Ray Liotta's 1994's No Escape was a box office bomb that barely grossed back the production value....why? We had Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Ernie Hudson, Stuart Wilson, Kevin J. O'Connor, and many others. Lead by director Martin Campbell, GoldenEye and Casino Royal fame, and extraordinary producer, at the time, Gale Anne Hurd, of the Titanic, Terminator, and Tremors fame. Yet, the film still bombed. Well, we discuss why in our newest video: Box Office Bombs No Escape.
I have a thought that comes to me every now and then, especially when I'm driving home from the movies and all I can think about is how I really don't want that movie to be my last movie (Really helps me focus as a driver). So.....
If you were to pass on, we'll say while leaving the movies, which would you not want to be your last movie? And try to imagine that it's opening night, and you couldn't wait for this movie...and then....you see it....
Why these four: 1. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Why George? Why Aliens? I had the prefect idea of what you should do next in the eighth grade....Indiana Jones and the Black Banner. Indiana Jones is looking for the lost Tug of Genghis Khan, which went missing during the Communist Repression of Mongolia twenty years prior. Long story short, the Russians used it to march their armies to Berlin, and conquer Eastern Europe. Stalin, in turn, destroys it for being a mystical item that he couldn't accept as something that gave him victory.) 2. Phantom Menace (People waited nearly twenty years for Star Wars to return, and for every awesome scene...it was ruined by Jar Jar within a few minutes, or by the dialogue.) 3. Godfather 3 (This movie destroyed Francis Coppola. After this movie, he never made another decent film. Well I guess Godfather 2 destroyed Coppola, as it stuck every last drop of talent out of him.) 4. Jared Leto Superhero Movies (Could have been any Leto films, but Morbius and Suicide Squad....I really didn't wanna see Joker with a grill.)
Movies that missed the list: 1. Most Adam Sandler films post 50 First Dates (you knew what you were seeing) 2. Last Airbender (it's M. Night Shyamalan, don't have high expectations) 3. Howard the Duck (I haven't seen it) 4. Batman and Robin (you should have known what kind of movie it was going to be after Batman Forever, plus I kind of like it) 5. Super Mario Bros. (trailer tells you what you were getting into, and I can't put it on this list that's my childhood) 6. Twilight (All the girls who went to go see it seemed to have loved it, and the acting is pretty spot to the book) 7. The Last Jedi (I didn't like Force Awakens, so I wasn't shocked that Last Jedi was bad, but if I had to wait nearly twenty years for Star Wars to return only to be given Phantom Menace, I be upset) 8. Planet of the Apes (great movie, all websites need to remove it from all the list about it being a bad movie)
Personally, I have it in the order that I prefer. Return of the Jedi has a great first half, and a pretty terrific space and throne room scene in the latter half. The only downside was the surface of Endor, which had a really cool speeder chase scene and I like the Ewok fighting. (Something about seeing a teddy bear trying to get his dead friend to move, before crying over him, hits you a lot differently when you're older.) The only real downside was the underwriting for Han Solo and Leia, and I wasn't really a big fan of making Luke and Leia siblings. George Lucas admitted that he needed something to make Luke go angry in the throne room and that was what he came up with. But it did allow Han and Leia to solidify their relationship. Oh, also, can't unsee Carrie Fisher's coke finger.
Revenge of the Sith...was the best out of the lackluster prequels. I'm not a huge fan of how much George Lucas changed lightsaber duels, nor of Palpatine flying around killing waiting Jedi's or dueling Yoda. But, I do like the Order 66, maybe not as much as I use to, after the introduction of the brain chip and all. It also has the second best lightsaber duel out of the prequels (first, obviously being Maul v Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon). But when you add in the fact that George barely gave Padme any lines, the shift from Obi-Wan and Anakin's relationship to brothers (it originally was father and son in Attack of the Clones), and...dialogue. Nnnnnnooooooooooooo, It's second place.
