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7 hours ago, Ampersand said:
Mac and Me
I remember when TCM Underground had good bad movies, like Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, even Gymkata where everybody got into a circle around a pommel horse and Kurt Thomas kicks half the village in the face.
Today we get Mac and Me, a definitely certainly not-ET ripoff because I'm sure ET doesn't have a groovy dance, possibly birthday party at McDonalds or incompetent marathon running agents failing to catch a wheelchair bound kid, weighed down by an alien rolling down from the top of Olympus Mons because that is one massive hill and the agents aren't even winded. It's amusing in a way because they somehow kept up with a kid that has a need for speed and nobody, despite slipping everywhere and falling like dominos caught up. And apart from the dogs failing to drift after chasing the rover with Mac in it after Mac did a sick drift in it which may have been around a horrible musical montage scene; I was not amused.
It's not so bad it's funny like Gymkata, but so bad it's bad like Lady Street Fighter, but with a more technically concise let terrible plot, bad writing, the character's inability to generate empathy or affection and if you heard of the term "Butt Ugly Martians" but never seen the show, you'd think Mac was from it. His family gets the same treatment, but maybe worse. One reminds me of The Brain, or Jedi Master Even Piell from Star Wars, but uglier and with smaller ears.
One of the longest movies that seems to bend time and space, but the feeling of wishing for this to end fights with the knowledge that The Garbage Pail Kids is after this. A battle of evil vs evil where everybody loses.
If this wasn't on TCM Underground, I wouldn't have watched it.
1.5/10, got a +0.5 for the boom.
Decades later, I am glad they aren't back.
Unfortunately it's a double feature, next is The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
An antiques shop, that has antiques in it or it's ran by a charlatan but the nice paintings at the beginning show that at least some of it is magic. Style that's like the fist of the 80s punching you in the face. A sometimes funky soundtrack that repeats the same riff. And best of all, Anthony Newley. He is the only good part of the movie, if only for his quips against those little godless trolls and hunger for magic of days gone past. And he's tired of their crap immediately.
But in the end, Anthony Newley is the only good thing about it. Everything else is an affront to media and the very concept of entertainment. When it isn't being a sin against nature with the ugliness of the rubber suits, lighting that turns it into a horror show, my television actively rebelling and freezing with loud static and an unlikable cast, just about every facet of it hates the viewer.
The kids are some of the worst in rubber suits not only in its time, but ever. None of what they do works. The mouths cannot move any worse as they give the barest effort in movement, let alone actually trying to shape words; and I cannot understate how hideous they are. What absolutely does not help is the aforementioned lighting. It's questionable at times but is more glaringly horribly hideous and nightmarish when it becomes dark enough to cast striking shadows on their faces. It's the only time where pitch black darkness would improve it.
Apart from the storekeeper, none of the characters are likable. Our hero pines for a girl that looks a few years older than him while peeping in her window and the gal is nothing but trouble. Tangerine is playing him for a sucka and taking him on a ride, her goon friends are classic 80s bullies and have no redeeming features; you know how I feel about the kids and that's everybody of note.
The humor is mainly gross-out, as par the course. Multiple urine jokes, even in the same scene, constant snot and **** jokes to round it out, an original song sung by the Garbage Pail Kids that is an assault on the ears. Even more unfunny gags and hooliganism whenever they interact with anybody. Only entertaining bits are again, Anthony Newley. His quips are pretty spot-on.
The only enjoyment I got out of scenes apart from him was The Three Stooges in the theatre but the Kids threaten and do ruin it and there being a place called the "State Home for the Ugly" with Mahatma Gandhi, Santa Claus and Dwarf Abe Lincoln locked up in there.
This does not belong on TCM, not even on Underground. It doesn't belong in the trash can unless the trash can is going into an incinerator, and the incinerator into a bigger incinerator.
0.25/10, 0.25 for Anthony Newley, he may be the best thing about it but he's the only good thing about it.
But Jim Cummings does some of the voicework in the movie! That just blew my mind.
It was not worth staying up for. Neither of them were. I knew they were bad, but they were some of the worst movies I had ever seen. One of the worst mistakes I ever made when it came to movies.
ET didn't bounced like a rubber ball.
Worst ending ever of a movie, at least they DIDN'T CAME BACK
(Funny there wasn't traffic crash pile ups from people freaking out.
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So the Garbage Pail Kids came from green slime???
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Who thought one can actually look like a CP Doll.
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4 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
So who watched MAC AND ME and THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE on TCM?
