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Marlowe
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This is one of my favorites; I avoided it for the longest time because I thought Altman would end up making fun of one of my favorite books, but when I finally sat down and watched the damn thing, it just really worked for me. And that ending is so great.
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Mr. Paradox
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Having read the first volume, somehow I can't see that story getting past the executives at that point.
And the weirdest part about the Akira movie: the original writer of the manga adapted it.
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Evangelion
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And directed it...while he was still writing the manga. I don't think the manga actually finished until a few years after the movie premiered
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supersonic man
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Rat Pfink A(nd) Boo Boo
Maybe little bit more interesting and entertaining than Mixed-Up Zombies, but it's hard to be sure when Netfux Instant's copy has the sound out of sync by FIFTEEN SECONDS. I've heard of sloppy MOS dubbing but that's ridiculous. Anyway, you'd still probably get more spoof-superheroics value from any contemporaneous six-minute subepisode of Underdog.
But Underdog doesn't have Carolyn Brandt.
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lyzard
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Or Kogar The Swinging Ape.
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supersonic man
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I must say that ten minutes from the end, I thought the plot was going into a dead zone with nothing left to do, but the day was saved by Kogar. Never before have I seen a gorilla suit introduced with such perfect timing.
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lyzard
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"Ray couldn't pass up a free gorilla."
----Carolyn Brandt
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Mr. Paradox
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And Underdog's one weakness isn't bullets.
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"Marlowe's overreacting, Marlowe's taking it wrong, Marlowe's lighting kittens on fire again..." - Marlowe, on how the rest of the board sees him
"What we have here is one hellaciously well-built monument." - Bergerjacques, on the Lincoln Memorial
"Folks, we need a way to get Uwe Boll to inadvertantly touch Tony Jaa's elephant." - Beggar So's Hat speaks truth
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Peregrin
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That actually explains a lot. 
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The Mud Puppy
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I certainly know I couldn't. Frankly, I think most every film could be improved by the director's inability to pass up a free gorilla.
I know I would have actually been okay with Crash had its plot suddenly taken a completely gratuitous detour just to work in a gorilla carrying a woman off. Hell, maybe Matt Dillon could have saved Thandie Newton from a gorilla instead of an exploding car.
Or even better, you could've just replaced Matt Dillon with a gorilla. Lord knows it couldn't have made the racial commentary any less subtle, and we'd have Thandie Newton being saved from an exploding car by a gorilla. Everybody wins!
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Edward IX
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I really wish you were talking about the Cronenberg Crash right now.
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Amelia
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Either way, I vote the gorilla sequence be filmed in fast-motion and accompanied on the soundtrack by "Yakety Sax".
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The Mud Puppy
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Osco Sean
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So many things would be improved by this process.
But not Paint Your Wagon, because there's just no help for that.
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