney-ness become a distraction?" And that definitely made me question my entire childhood.

     

    I'm going on the hunt for TMNT tonight so by tomorrow we will have a new episode and I will hopefully have another long ass note page on my phone to share with y'all!

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    Interesting. I had the opposite reaction. I liked Batman Forever when it first came out. I was 13 and didn't know better, but the next year, my sister got a job working at Blockbuster Video, and she shared her free rentals with me. So I started realizing what good movies actually were, and by the time B&R came out, I was like, "Wtf is this trash?"

     

    So happy you're going to watch TMNT2, though! Can't wait to hear your thoughts!

     

    I feel as if, and this is probably not the case at all haha, that Batman & Robin was more self aware than Batman Forever and that's what I appreciate about bad movies. Which is also why I will still sit and watch Spice World and unironically think it's amazing.

     

    There are of course elements of B&R that are still soooooo cringe worthy (pretty much everything Alicia Silverstone does) but I can't help my love for it.

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    Tayloranne, you HAVE to watch it! Fister, myself, and many of the other's here, grew up with this crap, so no matter how terrible it is (and it is truly, truly terrible) we'll always be watching it through rose-colored, nostalgia goggles. Your posts are always so great, please don't deprive us of your pure and objective take on it.

     

    I totally second this! I want to hear from someone that doesn't know that much about the Turtles. I hadn't seen this movie in years and years, and I was fully expecting to be defending this movie like Nonesuch was with JA last week. The opening scene stripped me of that notion entirely, but I still had a blast watching this movie, largely from the nostalgia factor. I really want to see if it's totally bananas to someone that didn't grow up with a TMNT obsession.

     

    Tayloranne - be our social experiment!

     

    Okay y'all have convinced me! I think the way that y'all feel about this is the way I feel about Batman & Robin. I know it's a terrible terrible movie but Batman meant so much to me as a kid that even the terrible movies are near and dear to my heart. (Except I think even as a child I thought Batman Forever was a piece of trash. At least I had fun watching B&R and that sparked my love of Poison Ivy.)

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    I'm watching TMNT right now. Quick question: is anyone not familiar with the Turtles?

     

    I don't mean, like, you've never heard of them, but more like, you don't know their origin story, who April is, how they ended up in her apartment - that sort of thing?

     

    I'd be really interested to hear anyone's reaction to this movie that knows a lot less about the Turtles than I or most of my friends growing up did. I'm kind of hoping June is in that boat for this ep because I feel like this movie is almost incomprehensible if you don't at least have a baseline knowledge of the Turtles and some of their background.

     

    Anyway, I'm off to go remove all the bells in 15 seconds...while working in concealment.

     

    *raises hand* I remember as a kid seeing the first movie and a bit of the cartoon but I have very vague memories of it and I think that was the last I've ever really paid attention to them. Now I'm wondering if that was even the first movie...

     

    But to your point I don't have a ton of knowledge about them and I was thinking about skipping this movie but maybe I won't just to give y'all some good entertainment lol.

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    Okay for some reason I was doing some research about some of my favorite actors and actresses last night (because I'm obsessed with being a human IMDB I'll be honest) and I found out something really interesting about Milla Jovovich that made me think more into a part in this movie that a lot of us had issues with...

     

    Her Serbian father, Bogdan Jovovich, was a medical doctor in Kiev. There he met her mother, Galina Jovovich (née Loginova), a Russian actress. At the age of 5, in 1981, Milla emigrated with her parents from the Soviet Union, moving first to London, UK, then to Sacramento, California, and eventually settled in Los Angeles. There her parents worked as house cleaners for the household of director Brian De Palma.

     

    So I'm wondering if people who were rich or just comfortable in Eastern Europe who came to America and ended up as housekeepers is more common than I and some others originally thought. It seemed so weird to me that in the movie Jupiter's mother would have such a comfortable lifestyle and then have to sneak into America and be forced to clean houses for the next 25 years.

     

    One more thing that actually rather bothered me about this movie is Mila Kunis is fluent in Russian and I was so excited to hear her speak in it and she said maybe three words? It was a complete waste of a beautiful talent!

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    • Stinger tells Jupiter: "Earth is just a planet, and people own things far more valuable." BUT THE WHOLE POINT OF THE MOVIE IS THAT EARTH IS SO GODDAMN VALUABLE

     

    I think, and please correct me if I'm wrong, that he was alluding to the fact that it's humans that are the valuable part of Earth, not actually Earth itself.

     

    Oh God I'm trying to explain things that happen in this movie like they make sense or something.

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    Okay now that I have finished the episode here is my omission...

     

    Eddie Redmayne and Douglas Booth's total incest vibe with their mother was sooo upsetting! Douglas was a-okay with marrying the woman that is identical to his mother (even though it wasn't based on love and he was planning on killing her that still seems creepy to me), and then Eddie literally had tons of scenes where I was thinking what the fuck went on between them when she was alive?!

