Boy. I am an instant fan of the Down in Front crew. Great insight and laughs every time. I've rewatched all my favorite movies with these wonderful new tracks. I have heard the crew mention "Last Action hero" in the past. I think this movie warrants a second look. It serves as a great lesson to screenwriters and satirists everywhere. So..."Last Action Hero" Please.
And, if there is time...Gremlins 2: The New batch.

If you're only going to do one or two anime, apart from like you said something like Akira or one of Miyazaki's films (Princess Mononoke is one of his minor ones), I'd like to suggest Wings of Honnêamise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Spac … Honnêamise

It's a fanfilm, basically: a bunch of animation nerds managed to get the funding to do an incredible SF movie about a nation's first space program. Visually stunning, they designed an entire culture as well as visited NASA to help get things right. As good as the dub is, though, I'd recommend using the subtitles translating the Japanese track- two critical lines were changed to make the main characters less.... well, unlikeable

Zarban is our personal hero. Tell your peeps. :-D

NO, no no no no no no, you are mistaken sir.

The Muppet's Wizard of Oz....the worst piece of shit conceivable, with a grand total of zero redeeming features. Please notify the correct people to have this egregious error remedied.

And make it a serious post-mortem of the film rather than a snark-fest.

If anybody could come up with a way to make that piece of crap interesting, it's you guys.

Also, be sure to mention the fact that they put Kristin Stewart in heavy brown contacts which refused to stay on-axis, so she constantly looked like she had at least one lazy eye.

Challenge: Find both bad ideas in this post!

Oh yeah, and, uh, Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut. Since the three commentary tracks on that 194 minute movie just were not enough.

And there's a lot to say about how excising the son diminishes Sybilla's role as a character foil as well as a romantic interest for Balian, making the theatrical release totally suck.

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As you know... we've gotten a lot of mileage by mocking Surrogates.   

But I don't know if any of the crew has ever actually seen the thing.   I hadn't, until tonight.   

My god. 

My god, it's full of stupid.

So, the movie posits a near-future world in which everyone stays home in their bathrobe while an idealized robot simulation of themselves lives their life for them.      Fine - that's the magic bean, ready go.

And then - not one thing in the entire movie makes any sense at all. The changes in society that supposedly result from this revolution are ridiculous and completely impractical.   

And to top it off, the whole thing is one as-you-know scene after another.   Or more like one you-live-in-this-world-so-why-the-hell-don't-you-know-this-already? scene after another.   

Oh Jonathan Mostow, to think there would come a day when we would look back on Terminator 3 as your "early, better work".

I will give the movie points for an amusingly rubbery robo-Bruce Willis, and for Radha Mitchell, whom I'm always happy to look upon.

But otherwise, dayum.

DIF team, Surrogates is on Netflix streaming right now.  If you haven't seen it, get busy.  The time has come for us to stop talking about Surrogates and actually do something about it.   

Gaah, the stupid, it still burns.   Gaaaaah.

That's what I've been telling Teague for months.

My comments on the Transformers films (and Batman Begins, on which I don't think I've yet had flimsy pretense to pontificate here) notwithstanding, I'm pretty forgiving of stupidity in movies. Maybe it's because I'm just not very smart myself, but if I'm sitting in a theater engrossed in a story, absurdity has a decent chance of flying right past me unnoticed.

But my thing with Surrogates was that it just wasn't a very good movie. It wasn't interesting or exciting, and at no point did I care that much what happened next. I've seen safety videos on airplanes that were more captivating.

I've got more love in my heart for a film that deeply offends or infuriates me than I do for one that fails to engage my emotions at all. After I watched Surrogates I popped in my DVD of Episode II just so I could feel something again.

Last edited by Jeffery Harrell (2010-06-27 14:01:45)

Saw Surrogates last night.

Mostow is apparently really good at making a 90 minute movie that simultaneously feels too long and yet never feels like it's actually started.

EDIT: I also just got around to PRINCE OF DARKNESS. That's a silly movie. It's a lot of cool ideas, but he just kind of throws them in a pile and goes "ta-daaa!" Disappointing, because I think the other two, bracketing flicks in Carpenter's informal "Apocalypse Trilogy" -- THE THING and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS -- are favorites of mine.

SKY CAPTAIN!!! Woot! Loved it! Definitely needs to be done!

They have:

Little Shop of Horrors
Ghostbusters
Men In Black
Wild Wild West
The Mask
Team America
Galaxy Quest
Princess Bride
Orgazmo
Transformers II

Most of which, and no offense, but they weren't the best episodes.