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Red Bones posted:Harold and Kumar go to Frankenstein's Castle? drat I would definitely watch this one.
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FlamingLiberal posted:So Baywatch is DOA at the box office this weekend and is only going to bring in around $21 million which is pretty low for a movie with The Rock in it. Looks like it ended up making $22.7m for the 4 day opening. That's slightly more than Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 but less than Boo! A Madea Halloween and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 made on their opening weekends, just to put that into context. Ouch. Edit: I just looked up the opening numbers for recent(ish) comedies based on old TV shows: CHiPs $7m, 22 Jump St $57m, 21 Jump St $36m, Land of the Lost $18m, Get Smart $38m, The Dukes of Hazzard $30m, Starsky and Hutch $28m. The Jump St films and Get Smart made a bunch of money and most of the others at least made a tidy profit at the box office except CHiPs and Land of the Lost which were horrible flops. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 00:08 on May 29, 2017 |
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Red Bones posted:Harold and Kumar go to Frankenstein's Castle? Only if they drive there in a van and bring a Great Dane along.
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Tars Tarkas posted:It also postulates a world where wrestlers regularly hang out with brilliant scientists, drive around in sports cars and pick up women while still in their masks, are international spies, and wrestle various monsters in the ring where they almost always win (even if the monsters cheat!) Most of those seem pretty reasonable to me.
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Ahahaha, I didn't even think the CHiPS movie had come out yet. I assume it sucked even harder than the trailers.
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I'm genuinely upset now that there's not a movie where Harold and Kumar spend the night in a haunted house. Who do I blame for this?
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precision posted:Ahahaha, I didn't even think the CHiPS movie had come out yet. I assume it sucked even harder than the trailers. CHiPS made less in its entire run than Baywatch made on opening weekend. It bombed super super hard.
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Tars Tarkas posted:El Santo, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, and other luchadors have a sort of cinematic universe where all the wrestlers know each other and occasionally team up to fight monsters even though each individual film is rarely directly connected to others, which allows the wrestlers to battle different versions of the same monsters over time depending on which production company is making the films. It also postulates a world where wrestlers regularly hang out with brilliant scientists, drive around in sports cars and pick up women while still in their masks, are international spies, and wrestle various monsters in the ring where they almost always win (even if the monsters cheat!) Can we have this,please?  Luchadores VS Monsters cinematic reboot. Keep the camp all the way.Those movies were great,btw, if you like campy stuff. El Santo was some sort of masked James Bond, Blue Demon used to be a "bad guy" but in some movie he would redeem himself and turn in to Santo's best luchador buddy. Then they will teamp up with whatever comedian was popular back in the day just to fight monsters. I think the luchadores vs monsters kept going until the early 90's with Tinieblas fighting some monster,I don't remember well. I mean, goddammit, reboot that universe!
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Red Bones posted:Harold and Kumar go to Frankenstein's Castle? Modern Day Abbott and Costello? Laurel and Hardy? Tars Tarkas posted:El Santo, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, and other luchadors have a sort of cinematic universe where all the wrestlers know each other and occasionally team up to fight monsters even though each individual film is rarely directly connected to others, which allows the wrestlers to battle different versions of the same monsters over time depending on which production company is making the films. It also postulates a world where wrestlers regularly hang out with brilliant scientists, drive around in sports cars and pick up women while still in their masks, are international spies, and wrestle various monsters in the ring where they almost always win (even if the monsters cheat!) See, if you're gonna do a shared universe....
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Desperado Bones posted:Can we have this,please? Lucha Underground is sort of like that. Luchadors fighting monsters and other mystical beasts and other luchadors. 
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wdarkk posted:Most of those seem pretty reasonable to me. 
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Policenaut posted:Lucha Underground is sort of like that. Luchadors fighting monsters and other mystical beasts and other luchadors. Oh my God this is fantastic...this is what I want from pro wrestling.
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May 29, 2017 01:23
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:CHiPS made less in its entire run than Baywatch made on opening weekend. It bombed super super hard. It should have been Training Day but with motorcycles.
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Gatts posted:Oh my God this is fantastic...this is what I want from pro wrestling. I don't remember his name but he's a dragon who took human form so he could lucha.
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Man, American wrestling is so lame now. Has been for a good, what, 15 years? Jesus. Every now and then I'll try to watch RAW but the magic is so far gone it's depressing. I don't know what happened, did the public at large just suddenly go "Nah, we don't want plot lines about an undead wizard wrestler crucifying the company's owner's daughter on a cross and then marrying her"
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Len posted:I don't remember his name but he's a dragon who took human form so he could lucha. That's Drago dude. Everyone should watch Lucha Underground so it get's lots of money and they can make series 4 (it's on US Netflix)
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Gaz2k21 posted:That's Drago dude. I wanted to say that was it but it seemed too Obvious
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precision posted:Man, American wrestling is so lame now. Has been for a good, what, 15 years? Jesus. Every now and then I'll try to watch RAW but the magic is so far gone it's depressing. I don't know what happened, did the public at large just suddenly go "Nah, we don't want plot lines about an undead wizard wrestler crucifying the company's owner's daughter on a cross and then marrying her" Maybe they saw the success of the Rock and realized your ticket to stardom requires nothing more gimmicky than an arched eyebrow.