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    What actually makes me sad about this movie is that, occasionally, it looks fantastic. The way the twilight city sky looks in that initial spacebike fight? The way the camera moves around, showing the battle choreography and the skyline; it's positively gorgeous. But so much of the movie is just so out-of-balance and poorly thought out, it is impossible to actually enjoy such moments. I wish there was a way to capture the technical mastery the Wachowskis have while also managing to tell a coherent story.

     

    And the clothes! I think I forgot most of the dialogue just because in my mind I was wondering how I could cosplay as Mila in that wedding dress!

     

    I'm starting to wonder if they made this movie just so they could have all of those beautiful dresses.

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    I kinda have a question about the soundtrack, does it include the song which plays over the end credits? The more modernized cover of the original Josie and the Pussycats theme? Because I can't really find that by itself, only in videos of the end credits, and just searching for the theme gives me results for the old one.

     

    Yes it does! I'm surprised that you can't find it! For some reason I have the songs on my ipod but not all of them on my computer so if I can find my CD (that's right kids I still have the original CD) then I can figure out a way to send it!

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    This whole fucking "Advocate Bob" scene is the most egregious thing in the film and that really is saying something. It's making me angry trying to explain why this scene is so terrible. So much of this movie is setup without payoff.

     

    -Why did her dad get killed?

    -Why isn't everyone constantly laughing at the name "Jupiter Jones"?

    -Why did she use a fake name for selling her eggs?

    -Why does her cousin need a widescreen TV?

    -Why didn't she ever freak out at anything?

    -Why, if the original plan by everyone is to kill her, don't they just do that?

    -Why does everyone keep saying "she's the queen", yet she has seemingly no power

    -Why is there suddenly an elephant pilot called "Ganesh"

    -Why do we get a monologue from that space police captain woman about how brave Channing Tatum is?

    -Why does it end with her on earth pretending nothing ever happened?

    -WHY: TO EVERYTHING THAT SEAN BEAN DOES

     

    This is however one of the best terrible movies I've ever seen, it's genuinely worse than Sharknado or The Room in terms of writing and acting. Eddie Redmayne is bad, but if you've missed how genuinely terrible Mila Kunis is throughout go checkout her reaction to the bees scene. Or the "I love dogs" bit. Or anything.

     

    I feel like I can only maybe answer one of these questions. As to why she had no power there was a will involved in what planets the mother had control over and then gave to her children. So somehow (which is where my questions over this mess come in) Mila Kunis being the reincarnation of the queen gained control over Earth once again, but nothing else? So she had no actual control just a title unless they were on Earth and then that was her turf.

     

    Idk I could just be pulling shit out of my ass right now hahaha.

     

    Also, I will defend Eddie Redmayne in this movie until my dying day.

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    Okay tiny omission... They talk about all the times he uses his strength but they forgot to mention when he pushed over the taxi but it took him FOREVER! If Hercules can lift 1,000 pounds no problem on a normal day it shouldn't take him so long to push the car over.

     

    But honestly I just wanted them to talk about that one goddess's crazy makeup and they did. So I am a happy girl.

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    I think my dream cast (alive or dead) for this movie would be Philip Seymour Hoffman as Moreau (doing a version of Lancaster Dodd from "The Master"), Tom Hardy as Montgomery, Jake Gyllenhaal as Edward Douglas, and Zoe Saldana as Aissa (Panther Woman). And it would be directed by Guillermo Del Toro. Heck, Ron Perlman's already in it, so he wouldn't even have to create a character for him!

     

    Guillermo would probably knock this adaptation out of the park! We already know he has the best makeup artists and creature actors on call! So of course we have to add Doug Jones in on this too! I think if instead of making it futuristic and he just made it set in Victorian era like they said this was based off of then it would be even better!

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    The events of the movie do happen, but Thewlis doesn't escape unscathed. Instead he makes it back to England, changes his name, and gets a job as at a small school as a Professor of the Dark Arts.

     

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    YES! Hermione would still figure out the entire story of what happened in Dr. Moreau before any of us who had seen the movie would.

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    I genuinely think this movie would have been better if they went full Wizard of Oz and had the entire thing been some crazy coma dream that Thewlis had.

     

    I can just imagine him waking up in a hospital with everyone he knows around and him just going, "You were there! And you were there! And so were you!"

     

    Or! Even better if he woke up and he was an animal person and it was like that Twilight Zone episode where normal looking people are considered hideous animals. He just had a nightmare where the humans were in control and he looked awful.

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    The thing to watch for is "and" in the writing credits. "Stu & Hank" means they worked together, but "Stu & Hank and Todd" means Todd did a re-write of what Stu & Hank turned in.

     

    My sign: the title needs to be explained immediately in the trailer. See: Hall Pass, The DUFF, B.A.P.S.

    I was gonna say this too only because Guardians of the Galaxy was written by Nicole Perlman and James Gunn and I still hold that as my favorite movie from last year.

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