cabbageboy

Psycho outgrossed its sequels. Silence Of The Lambs outgrossed Hannibal and Red Dragon. The Matrix outgrossed Revolutions and Reloaded (I assume). Fellowship Of The Ring outgrossed the other two. Weekend At Bernie's outdid the sequel. A few words on this....comparing Pscho and its sequels in raw numbers is pointless considering Psycho was 1960 and the sequels were made in the 80s. The Matrix made about 171 million domestic while Reloaded did about 281 million (and like 730 million worldwide). The first did make more domestic than Revs did however, think it made about 140 million. FOTR made quite a bit less than either TTT or ROTK did. Worldwide FOTR made 867 million I think, while TTT did 926 million, and ROTK with a staggering 1.1 billion. Titanic by comparison did 600 million in the US and 1.8 billion overall. That's just insane. With inflation Gone With the Wind would have done something like 1.2 billion domestic, which is mind blowing.

Oh, make no mistake. This movie more than any other I've seen really gives you the urge to consume a product. In this case, it is White Castle hamburgers. I wasn't even hungry (I'd eaten Chinese earlier in the day) but after the movie I was ready to go to White Castle. Heh.

Yeah, I too saw the sneak preview at the new Deluxe 16. This movie was hilarious, awesome stuff. Not sure if it's the best stoner comedy ever but in terms of recent stuff I'd rank it with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back in terms of stoner comedies that had some sophistication. You know what's funny? After seeing it we (my brother, my friend Ian, and I) went to the nearby White Castle down the road! I bet half the crowd from the theater was there, haha.

I actually have seen all of the Police Academy movies aside from that last crappy one in Moscow. In a goofy sort of way I actually kinda miss not seeing Steve Guttenberg, Michael Winslow, and Co. tear it up. Besides, can anyone deny that Guttenberg needs work?

I gotta go with Tim Roth from Rob Roy. Pretty much the only character in a movie that I really, really wanted something bad to happen to. Let's see, the guy killed Rob's best friend, raped his wife, burned his house down, stole his money, knocked up a chambermaid and kicked her to the curb, and then damn near killed Rob Roy at the end. He was a fucker. In regards to Secret Window I wondered initially how they were trying to make me feel about the climax. I mean, were we REALLY supposed to cheer for the slimy boyfriend to save his wife at the end? Hell, I think most people wanted Johnny Depp to kill her. I know I did, along with Timmy Hutton.

I submit that it is possible to be a heel and yet still work a style that gets pops from the crowd. That in essence was RVD's heel schtick: He'd cut a cocky promo badmouthing his opponent, and then do his best to show him up in the ring with fancy moves. People forget that RVD never really turned face in ECW, he and Sabu just naturally wanted belts that were held by the Triple Threat and thus became de facto faces. This was the coolness of RVD's ECW character: He didn't give a shit. Cheer him, fine. Boo him, didn't care. It wasn't till his last year or so in ECW that he started becoming the baby kissing face, and if you notice that was some of his weaker ECW stuff. Anyway I read that RVD has in fact resigned with WWE, yet he's on Velocity for some unknown reason. While I think it's too late for Booker to ever get another title run, RVD can easily be given a push anytime they feel like it.

Last Boy Scout is one of those ultra bleak early 90s actioners that could only come out of that time period. Can anyone see this movie being made now? And yes, it is a very underrated Willis vehicle. From his bizarre enjoyment of Pat Boone music to the whole Satan Claus thing, the movie has all sorts of weird quirks.

I saw I, Robot and it was ok. Kind of a 2nd rate Blade Runner with campy looking effects that will date in 5 years. The actual story was pretty good however, as there was a certain amusement in seeing black cop Will Smith so prejudiced against the robots. Heh. I know that Smith opened the movie extremely well, but he was completely miscast in this role. His schtick is fine is a sillier film like MIB, or even the less than serious Bad Boys movies, but I, Robot would have worked better with someone like a 1980s Harrison Ford (think Blade Runner again). Someone you could take a bit more seriously.

I too thought that they should have just stuck to 1990-95. To be honest the very early 90s aren't much to write home about either (Vanilla Ice, Gerardo, all that other crappy stuff). Grunge should have been more in the 1992 year than 91, since after all they put Alanis on the 96 show when she was already getting known in 95. I thought they kinda shortchanged the whole mid 90s punk movement in the shows. They sorta mentioned Green Day during Woodstock, but nary a word about Offspring? Smash was my soundtrack for the Summer of 94.

Here's the problem: He Man was cool. Transformers were cool. Power Rangers DID suck major ass from the get go. Adding to the suckiness of Power Rangers is the fact that it was on an afternoon block with the Batman cartoon, Animaniacs, and Tiny Toons....which were all really good shows that made it all the more glaring how horrible Power Rangers was.

