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You know what. After reading the posts here I feel like I finally have a hot take

I liked AAI1

(1) Super Mario Galaxy

• Stripes (+1000 odds)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (+500 odds)
• Beverly Hills Cop (+1000 odds)
• Return of the Living Dead (Unlisted; +2500 odds)
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Unlisted; +2500 odds)

22. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Suprak: 6
Plasma: 26

24. Vis

I dont know if Im saying this rightI just dont know if a movie parodying sexism works when your main character is a sexist who: has a downfall and is rescued from that downfall through NO effort on his part (meaning NO real growing or learning or changing), and ultimately, he ends the movie a complete hero,

25. Tangy
Making matters worse is the fact that when he finally does get his comeuppance he sits around and pouts about it. Like how are we supposed to sympathize with that?

• Stripes (+1000 odds)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (+500 odds)
• Beverly Hills Cop (+1000 odds)
• Return of the Living Dead (Unlisted; +2500 odds)
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Unlisted; +2500 odds)

• Stripes (+1000 odds)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (+500 odds)
• Beverly Hills Cop (+1000 odds)
• Return of the Living Dead (Unlisted; +2500 odds)

(4) Mario Kart DS

8. Forty
Its silly, but also hugely important as it helped define the entire genre by introducing the concept of zombies hungering for brains.
14. Mythiot
So this is where zombies eat brains came from!

• Stripes (+1000 odds)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (+500 odds)
• Beverly Hills Cop (+1000 odds)
• Return of the Living Dead (Unlisted; +2500 odds)

Batman

• Stripes (+1000 odds)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (+500 odds)
• Beverly Hills Cop (+1000 odds)

26. The Interview (2014)
Plasma: 6
Suprak: 24

25. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Suprak: 8
Plasma: 27

Hello rival my old friend...
I've come to counter you again...

I actually think both Franco and Park are pretty good in this. Franco is almost impossibly stupid, but he always did that well and it was enjoyable enough seeing him buffoon himself through the movie. And, honestly, I feel like a movie with just Franco probably works better. Do you need Rogen to be the straight man for all of this when there are a half dozen other characters filling that role? Do you need a five minute scene of him shoving a capsule up his butt? Or a completely unnecessary sex scene which almost feel gross now that I know Rogen himself directed this? There is a lot of painful padding here, including a full romance subplot I could not have possibly cared any less about. Shes the propagandist for this horrible regime and Im still like hey, you can do better, lady.

27. GavsEvans
I wonder what happened to the last ricin strip? We didnt see it again after Aaron was interrupted while trying to take it off, so I was expecting the film to end with North Korea being further destabilised and descending into civil war after Sook was accidentally poisoned. That would have been meaner than the ending we got, but also funnier and more satirical as a commentary on the US interfering in a foreign country and leaving without cleaning up the mess theyd made.

• Stripes (+1000 odds)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (+500 odds)

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25. John
I've got to appreciate Tangy for including a Vito Corleone parody by the don himself immediately after doing the Godfather-dominated crime list.

29. Vis
But then you have this whole plot point of Carmine being played by Marlon Brando, looking like Vito Corleone, and just generally acting like the Godfather whenever possible. It was really distracting, and it made the otherwise interesting plot feel like the writers werent confident in their ability to deliver on the premise.

• Stripes (+1000 odds)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (+500 odds)

Uncharted

• Stripes (+1000 odds)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (+500 odds)

GavsEvans
while Batman and Robin already didnt take itself too seriously, which doesnt leave much room for a parody to top it. As a result, Mystery Men doesnt have much parody material to work with.

I mean just seeing the early vegas odds always tells me some interesting things about plasma's opinions on movies

particularly when movies I fully expect to see in the top 10 are already in vegas

Yes! I agree. It can really psyche you out. It's fooled me quite a bit haha.

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I'm kinda sad I can't partake in Vegas this time. Plasma do you mind if I join the betting as a form of hint system?

gonna keep it riding on Not Another Teen Movie, though I'm less confident on it given what's dropping

so I strongly disagree with the comedy/horror not going together, and could actually go into a whole spiel about how the two mesh extraordinarily well when paired together right due to having similar structures of relying on surprise and catching the viewer offguard.

• Stripes (+1000 odds)
• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (+500 odds)

Wow. I thought the cast alone would have kept Stripes out of last place. That's one of the 9 here I haven't seen though, so good for me I guess.

This is the third movie now on the list where I was like "oh WOW look at that cast" and then finished watching it and was like "oh man, that poor cast."

They wasted John Candy. This might be the worst I've seen Harold Ramis. And I'm afraid I hate Bill Murray now.

Also, I've written this like ten times now for different movies, but man did this not age well. But this was somehow worse. It felt like someone's secondary goal was to make a movie and their primary goal was to make sure women knew he hated them, and he wasn't all that concerned with that first part.

Mario

Karo
A bunch of knuckleheads join the army and do dumb shit in what is possibly the most unfunny comedy I have ever had the displeasure of seeing.
Here's a rundown of how things play out. They do basic army stuff. The idiot protagonist mouths off at the sarge and/or commits treason and somehow never faces any serious consequences. They then play the same musical fanfare over and over and over and call it a soundtrack.
The laughs are in very short supply in this two hour long slog, but the cringes just keep on coming. Seriously for fuck's sake having your characters constantly sing at weird times is not funny plz stahp.

• Stripes (+1000 odds)

I've been reading Stephen King's Fairy Tale.

I'm close to the end. It's... eh. The problem is that the first and second halves of the book are essentially two different stories with little cohesion. I actually really liked the characterization in the first half, it's just that the whole time I was thinking "Where is this going...?" and then it turned out the answer was less interesting than I had hoped.

I know he has a reputation for bad endings, but I basically lost interest in the book at the halfway point. A whole lot of characters are introduced in a very short period, and it becomes very difficult to become attached to any of them. I also found myself asking why the main character was even bothering for a lot of his actions. It basically boils down to "The plot demands it", but he has too much to lose and not enough to gain to justify his decisions.

Holy crap, I just realized I did points the opposite way. Oh, well third time's the charm right? I'll have the proper points and first elimination posted here soon. Sorry about the mix up everyone!

Yeah, without trying I know what the bottom three are. After that its muddy but Im sure I could try to figure it out if I wanted.

I dont want to because half the fun is stressing if your favorites are going to drop next, but I technically do have additional information so Id rather not have people wondering if Im using that or not.

I imagine the reason he doesn't want to participate is that it is now plainly obvious to him what the last place movie is (and maybe a few at the top of the list as well).

If you want to go through and redo the numbers for everyone, then I promise I would not participate in the Vegas odds or make any in topic comments

Pleasantly happy and surprised Batman beat the odds!