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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Albert Pyun have always been a fascinating mystery to me and I've read several weird stories about his movies in the past, thing like how Nemesis 2 was supposedly made from unused footage from Nemesis 3. I don't care if it's true, that is some magnificient movie magic that makes me laugh and having rented and watch those movies it makes sense to me. One of them really felt like a clip-show, can't remember which one.

Sometimes I read IMDB reviews of his movies because they can be really good. Here's one for Max Havoc
Max Havoc is not a cinematic masterpiece. In fact it's a poorly produced movie. the attempt of trying to make a Hollywood action movie on a beer budget is clearly evident and does not work. What saves this train wreck of a movie is Joanna Krupa. She might be one of the hottest women in Hollywood. My GF said she can't act. I disagree and wish my GF would move out. She's a failed actress and comedian who hates on other people that actually appear in movies. Where Max Havoc took a bad turn was not more Joanna Krupa. The director or producer or studio should have included nudity parts with Joanna Krupa. When you cast eye candy you have to show eye candy. I do hate when movies feature a star like Carmen Electra on a DVD cover when they have a minor part in the movie. It's like bait and switch. I hope that Joanna Krupa is more movies.
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Quick tribute/referrals to Pyun's ouvre besides Cyborg and Nemesis

Radioactive Dreams, I really enjoyed the soundtrack and wish there was an easily available physical media copy I could purchase. The movie is already a far better Fallout movie, made decades before, than whatever Amazon is coming up with for their show. It starts out as a post-apoc picaresque film and ends with the vibes of a more bullet-riddled Streets of Fire.

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Also, Knights, a partly wuxia-inspired film where Kris Kristofferson trains stuntwoman Kathy Shower in the art of fighting the killer bloodsucking cyborgs lead by Lance Henriksen that roam the future wasteland. Whatever faults the film has, you can't say Pyun lacked ambition.


Mean Guns: Various criminals who've all done something to offenda major crime syndicate are invited to a brand new, yet to be opened prison by Syndicate officer Ice-T as part of a deadly "game" where the last three standing will win millions.


Spitfire: Pyun's tongue in cheek spoof-y take on the globetrotting action film, filmed on location in Athens, Rome, Hong Kong, etc. Top American agent (and terrible father) Lance Henriksen must count on his estranged professional gymnast daughter to keep a MacGuffin out of the hands of an arms dealer, a bit James Bond spoof with a dash of Gymkata.


Dangerously Close: Pyun's third film about a poor-boy-made-good student at an elite high school who discovers there's a secret even more elite clique who've taken it upon themselves to become vigilantes to purge undesirables.

 
Other than the cringey Rick & Morty bit I really enjoyed that episode. I've always been of the mind Half in the Bag suffered from putting less and less focus on the ridiculous story stuff and it's nice to see them put some effort into actual production stuff again. Doubt we'll ever get into the real high effort levels of the golden age with entirely new sets and extended film-making fun, but getting something like this once or twice a year would suffice.
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
Yep, I think I've outgrown RLM at this point.

Hope you guys still like it, I gotta tap out though.
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They will probably become like South Park. Replace their older fanbase with a new fanbase. Centered around more mainstream celebrity appearances and reviews of more mainstream properties that are more positive and casual friendly. Like how South Park lost all of its edge and satire and now just 'exists' to repeat pop culture references in the form of a crudely animated cartoon. And become a shell of themselves.

We have already seen that they are afraid to basically criticize anything anymore. Even being satisfied with the endless mediocrity that Disney and Amazon and everyone else are just churning out without stopping it seems. Offering praise to Star Wars and Prey and pretty much any horror movie with a pulse. People who watched RLM from its early days will be called "out of touch" or "problematic". And the new fanbase will dominate all discussion of RLM online by gatekeeping enough criticism until the transformation of RLM from 'funny' into 'corporate' is complete. Then RLM fans will declare that "RLM was always like this". Older episodes will no longer be viewable because YouTube no longer has 'sort by oldest' anyways.
 
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