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BigRed0427 posted:Mortal Kombat is one of those movies that can't be called a Good movie, but is still enough to it that it is enjoyable to watch. To me it isn't really fun tearing it down as if it was something like Blame it on Rio, Easy Rider The Ride back or Addicted to Love. For We Hate Movies, or any bad movie podcast, I think their better episodes are when they are talking a truly bad movie. I don't know about that. The Tuff Turf and Hard Target episodes are pretty good.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I don't know about that. The Tuff Turf and Hard Target episodes are pretty good. Tuff Turf is easily one of their best episodes. DO I BELIEVE MY JACK MACK EYES?
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Jun 8, 2014 15:20
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Yea they've shown they can handle making fun of guilty pleasure movies plenty of times before. Mortal Kombat is a lovely movie, it's just a fun kind of lovely like (insert near every not-Rocky 1 Stallone movie here) or (insert literally any movie with Wilford Brimley here) or (All of Jessie Ventura's career including his WWF life). There's plenty to laugh at and there's nothing wrong with them going 'yea it was a pretty good lovely movie' at the end.
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BigRed0427 posted:Mortal Kombat is one of those movies that can't be called a Good movie, but is still enough to it that it is enjoyable to watch. To me it isn't really fun tearing it down as if it was something like Blame it on Rio, Easy Rider The Ride back or Addicted to Love. For We Hate Movies, or any bad movie podcast, I think their better episodes are when they are talking a truly bad movie. It's a movie that took Mortal Kombat at face value, and because of that they made a face value Mortal Kombat movie. It's not good, but it was exactly what a MK movie was supposed to be.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Yea they've shown they can handle making fun of guilty pleasure movies plenty of times before. Mortal Kombat is a lovely movie, it's just a fun kind of lovely like (insert near every not-Rocky 1 Stallone movie here) or (insert literally any movie with Wilford Brimley here) or (All of Jessie Ventura's career including his WWF life). Ahem: 
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He doesn't have a moustache in that, it hardly counts
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What are some all time favorite WHM episodes? I gotta go with: 1. Battle for Endor: Gave us first taste of Wilford Brimley, and Eric's classic joke when the Ewoks start massacring the villains: "This was the orcs' Vietnam" 2. Tuff Turf: For Jack Mack alone, plus the sheer oddness of James Spader as an action hero 3. K-911: If only for the frequent observations of why Jim Belushi would get the chair, and the crime spree he embarked on
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Jun 10, 2014 02:48
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Pippi Longstockings is great if only for their horse impressions. "You'll get the chair Pippi! The chaaaaaaaaaaaaair". Blame it on Rio, while vile, also includes them being tortured horribly by the worst movie they've ever done. Batman Forever is another great one too.
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Jun 10, 2014 02:58
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In no particular order: 1. Halloween 3, just for all the non-horror and the legend of Tom Atkins, drinking ninja. Also the Muldoon's business plan. 2. Ghostbusters 2 because it's an amazing breakdown of every reason the movie didn't work. 3. Poison Ivy/Blame It On Rio for the reactions to the utterly skeevy parts. 4. Hamburger and Joysticks, because I grew up with those boob comedies. 5. Babycakes and Addicted to Love, because they're great at pointing out how they're not so much romantic comedies as much as stalker documentaries. 6. Hackers, because hackers.
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Jun 10, 2014 03:03
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Hider in the House for the best example of a movie they come to love -- another thing WHM does better than any of the others (when was the last time The Flop House actually enjoyed a movie, on any level of irony?)
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Jun 10, 2014 03:06
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Their reaction when they realized that Pray For Death was a secret Batman movie was great.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Hider in the House for the best example of a movie they come to love -- another thing WHM does better than any of the others (when was the last time The Flop House actually enjoyed a movie, on any level of irony?) See also Invisible child Foodfight is my favorite for purely selfish reasons
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Evil Mastermind posted:Their reaction when they realized that Pray For Death was a secret Batman movie was great. Hahaha yeah, my favorite episodes are when they review an 80's revenge movie and all end up loving it. See also: Walking Tall.
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The Pallbearer is a good one, basically any episode with "good" impressions cracks me up. edit: I think the Mortal Kombat episode will be fine, it's kind of been talked to death at this point and is ultimately neither bad or good, but hopefully it won't be as annoying as the HDTGM version. Listening to them attempt to understand the movie and characters was honestly embarassing. The Duke fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 04:36
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Dracula 2000 is the best episode. "More nails for you Doubting Thomas!" Recently, Mrs. Doubtfire and Butterfly Effect are fantastic. The MK episode is great so far. It's very much a We Love Movies episode.
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weekly font posted:Dracula 2000 is the best episode. "More nails for you Doubting Thomas!" Recently, Mrs. Doubtfire and Butterfly Effect are fantastic. The best was Donald Sterling homeowner in the Outworld.
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Mojo Threepwood posted:I really enjoyed the Retronauts episode about the Spirits Within. I had never seen the movie but they did a great job of explaining the production background, the story, and the reception it had. Definitely an episode worth checking out, it was Retronauts Live Episode 51. Hey, thanks for the shout-out! I loved doing those episodes and was happy we hit the major video game movies before all of the big podcasts did.
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Jun 10, 2014 07:04
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Looks like next weeks We Hate Movie will be - Catwoman
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The Duke posted:The Pallbearer is a good one, basically any episode with "good" impressions cracks me up. Also Cloudy the sentient rain cloud. "You guys couldn't just invite him for some loving lasagna? You know how much harder this makes my job?"