Anyone?
I've seen the rubber alien before (rented it) and only watched half of the latter, TCM showed it way too late. Maybe that's a good thing.
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4 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
GAWD!
Imagine the HORROR if a Cabbage Patch Kid and TICKLE ME ELMO had BABIES!
And it does make me sad that a movie about such idiotic avarice ("Jingle All The Way") and with such rich possibilities as a premise turned out to be an equally idiotic MOVIE.
Sepiatone
Yep, it's offspring....
looks like....
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Looks like TCM showed movies that failed at the box office....shouldn't this thing be called "Bullying the Movie"? And the other (Mac and Me) "The Alien That Bounced From Space"?
Movie does have a point, people can be just as (if not more) ugly on the inside. (not referring to the one in the middle)
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Super price paid for Issue #1
https://www.voanews.com/a/record-price-paid-first-superman-comic-book/2428098.html
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Trivia..the original 1938 Superman couldn't fly, only jump.
When he first débuted in Action Comics #1 way back in 1938, Superman couldn't flyat all — instead, he could jump the wonderfully specific height of 1/8th of a mile. His ability to fly would first appear in Superman cartoons and Radio plays, before he picked it up in the comics for the first time in 1941
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The "other" Black Friday
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22 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
What memories. Rampant consumerism. Everyone had to have a CPK doll. Notice how happy those customers are because they got one!
My grandmother and aunt were almost stampeded at a department store in Chicago trying to buy one for my little sister.
Aren't you glad things haven't changed?
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Watched "Saving Private Ryan" last night, been a while since I seen it unedited.
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1 hour ago, Sepiatone said:
Actually, that's my only familiarity of them. Never KNEW there WAS amovie made with/about them.
I'll probably pass because, in spite of them being from THEIR childhoods, even my kids thought the gum cards were dumb.
Sepiatone
The cards were a parody in response to the Cabbage Patch doll craze during the 1983-84 time period. I'll never forget that era, not to be outdone until Tickle Me Elmo.
So those dolls were the cause of the Black Friday madness!
https://www.rediscoverthe80s.com/2014/11/black-friday-origins-1983-cabbage-patch.html
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37 minutes ago, Gershwin fan said:
Yeah, Garbage Pail Kids isn't even one of the "so bad it's good" movies. It's just extremely unfunny, unentertaining garbage. I'd rather rewatch Ten Zan: the Ultimate Mission 5 times in a row.
Try watching this 2 times in a row.
Spoiler alert...the greeting "give me five" made a comeback.
Rated R for rediculous.
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4 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Some of the trading cards that were produced:
Talk about trashing one's own money!
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4 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
I'm sure that wrapper is a collector's item now.
So will the stickers.
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20 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
In the past I could defend some of these programming choices, because the original package of films Ted Turner acquired from MGM/UA went up to 1986.
But THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE is not from MGM/UA and it was released in August 1987, so it is clearly not one of the titles he purchased.
Now the programmers are filling up the schedule with cheap junk, offloading it as part of the TCM Underground series. But what aspect of the Garbage Pail Kids seems like underground cinema? Certainly we cannot say that all low budget offerings from the 80s are examples of cult underground moviemaking.
If anything, this film was a product of a mainstream company trying to promote the bubble gum it sold. And director Rod Amateau was never going to be lauded in Cahiers du Cinema as an auteur.
Got to thinking back about the promotion of Reese's Pieces during the showing of "ET".
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Movie was made because the producers thought there wasn't enough trash out there.
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The same old free reruns.
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X rated cartoon during the 1920's
Can post title only for very obvious reasons.
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My local networks never carried it when I was a kid The local Fox 11 station aired Little Audrey and others for a very short time 1998 - 99. The original Paramount / Famous Studio (Noveltoons) were for theatrical release during the 1940's - 1950's.
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"South Park - The Poor Kid" (2011)
Eric Cartman....My mama is so poor, she opened a Gmail account just so she could eat the spam.
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Heavy Metal" (1981) referring to Captain Stern.
Hanover Fiste.....He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
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Re: (Last post) See through clothes
See what? She looks like a walking department store mannequin
About "Dizzy Dishes" there is a Harveytoon (Paramount release) with the same title.
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How long before these get's CGI'ed?
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No nudity but interesting, Clara Bow hula dancing. Doing this after the code - forget it.
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..This does not belong on TCM, not even on Underground. It doesn't belong in the trash can unless the trash can is going into an incinerator, and the incinerator into a bigger incinerator.