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For this thread, I will be launching into the first of my STREAM THIS recommendations, where I select the one seemingly overlooked film that would be worth all your time on the Internet, or with your Blu-Ray player, or with your DVD player, or even with your VCR.
For this thread, I will be launching into the first of my STREAM THIS recommendations, where I select the one seemingly overlooked film that would be worth all your time on the Internet, or with your Blu-Ray player, or with your DVD player, or even with your VCR.
Instead of enduring every personal insult imaginable for being a fan of Nickelodeon shows other than #ROTTMNT, why not stream or order a physical copy of #WaynesWorld? Yes, it is based on an SNL sketch, but it is a whole lot more than an extension of one of the series' skits.
The 1992 box office hit not only revived the popularity of rock group @QueenWillRock, but also already did a brilliant job of flipping the lid on the way young, impressionable people get manipulated, and sometimes mistreated, by big-time cable TV producers.
For the uninitiated, #WaynesWorld tells the story of a cable-TV executive ( @RobLowe) who brings a couple of kids from Aurora, Illinois—played by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey—to Chicago to produce their late night show on a much more lavish budget than at their public access home.
The kids soon discover, however, that neither the big-time TV executive, nor his associates, including an arcade merchant played by Brian Doyle Murphy (an early 1990s character actor and Bill's elder brother), know anything about what makes them work on public access.
Wayne and Garth have to read through prepared scripts, bow down to corporate sponsors ranging from @PizzaHut to @Pepsi, and even have to face the indignity of having their adlibbed theme song performed by a knock-off hybrid of Jerry Lee Lewis and the late great Little Richard.
This kind of biting satire, plus the fact that the recent case involving the way the #ROTTMNT crew was treated has shown nothing has changed in twenty-eight years, has elevated #WaynesWorld, in my humble opinion, from "extended SNL sketch", to "classic of the American cinema."
As you know, a number of fans of the television program RISE OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES—which I have never seen—are flooding @Nickelodeon's posts of various programs demanding an apology for its apparent mistreatment of the crew of the reboot of the 1980s action cartoon.
In so doing, some members the #SaveROTTMNT movement have taken to berating fans of such entities as #PawPatrol, #BluesClues, and especially #TheLoudHouse on a repeated basis when @Nickelodeon tweets about all of those things.
I would love it if fans of @Nickelodeon shows other than #ROTTMNT try the glorious satire of big-time cable TV manipulation that is #WaynesWorld. It sure beats being repeatedly harassed on social media for liking things other than that show whose crew got mistreated.
