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Old 01-29-2014, 10:06 PM   #101
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STEEL was fantastic. LOLz just kidding it was bad.
Ray J, Judd Nelson and Shaq all equally sucked in this movie.
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Old 01-29-2014, 11:23 PM   #102
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Team America. 'Nuff said. Can't STAND that movie- it had some amusing dialog, but a five-minute puke scene?! Doll sex?! REALLY>??!!

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Old 01-30-2014, 04:44 AM   #103
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Team America. 'Nuff said. Can't STAND that movie- it had some amusing dialog, but a five-minute puke scene?! Doll sex?! REALLY>??!!

Can...NOT...un-see.....
I'm guessing you don't like south park much either, right ?
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Old 01-30-2014, 07:55 AM   #104
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I was never a big South Park fan so I skipped Team America altogether. Thought the creators were great around age 15 or so and watched quite a bit of SP back in the day with my cousin because that was all he'd watch. I even came close to seeing TA in theaters. Just got interested in other things, I guess. Maybe I'll give it a go eventually. 5 minute puke sceen eh? Yeah I think I'll just fast forward that part. Fart and other bodily function jokes just never cracked me up all that much save for the bathroom sceen in Dumb and Dumber way back. I mean, I've tried to see the humor in stuff like that these days but it just doesn't get a laugh out of me anymore for no reasons I can think of. Maybe we've just been hit over the head with that sort of shtick more than I've realized? I think I'm desensitized!
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Old 01-30-2014, 01:16 PM   #105
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Highlander: The Source - Believe it or not, it's even WORSE than Highlander 2: The Quickening. It has worse writing than 2, Worse Special Effects than any other SyFy original movie, and it's just a bad and offensive movie in general.
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Old 01-30-2014, 01:45 PM   #106
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Anybody see that Hellraiser reboot? That one really hurt. Not sure if it was a straight to DVD movie or what. And are they still doing those Scifi Channel original movies like ROACHORPION, SLUGTOPUS, etc? I just made those two up but you know the ones I mean? The strange animal hybrid films? Either that or they'll show made for TV films about giant bugs or sloths. Well maybe not sloths. Sometimes you might get a big cuddly lake monster thrown in. Made for TV movies count too right? There's a treasure trove of horrible eyesores waiting to be found there!
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Old 01-30-2014, 05:05 PM   #107
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Team America. 'Nuff said. Can't STAND that movie- it had some amusing dialog, but a five-minute puke scene?! Doll sex?! REALLY>??!!

Can...NOT...un-see.....
I saw the movie on video and can assure you that I could have done without those parts myself. But what really made up for it was how real-life celebrities, mentioned by name, were skewered so savagely for their arrogance in thinking that they knew how the world was and that all the world really gives a fig about their political opinions simply because they're celebrities. And certainly it was worth it when Sean Penn, the worst egotist of the bunch, wrote such a butt hurt letter to the producers in response to what they said about him.
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Old 01-30-2014, 07:05 PM   #108
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I'm always amazed that Sean Penn of all people thinks he has a right to say anything about anything.

The guy held Madonna hostage for like two days while he repeatedly beat the ever living crap out of her, and she only got away by pleading that she had to go to the bathroom (why THAT was what triggered his "Sympathy Switch", I have no idea).

That right there means nobody should ever listen to anything Sean Penn says. His ideas about what is and is not Okay are... suspect.

But yeah that movie ("Team America") was OK. Not for everyone, though. Great theme song, though.
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Old 01-30-2014, 07:10 PM   #109
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Yeah, Aside from the gross out humor, the satire in TA:WP is pretty good.
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Yeah, Aside from the gross out humor, the satire in TA:WP is pretty good.
It's as if Trey Parker and Matt Stone are like Jaaon Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, if they actually had an inch of comedic talent.
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It's as if Trey Parker and Matt Stone are like Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, if they actually had an inch of comedic talent.
Friedberg and Seltzer = Bizarro Matt and Trey.

Hey Jason, what am funny?
Hunger Games am funny...now, Aaron.
Ok, me write Hunger Games, but what else?
No need anything else. Just Hunger Games am funny. Hahaha.
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Friedberg and Seltzer = Bizarro Matt and Trey.

Hey Jason, what am funny?
Hunger Games am funny...now, Aaron.
Ok, me write Hunger Games. But what else.
No need anything else. Just Hunger Games am funny. Hahaha.
Speaking of which, let's not forget the duo's first outing, Spy Hard. Wow, up until Scary Movie 4, I didn't think it was poossible to make Leslie Nielsen unfunny. The ONLY saving grace to this movie is the song by Weird Al Yankovich.
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I'm guessing you don't like south park much either, right ?

