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Ensign_Ricky posted:Oh my god, what if they did Boys Beware?! That's the kind of thing you'd want Frank Conniff in the room for. His wry lefty brain against that movie would result in some sick-nastiness.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:On that note, what are some MST'd movies that you all think wouldn't be half bad if it wasn't for a few minor tweaks? (This Island Earth excepted.) For years, I've wanted to see a remake of Santa Conquers the Martians starring Kyle Gass as Santa and Jack Black as Dropo. Getting past the bad acting and effects, I genuinely think there's a fun kids movie buried underneath it all. Similarly, when I watched the RiffTrax Live for Manos, I realized that one thing they never ragged on was the actual plot. The movie is such a disaster, but the story is actually decent for an old horror movie and the characters act sort of competently instead of making bad decisions for the sake of making bad decisions. A while back, I interviewed Kevin Murphy and he suggested that Wes Craven's Manos could have been really good. Bruceski posted:I'd say they should do that Muppet Babies anti-drug movie, but I'm not sure they could add anything to it. I think you mean that Muppet Babies, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alf, Smurfs, Bugs Bunny, Michelangelo, Slimer and Garfield anti-drug movie. Ah, what a time it was to be a child.
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Gavok posted:I think you mean that Muppet Babies, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alf, Smurfs, Bugs Bunny, Michelangelo, Slimer and Garfield anti-drug movie. Ah, what a time it was to be a child. Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. It was actually something of a major event in Saturday morning cartoons, with all the networks playing it simultaneously, so just about everyone around their mid-30s or so is sure to have fuzzy memories of it.
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Powered Descent posted:Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. It was actually something of a major event in Saturday morning cartoons, with all the networks playing it simultaneously, so just about everyone around their mid-30s or so is sure to have fuzzy memories of it. My local video rental store had that on VHS. It was the only video on the entire store that you could rent for free.
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Gavok posted:I think you mean that Muppet Babies, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alf, Smurfs, Bugs Bunny, Michelangelo, Slimer and Garfield anti-drug movie. Ah, what a time it was to be a child. I'm honestly not sure if the roller coaster scene was just that bizarre or I repressed the rest. Or both.
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Bruceski posted:I'm honestly not sure if the roller coaster scene was just that bizarre or I repressed the rest. Or both. No, I remember that too.
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I've said this before, but Mitchell is actually a decent movie. It's biggest failing is the lack of any sympathetic/likable characters. We're supposed to root for Mitchell, and he's just such a mess you can't.
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Burkion posted:One Got Fat is a national treasure of riffability and deserves to be on MST3K My favorite thing about One Got Fat is I actually watched it on a field trip back in the 80s. There was a park that had a "Safety Town" - a kid-sized town (with driveable cars!) where they'd teach you how to cross streets and bike and drive safely. When my class went, it was raining pretty heavily. So all the outdoor stuff was cancelled, and we sat inside and watched that short. It all felt vaguely familiar once I saw the Rifftrax, and once it hit the "monkey girl knocks old ladies up a tree" scene, I remembered the whole trip. I never did get to go back and drive the little cars. Oh, and my dad was a police officer for the City of Glen Cove for years, when I showed him the What if We Had a Fire? short, he recognized the fire station. And the firefighter with no lines (I think he hands the kid the plastic hat) was actually someone who worked there. The other guy was an actor though.
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TVs Ian posted:My favorite thing about One Got Fat is I actually watched it on a field trip back in the 80s. There was a park that had a "Safety Town" - a kid-sized town (with driveable cars!) where they'd teach you how to cross streets and bike and drive safely. When my class went, it was raining pretty heavily. So all the outdoor stuff was cancelled, and we sat inside and watched that short. The short "Alcohol Trigger Films" was set in various spots near where I used to live. I was kinda weird recognizing all the spots. Some are still there.
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TL posted:I've said this before, but Mitchell is actually a decent movie. It's biggest failing is the lack of any sympathetic/likable characters. We're supposed to root for Mitchell, and he's just such a mess you can't. Remake Mitchell with Danny McBride and it would be hilarious.
