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Franchescanado posted:Is there more to this story? I guess it didn't happen. I thought she had included a teaser for it at the end of Best Worst Movie or somewhere on the dvd. She has a twitter and a facebook that are both kind of weird, but she seems like an ok lady and I'm glad she's doing ok. Her being in the movie would have evened out some of the depressing poo poo like the mom and the grandpa.
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LogisticEarth posted:I was borderline between the Mr. Wizard and Beakman/Nye runs. Mr. Wizard's World ended in 1990 but was on re-runs for years. Beakman started in 1992 and Nye in 1993. I still think Mr. Wizard was probably the most informative (if less exciting), as it left out a lot of the wiz-bang of Nye and Beakman. I watched a few episodes of Nye and it was way more random/ADD than I remember. I think Nye was a little innovative with that style at the time, but in the post YouTube era that style has been so worn out it's way, way too annoying for me to enjoy it anymore. Mr. Wizard supremacy. He was the best and the greatest, and you could tell he hated those loving kids and was tolerating them because science education was just that important to him.
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Jun 17, 2015 00:18
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ChickenMedium posted:He wouldn't be racist, he'd be whatever the Japanese version of an Uncle Tom is. A Mister Moto?
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Jun 19, 2015 01:25
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Watching Ender's Game on that HBO streaming service now. Good god it's horrible. Is it really all about how brilliant people are better than everyone else and don't carry any responsibility for their actors in the service of a fascist state? It's a movie literally about how awesome it is being a child soldier. I knew nothing about it going in, but it's like Starship Troopers played straight.
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Jun 22, 2015 06:16
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Yeah, even after watching the whole thing it just seems like the story is constructed around celebrating a blameless youth for his intelligence and innate superiority. Like, I don't buy his concern for that bug planet at all because the story seems all about his righteous indignation at being used to blow it up rather than anything to do with the moral implications of what he'd done--knowingly or not. Like, somehow he's the victim even in basically being space Rommel. It's a mark of adolescence to be utterly obsessed with yourself and to think of everything in terms of yourself, but here it's like the movie validates that point of view even when the bare facts of the plot are that the kid has to face up to having done something wrong and needing to fix it. The whole thing just left a gross taste in my brain after the way the rest of the movie presents the most important thing about fascist militarism as basically that it's an interesting and fun thing for smart boys who like puzzles. It's like the opposite of the Oppenheimer quote or Cat's Cradle.
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Jun 22, 2015 09:31
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Loki_XLII posted:Got it into my head we were still talking about Fruitvale Station, and spent a while trying to parse this. I wish I had watched Fruitvale Station.
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Jun 22, 2015 12:17
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If anyone who saw Kink has HBO Now, there's an episode of Real Sex from probably 1999 featuring the CEO of the porn company from back when he was just the head of an internet startup with a remote-controlled dildo and a dream. I think one of the mechanical sex things he had was featured in the movie. Real Sex is the weirdest 90s time capsule. Do they ever put up old Taxi Cab Confessions?
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Jun 25, 2015 05:21
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What about The Great Mouse Detective? It's never too soon to learn about Vincent Price.
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Jul 9, 2015 18:25
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Lycus posted:Ascension was aggressively boring, couldn't get through it. I quit after the first episode. I'm guessing there's some kind of twist about their mission not being what they think--like Earth was actually destroyed by nuclear war and they're going back in time to fix it or something dumb, but I wasn't even motivated enough to google it. It's like somebody at the network saw that mad men was popular and demanded a sci-fi mad men and then never checked up on it after that.
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Jul 13, 2015 01:20
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Is Human Target still up? That seems to hit a lot of the same beats. Agents of Shield, too, in its own way.
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Jul 16, 2015 03:54
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Aw man, everybody watch Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends before it's gone. It's not as crazy as the 60s cartoon, but still wonderfully weird, and narrated by a middle-aged Stan Lee.
