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Pope Corky the IX posted:I forgot about Guttenberg. He actually dropped out of the series after part 4 to do Three Men and a Baby, which made a metric buttload of money, so good for him.
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Tom Selleck and Ted Danson were the most popular male leads on TV, so combining that star power in a family-friendly comedy with a massive amount of appeal to adult women was, well, what it was: the recipe to a very very big hit.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:The trajectory of the Police Academy movies always amused me. The first one is your standard raunchy late 70s/early 80s comedy with a solid R rating. It does well so I guess they wanted more...kids to see it? Because the first sequel was PG-13, and then every one after that was PG with humor aimed at ten year olds. With the exception of the Blue Oyster Bar scenes. They turned it into a cartoon and a line of action figures, too: https://youtu.be/QCUoYIECWAY
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Starring Susanna Hoffs and directed by Tamar Hoffs. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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The Cameo posted:Tom Selleck and Ted Danson were the most popular male leads on TV, so combining that star power in a family-friendly comedy with a massive amount of appeal to adult women was, well, what it was: the recipe to a very very big hit. This was also around the time of the "Echo Boom": lots of Baby Boomers were now starting families of their own and in the media you suddenly saw a lot of movies about babies and having kids and parenting. I suspect it's also why Ghostbusters II is so heavily focused on Dana having a kid.
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I've never heard the name Tamar before, so presumed it was her husband (the Simon bit didn't hurt). Turns out I'm wrong!quote:A perfectly dreadful film whose chief selling point is that it's the first starring role for Bangles lead singer Susanna Hoffs and that the director is none other than Mom, Tamar Simon Hoffs. Anyway, I've never looked at a poster and had that film entered in my Cult and Trash section of Plex so fast, thanks for posting!
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Splint Chesthair posted:They turned it into a cartoon and a line of action figures, too: Sounds familiar... https://youtu.be/Pp8Ur8D8Obo What a weird time.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:e: wrong thread It's a fun movie, done by "Savage " Steve Holland of "Better Off Dead" fame. Also, all that dialogue in the word balloons on the poster? Not in the film.
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Davros1 posted:It's a fun movie, done by "Savage " Steve Holland of "Better Off Dead" fame. Also, all that dialogue in the word balloons on the poster? Not in the film. Yeah I was going to also say the movie is entertaining but the poster isn't the tone or the quality of the writing.
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Maxwell Lord posted:This was also around the time of the "Echo Boom": lots of Baby Boomers were now starting families of their own and in the media you suddenly saw a lot of movies about babies and having kids and parenting. I suspect it's also why Ghostbusters II is so heavily focused on Dana having a kid. This is true, and also explains the existence and disturbingly large success of Look Who’s Talking.
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This also implies we'll be getting a massive influx of the same pretty soon, if not presently. If the late 80's was a bunch of 30-something Boomers having children, we're in the splash zone for 30-something Millennials doing the exact same thing. I know most of my mid-30's friends all had children in the last ~4 years, and we're closer to the Gen X side of the Millennial distribution curve. Anna Kendrick, Chris Pratt, and Kevin Hart in Look Who's T4lking. It'll suck.
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Millennials are currently on a negative population growth trajectory, so that’s doubtful. About three out of every five children born to Millennial mothers were already born before 2018. There is no baby boom for Millennials to have, because economic forces have basically squashed the ability to have a level of comfort for enough of the generation to even consider having kids.
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Xealot posted:This also implies we'll be getting a massive influx of the same pretty soon, if not presently. If the late 80's was a bunch of 30-something Boomers having children, we're in the splash zone for 30-something Millennials doing the exact same thing. I know most of my mid-30's friends all had children in the last ~4 years, and we're closer to the Gen X side of the Millennial distribution curve. The differences between not only the Boomer and Millennial generations, but also 80's Hollywood and today's make think that is unlikely. A few occurrences, yes, I doubt anything of note, and most likely straight to streaming (even without Covid).
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As an Echo Boomer myself I remember when Millennials were called Echo Boomers.
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I will never forgive John Cusack for hating Better Off Dead.
