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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.

The Penguins won 5 Cups after touching the Prince of Wales Trophy, the one time they didn’t they lost in the finals.

I saw Maverick in the theater twice! The second time was due to the projector breaking right before Speed! I think they let us go into another movie that was playing around that time to go along with a free pass.

I think this was the last Saturday morning cartoon I watched consistently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJPkx_ZtTdc

Last night I re-watched 1987's Back to the Beach! It's on YouTube. What could have been lame nostalgia ends up being this weird in a good way, totally self aware parody, that's way way better than you'd think. Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello totally get it and look like they're having Raoul Julia in The Adams Family level of fun throughout the picture. Lori Laughlin plays their daughter, but the actor who plays their son Demain Slade steals the movie, you may remember him as the "I want my two dollars" kid from Better Off Dead, he's hysterical in this. There's a bunch of cameos some that make sense nostalgia wise for older people, but also for kids/teens who watched reruns and Nick at Night in the 80's. Then there's some that are totally from out of left field like Pee Wee Herman showing up to sing Surfin Bird and OJ Simpson doing slapstick a year before Naked Gun. Fishbone is in this, they perform Jamaica Ska with Annette Funicello! Plus you get Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale playing together. I watched Siskel and Ebert's review and both of them loved this, Siskel compared it to Grease and said it might even be better, apparently Paramount tried to hide it from critics thinking it would get blasted with bad reviews.

Don't be dissing The Legend of Billie Jean! What's fair is fair!

I kind of think they went with Portuguese due to scaling back the US house show circuit to the Northeast mainly New England and there's a large population of Portuguese-Americans. When it comes to the occupation gimmicks, I swear I remember someone in a shoot interview clip saying they came from some poll or market research of most disliked professions.

Speaking of Richard Dreyfuss, I re-watched early 90's premium channel mainstay Let It Ride a few weeks ago, since David Johansen co-stars. There was a lot of comedies based around horses or horse racing in the 80's and early 90's, this would be somewhere in the middle quality wise. I guess you're supposed to be pulling for Richard Dreyfuss's character but its peak Dreyfuss being a dick so I kind of wanted him to lose at the end, David Johansen is great in this, would have rather the flick been about his character. YouTube is a great source for movies you totally forgot about, if you have Premium there's no commercials, if not they break in with commercials like PlutoTV. Back to the Beach is next on my watchlist!

Today's pro wrestling needs hams like Mean Gene.

Slick had Akeem and still heel Big Boss Man under his tutelage in the fall of 1989, so Earthquake would have fit into that stable. I guess they moved Quake over to Jimmy Hart since it was The Mouth of the South's turn as the heel manager opposing Hogan.

Every time I hear Buttafuoco this song still pops into my head. https://youtu.be/PToMdCYeE8U?si=qFs5gfe2cNf7gv_h