NEVER GET A JOB AT THE MALL

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  • Опубліковано 5 вер 2020
  • #choppingmall #comedy
    On this episode of Weird Movies With Mark, I talk about Chopping Mall (1986)!
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  • @nathanxbond
    @nathanxbond 3 роки тому +181

    So fun fact, this mall is the Sherman Oaks Galleria and I used to work there. It's also where Terminator 2 and Fast Times were filmed.

  • @eldridgecharles1313
    @eldridgecharles1313 3 роки тому +494

    I really wanna see a movie based on that Paint store owner's battle with his insurance company

    • @doctorthirteen5727
      @doctorthirteen5727 3 роки тому +83

      Hell yes.
      "Diminishing Returns"
      Written and directed by Neil Breen.

    • @andrewgwilliam4831
      @andrewgwilliam4831 3 роки тому +49

      @@doctorthirteen5727 And of course starring Neil Breen as the store owner. I can picture the scene as he first discovers the state of his store. "This can't be right! This can't be right!" He falls to his knees, picking up paint-damaged stock and holding it sadly, with the rest of the store poorly green-screened behind him. Later you see him using Jamal's payphone, calling his insurance company. "This can't be right! This can't be right!" He falls to his knees, the 'phone still in his hand. The scene then cuts to a boardroom in which various executives talk exposition at each other. "This is how we keep power, denying hard-working Americans their insurance claims. Soon we will control the satellites!"

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 3 роки тому +12

      Me too. I am Magine it as a quart room drama with a thriller twist. Turns out that the lawyers for the insurance companies are Killbots.

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 3 роки тому +2

      Doctor Thirteen except for your name you are a genius!

    • @MamaMOB
      @MamaMOB 3 роки тому +11

      Andrew Gwilliam don’t forget how he then delivers Jamal‘s message. Jamal is his contact in the CIA of course.

  • @Truestoryguy
    @Truestoryguy 3 роки тому +28

    ""You guys are fucking weird, I'm going home" has me in stitches

  • @SM-vx6bu
    @SM-vx6bu 3 роки тому +201

    “You smell like pepperoni....I LIKE PEPPERONI” 👁👄👁
    *Starts humming and taking off clothes*

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +16

      Hey, it’s Barbara Crampton. She’s been in _much_ weirder situations, trust me. I mean, just the year before, there was that whole incident with the sentient severed head....

    • @trevorlambert4226
      @trevorlambert4226 3 роки тому +11

      That scene makes no sense. Who doesn't like pepperoni?

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +6

      @@trevorlambert4226 Communists.

    • @skylx0812
      @skylx0812 3 роки тому +7

      Was she humming "My baloney has a first name..."?

    • @rosebudbaxter4671
      @rosebudbaxter4671 3 роки тому +1

      🤣🤣🤣👌💯

  • @jameswarner5878
    @jameswarner5878 3 роки тому +137

    I tried the "pepperoni" line on my wife. Didn't work.

    • @frisky_dart7273
      @frisky_dart7273 3 роки тому +13

      She still your wife?

    • @dustinwebb7720
      @dustinwebb7720 3 роки тому +15

      Dude, you gotta try again ! I use that line all the time, and it works 100% of the time, most of the time ! ;)

    • @michaelcolfin8464
      @michaelcolfin8464 3 роки тому +5

      It only works is she really smells like pepperoni.

    • @conalcochranh3274
      @conalcochranh3274 3 роки тому +2

      It didn't work? Seriously?

    • @ericjourdain892
      @ericjourdain892 2 роки тому +4

      It only works on first dates!

  • @warrengee2048
    @warrengee2048 3 роки тому +104

    FYI, that's that the same mall from Schwarzenegger movie "Commando"!!! 😁😁😁

    • @spooplegeist5260
      @spooplegeist5260 3 роки тому +20

      For anyone wondering, it’s the Galleria mall in Sherman Oaks, California.

    • @12345.......
      @12345....... 3 роки тому +5

      @@spooplegeist5260 good nugget of movie trivia. Thanks

    • @gta_s4531
      @gta_s4531 3 роки тому +15

      Spooplegeist Its also the same mall from Terminator 2.

    • @thevoiceofseason2465
      @thevoiceofseason2465 3 роки тому +3

      Good eye. Alissa Milano would be pleased.

    • @CaseySexton
      @CaseySexton 3 роки тому

      Good find! I never noticed but it's obvious now.

  • @davidbedard6824
    @davidbedard6824 3 роки тому +47

    As someone who was in his early teens in the 80's, yes the mall was a nice place to hang out on a Friday or Saturday night. You'd meet your friends there and just wander the mall, visit the stores, grab something from the food court and hit up the arcade. Then your parents would pick you up outside when the mall closed.

    • @robbylebotha
      @robbylebotha 3 роки тому +8

      The hanging at the mall culture continued until around 2009.

    • @burtknighten1873
      @burtknighten1873 2 роки тому +6

      Same in the 90s except some of us had beeper and would call others from the payphone bank to come meet us

    • @alexs.818
      @alexs.818 11 місяців тому

      In 2011-12 I’d say mall culture was on its last stretch. Saying from my own experience with the small two floor local mall located 15 minutes away from home. When I was 13 it would be packed and there were so many good stores. Now it’s 2023 and the mall is barely full with most good stores having left except for macys, dicks sporting goods, and a few big name clothing stores. Most vendors are now just private small business fillers.