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Policenaut posted:Lucha Underground is sort of like that. Luchadors fighting monsters and other mystical beasts and other luchadors. Holy poo poo this is amazing  I'll take this moment to share some random luchador goodness. FYI, this was scary when I was like 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bSZksnupI
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Lobok posted:Maybe they saw the success of the Rock and realized your ticket to stardom requires nothing more gimmicky than an arched eyebrow. Says someone who clearly never saw The Rock in his heyday. Dwayne Johnson is a gift to us from on high and has better comedic chops than most comedians! It did make my heart grow a bit when Steve Austin said a while back that he's known gay wrestlers and he has no problem with gay marriage. 
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precision posted:Says someone who clearly never saw The Rock in his heyday. Dwayne Johnson is a gift to us from on high and has better comedic chops than most comedians! I listened to a few episodes of his podcast and Stone Cold seems like a pretty okay guy. He was talking about how his movies might not be great but they're direct to video so you can pick up a pizza and some beer and then watch them from your couch. And that his podcast is about "whatever Stone Cold wants to talk about for how ever long Stone Cold wants to talk about it and that's the bottom line because Stone Cold says so" or something similar
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Desperado Bones posted:Holy poo poo this is amazing This has to have been the inspiration for Werewolf Gimmick by the Mountain Goats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYwcSIBdOik
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Len posted:I listened to a few episodes of his podcast and Stone Cold seems like a pretty okay guy. He was talking about how his movies might not be great but they're direct to video so you can pick up a pizza and some beer and then watch them from your couch The Condemned was a legit good movie.
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Mexican Wrestler Cinematic Universe needs to be made. Just Fast and the Furious it. I'm all in for the Nintendo Cinematic Universe myself.
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Who would be the nick fury? Luigi? He doesnt really have powers. Mario has the costumes (frog, raccoon, doctor, shoe), there'd be yoshi, dk, link, kirby, bowser...
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"I'd-a like-a to talk to you about-a the Smash Bros. Initiative-a."
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Which Avenger has the Stare of Death as a power? Maybe Luigi can be Cyclops.
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Which Avenger has the Stare of Death as a power? Maybe Luigi can be Cyclops. Ghost Rider?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:CHiPS made less in its entire run than Baywatch made on opening weekend. It bombed super super hard.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:CHiPS made less in its entire run than Baywatch made on opening weekend. It bombed super super hard. What has the world come to if you can't build (or at least sell) a successful movie on the premise of being afraid of being seen as gay. Baywatch at least leaned into its ridiculousness and the people making it had fun doing so. And the Rock.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:CHiPS made less in its entire run than Baywatch made on opening weekend. It bombed super super hard. Maybe these idiots will figure out that no one gives a gently caress about 80's and 90's tv shows rebooted as movies finally!
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Rough Lobster posted:Maybe these idiots will figure out that no one gives a gently caress about 80's and 90's tv shows rebooted as movies finally! Except both 21 and 22 Jump Street were great.
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Timby posted:Except both 21 and 22 Jump Street were great. Very surprisingly so.
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More successful than the movie reboots of 60s and 70s TV shows, remember S.W.A.T.? I Spy? Dukes of Hazzard? For real though we can't stop doing 90s reboots until Thunder in Paradise and The Highwayman happen.
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Neo Rasa posted:More successful than the movie reboots of 60s and 70s TV shows, remember S.W.A.T.? I Spy? Dukes of Hazzard? Mission Impossible, Addams Family and Charlie's Angels did really well though (but not the sequels of those last two) But other notable TV adaptation flops include Power Rangers, The A-Team, Lost in Space, Wild Wild West, The Brady Bunch, McHale's Navy (starring Tom Arnold), The Three Stooges, The Honeymooners (starring Cedric the Entertainer), Flipper (starring Paul Hogan), Bewitched, Dragnet and Serenity so there's way more failures than successes, but since there's been a few massive hits they'll keep reaching for those stars and crank out more and more of these awful films.
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Neo Rasa posted:More successful than the movie reboots of 60s and 70s TV shows, remember S.W.A.T.? I Spy? Dukes of Hazzard?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Mission Impossible, Addams Family and Charlie's Angels did really well though (but not the sequels of those last two) Addams Family Values is better than the first one.
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Timby posted:Except both 21 and 22 Jump Street were great. These were probably what started all the new interest in this genre. By virtue of being good they've inspired a ton of insipod clones hoping to replicate the magic.
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