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[mandatorylurk]

I often wonder about these cheap DVD movies just in terms of production. Getting a bigger name like Kelsey Grammer is often because he's got alimony around his neck and when you're older your name won't get tarnished that much for taking a 5-digit payout for just filming in a room for a day. I'm just more fascinated with how badly it can look these days with cheap portable filming equipment and easily accessible editing software. Considering this was done by a Lawrence brother who has been around the industry and at least knew beforehand the process, just how much of the money these projects raise is actually being put into the film? Uwe Boll's tax write-off scam is pretty well known but it seems like that's been caught on to by legislation.

They have a bunch of shit on their shelves but I will always give the older movies credit for having to actually buy or rent the bulky equipment and work in the editing room.

Them spotting the Barenaked Ladies CD is a highlight up there with Mike bouncing that bottle onto the fridge.

 

[ditto]

Getting a bigger name like Kelsey Grammer is often because he's got alimony around his neck and when you're older your name won't get tarnished that much for taking a 5-digit payout for just filming in a room for a day.

Also SAG rules require actors to be at least 1 movie a year to retain membership. There probably aren't many roles for Kelsey considering his politics.

 

[Dom Cruise]

What strikes me about Money Plane is just how blaaaaaaaaand and boring it is.

If you compare it to something like say Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal which is terrible as well, but terrible in a far more interesting way.

It just seems like increasingly in modern culture all sense of style is being sucked out of everything.

 

[BScCollateral]

Picard wandering the bridge as the Sheliak desperately try to concede the negotiation and inspecting the commission plaque for dust is a Top 5 moment of the whole series for sure.

You can't take "The Sheliak are a telepathic hivemind, and assume we are as well," change the nouns, and turn it into the script of a WWII submarine movie. It really is a situation and problem that only makes sense as an SF story. It's a shame they never did a follow up where they ran into another problem, or figured it out.

 

[Absolutego]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FaSNvI7oShk

Ok, credit to Mike for the eagle-eyed observation that the CD popping out of the "server" was Stunt.

 

[BScCollateral]

Ok, credit to Mike for the eagle-eyed observation that the CD popping out of the "server" was Stunt.

For me, that almost makes up for the time Mike saw a Mercury / Atlas D on a pad and called it a "Saturn."

Almost.

 

[Preferred Penne]

Money Plane is every basic by-the-numbers WWE action movie from the last fifteen years, ever since John Cena starred in The Marine.

 

[Mola Ram]

Money Plane is every basic by-the-numbers WWE action movie from the last fifteen years, ever since John Cena starred in The Marine.

I understand they underplayed the wrestling angle, but there's a lot to be mined there. For one, Edge was a pretty big deal back in the day. For another, I suspect these movies are written by the same guys who write WWE storylines.

 

[Flexo]

I understand they underplayed the wrestling angle, but there's a lot to be mined there. For one, Edge was a pretty big deal back in the day. For another, I suspect these movies are written by the same guys who write WWE storylines.

I kind of wish they would just embrace it and go over the top.

Forget WWE films, get Bollywood to make these wrestler vehicles. THEN we'll have maximum entertainment.

 

[BScCollateral]

Forget WWE films, get Bollywood to make these wrestler vehicles. THEN we'll have maximum entertainment.

If I'm not mistaken, that's Singham.

For bonus points, the main character is terrified of his father in law. It's an endearing touch.

 

[Flexo]

If I'm not mistaken, that's Singham.

For bonus points, the main character is terrified of his father in law. It's an endearing touch.

Yep. Somehow modern movies have gotten so deconstrunctionist, they have lost the ability to actually tell a damn story.

It's actually kind of refreshing to go to a foreign film that's like, "hey, how about some entertainment?" It really is a perfect match for WWE stars.

 

[BScCollateral]

It really is a perfect match for WWE stars.

My favorite moment is when he rips a lamp out of the ground and starts hitting people with it.

 

[BubbleButt]

Ok, credit to Mike for the eagle-eyed observation that the CD popping out of the "server" was Stunt.

Mike's a true BNL fan

 

[Dom Cruise]

Ok, credit to Mike for the eagle-eyed observation that the CD popping out of the "server" was Stunt.

It's crazy that he managed to recognize that, but the question is, what was it doing in there?

Money Plane is every basic by-the-numbers WWE action movie from the last fifteen years, ever since John Cena starred in The Marine.

The genericness of The Marine was kind of weirdly charming, because the 2000s was an era that stuff like that still had some style, but so much stuff has become so bland over the last decade.

 

[KrewlKween]

Mike's a true BNL fan

He even met one of the band members.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I watched Samurai Cop 2 and unfortunately it's total garbage, almost unwatchable.

I had hopes that they wouldn't fall into the typical trap of intentionally making a bad movie, but they did, it started off giving me some hope though with a prologue set in 1991 trying to recreate the look of the first movie, before the opening credits with a pretty catch song, but it's all downhill from there.

The action sequences are 100 times worse than the first movie, which it saying a lot, they are filmed in this awful shaky cam way that make them physically painful to watch, the story is also completely nonsensical, I guess by design.

About the only thing I liked are these two anime girl looking characters, but they disappear early on and it's not even clear what's supposed to have happened to them.

What a waste of everyone's time, I can understand trying to intentionally make a cheesy movie, but to try to intentionally make an incompetent movie?

He even met one of the band members.

Mike had a Twitter that he hasn't used since 2011? Amazing.

 

[Super Hans]

Also SAG rules require actors to be at least 1 movie a year to retain membership. There probably aren't many roles for Kelsey considering his politics.

It pisses me off that Grammer is a Hollywood outcast. He has decent range and can play strong, quiet characters or booming ones that demand presence. After seeing Boss, where he played the mayor of Chicago, I really wanted him to play Underwood's Republican counterpart in House of Cards. But no. Fuck anyone vaguely conservative.

 

[Flexo]

It pisses me off that Grammer is a Hollywood outcast. He has decent range and can play strong, quiet characters or booming ones that demand presence. After seeing Boss, where he played the mayor of Chicago, I really wanted him to play Underwood's Republican counterpart in House of Cards. But no. Fuck anyone vaguely conservative.

Hollywood keeps making movies about High School because that's all it is - a giant high school without any adults.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

The episode that got me watching was the Halloween one where Mike got drunk.

I watch him rip into Rich over and over as he got more and more wasted and though

Omg, I want to see more of this!

Sadly drunk Mike came back rarely but I developed a taste for BotW.

I dont tend to watch HitB as I dont really enjoy current movies but I dig any Star Trek discussions and Review stuff mostly.

 

[CapricornusRex]

I understand they underplayed the wrestling angle, but there's a lot to be mined there. For one, Edge was a pretty big deal back in the day. For another, I suspect these movies are written by the same guys who write WWE storylines.

I'm more surprised Edge did it. Is this what he had to do to come back and wrestle?

Vince: "You wanna WRESTLE? You have to make this MOVIE first!"
Edge: "Fuck.. Yeah.. all right, Vince. I hope they don't kick me off Vikings for this.