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Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I remember seeing ads for the Butterfly Effect all over the place in 2004. I had no idea it was like this. Good grief. :stare:

# ¿ May 9, 2014 06:44

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 17:36

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I enjoyed Secundus' guest appearance.

# ¿ May 29, 2014 07:58

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

The Animation Damnation on Star Trek: TAS was really fantastic.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 19:46

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I really like how in this week's episode their impressions of Hollywood's idea of a New Yorker gradually shifted from hauling and eating garbage to art cinema aficionados.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 18:45

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

bobkatt013 posted:

Next week there will be TMNT SECRET OF THE OOZE!

I loving loved Secret of the Ooze as a kid, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it eviscerated this Tuesday.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2014 19:14

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Does anybody remember which WHM back episode introduced Muldoon's?

# ¿ Aug 2, 2014 07:48

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Speaking of babies, Invisible Child was a great choice for the first summer rerun on WHM. What an incredible movie, what an incredible episode.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2014 22:25

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

laz0rbeak posted:

"I've let you talk to my daughter, WHICH I HATE." One of my favorite eps of theirs, right up there with the new Adventures of Pippi.

My favorite bits from Invisible Child are all of the riffing on ten year old Mae Whitman's elaborate web of lies.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2014 18:45

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Infamous Sphere posted:

I wasn't so big on Pippi. I loved Mrs Doubtfire though, and Invisible Child too is a fantastic episode.

Pippi brought us the horse voice, though.

"You'll get the chair, Longstocking!"

# ¿ Aug 7, 2014 22:33

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

DoombatINC posted:

Isn't it Chris who does the "When would I kill myself in a movie" gag? That's one of my favorite runners.

I think it's Steve who does that-- but the other guys also put some thought into when Steve would kill himself in a movie.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2014 17:45

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

I love how much time they spent on Paulie. In a movie with a lot of baffling poo poo, the fact they let Paulie hang around is definitely the most baffling for me. Yes, even more than the robot. Why are they letting this abusive, alcoholic baby-man freeload off them?

I really liked how they kept alternating between Paulie, drunk scumbag trash man who probably hosed that robot, and Paulie, paragon of childlike innocence who's just sad because his pet frog escaped at Apollo Creed's funeral.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2014 20:28

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

radlum posted:

The New Yorkers were pretty good, however, this rerun has left me wanting for more Wilford Brimley impressions.

There's always Hard Target and its Cajun Brimley.

"Godammnut! God... damot! Godamot."

# ¿ Sep 3, 2014 20:17

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Mojo Threepwood posted:

New WHM is up, the Substitute. So far it's a winner with the quick arrival of The Vague Drug trade and winning impressions.

They also announced the new Listener Request Month for November, so start getting those picks ready. It was kinda odd, when describing the requirements for the Listener Request movies they went on way too long about what listeners shouldn't do. Like they said not to request something they'd already done, and then continued to say that people should go to their homepage and CTRL-F to find old movies. Which would work, but seemed unnecessarily detailed. Maybe they've gotten a ridiculous amount of repeat requests and felt the need to be specific.

Every Listener Request Month they seem to get more and more insistent about not requesting movies they'd already done, so it must be getting worse and worse each time.

Anyway, in the actual episode, I'm a big fan of their idea to start saying that your friends didn't make it with no further explanation.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2014 16:54

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

bango skank posted:

A little too uptown for me, if you know what I'm sayin. You know what I'm sayin? I'm not gonna leave til you know what I'm sayin.

The point where Eric just started doing a Dracula voice was one of the funniest wandering impressions in the show.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 05:47

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I'm a big fan of Egg Begley Jr.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2014 16:54

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

When they announced that they were making history by doing a Jingle All The Way sequel starring Larry the Cable guy, I thought the WHM first would be the first time they just made up a movie because I couldn't believe that Jingle All The Way 2 actually exists.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2014 19:31

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Infamous Sphere posted:

I think it's because (and this goes back to Hayes code values) having the evil person fall to their death means that the good person doesn't have the moral stain on their conscience of actually having to have killed them. (In the Hayes code, one couldn't commit a murder without punishment, meaning that many "bad-guys-killed-by-good-guys" got killed by accident, like..falling over and hitting their head or whatever else.)

And I realised that almost any movie with a nanny is prime for WHM glory. Invisible Child, Mrs Doubtfire, Hand that Rocks the Cradle, etc. Also, would "Houseguest" fit into the "family infiltrator" genre? :p I just think movies with nannies/family infiltrators end up being prime Lifetime level glory.