Not especially, no. In fact, I've never really liked ANY of their work.


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I was never a big South Park fan so I skipped Team America altogether. Thought the creators were great around age 15 or so and watched quite a bit of SP back in the day with my cousin because that was all he'd watch. I even came close to seeing TA in theaters. Just got interested in other things, I guess. Maybe I'll give it a go eventually. 5 minute puke sceen eh? Yeah I think I'll just fast forward that part. Fart and other bodily function jokes just never cracked me up all that much save for the bathroom sceen in Dumb and Dumber way back. I mean, I've tried to see the humor in stuff like that these days but it just doesn't get a laugh out of me anymore for no reasons I can think of. Maybe we've just been hit over the head with that sort of shtick more than I've realized? I think I'm desensitized!

Then you're not the only one. Honestly, when I watched it (on DVD) I was more disgusted than anything. It added nothing to the plot, was overdone, and only funny for the first five seconds or so. Kind of like that scene in Austin Powers where he's peeing off-screen for five minutes. And it eventually gets into that awkward territory where you're just looking at your watch and thinking "are they DONE yet?" I almost left the room for both of those scenes in TA. I literally just got bored with the whole schtick.


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I saw the movie on video and can assure you that I could have done without those parts myself. But what really made up for it was how real-life celebrities, mentioned by name, were skewered so savagely for their arrogance in thinking that they knew how the world was and that all the world really gives a fig about their political opinions simply because they're celebrities. And certainly it was worth it when Sean Penn, the worst egotist of the bunch, wrote such a butt hurt letter to the producers in response to what they said about him.

You know, I can't even say I remember any of the skewering in that movie, because the only parts I DO remember are mostly the ones that made me hate it so much. The rest was just boring, unfunny(to me, at least) and mostly pointless. Nothing else about it even registered, except for some of the dialog, like that bar scene with the old guy talking about p***ies, d***s and a**holes. Right before the aforementioned puke scene. That bar scene actually WAS a little funny, but it was one of the few things that was, IMHO.


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But yeah that movie ("Team America") was OK. Not for everyone, though. Great theme song, though.

The song was okay, I guess, but I just felt like the movie itself was a waste of about an hour and a half of my life.


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Yeah, Aside from the gross out humor, the satire in TA:WP is pretty good.

To each his own, I suppose.
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What the Sean Penn puppet said in the movie was that "Before Team America arrived, Iraq was a happy place." Whatever you thought of the Iraq War, Iraq was most definitely not a happy place at all under Saddam Hussein.
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Like I said, I don't remember ANY of the skewering- from Sean or anyone else. The one thing that stands out was that "p***ies, d***s, and a**holes" monologue, the cheesy "I'll have sex with you if promise me you won't die" scene, and the two needlessly over-done scenes that followed those particular dialog gems. The rest of the movie was just so -ugh.....
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The ONLY saving grace to this movie is the song by Weird Al Yankovic.
There's no H in Yankovic.

I watched Troma's Tales from the Crapper just because it featured Kevin Eastman.

Don't ever watch Troma's Tales from the Crapper just because it featured Kevin Eastman.
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You could extend that to ALL troma movies really. All of those things feel like they're 40 hours long.
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Is that anything like watching "Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD" because it has David Hasselhoff? I did, and it was gods-awful! Although I WILL say he made a damn good Fury! (The ORIGINAL Fury, that is- not the Ultimate MU's Samuel Jackson-inspired one....)


And I wouldn't go THAT far- Toxic Avenger was fun!
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Why would anyone watch anything for David Hasselhoff?



......Maybe the Spongebob Movie
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Is that anything like watching "Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD" because it has David Hasselhoff? I did, and it was gods-awful! Although I WILL say he made a damn good Fury! (The ORIGINAL Fury, that is- not the Ultimate MU's Samuel Jackson-inspired one....)


And I wouldn't go THAT far- Toxic Avenger was fun!
God, I've not seen Toxic Avenger in years! That is sort of fun although the transformation sceen scared me as a kid. Oh hey, wasn't the devil in one of those movies? I distinctly remember Toxie going up against Mr. Zebub. What? Hasselhoff was Nick Fury back in the day? I guess there's a reason why I never heard of that.

Stryker, SpongeBob was the first thing that came to mind when Hasselhoff was mentioned! Other than that and the Simpsons episode where Lisa was learning to say David Hasselhoff as a baby, I rarely think of him at all. Well I also think that a kid would have a heck of a time spelling his last name in a spelling bee.
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