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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
Flexo said:
Ok, moving our discussion over here where it's more fitting, which video game movie would you rather have RLM tackle and in what format of their shows?
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Street Fighter on a spotlight episode of BOTW.

You have a cheesy 80s action star, Belgian Jean Claude Van Dame as All-American Col. Guile as the hero vs. Raul Julia an actor nominated for his roles in Shakespeare adaptations hamming it up as M. Bison the villain in his final role. You could have a 10 minute segment dedicated just to the absurdity of those two actors in those two roles. Its a cheesy, silly, action film that you could easily milk humor from out of how ridiculous it was and all the behind the scenes drama.

Mola Ram said:
Board game rather than video game, but I'd lurve to see a Re:View of Clue. Even do a bit about the different endings, which varied by theatre.
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Board game movies should be a thing. I've got a great script for Mousetrap and a dark drama based off Don't Wake Daddy that would make a hundred million at the Box Office each.

Mola Ram said:
If we must stick to video games, Super Mario Bros., probably also a Re:View, though BotW Spotlight might do. C'mon, it's got Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Hopper! How could it go wrong?!
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The best summary of that movie I ever heard was from the actor who played Toad. He described his, Hoskins, and Leguizamos experience on the film as "We did shots in-between shots". That tells you all you need to know about the Super Mario Bros movie.

Retink said:
Imagine if the outcome of that was Rich Evans having to box Uwe.
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You ever see the Simpsons episode where Homer becomes a boxer and his whole strategy is to stand there and take punches from his opponents because he's so fat nothing hurts him? I imagine that would be the whole match between Evans and Boll. Boll just throws punches at Rich who laughs them off with his patented Rich Evans laugh until Boll tires himself out and Rich just pushes him over.
 
Strange Wilderness said:
You ever see the Simpsons episode where Homer becomes a boxer and his whole strategy is to stand there and take punches from his opponents because he's so fat nothing hurts him? I imagine that would be the whole match between Evans and Boll. Boll just throws punches at Rich who laughs them off with his patented Rich Evans laugh until Boll tires himself out and Rich just pushes him over.
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I was actually picturing that very situation in my head as I wrote the post.
 
FrickinFrackinFruckin said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_h2pU6lLW4g
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They really need to get over this obsession with the prequels and George Lucas. They aren't great films and while he's a good ideas man, he isn't a good writer/director but not everything wrong with the franchise is his fault. This whole Lucas destroyed my childhood shit that you get from the fans is why they deserve the shit they get from Disney.
 
Flexo said:
Ok, moving our discussion over here where it's more fitting, which video game movie would you rather have RLM tackle and in what format of their shows?
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I still want a re:View on either the live-action Mario movie, the Van Damne Street Fighter movie or the first Jolie Tomb Raider. I mean, RLM did cover the Paul WS Resident Evil movies.
 
Fools Idol said:
They really need to get over this obsession with the prequels and George Lucas. They aren't great films and while he's a good ideas man, he isn't a good writer/director but not everything wrong with the franchise is his fault. This whole Lucas destroyed my childhood shit that you get from the fans is why they deserve the shit they get from Disney.
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George Lucas didn’t ruin their childhood.

Fucking polio did.
 
Oh god. I just got around to watching it
I could feel the heat from all the Star Wars nerds when they all said they don't give a shit about the extended universe and really dont give a shit about canon anymore.
I love it! I've been trying to tell people to stop giving a shit about canon for years now.
 
Milwaukee Macho Man said:
Oh god. I just got around to watching it
I could feel the heat from all the Star Wars nerds when they all said they don't give a shit about the extended universe and really dont give a shit about canon anymore.
I love it! I've been trying to tell people to stop giving a shit about canon for years now.
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I go back and forward caring about the canon. Realistically the issue I have is that it pisses me off that Disneywars scrapping the EU is effectively them saying that all these good EU memories I have aren't Real Star Wars. It's a childish reaction, but to be fair a lot of those EU novels I read were in my childhood! The flipside though is that I don't particularly care about the raping of the IP that the Disney era is overseeing (though it took until Rian Johnson dragged his balls across the franchise that I was able to freely laugh about it all), Canon shmanon, it's all just pop culture fodder using a specific aesthetic now. I don't begrudge these fat film nerds for turning their brains off and just allowing themselves to enjoy the moment.
 
ddlloo said:
I go back and forward caring about the canon. Realistically the issue I have is that it pisses me off that Disneywars scrapping the EU is effectively them saying that all these good EU memories I have aren't Real Star Wars. It's a childish reaction, but to be fair a lot of those EU novels I read were in my childhood! The flipside though is that I don't particularly care about the raping of the IP that the Disney era is overseeing (though it took until Rian Johnson dragged his balls across the franchise that I was able to freely laugh about it all), Canon shmanon, it's all just pop culture fodder using a specific aesthetic now. I don't begrudge these fat film nerds for turning their brains off and just allowing themselves to enjoy the moment.
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The problem folks never seem to get is that if canon doesn't matter, why am I watching it?

Exhibit A: The Ewok films. Just look at reddit and other measures of pop culture penetration and they are rarely - if ever - brought up. They weren't canon, nobody cared about them, they became forgotten (except by yours truly). Hell, who brings up "Visions"?

Canon is really code for "you should care about this." If there is no canon, then there is no reason to care. It's the glue the holds together "consume product then get excited for next product." As soon as you knock it away, there's no mortar holding the bricks together.

Not that I'm really complaining - I just find it hilarious to watch Disney furiously sawing at the branch they are sitting on and am waiting now to watch their shocked face when they fall and exclaim, "Who could have seen this coming??"
 
Flexo said:
The problem folks never seem to get is that if canon doesn't matter, why am I watching it?
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Because you find it entertaining.

Corporations have convinced people to treat their mindless entertainment as religious doctrine, which is why you have so many pathetic sad sacks who absolutely hate Star Wars who can't stop themselves from continuing to watch/buy the new garbage even though they have plenty of old garbage they actually enjoyed to read/watch/play/buy.

It's all made up bullshit. You can take it or leave it as you please.

I also suspect it's the reason so many of them get upset that 3 slobs enjoy a show in spite of how much it fucks with precious canon. Hell we have people in the Star Wars thread complaining that these guys "never got Star Wars" even though one of Plinketts big things was he didn't give a shit about books or any of that bullshit and only cared about the movies themselves.
 
Flexo said:
I can throw on a random film from India and have a better shot of being entertained than most stuff coming out of major studios.
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And yet, major studios biggest thing the past decade has been establishing interconnected film franchises that are deeply grounded in their own canon.

It's almost like canon is bullshit and isn't important to the entertainment value of a product.
 
Milwaukee Macho Man said:
And yet, major studios biggest thing the past decade has been establishing interconnected film franchises that are deeply grounded in their own canon.

It's almost like canon is bullshit and isn't important to the entertainment value of a product.
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If canon doesn't matter, then it's not "interconnected" - that's what canon means. If you remove it, there's no connection. There's a reason nobody thinks Citizen Kane, Back to the Future, and Nightmare on Elm Street are all part of a grand cinematic universe (unless they're on TVTropes)
 
Just a reminder that Mike and Rich had an out with Star Trek and it was called The Orville. Then they complained about The Orville and stuck with Star Trek: Picard.
 
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