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Road House

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Road House

 Directed by: Rowdy Herrington

Written by: R. Lance Hill (Story)  Hilary Henkin (Scrrenplay)

Starring:  

Patrick Swayze

Kelly Lynch

Sam Elliot

Ben Gazzara

Julie Michaels

Release date: May 19, 1989

Budget: $17,000,000M ($39,635,911.29M in 2022)

Box Office: $61.6M ($143,621,890.32 in 2022)

Gross worldwide

$30,050,028M ($70,062,367.30M in 2022)

Ratings:   IMDb 6.6/10 Rotten Tomatoes 37% 

Metacritic 36% Google Users 87% 

Between VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and Streaming service sales, 'Road House' has grossed over $203 Million dollars. The film was originally released on VHS and then on DVD. In the United States MGM first released the film on DVD on February 4, 2003 with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio and theatrical trailer as the sole extra feature.[12] In 2006 a Deluxe Edition DVD was released with two audio commentaries including one with the director, two featurettes titled "On the Roadhouse" and "What Would Dalton Do?".[13]Road House was first issued by MGM on Blu-ray disc on June 2, 2009. A second disc combines the same six special features ported from the Deluxe DVD.[14] After being reissued numerous times in the U.S., in 2016 Shout! Factory released a 2-disc Blu-ray collectors edition with fourteen extra features with material ported over from the previous editions. New supplements include a ‘making of’ documentary with new interviews by Herrington, actors Kelly Lynch, John Doe, Kevin Tighe, Julie Michaels and Red West, a separate conversation with the director and featurette for the films music

Here art thine Awards My Lord Tucker the Wanker second Earl of Wessex. Lord of the Furries. Heir of Lord baldy the one eyed snake wrestler.

Razzie Awards 1990

Nominee

Razzie Award

Worst Picture

Joel Silver

Worst Actor

Patrick Swayze

For Next of Kin

Worst Supporting Actor

Ben Gazzara

Worst Director

Rowdy Herrington

Worst Screenplay

R. Lance Hill (also story)

Hilary Henkin

First time you saw the movie?

Plot:

-Patrick Swayzes epic mullet

-What kind of asshole kicks a woman like that guy in the beginning?

-$5K up front, and $500 a night. If you work 5 days a week, that's 260 days a year. That's $130K, all cash, no taxes. Not too shabby. Even if its only 4 days a week, that's 208 days a year, which is $104K. Not bad for 1989. In 2022, that would be ~$242K.

-That's the most well lit dive bar I've ever seen.

-Any of yall ever been in a huge brawl like that?

-How did Dalton know where to go to rent the room?

-Guess Dalton doing Tai Chi is an excuse to get his shirt off?

-There isn't much depth to the movie or characters

-The standing/walking sex would not be fun...

-What're the chances he ends up living across the river from his enemy

-This whole thing is just a dick measuring contest between Dalton and Brad

-Bigfoot through the car dealership was fun

-Pretty decent fight between Dalton and Jimmy; the music was way over dramatic

-I love that he kills a guy, and no one does anything. No cops, or anything.

-Brad takes 3 shotgun blasts, and is still standing? I doubt it.

-Is "I didn't see anything" a good legal defense? That's how you outsmart cops?

-No cops with all the killing until AFTER Brad is killed... Convenient.

Top Five Trivia of the movie: 

Top 5 Trivia

It was announced in September 2015 that this film is to be remade, starring Ronda Rousey. But after her November fight loss to Holly Holm, all movie plans were scrapped.

The movie was not filmed in Missouri.

Though the plot is set in the town of Jasper, Missouri, Road House's infamous bar, The Double Deuce, was built for on-site filming in California. Some of the bar's interior footage was filmed in a real Anaheim bar that is now closed.

Swayze was not a fan of the legendary mullet.

As iconic as Swayze's mullet was, the actor referred to his Road House hairstyle as "the bane of my existence" in the biographical book One Last Dance.

The NYPD uses the movie's three simple rules during retraining.

Patrick, in the role of Dalton, lays down the three rules of the Double Deuce club. In 2015, New York Post exclusively reported that lecture portions of a mandatory, three-day retraining course for cops were being revamped with Road House as a training tool. 

Swayze's hotness caused problems on set. 

During shooting, a horde of middle-aged blonde women in a truck tried to pull up in front of the actor's trailer, in a wild attempt to speak with Swayze. During the film's river fight scene, a raft of Swayze fans cruised by. Another time, an extra, who was playing a waitress, was so lovestruck with the heartthrob she tripped and spilled her drinks on an unlucky extra nearby. 