  • @johnwest2204
    @johnwest2204 3 роки тому +182

    Gotta admit , that head explosion looked good for an eighties movie

    • @thevoiceofseason2465
      @thevoiceofseason2465 3 роки тому +13

      It looked like a giant popcorn popping.

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +16

      @JC Denton Don't forget _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ and _Hellraiser!_

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +12

      @JC Denton Hell, yeah! Guess you could say movies were pretty… _MINDBLOWING_ back then!

    • @anonb4632
      @anonb4632 3 роки тому +6

      @JC Denton Scanners is the best one. 🙂

    • @FanboyFlicks
      @FanboyFlicks  3 роки тому +44

      It’s my favourite part of the movie

  • @Johannesburg777
    @Johannesburg777 3 роки тому +79

    Hey that's Sherman Oaks Galleria! The mall has been in at least two Schwarzenegger movies

    • @shallendor
      @shallendor 3 роки тому +8

      It has been in many movies over the years!

    • @J.G.Wentworth69420
      @J.G.Wentworth69420 3 роки тому +4

      @Ultra CNC Affirmative

    • @TheRSTD1
      @TheRSTD1 3 роки тому +2

      they also alternately show the exterior of the Beverly Center in its neon 80s glory.

    • @66cuda
      @66cuda 3 роки тому

      And fast times at Ridgemont high, and phantom of the mall

    • @Djarra
      @Djarra 3 роки тому +3

      @@66cuda And 'Night of the Comet' with Kellie Maronie returning and causing more damage to that elevator.

  • @onetnecghoti3473
    @onetnecghoti3473 3 роки тому +17

    should have been called "shopping maul"

    • @johnellizz
      @johnellizz 3 роки тому +3

      Or even Chopping Maul

  • @zerocooler7
    @zerocooler7 3 роки тому +72

    Damn, I miss malls from the 1980s. Actually I just miss the 1980s.

    • @billsimms2511
      @billsimms2511 3 роки тому +2

      Me too. The local mall doesn’t have Seats, jcpenney or Macy’s anymore and half the smaller stores inside the mall are closed up . Times are a changing

    • @mentalphilanthropist35
      @mentalphilanthropist35 3 роки тому +1

      So many cocaine mirrors at the fairgrounds! Even more feathered roach clips!😂

    • @conalcochranh3274
      @conalcochranh3274 3 роки тому +1

      @@mentalphilanthropist35 There's a mythology in there somewhere...I'm sure of it.

    • @robbylebotha
      @robbylebotha 3 роки тому +1

      Ahhh the height of the crack epidemic 🥰

    • @Icanhasautomaticcheeseburger
      @Icanhasautomaticcheeseburger 3 роки тому +2

      Mmm, Iran-Contra and the government ignoring AIDS...

  • @cindigonzalez7350
    @cindigonzalez7350 3 роки тому +87

    The kid stealing stuff in the beginning is the same guy who played Joey on Nightmare on Elm Street 3.

    • @CorbCorbin
      @CorbCorbin 3 роки тому +10

      He had some really wet dreams...

    • @cindigonzalez7350
      @cindigonzalez7350 3 роки тому +6

      @@CorbCorbin as did I..to him actually. Ik TMI but I was about 11 when I first watched Dream Warriors and let's face it.....Joey's a dreamboat🥰

    • @cindigonzalez7350
      @cindigonzalez7350 3 роки тому +2

      @Nick Gagnon yes I couldn't remember his name lol, but I was too lazy to look it up. Middle school me would've known right off the bat.

    • @58jharris
      @58jharris 3 роки тому +4

      Do you like my body Joey?

    • @jalenjohnson1662
      @jalenjohnson1662 3 роки тому +1

      When I saw this the first time I was excited because I thought Joey was going to be one of the main character. Instead he’s just there for a blink and you’ll miss it cameo.

  • @acousticboy9029
    @acousticboy9029 3 роки тому +17

    this whole time jamal has been listening to every user of a pay phone

  • @peanuts_ma8965
    @peanuts_ma8965 3 роки тому +75

    The mall in the opening scene in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Also, I miss shopping malls with bookstores. The place to be in the 80s. Arcades, food courts, and hours of window shopping for stuff you didn't need. Leg warmers, knitted skirts, jelly shoes, and actually going to a record store to shop for music. Can we bring the 80s back? I'm tired of 2020.

    • @billsimms2511
      @billsimms2511 3 роки тому +3

      Sadly, malls are pretty much on their way out for good. Back in the 80’s I never would have thought that. I miss going to the record stores and arcades

    • @FumblsTheSniper
      @FumblsTheSniper 3 роки тому +6

      Way things are going we might be bringing back the 1780’s, if that helps?

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped 2 роки тому +4

      I miss the 90's too, even the 00's.
      World's been slowly falling to shit since 2013 oddly enough... maybe the Mayans were right after all and it wasn't an immediate thing. XD

    • @varanid9
      @varanid9 2 роки тому

      @@planescaped Yup. That's when the millenials came of age.

    • @wolfshanze5980
      @wolfshanze5980 Рік тому +2

      The only remnant of the original Sherman Oaks Mall is the court where the Pacific 16 Theatres is located, which are on the uppermost of what was previously the southern Robinsons-May store. The majority of the remaining mall was turned into offices.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 3 роки тому +50

    Oh yeah back in the 80s and early 90s Northland Mall in Columbus Ohio was the mall to hang out at. Don't think we had any malfunctioning killer robot guarding it though.