And while gravity wasn't the culprit, the Invisible Child ended with the death of its villain, the cruel invisible child who manipulated an innocent family to its twisted whims.

# ¿ Nov 22, 2014 00:24

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Haha, I was just coming to the thread to post about what a gift to the episode Joe the Doorman was.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2014 17:33

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Eric's whole idea for a Victorian, Alice in Wonderland-esque take on Mario is like legit super interesting.

EDIT: Also, Cpl. Mario Mario, Vietnam war criminal.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2014 16:27

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Let's not forget Cabin's secret biker friends from Easy Rider 2. :v:

"Well, I'll have to ask Rip and the boys..."

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 02:59

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

In addition to the expertise he brought to the table, he also coined the word "Hitlergeist", which is pretty good.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2014 17:04

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

That poor mouse. :smith:

# ¿ Dec 22, 2014 22:25

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Dog acting and baby rapping.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2014 18:02

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I think we can agree that the best member of the WHM crew is hardboiled ex-screenwriter Eric Movie.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 19:57

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I always kind of like the episodes about movies that are just totally baffling.

I still feel like this movie's existence is way less baffling than Jingle All the Way 2's, though.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 23:11

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I can't believe the makers of Dracula Untold didn't spring for the rights to the Ottoman Empire's name. :argh:

# ¿ Jan 20, 2015 16:59

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I feel like at this point, the next movie pretty much has to involve a demon, a supernatural entity cursed with immortality, begin in some vague historical period, and end in 2014.

(Come to think of it, even the Animation Damnation fits into this, since like Adam Frankenstein, Dracula, and Russo-Irish gangster/horse-whisperer Colin Farrel, the Simpsons too are cursed to still walk the earth in 2014, long after their time should have passed.)

# ¿ Jan 20, 2015 23:12

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

irishjoo posted:

The saga of Eric Movies in the latest We Hate Movies mailbag is really great. I have the app but I think they also put it on band camp.

Looks like it's just in the normal feed, too.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2015 21:34

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

And right before the worst of 2014 they did a whole bunch of comedies (or, well, "comedies")-- Look Who's Talking, Jingle All The Way 2, Three Men and a Baby, and I guess Super Mario Brothers, kind of?

# ¿ Feb 10, 2015 20:56

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I barely see any movies, but I guess I've still seen a bunch of WHM ones-- both Ewok movies, Phantom Menace, The Next Karate Kid (which was filmed at the high school I went to!), Batman Forever, Foodfight (loving... Foodfight...), Casper, Jingle All the Way, Mrs. Doubtfire, North, and TMNT II.

I saw North in the theater as a kid. I kind of think it's the reason I haven't seen many other movies later in life. :v:

Foodfight is still one of the most unbelievable things I've seen in my entire life. Everyone should have to watch it.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2015 06:20

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

thrawn527 posted:

It think it's that Star Wars is such a big epic movie with a good length (around 2 hrs) that, if you're going to be longer than Star Wars, you better have a good god drat reason for it.

It could have been any movie just like it.

I think it originally just came up as an offhanded remark when one of them was incredulous at how long some crappy movie or another was. It's probably a good metric, though, since most people listening to WHM have probably seen Star Wars so you have a sense of what it means to be longer than Star Wars.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2015 21:03

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Don't forget the Running Man!

# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 19:51

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Between Stealth, Rocky IV and Chopping Mall I've decided I'm a big fan of WHMs where they have a movie featuring a robot.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2015 19:18

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Random Stranger posted:

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:

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.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2015 18:00

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Didn't they mention wanting do a Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey episode in some mailbag or another?

STATION!!!

# ¿ Jul 7, 2015 19:25

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Don't worry, Africa will never let him die.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2015 16:02

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I'm a big fan of Shakespeare's autobiographical play, Man About Stratford.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 16:08

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

The main problem with the app was that it kept crashing and losing my place in episodes I was listening to, so I'm glad it's gone forever now.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2016 20:48

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

I'm completely obsessed with the Bee Movie Podcast.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2016 08:12

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 17:36

Empress Theonora: Feb 19, 2001; She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

That Gamemaster story was kind of incredible???? Nineteen loving thousand dollars, holy poo poo?????

# ¿ Apr 29, 2016 15:56

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