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Stephen:

1 Breakfast club

2 T2

3 Sandlot

4 Back to the Future

5 Mail order brides

Chris:

1. sandlots

2. T2

3. trick r treat

4. rocky horror picture show

5. hubie halloween

Trey:

1) Boondocks Saints

2) Mail Order Brides

3) Tombstone

4) Very bad things

5) She out of my league

Tucker:

1. T2

2: Tombstone

3: Gross Pointe Blank

4: My Cousin Vinny

5: John Wick

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Eurotrip

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Eurotrip

Written, Alec Berg , David Mandel,  Jeff Schaffer.

Directed: Jeff Schaffer,  Alec Berg(uncredited) David Mandel(uncredited)

Starring:  

Scott Mechlowicz

Jacobs Pitts

Michelle Trachtenberg

Travis Wester

Kristin Kreuk

Matt Damon

Released: Feb 20, 2004

Budget: $25M ($38,262,175.75 in 2022)

Box Office: $20.8M ($31,834,130.23 in 2022)

Ratings:   IMDb 6.6/10 Rotten Tomatoes 47% 

Metacritic 45% Google Users 82% 

Yet again thine request for thine awards Mi Lord Tucker the Wanker second Earl of Wessex. Heir of Lord baldy the one eyed snake wrestler.

MTV Movie + TV Awards 2004

Nominee

MTV Movie Award

Best Cameo

Matt Damon

Teen Choice Awards 2004

Nominee

Teen Choice Award

Choice Movie Your Parents Didn't Want You to See

First time you saw the movie?

Plot:

The film opens to in Hudson, Ohio, "Scotty" Thomas is dumped by his girlfriend Fiona immediately after his high school graduation at the beginning of the film. Back at Sottys house, he replies to an email sent to him from "Mike" his German pen pal. Cooper warns him that he could end up being sex trafficked when "Mike" asks to meet up. Scotty attends a graduation party that evening with Cooper, where the band, fronted by Matt Damon, performs a song detailing his affair Fiona called Scotty Doesn't Know. Cooper finds himself in a hot tub with a girl and convinces her to take her top off, before getting caught by some jocks and thrown out. Scotty returns home drunk and angry and reads an email from his German pen pal, expressing sympathy for Scotty and suggesting they meet in person. Remembering Coopers suggestion that "Mike" may be a sexual predator, Scotty tells Mike to stay away from him. The next morning, a very hungover Scotty sees his younger brother, Bert, reading his email and informs him that "Mieke" is actually a common German feminine name. Realizing that he had mistaken her name and that he has feelings for Mieke, Scotty tries to contact her again, but finds that Mieke has blocked his email address. Scotty decides to travel to Europe with Cooper to find Mieke and apologize in-person.

-This whole movie could've been resolved if he just made another email address

-Finoa is pretty hot

-I LOVE Cooeprs line of "this isn't where I parked my car"... I used to use that one occasionally.

-Its funny that with all the practice with writing German, he mistook Mieke for a guy, considering she probably used feminine pronouns.

-Did you have a passport when you were 18? Could you have just up and gone to Europe?

Scotty and Cooper go tot he airport and find flights via being couriers. They first arrive in London, where they en dup in a Manchester United hooligan pub; they eventually befriend their leader, Mad Maynard. After a night of drinking, Scotty and Cooper wake up on a bus on their way to Paris with the hooligans. In Paris, they meet up with their classmates, Jenny and Jamie, fraternal twins who are touring Europe together. While in Paris, they decide to visit the Louvre, but are met with a VERY long line. While waiting, Cooper gets creeped out by a street performing robot. Scotty begins imitating him, and this leads to a robot fight; ending with Scotty kicking the robot guy in the balls. That evening Jenny and Jamie decide to accompany Scotty and Cooper to find Mieke in Berlin. The group travels to Amsterdam, where Jamie is robbed while receiving oral sex in an alley, losing everyone's money, passports, and train tickets. Cooper, in his continuing attempt at crazy European sex, visits Club Vandersexxx; which turns out to be a dominatrix club fun by Lucy Lawless. Cooper is then sexually assaulted with a tripple dildo machine. Meanwhile, Jenny and Scotty think they are trying hash brownies; but it turns out there is no weed in them and they are not high. With their money and passports gone, they attempt to hitchhike to Berlin, but due to a language misunderstanding, they end up in Bratislava. Finding a great exchange rate with the U.S. dollar, the group goes to a nightclub. Drunk on absinthe, Jenny and Jamie make out with each other, witnessed by Scotty and Cooper, and are horrified when they realize what they are doing. The next day, a Slovak man drives them to Berlin, where they learn from Miekes dad that Mieke has left with a summer tour group, and will be reachable in Rome for only a short time. While Scotty is talking to Miekes dad, Cooper watches Miekes young step-brother color a tiny mustache on himself and goose step around his apartment; much to Coopers surprise. As they debate what to do outside the apartment, Jamie sells his Leica Camera for plane tickets to Rome to find Mieke.

