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    Just a couple of other quick thoughts regarding the beginning of the movie.

     

    As he's walking through the hallways, a person over the P.A. states that "You now have the option to repent of your sins and be electrocuted on the premises." I'm sorry, but are my tax dollars really going toward extravagant electrocutions for the dregs of society. Maybe they wouldn't be in such Hellish dystopia if they learned how to manage their economy a little bit better. I'd be calling for impeachment.

     

    In order to get Snake to do their evil bidding, they tell him that he is been infected with a deadly virus. When he responds with incredulity, to prove that he is already infected, they tell him, "It's already moving through your bloodstream. Go on-touch that pad..." Snake walks over to the pad, places his hand on it, and on the screen in front of him (with zero magnification or explanation of what he's looking at) there's an x-ray of his hand. I mean, there's certainly something flowing through his veins (probably blood) but what does a goddamn microscopic virus look like? I mean, I guess Snake sees something there as he basically glances at the screen, nods his head, and is like, "Yup, this all checks out..." And off to the races we go!

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    So, like, I get that every toothless degenerate in LA and their mother recognizes Snake from the Police Channel--he's an extremely charismatic dude with a handsome profile, a killer mane, and a penchant for killing people in spectacular ways. However, what I have a hard time believing is that when Snake Plissken is being debriefed on his mission at the beginning of the movie, he doesn't recognize the fucking President. Y'know, Snake--he's just the man that--as a result of correctly prophesying that a major catastrophe would befall LA--was just elected lifetime ruler of America! The man whose oppressive theocratic regime has directly led to your arrest and exile to the Island of the Crazies. Yeah. That guy. Seriously, Snake? Is your fucking other eye glass or something, because that's just goddamn unacceptable.

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    Hey that's a thing. the hologram projector that they go out of their way to say can only be used once (sure, okay) because of its battery life and whatnot. But it's projecting an image over a long distance, into the exact middle of this clearing where Snake is pretending to recover from the helicopter crash. But he's then ringed with guys with guns, so where is the beam of light projecting? Not even a flicker (I guess I'm thinking 'Star Wars' holograms). But - and this happens at the beginning when the military bozos are talking to Snake too - the holograms are interacting with the real humans as though they're right in front of them. And can hear every word that's said to them. If Snake's a half mile away at the end, he shouldn't be able to quietly converse with the people in the clearing. And he looks from person to person, even though he has no visual point of reference.

     

    What I want is a reverse angle version of that stand-off scene that features Snake by himself in a wooded area performing this scene all by himself as though he's really over in the other place. That's a scene we're entitled to, damn it.

     

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    I'm happy to say, I've finally had an opportunity to listen to the episode--although my situation didn't allow me to pay as close of attention as I usually like. So if in any of my posts I repeat something that was already mentioned in the episode, I do apologize.

     

    I think my biggest problem with Snake's to-camera line at the end is has more to do with editing than the line itself being corny. Imagine, if instead of walking out into the woods and talking to (essentially) no one, that after the smoke clears, and Snake is revealed to be a hologram, he lights his dirty brown cigarettes, looks directly at the news cameras (that are already all around him), delivers the "Welcome to the human race" line, and then pushes the button. The movie does a hard cut to black and ends with some moody synth music. The way it is now just makes the movie overstay its welcome.

     

    I feel like that's the problem with a lot of so-called "Art." If you really listen to most song lyrics, they're dumb as Hell. Same with many book and movies. What makes one thing "classic" and another thing a "bomb" is almost always about presentation. In a way, "Blake Plissken" is the perfect embodiment of this movie. He had a fine enough concept, but didn't commit to the bit. Had he done so, I think he could have killed it. And so too could this movie had they managed to stick the landing.

     

    What I guess I'm getting at is, even though the rest of the movie is a raging dumpster fire, I think there was a real missed opportunity to end it with some impact. Had they done so, and given us a true ending instead of this limp dick attempt at trying to be deep, I think it might have gone a long way to make people forget of its many, many other failings.

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    Omg I remember my middle school crush being obsessed with this movie so I tried to watch it and was VERY confused lol. It'll be fun to watch it now as an adult and see if I'm still as confused lol.

     

    Knowing what I do about the album itself, this is an extremely weird movie for a middle schooler to be obsessed with. If your crush went unrequited, you might consider yourself lucky...

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    Second, and less-explored in the podcast - Cuervo Jones does not seem to understand how to be a bad guy. He has created a convoluted murdersport whose purpose is to tease victims with false hope before they are shot. So when Snake beats his arbitrary game, Cuervo acts as if he doesn't know what to do. YOU MADE UP THE GAME, CUERVO. You're not going to be fined if you just shoot Snake anyway.

     

    I don't think the problem was he didn't know what to do if Snake won--he probably intended to kill him regardless. The hiccup in his plan was when the Snake "Rocky IV'd" the crowd. Like any leader, Cuervo's only in power as long as the people are willing to follow him. Aside from his just being in shock that someone beat his unbeatable challenge, I interpreted that moment as Cuervo trying to decide whether he should be the magnanimous ruler and honor his agreement, thereby keeping the people on his side, or break his arbitrary rules (i.e. kill Snake anyway) and risk a full scale riot.

