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Randy Spears
Posts : 161 Join date : 2011-06-05 Age : 62 Location : Hollywood, CA
| Subject: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:31 am | |
| Didn't want to have anything to do with it.
Could be a good '80s Dan. Maybe even a good Snob review.
From what I read Mad wanted to make movies and cash in the the success of National Lampoon. So they started with this film. When Mad editors saw the movie they wanted to have nothing to do with it. In fact they paid Warner Brothers 30,000 to keep the Mad name off of it.
They even did a two page spread killing the movie in their magazine.
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wildhoney66
Posts : 1253 Join date : 2011-05-19 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:38 pm | |
| i've of course heard of it but i've never actually seen it, i had no idea about Mad magazine doing any film for that matter | |
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Frank Rizzo
Posts : 1456 Join date : 2011-02-02 Age : 39
| Subject: Re: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:41 pm | |
| You *know* a movie is bad when even MAD Magazine is going "Uh......yeah....we're gonna just distance ourselves from this one..." | |
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wildhoney66
Posts : 1253 Join date : 2011-05-19 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:11 am | |
| oh i agree, but there have been films in the past i've heard people disown or outright refuse to believe they existed that i kinda dig. not all of them mind you. but at least a couple i'm sure. i just can't think of any right now.
at some point i will prolly see this one. i just never got around to it apparently. | |
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Randy Spears
Posts : 161 Join date : 2011-06-05 Age : 62 Location : Hollywood, CA
| Subject: Re: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Sun Aug 05, 2012 12:10 pm | |
| - wildhoney66 wrote:
- oh i agree, but there have been films in the past i've heard people disown or outright refuse to believe they existed that i kinda dig. not all of them mind you. but at least a couple i'm sure. i just can't think of any right now.
at some point i will prolly see this one. i just never got around to it apparently. Well Mad even payed Warner Brothers to remove all refrence to Mad in it. The Editor even wrote a hand written letter to anyone to wrote in to complain about the movie. That's how much he and Mad hated it. I saw it, you can get it on Nettflix and to be honest....I'd give it a D+ It's not the worst I've seen but it's no where near great...or even good. It has a lot of bad jokes in it. I almost turned it off when in the first 2 min, where they had an abortion joke. But over all...Meh... I saw Hellsing920 did a review and eventhough I think he was rough on it. I will agree the soundtrack is good. A lot of late '70s early '80s Punk and New Wave music. [Only admins are allowed to see this link] | |
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wildhoney66
Posts : 1253 Join date : 2011-05-19 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Sun Aug 05, 2012 3:15 pm | |
| i always get a kick out of when shit like that happens, when the people behind some film don't like the end product and they want their name off. i believe Stephen King wanted his name off a few of his films and to be fair some of them i understand and others i just don't get why cause they aren't that bad.
i forget which ones he wanted his name taken off of. i think "Sleepwalkers' was one of them. and that is a film i fully understand why he'd want his name off. but 'Lawnmower Man' i think was another and that's at least i think is a fairly good film. not great by any means but a decent little film. much better than sleepwalkers that's for damn sure. | |
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Petey Wheatstraw
Posts : 6 Join date : 2012-08-08 Age : 44 Location : High Sherriff of HELL!!!
| Subject: Re: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:06 pm | |
| The DVD I have, which seems to be a legit release from WB, has Mad Magazine Presents on the front cover and an appearance by Alfred E Newman at the end of the movie. While it is no Hamburger: The Motion Picture, its not that bad. | |
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Toyland Chairman
Posts : 242 Join date : 2013-02-25 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:33 am | |
| - Petey Wheatstraw wrote:
- The DVD I have, which seems to be a legit release from WB, has Mad Magazine Presents on the front cover and an appearance by Alfred E Newman at the end of the movie. While it is no Hamburger: The Motion Picture, its not that bad.
The WB owns both the film and I think EC comics now, and what better way to promote the DVD I guess. I got the movie on DVD and an old VHS. The VHS box art doesn't reference MAD, however the film is unchanged, and includes Alfred's role. I think MAD removed itself from promotional materials only. | |
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Angie Matera
Posts : 564 Join date : 2011-01-23 Age : 34 Location : Puerto rico
| Subject: Re: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:33 am | |
| wow even mad maginzine wants to pretend it doesnt exist. you know its REALLY bad then since these are the same people who let MAD TV seasons 2 and up exist | |
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wildhoney66
Posts : 1253 Join date : 2011-05-19 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Up the Academy. The movie so bad Mad Magazine... Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:18 am | |
| actually season 2 was great of MadTv. the 1st five or 6 years are great the rest of it shit after that. | |
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