-Apparently the courier thing was a real thing, but has declined over the past 10-15 years, as couriers built their own fleets.

-The robot fight is hilarious, but obviously not realistic at all.

-Michelle Trachtenberg is hot. Killer body. I miss the shirts like she wears in the Bratislava, which I didn't know was a real country until recently. It doesn't look like the movies, though, very nice and pedestrian.

-A used Leica M6 on Ebay was going for $2,772.

-I love the whole Bratislava section; the green fairy and everything. I find it hilarious.

In Rome, the group heads to Vatican City, where Mieke is touring before her summer at sea. Inside the Vatican, Scotty and Cooper search for Mieke and accidentally rings the bell that signals the Pope has died. They unknowingly enter the popes apartment, and after some fooling around, and accidentally dressing up as the pope, and accidentally setting a papal hat on fire, indicating a new pope has been elected, Scotty appears on the papal balcony, and everyone assumes he's the new pope. He spots Mieke in the cheering crowd below; all this happens while the current pope is watching on his tv. The Swiss guards realizes what is going on and detain Scotty and Cooper for their actions. However, the Manchester United football hooligans from London suddenly appears at the Vatican and telling the guards to release Scotty and Cooper. Scotty finally introduces himself to Mieke and confesses his love. Mieke is happy to see him, and they have sex in a confessional booth before she leaves on her trip. On the flight back to Ohio, Jenny and Cooper give into their urges and have sex in the plane's lavatory, while Jamie stays in Europe after being hired by Arthur Frommer.

-No way they would've been able to just get into the Vatican without some sort of tour group paper work. Even if he did know everything.

-There is no way access to the Popes apartment is just in a random door that is accessible by anyone. Also weird they would have the bell that indicates the pope has died right by his door.

-In the original ending, Mieke turns Scotty down... Making a more rational decision that they don't know each other well enough.

Scotty moves to Oberlin College in the fall term for his studies. During his phone conversation with Cooper, who is now dating Jenny, Cooper asks what Scotty's new roommate looks like. Mieke knocks on the door of his room, having been assigned to the same room because of another misunderstanding about her name. Scotty and Mieke embrace and get into bed together, with Cooper calling for Scott on the other end of a still-open cell phone call and the film closing with the Absinthe Green Fairy wondering at his own lack of a sex life.

-You'd think in one of the forms Mieke would've had to fill out to attend college, and get assigned a dorm room, she would have checked the "female" box, but I guess they missed that part. If anything, I feel bad she's probably in an all male dorm. Also, at 18... I mean, I seriously doubt they'll end up together forever.

Top Five Trivia of the movie: 

Top 5 Trivia

They had a lot of trouble casting Scotty. “It had gotten to the point, literally, where we were going to restaurants, staring at our waiters,” said Mandel of the search for Scotty. Luckily, Mechlowicz, a UCLA student at the time, “rode in on a white horse” to save them from further stress over casting the all-important part. Meanwhile, Trachtenberg credited her physical comedy in her audition — which was the airplane scene where Jenny climbs over Cooper on her way to the bathroom — to her getting the job offer from the producers. “And I blew them,” deadpanned Trachtenberg, who got several laughs from the crowd for her natural EuroTrip-style humor. Above all, though, producers said it was important to them at the time to cast real teenagers in the roles. “We didn’t want 35-year-olds playing high school kids,” said Schaffer.

Despite all the political incorrectness in the film, there was one scene that was just too much for the studio, referred to by producers as “The Anne Frank sex scene.” In the scene — never filmed but available in script form on the original DVD, they claim — Cooper finds a flyer for a sex club called “The Secret Room” and accidentally misidentifies the house of Anne Frank as the club. (“He asks somebody, ‘Is this The Secret Room’ and they go, ‘Yes, it will change your life,'” Berg recalled.) Encountering a big line outside, Cooper assumes he has found the correct place, but instead of waiting, he goes through a backdoor. Once he discovers a small room with a small bed, he decides to get naked and wait for a sex worker — but soon after finds himself exposed in front of a tour group. (To make matters worse, Anne Frank’s only living relative was a part of the tour group.) And as if that wasn’t enough to horrify the studio, the scene also had Cooper reaching for a small mannequin — one guess as to whom it was modeled after — and covering his private parts with it, resulting in an unintended sexually explicit visual for the tour group. The producers wrote the Club Vandersexxx scene to replace this scene once it was nixed.

