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[KRYPTON INC.]

He wanted to go to the awards but the producer was a dick. JAWS IV was one big dumb movie. It made Ed Wood look like a genius. I loved the reshot bit they did for video.

Spoiler

In the theatrical version, Mario Van Peebles is eaten by the shark (seen in the mouth getting chewed on)....his character was loved by the audience and everyone complained about him dying....so they shot new scenes for home video where he pops out of the water all smile and says something like "Look, I made it.'.....but they didn't cut out the shots of him being chewed up.

Oh yeah.
I learned about it when I saw it via the day camp I went to as a kid on movie day and I saw it again when my family either saw it on HBO or when we rented it. That was all sorts of messed up because it just made no sense I mean I might be misremembering but there was a fair amount of blood and gore leaving uh, little ambiguity.

 

[Schlosser85]

@KRYPTON INC. @C. Lee

I remember Mario van Peebles suddenly popping up with no explanation how he survived being eaten. IIRC there were also two different endings, one where the shark gets impaled by the prow of the ship, and one where it explodes for.....no reason.

 

[Perfect Cell]

@KRYPTON INC. @C. Lee

I remember Mario van Peebles suddenly popping up with no explanation how he survived being eaten. IIRC there were also two different endings, one where the shark gets impaled by the prow of the ship, and one where it explodes for.....no reason.

The one where the shark gets impaled is also a hilariously cheap effect. It looks like a toy. I prefer it greatly.

 

[Schlosser85]

The one where the shark gets impaled is also a hilariously cheap effect. It looks like a toy. I prefer it greatly.

The whole shark through the entire movie looks like a cheap toy. Floating around with its mouth just perpetually hanging open.

 

[Perfect Cell]

The whole shark through the entire movie looks like a cheap toy. Floating around with its mouth just perpetually hanging open.

True, but I think they ran out of what little money they had before they had to film... this:

He just wants a hug!

 

[Teelie]

He wanted to go to the awards but the producer was a dick. JAWS IV was one big dumb movie. It made Ed Wood look like a genius. I loved the reshot bit they did for video.

Spoiler

In the theatrical version, Mario Van Peebles is eaten by the shark (seen in the mouth getting chewed on)....his character was loved by the audience and everyone complained about him dying....so they shot new scenes for home video where he pops out of the water all smile and says something like "Look, I made it.'.....but they didn't cut out the shots of him being chewed up.

I remembered seeing the "he lived" ending not too long after it had come out on VHS but then for several years after that every time I saw the movie, it was the "he dies" ending and I thought I had remembered it wrong but later found out they had done the two endings.

 

[Schlosser85]

True, but I think they ran out of what little money they had before they had to film... this:

He just wants a hug!

Good lord that's even worse than I remembered it.

 

[Reek]

 

[ComicChick]

The runoff from a leaky garbage bag is better than that syrupy pisswater.

Vanilla Pepsi is good tho. You can't find it or Vanilla Coke around here anymore. Their absence haunts me.

the companies are not making it right now. to catch back up on manufacturing and distribution, they are only focusing on their top sellers.

for instance, if coke had 50 line items before, at least a half of them are not in production right now.

 

[Perfect Cell]

the companies are not making it right now. to catch back up on manufacturing and distribution, they are only focusing on their top sellers.

for instance, if coke had 50 line items before, at least a half of them are not in production right now.

Vanilla colas haven't been available in my area for well over a decade. I can't blame the Rona for this one.

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But I can blame Rona for this.

 

[ComicChick]

Vanilla colas haven't been available in my area for well over a decade. I can't blame the Rona for this one.


But I can blame Rona for this.

oh then i guess you have to blame the Canada on that one. but what i said is true in regards to stateside

 

[ComicChick]

Pop Quiz Loungers:

Name the weirdest, most obscure short lived TV show or TV show pilot you can remember from childhood that you thought was actually a cool concept.

i remember a show about a guy who ate this really old cheeseburger under his bed and died and became an angel to a friend? brother? i think it was called Teen Angel

 

[flickchick85]

Pop Quiz Loungers:

Name the weirdest, most obscure short lived TV show or TV show pilot you can remember from childhood that you thought was actually a cool concept.

VR Troopers.

 

[Sithborg]

i remember a show about a guy who ate this really old cheeseburger under his bed and died and became an angel to a friend? brother? i think it was called Teen Angel

Ahh yes, the TGIF weird phase.

 

[Reek]

does anyone remember the tv show THE CAPE... it was like 4 episodes.

 

[Perfect Cell]

I heard it was going to get six seasons and a movie.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I remember when Summer Glau was a thing.

 

[terry78]

I have a weirdly large amount of porn stars that follow me on Twitter for some reason.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I have a weirdly large amount of porn stars that follow me on Twitter for some reason.

"For some reason."

 

[Reek]

oh great. kryptons porn switch has been turned on. thanks terry.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

oh great. kryptons porn switch has been turned on. thanks terry.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

i remember a show about a guy who ate this really old cheeseburger under his bed and died and became an angel to a friend? brother? i think it was called Teen Angel

That feels very Nickelodeon.

VR Troopers.

Oooh... Only the vaguest memory of that.


There was this period where I think ABC was trying to go whole hog with fantasy and sci fi and one fall they blitzed the airwaves with tons of high concept stuff. One was called JOE AND THE COLONEL.

The Joe in the title was a genetically engineered super soldier and the Col. was played by I think the dad from Webster. Joe is like actually 12 years old I think but he looks like a full grown man and he's been given all the bells and whistles: Fast healing, enhanced senses, increased speed and strength and redundancies that make him hard to kill like a second set of ribs that protects his organs if he got shot. The scientist that created Joe steals him and raises him off the grid giving him a crash course in society and training in all sorts of things and they end up being like freelance super hero types pulling "Robin Hood" jobs ala The A-Team or Knight Rider. The Col. is sent by the military to track the duo down but then the scientist gets killed and Joe actually ends up under his wing with the gist being that The Col. now sees what the scientist did and he too wishes to use Joe and his abilities to help people against the wishes of the U.S. government.

Don't ask me why but that stuck with me from when I was like 11ish.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

BDE. Zero ****s given.

 

[Perfect Cell]

It wasn't from my childhood, but the first thing that comes to mind for me is that wave of shows that tried to capitalize on the popularity of Lost's "mystery box" style. Remember Threshold? Of course not. Invasion? That was a thing. The Event? What kind of name for a show is The Event? Why not just call it Generic at that point.

I watched all of them.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

It wasn't from my childhood, but the first thing that comes to mind for me is that wave of shows that tried to capitalize on the popularity of Lost's "mystery box" style. Remember Threshold? Of course not. Invasion? That was a thing. The Event? What kind of name for a show is The Event? Why not just call it Generic at that point.

I watched all of them.

Yeah there was a period everyone was trying to hop on the LOST/Heroes train.

And they almost all were cancelled under two seasons leaving anyone that watched them twisting in the wind.