    • @SM-vx6bu
      @SM-vx6bu 3 роки тому +2

      That last sentence was not convincing

    • @CorbCorbin
      @CorbCorbin 3 роки тому +4

      The Mall of the Americas had the roller coaster and was just so ridiculously huge, with so many stores filled with novelty junk constantly failing, only to re-open under a new name with a new aesthetic. I mean there were toy stores that only survived off of the craze of adults buying each new toy line in the belief it would be the next Star Wars, GIJoe, Beanie Baby, etc. A Grandiose display of the obesities brought about by mass consumerism, from the 70s, into the 80s. Then the 90s tried to
      pre-package new things as an investment, and a future nostalgic item.

    • @andrewgwilliam4831
      @andrewgwilliam4831 3 роки тому +3

      That's what *they* want you to think.

  • @Thatonegirl989
    @Thatonegirl989 3 роки тому +81

    I feel like you always know when I need to laugh. Good to have you back Mark

    • @jamesmaysflyingwashingmach7459
      @jamesmaysflyingwashingmach7459 3 роки тому +3

      I was JUST wondering if Mark was gonna put out another video soon

    • @cjwrench07
      @cjwrench07 3 роки тому +2

      James May's Flying Washing Machine I had just checked the channel today, to see if I’d missed a notification. It just felt like the right time for him to drop an episode of some sort.

    • @Thatonegirl989
      @Thatonegirl989 3 роки тому +3

      Luis Collado what?

    • @billsimms2511
      @billsimms2511 3 роки тому +1

      His sense of humor is almost perfect for these garbage movies lol. I laugh more watching these reviews than I do any modern sitcom

    • @conalcochranh3274
      @conalcochranh3274 3 роки тому +1

      Up at Schulsbury they teach Kathmology to weirdos who worship limp tulips and soggy dimes.

  • @DRUNKalpaca
    @DRUNKalpaca 3 роки тому +20

    Don’t forget to “Dip” lol Duck, Dodge, Dip, Dive and Dodge!

    • @soknightsam
      @soknightsam 3 роки тому +6

      If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball

  • @spooplegeist5260
    @spooplegeist5260 3 роки тому +25

    For another mall-centric romp: Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama. That movie is a whole mess of weirdness, involving an Imp that grants monkey paw wishes that aren’t plot relevant, a punk named Spider who robs mall bowling alleys, and bad Bride of Frankenstein Halloween costumes.

  • @evilbob840
    @evilbob840 3 роки тому +31

    That "no messages for you, Jamal," line is probably a reference to an old joke. The name can be different, but basically a phone (usually a public phone) rings a bunch of times, each time with the caller asking "is Jamal there?" After enough times to really annoy the person answering, it rings one more time and the caller says, "hi, this is Jamal, do I have any messages?"

    • @ambds1975
      @ambds1975 3 роки тому

      Came here to say this, thank you. I hadn't thought of this prank call since phones went wireless, lol

    • @evilbob840
      @evilbob840 3 роки тому +2

      @@ambds1975 I was thinking about that when I was writing the comment. The joke doesn't make sense anymore now that everyone has a cell phone with caller ID. :)

    • @ambds1975
      @ambds1975 3 роки тому +2

      That might have killed the joke. Also, we have a lot more entertaining stuff to do now that we don't all spend our free time hanging around at the mall by the pay phones. :D

    • @evilbob840
      @evilbob840 3 роки тому +3

      @@ambds1975 These darn kids these days with their futuristic computer phones! **shake fist**

    • @ambds1975
      @ambds1975 3 роки тому +4

      They'll never know the joy of having to have an arranged meeting spot with their friends, and if their friends are late, not knowing if they were waylaid by highwaymen, or their mom didn't let them go out, or what.

  • @alfredvickers4054
    @alfredvickers4054 3 роки тому +25

    The Marvel show Agents of SHIELD had a character name this movie in an earlier season, then in the last season they actually faced Chopping Mall-esque robots. I like it when underrated gems like this are acknowledged.
    Also, that couple shown at the beginning when the robots were introduced are apparently the main characters from a movie called Eating Raoul, which I think is about restaurant owners who start getting into cannibalism? So that's a weird connection.

  • @RESPECTINGAUTHORITAH
    @RESPECTINGAUTHORITAH 3 роки тому +57

    First person to pitch an escalator: "Escalators, they do the climbing for you" 😏👍

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +2

      In Soviet Russia, only escalation is of nuclear variety

  • @JayShootHer
    @JayShootHer 3 роки тому +87

    We need more pandemic, Mark is just pouring videos.

    • @nicolederhone7847
      @nicolederhone7847 3 роки тому +9

      I was just thinking the exact same thing! The only good thing about the pandemic is all the content Mark is putting out for our viewing pleasure

    • @anonb4632
      @anonb4632 3 роки тому +3

      Wait til autumn.

    • @anonb4632
      @anonb4632 3 роки тому +1

      @Carol Bogdanowitz More pandemic.

  • @toddpeterson5904
    @toddpeterson5904 3 роки тому +60

    During the Cold War, all malls in America had blast shield doors. It was part of the Star Wars defense program (as we see in Gymakata). It's less known that mall electric carts had lethal antirobot countermeasures in case of Soviet robots attacking a mall.

    • @levih.8786
      @levih.8786 3 роки тому +5

      damn crazy

    • @zenhaelcero8481
      @zenhaelcero8481 3 роки тому +4

      What a wild time.

