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fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

I mainly listen to WHM over other bad movie podcasts because of the impressions that can quickly slide into improv comedy madness. Like Tom Berenger's character in The Substitute participating in Mortal Kombat.

Cacator posted:

For a different take on the lovely movie podcast, check out " Worst Idea Of All Time Podcast" run by a couple of New Zealanders who decide to watch Grown Ups 2 every week for a year which is my idea of hell. I'm only a few episodes in but it doesn't take them long to start to lose it.

Someone should do this in a Star Wars Minute fashion.

fatherboxx fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Dec 13, 2014

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fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

The second Jonathan Rhys-Davies tangent absolutely slayed me.
Same for Glengarry Glenn Kombat.

Mortal Kombat cartoon would make an amazing Animation Damnation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=555tbabw9tA

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013


Thank god, every podcast I listen to is free to go back into the loving embrace of chocolate jalapeno nom-noms

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Complaining about dumb poo poo lucas came up with and then praising a comic with DARK C3PO and DARK R2D2 in one breath, wow
Yoda impressions are the best though

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Indolent Bastard posted:

These guys are awfully upset by the Max Landis Mary-Sue thing. If you don't agree, just move on, but mocking Max and the fact that Rey is a Mary-Sue is really dorky.

The Victor Frankenstein burns were great what are you talking about

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

I think they are on the money by guessing that "My buddy, President Kevin James" was some unproduced idea that got pushed into Pixels.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

WAKE ME UP INSIDE (CANT WAKE UP)
They mention how Daredevil is still into post-Burton territory - it even ripped off the sketch scene from Batman '89:

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Count Chocula posted:

The guys accidentally summarized at least two Doctor Who episodes - the Dickens and Shakespeare ones.

"Oh, fifty-seven academics just punched the air."

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013


Funny how a movie with The Rock, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike would be beloved nerdbait if released now.
I mean, if the casting stays the same and the movie magically changes into something decent.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Jack Gladney posted:

I think scumbag Stan Lee is my favorite scumbag character of theirs. Is he in anything other than their Centurions review?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM8zB6zm860

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

There is a really great article about the production of Street Fighter Movie, it was an amazing disaster in every aspect

http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/3/10/5451014/street-fighter-the-movie-what-went-wrong

quote:

Van Damme is shooting guns, causing all sorts of mayhem, and he shouts to Chun-Li and Balrog: "Go, go, I'll catch you later." Here's what Van Damme said the first time: "Go, go, I'll catch you later — cut, cut, cut!"

It's unusual for an actor to call cut; that's the director's role, but Van Damme was sure he'd said "ladder" instead of "later" and he demanded they do it over. De Souza, stunned, noted the crew would need to rematch the bullet holes, rerig the actors who fell from catwalks back on their wires, clean off the costume and replace the blood packs. But Van Damme ordered another take.

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"I come from poverty," says Chapa, "and here I was making more money than I ever made in my whole life, plus the place was so cheap you could get a massage for $10. We became massage addicts, getting a massage every hour. We were working hard and our bodies were pushed to the extreme."

"Let's just put it this way," says Mann, "there were a lot of hormonal guys on this film running amok in Thailand and Australia, so you do the math. We were like cavemen. We were like Vikings. We went there and conquered."

The troubles in Bangkok culminated in the blowout of a local power station, which wasn't built to handle the energy demands of a major motion picture. It was as if the city itself had an allergic reaction to the film production.

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Today, in the digital era of filmmaking, directors can view footage on large high-definition screens off set as soon as it's shot, and even as it's shot on mini monitors on set. But in the 1990s, directors were forced to wait a day, sometimes two, to view processed film. De Souza, already unhappy with what he calls the "more provincial egos of the stunt people," discovered too late that the game's special moves weren't being incorporated into the brawls filmed by Picerni.

When the second unit team showed reluctance to include the special moves at de Souza's request — claiming the special moves "weren't real enough" — de Souza decided he would film them himself. And here's where things get muddy, as history changes depending on who's retelling it.

the best Street Fighter movie was made by Jackie Chan anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvkvPmHRI7E

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Amadeus is bad but watching Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls thirty times is completely normal

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

Calling the spider thing "Kevin Smith's one good story" is so loving dead on

There is also that one about him making a documentary about Prince that went into the vault

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

What's the deal with #WeWantWorf?

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dt3IrdampY

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

TetsuoTW posted:

e: The only reason I hope Landis gets to make his movie where orcs are literally stand-ins for black people so Max loving Landis, the epitome of born on third and thinks he hit a triple, can tell us how hard life is for minorities, is so that one day I can hear WHM make fun of it.

Are you making GBS threads me

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

JT Smiley posted:

I was actually surprised by that. Any other podcast I listen to would have had dbags tripping over themselves to bitch about censorship or "pc culture". It was really refreshing to see so many level headed people agreeing whole hardedly.

I think at this point all MEMEWATCH listeners have dropped WHM already, because guys never shy away from riffing on sexist bullshit in movies.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Evil Mastermind posted:

When they were doing the whole "Ben wanting to watch Reed and Sue get together" bit and the whole age difference thing, I was a bit surprised Steve didn't know about this "classic" page:

Comic booksJohn Byrne, ladies and gentlemen!

(Yeah, everyone after Byrne pretty much pretended that didn't happen)

John Byrne also had... strong opinions on the casting of Jessica Alba

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Dr. Clockwork posted:

Some of his movies were released in theaters, so that sets them above Asylum dreck. I can understand not wanting to do movies that other podcasts have done, but they've crossed over a lot.