The original title was Ugly Americans. But the studio didn’t want the movie with “ugly” in the title or a “sarcastic or ironic” title, said Schaffer. “We had a knock-down, drag-out fight with them,” said Schaffer, “which is like having a fight with your parents when you’re four because they can call it whenever they want.” And they did.

The nude beach scene originally had much less nudity in it. But once they started filming, they realized it took away from the comedy to have all the extras holding surf boards and other objects — Austin Powers-style — to cover their private parts. “We thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be funnier if it was just wall-to-wall penises?'” said Mandel. The extras likely didn’t mind the change; according to Trachtenberg, there was a lack of shyness between takes, making for an awkward craft services environment.

Matt Damon’s cameo — as the band leader/guy who steals Scotty’s girlfriend, played by Kristin Kreuk — came together because the producers knew him from their days at Harvard…and he was in Prague. In fact, many parts, including Jeffrey Tambor’s, were filled because the actors were already shooting in Prague, where EuroTrip was filmed. “No one wanted to fly over and we didn’t have the money to have anyone fly over,” recalled Schaffer. “So we basically looked around and said, ‘Who’s filming in Prague?'” Luckily, Damon was in town shooting The Brothers Grimm. Not so lucky, however, was that the only night he was available was the shortest night of the summer, so “we literally had from 10:45 at night…and the sun would come up at 3:45,” remembered Schaffer. “So we shot it in, like, 4.5 hours.”

And a little fun tidbit from me Marcus the Song Scotty doesn't know Matt Damon sing on Spotify it has 124 762 320M Downloads. Youtube views 19 959 095M

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Stephen:

1 Breakfast club

2 T2

3 Sandlot

4 Back to the Future

5 Mail order brides

Chris:

1. sandlots

2. T2

3. trick r treat

4. rocky horror picture show

5. hubie halloween

Trey:

1) Boondocks Saints

2) Mail Order Brides

3) Tombstone

4) Very bad things

5) She out of my league

Tucker:

1. T2

2: Tombstone

3: Gross Pointe Blank

4: My Cousin Vinny

5: John Wick

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British Candy

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TOP 5

Stephen:

1 Letterkenny Live

2 Breakfast club

3 T2

4 Sandlot

5 Back to the Future

Chris:

1. sandlots

2. T2

3. trick r treat

4. rocky horror picture show

5. hubie halloween

Trey:

1) Boondocks Saints

2) Mail Order Brides

3) Tombstone

4) Very bad things

5) She out of my league

Tucker:

1. T2

2: Tombstone

3: Gross Pointe Blank

4: My Cousin Vinny

5: John Wick

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Cards Against Humanity

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Cards Against Humanity:

Cards Against Humanity is an adult party game in which players complete fill-in-the-blank statements using words or phrases typically deemed offensive, risqué or politically incorrect printed on playing cards. It has been compared to the 1999 card game apples to apples and originated from a Kickstarter campaign in 2011. Its title refers to the phrase "crimes against humanity", reflecting its politacally incorrect content.

Cards Against Humanity was created by a group of eight Highland park high school alumni. Heavily influenced by the popular Apples to Apples card game, it was initially named Cardenfreude (a pun on schadenfraude) and involved a group of players writing out the most abstract and, often, humorous response to the topic question. The name was later changed to Cards Against Humanity, with the answers pre-written on the white cards known today. Co-creator Ben Hantoot cited experiences with various games such as Magic:The gathering, Balderdash, and Charades as inspiration, also noting that Mad Libs was "the most direct influence" for the game.

The game was financed with a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and influenced by a previous crowd-funded campaign for a book on the design of then-President of the United States of America Barack Obama's Campaign. The campaign started on December 1, 2010; it met its goal of $4,000 in two weeks. The campaign ended on January 30, 2011, and raised over $15,000; just under 400% of its original goal. With this additional money raised towards the game, the creators added fifty more cards to the game itself.

An exerpt from Bloombergs

Cards against humanity LLC, the maker of the eponymous and tasteless-by-design party game, is exploring a potential sale, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Chicago-based company is working with an adviser, Moelis & Co., after it received takeover interest, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information was private.

The company is seeking to be valued at around $500 million in a transaction, the people added.

The company generates earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, of between $40 million to $50 million a year.

Cards Against Humanity hasn’t made a final decision on pursuing a sale and could decide to remain independent, the people said.

Representatives for the company and Moelis declined to comment.

One of its co-founders, Max Temkin, stepped down in June 2020 after reports of a toxic work environment, according to a statement on its website. Temkin no longer participates in the business but is still one of the owners of the company, which is run and controlled by its co-founders, a person familiar with the matter said.

The company said at the time it would hire a specialist to improve human resources, hiring and management practices at the company.