    • @michellefernandez3155
      @michellefernandez3155 3 роки тому +2

      That was a nice one. Really really nice one.

    • @jimmyboy131
      @jimmyboy131 Рік тому

      True facts.

    • @Westtxcowboy100
      @Westtxcowboy100 7 місяців тому +1

      Just like schools had those anti-radiation and bomb resist desks in the 1950s -1970s that were for hiding under!

  • @coreyhand3138
    @coreyhand3138 3 роки тому +4

    When I was a kid browsing movies at my local Delchamps to rent (I’m that old), I was OBSESSED with the cover and description of this movie. I’d read it like every time and my mom would never let me get it.

  • @lindaeasley4336
    @lindaeasley4336 3 роки тому +14

    I didn't know the word " hi" could be a turn- on ,but apparently, it is

  • @dr.burtgummerfan439
    @dr.burtgummerfan439 3 роки тому +110

    2 observations about this movie:
    I spent most of the 80s hanging around malls and gun stores. I don't care what Chopping Mall or Dawn of The Dead say, there are no gun stores in malls.
    And:
    ANY woman who can run, jump, crawl, fall, hide, and fight while concealing a road flare in her boobs is a true hero and that's why Kelli Maroney is awesome and able to survive the Night of the Comet.

    • @justinarthur212
      @justinarthur212 3 роки тому +15

      I live in West Virginia and there is a dunham's sporting goods in our mall. Guns ammo and survival gear and pretty much everything you'd need in an apocalypse.

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 3 роки тому +6

      @@justinarthur212 cool! One stop shopping! 👍

    • @andrewgwilliam4831
      @andrewgwilliam4831 3 роки тому +4

      @Luis Collado I suppose if you're going to have all those school shooters, they should be properly trained...

    • @acloserlook5823
      @acloserlook5823 3 роки тому +8

      In the 70s and 80s you could buy guns at the sporting goods store in pretty much every mall. I remember seeing guys walking around with break action shotguns they bought at Oshman's, just casually window shopping with that thang over their shoulder lol

    • @billsimms2511
      @billsimms2511 3 роки тому +4

      Not only are there no gun stores in malls, there are no damn malls anymore! Well, there’s a few but they are dying out fast.

  • @sarafagin3967
    @sarafagin3967 3 роки тому +43

    Ahem, I believe you meant "Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge!" ^.^

    • @thevoiceofseason2465
      @thevoiceofseason2465 3 роки тому +7

      You can dodge a wrench you can dodge a lazer

    • @chad4359
      @chad4359 3 роки тому +4

      @@thevoiceofseason2465 if you can dodge traffic you can dodge an evil robot

    • @ericv00
      @ericv00 3 роки тому +1

      @@thevoiceofseason2465 Of course you can. You just have to see it coming and move faster than light.

  • @thegtaspot7925
    @thegtaspot7925 3 роки тому +13

    Everytime that shot of the actress blown head appeared I lol

  • @bambubambubambu1194
    @bambubambubambu1194 3 роки тому +130

    The open mouth gum-chewing was the scariest part for me. Yikes.

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +2

      Apparently, RoboCop Junior there wasn’t a fan of it, either.

    • @judsongaiden9878
      @judsongaiden9878 3 роки тому +3

      Right?! So doggone rude!

    • @skylx0812
      @skylx0812 3 роки тому +1

      That actor made a career for himself roaming around in movies in nothing but a pair of skimpy tightie whities. Then getting killed because tighty whities make it easier find in the dark ...?

    • @ArtVandelayOfficial
      @ArtVandelayOfficial 8 місяців тому +1

      He has a massive jaw from chewing gum his entire life

  • @doctorthirteen5727
    @doctorthirteen5727 3 роки тому +14

    I already learned to stay away from malls after Dawn of the Dead.

  • @raydunn8262
    @raydunn8262 3 роки тому +10

    Some of the cast were also in the "Night of the Comet"; a great B movie. Some of that movie was set in a mall.

    • @evilbob840
      @evilbob840 3 роки тому +2

      Not just in a mall, but filmed in the same real-life mall. It was close to Hollywood and the owner liked the extra income, so it has been in a ton of other movies too.

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 3 роки тому +89

    I can't believe he skipped over Dick Miller as the janitor. He's always awesome.

    • @cjwrench07
      @cjwrench07 3 роки тому +4

      Maybe, to much of a direct reference to a larger channel, that also reviewed this movie.

    • @endlessnoise9173
      @endlessnoise9173 3 роки тому +10

      It also has Mr. and Mrs. Bland from Eating Raoul.

    • @tonypeppermint5329
      @tonypeppermint5329 3 роки тому +2

      Dang.

    • @Lesley_RedRhody
      @Lesley_RedRhody 3 роки тому +11

      I almost forgot he died last year. He was such a good character actor.
      RIP, Dick Miller.

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +2

      In a weird way, it’s actually kind of appropriate that Dick Miller went unmentioned. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the guy, but I think fellow fans of his will understand exactly what I mean by that. R.I.P., bud.

  • @Punkpsychobilly
    @Punkpsychobilly Рік тому +4

    This is one of my all time favorite cheesy 80’s horror films. I’ve seen it so many times I can recite it. Love it almost as much as the Friday the 13th series.

  • @Thegr8MC
    @Thegr8MC 3 роки тому +7

    "I've invented these new killer robots! They're very durable against gunfire and explosives and they're each equipped with powerful laser beams and plastic explosives. Which military should we sell them to?"
    "Hold that thought Tim! We got an excellent deal from a mall in Ohio who needs a new security force!"

