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They made a cartoon, you know.
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They were making those movies on an assembly line to the extent that for 3 years straight we'd go see a Police Academy movie for my friend's birthday. Like every year around that time of year, there was Steve Guttenberg waiting to help us mark the passage of time and our miserable taste in movies.
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May 12, 2018 13:03
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Krispy Wafer posted:They were making those movies on an assembly line to the extent that for 3 years straight we'd go see a Police Academy movie for my friend's birthday. Like every year around that time of year, there was Steve Guttenberg waiting to help us mark the passage of time and our miserable taste in movies. Steve called it quits after the fourth one. The guy playing Tackleberry on the other hand? He was eternal. He even appeared in Mission to Moscow, while I imagine at that point even the rental audience had given up on the franchise.
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May 12, 2018 13:14
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Mission to Moscow got theatrical release. I know that because I saw it in the theatre with my friends.
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May 12, 2018 14:12
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Ghost Leviathan posted:They made a cartoon, you know. Which I quite enjoyed.
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May 12, 2018 14:28
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Mierenneuker posted:Steve called it quits after the fourth one. The guy playing Tackleberry on the other hand? He was eternal. He even appeared in Mission to Moscow, while I imagine at that point even the rental audience had given up on the franchise. There are actually three actors who appear in every single one of those movies: George Gaynes (Lassard), Michael Winslow (Jones), and David Graf (Tackleberry).
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May 12, 2018 16:30
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They're just so hard to hate. Even when they're bad I find myself watching them fondly. I think seeing the sixth one first has warped my mind.
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May 12, 2018 16:49
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Hard to hate is a p good way of putting it
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May 12, 2018 16:56
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Veib posted:I watched all Police Academy movies over two days with some friends and a lot of booze a while back. I highly recommend this, every time you think it couldn't possibly get any worse the next movie is right there to immediately prove you wrong. uh, except for Citizens on Patrol you mean, which greatly exceeds the two movies before it and manages to be more entertaining than the first The only one I can't remember almost anything about was City Under Siege, which I saw in a theater.
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May 12, 2018 17:52
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training introduced me to the idea of a short Asian man can score with a tall busty blonde woman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6jkWHo8D_s
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May 12, 2018 17:59
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Android Apocalypse posted:Police Academy 3: Back in Training introduced me to the idea of a short Asian man can score with a tall busty blonde woman. Not 16 Candles?
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May 12, 2018 19:33
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I saw Police Academy 3 before Sixteen Candles. 
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May 12, 2018 19:41
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Which I quite enjoyed. It was pretty ludicrous, but that was actually pretty fitting. They fought actual supervillains, which is also oddly fitting. Is the time ripe for a Police Academy reboot? And the villain protagonist one, Crime Academy.
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May 13, 2018 09:38
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Is the time ripe for a Police Academy reboot? And the villain protagonist one, Crime Academy. A modern Police Academy film would be about the villains.
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May 13, 2018 12:26
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Imagine all the poo poo Tackleberry got away with before cell phone cameras were a thing. He would've been like Harvey Keitel in the Bad Lieutenant.
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May 13, 2018 12:29
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Which one was Tackleberry?
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May 13, 2018 12:38
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Krispy Wafer posted:Imagine all the poo poo Tackleberry got away with before cell phone cameras were a thing. He would've been like Harvey Keitel in the Bad Lieutenant. The original Police Academy movie already had a "police brutality is funny" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6OAh7W_-ZA It also touched on casual/institutionalized racism in the police force and a whole bunch of other stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqyfM6xcXnI (Also when the car flips upside down you can see through the grill that it doesn't even have an engine in it  )
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May 13, 2018 13:03
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Vicissitude posted:
I always thought he didn't duck because he's a loving nutter.
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May 13, 2018 13:48
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Jedit posted:I always thought he didn't duck because he's a loving nutter. Yeah, Tackleberry is a crazy Republican who is obsessed with guns and gun culture (he keeps a photo of Reagan on his bedside table at the academy and at one point he's wearing a Dirty Harry t-shirt) but he also has absolutely zero awareness of gun safety or gun safety protocols. The film starts with him working as a security guard and on his last night of work he fires blindly into a darkened room when he sees some people sneak in there (it turns out to be his own surprise going away party) and later in the movie we find out that not only does he sleep with a gun in his hand but he also keeps his finger on the trigger. The film has a ton of casual racism and homophobia and a little nudity but it's actually fairly subtle and even restrained with a lot of its humour, with a lot of the gags happening off screen or in the background of a later shot. Tackleberry's character is a little over the top and I think he got even crazier in the other Police Academy films but he was never quite as bad as the lead character in the Sledge Hammer! TV show which came two years later.
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May 13, 2018 16:55
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Tackleberry's character is a little over the top and I think he got even crazier in the other Police Academy films but he was never quite as bad as the lead character in the Sledge Hammer! TV show which came two years later. Sledge Hammer! is over the top tongue in cheek and quite frankly the superior police show. Right up there with 'Police Squad'.
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May 13, 2018 18:53
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kupachek posted:Sledge Hammer! is over the top tongue in cheek and quite frankly the superior police show. Right up there with 'Police Squad'. I loved Sledge Hammer back when I used to watch it on TV, I guess I worded that badly. Also I just looked up the Wikipedia page for the series and surprisingly enough they pretty much never showed him shooting anyone dead.
