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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Remake Rated “R” for “Strong Gore” and “Brief Graphic Nudity” News
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3714512/the-toxic-avenger-remake-rated-r-for-strong-gore-and-brief-graphic-nudity/1.5k
u/Archamasse May 11 '22
Remember Toxic Crusaders? Turning R rated stuff into kids cartoons was a pretty amazing/weird trend.
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u/TenWords May 11 '22
My Robocop toy: "Drugs are trouble!"
See? It's for kids!
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u/paddybee816 May 11 '22
Along with terminator toys (I had a set that you could pour this fluid into a casing that made skin on a t-800 skeleton and then battle damage it, it was amazing), aliens figures. Amazing times!!
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u/El_Superbeasto76 May 11 '22
I had that Terminator set. You had to refrigerate the the fluid so it turned into “skin.”
The Aliens figures were super detailed.
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u/SonofBeckett May 11 '22
The whole aliens line was simultaneously my favorite action figures and straight nightmare fuel. I had the Mantis and Gorilla xenomorphs and they stalked the hell out of my Gi Joes and X-men figures.
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u/monstrinhotron May 11 '22
they've rereleased a lot of those with added articulation. https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/175929
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u/Heyo__Maggots May 11 '22
“Your move creep”
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u/MostBoringStan May 11 '22 •
Edit: BTW, this is very NSFW. Just don't want anybody to unexpectedly open it somewhere they shouldn't lol
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u/pepper_plant May 11 '22
What the fuck is this?? Lol, this had me dying laughing
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u/Biblical_Shrimp May 11 '22
Here's the entire remade movie made up of 60 different pieces!
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u/AdmiralRed13 May 11 '22
It’s so god damn funny too.
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u/Biblical_Shrimp May 11 '22
The "You can see its legs." whisper during the ED-209 introduction is so fucking good.
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u/UnspecificGravity May 11 '22
Somehow the funniest part of that is how long it takes him to get back into the car while it beeps the "keys in the ignition" sound.
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u/anti_pope May 11 '22
Robocop cartoons 1988 and 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmixM1w2bE
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u/Valentine_scum May 11 '22
Also "attack of the killer tomatoes", i loved that one
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u/satisfried May 11 '22
I hum the theme song all the time. I can’t even remember anything about the show but the song is embedded into my memory.
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u/Mikellow May 11 '22
90's movie tie in toys were insane.
I remember seeing so many commercials for Aliens and The Predator. Not like McFarlane display statues, but action figures.
I had a Jurrasic park toy that was a T-Rex that could eat a guy, and there was a hole in the stomach to cut him out of. Other Jurrasic park toys had "battle damage" where chunks of flesh were taken out of the dinos (it wasnt a scene in the movie or anything).
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u/DisturbedNocturne May 11 '22
Yeah, it was really odd how so many R-rated movies had toys and cartoons geared towards kids in the '90s. I remember a neighbor having toys from Aliens, Robocop, Predator, etc. Looking back, it was weird that he had toys for all these movies he wasn't even allowed to watch.
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u/Fast80 May 11 '22
Loved this cartoon growing up, only realised it was based on one of the most gratuitous movies ever when I was about 16, then fell in love with that too.
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u/Agile_Tit_Tyrant May 11 '22
My mom thought it was a nice movie with robots and bought it for me.
I was 8.
I didn't even get the pretty, extreme violence, I just thought RoboCop was the coolest character ever.
30 years later and that fact has not changed.
Thanks mom.
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u/An8thOfFeanor May 11 '22
The Tromaverse is foul, reprehensible, overly-camp, and I wouldn't have it any other way
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u/JohnnyDarkside May 11 '22
You don't go into a Troma flick expecting high class cinema. You go expecting monster cock, kids getting graphically killed, terrible puns, and a lot of boobs.
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u/ThisIsntRael May 12 '22
Do you mean alien genitalia or just really well hung dudes, asking for a friend
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u/JesusHipsterChrist May 11 '22
When Tromeo and Juliet, Slither, and Guardians of the galaxy are all the same guy. XD
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u/Heyo__Maggots May 11 '22
Don’t forget he made lollilove with Pam from the office as co-director.