  • @marzzgli1278
    @marzzgli1278 3 роки тому +21

    Chopping Mall: Rise of The Machines.

  • @lasura
    @lasura 3 роки тому +9

    I mean I would argue there are already horror movies where nothing really ever happens; just a lot of jumpscares, cats or no cats

  • @TanukiOkiyo
    @TanukiOkiyo 3 роки тому +6

    2:12 the couple shown were also featured in “Eating Raoul”. That movie is ...something.

    • @TheRSTD1
      @TheRSTD1 3 роки тому +1

      Bland and Woronov co-starred/cameoed in 17 films together. Someone needs to edit them all into one contiguous epic!

    • @Milkman4279
      @Milkman4279 3 роки тому +2

      Bartel and Woronov

  • @jamesbounds
    @jamesbounds 3 роки тому +25

    Seeing this makes me sad that malls are dying.

    • @anonb4632
      @anonb4632 3 роки тому +4

      Doesn't make me sad. Those bastards destroyed entire communities and family run businesses. What goes around comes around.

    • @noplace4akitty047
      @noplace4akitty047 3 роки тому +8

      @@anonb4632 yeah, and people like Bezos who destroyed toys'r'us and malls and physical shopping centers, are destroying the entire economy. Plus the tax loopholing, and mistreatment of employees. We need more locations, to provide more jobs. Shopping malls, and wages to match the past 15 years of inflation would be better for the folks in the US at least.

    • @anonb4632
      @anonb4632 3 роки тому +1

      @@noplace4akitty047 I don't live in the US, so the dynamic is a bit different, but these malls have been "hollowing out" our towns for years, so we have dying city centres (downtowns), and even suburban areas which suffer from a combination of high rents, low takings and low footfalls. Shopping malls also create infrastructure issues, since they tend to be way out of town meaning everyone has to drive there or take a long bus ride.

    • @noplace4akitty047
      @noplace4akitty047 3 роки тому +1

      @@anonb4632 good point.

    • @DarthVader-1701
      @DarthVader-1701 3 роки тому

      @@noplace4akitty047 I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one, toys arrest killed themselves by being assholes and not matching the prices to stores like target so people got fed up with their shit and stopped shopping there. Disney's excessive greed forced Hasbro to swindle TRU into an exclusive deal for Star Wars merchandise, At the time I was the only Star Wars fan who knew the sequel trilogy was gonna be a steaming pile of shit so who the hell's going listen to me.

  • @TrainerHutch
    @TrainerHutch 3 роки тому +5

    Dude, introducing yourself into the scenes is gold! More of that please

  • @tyrranicalt-rad6164
    @tyrranicalt-rad6164 3 роки тому +15

    Damn !! I still remember back in the day when the mall was the place to be.

    • @TikkiEXX
      @TikkiEXX 3 роки тому +5

      Good times man. Get something to eat, hang out with your friends, talk to girls. And malls always had the best arcades.

    • @tyrranicalt-rad6164
      @tyrranicalt-rad6164 3 роки тому +5

      @@TikkiEXX indeed sir...now you can do all those things on your phone !!! The world we grew up in is gone .

    • @dimitrescu182
      @dimitrescu182 3 роки тому +5

      It still is in Asia, at least before the lockdown

    • @billsimms2511
      @billsimms2511 3 роки тому +1

      @@TikkiEXX don’t forget record stores! Cd or cassette stores were great to walk around and look at the album covers

    • @billsimms2511
      @billsimms2511 3 роки тому +2

      @@tyrranicalt-rad6164 as great as technology is, way too much can be done with our fingers now. I mean, it’s making us more asocial, lazy and fat

  • @Slayer-88
    @Slayer-88 3 роки тому +12

    6:44 I keep expecting General Kenobi to pop out of knowere and say "hello there" after all those times they said hi........
    Also all of this sounds like a good Dr Who episode

  • @FortesAccount
    @FortesAccount 3 роки тому +8

    YES DUDE! I love Chopping Mall. My personal favorite part is that at no point during the film is there any chopping at all. So good.

    • @FortesAccount
      @FortesAccount 3 роки тому

      Ah, you noticed too lol Very good. i love it honestly. Makes the pun even more pointless.

    • @andrewgwilliam4831
      @andrewgwilliam4831 3 роки тому

      Dude... spoilers!! 😡

  • @jeezx689
    @jeezx689 3 роки тому +2

    That head splatter as actually really well done.

  • @CedarGoat
    @CedarGoat 3 роки тому +4

    The pepperoni line had my husband and me laughing.

  • @MFields2178
    @MFields2178 3 роки тому +6

    Omg I used to watch this all the time as a kid!

  • @matthewlorono
    @matthewlorono 3 роки тому +8

    8:30 Payphones used to allow incoming calls, and were stereotypically used by drug dealers to received orders. That, or actual wrong numbers from time to time too.

  • @TVsMrNeil
    @TVsMrNeil 3 роки тому +2

    5:35 Deathstalker II!!! I'll never forget that smirk.

    • @donwhiteley3293
      @donwhiteley3293 3 роки тому

      It's just John Terlesky being John Terlesky.

  • @motomon9848
    @motomon9848 3 роки тому +8

    That pepperoni line is how I get all the lady’s

  • @bradgregory6995
    @bradgregory6995 3 роки тому +8

    Movies based on puns are usually pretty self-aware and amusing, e.g.: Poutlrygeist

  • @layna-heyhey
    @layna-heyhey 3 роки тому +8

    I keep thinking that there's no more movies to show us, and I keep being wrong haha.

