Stranger Lounges - Part 181

[flickchick85]

What is a Fleek?
Hype fanfiction.

See, Aziz is the guy with the facts.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Ghostbusters is in the talk?
Will you talk about remakes of that and Karate Kid?

I have something to add.
NEVER BACK DOWN
This movie is like a remake of the original Karate Kid, with a touch of Terry McGinnis in making the protagonist a former trouble maker living with his mom and younger brother.

I assume we'll get to GHOSTBUSTERS. It's too big of a classic not to get into. As for remakes? No. We have a master list of 48 films for myself and the guest to do research on. It's again... It's a formidable year in film. Even the flops and failures have a certain quality. So... No time for in depth re-make talk.

For those interested the master list I compiled looks like this:

The ALL TIME CLASSICS

BEVERLY HILLS COP
GREMLINS
GHOSTBUSTERS
THE KARATE KID
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
THE TERMINATOR
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET


THE LESSER LIGHTS

JOHN CARPENTER'S STARMAN
POLICE ACADEMY
ROMANCING THE STONE
SPLASH
THE LAST STARFIGHTER
THE NEVERENDING STORY
STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
SIXTEEN CANDLES
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
REVENGE OF THE NERDS

THE SERIOUS DRAMAS

THE KILLING FIELDS
PLACES IN THE HEART
A SOLDIER'S STORY
AMADAEUS
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON
BLOOD SIMPLE
THE BOUNTY
TIGHTROPE

THE INTERESTING ODDBALLS AND CULT FILMS

TOP SECRET
BUCKAROO BANZAI
ICEMAN
CLOAK AND DAGGER
REPO MAN
GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE
DREAMSCAPE
NIGHT OF THE COMET
JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY
RED DAWN
ALL OF ME
BODY DOUBLE
2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT
STOP MAKING SENSE
STREETS OF FIRE

THE FAILURES AND FLOPS

DUNE
SUPERGIRL
C.H.U.D.
CHILDREN OF THE CORN
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
SHEENA
BEST DEFENSE


Now... I know I could get debate as to how I categorized these films. Guess what? I really could care less. The bigger point of the list is not that we are even going to talk about all of them. It's just in case they do come up we on the show should have a good overview of each IN CASE they do come up. Also, in going through each one there's a possibility of finding some common themes, or elements of one kind of another. Why was that year of releases, some having been in the planning stages for a long time, some written and executed within the year itself, so special? On that list are films that not only have big hits but the lesser films are also films lots of the public, especially the fanboy set, grew up with and are intimate with in some way, thanks to the home video revolution and cable, both of which are the basis of our a la carte video streaming and binging consumer pop culture world we have today. Our parents and grand parents did not have the luxury of watching and rewatching something until the film was memorized within their very atoms. They were lucky if a film was popular enough to get re-released or be shown on TV more than one time a year, IF that. By the time 1984 comes around though something brand new was afoot.


In any case... It was a HELL of a year for movies and pop culture. Something that has ripples until this day.

 

[Reek]

See, Aziz is the guy with the facts.

awww.. its so cute you come running when FLEEK is mentioned.

 

[flickchick85]

awww.. its so cute you come running when FLEEK is mentioned.

 

[Reek]

awww... it's so cute when you get rough with me.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Look out... She may be armed with DJ's spoon!!

 

[Spider-Aziz]

See, Aziz is the guy with the facts.

I assume we'll get to GHOSTBUSTERS. It's too big of a classic not to get into. As for remakes? No. We have a master list of 48 films for myself and the guest to do research on. It's again... It's a formidable year in film. Even the flops and failures have a certain quality. So... No time for in depth re-make talk.

