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Drunkboxer posted:I hope next WHM is Medicine Man I'm hoping for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It's a disaster that had potential to be really really good, and that's always good material.
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Evil Mastermind posted:HDTGM brings up script length a lot, so I looked it up and it's generally accepted that a "normal" script would be about 110 pages, with one page being about one minute of screentime. I read about that 600 page script thing before the film came out and knew exactly what was going to go wrong with Jupiter Ascending. Even a giant first draft where you're throwing all your ideas in with the knowledge that you're cutting the majority of it might be about 250 pages. 600 pages is sheer logorrhea from someone who doesn't even have a vestigial internal editor. Drunkboxer posted:I hope next WHM is Medicine Man I'm hoping for The Avengers, mainly because I don't think the crew is literary enough to make jokes about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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Random Stranger posted:I'm hoping for The Avengers, mainly because I don't think the crew is literary enough to make jokes about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The problem with that is it might be bad timing with that movie due to John Steed dying. I would also expect some Harry Potter, James Bond, Game of Thrones and Hannibal jokes if they do that episode. I half expect a bond film since there is a new one coming out.
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The off topic discussions are the best part of WHM. Some of yall are crazy. Son of the Mask had some instant classics.
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Random Stranger posted:I'm hoping for The Avengers, mainly because I don't think the crew is literary enough to make jokes about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Steve is a huge comics book nerd, and most of the big characters are from books that most people should know something about assuming they didn't completely sleep through high school. I think Allan Quatermain is the most obscure one there. I doubt very much the movie was as dense with literary easter eggs and cameos as the comics were. Besides, they apparently didn't need to know poo poo about Pokemon to make an awesome episode out of that.
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GrandpaPants posted:Besides, they apparently didn't need to know poo poo about Pokemon to make an awesome episode out of that. You know what? This is absolutely true. I would not mind a ten minute discussion where they argue about whether Dorian Gray is a wizard.
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GrandpaPants posted:Steve is a huge comics book nerd, and most of the big characters are from books that most people should know something about assuming they didn't completely sleep through high school. I think Allan Quatermain is the most obscure one there. I doubt very much the movie was as dense with literary easter eggs and cameos as the comics were. Quartermain is only obscure if you aren't up on your Richard Chamberlain filmography. I wonder if he was sure that was going to be the next Indiana Jones of adventure series.
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Reading King Solomon's Mine decodes Congo.
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Yeah I dunno, I think they'll be fine. They have a pretty broad general knowledge. I read King Solomon's Mines as a kid, after finding a rundown of it in a book that was more or less "abridged classics for children" and then finding the original book in the library. And even if they haven't read the book, there's a possibility that they'll have watched the films. Most of the other stuff is at least mentioned in passing in various English classes. I think King Solomon's Mines hasn't lasted in the same way because it's dated as gently caress, much like those Arthur Conan Doyle books he wanted to write instead of Holmes, about lost worlds and mysterious islands and whatever else.
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To be fair, Congo is kind of King Solomon's Mines: The Next Generation. Come for the diamonds, stay for the killer gorillas. So they've already got a working knowledge of Alan Quartermain sort of follow ups.
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Evil Mastermind posted:
So you mean Rifts.
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kdrudy posted:So you mean Rifts. That movie's coming out any day now! 
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Infamous Sphere posted:Yeah I dunno, I think they'll be fine. They have a pretty broad general knowledge. I read King Solomon's Mines as a kid, after finding a rundown of it in a book that was more or less "abridged classics for children" and then finding the original book in the library. And even if they haven't read the book, there's a possibility that they'll have watched the films. Most of the other stuff is at least mentioned in passing in various English classes. I think King Solomon's Mines hasn't lasted in the same way because it's dated as gently caress, much like those Arthur Conan Doyle books he wanted to write instead of Holmes, about lost worlds and mysterious islands and whatever else. King Solomon's Mines is dated of course, but I don't really get why that would have stopped it from being remembered more. I mean Tarzan is remembered well and so is other worse and more racist "lost world" poo poo. This is more of a discussion for a different thread, but I always liked the book a lot. It's a good 19th century adventure novel by a guy who, while certainly being a product of his times, really liked the continent of Africa and it's people. I mean, there's plenty of racism to be found there but I bet the author would be bummed out being interpreted that way.