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bobkatt013 posted:Looks like next weeks We Hate Movie will be - Catwoman Probably. It could also be Swordfish though.
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Jun 10, 2014 15:56
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Holy poo poo, the Christopher Lambert impressions were cracking me up. I had to pause it to catch my breath. "In the mood for a midnight snack? Why not come down to Scorpion's Fire Grill." "It'll make you say, 'Get over here!'"
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Grant DaNasty posted:Holy poo poo, the Christopher Lambert impressions were cracking me up. I had to pause it to catch my breath. "Your Lambert is veering close to Triumph The Insult Comic Dog. Not saying course correct, just telling you where this is going."
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Grant DaNasty posted:Holy poo poo, the Christopher Lambert impressions were cracking me up. I had to pause it to catch my breath. I want some Sub Zero's ice cream. Them talking about the Goro puppet/stop motion puppet/Golem was amazing.
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I was dying at the Christopher Lambert/Triumph the Insult Comic Dog/Master Splinter impressions for pretty much the whole hour.
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That was a really fun episode; I think they actually name-dropped everyone in the first three games. I'm also glad I'm not the only person who liked Stryker in MK3. And man, I remember the days where Nudality rumors were actually a thing. They almost appeared in an actual arcade game, too.
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Evil Mastermind posted:That was a really fun episode; I think they actually name-dropped everyone in the first three games. I'm also glad I'm not the only person who liked Stryker in MK3. Only when he is not fighting Jax
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Drunkboxer posted:Probably. It could also be Swordfish though. Summer blockbuster month means that the superhero movie is more likely.
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Random Stranger posted:Summer blockbuster month means that the superhero movie is more likely. Could still be either. Swordfish was a big budget summer movie (budget of $102 million), and while it only made $147 million, I remember people were everywhere talking about it summer of 2001. I guess, pre-9-11, Halle Berry going topless was enough to consume the country's thoughts.
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thrawn527 posted:Could still be either. Swordfish was a big budget summer movie (budget of $102 million), and while it only made $147 million, I remember people were everywhere talking about it summer of 2001. I guess, pre-9-11, Halle Berry going topless was enough to consume the country's thoughts. Was that scene as pointless as I remember it? I remember it literally just being her sitting in a chair with her tits out, apropos of nothing.
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Drunkboxer posted:Was that scene as pointless as I remember it? I remember it literally just being her sitting in a chair with her tits out, apropos of nothing. Yup, as I remember it, she was reading a magazine or book or something, Hugh Jackman asks her a question, she drops the book and is topless. Then they talk real quick, and the scene ends. It was there solely to get people talking.
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Drunkboxer posted:Was that scene as pointless as I remember it? I remember it literally just being her sitting in a chair with her tits out, apropos of nothing. Yeah, it was completely gratuitous. Actually, I'd prefer it to be Swordfish just because it is such an absurd movie. Plus they'd get to talk about the hacking scene.
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thrawn527 posted:Yup, as I remember it, she was reading a magazine or book or something, Hugh Jackman asks her a question, she drops the book and is topless. Then they talk real quick, and the scene ends. It was there solely to get people talking. She was reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Because of course Halle Berry just lounges around reading that topless. I looked it up because for some reason I remembered it as her holding one of those sun tanning reflector things. Which it turns out is only marginally dumber.
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I just listened to the Butterfly Effect episode and I forgot how much of the movie depends on Ashton Kutcher doing the weirdest wrong poo poo possible. Like instead of calling the cops or at the very least telling the dad to leave his whole family alone he specifically says "Leave your daughter alone and focus all your energy on DISCIPLINING your son!". That's such a loving dumb move to make, or deciding to straight up murder the girl's brother after he was incapacitated because.....why? Also they're totally right at how dumb it is to imply an entire college age group of people will just burst out laughing at a disabled person falling out of a wheelchair. I'm sure there's one or two assholes, but everyone? Really?
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I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the writers were the type of people who would laugh at a situation like that. Do they even explain in-movie how he lost his limbs in the first place?
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I thought it was because he tried to stop the woman and the baby being blown up by the mailbox bomb, and he got blown up instead. I think my favourite WHM eps have got to be Tuff Turf, the Glass House (I couldn't stop cracking up whenever they said glass anything in that episode), Foodfight, the Butterfly Effect one was fantastic as was Mrs Doubtfire, North and, hell, even Casper. I think when they do a silly kids' movie or a bad Lifetime movie or a "heartwarming" (creepy) movie it generally ends up being fantastic, as well as those skeezy erotic thrillers. When they review something dumb and karate-ish, or a boob comedy, it's still fun - but I don't think those episodes end up being as funny because everyone knows that those movies are bad, even people who like watching them, and they tend to be bad in just the way you'd expect.
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Thinking about bad Lifetime movies they really need to do Cyber Seduction aka the Lifetime movie about porn addiction.
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Jun 12, 2014 14:23
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Was that the one they did on Netflix Criminals before they podfaded? That was a great episode.
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I think my favorite episode has to be Hard Target. I've gotten 5 people to listen to them regularly by having them listen to that episode. Everyone just loses when they get to the part where Wilford Brimley finds out who's directing the movie. "WHAT?!" *pan outside the building* "WHAT?!?!"
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Jun 12, 2014 14:47
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*Kang and Kodos* "WHAT?"
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