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[Absolutego]

I would say the absolute peak of miniatures came right before the fall with the MASSIVE miniatures used in the original LOTR. The CG in the Hobbit trilogy looks so dated by comparison.

God I love the Bigatures in those films. If I ever manage to visit New Zealand I'm 100% going on the Weta Workshop tour to check out the one of Minas Tirith.

 

[Flexo]

Just a note of "what is even real any more" but no joke, the first 2 minutes of this Federalist (which is like... a legit news organization and all) is spent talking about RedLetterMedia.

Did Movies Make A Comeback In 2021?

Ben Domenech and Emily Jashinsky discuss the best and worst films of 2021 and whether movies finally made a comeback from Covid.

ricochet.com

 

[Protistology]

By coincidence I rewatched Total Recall a few days before they released this vid. It was the first time I noticed Marc Alaimo was in it. "No way Mike's going to let that one pass" I thought.

The three breasted woman is Ensign Sonya Gomez and the Recall owner is the guest character in Peak Performance.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Total Recall, Robocop, and Starship Troopers are all weirdly brilliant films disguised as total schlock, making them appealing to all kinds of moviegoers.

I don't know how Paul Verhoeven pulled that off, or if it was even intended, but good on him.

 

[frozenrunner]

Total Recall, Robocop, and Starship Troopers are all weirdly brilliant films disguised as total schlock, making them appealing to all kinds of moviegoers.

I don't know how Paul Verhoeven pulled that off, or if it was even intended, but good on him.

It was definitely intended.

Just a note of "what is even real any more" but no joke, the first 2 minutes of this Federalist (which is like... a legit news organization and all) is spent talking about RedLetterMedia.

Did Movies Make A Comeback In 2021?

Ben Domenech and Emily Jashinsky discuss the best and worst films of 2021 and whether movies finally made a comeback from Covid.

ricochet.com

That reminds me. After watching Showgirls, I went looking for RLM content related to it and found some podcast Jay was on talking about it. Surprisingly, he didn't seem to like it.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Just a note of "what is even real any more" but no joke, the first 2 minutes of this Federalist (which is like... a legit news organization and all) is spent talking about RedLetterMedia.

If memory serves, Ben Shapiro has also given them shout-outs at points. I vaguely remember them retweeting or replying to something of his, but I can't really be assed to stare at twitter for more than three seconds.

 

[ten dollars off]

 

[KrewlKween]

Re: cons. There's no point. They've shown they do not need to directly interact with fans for those fans to still stick around and defend them. They don't need the money a con might pay for them to appear. And they don't need to set up an autograph table like Ernie Hudson. They used cons in the very early days to advertise their films, not their budding youtube. They had a Q&A at one if I remember correctly and like 10 people showed up. They make probably 1 million gross off their youtube ad revenue and patreon. If they don't need sponsorship money, they certainly don't need the pittance a con would provide them. Can't say I blame them. If I had legions of adoring fans and I never had to be in the same room for them to pay my bills, why the fuck would I ever subject myself to that? People are gross and weird.

 

[BrunoMattei]

If memory serves, Ben Shapiro has also given them shout-outs at points. I vaguely remember them retweeting or replying to something of his, but I can't really be assed to stare at twitter for more than three seconds.

At one point in time Mike followed Sargon on Twitter.

 

[Chester Rigby]

Is it safe to asume that we won't be seeing new adventures of the Nerd Crew ever again?

 

[Smashing Young Man]

Good episode. I haven't seen Total Recall 2012 and nor will I change that, but I really enjoyed Mike and Rich talking about it.

I sway between either Robocop or Total Recall. I've seen the former more times (even did a presentation on the Jesus stuff for my English Literature uni course), but I think Recall is the greater film. Both brilliant. Good choice of ReView.

You think they will do a ReView on Tales From The Crypt? The dvd is in the intro. Would be cool to hear as I was quite a fan.

I'm surprised they didn't mention 2014's Robocop, which is also a bland PG-13'ed remake of Verhoeven's work.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

Jay is such a little bitch. His face alone makes me want to intensely bully him. If they permanently replaced that tiny faglet with the bald guy the world would be a much better place.

Those were great, you'd find all sorts of random nonsense threads that had descended into vicious arguments over stuff like "Blade vs Chuck Norris: Who Would Win?" and "CUSTOM AR15 IN THIS MOVIE IS WORSE THAN ICE CUBE'S CHROMED LF-57 SMG IN JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS OF MARS"

There was tons of weird shit to find on there.