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Yeah, I definitely enjoyed it and it wasn't nearly as racist as it could have been. But RE Tarzan - has anyone ever actually read Tarzan, or are they just going off the movies? I'd say that even fewer people have read Tarzan than have read the original Wizard of Oz book. Again though, discussion for another thread. Just interesting to think that for some reason King Solomon's Mines isn't anywhere near in the public consciousness as much as The Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland or even Tarzan is.
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Infamous Sphere posted:Yeah, I definitely enjoyed it and it wasn't nearly as racist as it could have been. But RE Tarzan - has anyone ever actually read Tarzan, or are they just going off the movies? I'd say that even fewer people have read Tarzan than have read the original Wizard of Oz book. I read Tarzan as a kid because I was given a collection of the books bound in a huge hard-to-handle paperback. I liked the first one a lot but the later ones aren't as good, sort of like how the sequel to KSMs isn't as good. But yeah I think it's just a cultural touchstone now, because I don't think most people read it.
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bobkatt013 posted:The problem with that is it might be bad timing with that movie due to John Steed dying. I would also expect some Harry Potter, James Bond, Game of Thrones and Hannibal jokes if they do that episode. Seriously doubt they'd do a bond movie, although I would enjoy it. If they did, it would probably have to be Diamonds Are Forever, unless they want to get into the racial issues of You Only Live Twice or the rapey issues of Thunderball. Lol what if it's zardoz. Do WHM movies have an age rule? I seem to recall they have a 10 year rule but I don't see any episodes going further than the mid 80s
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It's rare but it does happen. Episode 36 The Conqueror and episode 177 Wild in the Streets are both from the sixties. I think it's just based on them growing up in the late eighties/early nineties that you see them do more lovely movies from that era.
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It's no "what is a Street Fighter?", but June's "what exactly makes them mutants?" in this week's HDTGM about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze comes drat close.
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The audience question segment made the episode for me. Who takes a girl to a podcast taping on a date? Let alone a bad movie podcast about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
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facebook jihad posted:Seriously doubt they'd do a bond movie, although I would enjoy it. They already did a bond movie.
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's no "what is a Street Fighter?", but June's "what exactly makes them mutants?" in this week's HDTGM about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze comes drat close. Someone in this thread described rear end Backwards as "more of a documentary," and I think about it and chuckle every time she says something insane.
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bobkatt013 posted:They already did a bond movie. A Connery Bond film. Die Another Day is a wreck of a film on its own merits.
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Irish Joe posted:The audience question segment made the episode for me. Who takes a girl to a podcast taping on a date? Let alone a bad movie podcast about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Someone who has been dating for a while and shares similar interests, perhaps in the same movies, podcasts, and movie podcasts?
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facebook jihad posted:Seriously doubt they'd do a bond movie, although I would enjoy it. If they did, it would probably have to be Diamonds Are Forever, unless they want to get into the racial issues of You Only Live Twice or the rapey issues of Thunderball. Yeah, it's probably Zardoz. How did I forget about Zardoz.
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Doing Zardoz would require attempting to explain what happens in Zardoz.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Doing Zardoz would require attempting to explain what happens in Zardoz. HDTGM did it, and it was a decent episode. Makes me wonder if another popular bad movie podcast doing it recently would knock down the chances of them doing a movie. Both did face/off close together though. Also re the TMNT 2 episode: the vanilla ice interview they played is straight off the YouTube video of ninja rap if anyone didn't know
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Doing Zardoz would require attempting to explain what happens in Zardoz. The plots not that bad if you stay away for the whole movie, which was my problem the first 3 times I watched it. Always at someones ones house, always drunk.
