theworstbuddhist

A stage production of Captain Invincible would be quite something. I have mixed feelings about Rocky Horror. I like the show, the stage show, and what it has to say. And some of the songs are legit classics (though I would happily go the rest of my life without ever hearing "Time Warp" again.) I think the film is fine, especially in a large group setting with everyone doing the stupid crap you're supposed to do. When I was in college in the late 80s, I was an AV nerd for my part time job and one of my gigs was to run the projector for the few times they showed RHPS in the student union - because there was no video release of it yet, presumably due to our old friend underage drinking music rights. So when it finally did come out on VHS - I think around 1990 - I remember renting it and rushing home thinking oh man, this is gonna be awesome! And I HATED it. It was such a terrible film without the crowd. Tim Curry is great, a lot of other elements are great, but as a film, well. I'd rather watch a live stage production. I feel like Shock Treatment was one of many late 70s attempts to make a hit musical film a la Tommy, Grease, Hair, The Wall etc. But as you say, it's usually a good idea to start with a really well-developed stage show and then worry about converting it to film. Which reminds me, there was once an off broadway musical made of Road House. Where is my film of that?!

I'm too lazy to look it up, have you guys done Shock Treatment yet?

Lol, just remembered the time I told my wife we should watch Muriel's Wedding (with Bill Hunter playing Toni Collette's dad, of course) because it was such a great comedy. I guess the years glossed over how dark that effing movie is...

It was an Australian co-production, yeah. Bill Hunter is in so much stuff that I wonder if it was actually required by Aussie law that he appears in everything produced there.

Yes, I believe there were 4 TV movies that are sold as a separate DVD from the series set. There are a bunch of tie-in novels as well, and pretty sure those are still coming out. There was a novelization of the Magnum pilot too which I used to own but as I recall it was not great.

I never heard of Neil Breen until last week and now I have seen Fateful Findings. How I miss those innocent days. Speaking of, I love coming of age films, but the ones I probably recall the most fondly from the 80s are a pretty mixed bag. I loved the Scottish classic Gregory's Girl (by Bill Forsyth, director of Local Hero) and an early John Cusack screwball comedy called Better off Dead. I'm actually hard-pressed to think of a film that primarily starred pre-teens that I really loved from that period. I didn't even like ET that much. Stand By Me is great of course, but not your typical adventure film.

My wife (who owns the MSW complete series DVDs plus the movies) has been bingeing season 1 this weekend. I'm the opposite of others here, I grew up watching Magnum and have seen the entire series at least a couple times. I'm going to have to start watching it again and catch up on the podcast. I did see MSW periodically back in the day - especially the crossover episodes, obvs. My main takeaway from MSW season 1 is how much travelling Jessica does for a busy novelist, and what an insane who's who of character actors every episode is. My wife is currently watching one where she's on a cruise ship with her neice and Leslie Nielsen is the captain! Edited to ask: do you guys have an RSS feed for the show? Would make it easier to add the show to Plex and similar apps for automatic updates. Editing again because I'm listening to the first Magnum episode and am just gonna make some comments (possible spoilers): I don't know this for sure but one thing about the first season of Magnum that I think is probably true is that the show got sold to CBS on the strength of co-creator Glen Larson, who made stuff like Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider. As you guys observed, there are a lot of girls in bikinis, car chases and gunplay and just general cheese. I suspect that the other co-creator, Donald Bellisario, exerted a greater influence as the series went on (and of course, Selleck did himself). Bellisario is super into military-based drama - apart from Quantum Leap, he went on to create J.A.G. and NCIS, both of which are also about Navy cops and their justice system, which of course was the job Magnum quit before becoming a PI. In your copy of the pilot, is it the better-known Mike Post theme that you hear at the start? The first season used a different theme for a while by a dude called Ian Freebairn-Smith for the first half dozen episodes, then they introduced the much more dynamic theme that is still used today. Note the old lowercase logo too. There is a character in the pilot - Felipe - who gets referenced much later on in the series in what I consider to be one of the true unresolved mysteries of the show. I think "Ski" in the pilot is the same actor who plays Magnum's guy on the inside at the Navy, Mac Reynolds, who left the show briefly for another series and then comes back as yet another character. Your line about Magnum acting like a 12 year old made me laugh because I was 12 when I watched this pilot back in the day. It's true, there is gross stuff about all of the main characters early on - Magnum leering, T.C.'s pretty racist characterization, Rick's weird Bogart act- that get dropped by season 2. Again, I blame Larson mainly, and I suppose the other stuff that was popular on TV at the time - Dukes of Hazzard, Three's Company, Charlie's Angels. Robert Loggia was in an episode of MSW we watched today. My favourite role of his is here though: All right, gonna stop jabbering at you now. Keep up the good work.

What kind of world gives Star Crash 33% and Megaforce a 0?!?

Oh man, I don't think I have seen this movie since it came out. It's probably a bigger deal in Canada because we like to act like we own all things hockey. I remember it being a pretty standard sports movie storywise (apart from both Swayze and Lowe being ridiculously good looking for hockey players) but I'll bet it hasn't aged well. Unlike Rob Lowe. That said, I feel like St. Elmo's Fire is so much more mockable.

Just finished watching this after starting last night and going to bed with about 20 minutes left. Holy shit, what an awful movie. Jason and June are going to lose their damn minds. Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to hack all of the government systems, on my own and outside of the establishment, to release the truth to the world.