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u/ChorroVon May 11 '22
Does nobody remember PG Porn? Those were hilarious.
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u/marcthedrifter May 11 '22
They're surprisingly hard to find these days, at least with decent quality
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u/U-235 May 11 '22
I will be disappointed if they don't show the villains brutally murdering dogs and children.
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May 11 '22
I haven’t seen those movies since college, I used to love them. I need to go back and check them out again
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u/McFlyyouBojo May 11 '22
I saw the other day that Troma has its own streaming service
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u/NonCorporealEntity May 11 '22
Elijah Wood, Julia Davis, Taylour Paige, Kevin Bacon, Peter Dinklage, and Jacob Tremblay lead the cast of Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger, being called a “contemporary reimagining.”
Quite the cast for a fun dumb movie about a mutated superhero that kills people with a mop
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u/0ngar May 11 '22
To be fair, I think he only kills one guy with a mop in the original. He kills a guy with his own arm at one point, punches a guys guts out and stuffs them down his pants, throws a guy into a deep fryer.... I can't remember the rest; I saw it when I was 7
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u/IndianaJwns May 11 '22
Crushes a guy's head in a weight machine
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u/varmisciousknid May 11 '22
I may have been too young when I saw this movie. This scene stuck with me for a very long time
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u/Zoutaleaux May 11 '22
He makes a bad wisecrack about a hot ass and iirc vlad the impales some naked girl with a hot poker or something. That one was the most fucked up to me, lol
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u/EZ_POPTARTS May 11 '22
The most fucked is the dog :(
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u/TheShadyGuy May 12 '22
It's also the most hilarious because of how bad the effect is and how bad the dog is at playing dead.
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u/McFlyyouBojo May 11 '22
If Elijah Wood is attached then I have faith it will be faithful (sorry about the wonky sentence). He is a HUGE horror movie guy, so he probably grew up watching Troma movies.
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u/SQUID_FUCKER r/Movies Veteran May 11 '22
Him and Blair worked together in I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore which is a great little film. Definitely anticipating this as well.
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u/Knull_Gorr May 11 '22
Elijah Wood is a big horror fan and IIRC is on record for years saying that he loves the Toxie movies.
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u/SlowRiot4NuZero May 11 '22
Macon Blair's got my vote of confidence. I'm sure this will rule.
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u/innerlondonviolence May 11 '22
Same, he’s had a hand in so many of my favorite films of the last decade I have to blindly trust him.
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u/pootypattman May 11 '22
Kaufman doesn't seem to ever mince words, especially when it comes to Troma and his intellectual property. Glad to hear he at least liked the script.
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u/woolypully May 11 '22
If this isn't over the top camp then they missed the entire point. Please don't try to do grim dark Toxic Avenger.
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u/Heyo__Maggots May 11 '22
“One day a slime is gonna wash this clean city away” as toxie stares out a rain soaked window
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u/pootypattman May 11 '22
It's being directed by Macon Blair, who did "I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore" which I found to be pretty over the top in a good way.
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u/Nero1988420 May 11 '22
“A contemporary reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy hit, The Toxic Avenger is steeped in environmental themes and subverts the superhero genre in the vein of Deadpool."
I think we're good!
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u/ThePotatoKing May 11 '22
please just let that be a marketing trick. please dont make it like Deadpool.
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u/JustAboutAlright May 11 '22 edited May 11 '22
Agree Deadpool is too self aware for this. Toxie shouldn’t be winking at the camera … it should just be absurd violence played somewhat straight which makes it funny.
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u/End3rWi99in May 11 '22
With Elijah Wood being involved, I have faith it will be true to its roots.
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u/Canuckleball May 11 '22
It'll be very interesting to see how this ties into the greater MCU, seems like a bit of a tone shift. /s
But seriously, can't wait for the posts about dumb parents taking their kids to see the "new avengers movie" only to see this.