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twistedmentat posted:Glad i bothered to read the thread because I was wondering if they had plans to do any new shorts, and I guess the answer is "we don't know". Though all those 70s and 80s anti drug things would be perfect. I remember seeing one in Jr High that featured a kid going out to try to score some weed and ends up getting raped and murdered in a truck. WTF? I feel like this is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHzkn5wUe1s TL posted:I've said this before, but Mitchell is actually a decent movie. It's biggest failing is the lack of any sympathetic/likable characters. We're supposed to root for Mitchell, and he's just such a mess you can't. I'd watch a Mitchel TV series. I got a real Rockford files vibe from the whole thing. I think Shane Black could do some interesting things with the concept.
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TL posted:I've said this before, but Mitchell is actually a decent movie. It's biggest failing is the lack of any sympathetic/likable characters. We're supposed to root for Mitchell, and he's just such a mess you can't. The movie has no clear beginning, middle, or end. I'm not 100% sure it still isn't going. And it has Joe Don Baker. Please seek help. 
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Chokes McGee posted:The movie has no clear beginning, middle, or end. I'm not 100% sure it still isn't going. And it has Joe Don Baker. And wasn't John Saxon in the movie? What the hell happened there??
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Chokes McGee posted:The movie has no clear beginning, middle, or end. I'm not 100% sure it still isn't going. And it has Joe Don Baker. I just re-watched Final Justice today and, my god, they are hilariously relentless. "The sun is blotted out as Joe Don Baker approaches." "He's got double chins on his eye lids." "A float got loose! Oh, no, it's Joe Don Baker. Sorry." "His weight is forcing him down the stairs."
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TL posted:I've said this before, but Mitchell is actually a decent movie. It's biggest failing is the lack of any sympathetic/likable characters. We're supposed to root for Mitchell, and he's just such a mess you can't. It always blows my mind that the writer of Mitchell, Ian Kennedy-Martin, also created The Sweeney, one of the most iconic British cop shows of all time. It's funny that the latter is considered an all time classic while Mitchell...isn't, even though they have quite a lot of elements in common - namely a main character who's overly-violent, a bit of a schlub and doesn't play by the rules. Maybe it's just because the idea works better against against a backdrop of bleak 1970s London, where everything's a bit squalid and run-down, but doesn't try to disguise the fact. Mitchell on the other hand was trying far too hard to look glamorous and exciting, and failing. Kennedy-Martin's brother Troy wrote Edge Of Darkness, which is like the defining 80's nuclear espionage thriller...which also has Joe Don Baker.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:And wasn't John Saxon in the movie? What the hell happened there?? If i remember right they randomly kill him off and you only hear about it through a background radio news report. I want to say it was a dune buggy crash or something. Maybe there was a scene cut from the MST3k version. Edit: Yeah, it's on the car radio when Mitchell pulls up right before the scene where he freaks out on the kid. It's barely noticeable. RoyKeen fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Aug 7, 2016 |
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The Ape of Naples posted:If i remember right they randomly kill him off and you only hear about it through a background radio news report. I want to say it was a dune buggy crash or something. There was a scene that was cut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZcDScKH4V8
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TVs Ian posted:There was a scene that was cut. Yeah. I just watched it. It's actually not that bad of a scene though it does go on too long. Essentially they try to kill Michell by running over him with some dune buggies. One of the cars gets stuck and the driver gets out and Mitchell smashes him in the face with a rock. It's fairly brutal. I can see removing it though. It's long it's mostly Mitchell dodging the buggies. It would have been hard to riff on.
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Chokes McGee posted:The movie has no clear beginning, middle, or end. I'm not 100% sure it still isn't going. And it has Joe Don Baker. Joe Don Baker is actually a terrific actor.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Oh my god, what if they did Boys Beware?! I would love a while episode of them doing those really messed up PSAs, Love to see them do "Perversion for Profit" where the thing links porn to the fall of Rome and say porn is a thing created by Commies to destroy America... oh and also fitness magazines are a tool for homosexuals to spread the gay to young boys! A while back I found the sequel/companion piece to Boys Beware called Girls Beware. I thought it would warn girls of dirty evil lesbian pedos but shockingly no. It's a film telling young girls not to go out with older guys... cause they will rape you, whore you out, get you addicted to drugs or straight up murder you!
