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  1. Outside of Sidney Poitier and Danny Glover, Black leads were often aged out of action/adventure roles at like the midpoint of their careers and usually became character actors playing police chiefs or mayors. Sam Jackson sort of broke that mold, but he also didn’t become a star until middle age and has basically looked the same for forty years. 

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  2. The Vourdelak is great folk horror influenced by Hammer and 70s European arthouse period dramas. I’d classify it as comedic horror I suppose. The creature and its interactions with the ensemble are so goddam funny; the less you know going in the better. It has a lot of fun with the differences and similarities between the 18th century and today’s masculine ideals. 

    The line, “May those who won’t open their eyes answer for our imminent woes,” really got me. 

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  3. If Rodriguez hadn’t been on From Dusk til Dawn to spray Quentin with a hose while shooting the Salma Hayek dance, he would’ve choked to death on her foot and we wouldn’t have gotten Jackie Brown or anything since. 

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  4. Elevator pitch for Gremlins 3: 

    It opens with them killing Zaslav and running rampant over the WB lot and ends when they’re trapped on a hard drive and erased into a shadow realm with Batgirl and Wile E Coyote. 

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  5. 2 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:

    The all-time best "Die Hard on/in X" remains the Anna Nicole Smith Skyscraper which, I swear to God, the VHS cover literally had a blurb that said "It's like Die Hard in a skyscraper."

    This is a major touchstone for my wife and I. We regularly say, “I told you I’d take a year off from flying to have a baby!” 

    It has one of the most gratuitously unnecessary soft core scenes in movie history. She gets a gun off of a dead terrorist and then has a flashback to her boyfriend teaching her how to use one at a homemade target range, then a full sex scene between them, before returning to the closeup of Anna Nicole looking at the gun. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

    I always thought Hercules in New York was fun and funny. It'd be cool to have a version where Arnold isn't dubbed to watch.

    They made the right call with the dub. In the 60s Arnold was hitting the gym way harder than the ESL textbooks. It’s fun that he sounds like every future bad Arnold impression. 

     

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  7. 15 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

    I have to ask, at what point in the film did they do that? 

    When they’re machine gunning Hitler’s corpse just for fun. 

    Schwarzenegger started in comedy too. His early work is mostly stuff like Hercules in New YorkThe Villain, and Stay Hungry.  He even worked with Lucille Ball.   

    There’s also his dramatic turn guest starring on Streets of San Francisco, which is quite funny but not on purpose. 

     

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  8. 6 hours ago, zendragon said:

    here's the thing you don't get more daylight. This would just move it from the morning to the evening so the sun wouldn't rise till 8 or 9 am

    For me personally it has more to do with already having major circadian rhythm disruption issues that are aggravated by the time changes. I’m sort of starting at a disadvantage before the light exposure is even a factor. That said, I do take vitamin D and I really should bite the bullet and buy a sun a lamp. 

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  9. Hammer once getting as close to being Batman as a costume fitting and now being reduced to that rules.

    Hopefully the Uwe Boll vs Christopher Nolan boxing match that results from  this won’t have too many buffering issues on Netflix. 

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