It's early, cool. I've updated my signature in another forum to pimp it as per usual

Thanks, Jimmy.

It's going to be interesting finally watching this movie. It's based on a comic that is great, Flaming Carrot, which probably can't work in other medium. You have floating zombie dogs, atomic pogo sticks, curvy girls in daisy duke shorts, and other surreal things (one plot had Trekkies and Doctor Who fans forming the resistance to an alien invasion). They went the right route by changing the name and just taking certain elements while still giving the creator a bunch of money
(he tried doing a Mystery Men comic to cash in on the movie, but that universe didn't have any of the fun of the original)

I saw this in the theater and was amazingly perplexed at how much I liked it compared to what sort of reviews it was getting and what people were saying about it. I thought it was a great parody of sorts to all the various "constantly too dark but with tons of neon" superhero flicks that had been coming out at that time, and just funny if you're into comics in general.

Actually, if you go back to the so called "golden" age of comics, you find a LOT of characters that have the same sort of super powers that these guys have. "Brick Bat" was a guy who dressed up like a bat and threw bricks at people. Why? Cause it's a cool sounding name, I guess. The Shoveler and Carmine The Bowler would have fit right in with that era of super heroes.

There's actually a site that has info for a lot of those old abandoned crap characters, and the best part is that they're all so old now that they're public domain and you could make your own comics or movies based on these guys if you wanted to. Public Domain Superheroes

But yeah, I liked this flick. I wouldn't want to watch it all the time, but once every few years is good.

You know what's weird as hell, tho. This morning I woke up and went outside for a cigarette and was thinking about the movie I saw a couple days ago, "Super". I started thinking about all the various superhero parody films and this one popped into my head. I thought "Hey, I should add that to the DIF suggestion thread, that would probably be an interesting flick to talk about, given the cast, the recent spurt of superhero parody flicks, etc." So I clicked on the DIF book mark and look what pops up. If I had been drinking anything it would have resulted in a beautiful spit-take.

I remember seeing this in theaters as a kid for the sole fact that Kel was in it. What the fuck ever happened to him?

In an alternate reality, Ben Stiller directed this movie, with the same cast, and the same budget, and the same sets, and the same script, but with a different DP and a different editor. That movie was a huge hit and spawned four sequels.

And I would have loved it.

This thing? Not so much.

I thought about watching that before. You just gave me major incentive. Time to stock up on booze.

Finally got around to watching... well, half the movie It really didn't need the Blade Runner setting, given the comic just took place in a typical small American city. Trey, you might be interested to know that there's a Flaming Carrot/Reid Fleming Worlds Greatest Milkman crossover comic that came out a couple years ago (guest staring the Girl from Ipanema). They've also started releasing hardcover collections of the Reid Fleming comics, so pick up yours today!