Synchtube Tropers (Riff on Videos and Movies)

Tonight we finish off the trilogy of sorts (of the 3rd to 5th movies) with A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child.

And before that, classic Bugs and Daffy.

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Wow. This movie introduced us to RoboFreddy. That's gotta count for something.

Anyway, it got ★★.

Oh, HO-OH-HOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo...

I thought I noticed some Brucesploitation piece set up for Kung Fu Friday early yesterday, but no matter. It seems now we've got the one and only Sho Kosugi himself. That's definitely an improvement.

So this is a little something called Pray for Death...

I had one movie planned while I was trying to get a better one, so that's why I swapped out the trailer one I managed to get ahold of the one I wanted to show.

So for tonight, we're gonna watch Sho Kosugi make his enemies Pray for Death.

Before that, well, I wanted to keep up the Looney Tunes theme but with martial arts stuff, but the only Looney Tunes stuff that involves either martial arts or ninjas is more recent and has a different art style. So I included that anyway. And other miscellaneous stuff in the pre-show that's martial arts or ninja themed.

Everybody was kung fu fighting in here: https://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven

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It got ★★, though two people voted 3. "Dunno why it was trashed back in the day" one of them said.

Okay, I honestly have no goddamn idea what this movie really is. It could just as well be a mystery thriller, a supernatural sci-fi/horror... or possibly even a Christian/religious movie. The trailer makes this movie look like ALL of those things at once, and it hurts my head. The one-sentence plot synopsis I found seems to blatantly give away the ending (and a likely rip off of The Sixth Sense, of all things):

On top of all that, this movie somehow managed to ensnare Tom Sizemore, Tiny Lister... and Keith David. This is definitely looking like a contender for the worst, most-godawful thing we've seen Keith David in since Smiley

Here's If I Tell You I Have to Kill You...

Edited by SeanMurrayI on Jul 20th 2019 at 12:06:17 PM

Alright, I'm starting us off now with Jerma, cR1TiKaL, and some other random nonsense.

Then, at the top of the top of the coming hour, we'll figure out If I Tell You I Have to Kill You.

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From one terrible movie to another...

This movie feels like the most vapid, empty premise imaginable: A World War II "period piece" about a ragtag allied unit who are assigned to a secret mission to... "go behind enemy lines and kill Nazis by any means necessary" ...and sabotage the development of a new "superweapon" developed by the Germans. Jeez, that's as unimaginative as this shit could possibly get.

Featuring expendable action stars Dolph Lundgren and Mickey Rourke.

Here's War Pigs...

Tropers, gather in your MASSESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS...!

Try coming up with your own War Pigs joke, if you want, but that's what we got to look forward to tonight.

But, first... more dated 90's humor on America's Funniest People...

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I'm still not entirely sure what this movie is precisely supposed to be, but it sure looks batshit.

It's my understanding that this is supposed to be some sort of action/fantasy/horror revenge flick about a wacko cult in a forest, or something like that. I never would have figured for such a movie to be awash in 80's shades of pink, violet, and crimson, tho. The synthwave score is certainly a cherry on top.

Starring Nicolas Cage, because he's fucking fearless... and a featured appearance from the one and only BILL DUKE.

Buckle up for Mandy...

Holy shit. Sudden storm swept through here. Power knocked out, and company says they expect it to be restored at 1:15am. Branch knocked down on my block. Entire frigging tree knocked down in other direction on my block. Cops and fire department out here.

Man, that fucking sucks. Hopefully power is restored before the time the utility company is projecting.

Anyway, I'm rerunning The Armando Iannucci Shows in pre-show this week for reasons which will become clearer tomorrow night.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we get set for Nicolas Cage in Mandy...

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I'm gonna have to watch the rest of Mandy on my own after work (if I have enough time before tonight's playlist).

Anyway, if you were wondering last night why we're suddenly rewatching The Armando Iannucci Shows in pre-show again... Well, tonight we're checking out one of his own movies: The Death of Stalin.

A real historical comedy... Everything in this movie, more or less, did indeed happen, although a couple of facts (mostly pertaining to job titles and the time at which peripheral events took place) are fudged a bit, and Iannucci actually toned down much of the real life absurdity because he thought it would be impossible for a movie audience to actually find believable.

