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ZZT the Fifth posted:I kind of enjoyed Operation Double 007 just for how odd it was. Well, that, and the score by Ennio Morricone. How'd he end up working on this? Rent gotta be paid.
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ZZT the Fifth posted:I kind of enjoyed Operation Double 007 just for how odd it was. Well, that, and the score by Ennio Morricone. How'd he end up working on this? I think there was an interview where he said he took up lesser projects because they gave him leeway to do weird experimental things with his scores, which would explain Exorcist 2 and Diabolik.
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Bruceski posted:I don't think anyone who's heard about even a fraction of the behind-the-scenes sausage is going to really judge when most people make bad movies. People working with a budget of pocket change and donuts stolen from the boardroom aren't going to make Indiana Jones. Well that's pretty much what The Final Sacrifice tried to do 
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Olds posted:I think there was an interview where he said he took up lesser projects because they gave him leeway to do weird experimental things with his scores, which would explain Exorcist 2 and Diabolik. Man, Diabolik just didn't click for me. I think my expectations were too high for The Final Episode.
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We've gone through a lot of MST3K here, but I've never wanted to show Mr Boods Diabolik, because it's 'the last one.' (I know, there's loads of Rifftrax, but I've had a hell of a time getting him to get into them). Earlier today: We have to get Netflix this autumn. No arguments. Him: Why, what's up? Me: MST3K is coming back. Him: Consider it done  The answer, my friend, is blow it out your arse.
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Volume 37 titles announced: 420- THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS 705- ESCAPE 2000 817- HORROR OF PARTY BEACH 819- INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN 
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ZZT the Fifth posted:I kind of enjoyed Operation Double 007 just for how odd it was. Well, that, and the score by Ennio Morricone. How'd he end up working on this? Same reason he did Exorcist 2 I would presume: Bruceski posted:Rent gotta be paid.
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Neptune Men's definitely not a favorite of mine. The tone of the show was generally a bit more mean-spirited later on, but that's the first episode I recall seeing that just struck me as weirdly hateful. The only one of the set I'm sure I haven't seen is Escape 2000. It sounds promising (and not remotely similar to the film I imagined from the title).
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Yeah, I only realize in retrospect that the later season's Japanese fare was usually pretty racist, especially Neptune Men. Prince of Space wasn't as bad with it, but it had it's moments of bottom of the barrel racial Japanese stereotype comments.
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Niggurath posted:Yeah, I only realize in retrospect that the later season's Japanese fare was usually pretty racist, especially Neptune Men. Prince of Space wasn't as bad with it, but it had it's moments of bottom of the barrel racial Japanese stereotype comments. To be slightly fair to the Riffing gently caress Neptune Men. It shamelessly used WWII footage where people undoubtedly died for cheap stock footage. Neptune Men deserves all hate it gets. You don't bring out the Hitler Building and get away with that.
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Niggurath posted:Yeah, I only realize in retrospect that the later season's Japanese fare was usually pretty racist, especially Neptune Men. Prince of Space wasn't as bad with it, but it had it's moments of bottom of the barrel racial Japanese stereotype comments. All I can remember that could be a Japanese stereotype joke was something about buying violent porn comics. And maybe one about being good at math? Either way I like it very much.
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Richard Kiel! I remember nothing else about the Human Duplicators other than it has Richard Kiel in it.
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There's a part at the end of Gamera Vs. Gaos where Crow mentions all of the people who wrote in saying they'd like to see Japanese monster movies on the show. I was one of those people.
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One movie I think could be straight-up fun redone, and I'm probably alone in thinking this, is The Undead by Roger Corman. Sure, it would need a different director, a different cast, a different script, and a better framing story couldn't hurt, but there's just so much straight up goofiness in the film! Evil witches and good witches doing battle, a maudlin gravedigger, a time-travelling hypnotist engaged in a battle of wits with the Devil! It's a cheap cash-in that was filmed in a week, but there's this thinly stretched insanity to the whole thing that keeps it spinning along. It's the kind of movie where you can have a naked man mug a mounted knight and not bat an eye. A remake would have to tread a fine line in maintaining that rough, honest feel, but with enough budget and time to work the pacing issues out and someone, anyone else playing Pendragon, it could be a fun little film.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Volume 37 titles announced: Now things really start to get interesting. Because most of the episodes left, including all of the Joel episodes remaining, seemingly have big rights roadblocks.
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X-O posted:Now things really start to get interesting. Because most of the episodes left, including all of the Joel episodes remaining, seemingly have big rights roadblocks. Has there been any talk or news articles on these roadblocks? As would love to read on why lovely movies are being blocked, who are the assholes blocking them.
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happyhippy posted:Has there been any talk or news articles on these roadblocks? Well for the Godzilla movies Toho Toho Aaaaaand Toho. Also there's like, this one lady who owns Five of the movies I think? And she won't ever let them be used by MST3K ever again. There's a specific name for them but I don't know what it was. I think It Conquered the World was one of them?
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happyhippy posted:Has there been any talk or news articles on these roadblocks? Yes actually, Travis at the MST3K Board has been keeping up with the rights for movies since 2006. Here's the rundown of what's left according to him: quote:201- Rocketship X-M He updates this list as often as news comes up, you can find it here: http://forrestcrow.proboards.com/thread/6297/likelihood-shout-factory-release-list
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So that woman has a death grip on The Amazing Colossal Man, but let War of the Colossal Beast go?