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    - stacy keach puts blanks in snakes gun cause he knew he was going to try and kill him .. ok ... but what if he didn't ..

     

    I had the same question. He doesn't even say he "knows" he would try that, just that he "thought" he'd try to shoot them--which, honestly, is just above "feeling" like he might try something. Why not have him say something like, "Do you really think we didn't know you were going to do that? We have a psychological profile on you thicker than a dinosaur's dick." Are they really going to risk the entire operation on a hunch?

     

    Also, at that point, why even hand him a loaded weapon at all---loaded with blanks or not? It's all going in the turbo sub anyway. Why not just stow all that stuff away until he's actually in LA?

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    I will say that I didn't like so many of her punchlines being about ham and other similar lines. I'm assuming those are from the stage musical and not just something shitty they came up with for the movie. But it feels really mean. However, I will say that sensitivity and awareness around body shaming wasn't the thing in 2007 that it is today. That's not to excuse it by any means, but it's to say, "I get it. We were shittier then than we are now (at least I hope...)"

     

    Yeah, that's a real weird tone deafness in those jokes. The whole movie is talking about how you shouldn't let the way you look (specifically your weight) hold you back, but then makes eating too much a running gag. Maybe it's saying you should own everything about yourself, even your over eating..?

     

    My other big kind of icky feeling with it is that it really feels white savior-y. Tracy and Link are kind of the heroes here, and I really would like to see a version of this told from Queen Latifah's side. She can be a straight up bad bitch, and I want to see the movie where she just busts in and is like, "We're gonna dance; y'all can join us or get the fuck out." Even Penny's change of heart that ends up with her appearing on the show is portrayed more heroically than Inez' and Seaweed's respective victories. It all rubs me a bit the wrong way (and I'll admit that it's probably there in the Waters version to, but I've just seen it so many times that I'm blind to it anymore).

     

    You're right about it being in the Waters version. In fact, I'd actually argue that it's actually worse since no one, aside from SeaWeed (kind of), is more than a prop for our heroes. Although, I wonder if this was a product of the times or Waters making a commentary on how people sometimes fight for more for a "Cause" than the people they are supposedly standing up for. I'm almost willing to bet it's the latter as so much of the original seems to be trying to compare the fight for hair tolerance with integration. I think Waters is trying to (maybe) make a statement about how ridiculous it is that we sometimes fight just as hard for trivial matters as we do for matters of actual consequence. Of course, I don't think--if it was indeed intended to be interpreted that way--that that kind of subtlety would translate very well to a Broadway musical.

     

    I think, that in the Original, integration was important because it was important to Tracy, but in the Musical, integration is important because it's actually important.

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  18. Posted

    This is something I have known about for a long time but I never really got it. It's not really in the furry camp as it is dinosaur on human, I just can't place who it's really for. It always reminds me of the PFT bit about the sexy bee Halloween costume.

     

    There's literally not enough time in the day for me to explain the erotic pleasures bursting off the pages of Pounded by Pachycephalosaurus...

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    Apparently Yeti and Bigfoot erotica is also a huge market.

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  20. Posted

    WARNING!!! VERY LONG AND FULL OF FACTS AND FIGURES!!!

     

    Boy oh boy, where to even begin on this one. So Snake is infected with the Plutoxin-7 virus and given a a clock counting down from 9 hour 31 minutes and 14 seconds until he succumbs to the virus and dies. From this point in the movie we can see how long it takes for events to unfold and how long it takes to travel from A to B. So let us take a look at...

     

    Snakes incredible journey

     

     

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  21. Posted

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    Look guys, I get it. Everyone gets it. We've heard every argument at this point. And everyone has stated their case. Could we please get back to talking either about Escape from LA (which I finally finished), gay dinosaurs (which is why God extinct'd them) or this Blake fellow I'm very eager to meet now that I can finally listen to the episode?

     

    Pro or con, I honestly don't really care. I'm seriously fine either way. I just can't take the bitching anymore. Either create a new thread (that the rest of us can ignore if we choose to) or direct your complaints to someone who can actually do something with them. Paul understands the problem and is doing what he can, but he doesn't own Earwolf. Also, literally no one has made a single argument--either way--that hasn't been made before. I'm tired of reading everyone's attempt at writing the very BEST persuasive argument by just rewriting and rewording the same damn things over and over again. At least make it funny or interesting. Write it like you're Tommy Wiseau or something.

     

    GOD!!!!

     

    FUCK Guys!!!

     

    Seriously, I'm done now. That's the last I''m going to say about the subject.

     

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    ...The fact Snake insists people gets his name right, but refuses to call Hershe by her chosen name is so fucking hypocritical and homophobic. This movie has a chronic case of the dumbs.

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