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Gyges posted:To be fair, Congo is kind of King Solomon's Mines: The Next Generation. Come for the diamonds, stay for the killer gorillas. Drunkboxer posted:King Solomon's Mines is dated of course, but I don't really get why that would have stopped it from being remembered more. I mean Tarzan is remembered well and so is other worse and more racist "lost world" poo poo. This is more of a discussion for a different thread, but I always liked the book a lot. It's a good 19th century adventure novel by a guy who, while certainly being a product of his times, really liked the continent of Africa and it's people. I mean, there's plenty of racism to be found there but I bet the author would be bummed out being interpreted that way. I tweeted with Eric from WHM about some Quartermain 80's movies making their way to WHM, but in the meantime there's the episode we did on King Solomon's Mines: http://www.yourstupidminds.com/2014/02/podcast-king-solomons-mines-1985.html I love the Quartermain books, even with their crazy 19th century racism. One of these days we'll have to review a version of "She."
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laz0rbeak posted:One of these days we'll have to review a version of "She." The sheer number of adaptations of that novel is just shocking. The 1935 version is usually the one regarded as the "best", but how can you resist the rock-opera version...
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DragonHeart, nice. I remember thinking this was dumb even when I saw it as a kid.
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Oh hey, phone lines are open for We Hate Movie request month. So let me make a pitch to you guys (and not in the thread that the We Hate Movies read). After the fuss about The Interview, I thought it would be funny to arrange a group of people calling in and pretending to be a North Korean operation trying to raise the profile of NK cinema by demanding they do Pulgasari. For the two of you who do not know it, Pulgasari is an infamous North Korean giant monster film. Kim Jong Il had his favorite South Korean director and soap star abducted and forced them to make movies for him. It's goofy, has strangely mixed political messages (wonder how that happened), but at the same time is peppy enough to not be boring. The film is available on YouTube if you want to watch it. I think you can see why I thought it would be amusing to have a bunch of people call in on this. Four or five people calling in over the space of a few weeks and each claiming to be the "new head of the North Korean film board" would be funny. Or if there were a few "abducted tourists" who made obviously "forced" requests. And since they don't mind multiple requests, you're not losing anything if you call in a few weeks after you made your real request. I should say that I strongly doubt that they'd pick Pulgasari for the show. Not because they'd expect bomb threats against all of their listeners from a country who doesn't know how the Internet works, but because I doubt that they'd do a subtitled film. I'm asking people to do this mainly because I think that they'd find the idea of North Korea going after them to be hilarious. Have some images from the film so you can understand it:   
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Oh good Keanu Reeves. There are so many choices. It could be Bill and Ted, Matrix sequel, Constantine
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Great episode. Really looking forward to the inevitable "movies that made me cry" section of the next mailbag. Whoever said it was totally right, the mailbag episodes are great.
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Random Stranger posted:Oh hey, phone lines are open for We Hate Movie request month. This is a dumb idea and you should feel dumb for suggesting it. If you want them to pick Pulgasari, just suggest it, instead of trying to get a bunch of goons do ~*~*~*~hilarious~*~*~*~ impressions of North Korean officials or whatever to stuff the ballot box.
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Rincewind posted:This is a dumb idea and you should feel dumb for suggesting it. If you want them to pick Pulgasari, just suggest it, instead of trying to get a bunch of goons do ~*~*~*~hilarious~*~*~*~ impressions of North Korean officials or whatever to stuff the ballot box. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that it was funnier in his head. Don't listen to me though, I just picked up listening to WHM. I think the title is misleading because I'm starting to get the impression that they do not in fact hate movies.
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bobkatt013 posted:Oh good Keanu Reeves. There are so many choices. It could be Bill and Ted, Matrix sequel, Constantine I'm hoping for The Lake House.
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Brocktoon posted:I'm hoping for The Lake House. I doubt that since it came out in 2006.
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bobkatt013 posted:I doubt that since it came out in 2006. Maybe they got their copy through the magic mailbox, making it older. That was the idea of the movie, right? A magic, time vortex mailbox that let Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock write to each other.
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bobkatt013 posted:Oh good Keanu Reeves. There are so many choices. It could be Bill and Ted, Matrix sequel, Constantine Freaked? He was in Freaked, wasn't he?
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