Starring Steve Buschemi, Simon Russel Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Michael Palin, and Jason Isaacs...

Edited by SeanMurrayI on Jul 23rd 2019 at 10:38:43 AM

I'm finally caught up on Mandy. The short of it is I'd give it a . My only gripe is that it's a 2+ Hour movie, and when movies get that long, if they're not grabbing my attention every passing moment, then no matter how good the good parts are, I'm still wondering what fat could've been trimmed out. If this could've been between 90 or 100 minutes, we probably could have ridden all of its high points like a rollercoaster, but at this slower pace... It all feels like less of a big deal.

Anyway, hop on in for more of The Armando Iannucci Shows.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, prepare to enjoy Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin!

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Alright, tonight we roll out a heist comedy bringing together the unlikely trio of Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes, who scheme to steal millions of dollars in worn-out currency.

Here's Mad Money (with Jim Cramer nowhere in sight).

Christ almighty, here's something I wish none of us had to write about today. We lost Rutger Hauer. He was 75. Such a legend of Dutch cinema, Paul Verhoeven gave him his start in the '60's and he's charmed us as Roy Batty and forum favorite Blind Fury.

Godspeed, sir.

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... will be lost in time, like....tears... in rain.

Time... to die.

We'll need to rewatch Blind Fury sooner than I thought.

Say, we never did see Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher here, have we?

Edited by SeanMurrayI on Jul 24th 2019 at 6:49:01 AM

Once again, RIP Rutger Hauer.

Anyway, hop on in for more of The Armando Iannucci Shows, and following that, at the top of the coming hour, Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes are chasing Mad Money...

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Now this one takes me back...

At the time that this movie was initially released, this was basically hyped as both screenwriter Diablo Cody's (sophomore) follow-up to Juno and a starring vehicle for Megan Fox outside the Transformers movies, where her "body" could actually be used as a selling point (as the title would indicate).

More specifically, this is a horror movie that gets rolling when an unknown rock band (with high aspirations) deliberately stages an incident akin to the nightclub fire involving the rock band Great White (which occurred about 5 or 6 years previously), and, in the ensuing chaos, kidnaps a teenage girl in their touring van (easily the most horrifying scenario in this horror movie). The band sacrifices the teenage girl to Hell or the Devil (or something) in exchange for success and fame (or something), only their teenage sacrifice wasn't a virgin, so the girl becomes possessed by a demon and begins behaving as a succubus, feeding on her male high school classmates.

So here's Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried...

Edited by SeanMurrayI on Jul 25th 2019 at 1:08:59 PM

I should also add to everything I said above that I got to meet the movie's editor, Plummy Tucker, shortly after its release in theaters. She wasn't bothered if anybody didn't like the movie or had anything bad to say about it. All I remember telling her was that I was so disinterested in watching an end credits scene and thought it felt so unnecessary that I (and a friend) immediately left the theater right at that point. She explained to me that this very scene that runs at the very start of the credits was filmed with, like, no money only because test audiences really wanted to actually SEE the rock band die... as if the existing ending wouldn't have been fine without it.

And according to Wikipedia editors, while they note Jennifer's Body received a very lackluster, mediocre reception upon its initial release, at least one critic has reassessed this after #MeToo and suggests this movie could have more value today than it would have had a decade ago, especially when assessing the actions of the rock band toward Jennifer, subsequent to their instant fame and popularity.

Internet randomly fucking went out. I had to turn off Wi Fi to be able to send this message using phone data, since I'm getting error messages about DNS whatever.

Fuck.

I'll restart my router, but be prepared to take over for me.

Internet back.

Okay, tonight it's a movie that may have been ahead of its time, having been created before the #MeToo movement, but now more relevant than ever, the horror movie Jennifer's Body.

And before that, more Bugs and Daffy from the golden age.

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Well, it got ★★. It felt a lot like a product of its time, to me.

Wait, was I told to run a movie on Saturday? Crap, I just agreed to babysit on Saturday from 6pm-10pm. I thought I was told to run one on Sunday, but did I remember wrong?