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TL posted:Joe Don Baker is actually a terrific actor. The sad thing about Joe Don Baker is that yeah, he is. He is a fantastic actor Which means when he's playing a slobby, stupid, ugly, moron of a cop HE REALLY sells that role If he didn't have his little feud after Mitchel the riffing in Final Justice wouldn't have been quite so cutthroat though, so hey
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Secks posted:I just re-watched Final Justice today and, my god, they are hilariously relentless. You better run! (Or he'll steal your lunch!) You better hide! (Your lunch!) You better run! (Because he's got the runs!) Because he won't stop until he gets his man! (Or your lunch!)
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Gavok posted:You better run! Meat-balls fried in laaaaaaaaaaard!
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Mitchell is such a good riff. "Hey, a sex film!"
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You know what films were oddly good? Roger Corman's It Conquered The World and The Undead.
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muscles like this? posted:Mitchell is such a good riff. Joel's shocked "WHAT??" as Mitchell's gun falls down through the leg of his pants is hilarious.
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Because MST3K never ever aired in Canada, I only ever seen a handful in the 90s. Godzilla vs the one with Jetjaguar and Red Zone Cuba. Godzilla was great, but Red Zone Cuba is so insanely boring. I think it was just confusing that the cuba stuff was short and the rest became about swindling uranium claims. Thank god for the video releases later in the 90s. I would have never would have seen the shorts, or any of the other classics. Still haven't actually seen Mitchell though.
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twistedmentat posted:Thank god for the video releases later in the 90s. I would have never would have seen the shorts, or any of the other classics. Still haven't actually seen Mitchell though. As it happens, the whole episode is on the official MST3K YouTube channel. There are annotations, but I think you can disable those somehow.
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twistedmentat posted:Because MST3K never ever aired in Canada, I only ever seen a handful in the 90s. Godzilla vs the one with Jetjaguar and Red Zone Cuba. Godzilla was great, but Red Zone Cuba is so insanely boring. I think it was just confusing that the cuba stuff was short and the rest became about swindling uranium claims. It had to have popped on some channel, as a Canadian, a fellow one introduced me to it in high school. And CTV sometimes aired MST3K The Movie as a sunday afternoon feature.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:It had to have popped on some channel, as a Canadian, a fellow one introduced me to it in high school. And CTV sometimes aired MST3K The Movie as a sunday afternoon feature. I never saw it, ever. And yea i should watch it, it being on the Youtube Channel. I mean, I finally watched Pumaman on there.
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Someone made a promise to make a RPG module for each million raised for the kickstarter, up to 7. At GenCon I got to play the first module he completed, a 5th Edition D&D adventure based on "Manos". His next project is writing a "Manos" episode for Call of Cathulhu. I forgot one of the other ones he's writing, but the other four he's creating are Beginning of the End modules for D&D and Savage Worlds, Touch of Satan for D&D (now called "Touch of Lolth") and a dungeon crawl for Space Mutiny.
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Burkion posted:The sad thing about Joe Don Baker is that yeah, he is. He is a fantastic actor That's not acting! That's just him being Joe Don Baker! It doesn't count!
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Chokes McGee posted:That's not acting! That's just him being Joe Don Baker! It doesn't count! My favorite Joe Don Baker moment is in Cape Fear where he talks about and drinks his dad's favorite beverage: Pepto Bismol and whiskey(?). I imagine Joe Don Baker drinking this before and after every take, especially for Mitchell.
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I can't think of a movie where I'm like "movies saved Joe Don Baker is in it."
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^^ I'm kinda happy to see him in the couple of Bond films he was in, actually, for realstwistedmentat posted:I never saw it, ever. And yea i should watch it, it being on the Youtube Channel. I mean, I finally watched Pumaman on there. Who? Oh, you mean Thepuma Man?
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Gaz-L posted:^^ I'm kinda happy to see him in the couple of Bond films he was in, actually, for reals Oh I thoroughly enjoyed him in Goldeneye. But...The Living Daylights...hoo boy. Highlight of that film was the song by A-Ha.
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