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Ensign_Ricky posted:So that woman has a death grip on The Amazing Colossal Man, but let War of the Colossal Beast go? Arkhoff Estates owned the rights to that film not American International Pictures which is where her rights originate from. She is the widow of the AIP co-founder. She does get some money from it though because I think it falls under derivative works since it uses the same characters. There's a neat feature length doc on AIP on the Volume 34 DVD set. Another reason why the Shout DVDs are the best. X-O fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:Volume 37 titles announced: Jet Jaguar posted:Richard Kiel! I remember nothing else about the Human Duplicators other than it has Richard Kiel in it. I'm not too proud to admit that there's a riff in THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS that I use in my daily life. Whenever waiting for something that's taking too long, I'll say "Nine hours later", followed by "Meanwhile, the following June ..."
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Thanks to Travis' list, I'd say we have one more boxset after the just announced volume before things get interesting. But bombshell releases have happened before (Gamera the most obvious example) so I'd say nothing is impossible.
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Ballz posted:Thanks to Travis' list, I'd say we have one more boxset after the just announced volume before things get interesting. I think Pumaman was the most surprising considering the stories I'd read about no one actually knowing who owned the rights anymore.
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised there are issues with Rocketship X-M and Diabolik, as all the other "plot-relevant" episodes have been out for a while now. It's a shame about Rocketship X-M in particular, as that was the first episode I ever saw, and it's still one of my favorites. An official release of that episode would be an insta-buy for me.
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Richard Kiel's smoooooth delivery in Human Duplicators is one of the best things in the world. Dolly....pretty dolly...
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I remember how thrilled I was to stumble upon a VHS copy of The Amazing Colossal Man episode that somehow the store missed the recall notice (IIRC, there was a properly licensed VHS release a few years later). And twenty years later and we still have the same problems with that episode.
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I just finished watching Fargo Season 1, and not only is it a darn fine piece of TV lemme tell ya, but it also cleared up an MST3K reference I didn't originally get in "Red Zone Cuba". The reference in question was when Servo jokes about the "Cuba/Bemidji Border" and I had no idea what or where "Bemidji" was...until watching Fargo Season 1, much of which is set in the aforementioned Minnesota town (it's also on a lake, which is why Servo made the quip, because the scenes supposedly showing the team of "commandos" "invading" "Cuba" featured them rowing on the distinctly placid waters of a lake). MST3K: the gift that just keeps on giving.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I just finished watching Fargo Season 1, and not only is it a darn fine piece of TV lemme tell ya, but it also cleared up an MST3K reference I didn't originally get in "Red Zone Cuba". I'm like that with Terry Pratchett books. Every couple of years I'll learn something that makes another line in them hilarious. Like Selachii being the clade for sharks, which puts a new perspective on that family's feud with the Venturis (a key bit of fluid dynamics in jet engines).
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Rollersnake posted:I guess I shouldn't be surprised there are issues with Rocketship X-M and Diabolik, as all the other "plot-relevant" episodes have been out for a while now. It's a shame about Rocketship X-M in particular, as that was the first episode I ever saw, and it's still one of my favorites. An official release of that episode would be an insta-buy for me. Rocketship X-M was the first episode I saw with my dad and the reason he's as big a fan of MST3K as I am. The only reason he even watched it was because I got in an argument with my sister over what to watch that night, and he decided sacrificing his own TV time was better than listening to us yell at each other. After that, it turned into a tradition for us to order a pizza and watch MST together every Saturday night.
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I'm watching Monster A-Go-Go for the first time. Not ten minutes into this movie and Joel and the crew are beating on it like it owed them money. This is beautifully savage.
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A couple Decembers ago, I couldn't sleep and turned on AMC at 3am to find the movie Santa Claus, a 1959 movie that probably sucked then and sure as poo poo was nightmare fuel in 2014. Fortunately, I thought of an old show I watched in the early 2000s and figured they'd done it. Sure enough, MST3K riffed it, and it's the only way to watch it without being uncomfortable. I'm glad to see this is coming back and I'm hoping the classics wind up on Netflix, too.
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CBJSprague24 posted:A couple Decembers ago, I couldn't sleep and turned on AMC at 3am to find the movie Santa Claus, a 1959 movie that probably sucked then and sure as poo poo was nightmare fuel in 2014. I saw it in theaters. It was the early 80s, and a General Cinema theater has a kid's morning matinee, and this was one of the films playing. Never remember what it was called, all I remembered was Santa Claus vs the Devil. And this was shortly after The Amityville Horror had come out, and the trailers for that had scared the crap out of me
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I hope Jonah and the gang do at least one tokusatsu movie for Season 11, it wouldn't feel like MST3K without at least one cheesy monster movie specifically filmed Japanese style.
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CBJSprague24 posted:A couple Decembers ago, I couldn't sleep and turned on AMC at 3am to find the movie Santa Claus, a 1959 movie that probably sucked then and sure as poo poo was nightmare fuel in 2014. One of my all-time favorite riffs is just the deranged laughter in response to that mechanical reindeer, because really, how are you supposed to respond to that? Similarly, Tom Servo's perfectly-timed scream in the "buzz off, kid" scene in Mitchell.
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Rollersnake posted:One of my all-time favorite riffs is just the deranged laughter in response to that mechanical reindeer, because really, how are you supposed to respond to that? For me, it's Tom's 'End. End. ENNNNDDDD' in Batwoman. Until we watched that one, no one in this house realised that this cry of despair (especially during particularly crap Top of the Pops and Eurovision acts)* was not original to me. Tom's meltdowns are some of my highlights (as are when you can tell the guys are genuinely busting each other up, like during Laserblast.) Any time Crow suffers a freakout and falls apart, catches on fire, etc., is Mr Boods's fave. *Hey, I like to watch old TotP on BBC Four; bite me.
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