Submitted by SixtyFours t3_10p86aq in movies
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SixtyFours OP t1_j6itwd5 wrote
What do you mean?
slfnflctd t1_j6iwjdf wrote
Wow, I had no idea this even existed, and I was alive back then.
Some fun trivia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukie#VHS_auction
davFaithidPangolin t1_j6iy8ne wrote
No, Nukie is a genuine film and considered one of the worst films ever. Very recently it had many VHS copies destroyed to donate money to charity, which is mentioned in the article.
If you’re referring to if the article is AI generated, I don’t know.
ForkShirtUp t1_j6iyp8w wrote
I thought the ET knock-off was this movie Paul Rudd keeps trying to promote on Conan O'Brien
Weirdguy149 t1_j6izyz1 wrote
That's Mac and Me, the longest and strangest McDonald's commercial in cinematic history.
Far-Whereas-1999 t1_j6j03yf wrote
Sadly no
blueSGL t1_j6j049u wrote
> The results of the auction made Nukie the most expensive VHS tape in history
RLM memed a copy of Nukie into the most expensive VHS tape ever.
Now this is shitposting.
Bison256 t1_j6j08nz wrote
That's why this article got written.
thegdtravman t1_j6j0oy4 wrote
I DID IT ALL FOR THE
slfnflctd t1_j6j0yi3 wrote
One for the history books for sure, haha
SandmanAlcatraz t1_j6j1aoi wrote
That's Mac & Me, which is also an ET knockoff.
ET was popular enough to have multiple knockoffs, which isn't uncommon.
Take these Star Wars knockoffs for example:
MST3K had an episode with yet another ET knockoff: 1983's Pod People (also known as Extra Terrestrial Visitors or The New Extraterrestrials)
sgthombre t1_j6j30yk wrote
> “‘Oh God, Nukie!’”
operarose t1_j6j4j5o wrote
I hear a bunch of alcoholic hacks destroyed every known copy.
RanCestor t1_j6j7efo wrote
"They’d just built something and put a little child inside."
This is how they made R2D2.
AnUnbeatableUsername t1_j6j7kyx wrote
You thought there was only one?
Cassius_008 t1_j6jat2p wrote
Oh man somebody just found RLM? Look forward to them mining the channel for more gold
https://www.indiewire.com/2023/01/red-letter-media-raises-80k-nukie-1234799387/amp/
Qyro t1_j6jcxhu wrote
I came here to say the exact same thing! Goddamnit!
maxoRules t1_j6je320 wrote
Nuuuuukiiiieee
Metatron58 t1_j6jh3lk wrote
>‘You have to make sure you have an enormous amount of space for breathing [with animatronics], but they didn’t know any of that. They’d just built something and put a little child inside. The child would suffocate after three or four minutes’
damn, so the movie was built on a pile of dead children too!
notoriously_late t1_j6jjajm wrote
And also gave us the greatest Honest Trailers episode ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qY1tWq6Fo
"Why only Mac and Me has an 8 minute long dance sequence in a McDonalds. Your hero is in a wheelchair, why would you do this!"
orangutanoz t1_j6jmcg0 wrote
Cheech and Chong even had an ET bit in Still Smoking.
opiate_lifer t1_j6jmg27 wrote
FWIW Battle Beyond The Stars is a ton of cheesy fun! Not even so bad its good, its just fun and enjoyable.
PhillyTaco t1_j6jorhc wrote
NKevros t1_j6jro3i wrote
I too can watch Red Letter Media then post articles about what they post about.
demarcoa t1_j6juozx wrote
And karma
pikpikcarrotmon t1_j6juxaf wrote
Nope, an actual shitty E.T. knockoff. It's only notable because of RedLetterMedia (the Plinkett Star Wars reviews). People always send them tapes for garbage movies and coincidentally they wound up with a few Nukie copies, people saw the Nukies and started sending more Nukies, and they started sniping Nukie auctions online. They purposely had never even watched the movie, the collection was just an in-joke spun into a larger meme.
What's got people talking about it recently is RLM had their best quality Nukie 'professionally' evaluated and graded, then mulched the entire collection through a wood chipper and auctioned the remaining tape for charity.
Mst3Kgf t1_j6k0jsk wrote
You can do stupid things!
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VoliBeast t1_j6k1clf wrote
What was the other movie that was a Coca Cola commercial, cause every scene had the Coca-Cola logo in the background.
jumpyg1258 t1_j6k1dcy wrote
There's different levels of quality when it comes to 80's movies featuring friendly alien hanging out with kids. You have your top tier with "E.T." then you have your middle ground with "Mac and Me" and then you have the bottom of the barrel with "NUKIE".
shf500 t1_j6k5ivr wrote
I remember this movie coming out in theaters. Did Nukie have a theatrical release?
Also, did parents buy/rent their kids Mac and Me or Nukie thinking "it's the same thing as E.T. All movies have the same quality, right?"
AchyBrakeyHeart t1_j6k8zfv wrote
How embarrassing.
