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    HOLY SHIT, RICK MORANIS IS COMING BACK!

    (And a bunch of other original cast members too, which is also very cool, but Rick Moranis basically quit acting to be a stay-at-home dad three decades ago and this is the project significant enough to lure him back. It’s gotta be a pretty good script if it’s capable of that!)

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              I know right. If they don’t find a way to honor him I will be very disappointed. Better be big goddamn statue of him in that movie.

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            I’m worried he just got into the chocolate on the ship. I hope they got a really nice shoebox and a lovely plot in the yard for him. He was his own best friend after all.

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                I think John Candy would have found it funnier to not be dignified. But he’d also likely just be honored anyways to be included.

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                  True, can’t wait to see how this turns out. Rick Morrison making his comeback with this movie is the greatest news I’ve heard in a long time.

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          We sort of do but it will be a nightmare abomination of stitched together dead things.

          (I’m talking about AI, not actual frankenstein tech, John probably would have been cool with that way of coming back.)

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          We kinda do have it, but it would be wrong to do so. As much has I love to see John Candy in a new movie it just wouldn’t be him.

          But they will do this with some dead celebrity for sure mark my word. Hell they done it before with shitter technology. Just look up the John Wayne Budweswire commercial from the 90’s if you want an example.

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        I would love it if he and Dave Thomas reunited for more Great White North. They could be old dudes with Gen Z grandkids.

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      WOW! After his wife died and he took a step back from acting - perhaps not shrinking his kids in the mean time - it has to be good if he’s in it…right? Though, due to all the previous reboots/sequels/rehashing of previous IP, it probably won’t be :(

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        I have a feeling it will be a disappointment. Not because the quality of the movie will have changed, but because all of us have changed.

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      There’s an interview that he did recently floating around YouTube. He seems like he’s ready to be back.

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      I want to see a super serious trailer with Dark Helmet a la Darth Vader… with an optional comedic break near the end.

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    Hey at least Mel Brooks won’t have to wear makeup to play Yogurt. Dude is 98.

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      Ya heard of me?

      Who hasn’t heard of…(Stop now before I type out the script).

      He was hilarious, but I hope he knows he probably can’t do it quite the same and maybe get replaced by the novice, homogenized milk. I really got no idea what fat content of milk is used for yogurt but think you get the idea. He could even be quite fabulous.

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      I keep thinking, will he even make it to the release? 2027 is a long way away for someone that’s 99. It’s also crazy to think that he was still in his 60’s when the first was made.

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    History of the World Part II was honestly fucking great. It also had very little to do with Mel Brooks. It had brilliant comedians at the helm writing and steering everything: Ike Barinholtz, Nick Kroll, and Wanda Sykes. A goddamn DREAM TEAM, and they pulled it off regardless of the reviews.

    This outing had better heavy hitters really leaning hard into the comedy. I’ve heard good things about The Naked Gun remake which is a lot of people in this same arena, plus Seth Macfarlane. That’s quite a big team.

    Please don’t ruin this great movie with a sub-par sequel.

    Rick Moranis, I’m speaking directly to you because I know in my heart you are using Lemmy.

    You better fucking show up.

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      Rick Moranis, I’m speaking directly to you because I know in my heart you are using Lemmy.

      hi it’s me rick thank you for continuing to believe in me it’s children like you that keep the christmas magic alive

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      If Rick Moranis isn’t in this one, then it’s going to flop.

      From what I remember, he left acting in the 90s to raise his children, but I’m pretty sure all your kids have grown up and moved out by now, Rick. Don’t let us down.

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        Name one reboot, rehash, sequel, etc in the last twenty years that have included a star from the original movie as an attraction to make it cool that wasn’t shite.

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      I genuinely thought he had passed several years ago, I had a real Mandela-Effect moment when I saw this trailer, I thought at first “There’s no way this will be funny without Mel leading it.” Then he appeared and seemed old but energetic and thought “there is no WAY they used AI to resurrect him, this is horrible!”

      It took a few minutes for me to figure out what reality I was in and I still have my doubts about Spaceballs sequel, not because I don’t think it will be funny, but because the general population who discusses things and overanalyzes things get the loudest voice and review bomb movies that are supposed to be just fun and not a pointed social statement.

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        Dick Van Dyke is also still around and doing projects heading towards 100.

        If keeping busy is keeping them around I look forward to each of their 150th birthday parties.

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          There are more and more promising trials of life-extension drugs, procedures and genetic tricks, It seems like we might be only a couple decades away from extending human lifespans* by around 30% from conservative averages.

          I wonder how many of us are going to slide under that lowering Indiana-Jones door. And how many people are going to live on after seeing people they care for dying to a disease that we still think of as natural. and will look back at one day the way we look at how we lived before germ theory or antibiotics existed.

          * in this case, “human” will probably mean wealthy white men, but it will be a start.

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    Cartoon went largely unnoticed, missing the subtitle (so far) “the search for more money” and if they hit that release year Mr Brooks will be over 100 years old.

    He also fought in WW2.

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    Damn, they’re finally making ‘The Search for More Money.’ Too bad Disney kind of beat him to it.

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    A reboot of a beloved 1980s classic?

    What are the odds it’s going to be any good?