I just watched an episode of 'The Critic' where Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert do their own voices. They have a falling out, and insult each other. At one point, Ebert says to Siskel 'Well YOU liked Carnosaur!" This is an actual thing that happened in human history.
A guy who owns a tabletop gaming store put the dvd of Theodore Rex on top of the the thermostat, plainly visible to everyone. It's one of the first things you notice when you walk in. After a year if going there I finally asked him why. He said: "So that I remember what Hell is. It's been there for ten years. Nobody's swiped it yet and I'm terrified no one will." He was treating this movie like a cursed object that had to be taken from him to transfer the baleful energy away from himself. God damn.
I had my fingers crossed for the finale being a Gus Van Sant style shot-for-shot remake of Nukie but at the end, rather than all the townsfolk putting aside their differences to do the Nukie or however that movie ends, instead Mr. Plinkett's VCR miraculously starts working again and he finally gets to watch his Night Court tape... But THEN he realizes that he had been confusing that show's title with Cheers this whole time and he actually fuckin' hates Night Court. Pan back as Plinkett stands and screams a very long, awkwardly inflected Darth-Vader-at-the-end-of-Episode-3 style "NOOOOOOO!"
That's the only version I've seen and I recall the rose-biting being a payoff of something Human Paul Walker did in the first act. So either I'm remembering wrong, all of them managed to miss it or they cut it out of the video release, which makes absolutely no sense.
Yeah part of what confused the RLM crew was that some of the gore scenes that got cut also contain exposition that got cut with it. Like the bit with the T-rex eating the rose makes more sense in the full cut where it's a callback to something the boyfriend had done before he was still human, and he was eating the rose to remind Denise Richards "hey, remember when I did this thing earlier? It's me!" I mean, it's dumb, but less dumb than it looks when the reference it's talking about is edited out.
I have fond memories of Carnosaur. My grandmother found a VHS copy at a dollar store and thought it was Jurassic Park. Not only is it not Jurassic Park but it is horribly violent and gory especially for a 9 year old to watch. Thank you grandmom.
Ummm, the rose eating in Tammy and the T-Rex is a callback to earlier, when Paul Walker is still human, and he goofs around with Tammy by chewing on a rose romantically. You guys clearly don't appreciate the genius that is Tammy and the T-Rex if you can't even appreciate an emotional moment like that. Please take this video down, as it is undeservedly harming the reputation of Director Stewart Raffill's magnum opus, and I don't say this lightly of the man who directed Mac and Me.
Thank you for this comment, I was furious during the discussion of Tammy and the T Rex. Its baffling why they decided to hold a logical lens to this unabashedly, wonderfully silly movie.
I like how Jay is trying to explain to Jack who Laura Dern is by saying she was in "Wild at Heart". Like anyone who didn't already know who she was would have ever heard of that movie
Regarding Tammy and the T-Rex, someone approached the director and said he had an animatronic dinosaur for two months and they should make a movie with it, so the director wrote the script in a week. All the filming was done within 20 minutes of the director’s house.
@@secretname3897 she probably had a multipicture deal. Something like: you can be in this movie you WANT to be in and then we're gunna put you in these two other films that you can't opt out of. Guarantee x pay for all three films, to be distributed in thirds as the movies begin/wrap. She, like a lot of actors, probably assumed she wouldn't get thrown into... well, theodor rex. As the studio themselves may not have known which movies they wanted her in yet. Pretty sure that's how those things go, but I've never worked in the industry.
@@bshpev Just like the Beatles had a deal for X number of movies and then got out of it by doing an animated film and appearing in a one-scene cameo at the end.
This is the first recorded incident of the ghost that haunts the RLM warehouse, having possessed someone and made them have extremely contrarian opinions. Mike, being vulnerable because of his frequent exposure to Zack Baggins' electronic media, is the current victim.
Theodore rex was supposed to be released in theaters but it screened bad and whoopi was hosting the oscars so it eventually just went to vhs and it was the most expensive direct to video movie...
Holy shit, you're right! I just had to look this up to cure my own curiosity and not only was "Theodore Rex" the most expensive movie to ever release direct-to-video but it had a budget of $52.5M. That's just insane! I wonder how much of that Whoopi got to pocket?
@@ChadVanHalen5150 this is such a niche joke, referring to that one bit in Halloween where a puff of smoke crosses frame, which he says in the director's commentary was from him smoking too close to the camera, and apparently 50 people got that.
Fun fact: carnosaur is the actual name of an group of carnivorous dinosaurs. Fun fact #2: neither Tyrannosaurus rex nor Velociraptor belonged to that group.
Fun fact #3: _Tyrannosaurus rex_ belonged to the carnosaurs according to most books about dinosaurs back when _Carnosaur_ was filmed and released. Until fairly recently, Carnosauria included most large carnivorous dinosaurs. Fun fact #4: If someone had asked the average dinosaur nerd back then, they would have said _Tyrannosaurus_ was a carnosaur.
Jay: "we are never told why he wants to put a human brain in a robot dinosaur." Rich: "Jay, why can't you get over that?" Jay: "Because it is the entire fucking reason this movie exists!!
Actually, Carnosaur has a rather anti-environmentalist message. In the movie it's the environmentalists who are arrogant and short-sighted, thinking they know what's best for the planet and the hero of the movie, the only guy who stands up for humanity, is the damn construction worker who fights off the dinosaurs with a freaking Bobcat vehicle!
@@arizonatsunami Me too. The movie Blood Harvest is in that game as well. Tammy and the Trex in the game is 16:9 rather than 4:3 that this shows, so I guess the "gore" version restored the original aspect ratio as well.