Uwe Boll movies are so dire, there is barely there even to make fun of. Maybe Bloodrayne as a fodder for impressions.
And the "in on a joke" period movies (from Postal onwards) are even worse.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Half of him is in the robot heaven, the other half is in the human hell.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

4 has a goony lab worker transforming a gun into a My Little Pony toy.
Also a transformer in a robot trenchcoat.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

more than actual halloween I keep looking forward every year is hearing spooktacular theme song once every October week

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

It's been argued that the movies revel in their violence too much for this to be the case, but I don't feel this is true, because the way the violence is depicted isn't really fun. It's brutal, painful, and uncomfortable to watch, not cool and stylish, and as much as people rag on the aesthetic of the films, it really helps sell this.

Oh come on, not stylish? The traps are used on the posters, and WHM joke how Jigsaw is a steampunk nerd. Using a dozen cuts and filters to depict falling into a pool of used syringes IS trying to make it look cool and entertaining.

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

When the movies show people agreeing with Jigsaw, you're not supposed to think they're correct; you're supposed to examine your own beliefs, because a disturbing number of people pretty much think Jigsaw is right. There's no meaningful difference beyond theatrics between how Jigsaw treats people and how the American prison system does.

people love knowing that an enormous number of people is getting tortured and mutilated and degraded in the real world every second, providing them with an illusion of safety - that criticism would be falling on deaf ears for the next century at least. same goes for the Purge - it is the next step in power fantasy horror and god knows what will come after.
people get a thrill out of seeing random people on screen being punished based on grievances - just like the more conservative audiences of 70s and 80s loved seeing overly sexual teens get merked. Intent, whether the movie endorses something or not, is not important, but the cultural moment that the series dominated and exploited, is.

talking about Saw and 00s torture porn is more interesting than watching any of those movies now

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

did that movie really try to sell Wesley Snipes character as a dedicated miniature collector/painter

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

would pitching The Pest starring John Leguizamo for Listener Request Month in the future land me into Hague?

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

I guess not. I've seen people who loved the other new Star Wars movies say Solo is the best movie they've seen all year (or one of them at least). That just loving baffles me. It's like they're completely unable to find fault with them because they're Star Wars movies.

I liked The Force Awakens and Rogue One a lot, but this one bored the poo poo out of me.

I kinda accepted that the guys are way more into nerd movies like all the superhero stuff they do On-screens about and just skip those

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

please no one tell them about Protomen, it is too embarassing

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

"Jeffrey Epstone pterodactyl rides" jesus christ :gary:

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Deadguy2322 posted:

I gave them a shot, but I’m out. American podcasters need to grow up and realize nobody cares how much you hate Trump, unless your podcast is about politics. I want to hear about lovely movies. If I wanted to hear about lovely governments I could watch the news at home.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013


Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret - and - forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. I'm your host, Karina Longworth and this is another episode in our ongoing series *CAWWWWW* "Nevermore: the last flight of Jimmy the Raven"

fatherboxx fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Dec 21, 2018

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Tato posted:

I feel like Master of Disguise is similarly befuddling but not as offensive. But every moment you watch it you're still thinking "How was this made and approved and released?"

That movie has the best Imdb Tribune factoid ever

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

https://twitter.com/stephensajdak/status/1143521572822691840

Those are mental

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

They missed that Millar and J G Jones deliberately based main characters on Eminem and Halle Berry likenesses in the comic. That kind of brazen starfuckery brought the world Samuel L. Fury but no luck here.

Also, as per tradition, a reminder that Mark Millar is an incredibly stupid guy

quote:

“While down at the shops, I saw a black guy with [Down syndrome]. Amazing, as this is something my friends and I had queried for years. Is DS genetically localized to Caucasians. Yes, I’m now about to waste 20 mins phoning a couple of my pals to say so, but now me appetite has been whet and I’m curious if there are any Chinese or Indian Downs Syndrome people out there. Given that Scotland is almost entirely white my chances of seeing one here are slim, but I’m certainly on the look out now.”

quote:

“I pitched this to DC for a laugh years back. The idea was that, like Death of Superman, we had Rape of Wonder Woman; a twenty-two page rape scene that opened up into a gatefold at the end just like Superman did.”

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

AceOfFlames posted:

How the gently caress did this guy write the brilliance that is Superman: Red Son? He must have had a ghostwriter chained in his basement.

You are not far off, it is generally accepted that the idea of its ending came from Millar's mentor Grant Morrison. Morrison does not remember him fondly though:

quote:

He still lives in Glasgow, is there a chance of bumping into him?
There’s a very good chance of running into him, and I hope I’m going 100 miles an hour when it happens.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

AceOfFlames posted:

I was pretty stoked for this latest ep until 5 minutes in I realized this wasn't about that other lovely (and utterly insane) JCVD movie where he gets thrown in a rip-off of the Village from the Prisoner with Dennis Rodman (that's Double Team)

Both Tsui Hark JCVD movies (Knock Off and Double Team) are exquisite

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

BigglesSWE posted:

Whenever Griffin goes “ding doooooong” I get ‘nam flashbacks because that poo poo is horrendous.

"Go get your shinebox"
"Seriously, go get your shinebox"

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Hereditary is intentionally funny too

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Crowetron posted:

Expendables episode introduced the very slim possibility of a WLM on Universal Soldier and I want that so bad now

Have the guys somehow missed the last two ones that are really loving good? Day of Reckoning was incredibly hyped in film nerd circles when it released.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IKk3f5GCTQ

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fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Firstborn posted:

He would intentionally sabotage the fights that took place before/after his to not shift the spotlight away.

Tons of "okay Hulk, and then you lose this one at the end to give that younger star a push" plans that he just refuses to do the night of and makes things awkward for everyone

https://twitter.com/HulkHogan/status/125437560418865152

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