1. Cards Against Humanity started as a game made of construction paper.

In 2009, Max Temkin, Josh Dillon, Daniel Dranove, Eli Halpern, Ben Hantoot, David Munk, David Pinsof, and Eliot Weinstein—a group of friends, most of whom had attended high school together—got together over their winter break and decided to design a game that could entertain guests during their annual New Year’s Eve parties. While they thought of a variety of games, only one of them—which they called Cardenfreude, after schadenfreude, the German word for delighting in another’s misfortune

The team successfully sold bull dung to consumers.

For a 2014 Black Friday promotional stunt, the Cards Against Humanity company promised to send consumers a box of “bullsh*t.” The company sold and shipped boxes containing a solid piece of real bull dung that was procured from a cattle ranch in Texas. All 30,000 pieces, which were priced at $6 each, sold out within a half-hour the day they went on sale.

According to Temkin, the fecal matter was intended to be a commentary on the sensationalist nature of the hype surrounding Black Friday sales. They’ve made a tradition of attention-grabbing projects each holiday season. In 2015, they held a “promotion” in which people could send them $5 and get nothing in return. (They collected $71,145 and split it among their employees.) In 2016, the company dug a purposely pointless “holiday hole” in an undisclosed area using funds donated by customers. In 2018, the company held a 99-percent-off sale which featured bizarre items at a steep discount like a cheese wheel and an actual car for $97.50. The items were purportedly all real and delivered to purchasers.

The company opened a pop-up store.

In 2017, the team behind Cards Against Humanityopened a pop-up store in Chicago in collaboration with the Chicago Design Museum. Located in Block 37’s Chicago Design Market, the storefront sold a variety of games and other Cards Against Humanity-related merchandise, as well as work from local artists. The store was temporary, but the company still sells products via retail outlets like Target and Walmart.

The staff contemplated destroying an original Picasso.

In December 2015, the staff of Cards Against HumanityacquiredTête de Faune, an original work by Pablo Picasso. Though it was never conclusively determined how they had come to acquire it, it was likely from a Chicago-area art dealer. The team ran an online poll to decide whether it should be donated to the Art Institute of Chicago or sliced into 150,000 pieces and distributed to consumers. Of the 50,000 people who voted, 71.3 percent opted to keep it intact.

One of the Cards Against Humanity expansion packs in 2015 was science themed and the profits were intended to create a scholarship for women going into science fields. So far over $500,000 have been raised.

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Top 5 Trivia

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Stephen:

1 Letterkenny Live

2 Breakfast club

3 T2

4 Sandlot

5 Back to the Future

Chris:

1. sandlots

2. T2

3. trick r treat

4. rocky horror picture show

5. hubie halloween

Trey:

1) Boondocks Saints

2) Mail Order Brides

3) Tombstone

4) Very bad things

5) She out of my league

Tucker:

1. T2

2: Tombstone

3: Gross Pointe Blank

4: My Cousin Vinny

5: John Wick

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain\_America:\_The\_First\_Avenger

In the present day, scientists in the Arctic uncover an old, frozen aircraft. In March 1942, Nazi lieutenant general Johann Schmidt and his men steal a mysterious relic called the Tesseract,[N 2] which possesses untold godly powers, from the town of Tønsberg in German-occupied Norway.

In New York City, Steve Rogers is rejected for World War II military recruitment due to his various health and physical problems. While attending an exhibition of future technologies with his best friend, Sgt. James "Bucky" Barnes, Rogers again attempts to enlist. Overhearing Rogers' conversation with Barnes about representing his country in the war, Dr. Abraham Erskine allows Rogers to enlist. He is recruited into the Strategic Scientific Reserve as part of a "super-soldier" experiment under Erskine, Colonel Chester Phillips, and British agent Peggy Carter. Phillips is unconvinced by Erskine's claims that Rogers is the right person for the procedure but relents after seeing Rogers jump on a grenade to save his comrades, unaware that it is a test. The night before the treatment, Erskine reveals to Rogers that Schmidt underwent the procedure prematurely and suffered permanent side-effects.

Schmidt and Dr. Arnim Zola harness the energies of the Tesseract, intending to use the power to fuel Zola's inventions, mounting an offensive that will change the world. Schmidt discovers Erskine's location and sends assassin Heinz Kruger to kill him. Erskine subjects Rogers to the super-soldier treatment, injecting him with a special serum and dosing him with "vita-rays". After Rogers emerges from the experiment taller and more muscular, an undercover Kruger kills Erskine and flees with a vial of the serum. Rogers pursues and captures Kruger, but the assassin avoids interrogation by committing suicide with a cyanide capsule. With Erskine dead and his super-soldier formula lost, U.S. Senator Brandt has Rogers tour the nation in a colorful costume as "Captain America" to promote war bonds while scientists study him and attempt to reverse-engineer the formula. In 1943, while on tour in Italy performing for active servicemen, Rogers learns that Barnes' unit was MIA in a battle against Schmidt's forces. Refusing to believe that Barnes is dead, Rogers has Carter and engineer Howard Stark fly him behind enemy lines to mount a solo rescue attempt. Rogers infiltrates the fortress of Schmidt's Hydra division, freeing Barnes and the other prisoners. Rogers confronts Schmidt, who removes a mask to reveal a red, skull-like visage that earned him the sobriquet "the Red Skull". Schmidt escapes and Rogers returns to base with the freed soldiers.

