Execproducer Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 The idea supposedly came from a manga, the title of which escapes me at the moment. The stretching limbs gimmick isn't unique to MotFG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 So they came up with an Indian yogi with magic stretching limbs independently? I believe that debunking about as much as I believe John Lennon claiming "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" is about a picture Julian drew and not LSD... Julian has also confirmed it not to mention the fact that there was a legit Lucy in his class (who has since passed away.) Not everything that seems to be bullshit has to actually be bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 So they came up with an Indian yogi with magic stretching limbs independently? I believe that debunking about as much as I believe John Lennon claiming "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" is about a picture Julian drew and not LSD... The idea supposedly came from a manga, the title of which escapes me at the moment. The stretching limbs gimmick isn't unique to MotFG. Yeah, it really seems to me that if the SFII guys weren't inspired by MotFG then they were inspired by someone else who was previously inspired by MotFG. Like, if they really were inspired by the manga, the manga might have been inspired by MotFG. It just seems like way too much of a coincidence to not be connected. Watched Surviving Christmas which is still terrible. Though it's quite fun to see two guys who are such respected dramatic actors James Gandolfini and Ben Affleck (Well Affleck since his acting rehab/reform) play goofball characters in a goofball movie. The opening credits are probably the best part of the film. Home Alone Man, the old guy is so creepy. When he says to Kevin "You can say hi to me" in the church, you wanna say "Hey, if you didn't stare at people in stores without smiling or saying a word, more people would probably say hi to you!" Also, Joe Pesci threatening to bite Macauley Culkin's fingers is a really weird and upsetting in-movie threat. Unfinished Business: God help me, I actually l enjoyed this. I actually thought its take on bullying was pretty honest and realistic Vince Vaughn tells his overweight son that he's changing schools, but it probably won't make a difference, that he'll probably still get bullied so he'll just have to be tough but it was fairly funny. Dave Franco's character is really funny and Tom Wilkinson's presence alone adds a level of pathos that you're not really expecting. I was totally okay with this movie, it's not a game-changer or anything, but it's silly and sporadically funny which is more than I expected. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 The Mortal Kombat movie spawned one of my favourite lines I can only utter to myself because it would make no goddamn sense to anyone else. Those were $500 sunglasses, asshole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 TCM just played Class of 1984 as its Underground pick for the night and it was a privilege to finally see this movie. I've seen bits on TV before and seen the video box since I was a kid (and also watched its unabashed ripoff/homage Class of Nuke 'Em High 1000 times) but never the whole thing, and man was that a romp. Looking it up, Roger Ebert actually gave it 3 1/2 stars, and this was in his squeamish/overly-socially-conscious '80s period! That's a pretty big shock for a film that is full of drug dealing and consumption, pimping, brutal violence and a really nasty ending. Roddy McDowall as the drunk science teacher who ends up with all his lab animals eviscerated then holds the students at gunpoint was just awesome. It's really senselessly goofy in a couple ways -- Perry King is unrealistically self-righteous, the police are a complete non-issue despite being a factor throughout the film -- but that Wes Craven ending was perfect. Maybe that's why Ebert liked it so much as it reminded him of his guilty pleasure The Last House on the Left... Oh, and we now have yet another El Rey Total Package that hasn't been aired yet. C'mon Robert, do the right thing. Class of 1984 and Class of 1999 Bare Knuckle Mondays Double Feature! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Annnnnd the name of the Manga is JoJo's Bizarre Adventures. The SFII history is a pretty interesting read. http://www.polygon.com/a/street-fighter-2-oral-history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 I forgot to mention that Class of 1984 features thee WORST Alice Cooper song of all time. Try to sit through this without cringing: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Home Alone Man, the old guy is so creepy. When he says to Kevin "You can say hi to me" in the church, you wanna say "Hey, if you didn't stare at people in stores without smiling or saying a word, more people would probably say hi to you!" Also, Joe Pesci threatening to bite Macauley Culkin's fingers is a really weird and upsetting in-movie threat. Classic. Always a great watch. Last Monday marked the 25th anniversary of Home Alone