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Hype Movie Club

You know what? I'm gonna avoid picking the popular choices.

AND I need all of you to open your mind.

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The FP
Rubber
Fateful Findings
The Fanatic

Cool Cat Saves the Kids
I've never heard of any of these, lol.
 
Well that's exactly why a movie club exists, to expand your mind!
 
Between the holidays and me being severely under the weather, I didn't make it to our 30's flicks last month but I do hope to fit them in in January. They both seem like good cold winter night watches.

For the 10's, I nominate some I've been wanting to get off my watchlist for a long time and one needed rewatch to reminisce on brighter times in Amy Adams' career:

Arrival
Burning
Leave No Trace
Mr. Turner
Shame
 
Regardless of whether it is on the list this month, I am seeing The Social Network in theatre this Sunday as part of Cineplex's Fincher Files re-release this month.
 
Well the picks this month were more spread out than ever before, because this was the first time the whole list of nominees took up more than a page on my notes doc! :eek: As such, our 5 selections are literally the only ones that got 2 votes. And they are...


Arrival (2016)

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Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Written by: Eric Heisserer & Ted Chiang
Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker & Michael Stuhlbarg
What's It About? Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors.



Cool Cat Saves the Kids (2015)

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Directed by: Derek Savage
Written by: Derek Savage
Starring: Vivica A. Fox, Erik Estrada, Derek Savage & Connor Dean
What's It About? In Hollywood, California, Cool Cat, alongside his human father Daddy Derek, embarks on his most challenging journey yet: saving the kids from Butch the Bully. Can he do it?



Fateful Findings (2013)

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Directed by: Neil Breen
Written by: Neil Breen
Starring: Neil Breen, Klara Landrat, Jennifer Autry, Victoria Valene & David Silva
What's It About? A computer-scientist/novelist reunites with his childhood friend, hacks into government databases, and faces the dire and fateful consequences of the mystical actions he obtained as a child.



The Social Network (2010)

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Directed by: David Fincher
Written by: Aaron Sorkin & Ben Mezrich
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara & Armie Hammer
What's It About? As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.



Spotlight (2015)

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Directed by: Tom McCarthy
Written by: Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Brian d'Arcy James, John Slattery & Stanley Tucci
What's It About? The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.



Good God, what a group.
 
This is a wild selection. I doubt I'll be revisiting Spotlight, Arrival (even though it's one of my all-time favorite movies), or The Social Network right now. They're all good, but I really feel like watching new stuff, which in this case means that I'm finally getting around to Cool Cat and Fateful Findings. Amazing.
 
Well the picks this month were more spread out than ever before, because this was the first time the whole list of nominees took up more than a page on my notes doc! :eek: As such, our 5 selections are literally the only ones that got 2 votes. And they are...


Arrival (2016)

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Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Written by: Eric Heisserer & Ted Chiang
Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker & Michael Stuhlbarg
What's It About? Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors.



Cool Cat Saves the Kids (2015)

MV5BMTAxOTc5NTg1MzheQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDc2MzY4OTEx._V1_.jpg

Directed by: Derek Savage
Written by: Derek Savage
Starring: Vivica A. Fox, Erik Estrada, Derek Savage & Connor Dean
What's It About? In Hollywood, California, Cool Cat, alongside his human father Daddy Derek, embarks on his most challenging journey yet: saving the kids from Butch the Bully. Can he do it?



Fateful Findings (2013)

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Directed by: Neil Breen
Written by: Neil Breen
Starring: Neil Breen, Klara Landrat, Jennifer Autry, Victoria Valene & David Silva
What's It About? A computer-scientist/novelist reunites with his childhood friend, hacks into government databases, and faces the dire and fateful consequences of the mystical actions he obtained as a child.



The Social Network (2010)

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Directed by: David Fincher
Written by: Aaron Sorkin & Ben Mezrich
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara & Armie Hammer
What's It About? As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.



Spotlight (2015)

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Directed by: Tom McCarthy
Written by: Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Brian d'Arcy James, John Slattery & Stanley Tucci
What's It About? The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.