Given that Tammy & the T-Rex has a Vinegar Syndrome blu ray out, I'm sure Jay owns it. I really wish they'd have a revisit episode where they go back to watch movies they know were chopped down but have a full releases they can watch like that. Same thing with The Exterminator, the version they watched was indeed edited down and there's an uncut version out there.
Eating the flowers in tammy and the T-Rex is a callback to an earlier scene that got cut out along with the gore, which is why it didn't make sense to you guys. When he was still human, the boyfriend had a scene where he ate a flower as an awkward joke. The dinosaur ate the flower in front of Tammy to remind her of the earlier scene to help communicate that he was her boyfriend.
I had the most shit eating grin the entire time watching that gore cut. It was absurdity after absurdity and really brings out the true black comedy genre it was totally made as.
Rich Evans is a master carpenter, is 100% sober 24/7 and has sugar-baby access to the Culkin fortune. Other than Jack, who's married with kids, Rich is probably the one RLM guy who's guaranteed to hang on to his license and make car payments.
"While there are no drugs or alcohol present in the film, they are recommended in order to get any enjoyment out of this abomination." "This film is very frightening and horrible; due to how terrible it is." And the main contributor to the parental guide section has long since been deleted. lol
@AwesomeBillFromDawsonville I dont find josh particularly funny, but him clearly being the most intelligent adds something, Jack adds nothing but non-medy.
Really would love a Plinkett review of Howard the Duck, with the addition of Plinkett kidnapping George (rich) in his basement, two great mad minds pitted against each other in mutual psychosis . :3
They actually tried working on a commentary track, but just ran out of things to talk about. They even tried doing it drunk, and it still didn't work. They say that the movie is so generically bad that it's hard to really talk about it.
7:08 Carnivorous hand puppet 10:07 T-Rex fishing for change 10:20 🎥Theodore Rex 19:31 Gastrointestinal torture 20:16 T. Rex trying to wink 23:55 🎥Carnosaur 27:01 Chained hippies...its what's for dinner tonight 30:50 Rexy...don't play with your food! 32:10 Our hero! 33:43 🎥Tammy and the T-Rex 40:30 Dino rampage 48:19 BOTW
This. I'm not even joking. It has a more interesting plot and scenes than Jurassic Park. There, i said it. Jurassic park has a whole subplot with the IT guy selling secrets, the stupid kids, a scene where a guy is eaten while on the toilet and a huge pile of poo. Which one is the B movie again?
@@Eisenwulf666 Not only that, but it's predictable AF. The SECOND we see Dennis Nedry, I pretty much instantly knew how the movie was going to go on from there
The dinosaur in Theodore Rex reminded me of the old TV series Dinosaurs I loved as a kid. Totally forgot about that show until I saw this. NOT THE MOMMA!!
Three amazing things about Theodore Rex: 1) it’s a Roger Rabbit with dinosaurs instead of toons, hence the torch singer 2) then Zootropolis is basically this speciesist police plot 3) the mad scientist plot is about as childish and convoluted as Jurassic World 2
I'm here to note a synchronicity: I've just started catching up recently on all these Best of The Worst videos. I watched this one yesterday. This morning, I'm checking movie showtimes for a shitty rainy Saturday evening and playing at my local arthouse cinema is Tammy and the T-Rex.
The TV show dinosaurs stopped in 1994, and looking at a lot of the costumes in Theodore Rex it feels like they were trying to re-use them and get some more utility before throwing them into storage.
Are you guys sure you watched all of Tammy and the T-Rex? He ate the rose, because he had eaten a rose as a joke in front of her in an earlier scene. He was trying to show her that he was her boyfriend. Also, the mad scientist DID say what his plan was -- it was to create a business out of transplanting human brains into robots, to make people immortal. He needed the dinosaur as an example to show investors. And that movie is an underrated masterpiece of bad cinema.
I read that the original version of _Theodore Rex_ was a standard gritty buddy-cop film (along the lines of _Lethal Weapon)..._ that just-so-happened to have a humanoid T-Rex as one of the partners because the writer wanted to make one element of the story really "out there." But the studio decided to make it a kids' movie. I feel like if they had went in the original direction and treated the film 100% seriously (down to having either a PG-13 or R rating), and cast someone like a Bruce Willis as the human lead... *...BUT* also peppered in subtle meta-jokes about the buddy-cop and action genres, and *never* once acknowledged the bizareness of there being humanoid dinosaurs... the movie *might* have worked as a weird-ass satire of action movies and film tropes/conventions.
Cinepocalypse 2019 is going to show the R rated cut of Tammy and the T-Rex. I can't wait to see that with all of the guts and gore back in the movie, and maybe a live reaction to that ending.
I've seen Theodore Rex recently while trying to find new movies to include in bad movies nights with friends and booze. Since that day I'm considering buying every copy of it I can find to burn them all, so that nobody else ever has to suffer through it.
The opening text crawl for Theodore Rex is narrated by Rodger Bumpass, similar tone to his Professor Membrane voice in invader zim. Better known for voicing squidward tentacles
I watched Tammy the other night, and it didn't seem like it was edited down at all. We were laughing at how generous they were being with the gore. It was brilliant. Also it was definitely titled Tanny And the Teenage T-Rex, and had a different title card. Also in that version you saw, I saw that it had TAMMY edited in to the credits - like they just superimposed MM over her name to correct it. Pretty wild. So...was there a new cut released?
As a person who grew up watching Theodore Rex COUNTLESS times as a child. I can say i also had no idea what the fuck was going on in this movie and was just happy to see a trex
"I wanna DIE!" What a way to return! I love how that's *THE* first thing we hear right after the "break"! And Jurassic Park theme with the "Cookies scene"?! That's the best!