Rogers recruits Barnes, Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, James Montgomery Falsworth, and Jacques Dernier to attack other known Hydra bases. Stark outfits Rogers with advanced equipment, most notably a circular shield made of vibranium, a rare, nearly indestructible metal. Rogers and his team sabotage various Hydra operations, while he and Carter begin to fall in love. In 1945, the team assaults a train carrying Zola. Rogers and Jones succeed in capturing Zola, but Barnes falls from the train to his apparent death.[N 3] Using information extracted from Zola, the final Hydra stronghold is located, and Rogers leads an attack to stop Schmidt from using weapons of mass destruction on major American cities. Rogers climbs aboard Schmidt's aircraft as it takes off. During the subsequent fight, the Tesseract's container is damaged. Schmidt physically handles the Tesseract, which opens a wormhole into space, sucking him into it. The Tesseract burns through the plane and is lost in the ocean. Seeing no way to land the plane without the risk of detonating its weapons, Rogers radios Carter and says goodbye to her before crashing in the Arctic. Stark later recovers the Tesseract from the ocean floor but is unable to locate Rogers or the aircraft, presuming him dead.

Rogers awakens in a 1940s-styled hospital room. Hearing a radio broadcast of a baseball game that he attended in 1941, Rogers grows suspicious, flees outside and finds himself in present-day Times Square, where S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury informs him that he has been "asleep" for nearly 70 years. In a post-credits scene, Fury approaches Rogers and proposes a mission with worldwide ramifications.[N 4]

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Fox Theatre

The 4,665 seat theatre was built in 1929 as part of a as part of a large Shrine Temple, but was ultimately developed into a lavish movie theatre. The principal architect of the project was Olivier Vinour of the firm Marye, Alger and Vinour. The design is supposed to replicate an Arabian courtyard, complete with 96 flickering lights and clouds that move across the ceiling. There is an Egyptian Ballroom that is designed after a temple for Ramses II at Karnak while the mezzanine Ladies Lounge features a replica of the throne chair of King Tut and makeup tables that feature tiny Sphinxes.

The theater opened on December 25, 1929, just two months after the stock market crash. Originally build for the shriners, when the project went over budget, they leased the building to William Fox, a movie mogul who was building theaters around the country at the time. The theatre closed December, 1932, 125 weeks after it opened due to the Shriners defaulting on the mortgage and Fox going bankrupt.

 It was purchased by Paramount Pictures and Lucas & Jenkins, a Georgia company that owned a hundred theatres.

In the 1940's the Fox because one of the most popular locations, with the Egyptian room drawing big bands and country and western swing bands of the era. It was notable for being the only club in Atlanta at the time that would allow both black and white patrons. Though still segregated, with a seperate entrance that still remains today at the back of the theatre for historical purposes. The Fox would fully integrate in 1962

In the 70's there was a decline in the theatre attendance, and was almost sold to AT&T with plans to tear it down and put a parking deck in its place, but was ultimately subverted by a group and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in May 1974. Celebrities that assisted saving the Fox include Liberace and Lynyrd Skynyrd (recording their first live album there and debuting guitarist Ed King's replacement, Steve Gaines, to the world). The U.S. Department of the Interior subsequently named the Fox a National Historic Landmark on May 26, 1976, citing its architectural uniqueness.

Currently, the Fox is the only remaining movie palace in Atlanta, being run by the non-profit group, Atlanta Landmarks, Inc. An estimated 750,000 people visit the Fox every year. The venue was the site of Prince's final performance, held one week before his death on April 21, 2016.

Notable acts who have played the Fox are Elvis, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, Pearl Jam, the Allman Brothers, Ray Charles, James Brown, B-52s,

A fun bit of trivia... When the shriners built the theatre, they built a 3,640 sq/ft office space in the theatre that was converted into an apartment that Joe Patten, the technical director from 1974 to 2004, occupied with a rent free lease for life. Patten died in 2016. Since then, the space has been unoccupied, but there is a passageway leads from the bedroom to a former spotlight platform at the top of the auditorium.