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May 13, 2018 19:07
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Noticed something in Aliens. Ferro, the dropship pilot, foreshadows her own death. When the marines wake up, Vazquez asks Ferro about Ripley. Her reply ends with a mocking, "Apparently, she saw an alien once." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZYknBB_UVY&t=124s (2:05 here). That describes her own fate. Later, she's flying, hears the cockpit door, turns around, sees an alien, and dies. She saw an alien once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tF529mmjnM I'd bet that it's a deliberate set-up. James Cameron did have some subtle fun with these characters. Frost was named so because he's the marine that gets lit on fire.
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May 14, 2018 00:10
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ProperCoochie posted:Noticed something in Aliens. You might be reaching but I like where you're going.
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May 14, 2018 00:35
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I don't think you ever actually see Weirzbowski in the movie but his name gets yelled a lot.
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May 14, 2018 01:50
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May 14, 2018 02:28
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You definitely see him in the mess hall scene, but he doesn't say anything.
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May 14, 2018 02:46
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Imagined posted:Where's Bowski? I used that as a password on this very site, but 1337'd up.
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May 14, 2018 03:37
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Smiling Jack posted:I don't think you ever actually see Weirzbowski in the movie but his name gets yelled a lot. Weirzbowski is also in the mission briefing scene. At the end, after Gormon announces the short time frame and walks away, there's a brief moment of Weirzbowski giving Gormon the finger. Look to the far right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R800jPPenI
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Danlee posted:I think it's Thanos turning the attack into butterflies and the flinch is because he wasn't sure if he would be able to Bit late to the Infinity War party but that was Thanos's own attack that got thwarted, so it wasn't his doing. He was just expecting a counterattack that didn't come; Doctor Strange has an extremely defensive fighting style and it actually puts Thanos off his guard.
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May 14, 2018 04:02
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MichiganCubbie posted:Everyone knows this scene from Jurassic Park: I've read 108 pages of thread without wanting to post but i just wanted to say this is brilliant.
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Smiling Jack posted:I don't think you ever actually see Weirzbowski in the movie but his name gets yelled a lot. At first I was going to 'correct' this by saying he's the guy who makes the cornbread comments, but I went and double checked: that's Frost. I dunno if the novelization guy was having a little joke himself (I am a fan of the series and also have Aspergers, so I seized on the novelization and read it multiple times), but when Weirzbowski dies in the novelization Ripley gets inwardly mad because 'she'd liked Weirzbowski'.
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CrRoMa posted:I've read 108 pages of thread without wanting to post but i just wanted to say this is brilliant. I clicked the original post and some of the other comments mention that Spielberg wouldn't have that much forethought, but this lands all on the screenwriter. It's standard plant and payoff technique used in screenwriting, establish something in an early scene or first act that can later be of use in later scenes or the final act. Luckily it's super subtle with Hammond (all off-screen) and works, not like some weapon shown onscreen earlier in the movie that would be the only thing that can kill the final boss or like a kid leaving a skateboard on the ground and someone later walks through and trips on it.
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Maybe some scenes were cut that made Hammond’s act more obvious, but instead we had to wait 20 years for someone to figure it out.
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David Koepp did a really good job writing the first two movies. I know people trash the second film (even though it is much better than 3 or World), but the deleted scenes would have added so much more to the film and Koepp was sad that they got left out. You had stuff like Roland's introduction in Mombasa and a drunken Ludlow being responsible for the baby Rex's broken leg that was filmed but never included in the final cut. I would have gladly left out the Godzilla homage in the last twenty minutes if it meant we could have gotten better development for guys like Roland, Ludlow and Nick. If you want to know a ridiculous amount of stuff about the Jurassic Park franchise, Klayton Fioriti's channel is a goldmine. Here's a video on all the easter eggs you might have missed in The Lost World. Imagine if the second movie had ended with them escaping the island, with the bull captured, and then start a hypothetical Spielberg directed 3rd film focusing entirely on the Rex and other dinosaur stowaways getting loose in San Diego. Arc Hammer has a new favorite as of 05:30 on May 16, 2018 |
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May 16, 2018 04:51
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Arcsquad12 posted:David Koepp did a really good job writing the first two movies. I know people trash the second film (even though it is much better than 3 or World) That's not exactly a high bar to pass.
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May 18, 2018 08:46
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In Kung Fu Hustle when the beast is being freed, there are frogs/toads around the asylum in the background
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May 19, 2018 03:29
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Alhazred posted:That's not exactly a high bar to pass. No, the third film gets absurd to the point if parody, but the second film is still genuinely entertaining, even with the gymnastics scene.
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May 19, 2018 08:43
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All the Jurassic Park films are entertaining and extremely watchable but only the first one is what I’d call “good”
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May 19, 2018 15:34
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Jestery posted:In Kung Fu Hustle when the beast is being freed, there are frogs/toads around the asylum in the background In Jaws they play a really subtle theme whenever Jaws is about to strike
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Arcsquad12 posted:David Koepp did a really good job writing the first two movies. Isn't the second JP movie the one where a T-Rex chases everyone off a ship then is later found locked up in the hold?
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