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A long-running joke on the RLM YouTube channel/website is their ever-growing collection of Nukie (1993) VHS tapes. Nukie is an E.T. ripoff shot all around southern Africa in the late 1980s using a West German/American/South African crew (Steve Railsback appears in it for some reason). It sat on the shelf* during maybe-1989 or 1990 to 1992 and then it was picked up and dumped onto VHS and Laserdisc by VidMark in 1993. The Internet hates "Nukie" with a joke-y flaming passion; Brad "Cinema Snob" Jones did a hateful review a decade ago and the Goons of the SomethingAwful forums just plain loathed the film as far back as the early 2000s. None of this hatred makes sense because you have to track to film down on VHS or the zillion-to-one shot of finding a Laserdisc copy of the film (and RLM has one!)

As a rip on the "certified" collectible VHS/Beta/videogame bubble we are now in, Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, and Rich Evans decided to take the best Nuke they had, sell it on eBay, give the profit to two local (Milwaukee) charities....and shred the rest of their collection with a woodchipper.

The RedLetterMedia video.

The Nukie trailer, presented here because you can't get the film on YouTube, at all.


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* Following in the tradition of Chief Zabu ( https://vimeo.com/360576476 ), which had sat on the shelf from 1988 to 2016 (!), pretty much matching Ed Wood's Night of the Ghouls (shot in 1958, previewed in 1959, not released until 1984 thanks to the Wade Williams company.)

Cool enough, but it is merely trivial.

That's why it's in "Off Topics". Also Eric Barbour finds the (English-language, social media-oriented) Internet hilarious when it hates on things.

Strelnikov wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 01, 2023 2:57 am

Also Eric Barbour finds the (English-language, social media-oriented) Internet hilarious when it hates on things.

You got it. And this is premium internet garbage. Thanks, great way to "start" 2023. Lol

He's 100% right about VHS generally taken. It was "state of the art" in 1976, but by 1990 it was done. And it took another 10 years for DVDs to finally SLOWLY kill it off. Large sleazy corporations cranked VHS movies out with poor technical standards, because hey, the bastards are pirating them anyway, so make a fast dirty buck. And the tapes WILL NOT age gracefully. In another 20 years the oxide will probably fall off. So the idiots who are "collecting" VHS (or Beta) prerecorded tapes will be very damn sad someday. The Red Letter guys didn't have to shred the Nukie tapes after all.

Object-collecting speculators are the ultimate capitalist parasites. And the eBay auction is currently at $75,800.

No comment on the actual movie. Except: showbiz cranks shit like this out a hundred times a day. Big deal.

have to admit.....its amusing to watch two nerdy slobs in dirty t-shirts on YT taking the piss out of bad movies (would YOU give these guys $140 million to make a movie? Could they even finish something given a huge budget? I have a doubt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaILVoXZTqU

ericbarbour wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 01, 2023 7:48 am

have to admit.....its amusing to watch two nerdy slobs in dirty t-shirts on YT taking the piss out of bad movies (would YOU give these guys $140 million to make a movie? Could they even finish something given a huge budget? I have a doubt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaILVoXZTqU

They made Space Cop (2016) on an (estimated) budget of $80,000 and Patton Oswalt appeared in it. I think they could make two films on a $140 mil. budget. Would they be good? People had mixed feelings over Space Cop.



Where this goofy idea came from:

Strelnikov wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 05, 2023 4:58 am

They made Space Cop (2016) on an (estimated) budget of $80,000 and Patton Oswalt appeared in it. I think they could make two films on a $140 mil. budget. Would they be good? People had mixed feelings over Space Cop.

Lol---there's far worse stuff on Netflix and Prime. If the Red Letter guys were actually serious, they'd go to Netflix and ask for funding to make more satirical garbage. They might succeed, too. Depends how you manipulate someone. If Roland Emmerich can do it....