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Jul 29, 2015 11:33
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K. Waste posted:Speaking of said dirtbag agent, this 'take it with a grain of salt' interview post-film has at least one choice quote (http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/hot-girls-wanted-porn-agent/): "I thought it was just going to show our silly fun behind the scenes. There's nothing bad or scary about my gross hoarder house." FLASHBACK TO AN ACTUAL SCENE FROM HOT GIRLS WANTED *Woman screams from off-camera, followed by sounds of a stuggle. Terrified woman runs into frame* "Your drunk friend tried to rape me!" "Haha, yeah" *smiles into camera* END FLASHBACK "How could any of this make me look bad?"
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Jul 30, 2015 15:22
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I often wonder how you'd "redo" Talhotblonde. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2180168/
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Jul 30, 2015 17:10
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Wing Commander is also weird because of that Matthew Lillard/Jake Busey mindfuck that happened when it and Starship Troopers came out at the same time.
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Aug 8, 2015 07:37
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Basebf555 posted:Yea, this is a good point. Even when a film is trying to portray a boring and tedious job they never go far enough because then who'd watch it? A true-to-life Clerks would be 99% Dante sitting in silence, flipping through magazines and maybe once a shift an interesting character comes in and converses with him. The restaurant staff in Waiting is ten times more humorous, interesting, and charismatic than any place I've ever worked. Those two movies were made by people distilling their actual experiences in those jobs into a film, though. Most movies about cops and lawyers are made by people who learned about them by watching L.A. Law when they were 10.
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Aug 10, 2015 18:23
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Doesn't ZDT specifically point out that intelligence gathering is a much finer art that indiscriminate torture? The woman who the main character in that is based on is known in the CIA for ordering suspects to be tortured because she likes to watch it. Also she had the wrong person kidnapped and tortured twice. Also her team never got any useful information from all that torture. The non-torture team got everything good and was then disbanded for making the other team look bad.
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Aug 10, 2015 22:22
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I would do the Apple and Xanadu as a kind of disco A-Z(-sound) thing.
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Aug 14, 2015 02:42
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The adult Marjoe also stars in Star Crash. And Food of the Gods. He's a fascinating person, and a good guy.
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Aug 15, 2015 05:59
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girth brooks part 2 posted:There was period where Christopher Walken literally never turned down a role. If you had a script and a handful of cash you could get Christopher Walken sight unseen. That's one road to becoming iconic, I suppose, just show up in everything until people can't help but know who you are. Why can't more actors turn out like Vincent Price when they try that?
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Aug 19, 2015 03:15
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The year that came out was rough for Rob Corddry, as he was also in a bad relationship in The Way Way Back. Independent cinema was very rough on the hearts of men played by Rob Corddry that year.
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Aug 23, 2015 02:26
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They did Avengers 2 before regular Avengers?
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Aug 31, 2015 01:21
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Paper Kaiju posted:This should have been bolded. Anyone who can follow unabridged Shakespearean dialogue and wants to see Ralph Finnes in a tragic rivalry/bromance with Gerard Butler needs to check this one out before it leaves. The DVD director's commentary is delightful. He's so pleased with that movie in such a joyful way I can never hate it.
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Aug 31, 2015 23:35
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They always take down all the Friday the 13 movies in September or August, and I always forget to watch them before they do.
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Sep 1, 2015 01:40
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Foodfight is up on Prime and it is indescribable agony to sit through. It's like a much more nakedly cynical attempt at what the Lego Movie does, except it's also incomprehensibly ugly and badly plotted. I read on wiki that the movie was finished by an insurance company after the studio defaulted on its debt to them, and you can really tell that insurance salesmen made this film. It's fascinating that anyone believed that there would be a market for a movie about product mascots, and also that a ton of conglomerates clearly revoked permission to use their logos and mascots after seeing the thing. There are rows and rows of blank white boxes between occasional Swifers in tons of scenes. Mr. Clean and Charlie Tuna are about the only brands left. It's kind of fun trying to figure out which national brands were changed to generic characters at the last minute. It also has the insidious message that the store brand is evil and an enemy to kids' beloved food products, not that any kids could make it that far into the movie without getting motion sickness.
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Sep 8, 2015 19:12
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Evil Mastermind posted:
Every frame of the human characters looks like this. They just wobble and stagger around no matter what they're saying or doing, even if they're just talking to each other.
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Sep 9, 2015 01:57
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Emergency! seems to just be entirely about representing rescue procedure as realistically as possible. The characters are as bland and dedicated to doing their jobs as any you'd find in a training film. 60s people were apparently very entertained by seeing CPR and people being put onto gurneys.