Whew, man, poutine is a bigger topic than you might expect. There are some who would argue that the only place to get real poutine is in Quebec, and they are right in the sense that you are more likely to get one made with the best ingredients, ie. proper Belgian style frites topped with squeaky cheese curds (which you can buy as a snack in little bags in every corner store in Quebec) and gravy. And of course there are butthole chefs out there trying to "elevate" the dish by topping it with shaved truffles or some shit and sell it for $20 from a food truck. Edited to add: if you go somewhere that advertises poutine and they serve you something that uses like shredded or cubed marble cheese instead of real curds, it is legal in Canada to burn that place to the ground. Those of us who live outside of Quebec have some decent chain poutinerie options like Smokes, which has pretty decent traditional style poutine plus a bunch of options for topped versions with assorted meats and so on. Definitely a good post-drinking meal, in fact that is probably the only time you SHOULD eat it. A tip for those who don't speak French: make sure you pronounce it "poo-tin", not "poo-teen" and especially not "poo-tan", the latter of which means "whore" in French (and I think Spanish). Finally, I thought you might enjoy this photo that just came up on my Instagram feed this morning from my friend Tim: a local lottery corporation scratch ticket promising poutine for life. I may just have to start playing the lottery. Note to self, make "Poutine Pour la Vie" my new personal brand. I would certainly eat that, but more likely torn up pieces of baguette or cuban bread. Not a big wheat bread eater.

40 minutes into it now. I can see the comparison to Tommy Wiseau but so far it feels a lot like a Gary Shandling impersonator made a Twin Peaks Season 3 episode.

I was a teen when The Goonies came out and I fucking hate that movie. Never understood what ppl liked about it. *shrug*

Ah nice, thanks! I knew that last one looked familiar. I feel like I saw it on video ages ago, along with stuff like Liquid Sky, I must check it out again.

What are those bottom three movies? They're vaguely familiar but I can't quite place them.

I found it very effective and enjoyable, insofar as one can enjoy such a thing. Sorry dude! I don't think it was a perfect movie by any means, nor as good as Hereditary, but then Hereditary was also more of a surprise and that counts for a lot with me. I liked the idea with both films of taking a horror classic (The Exorcist and The Wicker Man) and dressing them in a new skin. The director was saying in an interview I read that he wants to explore all kinds of genres, so I don't know if he plans on doing more of these horror remixes, but if he does I'd love to see what he could do with, say, early Cronenberg.

Up here in Halifax (very much a college town) it could be pizza - we have an area called "pizza corner" with various places catering to the local young drinkers - but it could also be a magical food called the donair, which is recognized as the city's official food. Some people confuse this with shawarma or doner kebabs, and they are certainly related, but the classic Halifax donair is shaved spiced beef and/or lamb, some onions and tomatoes, all wrapped in a fresh pita and slathered in donair sauce, which is essentially just condensed milk mixed with sugar and a bit of vinegar. I happen to live perilously close to two of the best donair places in the city and now that I have written so much about it, I know I will be buying one sometime this weekend. Also popular are a thing called garlic fingers; essentially pizza dough buttered with garlic butter and sprinkled with shredded cheese and baked, then sliced into thin strips and often dipped in donair sauce. And, not surprisingly, we also sometimes have donair pizza. Here is a CBC video from a few years ago explaining this wonderful, wonderful food. (Before you comment: yes, donair sauce looks like jizz, and yes, our mayor's name is Mike Savage. He's kind of an idiot but at least he cast the correct vote for once in his life.)

You are only a few posts old but already bringing the heat. Bless you. Fun fact, me and some other bad-movie-loving friends went to see Crossroads in the theatre when it came out. All of us were well into our twenties (at least) and we laughed and mocked the film among ourselves at the back while some poor twelve-year-old girls and their moms tried to enjoy it. We were dicks, basically.

I wasn't aware of this, but it certainly makes sense. I've always kind of hated the Venom character, though the recent film was ok. I enjoyed it more than Raimi 3, anyway..

They made good use of it in Into The Spider-Verse, at least. Otherwise, that movie suffers hard compared to Raimi 2, and I think that's why people were so disappointed. It also suffers from the same thing a lot of super-films suffer from, including "good" ones like The Dark Knight: too long, too many villains, murky/shitty CG, big dumb laundry-list battle at the end.

Bumping this thread because Tuff Turf would be a pretty good episode, I think. Young Spader and Robert Downey Jr., California post punk nonsense that felt like it wanted to be Penelope Spheeris’ Suburbia or Alex Cox’s Repo Man but fell way short. It’s on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ua3aMJFuwDg

I quite liked it but can certainly understand why people wouldn’t. I grew up kind of fascinated by the dark side of Hollywood history and was apprehensive about QT exploiting the awful story of Sharon Tate, so the way it played out was a pleasant surprise for me. It gave me a lot to talk to my parents about. I loved some of the weird little details like Damian Lewis as Steve McQueen. Next to Death Proof and Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, it’s probably my favourite of his films.

As I mentioned over in the H&S thread, apparently your instincts are right: Megaforce are the bad guys, they have continued to evolve their tech, and the mysterious voice directing Idris Elba in Hobbs and Shaw is Barry Bostwick.

I just got in from seeing it and if you’re lukewarm on the franchise I highly recommend watching this one while thinking that Idris Elba’s character is employed by an evil version of Megaforce.

Hi all, I write to you from the hinterlands of New Brunswick to brighten your day and torment your nights with a film that I can’t believe has not been done on the podcast. It’s a superhero movie, sort of, starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee. It’s a coproduction between Australia and the USA from the early 80s. It has probably the worst superhero origin onscreen or off that I can think of. Prepare yourself for the Man of Magnet himself; it’s The Return of Captain Invincible, and you can watch it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/TvHLCDL4B8Q Enjoy. I’m sorry.