Thoughts and impressions of the Fox theatre? Would you visit again?

Special thanks to Megan George and Aly Grubb for the media tickets they gave us, they were fantastic seats.

Letterkenny Live

Produced by New Metric media

Staring:

Jared Keeso

Nathan Dales

K. Trevor Wilson

Michelle Mylett

Mark Forward

Tyler Johnston

Dylan Playfair

Andrew Herr

Evan Stern

Letterkenny live was started back in 2018, with only Jared Keeso, Nathan Dales, K. Trevor Wilson, and Mark Forward. Michelle Mylett joined in 2019, and Johnston, Playfair, Herr and Stern joining 2020. Though, the 2020 tour was, of course, postponed indefinitely in March. The dates were not announced to be rescheduled on July 19, 2021.

Based on the show of the same name, the stage performance consists of some old, reworked, and new sketches with the cast. Including a set of stand up by Mark Forward and K. Trevor Wilson... and as themselves, not in costume. Which is funny because they reference the actors may resemble the characters.

Letterkenny, the tv show, debuted on Crave tv in canada in Feburary 2015, which was based on the YouTube channel Keeso developed called Letterkenny Problems. It arrived in the US in July 2018 on Hulu who now owns exclusive distribution rights in the US.

Its been nominated and won numerous Canadian screen awards, including best comedy series, best directing for Jacob Tierney (who directs all the episodes of Letterkenny), Best Lead Actor for Jared Keeso, even technical awards like best editing and best photography for the Sleepover episode.

Back to Letterkenny live,

Mark Forward, as Coach, welcomed everyone to the show and then informed us that due to an injury, Taylor Johnston who plays Stewart will not be performing that night... Which prompts some boos, and I yelled that it's fucking embarrassing... Which Coach agreed with. Roald then comes on stage and addresses the crowd, being weird and funny, then the hicks start coming on stage. Staring with Squirrely Dan, followed by Katy, then Dary, finally Wayne enters to thunderous applause. They do some back and forth, and crowd interaction with How're ya now? The crowd yells back, Good'n you?! It was fun. They exit the stage and Reily and Jonesy come on and do a bit talking about hockey, referencing the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team, when we hear Shoresy start chirping them from the toilet as he did in the show... But Shorseys chips also work in local attractions and themes, like coke and hot chicken. This goes for a bit, as usual, but its very engaging and works well.

I feel there were more sketches, just a little cross over stuff. Roald then introduces Mark Forward to do a small set of stand up. His humor is very misdirectional, like when he walks on stage, he says things like, "yes, thank you, I'm very good." His set was funny, but I honestly don't remember much from it, but he ended it was a joke/song that he admitted before he started that it was "stupid" Xavier McCutchins, who named bears until the end.

After Mark finished, another hick skit ened with Coach telling the hicks people want to see the classics. They started updating the crowd on what everyone else in Letterkenny is upto, also giving the crowd a sneak peek to season 11, and showing a cold open to an episode.

They moved to an intermission, during which we were able to move everyone from our original seats to about 7 rows back, right in the center. It was awesome.

Going into the second half, they continue giving humorous updates to other characters in letterkenny, as well as showing a preview for Shoresy, and a blooper reel for S10. Followed by K. Trevor Wilson coming on and doing a stand up set. His standup is totally different from Mark Forward, and Squirrely Dans character. His long form, informal storytelling type of jokes were a change of pace.

We got another skit of Reilly and Jonesy being chirped by Shoresy, again throwing in references to Atlanta like the Varsity and chili hotdogs. And coach drunkenly talking about barb.

The final skit brought back one of the best bits from the show, when the whole cast comes on stage making porn sounds, yes yes yes yes yesing and "aw fuck, aw fuck." The lights go out, the cast had a group hug, as they did their curtain call, they introduced themselves and each said something they loved about Atlanta. Two final bows, and they exit stage right. Lights up, and the show is over.

Thoughts on the show? Would you go again?

Top Five Trivia of the movie: 

Top 5 Trivia

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TOP 5

Stephen:

1 Letterkenny Live

2 Breakfast club

3 T2

4 Sandlot

5 Back to the Future

Chris:

1. sandlots

2. T2

3. trick r treat

4. rocky horror picture show

5. hubie halloween

Trey:

1) Boondocks Saints

2) Mail Order Brides

3) Tombstone

4) Very bad things

5) She out of my league

Tucker:

1. T2

2: Tombstone

3: Gross Pointe Blank

4: My Cousin Vinny

5: John Wick

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Very Bad Things

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Very Bad Things

Written and Directed by: Peter Berg (Directed, acted and produced a lot of things; directed Hancock, Battleship, Friday Night Lights; wrote and directed Lone Survivor)

Starring:  

Christian Slater

Cameron Diaz

Daniel Stern

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Jon Favreau

Jeremy Piven

Leland Orser

Released: November 25, 1998

Budget: $30M (estimated) ($52.2M in 2022)

Box Office: $21M ($36.6M in 2022)

Ratings:   IMDb 6.3/10 Rotten Tomatoes 41% 

Metacritic 31% Google Users 71% 

First time you saw the movie?

