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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%

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Jay really got bothered by the technical details, of course. Mike had some good suggestions on how shooting it more realistically would've helped, while Jay goes on about how the video quality needed to be more VHS looking. They did bring up some of the issues I had, namely the skeptic being a bit too over the top. Good review.
 
I was thinking about their discussion about the Civil War AI generated posters while looking at the AI art thread and how indifferent I felt about someone apparently losing work when it's like, niggas most posters since the mid 90's are just some half-assed photoshop job and these posters really don't stand out any differently from what's usually hanging up at theaters to be other than that ugly green movie logo and the comical swan boat.
 
I was thinking about their discussion about the Civil War AI generated posters while looking at the AI art thread and how indifferent I felt about someone apparently losing work when it's like, niggas most posters since the mid 90's are just some half-assed photoshop job and these posters really don't stand out any differently from what's usually hanging up at theaters to be other than that ugly green movie logo and the comical swan boat.
It's telling they reach back to Escape from New York for a 'good one'.
 

Seeing them go over Undefeatable reminded me that I thought they should feature more Godfrey Ho films on BOTW. He had all of those cut-and-paste films he "directed", produced in the 1980s with Joseph Lai of IFD Films and Thomas Tang of Filmark, and gathered aspiring B- and C-movie actors from around the globe to make his "ninja" movies, through methods like hiring expats who hung around shady locales frequented by low-level Triads and gwailo who'd come to Hong Kong to get away from a variety of things.. These films usually consisted of a couple of ninja fighting scenes being pasted into failed or unfinished Hong Kong or Korean movies, a lot of unauthorized music from various TV shows and films, and then editing the mess into something resembling a film. Attempting to take advantage of the "ninja" craze of the 1980s, these ninja were often white guys, wearing colorful outfits complete with headbands that had the word "NINJA" printed on them in faux-Oriental font. European B-movie actor Richard Harrison (who starred in "Blood Debts") featured in a lot of these splice jobs, but a lot of his footage was later spliced into many more of Ho's productions without his prior agreement, and Harrison retired from acting in 1990 feeling his career had been damaged by the association with this filmmaking outfit.

Ho also directed a few entries in what they call the "Girls with Guns" sub-genre of Hong Kong action back in the 1980s-1990s, such as the cop actioner Angel Enforcers starring Sharon Yeung that unauthorized use of a certain movie theme (though Ho wasn't the only Hong Kong filmmaker whose movies involved this at the time)


and Princess Madam, starring HK action actresses like Yeung, Moon Lee and Michiko Nishiwaki., and the two totally unrelated Lethal Panther movies, the first of which featured Sibelle Hu, and two starred noted action film actress Yukari Oshima.


Also, before Undefeatable, he directed a Rothrock vehicle, Honor and Glory, which featured some competent fighting in an otherwise goofy film where everyone, from reporters to pimps to random civilians seems to know the martial arts. The villain is an overacted yet simultaneously bored-sounding corrupt bank executive who at one point sneeringly turns down attending a pancake breakfast with Ronald Reagan. ("To hell with that old bastard.")
 
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=l-BxuvnTHEEThis one is already starting off pretty good.

”He’s not normally-brained.” -Rich “Folding Chable” Evans

It’s not a bad movie but the viewing experience was similar where I took my dad to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail. One of the guys behind us not only kept preempting every gag, but started talking about unrelated shit on top of that. Up until my dad stood up, turned around, and asked the guy if he ever shuts up. I can handle the reciting of gags and in-jokes, but the modern b-movie tourists make showings like that a waste of money these days.

The "C-O-N" Film Festival crack got me as good as it got them. I've been laughing about it periodically for days.
 
I was hyped for Latte Night with the Devil because of the aesthetic of trying to replicate a TV show. I thought Jay would be more annoyed that they throw this idea to the side whenever it's more convenient.

The photos and the special effects were really bad and distracting. If they were on a tight budget, it would make more sense to make things more subdued. But they will lose the broader audience this way. When I watched Hereditary in a theater, a group of zoomers walked out in the middle of the movie, whining that it was boring.

I don't think the whole 'The audience is hypnotized' works with a found footage movie either
 
I don't think the whole 'The audience is hypnotized' works with a found footage movie either
i thought it was neat
my problems with the movie was how high-res it looked for being something from the seventies and how the skeptic was a cartoon character who explained everything away
also the behind-the-scenes footage should have just been ordinary scenes taking place outside of the video tape
 
I was thinking about their discussion about the Civil War AI generated posters while looking at the AI art thread and how indifferent I felt about someone apparently losing work when it's like, niggas most posters since the mid 90's are just some half-assed photoshop job and these posters really don't stand out any differently from what's usually hanging up at theaters to be other than that ugly green movie logo and the comical swan boat.
What got to me is they spent like 5-10 minutes on it when they aren't even reviewing the movie. Meanwhile Late Nite with the Devil also allegedly has use of AI which they handwave away in seconds. Why is the latter okay but the former isn't? You can't feign sympathy about how artists need to be payed over machines for their work but when a movie drops below a certain production budget monetarily value then they have free reign to do so.
 
Leo Fong, Z'Dar and his chin and of course the man himself, Cameron Mitchell.
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I watched Late Night with the Devil after I saw the Half in the Bag. I was kind of bored by it. Not sold on the lead performance at all. He was great at being the glib showman, but in his vulnerable moments, I didn’t see any real vulnerability, fear, grief, sadness, devastation - I was feeling like “am I supposed to think he’s insincere through and through, or am I supposed to empathize with a real human who made some bad choices?” Idk I just feel like he’s not a strong enough actor to show that range.
 
I watched Late Night with the Devil after I saw the Half in the Bag. I was kind of bored by it. Not sold on the lead performance at all. He was great at being the glib showman, but in his vulnerable moments, I didn’t see any real vulnerability, fear, grief, sadness, devastation - I was feeling like “am I supposed to think he’s insincere through and through, or am I supposed to empathize with a real human who made some bad choices?” Idk I just feel like he’s not a strong enough actor to show that range.
There was no consistency in the character. One moment he seems genuinely concerned for others during all the crazy shit that's going on, and the next he acts as if all he cares about are the ratings, and everyone else be damned. I suppose "inconsistent" sums up the movie in general. I did watch the whole thing, so I guess that's something. These days I'm having an increasingly hard time finishing movies. I think the last new movie that kept my full attention all the way through was Talk to Me.
 
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