Elektra Boogaloo

Unlike everyone else on this board (it seems), I never saw this when I was younger. Am watching it now and am already--to quote Zouks--what. is. happening? Also Dick Sargeant is in this movie? The second Darren from Bewitched? How many witch-themed things can he be in????

Can we talk about the Funny or Die movie Zouks and Paul did? Because I just watched Zouks in a scene with Johnny Depp, spit at him and talk about peeing blood. (Wet blood fart reference almost!) And all I could think was, "Did they talk about the Tourist?"

I haven't seen like any of these movies so I can't comment. But maybe HDTGM could do some Razzie winners for Feb/Awards season. It turns out there are actually a lot that haven't been covered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award_for_Worst_Picture Swept Away? The Postman? Striptease? These all feel like perfect fits for the show! Also I still demand the Nic Cage "Left Behind" even though it didn't win last year. (But at least Kirk Cameron got something after losing the Left Behind franchise?)

The rollerblading scene is a reason this HAS to be done on the podcast. Because Paul is always saying that is a sign of a bad movie. Also, if I recall correctly (I've not seen it in many years), they get a beep from Zordon on rollerblades and then they teleport to the Command Center... where they now don't have rollerblades. No one on the crew gave a *shit*.

Something I was thinking about this week, since the Slash film article was kind of late, was that I'd prefer it came out with the minisode rather than the regular episode. That way we don't have to read it to comment on the actual episode, it's sort of like an extended corrections and omissions.

Now I'm upset to see (from wikipedia) that Meat Loaf is not in "Streets of Fire." I loved him in Spice World, you know. I KNOW!! But mispronouncing names is kind of his thing.

Can we talk about the Slash film article? It wasn't up when the episode dropped. But I just read this and my brain imploded. . WAH.

I have never heard of this movie but I'm excited. Also excited for Jason in Dirty Grandpa, which I thought was the sequel to Bad Grandpa at first. I saw him on Seth Meyers talking about the film and HDTGM. Can't wait for Seth Meyers' guest episode. ;-) PS. I think it was PlanBfromOuterSpace than pointed out Efren Ramirez was in Crank, not me.

Whenever they mentioned Da Brat it made me wonder where "the other one" was. (Glitter pe ref.)

I would love to know if this was always a rapping genie movie or if they had to randomly add the music subplot because Shaq wanted to rap. My money is on the latter. I hiope Shaq is on FRESH OFF THR BOAT again and has scenes will Paul so he can ask.

Listening to this now and am shocked in the discussion of Max that no one brought up that Francis Capra grows up to become a gang leader Weevil Navarro on "Veronica Mars." Perhaps the genie showering in front of him was what lead him to kill that other guy in the stadium explosion. He was also in "Crank" so that means he's been in two HDTGM episodes. Add him to the faves, people! ETA my apologies, Paul did briefly mention VMars in the talk of what he looks like now. But he was a series regular! And when that [spoiler thing] happened in the movie, that was straight up harrowing. Anyway, I still blame Shaq for Weevil's life of crime. I think it was a Woody Goodman situation, if you know what I mean.

I worked at a movie theater in the early 2000s, and whenever there was a movie with an interracial kiss or love story, we would get angry letters. There was one guy in particular who was VERY put out about it and sent us threatening letters everytime he saw a film with "race mixing. My manager was like, "Please stop calling us. We don't decide what the studios do." We didn't even decide which movies we got since we were part of a chain. But now whenever i see a movie where people of different races make out, it makes me smile knowing somewhere that asshole is having a heart attack.

I'm listening to the ep right now and am excited. But, I had to stop to post. When I heard about the June BB8 t-shirt, I immediately rushed to the store because that is a thing that I need... but. There's a teensy grammatical error here. June said "What's its mission" not "what's it's mission." It's meaning "it is". Anyway, I used to be a copy editor and proofreader so I'm annoying about this stuff. But I will proofread future shirts for you FOR FREE, if you want. ha. What is it is mission might be my new catchphrase.

My favorite part of this documentary is the title card that pops up and says the two Israeli guys made their own documentary about Cannon films and put it out 3 months before this one. Because they learned a lot from the Forbidden Dance/Lambada situation.

You guys. What's it's mission?

Did everyone see the Jay Marks video with the fake NUNDERCOVER trailer? I just did and am very excited to have this project greenlit.

Who is going to start a GoFundMe for an Earwolf pool?

Well happy birthday, Fisher Stevens. Whose name I now always associated with Jason saying "look it up" thanks to listening to the LAKE PLACID episode a lot. I love June's observation that all they do is make free phone calls from pay phones. I think that shows how NOT prescient this film was. It was made in 95 and they didn't predict cell phones? I'm pretty sure I had one in 97. Anyway, I wanted to talk about the use of "elite" for hackers. I know that is sort of a thing. Everything used to be "l33t!!" (leet). I looked it up and apparently this originated with techy people in the 80s because bulletin board systems (BBS) would give you certain privliges when you reached elite status. But I don't think it was ever a level you would achieve as a hacker? Like a gold star some hacking organization sends you in the mail?

I had never heard of this movie until I was listening to the Nerdist podcast and Daniel Radcliffe mentioned it and compared a fight scene to the one in "Anchorman" so of course I immediately ran over here to see if it had been suggested. Pls pls do it. I don't want to watch it alone but now I feel that I must.

I'm glad June is not afraid of twins, because I'm a twin. An identical twin--the scariest kind! I'd have to leave the forums lest I upset June. I think it's true that humanity in general (not June!) has a twin fear. I mean, you think of THE SHINING and other movies that have used twins. There were cultures that believe twins were an ill-omen and the twins would be killed on birth. Sometimes the mother as well. And, with these two being male-female twins, there has long been a belief that male-female twins had sex in the womb and therefore should be married to one another. I personally think this is gross. I no more want to have sex with my sister than non-twins do with their sister. Though I once got in a fight with someone online who insisted that MOST twins had an incestuous relationship. Shudder. Anyway, I think this is the deep psychological concept DEATH SPA is trying and failing to tap into. And to neilly's point about the brother having an accent and the sister not, it's commonly known that one twin out of all twinsets is British. I mean, come on.

Also a great ep for June's father. I mean the whole Raphael family is killing it. to be fair to June's dad, I do think they have similar eyes, noses and lips. ETA: images aren't working. sorry. just google "cillian murpy" and "june diane raphael"

I sort of love that no one on the this podcast knows the He-Man lore. It's like listening to just June talk about Street Fighter. All I really remember about the toys & cartoon (besides She-Ra stuff) was that He-Man has dumb hair. So I really thought they captured his essence here. I want the remix theme song back.

I AM REALLY EXCITED FOR MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. I really loved He-Man, or more accurately, She-Ra. I remember not liking the movie when I saw it on TV. "I was like where is She-Ra, this is bullshit." ... that will probably be my reaction to it this time.

Nitpicky correction: "Christine" isn't about a killer truck. It's a killer car, guys. Totally different. Basically racist. How dare you.

I was actually thinking about June the other day. Someone pointed out I was pronouncing a (French) word incorrectly and I got really miffed and tried to act like it was a joke and I had known all along. Then I was like, self, embrace the fact that you don't know what a street fighter is. I think it's kind of amazing how June leans into all the times Jason, Paul and the rest of us take issue with her theories. Very open and honest. TL;DR we should all be more like June.