BondageKitty37 t1_j6kc5ya wrote
Mac and Me was also a Coca Cola commercial, since that was all the aliens could drink. Coca Cola even saved the adult aliens from dying
vonkeswick t1_j6khu9b wrote
Except for one, which was then graded and sold on eBay for over $80k which was supposedly donated to charity
jlcatch22 t1_j6khzyh wrote
There’s copies on eBay right now. Those hack frauds failed!
Bebop_Man t1_j6kicv1 wrote
That's right, Jay.
cbbuntz t1_j6kj0d0 wrote
Didn't Mars refuse Spielberg regarding using M&Ms? Probably one of the worst business decisions ever.
leg_day t1_j6kj4zv wrote
If you haven't caught the 2018 revamp of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Netflix, Season 12 Episode 1 is about Mac and Me.
> Wow, this is like a Pixar film! In that it exists, and has a title!
operarose t1_j6kk2ml wrote
Not supposedly! Both organizations publicly thanked them for the 40K.
vonkeswick t1_j6kk94d wrote
Oh nice! I only said supposedly because I had read about it before that point, that's nice to hear
rick_blatchman t1_j6kvfkc wrote
Yeah, they thought that E.T. looked ugly and repulsive. They ended up kicking themselves while the Reese's folks danced in a rainstorm of money.
rick_blatchman t1_j6kvk1q wrote
Eddie Torrez!
DOOP_Investigator t1_j6kwb7m wrote
Preeetty niice!
jl_theprofessor t1_j6kwufj wrote
This is the type of retrospective I want. No more of this "forgotten gem Fargo still relevant today." I want stories about Nukie.
With that said... I'm not sure that trailer 'music' actually qualifies as music so much as a hodgepodge of sounds strung together.
Lithium-Ryan-Battery t1_j6l1lme wrote
Kenny Baker was 42 when Star Wars was filmed.
LS_DJ t1_j6l1y0l wrote
OH MY GAAAAAAAAAAAAD
RemovedByGallowboob t1_j6l58zd wrote
If you love Nukie try Mac and Me. It was so “good” that MST3K riffed it!
Rambler43 t1_j6l8jok wrote
More like Pukey.
falsoprofeta t1_j6lb5lb wrote
The monguito knock-off
Apart_Veterinarian97 t1_j6lcdri wrote
Riding on Mr. Plinkett coat tails.
DrCorbeau t1_j6lcm9d wrote
Maybe they can melt every single vintage Star Wars action figure in acetone, except for one, sell it and make even more money for charity.
RedditorDeluxe1319 t1_j6le8yr wrote
I think Houseguest (1995) was longer.
OneHumanPeOple t1_j6lf5u1 wrote
r/VHS
AcademicCounty t1_j6lfhg9 wrote
Nuuuuuukie!!!
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adamszymcomics t1_j6lgili wrote
Yeah there were a bunch of different E.T. knockoffs, but Little Visitor has to be the one with the most unsettling history:
PhillyTaco t1_j6liiq6 wrote
User name checks out.
psdpro7 t1_j6lj84r wrote
MST3K has done three ET knockoffs now, "Pod People, "Mac & Me," and just this past year "Munchie."
Lint6 t1_j6loqdp wrote
> Maybe they can melt every single vintage Star Wars action figure in acetone
An ILLEGAL amount of acetone!
VadersSprinkledTits t1_j6lvuj7 wrote
Miiiiiiiiiikoooooooo
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mcclanenr1 t1_j6lxzq2 wrote
Noahcarr t1_j6lyb16 wrote
NUUUUUUUUKKKKKIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE
Goregoat69 t1_j6mjpiq wrote
There are a few Instagram pages with non existant ai generated tv shows and movies, Timmolloyart does one called "Legend of the golden child" though that's not portrayed as an actual show from this reality. Someone's bound to try and fake one into Mandela effect status tho.
Villeto t1_j6mjsqs wrote
How embarrassing…
jpj007 t1_j6mki7m wrote
Munchie is an insane fever dream of a movie, but it's not an ET knockoff.
internetstuff t1_j6motud wrote
Me personally I'm glad the hack frauds did it
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Nord4Ever t1_j6np0f2 wrote
Mac and Me best knock off
GotDoxxedSoNew t1_j6nvrz9 wrote
Oh shit like this regurgitation doesn't get locked?
Here's my YouTube video about something from YouTube sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
elZaphod t1_j6nzix1 wrote
I'd like to see the MST3K/RiffTrax guys give it a sendup.
rowin-owen t1_j6o1iaw wrote
Soundtrack is killer. James Horner, baby!
go222 t1_j6o1rxh wrote
Battle Beyond the Stars probably got made because of the success of Star Wars, but the story is a rip-off of Seven Samuri. Other movies that borrowed from Seven Samuri include
-The Magnificent Seven (and rides again)
-Bugs Life
Given how good some of these are and how poor Battle Beyond the Stars is, it depends on quality which is a rip-off and which are just remakes.
DickTalks t1_j6itgcz wrote
Is this some gaslighting AI creation?