Mister TV

He should have gone into the HOF decades ago, total bullshit that the gatekeepers waited this long to put him in. This one hurts, he was my favorite player as a kid.

Was flipping through the channels last week and saw that IFC had a National Lampoon's Vacation marathon, since I'm heading off you Europe tomorrow night I decided to watch National Lampoon's European Vacation. First I remember seeing this while on vacation in Wildwood, New Jersey, and I don't think I've seen it start to finish since maybe when I rented it a year or so later, it was a staple on HBO so I remember jumping into at after it started many many times. I think I like this more than Vacation, it moves from bit to bit at a good pace, while the original drags at points, I also never found the Uncle Eddie character funny and he's not in this! Joke wise it bats around .550 and the jokes that don't land or aged aren't that bad. Also, had this been made now or they did a European sequel to the Ed Helms Vacation, they'd totally shot the whole thing in Atlanta or Vancouver, this movie actually went to London, Paris, Rome and a German speaking part of Italy. Staying with the travel theme I re-watched Airplane! just like European Vacation this was on premium cable a lot when I was a kid, still a fun watch and almost all of the jokes are still funny. Last night Netflix suggested Airport, so I gave that a re-watch. This was one of the movies we played during the day at Blockbuster since it was a G, this is the horniest G rated movie ever made, yes its from 1970 and they were still figuring out the rating system, but there's some horny scenes and dialog in this that makes you go "this is a G?". It's also comically over dramatic, and extra over dramatic when Maureen Stapleton is on screen. Helen Hunt totally steals the movie and you can see why she won Best Supporting Actress for this, George Kennedy looks like he's having a blast in his role as Joe Patroni, so much that I kind of feel they gave him the contract for all the sequels when he walked off set one day, Dean Martin is cool as always but seems silly when he has to be frustrated, he calls executive types Penguins and I totally dig that term, they might as well named Burt Lancaster's character Burt Lancaster, with a few exceptions he seems to be playing Burt Lancaster in almost everything. There's multiple scenes where abortion is discussed in a manor that was surprising in today's eyes, hell even in 1993 eyes when I first saw this. It also has that cool late 60's multi box look and editing, like the Woodstock doc that came out that year.

Just looked over what was all nominated for the 1997 Oscars and ouch! That As Good as it Gets, The Full Monty and Good Will Hunting all got nominated for Best Picture over Jackie Brown and Boogie Nights is just wrong. Same with Jack Nicholson winning Best Actor over Robert Duvall for The Apostle and even Peter Fonda in Ulee's Gold. Totally forgot that the actors in L.A. Confidential didn't get nominated for anything!

Once and awhile I fall down a rabbit hole of Siskel & Ebert reviews, about three videos in the other day I stumbled across this one for Brian DePalma's Wise Guys and they both loved it. I hadn't seen Wise Guys since maybe 1990 when it faded away from its cable tv rotation and couldn't remember if it was good or bad, so I gave it a re-watch. Yikes its bad, there's zero chemistry between Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo, the jokes aren't funny, where were the people protesting The Sopranos for disparaging Italian-Americans when this came out, and its bad when a movies bright spot is Captain Lou basically being Captain Lou. Now, there's actually a decent story that was most likely lifted from some old gangster movie that could have worked as a drama with some jokes thrown in or a black comedy. Siskel & Ebert are so enthusiastic about this flick but its so bad. This isn't on any streaming services but multiple people uploaded it to YouTube, which makes me think whoever own the rights gives zero F's about it.

Seeing their names in the post has me wishing there was a Dan Severn & Steve Blackman tag team.

Pretty much the same, won't go to the theater to see this but will watch when it hits I'm assuming Paramount+.

I'm assuming that's what people were doing and why they're working in another commercial. I'm not the one to ask on this since 90% of the time when I goto the movies its on Free Popcorn Tuesday's, it totally varies on how long you have to wait in line at the concession stand, so we always get there a little early. Also, I go to Emagine Theaters which is a small chain, they always run a thing with their CEO hamming it up right before the movie starts.

Assuming that “premium spot” is right after the last trailer and right before the movie starts. I don’t go to AMC that often, but I think they stop commercials before the trailer’s start.

The Roller Derby World Cup is less than a month away, there's going to be 48 teams and I'm coaching one of them! This will be the third time I coach Greece in the World Cup, while we'll never compete for a medal we're looking to come out of our bouts with a winning record. The World Cup is going to be in Innsbruck Austria, which means lodging is expensive:/ Not sure if this is allowed here but if anyone wants to help out the team by buying some merch the link is below. https://linktr.ee/rollerderbygreece Edit: Opps originally put this in the media thread by mistake.

Opps, moved my roller derby post to the interesting sports thread.

The fake crowd noise for the attacks on tv doesn't really work when you don't see the actual crowd sitting on their hands. Furry Oven Mitts Furface was a much better look, kind of surprised they didn't recycle it for someone else. Wow is Rick Martel JACKED in these!

Did a quick re-cast during lunch without using anyone in the actual flick. Pumpkin - Christian Slater Honey Bunny - Marisa Tomei Vincent - Gary Oldman Lance - Nick Cage Jody - Lili Taylor Mia - Jennifer Beals Jules - Charles Dutton Butch - Matt Dillon Fabian - Julie Delpy The Wolf - Michael Keaton Koons - Tommy Lee Jones Marcellus - Bill Duke

No they just did crossover epiodes, the Judge was on Night Court and Bull was on My Two Dads.

He ain’t going last 5 games with the current the Steelers O Line and inevitable measles outbreak among the team.

So this is basically an action remake of basic cable mainstay My Fellow Americans with Jack Lemmon & James Gardner.