  • @WealthyIndustrialist
    @WealthyIndustrialist 3 роки тому +1

    The mall was definitely the place to hang out back in the 80’s and 90’s. I miss it.

  • @MaxOakland
    @MaxOakland Рік тому +2

    4:58 this is extremely profound and insightful. It’s a great point… slasher movies like this always have these characters that break societal rules and get punished by being brutally murdered

  • @MadMike1
    @MadMike1 3 роки тому +94

    You really need to be on a Best of the Worst episode with RLM. Next to them, you're like the best Shitty B-movie Reviewer ever.

    • @jameswarner5878
      @jameswarner5878 3 роки тому +4

      Agreed. I'd love to see him at the table with Jay, Rich, and Jack or Josh. I don't think Mark would mesh as well at the table with Mike.

    • @PabloYaos
      @PabloYaos 3 роки тому +2

      @@jameswarner5878 don't you think ? They're both depression HQ

    • @kennethbryant5819
      @kennethbryant5819 3 роки тому +4

      I think he'd be awesome on a Re:View with Jay or Josh. He and Mike would be alot of snark but that might be really good too.

    • @PabloYaos
      @PabloYaos 3 роки тому +1

      @jared price haha no

    • @swagromancer
      @swagromancer 3 роки тому +5

      How about a Canada special with Colin, Jim, Mark and Brandon Tenold?

  • @BarbadosBeerFestival
    @BarbadosBeerFestival 3 роки тому +27

    What sort of shop lifters you need “protectors” and Star Trek doors.

    • @aubreymorgan9763
      @aubreymorgan9763 3 роки тому +7

      Yea, the robots ended up costing the mall far more money than a random person stealing some casette tapes and clothes. Security that extreme you'd think there was a reserve storage for Fort Knox in the basement.

    • @KSmithwick1989
      @KSmithwick1989 3 роки тому +5

      So since they already had a huge star trek blast doors. Why the robots?

    • @seanmatthewking
      @seanmatthewking 3 роки тому +3

      Quick, than teenager is stealing a $30 blouse! INCINERATE HER!!

    • @seanmatthewking
      @seanmatthewking 3 роки тому +1

      “Bl0w h£r g0dd@mn h£@d 0ff” is apparently unacceptable for me to write

  • @jacksonherring5169
    @jacksonherring5169 3 роки тому +4

    Funny as always. For some reason I didn’t realize you did reviews of these obscure weird old movies. It is extremely entertaining. Keep up the good work!

  • @Philo-ul2uq
    @Philo-ul2uq 3 роки тому +61

    This movie clearly inspired Rian Johnson to become a director.

    • @RGBeanie
      @RGBeanie 3 роки тому +10

      This has got to be the biggest reach to whine about RJ. TLJ was ages ago and the best of the sequels, get over it 🤣

    • @dannycookieguy5992
      @dannycookieguy5992 3 роки тому +3

      TurboGamingUK facts

  • @Maggerama
    @Maggerama 3 роки тому +5

    I'm so happy with this consistent stream of super-content that you make, man. Each video is a treat.

  • @davidromeroblaya7920
    @davidromeroblaya7920 3 роки тому +3

    - Our shopping center needs something new and I have a really good idea.
    - Killer robots?
    - I am thinking about fixing the old restrooms but killer robots sound better.

    • @andrewgwilliam4831
      @andrewgwilliam4831 3 роки тому +1

      On a limited budget, it's sensible to focus on the essentials.

    • @andrewgwilliam4831
      @andrewgwilliam4831 3 роки тому +1

      I mean, people can find restrooms anywhere. Waste of money!

  • @Dan-di9jd
    @Dan-di9jd 2 місяці тому +2

    I never understood the whole killer robot concept. The amount of lawsuits they would get would essentially shut down every single company within a year of release. The guy at the paint shop would probably receive billions for the pain and suffering he had to endure. And each of the families of the victims would get billions in pain and suffering.

  • @beautyforashes2022
    @beautyforashes2022 2 роки тому +2

    "Doesn't all this furniture just make you wanna cut loose?"
    Your comedic observations are the best. 😂 Also the pepperoni scene in the furniture store was so hard to watch, I was super uncomfortable.

  • @jasonraschen1109
    @jasonraschen1109 3 роки тому +2

    Another hilarious video Mark. I really loved the reoccurring gag of Leslie getting her head blown off.

  • @ericv00
    @ericv00 3 роки тому +28

    "That's sucks"
    A perfect encapsulation of the existential dread of normal life.

  • @mikerhoa
    @mikerhoa 3 роки тому +2

    I watched this on Monstervision when I was a kid, and no joke it gave me nightmares of being in a giant empty shopping mall hunted by killer robots who would always seem to find me no matter where I tried to hide. The dreams would invariably end with me attempting to crawl through a vent or window or something and getting caught, which naturally resulted in a gruesome and painful execution.
    Needless to say that this is one of my favorite B movies of all time because of that.

  • @alucardxxz
    @alucardxxz 4 місяці тому +2

    So I have an answer for the JAMAL scene: so I’m from NYC and back in the day people used to use pay phones as their home numbers. You could figure out the number of the phone (sometimes they were just on the phone) and you could give out the number to others. Some people would tell someone to call them at specific times knowing they would be there to answer the call. Fun little BACK IN THE DAY fact even we had pay phones lol

  • @TriforceChad
    @TriforceChad 3 роки тому +6

    I LOVED Chopping Mall! Is there something wrong with me where I recognized what movie it would be from the thumbnail alone?