Rise of Skywalker + Fetch Quest = Garbage. Positives: It was better than Last Jedi. Negatives: Not by much. In all seriousness, the movie is a broken cluster of going here, then there, then this place, oooh, now another place. And along the way they just have a mush of a story that didn't have any substance. Rey and Kylo are shoved together because of the internet. (Even though it should have been Rey and Finn, who spends the whole movie yelling Rey, wanting to tell her something that he never does.) Then horse charge in space, a bigger armada of rebellion ships, I didn't understand any of the Rey stealing Kylo's ship and Kylo some how making it to Luke's world (which he never discovered in any of the movies), cheap Chewy death scene, force healing, destroying C3PO's memory without knowing if he can be revived, force transporting....just so much. And Palpatine needs Rey to strike him down so he can ascend and she can be "possessed," I think, and join the dark side. So, Rey...strikes Palpatine down? When Palpatine tries to get Luke to do that in Return of the Jedi, he says no and Darth Vader saves him by killing Palpatine. Why didn't Abrams have Kylo kill Palpatine?
Also, I personally don't have a problem with Rey adopting the Skywalker name. It just felt undeserved and not "real." The Originals and Prequels take place over the course of years, and our heroes are just given natural dialogue of people who have been dealing with each other for years. Abrams sequels feel like it takes place over one year, cause everything is written butt to butt. And I personally just don't feel a closeness between the original crew and Rey, for her to adopt their last name.
I'm trying to figure out what years to look at when finding a movie to watch, review, or just be fascinated with box office returns. So, if you can, help me out by telling me which is the best year.
Five Highest Grossing Films of that year:
1985: Back to the Future, Rambo Pt II, Rocky IV, The Color Purple, Out of Africa
1995: Die Hard with a Vengeance, Toy Story, Apollo 13, GoldenEye, Pocahontas
2005: HP Goblet of Fire, SW Revenge of the Sith, 'CoN Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe', War of the Worlds, King Kong
2015: SW Force Awakens, Furious 7, Jurassic World, Avengers Age of Ultron, Minions
Hi, I'm Tom, and today on Horribly Fantastic Films we'll be talking about...Waxwork. A movie. It has a few laughs, some lull dull moments, and some surprising practical effects. So, let's jump in and hopefully give you another movie to watch. https://youtu.be/aKsfZ7KInaw
Well, Stranger Things has finally dropped and it's over.....maybe. I mean, did they tell us what happen to the pregnant ladies, who I assume all died, or how did the scientist get a piece from the Upside Down during the Vecna origin story flashback? No....I think. And that's because Netflix just wants to turn this into a franchise by leaving behind plenty of sequel and prequel bait.
But that's for a different story, and a different poll. This poll is all about how you felt about this final season...which will or will not be continued with a spin off sequel or prequel.
So, the question: How did you like the final season of Stranger Things?
This is a second upload with a massive watermark across the screen, since Shout Factory! decided to copyright my last video a full 24 hours after the video came out.
So, if you watch this a second time; thank you, you're very kind. But if this is your first time; thank you for watching, and hopefully this won't effect you're viewing. https://youtu.be/j8QE3eIuFhg
So, I uploaded a new video. I haven't made a video, long form, in over a month I believe. I worked on it for days, and hours, especially when trying to get around MGM's copyright. (MGM is the worst, they don't like clips longer than five seconds) I worked day and night, and now that I have uploaded it and rewatched it, I really should have watched it when I fully awake....few grammatical errors, but I uploaded it at midnight and really, really don't want to work on it even longer. So, I hope you watch the video and enjoy it. I thought that even if I upload once a month I wanted to cover new and old movies, so I created a new playlist to go along with my previous playlist which will now focus more on newer movies. But the new playlist will focus on older films, or just: Horrible Fantastic Films
Thomas Lauchlin
Ray Liotta's 1994's No Escape was a box office bomb that barely grossed back the production value....why? We had Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Ernie Hudson, Stuart Wilson, Kevin J. O'Connor, and many others. Lead by director Martin Campbell, GoldenEye and Casino Royal fame, and extraordinary producer, at the time, Gale Anne Hurd, of the Titanic, Terminator, and Tremors fame. Yet, the film still bombed.
