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I think they needed the excuse that Tripolydine was the cause of any explosions/fire. Any evidence of arson would raise a red flag. But if they find out Tripolydine is unstable and explodes easily then it could just be assumed it was a tragic mistake. Though in retrospect, if Tripolydine is unstable then it's pretty useless as a fuel additive. Was the plan then? I can't remember. Insurance fraud? How would he collect if he's supposedly dead? All I remember is "$10 million dollars, Luther. 10 mil." E:VVV Oh yeah. Now it's coming back to me. RoyKeen fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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It's been a while since I watched the episode but I want to say they already had the money which they embezzled from the government grants they got to develop the tripolydine. Although you'd think someone would think up a good use for such a highly explosive fuel and they could sell it for more than "Ten mil."
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Just figure out a way to stabilize it until you need it to be unstable and market it as an explosive. Or if you want to get away with the embezzlement and you have millions of dollars and you already plan on pretending Big Oil wants to hurt you just have your stuff blown up and frame big oil. Make the accelerant a bunch of gasoline.
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Apoplexy posted:You know what films were oddly good? Roger Corman's It Conquered The World and The Undead. Most of Corman's films are like that. They're not really "great" but the amount of heart he and his actors put into his films really elevates them.
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The thing that really bugs me about Riding with Death is that someone liked Critter enough to bring him back for another episode. Uh, I mean the back half of the movie.
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That'll put some sookie in your dookie!
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Mokinokaro posted:Most of Corman's films are like that. They're not really "great" but the amount of heart he and his actors put into his films really elevates them. I think the strangest Corman film they riffed was Night of the Bloodbeast, because almost to the end it seems to be a neat twist on the Alien Interloper movie, and then "wait, the studio says we need to kill the alien. Okay, bombs away!"
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SirPhoebos posted:I think the strangest Corman film they riffed was Night of the Bloodbeast, because almost to the end it seems to be a neat twist on the Alien Interloper movie, and then "wait, the studio says we need to kill the alien. Okay, bombs away!" NotBB is my favorite MST3k. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZoQdNXCdc "Well we had to snap him in two like a frozen dog to get him out of the space capsule" I still regret losing my copy of the special thanksgiving edition.
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Guys, this Riding With Death discussion is great and all, but can you keep it down? I need to finish working on these patent papers.
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It might help if you keep your patent papers at a slight angle.
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I hadn't seen this mentioned: Trace and Frank have started a movie podcast called Movie Sign With The Mads. They're only five episodes in but it's been really good so far. It's not really a "bad movie" podcast as much as they pick a movie, then talk about it, its genre, and related films.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I hadn't seen this mentioned: Trace and Frank have started a movie podcast called Movie Sign With The Mads. They're only five episodes in but it's been really good so far. It's not really a "bad movie" podcast as much as they pick a movie, then talk about it, its genre, and related films. I think someone mentioned it before earlier in this thread or another but there's no harm in bringing it up again. I'm just diving into their talk about the Warriors and it's pretty good so far. I was a little turned off by Trace being on a phone line but they all deal with it pretty well.
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muscles like this? posted:The thing that really bugs me about Riding with Death is that someone liked Critter enough to bring him back for another episode. Uh, I mean the back half of the movie. I'm more perturbed that Sam, who supposedly obtained a law degree from Harvard Law School, was the best choice to go on an underwater salvage mission. And that he somehow managed to fit in "learn to drive a big rig" and "welding" classes somewhere in there, too.
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The Ape of Naples posted:NotBB is my favorite MST3k. Yeah I really love that episode; everything about it. Steves don't preach, I'm in trouble deep! I still have the Thanksgiving version somewhere. Potatoes v stuffing is great and Bridget as Mr B is pretty much the only thing I've liked her in.
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HungryMedusa posted:Yeah I really love that episode; everything about it. She was ok as Nuveena. Or however that's spelled.
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RandomPauI posted:I think he bad guys at the start of riding with death should have molotoved the warehouse immediately after leaving. And molotoved the rear of the truck after "hijacking" the doc. I think someone should've Molotov'd Riding with Death, personally
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Thank you for reminding me of Riding with Death. I just started watching it and I had completely forgotten about the glasses cleaning scene/gag and it absolutely killed me.
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Chokes McGee posted:I think someone should've Molotov'd Riding with Death, personally That Abbie though. She's some gal. 
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Double Agent posted:That Abbie though. She's some gal. Is she in heaven?