Plot:

-I would marry 1998 Cameron Diaz

-Christian Slater is always slimy.

-The old troupe of the woman planning everything, being stressed, getting on him about wedding stuff, and then breaking a few days before the wedding, she doesn't like some of his friends. Awesome. Then making him profess his love.

-How 90's to record them waving goodbye.

-Pretty formulaic, wedding, bachelor party antics... drinking, smoking, not sure about the drugs though.

-That stripper is pretty hot... But I don't get Kyle saying "I can't do this"... Its not implied that he would fuck the stripper, just get a dance. Nothing wrong with that.

-That's a way to kill someone

-I don't like it when Christian Slater makes a good point about concealing an accidental murder.

-That security guy could've made it so much easier on himself... Poor guy. Why would you stab him with a cork screw?

-The movie is billed a black comedy, but it's not funny. The situation is mildy humorous, but its mostly just dark.

-Can you imagine drinking that much, doing that many drugs, then having to just stop and start cleaning everything up? (Triple Lindy)

-The burial and body re-arrangement was... Interesting. I'd like to think we'd be more functional than those guys.

-That whole overreaction at the gas station about Whizzers and his paranoia is weird.

-Who would break like Adam did at the rehearsal dinner?

-Wow... Michael killing Adam.

-How many troop rallying speeches does Boyd have in him? This one he has to accentuate with a kiss, though. I think I would punch someone

-Michael mounting Adams wife at the funeral is a weird tonal shift, and the whole overreaction during the funeral. It hard waffles from SUPER dark "comedy" to this almost slapstick, over the top, trying to be funny.

-Blaming Adam for sleeping with a prostitute is interesting... Could work.

-Boyd attacking Lois is unwarranted, but I love her self defense and biting his dick.

-Boyd then killing Michael, framing him for Lois' murder is DARK.

-Laura being morally superior to Kyle, calling his friends 'jackasses' and only caring about the wedding is just so disconnected. She doesn't care anyone was killed, just that her wedding will happen? Strange. We are jackasses messing around, none of us are murderers... That's a bit more than a jackass.

-Boyd attacking Fish for insurance money; then Laura killing him telling him to get to the wedding... Wow.

-Of course Moore accidentally kills Boyd... Should've been Fish somehow though.

-Jesus... Laura is cold as fuck... Just kill Moore and the dog, too?

-Why did they dig up the other bodies?

-It's darkly funny they crash thinking about the other guys.

-You can see Jon Favreaus feet under the wheelchair

-Those kids are little assholes

-Laura is just a shitty person, having her break down.

Top Five Trivia of the movie: 

Top 5 Trivia

1) Adam Sandler was originally cast as Michael Berkow but dropped out at the last minute to make The Waterboy (1998). Jeremy Piven took the role.

2) The word " fuck " is said 124 times through the movie.

3) Alan Dershowitz, the then-respected Harvard Law School professor, had a column for a few years in the late 1990's with PREMIERE magazine in which he analyzed possible legal issues arising from new movies. In this film's case, Dershowitz said that a strong case could be made that the prostitute's death was an accident or involuntary manslaughter, though the huge amount of drugs in the suite would complicate that (and would leave the guys open to major prison time via the DEA). However, he said that all of the men would be charged with first-degree murder anyway because of the deliberate stabbing death of the hotel security guard.

4) While the guys are trying to get rid of the dead body, Christian Slater's character is asked incredulously "Have you ever done this before?" The same thing was asked of him in Heathers (1988) when he is trying to cover up an accidental suicide that he manipulated. In both films, he hears the question, then pointedly does not answer it.

5) The weekend of the night in Vegas can be worked out due to the guys watching UFC 10 on pay-per-view: July 12, 1996. The background shows Don Frye vs. Brian Johnston.

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TOP 5

Stephen:

1 Breakfast club

2 T2

3 Sandlot

4 Back to the Future

5 Mail order brides

Chris:

1. sandlots

2. T2

3. trick r treat

4. rocky horror picture show

5. hubie halloween

Trey:

1) Boondocks Saints

2) Mail Order Brides

3) Tombstone

4) Very bad things

5) She out of my league

Tucker:

1. T2

2: Tombstone

3: Gross Pointe Blank

4: My Cousin Vinny

5: John Wick

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