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Sydney Bottocks posted:And now a tribute to Dr. Bombay! But you're a girl-doctor, Doctor!
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What happened to the day-ball?
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 01:10 |
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IN TIME BEFORE BORN, LIVE MAN, SAIL SEA.
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 12:22 |
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Bitchtits McGee posted:IN TIME BEFORE BORN, LIVE MAN, SAIL SEA. LOVE LIFT UP WHERE BELONG.
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 13:41 |
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The ocean. Source of all bad movies.
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 14:07 |
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Futhark posted:Do something! There's a point at which it stops being a movie.
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 14:09 |
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:There's a point at which it stops being a movie. Maybe the Japanese didn't really know they were making a film, per se. Maybe they thought they were working in a totally different medium, like fabric sculpture or something.
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I don't want to feel again the worm.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I don't want to feel again the worm. Well, that's too bad, becuase NOW YOU GONNA BE THE WORM FACE!!! 
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 02:11 |
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Whoa, Stiv Bators' pissed!
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 02:21 |
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Jon Lovitz refuses a drink. As does Andy Warhol.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:Whoa, Stiv Bators' pissed! Please, sir, just pay the parking fine!
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Bitchtits McGee posted:Jon Lovitz refuses a drink. As does Andy Warhol. Looking very relaxed, Hugh Beaumont on sax.
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And the Oak Ridge Boys take the stand!
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Just got a delivery from Amazon, This Island Earth! Can't wait to see the whole shlocky thing in its entirety!
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And if your hands were made of metal, that would mean something!
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So far, there's already an extended scene of Meachem and Weenie Guy screwing around with the bead things. So many lost opportunities....
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 19:17 |
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If Universal weren't run by idiots, it would have been a lot longer. And funnier. You know about the joke about the mutant that they demanded be changed?
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 19:48 |
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Dr_Strangelove posted:If Universal weren't run by idiots, it would have been a lot longer. And funnier. You know about the joke about the mutant that they demanded be changed? I do not. But I did just see Brack incinerate the German just after he blew up the car.
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Supposedly, when the mutant first appears, the riff was to be, "BOOTSY COLLINS!" Clearly, a reference it its round, rimmed eyes, and his trademark round glasses. But the Universal production execs didn't get the joke. And they figured that if they didn't get it, then Middle America sure as hell wouldn't. So, it was changed to "LEONA HELMSLEY!" That reference that had lost its punch by 1996, and it would have made no little or no sense even circa 1989 when she was topical. And don't forget this nugget from the Season 7 ACEG: quote:The host segments were an exercise in healing after our struggle to make the Mystery Science Theater movie. It was a difficult process, and not really fun at all -- working with the studio and all the attendant politics and creative roadblocks was really, really frustrating. We didn't have the freedom to be as irreverent and eclectic as we were in the TV show. We had to work with people who had silly names that they had made up for themselves. I remember at one point, while the studio shepherds in charge of MST3K: The Movie were in Minneapolis, it was during the height of the ubiquitous O.J. Simpson deal. The studio exec informed us over lunch that there was a big trial in Los Angeles with O.J. Simpson because he'd been accused of murdering his wife, and "had (we) heard anything about it out here?" It was like a hog-pile on our souls.
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Well, almost all the way through it now, and a lot of what was cut seems to just be pointless exposition and additional space scenes that really didn't add much to the plot. All the important bits of the plot survived for Mike, Trace, and Kevin to rip to pieces. Although there's one thing that should never have been cut. As Exeter, Ruth, and Cal escape Metaluna, there's some clear shots of Zagon ships ferrying meteors for the final assault. And as one of the ships drops its payload....you can clearly see the wire rigging involved in dropping the meteor. I couldn't help myself, and paraphrased 12 To The Moon. "THERE WAS CLEARLY A WIRE INVOLVED!" edit: So pretty much, if anyone tells you that the uncut, full version of T.I.E. is an entirely different movie, they are a liar.
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The sad part is, there really wasn't a need for MST3K: The Movie. If I recall correctly, it played in a very limited release, so the only people that went to see it in the theater were already fans of the show (like me, I saw it in some tiny-rear end theater in northern Indiana  ); it was shorter than an average episode of the show; and because they had to deal with the usual Hollywood bullshit it wasn't nearly as funny as a typical episode (it was still funny, just not anywhere close to the quality they were capable of doing).I sometimes wonder what season 7 would have been like if they hadn't been so focused on doing the film. I'm sure it still would have been the last season for them on Comedy Central, and the six episodes they did were pure gold, but I can't help but wish they had another six or seven or so to go along with 'em.
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Yeah, I can get behind that sentiment. But I can't help but hope that one day Universal will let the rights to T.I.E. slip and we'll get a Rifftrax Live event like Manos, but with the full feature. 
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Next DVD set: 110- ROBOT HOLOCAUST 508- OPERATION DOUBLE 007* 615- KITTEN WITH A WHIP 801- REVENGE OF THE CREATURE *This will be released as Operation Kid Brother, because they couldn't get the rights to the other name.
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Action Jacktion posted:Next DVD set: Robot Holocaust? gently caress yeah! I wonder how they're going to handle the titling of Double 007? Will they go all Film Ventures on it?
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Action Jacktion posted:Next DVD set: Niiiiice.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I wonder how they're going to handle the titling of Double 007? Will they go all Film Ventures on it? I suppose the packaging will have Kid Brother while the episode itself will be unchanged. And it looks like they finally came to an agreement with Universal, which made 615 and 801. More of the early Sci-Fi episodes could follow. (The earliest Sci-Fi episode on video is actually The Giant Spider Invasion, 810.)