  • @armouredskeptic
    @armouredskeptic 3 роки тому +113

    Been really enjoying your series lately, bud. Keep it up!

    • @FanboyFlicks
      @FanboyFlicks  3 роки тому +21

      Thanks bud, much appreciated!

    • @blackhornedmountainchicken3720
      @blackhornedmountainchicken3720 3 роки тому +3

      Do I sense a colab in the future? Not sure what that would look like but I figure I'd be the first to annoyingly ask. AS great alt hist Vids and Mark great shit man you are one of my favorite creators always look forward to seeing your next uploads.

    • @BBAERSTANCE1
      @BBAERSTANCE1 3 роки тому

      @@FanboyFlicks hey bud! Let's nip this series in th bud

    • @yesthenyes6727
      @yesthenyes6727 3 роки тому +7

      @@FanboyFlicks Might wanna look into what kind of person he really is before enjoying his approval Mark. I enjoy your stuff, because it's an escape from people like him.

    • @djhenyo
      @djhenyo 3 роки тому

      @@yesthenyes6727 Are going to threaten destruction of his employment, relationships, housing, school enrollment, social media accounts, and everything else you possibly can over the internet if he dares to collab with somebody who doesn't hate American freedoms?

  • @rosethorne9155
    @rosethorne9155 Місяць тому

    Omg Chopping Mall! This was the first "fun-bad" movie I ever saw. Me and my sister snuck it out of my parents' VHS tape collection and watched it together, some time in the late 1990s. 😂
    I remember being irritated that everybody was dumb enough to take off their clothes when there was a lightning storm and killer robots running (rolling?) around...
    Thanks for the dose of nostalgia!

  • @tleeg74
    @tleeg74 3 роки тому +1

    Dude..this movie is a total guilty pleasure of mine. Seen it so many times at 2 a.m. on some randon unknown channel throughout out the 1990s

  • @pong86r
    @pong86r 3 роки тому +2

    I loved this movie! Great review!!! Can’t thank you enough! Takes me down memory lane of watching USA Up All Night with Rhonda Shear and Gilbert Gottfried

  • @dimitrescu182
    @dimitrescu182 3 роки тому +7

    Malls are still popular here in Asia, at least before the pandemic

    • @Morfeusm
      @Morfeusm 3 роки тому +1

      Here in Europe too, albeit they are declining in popularity last few years.

    • @dimitrescu182
      @dimitrescu182 3 роки тому

      @@Morfeusm though the reason why it's still quite popular in Southeast Asia is because it's really hot over here, and people just want to hangout in a really large airconditioned place

    • @anonb4632
      @anonb4632 3 роки тому

      @@Morfeusm I live in Europe... Empty units everywhere. Combo of high rents and global economic reform.

  • @nowherebrain
    @nowherebrain 2 роки тому

    "you guys are fuckin' weird, I'm goin' home.".....that had me rolling...

  • @drewtheunspoken3988
    @drewtheunspoken3988 2 роки тому +1

    I actually own this movie on DVD. We'd rent the VHS fron a local rental store once a month or so when I was a kid.
    Good times. Good times.

  • @jeffs5317
    @jeffs5317 3 роки тому +4

    Mark needs to review 80s horror gem "The Stuff" if he has not already. I mean a horror movie about basically yogurt.

  • @WhyteLis21
    @WhyteLis21 3 роки тому +4

    Judging from this video thumbnail, I thought we were gonna get a Robin Sparkles, "Lets go to the mall" but with horror twist. 😄

  • @MaesterMike
    @MaesterMike 11 місяців тому

    I love how many times you keep cutting back to that girl’s head exploding. It is a highlight, that’s for sure.

  • @tommiegun6611
    @tommiegun6611 3 роки тому +2

    10:48 Great Patches O’houlihan quote😂

  • @MacForaday
    @MacForaday 3 роки тому +19

    I love how the 3 guys fit the definition of alpha, beta and omega males. Also, in Short Ciruit, lightning turned the robot good, not evil.

  • @originalsteveo
    @originalsteveo 3 роки тому +48

    "Wouldn't it be interesting if nothing went wrong in a horror movie?"
    Yeah fam I think those are just called movies tho

    • @tximinoman
      @tximinoman 3 роки тому +12

      No, but imagine a movie written shot and acted as a horror movie, yet no one dies, nothing supernatural happens and there are no real jumpscares. It constantly seems like that's what's going to happen but never does.
      I don't know if someone could hold that same joke for 90 minutes, but I'm sure you can get a great short out of that.

    • @abcdef-cs1jj
      @abcdef-cs1jj 3 роки тому +8

      @@tximinoman What about "The Happening" though?

    • @bradgregory6995
      @bradgregory6995 3 роки тому +1

      You could do that in real life though. Like, cower and lurk and creep around like you were expecting to be eviscerated every minute. And then nothing would happen.

    • @brolo7234
      @brolo7234 3 роки тому +2

      Things always go wrong in any decently written movie. Conflict is a key element in story.

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +2

      @@tximinoman You've just described _The Blair Witch Project._

  • @admiralsquatbar127
    @admiralsquatbar127 3 роки тому

    My second favourite sarcastic Canadian film critic on UA-cam.