For those interested the master list I compiled looks like this:

Spoiler

The ALL TIME CLASSICS

BEVERLY HILLS COP
GREMLINS
GHOSTBUSTERS
THE KARATE KID
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
THE TERMINATOR
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET


THE LESSER LIGHTS

JOHN CARPENTER'S STARMAN
POLICE ACADEMY
ROMANCING THE STONE
SPLASH
THE LAST STARFIGHTER
THE NEVERENDING STORY
STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
SIXTEEN CANDLES
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
REVENGE OF THE NERDS

THE SERIOUS DRAMAS

THE KILLING FIELDS
PLACES IN THE HEART
A SOLDIER'S STORY
AMADAEUS
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON
BLOOD SIMPLE
THE BOUNTY
TIGHTROPE

THE INTERESTING ODDBALLS AND CULT FILMS

TOP SECRET
BUCKAROO BANZAI
ICEMAN
CLOAK AND DAGGER
REPO MAN
GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
BROADWAY DANNY ROSE
DREAMSCAPE
NIGHT OF THE COMET
JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY
RED DAWN
ALL OF ME
BODY DOUBLE
2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT
STOP MAKING SENSE
STREETS OF FIRE

THE FAILURES AND FLOPS

DUNE
SUPERGIRL
C.H.U.D.
CHILDREN OF THE CORN
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
SHEENA
BEST DEFENSE


Now... I know I could get debate as to how I categorized these films. Guess what? I really could care less. The bigger point of the list is not that we are even going to talk about all of them. It's just in case they do come up we on the show should have a good overview of each IN CASE they do come up. Also, in going through each one there's a possibility of finding some common themes, or elements of one kind of another. Why was that year of releases, some having been in the planning stages for a long time, some written and executed within the year itself, so special? On that list are films that not only have big hits but the lesser films are also films lots of the public, especially the fanboy set, grew up with and are intimate with in some way, thanks to the home video revolution and cable, both of which are the basis of our a la carte video streaming and binging consumer pop culture world we have today. Our parents and grand parents did not have the luxury of watching and rewatching something until the film was memorized within their very atoms. They were lucky if a film was popular enough to get re-released or be shown on TV more than one time a year, IF that. By the time 1984 comes around though something brand new was afoot.


In any case... It was a HELL of a year for movies and pop culture. Something that has ripples until this day.

A good list of goodies.

 

[flickchick85]

awww... it's so cute when you get rough with me.

 

[Reek]

the best part about both of those gifs... they both show acceptance.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

They both look pornorific to me.

 

[flickchick85]

the best part about both of those gifs... they both show acceptance.

More like depressed resignation. That you will never let go of the delusion.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

They look like a person expressing 'ugh'.

 

[Reek]

They both look pornorific to me.

thank you

More like depressed resignation. That you will never let go of the delusion.

as if i started it? blame CC. don't put that crap on me.

They look like a person expressing 'ugh'.

oh aziz... i would say keep trying but you just fail too often.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Well I think we can all agree that if the Hype was a cable tv series, Tumblr would inevitably have a subsection of fans who ship "Fleek."

 

[Reek]

Thank you, Roose. I can always count on you.

 

[Reek]

Another ship i see on Tumblr would be Aziz INC.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

oh Aziz... i would say keep trying but you just fail too often.

I didn't try to be funny in that one.

 

[Reek]

i wasn't sure you actually tried in any of them

 

[dude stannis]

Fleek? Aziz INC? This place is turning into the goddamned CW

 

[Reek]

well, obviously fleekchick dumped me. i guess ill just hood up and take my anger out on criminals.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

well, obviously fleekchick dumped me. i guess ill just hood up and take my anger out on criminals.

"Next time on Greg Berlanti's Super Hero..."

 

[Roose Bolton]

That'll only last a season. She'll take you back by the finale, and just when you think everything's getting back on track Jokes will storm into the Lounge looking for vengeance and shoot Aziz with a bullet aimed for Kryptin. We won't know his fate until next year.

 

[dude stannis]

You're definitely the hype Olicity. Always dumping one another and denying you're in love and hooking back up. It's obnoxious as hell. At least Aziz INC are comedy gold together as the mismatched couple.

 

[Reek]

Maybe I should just go back to my island.

 

[flickchick85]

That'll only last a season. She'll take you back by the finale, and just when you think everything's getting back on track Jokes will storm into the Lounge looking for vengeance and shoot Aziz with a bullet aimed for Kryptin. We won't know his fate until next year.

Mmm whatcha say....