Well, we discuss why in our newest video: Box Office Bombs No Escape.
https://youtu.be/VTlPx2haH8A
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I have a thought that comes to me every now and then, especially when I'm driving home from the movies and all I can think about is how I really don't want that movie to be my last movie (Really helps me focus as a driver). So.....
If you were to pass on, we'll say while leaving the movies, which would you not want to be your last movie?
And try to imagine that it's opening night, and you couldn't wait for this movie...and then....you see it....
Why these four:
1. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Why George? Why Aliens? I had the prefect idea of what you should do next in the eighth grade....Indiana Jones and the Black Banner. Indiana Jones is looking for the lost Tug of Genghis Khan, which went missing during the Communist Repression of Mongolia twenty years prior. Long story short, the Russians used it to march their armies to Berlin, and conquer Eastern Europe. Stalin, in turn, destroys it for being a mystical item that he couldn't accept as something that gave him victory.)
2. Phantom Menace (People waited nearly twenty years for Star Wars to return, and for every awesome scene...it was ruined by Jar Jar within a few minutes, or by the dialogue.)
3. Godfather 3 (This movie destroyed Francis Coppola. After this movie, he never made another decent film. Well I guess Godfather 2 destroyed Coppola, as it stuck every last drop of talent out of him.)
4. Jared Leto Superhero Movies (Could have been any Leto films, but Morbius and Suicide Squad....I really didn't wanna see Joker with a grill.)
Movies that missed the list:
1. Most Adam Sandler films post 50 First Dates (you knew what you were seeing)
2. Last Airbender (it's M. Night Shyamalan, don't have high expectations)
3. Howard the Duck (I haven't seen it)
4. Batman and Robin (you should have known what kind of movie it was going to be after Batman Forever, plus I kind of like it)
5. Super Mario Bros. (trailer tells you what you were getting into, and I can't put it on this list that's my childhood)
6. Twilight (All the girls who went to go see it seemed to have loved it, and the acting is pretty spot to the book)
7. The Last Jedi (I didn't like Force Awakens, so I wasn't shocked that Last Jedi was bad, but if I had to wait nearly twenty years for Star Wars to return only to be given Phantom Menace, I be upset)
8. Planet of the Apes (great movie, all websites need to remove it from all the list about it being a bad movie)
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Here's a pickle of a question: Who has the best trilogy?
Now I think I have it in the order that I would prefer it, but I could easily change these all around depending on the day of the week.
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Thomas Lauchlin
Which was the best ending to a trilogy?
Personally, I have it in the order that I prefer.
Return of the Jedi has a great first half, and a pretty terrific space and throne room scene in the latter half. The only downside was the surface of Endor, which had a really cool speeder chase scene and I like the Ewok fighting. (Something about seeing a teddy bear trying to get his dead friend to move, before crying over him, hits you a lot differently when you're older.)
The only real downside was the underwriting for Han Solo and Leia, and I wasn't really a big fan of making Luke and Leia siblings. George Lucas admitted that he needed something to make Luke go angry in the throne room and that was what he came up with. But it did allow Han and Leia to solidify their relationship.
Oh, also, can't unsee Carrie Fisher's coke finger.
Revenge of the Sith...was the best out of the lackluster prequels.
I'm not a huge fan of how much George Lucas changed lightsaber duels, nor of Palpatine flying around killing waiting Jedi's or dueling Yoda.
But, I do like the Order 66, maybe not as much as I use to, after the introduction of the brain chip and all.
It also has the second best lightsaber duel out of the prequels (first, obviously being Maul v Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon).
But when you add in the fact that George barely gave Padme any lines, the shift from Obi-Wan and Anakin's relationship to brothers (it originally was father and son in Attack of the Clones), and...dialogue. Nnnnnnooooooooooooo, It's second place.
Rise of Skywalker + Fetch Quest = Garbage.
Positives: It was better than Last Jedi.
Negatives: Not by much.
In all seriousness, the movie is a broken cluster of going here, then there, then this place, oooh, now another place. And along the way they just have a mush of a story that didn't have any substance.
