Everyone jokes about Jay watching violent slashers and making films where kids slit their wrists was the thing that made him who he is today, but finding out he watched Nukie as a kid explains it all
Watching Nukie in the Home Alone house really changes a man; only after staring deep into the eyes of the abyss will everything else in life seem blissful.
I was mildly impressed they used an actual lion. I know from owning a housecat that when they stalk backwards like that, they’re either going to have a fight or flight reaction.
The production values actually looked better than what the clips we saw in the video grading video led me to believe. Everything EXCEPT the Nukie costume, that is.
1:12 Rich just tapped into something very real. The sound, costumes, lighting, etc. There's something about movies like Nukie that is so profoundly depressing. And it's always movies that aren't "trying" to be depressing. Usually they're children's movies.
i think it's like if one of your friends in grade school invited you over to their house for the first time to watch their favorite movie. you go over and they're living in a shitty neighborhood and their house is collapsing and dirty, their parents don't care about them or cook for them, and all of their toys are ancient second-hand sets from goodwill. you sit down next to him inches from the TV in the middle of a filthy and otherwise empty living room and he puts on nukie. you feign interest as he excitedly watches and says things like "ooh, this is my favorite part" and "watch this, look at this"
“Picture this: it's your twenty-first birthday. For twenty-one long years you've been good - you've never had so much as a drop of alcohol. You pick up your best friend in the new car you bought to commemorate this new chapter in your life, and the two of you head to a bar. You toss back a few drinks, share some laughs, and have a great time. Then you and your best friend get back into the car. You realize that you're a little tipsy but you don't think you're too drunk to drive. On the way home, you swerve a little bit, but since the roads are empty you don't pay any heed. As you turn onto your street, a woman and a dog dart into the road. You try to avoid them but end up hitting them both and crashing your car, sending your best friend flying through the windshield. You are unharmed, but as you crawl out of the wreckage you see that the woman and the dog are both dead... and that the woman was your girlfriend and the dog was your dog. There's nothing more you can do for them, so you rush to your best friend's side. He's mortally injured and he asks you to come closer. You take him in your arms and his blood flows all over you. In his final breath he tells you that he has AIDS and now you do too. Despite all this, you have nothing to complain about because you fucking haven't seen "Nukie.”” -the old Something Awful review of Nukie
Ragging on the scam collector's industry while also making Nukie jokes and finally watching it and topping it all off with beating that BTTF tape's asking price on ebay for charity? This is amazing stuff and it's gonna help a lot of people too. Everything about the Nukie saga's been uplifting, man.
the computer repeating “nukie” with gradually more emotion at 4:40 almost sounds like mike during the vhs collection video, where he’s just getting more unhinged with each new copy
Honestly, I'm with Ritch on this. The only thing more depressing than the thought that humanity is the sole form of sapient life in the universe is finding just one alternative example and they're all dumpy, useless goblins that inisist on naming themselves after a Limp Bizkit album. It's be like if the starship Enterprise returned from its intrepid mission to solemnly report that they found a barren, grey void of a universe with the singular exception of one world populated by a billion Rich Evans's.
The voice of the computer is Donald Arthur. 90ies kids in Germany will probably remember him as the German voice actor for Kent Brockman in The Simpsons. All I could imagine during that establishing shot montage was Kent Brockman reading the date and time :D
Just want to clarify, I’m not saying the Cinema Snob himself gave me the depression. It was the movie itself that did it. At least the bits of it that were in that review.
I tried to warn you guys. The fans that haven't seen the actual movie. Besides taking a shot everyrime someone says Nukie. There is almost no joy to be had here. It's akin to visiting sick relatives in the hospital.
8:02 What if this was the last thing they shot and they never retrieved it And years later someone found it washed up on shore and thought it was an actual paranormal alien monster
Hard to believe 147 cassette tapes are gone. A [iece of Americana has been erased from existence. I'm opening a Kickstarter campaign to rebuild the collection and bequeath it upon RLM.
Ever since the Nukie cover kept showing up on the Plinketto years ago, I was looking forward to the day, they'd finally actually watch it... Some things are better left unseen.
Nukie is the kind of movie where watching it is like running into a friend you haven't seen in years, and it turns out they became way too religious since you last saw them
@@4477superman It's kind of sad really. At 80 Harrison Ford really should be limiting his auditions to Dumbledore or Gandalf. It's pretty hard to suspend belief in an action film when you're worried the protagonist is going to break a hip any moment now.
Wait what Thats really a thing ?, what are they going to roll out the wheelchair for Harrison Ford and make him sit in front of a green screen for 90 minutes ?
I know what Rich meant when he said he felt depressed. It's like you just KNOW that a lot of the people who worked on this most probably died of substance abuse or self inflicted gunshot wounds only a couple of years later. It's like a circus with a sad elephant, emasciated horses and an amputee clown and they have to shoot one of the horses IN THE RING. That being said, hearing the "space organisation computer" voice gave me a jolt. I had to look it up and it's indeed Donald Arthur, a voice known to every child of the 70s, 80s and probably even the 90s and 2000s - in GERMANY. He was a prolific, bilingual German-American voice actor and dubbed countless cartoons, TV series and movies, probably his most enduring roles being the Simpsons' Kent Brockman & South Park's Chef. He was also the frequent dub for Isaac Hayes in other movies and TV but generally turned up whenever a sonorous bass voice was needed. Sadly he passed away in 2016, but his voice will never be forgotten.
I may or may not have seen Nukie when I was younger. I think my brain is combining it with E.T, Mac & Me, and that claymation alien sequence from the 1978 film Laserblast.
All good things must come to an end. Honestly it hurts a little bit, seeing all those Nukie tapes get destroyed. One can only hope fans will start bombarding them with Nukie shipments now more than ever.
I remember watching this movie as a kid. It was the first time my parents didn't mind me using the word "crap". I also remember it bordering on trauma for a 4-year-old kid to watch.
Gosh I remember seeing this movie sitting on the video rental store shelf. Never watched, but figured it would be one of those movies I wouldn't be opposed to watching as a kid. Dodged that bullet. Now for all I know you guys probably destoryed that very same copy that sat on the shelf of a video rental store in a podunk border town.
I'd love to hear you guys talk about MAD GOD, as someone who loves practical effects I was geeking the whole time. Ironicly a very pretty movie for how gross it is.