Do you guys realize that so far on rottentomatoes.com this is getting 100%?? Only 6 reviews thus far, but still that's wild.

I seriously think that if RVD doesn't bust some people open he would have gotten the title in late 2001, early 2002. He was pissing so many people off though that it was damn near impossible, despite how over he was.

Oh man, once you start getting to like 1997 or so the decade just sucked ass. I mean Hanson? Spice Girls? I can't wait for the 98 show to hear about nu metal. Yay.

I didn't catch some of 94 but my brother told me they didn't even mention Cobain's death on there. Perhaps they considered it too much of a downer and couldn't crack jokes on it? Incidentally, I remember Ace of Base in late 93 so maybe they should have been on that show. I already await I Love the 90s Strikes Back, since they've left out a bunch of stuff.

I know that Mortal Kombat ended up as the better movie, but come on....you gotta have Street Fighter II before it. That game was just EVERYWHERE back in 1992. So far I'm not feeling these shows. God, they gave about as much time to Color Me Badd that they did to the grunge movement.

1994 was to me the best and most compelling year of the 90s. They would almost have to TRY to fuck this one up. To wit: --Cobain's suicide. --O.J. and the murder/white Bronco --Kerrigan/Harding and the scandal --The rise of punk bands (Green Day, Offspring) in the post grunge era. --Movies like Forrest Gump, Speed, True Lies, etc. After all, if they can mention Point Break, they can mention a Keanu vehicle that actually MADE MONEY. By the way I didn't see all of the 92 episode but did they mention Street Fighter II at all? If they didn't, someone must die.

You know, the "zombies dying" aspect seems almost like 28 Days Later. As in by the end the zombies were all rotting away and weren't a threat. I'll be there though, it should be cool.

Yeah, I'm continually fascinated by how some burger chains are different in various parts of the country. For instance in some areas White Castle is more like a Krystal, and out west what I know as Hardees is actually Carl's Jr. (but do they have the angus meat now???). What I call Rallys is a Checkers down in the deep south. There is so much you can do with something like H & K Go to Waffle House as well, given that two foreigners would be going into a redneck eatery. Hell, there's money in a Denny's sequel to given their past racial history.

Oh god, you don't know Waffle House either? Obviously you have never been to the south. If you go to the Carolinas, TN, or even FL there are all sorts of Waffle Houses. It's a seedy, dingy breakfast place that mainly serves waffles but you can also get steaks and chicken sandwiches too. The amusing thing is that I live practically next to a White Castle and slightly farther down the road is a Waffle House. Also within a mile radius is a Wendy's, Hardees, McDonald's, Outback, Shoney's, Frisch's, Sub Station, Indi's (local ghetto Indian chicken, possible front for a crack ring), Arby's, Golden Wall (local Chinese food)...and that's about it. I've been to practically all of these aside from the Waffle House. I won't go near that place, haha.

The thing is, there is just so much funny shit you can do with White Castle. The problem is however that there are a lot of places in the country with no WCs, thus quite a few people don't know what it is and won't get some of the jokes. Seriously, this is one of the only movies that will have completely justified fart jokes.

Aw, dude. White Castle is the sort of place where you just get these bizarre cravings like "I must eat some White Castles NOW." There is one right next to me practically, and I used to go there a lot. Now? Eh, don't need em.

I can't believe they left out the #1 grossing movie of 1991: T2. It would have been high on my list for that year, and certainly should have been there instead of stuff like Thelma and Louise, Point Break, etc.

There was something that Bret failed to mention during his trashing of Flair in late 1992 when Bret first won the title from him. Flair was working then with a middle ear problem that was screwing up his equilibrium (in fact Flair wasn't at the first TV taping I ever went to for this reason). This might account for the odd bumps and mistimed stuff Flair was doing. Bret also doesn't seem to realize that Flair does his silly spots like falling on his face and flipping in the corner because those spots are over with the crowd. I'd somehow feel cheated if I didn't get those spots in a Flair match. Bret himself is guilty of the same repetition he accuses Flair of. Truthfully, everyone repeats spots.

Kornheiser may have been right about one thing, that they aren't giving him top competition. Seems like most of these people are just getting about 3,000 for the whole show. I mean yeah the guy is dominant but you'd think a few people would at least challenge him.

That 1990 episode was crappy, and that's mainly because 1990 itself was crappy. I mean honestly now, is there anyone out there with a smidge of nostalgia for MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, or the Lambada? The bewildering thing is that they really didn't trash that stuff all that much (even Michael Bolton), yet from what I saw of the 1991 show they were badmouthing grunge quite a bit. Do they not have a clue about their target audience here?