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Re: Robin Hood is the best way to get anyone into classic cinema

TGGP — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:18:33 -0000

I'll agree with you on Thin Man, if not Forbidden Planet.

Re: Robin Hood is the best way to get anyone into classic cinema

TGGP — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:17:38 -0000

It's better than the Douglas Fairbanks version, which is the most recent one I watched . That one leaned too much on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, making it less fun that Fairbanks' earlier turn as Zorro.

Re: What's On Tonight (Sunday): You got blood on your face, you big disgrace

TGGP — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:30:00 -0000

https://uploads.disquscdn.c... Every one of these sequential comments contains the word "dog".

Re: What's On Tonight (Sunday): You got blood on your face, you big disgrace

TGGP — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:10:09 -0000

Could you link to the video?

Re: This Weekend in Pop Culture: June 12-14

TGGP — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:02:24 -0000

Next Picture Show recently paired Lone Wolf & Cub with Mandalorian & Grogu. Not that you'd know it from https://www.filmspotting.net/nextpictureshow whose last entry is Babe: Pig in the City from weeks ago (Sheep Detectives was paired with it the next week but still isn't there).

Re: This Weekend in Pop Culture: June 12-14

TGGP — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:59:42 -0000

Brian Cox is in an additional movie titled "Red", named after his character's dog, and I believe adapted from a Jack Ketchum story.

Re: This Weekend in Pop Culture: June 12-14

TGGP — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:56:06 -0000

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is the more out-of-date of the two parodies, as it's from the late 80s but spoofing 70s blaxploitation films. It's actually part of the premise of the film that Bernie Casey's John Slade was a blaxploitation hero in that era, looked up to by Keenen's Jack Spade, who retired because people were complaining about him being too violent. My understanding is that the Death Wish urban vigilante movies only got more violent into the 80s, but such scrutiny may be inappropriate for a movie this deliberately silly. There are a couple flashbacks to the 70s, which one might now compare to cutaways on Family Guy, but I suppose in this case the more relevant comparison would be to sketches on In Living Color. The inciting incident here is Jack's brother Junebug overdosing on gold chains (the recurring comment whenever a picture of him is shown is "How did he go to the bathroom with those things?"), hence Jack seeking John's help in cleaning up the hood by getting rid of Junebog's criminal boss, Mr. Big (John Vernon). Jack is set up to be a potential hero, as a soldier who comes home (to "Any Ghetto, USA") to apply his training to domestic war, but this is subverted as he's actually less tough than his mother (Ja'net Dubois). Part of the joke is also the comical ineptitude of the most frequently seen of Big's goons (played by Damon Wayans & Kadeem Hardison), and since Jack himself would come across as less comical if he spent much of the film beating them up, instead that can be done by his mother and (in one scene where she's suffering from cramps) his love interest/Junebug's widow (Dawnn Lewis' Cheryl). The film doesn't break the fourth wall as early as DBaMtSCWDYJitH, but it does have jokes about a woman being cast in the film because she's the director's sister (with an extra joke that Keenen himself has to ask who she is to be given that information), as well as Vernon justifying his presence in an exploitation film by citing other notable actors who've done that. I have to admit that the only one of those listed I'd seen was Halloween, as my knowledge of blaxploitation is limited to the original Shaft, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the first two Dolemite movies. I didn't fail like I was failing to pick up on many jokes, but perhaps I'd appreciate this film more if I was a bigger fan of what it's parodying.

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood has one of the longest movie titles I'm aware of, referencing four different early 90s movies. Of those, I have only seen Boyz n the Hood, which was both the earliest and most acclaimed by the mainstream. I assume it was also the biggest influence on this, which is set in LA (whereas IGGYS is implicitly set in the Wayans' home of NYC) and opens with Shawn Wayans' Ashtray moving in with his father (Lahmard Tate), who is somehow apparently younger than his own son even though he is stated to be just a few years older, with his mother reasoning in her only scene that these kinds of movies don't have space for positive female characters like her. If Shawn has the semi-straight lead role closest to Keenen in the previous film, Marlon Wayans as Ashtray's cousin Loc Doc veers so broadly comical he wouldn't have seemed appropriate to have much screentime in that one. He always appears to be making some kind of goofy face, and his hair in triangular spikes like Krusty the Klown always has different things hanging off the sides (with the middle one looking like it has an antenna sticking one) from scene to scene. The conflict her is with perennially incarcerated local gangbanger Toothpick (Darrell Heath), who isn't some greater menace to the community like Mr. Big but instead basically the equivalent of Loc Dog (just with his biggest weapon being an RPG rather than a nuclear missile) and merely happening to be on the opposite side of the film's protagonist. To drive home the comparative amorality of the film, it's actually Loc Dog who initiates violence between sides after one of Toothpick's underlings shows up in response to Ashtray sleeping with Toothpick's ex (Tracey Cherelle Jones' Dashiki). Dashiki is also a contrast with Cheryl, the good woman who was just temporarily with a lesser man while Jack was gone. She has seven children, and openly speaks of Ashtray as the only man sucker enough to take on all of them (and believe her when she tells him she's pregnant with their child immediately after Ashtray has sex for the first time). Ashtray's father gives the opposite of the advice his archetype normally would, congratulating Ashtray on not wearing a condom and dismissing any talk of getting a job since welfare has been enough for generations of their family. The big difference between the ethos of the two films is not that violence was reduced (though here it's in less of the mold of quasi-military action movies), but instead that cynicism is increased: nobody gives any thought to improvement of the community, and any aspirations to "move out of the hood" have no steps beyond that. Nowadays I often hear people hark back to the 90s as a time when America could be optimistic, which is true, but negativity bias abounds in the media we consume, so it's unsurprising the trajectory of movies didn't reflect that.