  • @jacobleukus6930
    @jacobleukus6930 3 роки тому

    11:58 is anybody else going to acknowledge this really good fire stunt? I gotta give props on that one. They hid the fire protection well

  • @noewil8392
    @noewil8392 3 роки тому +3

    9:09 and third: awesome story for your funeral!

  • @wfTitus
    @wfTitus 3 роки тому +5

    Anyone ever made the connection that Mark looks and sounds like that guy on NCIS? Timothy McGee

    • @ambds1975
      @ambds1975 3 роки тому +1

      Yes. Thank you. I have been trying to figure this out for years.

  • @noahlondon8005
    @noahlondon8005 3 роки тому

    FRIGGIN HILARIOUS!!!! Im screaming laughing but I think my neighbors think I'm just screaming...

  • @everwake2689
    @everwake2689 3 роки тому

    I'm 44 and can confirm that this movie accurately portrays mall life in the 80s. Xanadu is another example, but for rollerskating.

  • @jasonulysess3652
    @jasonulysess3652 3 роки тому +2

    There was a 50 year period were you would call up the telephone company and tell them to divert anyone calling you to a service. There would be people sitting in an office 24/7 answering the phone calls and taking messages. When you got home you called the service to get the messages. The services disappeared once answering machines became inexpensive. In the movie the guy called the payphone to get his messages because he dialed the wrong number. The gum chewing Jerk said there were no messages because he was being a jerk.

  • @savednorwegian
    @savednorwegian 3 роки тому +4

    You're starting to make moneyt on this now right? :D Im glad for you, loved your content for years now

  • @MetaphorUB
    @MetaphorUB 2 роки тому

    John Terlesky is enshrined in my brain forever as Deathstalker II. “I’ll have my revenge…and Deathstalker too!”

  • @fangal12
    @fangal12 3 роки тому +1

    Not just in the 80s. In the 90s the mall was our regular hang out in middle school. Kids from different schools all hung out at our local mall on Friday and Saturday. Ahhh simpler times

  • @MrAdamFC
    @MrAdamFC 3 роки тому +5

    This would never of happened if the mall just hired Paul Blart instead.

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, but can robots get sidelined by diabeetus? ...Didn't think so!

    • @MrAdamFC
      @MrAdamFC 3 роки тому +1

      @@bryangarcia5599 depends how good their A.I. programming is

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +1

      @MrAdamFC Artificial Insulin?

    • @MrAdamFC
      @MrAdamFC 3 роки тому +1

      @@bryangarcia5599 Ah yes diabetes ex machina. All we need now is to get Elon Musk onboard.

    • @bryangarcia5599
      @bryangarcia5599 3 роки тому +1

      @@MrAdamFC R.I.P. WILFORD BRIMLEY

  • @tommiegun6611
    @tommiegun6611 3 роки тому +5

    Didn’t everyone’s local mall sell guns & ammo???

    • @BuddhaAtheist29
      @BuddhaAtheist29 3 роки тому

      Yeah,you go to Wal-Mart for guns and ammo, then again when I was a kid Wal-Mart was in the mall.

    • @ronaldowens5025
      @ronaldowens5025 3 роки тому +2

      Sears, or sporting stores yeah guns everywhere and far less shootings. There is a conundrum there if you look for it.

    • @tommiegun6611
      @tommiegun6611 3 роки тому

      Ronald Owens funny & so damn true!!

  • @percyperanamus7432
    @percyperanamus7432 3 роки тому

    The shot of them together at the end is so sweet💖

  • @MrJentu
    @MrJentu 3 роки тому

    15:36 “oh. Oh whew. Just a closet filled with the trash from the compactors on the detention level. After R2 shut them down we stored it in there. I totally forgot.”

  • @dragonfly6955
    @dragonfly6955 3 роки тому +7

    Is the robot that shoots pink laser a girl and the one that shoots blue laser a boy? Just wondering...

  • @wc5324
    @wc5324 3 роки тому +5

    This is exactly what I saw at the malls back in the 80s....minus the reasonable teenagers and feathered hair.

  • @kenncarlson2251
    @kenncarlson2251 2 роки тому +1

    At 2:03..... " Rock n Roll High School"!!!

  • @heeeeeresrossy
    @heeeeeresrossy 3 роки тому +1

    "Oh, I'm sorry. Did the beautiful women distract you from standing still" 😂

  • @DareToBeDeviant
    @DareToBeDeviant 3 роки тому +3

    Damn, that mall has _everything_ anyone could ever want! :D
    It's like the mall I frequented as a kid only without the homicidal robots.

  • @poeterritory
    @poeterritory 3 роки тому +7

    Don't know why they didn't name it: Chopping Maul.

    • @wstine79
      @wstine79 3 роки тому

      Catchy name.

    • @cjwrench07
      @cjwrench07 3 роки тому

      That sounds even more like a regular slasher, now with a large handheld weapon.

    • @cjwrench07
      @cjwrench07 3 роки тому +1

      Watching TrainsgoBy Did you miss the beginning of the video explaining patreon, and how you can pay to get early access to videos with the ability to comment.

    • @poeterritory
      @poeterritory 3 роки тому

      @Watching TrainsgoBy Patreons get early access. I'm one. Highly recommend being one for Mark.

  • @Reaper-3000
    @Reaper-3000 3 роки тому +1

    12:00...yup being on Fire is a hell of a motivator..

  • @julius-stark
    @julius-stark 3 роки тому

    That head explosion was so good they used it again in the end credits.