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Sep 19, 2015 00:48
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He's the moon landing denialist, right? The Man Show has many crimes to answer for.
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Oct 27, 2015 20:02
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Simplex posted:I've been watching Ancient Aliens and it is really... something. I've scene bits and pieces of it flipping through the channels so I knew to expect a whole bunch of bad science, which the show really delivers on. However, I wasn't prepare for the bad religion, which is a pretty fun twist. I thought the only thing that the show was missing for the History Channel trifecta was some Hitler. Then bam, in episode 3, Nazi UFO based superweapons. There really is something to offend every sensibility.
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Oct 31, 2015 01:30
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King of Bleh posted:Yeah they weren't exactly going for any sort of shocking twist when they name his character "Louis Cyphre". Jack Chick should sue for plagiarism.
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Nov 8, 2015 06:21
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mysterious frankie posted:I'm glad someone else can confirm that The Visitor exists. I mentioned it in this thread a while ago and got nothing. I was hoping to form an ad hoc support group for people left in the wake of that bewildering film, but since no one was forthcoming at the time I just went ahead and channeled all that rage and confusion into the resurrection of the Northside Chicago street gang The Almighty Gaylords. I'm watching it now. The score is the craziest loving thing. That and everything else about it. What is that disco gymnastics montage about?
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Nov 14, 2015 01:52
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Anyone have any thoughts on The Nightmare? I wasn't expecting an actual documentary, but I was really getting into the people's claims that their sleep paralysis was letting them see into the malign supra-reality lurking behind daily existence. Yet the movie kind of backed off on them right as they were getting around to claiming that they were seeing behind the veil of existence, or at least something independent of their own psychologies. I guess maybe that would be a mean thing for the movie to do, and kind of at odds with the impulse to capture their subjective experiences and the way that the objective medical diagnosis of sleep paralysis does nothing to communicate what experiencing it is actually like. But if they're going to start making claims about other people seeing their demons or Laotians bringing evil spirits into the United States in their dreams, I say go with it.
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Nov 16, 2015 01:51
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What were his reasons?
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Dec 4, 2015 17:39
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That critique has been around since the movie came out, and Gale or Zemeckis concedes (I forget which one) that it's correct on the dvd commentary. Though it ignores that George and Lorraine are more confident and happier and that's why they are more successful.
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Dec 4, 2015 20:27
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The reason I say that is because George's new career is one he followed because he had the guts to punch Biff and ask Lorraine out instead of being a passive creep--or that's what I remember. Marty, on the other hand, is rewarded entirely with material things and totally fine with the trade-off of living the rest of his life with strangers who look just like his now-erased loved ones. Just look at that truck, new-timeline Jennifer! It's kind of like I killed the people I knew with my meddling and now you're here instead, but look at that truck!
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Dec 4, 2015 20:44
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Friday the 13th Part III is necessary because that's where Jason got his hockey mask. Part II is unnecessary because nobody cares about that burlap sack. Also Escape from the Planet of the Apes was necessary because it sets up the time loop that allows the first movie to happen, but Beneath the Planet of the Apes is unnecessary because the time machine already left by then.
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Dec 8, 2015 20:22
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Patrick Wilson strikes me as a guy who is perfect at being one very specific kind of character. Like, he can really vanish into a role as long as it requires that he put on 20 pounds and wear those big 80s child-molester glasses.
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Dec 11, 2015 15:11
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Prime has what seems to be every episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It may not be something anyone else cares about, but I find the episodes hypnotic in a Bob Ross way.
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Dec 14, 2015 03:15
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Maybe listen to the Radiolab episode about the guy as a warm-up. It's kind of a short tour of the content you might see a lot more of in the show.
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Dec 31, 2015 15:46
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I have Prime through my bluray player, and it has a garbage interface.
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GonSmithe posted:So Carousel of Sex is a Fifty Shades of Grey cash in, and the other one as far as I can tell is a SkineMax movie. That's a rough loving choice. Do they still have that Asylum version of 50 Shades with Cordelia from Buffy? It was surprisingly nuts at the end.
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