• Universal Studios closing the Jaws ride in January: Following on the heels of other classic Universal Studios Orlando rides like Back to the Future that have been closed, Jaws: The Ride is being shut down in January to make room for an “exciting NEW experience”.  The Studios part of Universal has sort of become the second tier park to Islands of Adventure, especially in the wake of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opening.  The Jaws ride was a great classic boat ride, sort of a more exciting version of Jungle Cruise over at Disney.  I’m wondering if they are closing it to make room for a version of the Transformers ride, the first of which just opened in the Singapore.
• Rifftrax debuts the Riffplayer:  This week Rifftrax debuted their revolutionary new RiffPlayer, a downloadable application that allows you to automatically sync up your Rifftrax audio files to your DVDs.  You open a DVD with the RiffPlayer, open the MP3 and the application keeps them synced up and you can resync if they get out of sync.  There is a list of compatible Riffs on the Rifftrax website.
• Manos: The Hands of Fate coming to Blu Ray:  I think Nostradamus made some kind of prediction about if Manos was ever seen in high quality, it would open a portal to hell but we’ll be tempting fate in the near future as a, possibly psychotic, individual named Ben has found the original 16mm print of Manos: The Hands of Fate, one of the most infamous MST3K episodes ever and one of the worst movies ever made.  Ben has a website called www.manosinhd.com.
• Steven Seagal’s “True Justice” coming to Reelz Channel:  We’ve been hearing about this weird Steven Seagal, scripted TV show for a while but now we now that it is coming to Reelz Channel, who scooped up the controversial “The Kennedys” miniseries earlier this year from History Channel.  True Justice stars Steven Seagal as Elijah Kane (perfect Seagal character name BTW), head of an elite Seattle police unit of undercover cops trying to take down the worst of the worst of the cities criminals.  The show is scheduled to debut in March of next year.
• The Raid coming to US theaters in the spring:  Indonesian action movie “The Raid” made a huge splash at the Toronto International Film Festival a couple months ago and Sony quickly snapped up the rights and are planning on making a remake of it but the original should be coming to, probably limited, theaters sometime next Spring.  Sony had Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda working on a new score for the movie and the best guess is that as soon as it’s done and the movie is re-edited, it will make it’s way to US theaters.
• Starship Troopers remake on the way:  Sony has recently tasked the screenwriters of Thor and X-Men: First Class to get started on a new version of Starship Troopers, which joins Robocop and Total Recall as remakes of Paul Verhoeven movies.  The original Starship Troopers is beloved by many whether you think it’s a masterpiece of satire or just an incredibly hilarious/violent action movie.  I don’t think any movie could match Verhoeven’s over the top take but they could distance themselves by hewing more toward the original Robert Heinlein novel, which was incredibly serious and dark and featured the titular troopers using mechanical power armor to fight, not just Arachnids, but various other alien species.  That seems to be the route that the Total Recall remake is going and I think if they made it like an intergalactic Hurt Locker or something, it could be pretty interesting.

Rifftrax has made their way to Hulu with a number of their shorts and feature length commentaries becoming available for free.  All of them are well worth checking out but the one we’re featuring here on Everything Action is the original victim of Rifftrax, Night of the Living Dead.  Originally just riffed by Mike Nelson, this new version features Mike and his MST3K cohorts Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett as they make George Romero’s zombie classic a whole lot less scary and a lot more funny.  You can watch the whole movie below and definitely head over to Rifftrax’s page on Hulu to check out their other movie and short films.

This week Zach, Chris and Joe discuss some of the more ridiculous aspects of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, how awesome the 90′s Spider Man cartoon was, some big trailers including The Dark Knight Rises teaser, Arnold’s first role back to movies and much more.

• Show and Tell: Joe watched the 90′s Spider Man cartoon, LA Noire’s “Reefer Madness” and Gordon Ramsey shows like “Kitchen Nightmares” and “Hell’s Kitchen”, Chris watched Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Louie, and MST3K “Gunslinger” and Zach watched Alphas, Vertical Limit and Triangle.
• News: Trailers for The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Thing and Sherlock Holmes 2, Arnold starring in The Last Stand as his first movie back, Evil Dead remake in the works, this week is the 25th Anniversary of Aliens and the New Release Round Up.

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Mystery Science Theater 300 XVIII

Psych Season Four

White Collar Season One

The Bounty Hunter

Our Family Wedding

Greenberg

Insomnia (Blu Ray)

In Bruges (Blu Ray)

Assault on Precinct 13 (Blu Ray)

Alpha Dog (Blu Ray)

Hulu brings us one of the most bizarre Christmas movies ever made just in time for the holidays.  In this extremely low budget, horribly acted film, a Martian father tries to cheer up his children by kidnapping Santa Claus from Earth and then all kinds of shenanigans ensue.  It was justifiably destroyed on Mystery Science Theater 3000 but you can see the original version below, if you can make it all the way through, that is.

You can also check out the MST3K version here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8394482045230280195&hl=en#

DVDs

Knowing

Push

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. 15

Peanuts 1960′s Collection

The Unborn

Reno 911 Season Six

The Deep (Blu Ray)

Video Games

The Bigs 2 (Wii, 360, PS3, PS2, PSP)

Street Fighter 4 (PC)

More info from Rifftrax:

“The year was 1984. While the fascistic regime foretold by Orwell had not yet come to power the nation had been brought to its knees, the victim of repeated playings of Karma Chameleon and Sister Christian. The country needed something to believe in, something besides aerobics or Emmanuel Lewis’ winning the People’s Choice Award. And so they came, a ragtag group of heroes in a beat-up pickup, complete with a beat-up gun rack: Jed, Aardvark, Daryl, Arturo and their brave, though prone-to-sniveling compatriot Robert (played by the prone-to-sniveling C. Thomas Howell.) The dawn may have been a red one, but they would make sure that when the sun set, it would be red… white and blue!

Joining Mike for this very special RiffTrax is Joel McHale, the Daryl to Mike’s Arturo, or perhaps the Jed to his Aardvark, or maybe the Aardvark to his Daryl. The point is, it is the perfect partnership with which to assail the enemies of freedom, i.e., the makers of Red Dawn!”

http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/red-dawn

DVDs

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Friday the 13th (also parts 2 and 3)

“What a Coincidence” Office Space (Blu Ray)

Pick of the Week: MST3K XIV

The second set of MST3K episodes from Shout Factory are out and there are some classics included. I haven’t seen Mad Monster or Manhunt in Space but the other two are fantastic. Final Justice finds Joe Don Baker’s Texas sheriff heading to Italy to find the gangster who killed his partner and Soultaker has a group of 80′s teens getting half killed and pursued by Joe Estevez. Speaking of whom, there is an interview with him included in the set along with mini posters, Mike and the Bots on the ESPN show Cheap Seats and more.

Video Games

World In Conflict: Soviet Assault

Tenchu: Shadow Assassins