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It's a classic but there is definitely a better movie in there. The claymation Everybody Wants Some scene kind of stands out to me as something that may be horrible on re-watch
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Gripweed posted:How could claymation ever be horrible? Even Laserblast had solid claymation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVII3jslO2o&t=76s
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Laserblast is better than people give it credit for. It's certainly aged way better than you'd think
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EDDIE DEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZEEEEEEEEENNNNNN
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Our generations “30 Something” would be half of us living at home, a quarter with 4 roommates and the other quarter struggling to survive.
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The thing about Segal movies, from what little I can remember, is that he never seemed in actual danger in fights. He just kicked the poo poo out of everybody with no drama or danger to his character Imagine if the t 800 just effortlessly beat the t1000 in every encounter
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deoju posted:More piling on Steven Segal... He drove a police tank into a house and killed a puppy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mgIWmCSK_Q THAT'S RIGHT, STEVEN SEAGAL killed a puppy
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caligulamprey posted:I will never forgive John Cusack for hating Better Off Dead. I thought he hated One Crazy Summer, he liked Better Off Dead enough to do a second movie with the director. The story I heard was from Savage Steve Holland himself at a double feature screening. Better Off Dead was a good enough experience for the two to work together again on One Crazy Summer. After shooting, Holland showed a preview cut to the cast and crew, Cusack was dead silent throughout the screening, left and hasn’t talked to the director since. Still sucks either way as both movies are masterpieces, weird claymation/animation segments and all.
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It's because he's a miserable drunk.
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zenintrude posted:Sounds familiar... Knew this was gonna be Robocop before I clicked the link
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ruddiger posted:Still sucks either way as both movies are masterpieces, weird claymation/animation segments and all. And yet still not the most important thing Savage Steve Holland gave the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asqNyc8XdmA
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Xealot posted:This also implies we'll be getting a massive influx of the same pretty soon, if not presently. If the late 80's was a bunch of 30-something Boomers having children, we're in the splash zone for 30-something Millennials doing the exact same thing. I know most of my mid-30's friends all had children in the last ~4 years, and we're closer to the Gen X side of the Millennial distribution curve. I think the equivalent of that was all the Dad Games (Last of Us, Fallout 4, new God of War, etc).
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EL BROMANCE posted:Same. Weird, thumbnail didn't show up for me
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Dangerous Person posted:Weird, thumbnail didn't show up for me It's not embedded in the post and just shows as a link in a browser, but some of the mobile apps autoembed unembedded youtubes
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Dangerous Person posted:Weird, thumbnail didn't show up for me I get thumbnails when viewing the forums on my phone but not on desktop. I'm not quite sure what's up with that.
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ruddiger posted:I thought he hated One Crazy Summer, he liked Better Off Dead enough to do a second movie with the director. He tells the same story in his AV Club interview. What he thinks is that Cusack's stock was rising as an Actor but now he was in this silly comedy and felt embarrassed by it all.
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Erebus posted:And yet still not the most important thing Savage Steve Holland gave the world
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Con Air would've been improved by casting someone other than John Cusack
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caligulamprey posted:Out for Justice is perfect garbage trash and I love it very much. Is that the one with "I'm gonna take YOU to the bank...the blood bank!"
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oldpainless posted:The thing about Segal movies, from what little I can remember, is that he never seemed in actual danger in fights. He just kicked the poo poo out of everybody with no drama or danger to his character Oh, absolutely. I seem to remember more than once instance of Segal literally begging crimepunks to fight him, getting on his knees and saying, "I'll close my eyes on my knees, you kick me in the face first, go ahead take your best shot" Did I mention the thing where he only goes for movies with three short words as a title? He thinks it makes the movies better, a good luck charm from the time when he was thinner, younger, and somehow had less hair (gently caress steven segal lol) e: I remember that time he was being interviewed about the UFC fight he just saw, and he put on his yellow operator sunglasses so he could oogle the interviewer's tits the whole time, I guess not remembering that we can see his eyes through the frames Firstborn fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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Cats, sacks, man, wives - how many went to see St. Ives?
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That's about as complimentary as you can draw Charles Bronson, so that is at least noteworthy.
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