so AMC will be airing it tomorrow night, Friday and Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 John Williams' score for Home Alone adds so much. Great movie that I will try to watch once a year for the rest of my days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 the original Mortal Kombat movie (1995) i freaking love. it's not the greatest, but i watched it in theaters when i was a wee lad and enjoyed it immensely. All of my favorite characters were there and it was awesome. the sequel, MK: Annihilation, was pure shite and i couldn't be bothered to watch it if you paid me. MK: Conquest (aired on TNT after Nitro) was horrible and boring. don't think i ever finished the series, but i tried really hard. MK: The Journey Begins (a direct-to-video animated movie) was aimed at little kids and wasn't good at all. i couldn't make it all the way through. MK: Defenders of the Realm (animated series on USA in the mid '90s) was decent but had nothing to do with anything. Street Fighter i hated when i was younger, but i watched it probably a decade ago and immediately realized that it was awesome in an Adam West Batman kind of way. Super underappreciated. never watched the horrible Chun-Li solo film. there was a mid 90s cartoon simply called 'Street Fighter' that i remember not hating. the Street Fighter: 10 Years Later series of internet shorts was phenomenal. highly recommended if you haven't seen them. Tekken (2009 film) i actually liked better than i expected to. it wasn't amazing, but it was a pretty good little flick. it's sequel was not so good. i guess you could say i'm a sucker for fighting game movies. or a glutton for punishment. or both. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 the Street Fighter: 10 Years Later series of internet shorts was phenomenal. highly recommended if you haven't seen them.Oh hell yeah, Street Fighter: The Later Years. BRILLIANT web series. "Did I mention, I had to eat rats?" Even though it's got the production values of a low-end porn parody, that's a perfect example of a loving tribute being made by people who were clearly just as big fans of the original games as we were. It's got all the little in-jokes you want for this kind of thing, right down to the hilarious final punchline. EDIT: here, check it out for yourself if you've never seen it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 ah, "Later Years". can't believe i forgot the title and i knew 10 Years Later didn't sound right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Maggie is kinda awesome and really sad and really well-acted. I really wish it had more of an audience so I could see Arnold Schwarzenegger get an Oscar nomination because he was really good here.I watched half an hour of Aloha and it's fascinating but pretty bad. It's almost like a Family Guy parody of what a Cameron Crowe film is. The scene where Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams make eyes at each other as a soldier's coffin is unloaded off a plane is just unconscionable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Are you guys really arguing about Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies a page after nate and I were referencing Master Of The Flying Guillotine, which is pretty much the best possible Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat movie ever made, back in 1976~? It's possible they're heathens who've never seen that greatness. Do either of you REALLY believe that neither Curt or I all people haven't seen Master of the Flying Guillotine? Seriously? We've probably seen more flying guillotine related kung fu movies than all of you put together. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I haven't seen it. For most people, Hong Kong kung-fu flicks from the 1970s which don't star Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan are things which sadly tend to be outside our wheelhouses. Even I've only seen a small handful of 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 No one but me watched Kung Fu Theater on Sunday Afternoons on the USA Network back in the day or remembers Samurai Saturdays on IFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 We used to watch some kind of saturday afternoo. kung fu show on channel 48 in philly at the comic show tight before Caliente. How many nerd things can you have in 1 sentence? