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Post by keezy on Jul 4, 2012 6:32:27 GMT -5
I think they're trying to garner a cult following off of it, in a Troll 2 sort of way.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Jul 4, 2012 7:47:24 GMT -5
Why sell it like "Citizen Kane" when it's more like "Plan 9 from Outer Space"?
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Post by KobashiChop on Jul 4, 2012 7:58:58 GMT -5
Might as well get some big promotion for the 1000th Raw's Blast From The Past.
I know it wont happen, but I can dream.
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Post by kidglov3s on Jul 4, 2012 8:03:52 GMT -5
From reading Hulk's book, and from what I gather about Vince seeing his stuff over the years, I think that No Holds Barred truly is Vince and Hulk's idea of a perfect movie. Which it is. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when Vince and Hulk sat in a hotel room to "fix" the script, as Hulk described the rewrite process.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 4, 2012 8:19:39 GMT -5
You know what the absolute best thing about this movie is? Stan Hansen! It's Kurt Fuller, dude. He always delivers, and I'm being serious. As watching it last night, I was struck by one thing, how much Joan Severance looks like Cobie Smulders. |
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Post by ToyfareMark on Jul 4, 2012 8:35:20 GMT -5
You know what the absolute best thing about this movie is? Stan Hansen! It's Kurt Fuller, dude. He always delivers, and I'm being serious. As watching it last night, I was struck by one thing, how much Joan Severance looks like Cobie Smulders. Yeah, but Kurt has always been a great character actor, and he's great in this as well. Its just... This is the only movie Stan Hansen has ever been in (according to IMDB anyway), and he plays his role so well. He's got the full funny/gross/sadistic mix going. He's just great in this. |
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Post by SAJ Forth on Jul 4, 2012 13:00:43 GMT -5
To me, some of it feels like the burial of Warrior. Not wanting to accept that much responsibility.
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Post by ToyfareMark on Jul 4, 2012 19:32:03 GMT -5
Thinking about it more, they probably should have waited until 1990 to release this movie. If anything, waited til the fall of 89. Summer 1989 was one of the biggest blockbuster summers ever. Hogan was popular of course, but not Indiana Jones/Batman/Ghostbusters popular, and plus the other bigger movies around that time. No Holds Barred at least made its money back, though that wasn't the goal. Of course UHF fared much worse.
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Post by Arthur Digby Stamp on Jul 5, 2012 2:39:38 GMT -5
I saw this quote elsewhere and feel that it sums the situation up perfectly:
The way the WWE is promoting No Holds Barred is kind of like Larry The Cable Guy gesturing at an old Gallagher VHS tape and saying “can you believe we used to laugh at this bullshit?”
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Post by ToyfareMark on Jul 5, 2012 2:45:27 GMT -5
I saw this quote elsewhere and feel that it sums the situation up perfectly: The way the WWE is promoting No Holds Barred is kind of like Larry The Cable Guy gesturing at an old Gallagher VHS tape and saying “can you believe we used to laugh at this bulls***?” Thats not fair to Gallagher. His actual stand up outside the watermelon smashing was tremendous. And quite a bit of it still stands up today. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2012 17:56:30 GMT -5
Sorry to bump this old thread, but I got through about half this movie last night before falling asleep. Was it supposed to like, be some kinda dig at Ted Turner?
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 7, 2012 10:43:42 GMT -5
Does the dvd have any bonus features or is it just barebones?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2012 11:15:39 GMT -5
The movie was pure 80's. I loved it. Then again it was part of my childhood. Obviously it is a movie that will not age well and wasn't a cinematic masterpiece, but it didn't have to be. It was what it was. If you were a Hogan/WWF fan during that time, mixed in with the cross promotion with Zeus in the WWF, you probably have good memories of it whether you liked the film or not.
With that said, it is definitely a dig. Maybe not exclusively at Hogan, but more along of the lines of "yeah, this was Vince's idea in 1988, it wasn't great but people remember it so let's make fun of it". That is the WWE's decision, as I am clearly not their intended audience, but much like the Warrior DVD, I find it a bit counterproductive to insult your older fans. "Hey, remember Warrior, he really sucked but we were smart enough to make idiots like you pay for his merchandise, PPV's, etc!!!". Same deal here. Just release the DVD, promote it, and move on. The shameless mocking of it doesn't really serve a purpose and just seems like dumb marketing to me.
I wonder if the Chaperone will get similar treatment in 20 years (assuming anyone on earth even remembers what it was).
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