Good God, what a group.
A truly wild lineup :funny: Apt timing for The Social Network, given Zuck returning to his supervillain mode this past week.
 
I haven’t seen Fateful Findings aside from a glimpse of a scene involving the death of a character. So powerful, I bought the tragedy of Neil Breen. :o:funny:
 
So, Cool Cat Saves the Kids. I've followed the character and its unhinged creator, Derek Savage, for the last decade, but I never watched the movie. Until now.

I had seen 95% of it in clips, but it's quite a different experience sitting down for all of its whopping 95 minutes. I watched the readily available director's cut, which comes with several redubbed characters, including the titular Cool Cat, because Savage had a falling out with the original actor and now performs the character himself, which adds to the jarring quality of the picture because he had a massive amount of screentime to begin with as Cool Cat's father, Daddy Derek.

Another addition is a segment that was originally produced as a short called Cool Cat Flips a House, which was fraudulently financed (or most likely pocketed) by Savage through crowdfunding for an entirely different project, a full-length sequel called Cool Cat Stops a School Shooting, which Daddy Derek is still trying to finance, now with a two million dollar budget.

There's an endless amount of backstory for all of this, whether it's Savage misunderstanding fair use and trying to take down Youtubers, his "annual" 420 Awards Show (the "non-political" movie awards show), or his bizarre gun-safety PSA for women that is a classic in its own right.

Long story short, the man behind Cool Cat is a lot more interesting than the work itself, but the film is curious enough for a singular watch, and no doubt I'll be tuning in immediately if he ever releases that school shooting project. He profoundly seems to believe that it'll save lives. Even in this film, Derek overshadows Cool Cat with his gargantuan screentime, whether he's showing his Van Halen guitar, swinging an axe, or performing a rather dangerous and sloppily executed kung-fu routine. Unfortunately, he's kind of evil, so he's not enjoying the kind of cult success as his compatriots Neil Breen and Tommy Wiseau, but maybe it's for the better. Do NOT check out his recent Hood Rat character...
 
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So, Cool Cat Saves the Kids. I've followed the character and its unhinged creator, Derek Savage, for the last decade, but I never watched the movie. Until now.

I had seen 95% of it in clips, but it's quite a different experience sitting down for all of its whopping 95 minutes. I watched the readily available director's cut, which comes with several redubbed characters, including the titular Cool Cat, because Savage had a falling out with the original actor and now performs the character himself, which adds to the jarring quality of the picture because he had a massive amount of screentime to begin with as Cool Cat's father, Daddy Derek.

Another addition is a segment that was originally produced as a short called Cool Cat Flips a House, which was fraudulently financed (or most likely pocketed) by Savage through crowdfunding for an entirely different project, a full-length sequel called Cool Cat Stops a School Shooting, which Daddy Derek is still trying to finance, now with a two million dollar budget.

There's an endless amount of backstory for all of this, whether it's Savage misunderstanding fair use and trying to take down Youtubers, his "annual" 420 Awards Show (the "non-political" movie awards show), or his bizarre gun-safety PSA for women that is a classic in its own right.

Long story short, the man behind Cool Cat is a lot more interesting than the work itself, but the film is curious enough for a singular watch, and no doubt I'll be tuning in immediately if he ever releases that school shooting project. He profoundly seems to believe that it'll save lives. Even in this film, Derek overshadows Cool Cat with his gargantuan screentime, whether he's showing his Van Halen guitar, swinging an axe, or performing a rather dangerous and sloppily executed kung-fu routine. Unfortunately, he's kind of evil, so he's not enjoying the kind of cult success as his compatriots Neil Breen and Tommy Wiseau, but maybe it's for the better. Do NOT check out his recent Hood Rat character...
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I agree, Derek Savage is a terrible person.
 
It's that time already! The category y'all might have seen coming for February:


Romantic Comedy


Up to 5 picks, any decade. Voting will be open through the weekend!
 

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