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Hey, you know what we haven't had in awhile? DRAAAAAAAAAWIIIIIING SIIIIIIIIIIIIGN!!! Galaxy Being KOLOS has come to earth as a middle manager of the Human Duplicator project, and oversees most of the scheduling, staffing, and janitorial services of the evil global coup. Dr. Kolos, who may not be an actual Doctor, is difficult to defeat in combat. He does not have particularly powerful moves, nor is he agile. What makes Kolos challenging is the sheer number of him you end up fighting. Every thirty seconds Kolos remains in combat, a new Kolos is produced and slowly begins marching toward his opponent. Any enemy of Kolos will quickly be engulfed by a Chinese terracotta army of Richard Kiels. Each duplicate Kolos has a large amount of health, and the longer the fight drags on, the more chance he has to augment his synthetic army.  Japanese Justice force MIGHTY JACK mobilizes this submersible jet/submarine/mech when battling the forces of evil. Piloted by Harold Atari (with a single button joystick) MIGHTY JACK is a versatile sweeper with surprising defensive capability. Utilizing the secret weapon schematics of their enemy "Q" the MIGHTY JACK team has outfitted their ship with a deadly new weapon: "hot ice". While it's original use was a topical rubefacient heat rub meant for relieving pains such as arthritis, backache, muscle strains, sprains, and cramps, it can also freeze an opponent solid. The antithesis to the Starfighter, this mech is more sturdy but lacks the explosive power of it's rival, in favor of more mobility and defense.  Doc Leopold was always known as a nut. He was that guy who would wander up and down the fish isle at Petsmart till it was time to close. Little did the citizens of Sarasota know that he was planning to conquer world with a fish army. Studying the cliff notes of Sun Tsu, Patton and Napoleon his goal was to rule southern Florida with an iron fin. Like all great generals, he knew the first step is creating an army is to transform yourself into a giant fish. With his mutagen fluid ZAAT, he fused himself with the DNA of a walking catfish, which was a lateral move in the looks department. Dr. Z handles a bit differently than "The Creature" and "The Horror" as he is a summoner-type and doesn't deal damage directly. The key to playing Dr. Z is to stay at range and summon waves of predatory fish to swarm your opponent. The "sargassum haze" spell will slow an opponent allowing Z to call even more destructive aquatic friends to plan revenge with. Though it takes considerable time to charge, his "megalodon crush" is one of the hardest hitting moves in the game.
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Action Jacktion posted:Next DVD set: Cool cool... any word on release date?
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Dr_Strangelove posted:If Universal weren't run by idiots, it would have been a lot longer. And funnier. You know about the joke about the mutant that they demanded be changed? I still don't get why Universal handled this movie the way they did. It was a low budget picture- apparently the production cost was around $1 million, total. Even with distribution and advertising costs, it shouldn't have been hard to sell it enough that it makes that amount back. Why tinker with it? And why do it so extensively only to write it off anyway?
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Maxwell Lord posted:I still don't get why Universal handled this movie the way they did. It was a low budget picture- apparently the production cost was around $1 million, total. Even with distribution and advertising costs, it shouldn't have been hard to sell it enough that it makes that amount back. Why tinker with it? And why do it so extensively only to write it off anyway? In the days before "John Carter" and "Green Lantern", Hollywood used to treat "big-budget film that is in fact likely to flop hard" and "quirky small/indie film that will likely attract a niche audience" the same way when it came to publicity: they generally buried 'em. My guess is that after doing all the test screenings and getting audience feedback from focus groups and whatnot (along with the usual Hollywood "make these completely unnecessary changes because I say so" BS), they decided that putting any money into promoting a film adapted from a flyover state's basic cable TV puppet show was likely just throwing good money after bad. Another factor to keep in mind is that the same company that released MST3K:TM also released "Barb Wire" the same year. Which was no doubt a much easier film for them to understand and promote. At least that movie also flopped.  On the plus side, the whole process of making the (otherwise completely unnecessary) MST3K movie did give us the wonderful savaging of typical Hollywood goings-on in the "Incredible Melting Man" host segments.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:In the days before "John Carter" and "Green Lantern", Hollywood used to treat "big-budget film that is in fact likely to flop hard" and "quirky small/indie film that will likely attract a niche audience" the same way when it came to publicity: they generally buried 'em. I just don't get why, then, they insisted on such radical edits to start with. Their stake was so low that they could have dumped anything into theaters.
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A wise man once described getting burned by Hollywood as being like jumping into the monkey pit at the zoo and then climbing back out, complaining because you were bitten by a monkey. Making the movie was a dumb idea from start to finish, and the "Melting Man" segments are the sourest of grapes.
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Bitchtits McGee posted:A wise man once described getting burned by Hollywood as being like jumping into the monkey pit at the zoo and then climbing back out, complaining because you were bitten by a monkey. Making the movie was a dumb idea from start to finish, and the "Melting Man" segments are the sourest of grapes. It's only once you've signed the contract that the true horror begins.  At least they got a new SoL model out of it, if nothing else.
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Hey, it's Ted Nelson from Ted Nelson's Plumbing and Heating!
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I'M DOCTOR TED NELSON!
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Has there ever been a credible melting man?
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"The Incredible Melting Man" was an appropriately dreary, hopeless movie to go with their angry indictment of Hollywood's bullshit. I also learned never to scream "I'M DOCTOR TED NELSON!" to a security guard.
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Should I have said "goodbye"...?
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Command Ant posted:"The Incredible Melting Man" was an appropriately dreary, hopeless movie to go with their angry indictment of Hollywood's bullshit. I remember reading about The Incredible Melting Man in Starlog Magazine when it first came out and was eager to see it. Thankfully, I waited 20+ years.
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