I always thought of GUTS being the kids' version of American Gladiators, just with the Aggro Crag taking the place of two people battling each other with giant Q-Tips.
I remember watching this movie as a kid. I loved it then, but have since realized how bad it really is. Your review was dead on.
The first 3 Ninjas movie makes the last one with The Hulkster (who gets top billing and is in the whole movie a total of maybe 15 minutes) look like Cinema Paradiso.
I'd have to say it's the other way around. As bad as the original is, the last one, with Hulk Hogan, makes the first one look like Cinema Paradiso.
I came into this saying "How can we mock Sesame Street?" and you couldn't.
I don't think you can mock Sesame Street as a whole, but there are parts of it that are very mock-worthy. Such as Kami, the HIV-positive Muppet from the South African version. I mean, it's great that they want to educate people about HIV, but seriously? A Muppet?!?!
What is the name of the song that plays during the mind fuck?
Harvey Danger "Flagpole Sitta"
I must say I loved that segment.
I LOVED Tom & Jerry as a kid, and remember looking forward to the movie. While I didn't hate it (remember, this was around the time I considered 3 Ninjas to be a cinematic epic), I was disappointed that it wasn't like the cartoons at all.
I was gonna do Surf Ninjas!!
I still call dibs on Good Burger, though.
I dunno, Doc, personally, I find the negative reviews funnier than the positive reviews.
And What the Hell is "Trout Mask Replica"?
It's a 1969 album by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. Frank Zappa was the producer. You should check it out if you want to hear some REALLY fucked up music...
written by AndThatsWhyMommyCriesAtNight, September 09, 2008
Don't give NC too much grief over the Optimus Prime thing. That movie was actually pretty hard to find in theaters. Most didn't even know it had come out.
Though it was also one of my saddest moments too. How sad? That's just it....I can't remember. I recall driving TO the theater. I recall jumping up in down in excitement along with my parents as we took our seats......AND THAT'S IT!!! For years I couldn't figure out how I'd forgotten one of my most anticipated movies. Then I was watching it on VHS about 8 years later, and my mom comes in. She tells me that about 10 minutes or so into the movie Optimus Prime died and ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE! Kids everywhere were balling insanely. She said I ran out of the theater in the pouring rain and locked myself in the car, wailing as though I'd lost a member of the family. They actually shut the movie off! They took me home and I cried myself to sleep, coming out of my room THREE DAYS LATER with no recollection of past events. Wow.
THAT'S when you know a movie is depressing: when the death of a cartoon character causes repressed memories in a child.
I remember My Girl had me bawling when Macaulay Culkin died. It's just like ThatGuy said, Culkin was the biggest child star of the time period, and the filmmakers actually had the balls to kill his character off.
That kid was in recent episodes of Heroes. (and played on Veronica Mars, apparantly) He was the bald guy Peter got stuffed into!
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I was going to mention this. I always found it funny that this kid (who was also in Free Willy 2) would end up playing Weevil on Veronica Mars...