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Shit, back when Rentertainment was still open in town, which had the biggest selection of foreign films ever, the one Chinese rental I made aside from John Woo films (I'm such a fucking idiot) was Master of the Flying Guillotine. It took El Rey to show me the error of my ways but thanks to them I have seen at least Flying Guillotine One though I don't recall if I caught Two yet when it was on. EDIT: Oh yeah, that Street Fighter 2 oral history is great, give it a read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Watched About Elly today. This is an Iranian movie, originally made in 2009, but seems to have played only at festivals in North America until just being released in NYC earlier this year. A group of adult friends hang out at a beach house for the weekend, with some of them bringing along their young children, and one woman bringing her daughter's teacher, in the hopes of setting him up with one of the guys on the trip. Similar to A Separation (easy comparison, I know), this is low-budget to the point where it starts off feeling like you or I could have made this movie, at least in theory. Just buy a video camera and film a bunch of your friends hanging out, it's easy. And then things start happening, and it gets really, really interesting. Good stuff. Also just realized that Secret In Their Eyes is hovering around the 40% mark on RT. That's too bad. Still gonna see it to check out what went wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 We used to watch some kind of saturday afternoo. kung fu show on channel 48 in philly at the comic show tight before Caliente. How many nerd things can you have in 1 sentence? Between the kung fu flicks and all the indie wrestling (pre-TNN ECW, CZW, NWA WIldside, ROH, etc.), channel 48 was pretty awesome... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADCAP Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 We used to watch some kind of saturday afternoo. kung fu show on channel 48 in philly at the comic show tight before Caliente. How many nerd things can you have in 1 sentence? Between the kung fu flicks and all the indie wrestling (pre-TNN ECW, CZW, NWA WIldside, ROH, etc.), channel 48 was pretty awesome... Channel 48 always had pretty cool music for their station. Carl Douglas' "Kung-fu Fighting" for Black Belt Theater and fuckin' Kraftwerk's "Numbers" as the intro and commercial bumpers for the afternoon cartoon block(Marine Boy!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Watched Insurgent but did not like it as much as 'Divergent'. From what I've read, they strayed pretty far from the books in this one, and it kinda shows. Miles Teller was pretty awesome, Theo James is still dreamy. What I found most baffling, though, is that the budget was significantly higher than the first film, but a lot of the effect looks much shittier. Deck the Halls: I laughed a handful of times, which is more than I was expecting. But I find grown-up Matthew Broderick CREEPY which was not helped by the scene where he shouted "WHO'S YOUR DADDY?!" at dancing teen girls, only for it to be revealed that it was his daughter. Also, it's practically impossible to watch Danny Devito in anything and not think of him as Frank Reynolds and keeping waiting for him to do something awful. Abar, The First Black Superman: Which I had DVR'ed off TCM a few weeks ago. It's...WEIRD. A black doctor and his family move into a rich, white neighbourhood and get harassed by the local white folk (Including a dude who just randomly strolls up to the house in a Nazi uniform, replete with arm band, casually seig heils the house and is NEVER SEEN AGAIN) and gets help from a local black power guy named Abar who basically acts as the family's bodyguard. Now, in the write-up, it explains the plot as being that Abar is given the doctor's special serum which turns him into a superman so I expected a guy who walked around beating up white racists and was really excited for that eventuality. Instead, what I got was a guy who wanders around the hood, and when he sees something he dislikes, he stares sadly at it, and they start to do what he wants without him saying a word (A group of gambling youths get up and go to school and graduate, a purse-snatcher brings back the purse etc.), then he stares sadly at some racists and they're beset by all kinds of misfortunes and run away. Then Abar casually strolls away while Martin Luther King's speech plays over the end credits. I get what they were going for here, but the TERRIBLE acting and over-the-top racist white people really sabotaged the flick. It would have been more effective if they'd been more casually/subdued racist (Not letting their children play/trick or treat at the house, not letting the family participate in neighborhood activities) instead of leaving caskets on their doorstep, planting bombs on their property and killing their cat (All of which are things that happen, I might add). Also, the recurring theme song sounds like a siren blaring and is the most awful obnoxious thing ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Watched Tommorrowland the other night. I liked it, thought it was a fun little adventure story. Whoever marketed it should be fired, because when it was in theaters I had literally no idea what it was about. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 It was about George Clooney marrying a human rights lawyer, wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Watched the new Vacation today and it actually wasn't that bad. I'm a sucker for road trip movies and was pretty surprised to find I totally bought Ed Helms in that role. And I'm gonna mark for Chevy as Clark whether it's in a movie or a dumb commercial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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