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I don't think she'd look that bad bald. My well oiled chassis is coming up on your backside My rigid grill structure is bearing down on your unprotected cargo door. My oft complimented Peterbilt is rhythmically nudging that sweet honeypot of yours Drained and satisfied I'm tracing lazy circles on your supercab now.
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Diabolik900 posted:Is she in heaven? Go get 'em, Sam! Give it the old college try!
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I'm more perturbed that Sam, who supposedly obtained a law degree from Harvard Law School, was the best choice to go on an underwater salvage mission. And that he somehow managed to fit in "learn to drive a big rig" and "welding" classes somewhere in there, too. Hey, so he took shop at Harvard.
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BooDoug187 posted:Hey, so he took shop at Harvard. He lands a goddamn 747 in the pilot. Pilot episode I mean.
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The Ape of Naples posted:He lands a goddamn 747 in the pilot. Pilot episode I mean. Well he's a Coke guy, but the Wetzel's Pretzels has the best Pepsi. That mall is all Pepsi.
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HungryMedusa posted:Yeah I really love that episode; everything about it. The Thanksgiving version was the episode I taped and rewatched. Was dumbfounded some time later catching a rerun and it had different host segments.
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I've been doing a complete end-to-end rewatch of MST3K. Last night was Mighty Jack. I didn't remember it being that boring. Another banking turn!
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I'm doing the same thing. It's taken me seven years but I just watched Hamlet. Honestly, if you have it as the background while you're doing something else it's not bad. It's been a long process.
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I just rewatched Wild Rebels, and that's a really fun one that's even better than I remembered. I love how the running joke in this sort of film is reducing biker gangs to a bunch of adult children with goofy nicknames, and Wild Rebels Cereal is a standout sketch in a season that featured quite a few of their best. Also I forgot they were still figuring out Gypsy's character at this point, and this is probably the first episode where she has more to say than "Richard Basehart" (in a voice considerably different from what Mallon would end up using). Also, what was up with the biker film kick they were on in Season 2? I'm not complaining as they're all great episodes, but I don't think there was ever another case where they really pursued a specific non-sci-fi genre like they did here.
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The Ape of Naples posted:He lands a goddamn 747 in the pilot. Pilot episode I mean. The industrial arts teach many valuable skills that you can use in a variety of ways. Don't you remember the short?
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I thought Joe Don Baker was genuinely scary in that scene from Fletch where he's threatening to kill Fletch in the jail cell. He was funny in Mars Attacks! (and I just realized that Jack Black plays his son). I was disappointed he didn't come back for Joe Dirt 2 until everything else I heard about Joe Dirt 2. Mitchel actually does some heroic stuff. He's told to drop the case but keeps investigating, figures out what's going, and brings people to (bloody) justice. It's a rogue cop move with an everyman protagonist and it's an idea that can work. But instead of the chubby wisecracker we often get as the everyman, Baker ends up looking like a slovenly jerk. Throw in that bedroom scene and the general unappealingness of the 70's and it's just too gross to take. The Twinkie Czar fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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RandomPauI posted:The industrial arts teach many valuable skills that you can use in a variety of ways. Don't you remember the short? Oh I do. Just before Skydivers. But I'm blanking on the 747 part. Maybe that falls under "tool operator"
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Joe Don Baker had a GREAT small role in Mud as a local big shot looking for revenge against Matthew McConaughey. Mud is actually pretty drat awesome in general and worth checking out.
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Oh yeah, he was the arms dealer in The Living Daylights! Looking at his filmography, it's... actually kind of shameful that that's the only non-MST3K film I've seen that he's in. DivisionPost posted:Joe Don Baker had a GREAT small role in Mud as a local big shot looking for revenge against Matthew McConaughey. Added to the Netflix queue. Thanks! Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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What's everyone's favorite short? I have to go with Last Clear Chance. Why don't they look Paul....why don't they look?
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OldTennisCourt posted:What's everyone's favorite short? The only one I really remember is A Case of Spring Fever. Noooooo springs!
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Last Clear Chance and Days of our Years are both great. I think A Date With Your Family is my favorite. A voilent argument erupts over whose day was more pleasant! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hh4M4vipAo
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HungryMedusa posted:Last Clear Chance and Days of our Years are both great.
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Progress Island USA for sure. Unfortunately it happens to be attached to the episode that has one of my least favorite shorts, Money Talks. Even riffed, all that condescension is painful to go through.
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OldTennisCourt posted:What's everyone's favorite short? Days of Our Years is mine.
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