Blue Bombin': Mega Man 6 - Part 02

Aaaawwww yeah!

Isn’t that the thumbnail from the last episode o_O

Dan talking about wrestling has become an official prompt to change the subject.

Blue sky on Mars.

@jeedyjay: I find it fascinating that he uses wrestling as a reference point for understanding the world.

MegaBoy

@blitzrules240: yes it is. Good catch.

@captubaplayer: yeah I played it to make sure it was new footage and it is but the thumbnail being the same threw me off.

@blitzrules240: yep. Not sure how it happened that way. Hopefully a fix will happen

Little faces, big heads, can't lose.

I've gone and committed to a comment before the one minute mark again, so nothing funnier better occur to me in the next hour and thirty four minutes.

I'm quoting you here so you can't edit it later!

The first Police Academy movie was an R-rated sex comedy. Vinny and Alex's descriptions are certainly true of the sequels, though.

I kept waiting for them to mention "the one in which Arnold is Russian" and then they even discussed Jim Belushi, but never mentioned Red Heat. I just kept waiting for someone to mention it.

no but it does give me the oppourtunity to reply and add that The Wrong Guy with Dave Foley is a pretty good fugitive esque comedy/parody

Speed 2 was directed by Jan de Bont, who also did the first Speed.

Joel Schumacher has done some pretty good movies pre- and post-Batman.

Hentai ass play?

I like Wrongfully Accused. I'm glad Dan mentioned it, because I feel like it gets overlooked when people discuss Leslie Nielsen movies.

I cant believe Dr. X was really Dr. Wily in disguise!

That Tim Turi spectacular was a wonderful day.

I'm not going to say it makes it a quality movie but the extended director's cut of the Total Recall remake adds more depth to it. In that version Ethan Hawke plays the original version of the main character who give the message to Colin Farrell and they play a lot more with are the events of the movie real or a dream, where as the theatrical is played as it's definately real.

Wow, Dan's finally going to see Hard Boiled. That movie is something else. Vintage late Hong Kong John Woo at his best.

I haven't seen it in maybe 10-15 years, but I've watched Loaded Weapon many times and loved it. Tight shot of Emilio Estevez leafing through a magazine, then a wide shot of him standing in a pile of all of the stupid subscription inserts that fell out is a good ass bit.

Also the being followed scene, then turning to lose them. So good.

edit: oh shit Vinny also describes that scene, lol.

@btstreleckis: Won't lie, I'm a big fan of Phantom.

@bestyhammar: hopefully he gets around to seeing The Killer and A Better Tomorrow. The sequel felt like a reshoot of the first movie. Having a different main character played by the same actor was weird but I get why they did it.

Alex is smoking through this Mega Man quicker than a couple of the last ones!

Is the chat instructed to not help? I'm surprised Alex hasn't been cajoled into using the Rush Adapters more often. (Especially when using them smooths the game out even more.)

No Dr. Wily shifty eyebrows? NO SALE! :)

@merxworx01: A Better Tomorrow II is really good, as long as you can get past the secret twin trope, it's easily one of my favorite movies of all time...I feel like The Replacement Killers is the unsung classic of John Woo's catalog though, granted I haven't seen it in close to 10 years.

Dan should definitely watch Columbo, the entire dvd set was on sale for like $30 recently and I grabbed it to rip to my Plex server...one of the best purchasing decisions I've ever made

great ep, but bummed abby isn't sitting out with the rest of the crew!

@anarchovelo: Yeah, I enjoy both movies. In fact I think I still have them all on VHS. It's just weird seeing the twin, that as far I can tell starts out as a cook and decides to take on mantle of a hotshot gun fighter. Oh well, good movies nonetheless.

Somebody please draw Vinny carrying Dan over his shoulder as they feed each other pizza. Please?

Total Recall is 100% intentionally ambiguous. The movie goes out of its way to remind viewers that he might just be experiencing a simulation midway through it (a notion that Arnold rejects), and literally every single plot point that the Total Recall salesman tells him about the package ends up happening. Plus the fade to white at the end as they discuss the prospect that everything that happened might not be real.

On the other hand, implanting in someone's memory that they murdered hundreds of people (including their wife!) and successfully teraformed Mars probably isn't the most ethical business model and would cause significant cognitive dissonence in your daily life.. But then again, people in the movie do refer to the Total Recall Co. as a bunch of brain butchers, so who knows!

Dan wondering how far American culture has penetrated into Japan and then mentions the Beatles and Led Zeppelin...................................................

Come on! The pantomime for Commando is obviously Arnold carrying the entire tree on his shoulder in the intro!

@ilserpente: dude you are completely right

http://www.mandatory.com/culture/1162415-exclusive-paul-verhoeven-finally-explains-ending-total-recall

Paul Verhoeven even said as much. Both endings are correct.

@anarchovelo: The Replacement Killers was directed by Antoine Fuqua (doing a John Woo impersonation).

@superjoe: Holy shit you're totally right, my bad, I totally blanked that when I picked up the DVD 15 years ago on a John Woo/Chow Yun Fat buying spree...that is quite embarrassing.

Edit: Ah, he was an executive producer...I believe his name was prominent on the cover and that's where the confusion occured

Loaded Weapon is pretty all right.

I feel like it's been a minute since a Film & 40's, why not do Total Recall next?! I know Dan wants to watch sober for maximum comprehension, but still :)

Alex and I both started singing "Day Man" in perfect harmonious timing. It was creepy.

Weren't the Beatles like super popular in Japan?

Also, one of the themes in this video reminded me of the John Cena theme and I'm surprised Dan didn't comment on it.

Also, a Film and 40s where they crew does Hot Shot/Loaded Weapon/Airplane! type spoof movies would be hilarious.

Shout out to @alex for reppin' Rizzo's Pizza on Steinway. When I lived in Astoria, I would ALWAYS get their Sicilian (square) pizzas!

@ilserpente: Keep listening. Alex eventually concedes that it may have been written to be ambiguous but it really wasn't.

While I don't feel quite that strongly (I think there is a decent amount of wiggle room), I do agree with the overall sentiment. Verhoeven wanted it to be ambiguous and left hints, but the movie itself takes them apart even faster than he can put them down. It is too much of a "stupid Ahnold action movie" to really keep the thread going and, as a result, things like ultraviolence make it seem more "real" than otherwise. With a different cast (and a different director) it would have worked a lot better, but also probably wouldn't have been as entertaining.

It reminds me a lot of one of Verhoeven's other films: Starship Troopers was supposed to be a huge satirical deconstruction of war movies and come across as blatant propaganda. Instead, it was a lot of cool action sequences, gratuitous nudity, Dougie Howser as a Nazi, and corny "memes". If you squint at it you can definitely see the satire but the movie works against itself and just feels like a generic action movie because of it.

nick cage for president

Huh, I wonder if that Boss around 1:21:00 was a Mazinger Z reference. Looks very similar to the head design (also explains the arms it never used)

Time to Wrestling: 1:58

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The first Terminator still tops all of its sequels in my book.