Rey and Kylo are shoved together because of the internet. (Even though it should have been Rey and Finn, who spends the whole movie yelling Rey, wanting to tell her something that he never does.)
Then horse charge in space, a bigger armada of rebellion ships, I didn't understand any of the Rey stealing Kylo's ship and Kylo some how making it to Luke's world (which he never discovered in any of the movies), cheap Chewy death scene, force healing, destroying C3PO's memory without knowing if he can be revived, force transporting....just so much.
And Palpatine needs Rey to strike him down so he can ascend and she can be "possessed," I think, and join the dark side. So, Rey...strikes Palpatine down? When Palpatine tries to get Luke to do that in Return of the Jedi, he says no and Darth Vader saves him by killing Palpatine. Why didn't Abrams have Kylo kill Palpatine?
Also, I personally don't have a problem with Rey adopting the Skywalker name. It just felt undeserved and not "real." The Originals and Prequels take place over the course of years, and our heroes are just given natural dialogue of people who have been dealing with each other for years. Abrams sequels feel like it takes place over one year, cause everything is written butt to butt. And I personally just don't feel a closeness between the original crew and Rey, for her to adopt their last name.
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Have you seen Wolf? No. Neither have I. Never even heard of it. Jack Nicholson as a werewolf? Yes, please.
But did the movie turn out the way they wanted? I believe so. Did I think the movie turned out the way they wanted? Ehhhh.
Watch to find out.
https://youtu.be/icgE_12cuZk
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Thomas Lauchlin
Which was the best year for film?
I'm trying to figure out what years to look at when finding a movie to watch, review, or just be fascinated with box office returns. So, if you can, help me out by telling me which is the best year.
Five Highest Grossing Films of that year:
1985: Back to the Future, Rambo Pt II, Rocky IV, The Color Purple, Out of Africa
1995: Die Hard with a Vengeance, Toy Story, Apollo 13, GoldenEye, Pocahontas
2005: HP Goblet of Fire, SW Revenge of the Sith, 'CoN Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe', War of the Worlds, King Kong
2015: SW Force Awakens, Furious 7, Jurassic World, Avengers Age of Ultron, Minions
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Thomas Lauchlin
Hi, I'm Tom, and today on Horribly Fantastic Films we'll be talking about...Waxwork. A movie. It has a few laughs, some lull dull moments, and some surprising practical effects. So, let's jump in and hopefully give you another movie to watch.
https://youtu.be/aKsfZ7KInaw
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Thomas Lauchlin
Well, Stranger Things has finally dropped and it's over.....maybe.
I mean, did they tell us what happen to the pregnant ladies, who I assume all died, or how did the scientist get a piece from the Upside Down during the Vecna origin story flashback? No....I think. And that's because Netflix just wants to turn this into a franchise by leaving behind plenty of sequel and prequel bait.
But that's for a different story, and a different poll. This poll is all about how you felt about this final season...which will or will not be continued with a spin off sequel or prequel.
So, the question: How did you like the final season of Stranger Things?
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Thomas Lauchlin
This is a second upload with a massive watermark across the screen, since Shout Factory! decided to copyright my last video a full 24 hours after the video came out.
So, if you watch this a second time; thank you, you're very kind. But if this is your first time; thank you for watching, and hopefully this won't effect you're viewing.
https://youtu.be/j8QE3eIuFhg
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So, I uploaded a new video. I haven't made a video, long form, in over a month I believe. I worked on it for days, and hours, especially when trying to get around MGM's copyright. (MGM is the worst, they don't like clips longer than five seconds)
I worked day and night, and now that I have uploaded it and rewatched it, I really should have watched it when I fully awake....few grammatical errors, but I uploaded it at midnight and really, really don't want to work on it even longer.
So, I hope you watch the video and enjoy it. I thought that even if I upload once a month I wanted to cover new and old movies, so I created a new playlist to go along with my previous playlist which will now focus more on newer movies. But the new playlist will focus on older films, or just:
Horrible Fantastic Films
Horrible Fantastic Films: I, Madman
https://youtu.be/ZqbNHbvgHzo
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