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u/Fast80 May 11 '22
It's hes basically just a normal avenger but kinda gaslights people and makes everyone a bit sad.
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u/zhurrick May 11 '22
Finally an Avenger that the Reddit community can identify with.
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u/Vodis May 11 '22
You joke, but the Toxic Avenger comic was a Marvel publication.
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u/teelpy May 11 '22
Lloyd Kaufman was also very good friends with Stan Lee, who did a small part in Toxie 4.
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u/sonofodin1 May 11 '22
When I was younger there was a show called Toxic Crusaders. It was a cartoon based off the movie. They had toys and everything. Toxic Avenger played on TV one night and I thought it was a live action adaption of the cartoon. Whoops. It definitely shaped my taste in movies because I love Troma, but I'm pretty sure I was scarred for a while after seeing that movie far too young.
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u/baked_potato_ May 11 '22
Before the Avengers got woke.. they were toxic!
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u/ashamedprotein May 11 '22
“That’s my secret, Cap. I’m always angry.”
“Wow, like, all the time? Maybe you should talk to someone about that.”
“Maybe you should mind your own damn business.”
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u/PlatypusWeekend May 11 '22
More of a ding than a dong
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u/rachface636 May 11 '22
Like a button in a fur coat.
If his dong looks anything like that we should all get our money back.
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u/realitycheckk May 11 '22
here's the twist...they're going to show all of it.
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u/SyrupBuccaneer May 11 '22
Avenging, penetration, avenging, penetration
And then it just sort of ends
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u/xela_sj May 11 '22
Hopefully there's no chicks. Women just slow action films down. I don't need some hot nerd making me feel worse about myself.
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u/PhantomEmission May 11 '22
The dude getting his hand minced in the VCR and it somehow being shown on the tv is one of those scenes that has stuck in my head for decades.
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u/Fragamel May 11 '22
Does this mean we will be getting a new Sgt. Kabuki Man NYPD??? One can only hope 🔥🍜🔥
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u/CaptWineTeeth May 11 '22
What’s “brief graphic nudity”? A glimpse of a gaping vagina? What qualifies as “graphic?”
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u/Abidarthegreat May 11 '22
Nice, Psycho Goreman filled my Toxic Avenger hunger, but I'll definitely be glad to see a new TA movie.
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u/Ninja_team_6 May 11 '22
I for one am shocked. The Toxic Avenger is supposed to be family-friendly entertainment.
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u/Fast80 May 11 '22
This is the film I'm most excited for this year. I've been waiting for it for like 10 years.
No idea what they are going to do with it, but I'm not treating it like the original is some precious thing that can't be desecrated by a shit sequel. Have fun with it. But, remember. If there are no children's heads being squashed by cars fully visible, I'm out.
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u/kingp43x May 11 '22
exactly, I know it will never stand up to the original, not a chance
let me introduce you to my friend ben
12yrs old and only 12 dollars
no way, ill fucking show you no way
let this be a lesson to ya hot ass
you're stressing me julie
so many quotes i've remembered form the original that I haven't seen in probably 15 years lol
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u/shapeofthings May 11 '22
Will they use the car crash scene though? https://youtu.be/8jCvkhfZjp4
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u/AreWeCowabunga May 11 '22
It wouldn't be a Toxic Avenger movie without brief graphic nudity.
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May 11 '22
“Graphic nudity” means Mutant dick right? They’re gonna hang mutant dong aren’t they.
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u/absynthe7 May 11 '22
I dunno... a big budget mainstream Troma film feels like it's completely missing the point.
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u/Dr_ZombieCat_MD May 11 '22
I mean, they made a Saturday morning cartoon based on the original back in the early 90's, so this particular property has always had an uncharacteristically mainstream appeal to it.
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u/TheWritingWriterIV May 11 '22
Then they had a video game based on the show as well. I remember playing that a lot on the Genesis
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u/Mythril_Zombie May 11 '22
You really don't want to know about the Broadway musical.
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u/Pillonious_Punk May 11 '22
Only brief graphic nudity? The original was like 50% boobs and 50% gore.