I loved that you could post something about the most obscure 1970s tv show that only aired for two weeks in January and eventually someone would respond. I remember the Home Improvement board was always busy, and there were some intense debates over what a bitch Tim's wife was.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I'm surprised they didn't mention 2014's Robocop, which is also a bland PG-13'ed remake of Verhoeven's work.

They already covered it in a Half In The Bag review back when the movie first came out.

I loved that you could post something about the most obscure 1970s tv show that only aired for two weeks in January and eventually someone would respond. I remember the Home Improvement board was always busy, and there were some intense debates over what a bitch Tim's wife was.

Oh yeah, it was great to get a response on the board for some obscure thing after years.

It was also amazing when you would stumble upon those whole little active communities on some random board, I believe the board for Scream had a whole community on it.

Even 5 years later I'm still just as mad they closed down the IMDB message boards.

 

[Protistology]

I'm surprised they didn't mention 2014's Robocop, which is also a bland PG-13'ed remake of Verhoeven's work.

I would argue the Robocop had no redeeming aspects. The Total Recall remake had some interesting ideas. A destroyed planet with only two countries left. An intraplanetary elevator. Colin Farrell. It's a late night TV action movie that suffers from being a Total Recall remake and not it's own thing. Just make the Farrell character an amnesic like in Momento or have him lose his memory in an accident and have to rediscover who he is like in the The Bourne Identity and it would otherwise be shot for shot the same movie.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

I would argue the Robocop had no redeeming aspects. The Total Recall remake had some interesting ideas. A destroyed planet with only two countries left. An intraplanetary elevator. Colin Farrell. It's a late night TV action movie that suffers from being a Total Recall remake and not it's own thing. Just make the Farrell character an amnesic like in Momento or have him lose his memory in an accident and have to rediscover who he is like in the The Bourne Identity and it would otherwise be shot for shot the same movie.

Total Recall 2012 is an entertaining little movie with decent action and really nice effects and design. (Plus Kate Beckinsale and prime Jessica Biel.) It's also different enough from the Arnold version that you won't get pissed off watching it like you might RoboCop.

 

[Commander X]

The only partwise decent thing in the whole mess that was Robocop (2014) was Michael Keaton as Steve Jobs, otherwise it features Joel Kinnaman (the IKEA Allen key of movies) as blandly efficient as the title cyborg and Samuel L. Jackson showing up to say "motherfucker" once again.

Daily Show-fanfiction quality "satire" and action scenes that feature nearly everything wrong with modern action choreography, the action sequence as a series of uninvolving videogame cutscenes. The SFX of the original is succeeded by bland CGI in a now-sterile and clean Detroit, featuring the usual futuristic black & silver gradients. It's one of those sci-fi movies from the Tens where the vision of the future seems to have been worked on and storyboarded by guys from 2005 trying to imagine what an Apple Store would look like in 2030.

 

[stuffandthings]

Is it safe to asume that we won't be seeing new adventures of the Nerd Crew ever again?

I am also sad. But at the same time, I would only want them to do more if they had a really good idea or some really classy jokes for it. There's only so many times you can go lul Star Warz Corpo hype lul before it becomes a dead bantha you're beating with a gaffi stick.

Same thing with a Plinkett review.

These guys are always better when they're enthusiastic or passionate about what they're doing. It's why a video of them listing off Jerry Springer show titles was better than their review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I am also sad. But at the same time, I would only want them to do more if they had a really good idea or some really classy jokes for it. There's only so many times you can go lul Star Warz Corpo hype lul before it becomes a dead bantha you're beating with a gaffi stick.

Same thing with a Plinkett review.

These guys are always better when they're enthusiastic or passionate about what they're doing. It's why a video of them listing off Jerry Springer show titles was better than their review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

Don't be sad that it's over. Be sad that it happened.

 

[Flexo]

I would argue the Robocop had no redeeming aspects. The Total Recall remake had some interesting ideas. A destroyed planet with only two countries left. An intraplanetary elevator. Colin Farrell. It's a late night TV action movie that suffers from being a Total Recall remake and not it's own thing. Just make the Farrell character an amnesic like in Momento or have him lose his memory in an accident and have to rediscover who he is like in the The Bourne Identity and it would otherwise be shot for shot the same movie.

Oh kind of my opinion on i, Robot as well - which might have had a decent-mediocre movie in there somewhere but got saddled with Asimov's legend and well...

Even though the idea of a robot killing a human is silly...

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

Is it safe to asume that we won't be seeing new adventures of the Nerd Crew ever again?

I really hope so. The first couple were great but once the videos started getting into the 20 and 30 minute mark it was starting to get a bit tired.