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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
CapricornusRex said:
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.
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Sad if true, Randy already crippled him again.
 
I couldn't get past that guy's forehead/brow to chin ratio. Straight up cromagnon. And like most wrestlers (with the exception of the rock) he can't act. In every clip he just looked vaguely confused. The amount of cringe in the clips shown was too much. I really want to see the scene of Kelsey firing the gun stabilized. He looked like he was having a seisure trying to act the recoil and they covered it up with extensive shaking. The line about being the baddest motherfucker on the planet sounded terrible. That was really the best take?? Best part was the clip Mike found from a company that makes custom poker chips. It wouldn't have been hard at all to put that touch in but they were either that cash strapped or figured no one would notice. Most likely both. That entire attitude prevails throughout the film and it shows.
 
KrewlKween said:
Best part was the clip Mike found from a company that makes custom poker chips. It wouldn't have been hard at all to put that touch in but they were either that cash strapped or figured no one would notice. Most likely both.
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My assumption wasn't money, but time. "We're not spending more than two weeks shooting this piece of shit; go pick up the chips from CVS."
 
KrewlKween said:
Best part was the clip Mike found from a company that makes custom poker chips.
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Even better than that, most casinos only use poker chips for a limited amount of time (6 months to a couple years, it varies). It probably would not have been difficult to obtain cancelled poker chips for the cost of a phone call.

The entire movie had a "they won't notice" feel to it. I'm sure the filmmakers were banking on the layman not noticing the major flaws in the production. The problem is that sort of approach only really works on a Troma film, not a purportedly serious action flick.
 
I'm just saying... imagine Money Plane done by Bollywood.

Then Kelsey Grammer's "baddest motherfucker" line would have been an entire dance routine number.

Oscar winner easy.
 
Dom Cruise said:
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?
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I don't think it was intentionally incompetent, more lazy in the "it's supposed to be bad, we don't have to worry about things like continuity or plot!" kind of way. Which ignores the fact that for this to work, it can only be bad on the surface and still needs to be backed up with effort and good jokes (Black Dynamite being a perfect example)
 
Holding out small hope that the lack of new movies being released (other than Tenet) will compel them to sit through Justice League again. Though the cut being 4 cunting hours long is probably too much for them to take. They should do the Transformers thing again where they each watch one-half (or third, if they bring in Rich) and then try and piece everything together.
 
The_Penultimate_Warrior said:
I don't think it was intentionally incompetent, more lazy in the "it's supposed to be bad, we don't have to worry about things like continuity or plot!" kind of way. Which ignores the fact that for this to work, it can only be bad on the surface and still needs to be backed up with effort and good jokes (Black Dynamite being a perfect example)
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Black Dynamite is indeed a perfect example of how you do a homage to B movies done right, Samurai Cop easily could have made for a movie like that, but no.

That's why my favorite element of the movie was the two anime looking girls because there's a seed of an interesting idea there to blend early 1990s Japanophilia represented by Samurai Cop with modern day weebdom, but the movie doesn't really do anything with that.
 
KrewlKween said:
I couldn't get past that guy's forehead/brow to chin ratio. Straight up cromagnon. And like most wrestlers (with the exception of the rock) he can't act. In every clip he just looked vaguely confused. The amount of cringe in the clips shown was too much. I really want to see the scene of Kelsey firing the gun stabilized. He looked like he was having a seisure trying to act the recoil and they covered it up with extensive shaking. The line about being the baddest motherfucker on the planet sounded terrible. That was really the best take?? Best part was the clip Mike found from a company that makes custom poker chips. It wouldn't have been hard at all to put that touch in but they were either that cash strapped or figured no one would notice. Most likely both. That entire attitude prevails throughout the film and it shows.
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It's weird, because when he's wrestling Edge /can/ act. He had a brutal Wrestlemania match this year, where he went through every feel a sweaty man can feel and ended up almost crying. Though I'm guessing the surge that comes from physical exertion makes it easier to fake emotions. A bad director can ruin even passable actors, see for reference Natalie Portman in the Prequels.
 
GedsForth said:
Even better than that, most casinos only use poker chips for a limited amount of time (6 months to a couple years, it varies). It probably would not have been difficult to obtain cancelled poker chips for the cost of a phone call.

The entire movie had a "they won't notice" feel to it. I'm sure the filmmakers were banking on the layman not noticing the major flaws in the production. The problem is that sort of approach only really works on a Troma film, not a purportedly serious action flick.
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Casinos do indeed sell used cards and chips, but the whole point is that they're souvenirs. Whoever funded this trash fire would be in deep legal shit when whatever unlucky casino sues the fuck out of them for associating the casino with the movie without permission.
 
Super Hans said:
Casinos do indeed sell used cards and chips, but the whole point is that they're souvenirs. Whoever funded this trash fire would be in deep legal shit when whatever unlucky casino sues the fuck out of them for associating the casino with the movie without permission.
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Yeah they'd have to cover any logos and we all know they weren't about extra work on this movie.
 
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