Re: This Weekend in Pop Culture: June 12-14

TGGP — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:55:05 -0000

I watched two "hood" parody movies written by & starring Wayans brothers, both of whose titles form complete sentences: Keenen Ivory Wayans' I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and Paris Barclay's Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.

Re: We watched Tribeca’s AI snuff film so you don’t have to

TGGP — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:40:35 -0000

It's already been proven useful to mathematicians, solving an Erdos problem recently.

Re: We watched Tribeca’s AI snuff film so you don’t have to

TGGP — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:36:30 -0000

Consider the sacrifices Jafar Panahi made for movies like It Was Just An Accident, or how carefully Kaouther Ben Hania approached the story of The Voice Of Hind Rajab to recreate the struggle to save a young girl trapped in a car in Gaza. If speed was the focus, why not use the on-the-ground footage to create a documentary like No Other Land, rather than feed the work of others into the slop machine?

Panahi is still outside Iran and will face more punishment if he returns while the regime still exists. He was able to make such a film (not a documentary) via evading the authorities that this film wants to depict. Voice of Hind Rajab has screened in Gaza, it's entirely legal there and the emergency services were willing to share the recording of her call. No Other Land is less congenial to the Israeli government it depicts, but the Israelis who co-directed it have issues like lack of funding and difficult distribution rather than being arrested for making it. There are films that negatively depict Iranian authorities, like Under the Shadow (filmed in Jordan, and a period piece), but my recollection is that was just one morality cop chiding the protagonist. There are also documentaries made secretly in contravention of the government, like Mr. Nobody Against Putin, but that takes place at the school where the filmmaker (who went into exile from Russia) worked rather than on the streets. Seed of the Sacred Fig is about the subject, but because it had to be made in secret (and resulted in the punished director fleeing Iran), my understanding is that it mostly takes place indoors, with little ability to depict the characters on the streets where the protests & crackdown happened. Attempting to make a film which depicts the crackdown strikes me as more difficult than you make it sound.

Re: A new creature feature finally exposes hippos as nature's true murder machines

TGGP — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:43:00 -0000

I think it would be better if the front page indicated which entries were reviews.

Re: The Death Of Robin Hood limps to a legend’s bitter end

TGGP — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:03:57 -0000

I initially assumed that as well, but apparently he made a King Arthur movie that wished it were a Robin Hood movie instead. The 2018 Robin Hood is the only feature directorial credit of Otto Bathurst, who mostly directs British TV.

Re: The Death Of Robin Hood limps to a legend’s bitter end

TGGP — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:19:27 -0000

Was the 2018 version grim?

Re: Jennifer Lawrence solved Bravo’s rat problem

TGGP — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:37:41 -0000

Aw, I was hoping this was a story about literal rodents.

Re: Scary Movie and other scary movies have the power over the box office

TGGP — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:15:36 -0000

I recommend doing so in the latest slang to make sure it's distinct from prior English translations.

Re: Scary Movie and other scary movies have the power over the box office

TGGP — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:17:57 -0000

The Bible is public domain, and thus not technically intellectual property. L. Frank Baum's novels are also in the public domain now, which is how the novel Wicked was able to avoid paying for the use of its characters (even though things like the witch having green skin are plainly from the copyrighted movie rather than novel).
The Odyssey is even older than the New Testament, and thus definitely in the public domain, so Nolan's film isn't using any IP. However, its screenplay would not be considered "original", but rather an adaptation of Homer's poem.

Re: Scary Movie and other scary movies have the power over the box office

TGGP — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:16:15 -0000

You're right, humanity is great!

Re: Scary Movie and other scary movies have the power over the box office

TGGP — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:14:55 -0000

I don't think even the 80s He-Man was a hit. Now that I think about it, neither was the original Tron (or Tron: Legacy). Why do they keep thinking a dead IP will work this time if they add Jared Leto?

Re: AVQ&A: Which horror movie caught you by surprise?

TGGP — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:28:28 -0000

Unfortunate Argento used that title for a film that WASN'T part of his Three Mothers Trilogy, none of which have titles that fit with each other.

Re: AVQ&A: Which horror movie caught you by surprise?

TGGP — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:25:27 -0000

I thought it was of roughly the same quality as Immaculate.

Re: What's On Tonight (Sunday): Give me a T! What does that spell?

TGGP — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:14:37 -0000

That was better than I expected. Probably above average for Troma.

Re: What's On Tonight (Sunday): Give me a T! What does that spell?

TGGP — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:08:36 -0000

I only know her from Mindhunter. I thought she was neither distinctly better nor worse than the other regulars.

Re: What's On Tonight (Sunday): Give me a T! What does that spell?

TGGP — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:04:23 -0000

The angriest I have ever been in a movie theater was after watching I Am Legend, sure that using his title meant they MUST be sticking with Matheson's ending!
I've also seen Last Man on Earth, but not Omega Man.

Re: What's On Tonight (Sunday): Give me a T! What does that spell?

TGGP — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:24 -0000

He gets beat up by #2 Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun.

Re: What's On Tonight (Sunday): Give me a T! What does that spell?

TGGP — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:42:22 -0000

Sole credit, not co-written.