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Let's get our facts straight about The Giant Spider Invasion: Terry is Ev's SISTER, not her daughter. So Kester was spanking his sister-in-law, not his step-daughter, and Ev was hitting on her sister's boyfriend, not her daughter's. This really isn't all that important, but it somehow makes the movie feel even sleazier. Okay, please proceed.
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I dunno where to ask this but why not here. I recently had my love of old scifi/horror films rekindled. I understand that MST3K did a commentary on The Black Scorpion. Was the film really that bad? AMC back in the day introduced me to so many great classics like Them! and the Three Stooges. Maybe Black Scorpion isn't quite on their level but it was one of my favorites back then. But maybe it was my youth and the fact I like scorpions. I haven't seen it in over a decade.
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Aug 18, 2019 07:44
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NikkolasKing posted:I dunno where to ask this but why not here. MST3K did more than a few episodes on movies that weren't necessarily *bad*, just sort of cheesy. The most important thing, especially for early episodes of MST3K like Black Scorpion, was how easy it was to get ahold of the rights to use the movie.
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Aug 18, 2019 13:43
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RiffTrax is moving their Drip stuff over to Patreon soon. Also, they mentioned a Talkin' Driptrax video about the Street Fighter MP3, so I think we might be getting that soon, possibly this week.
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Aug 20, 2019 19:46
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wow, didn't think giant spider invasion could be even more repulsive than the mst version
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Aug 21, 2019 05:51
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Giant Spider Invasion feels like it's trying to be a series of religious parables. The movie starts with the preacher preaching about damnation; all the people with speaking lines who were killed or injured were portrayed as being questionable at best; heck, even the scientists said that the black hole opened a gateway to hell. This COULD lend itself to the killed people representing the seven deadly sins, Dan is greedy, Ev is gluttony (excessive alcohol), Cousin Billy is envious, the sheriff is slothful, barkeeper is wrathful. But that leaves lust and pride. The waitress could count for lust but we don't see her death or hear about it. And Terry doesn't seem exceptionally prideful to the level of it being a sin. But maybe that's why she was only injured to an unknowable degree? I can't help but wonder if the waitresses death was cut for time or for budget reasons. Or if the screenwriter just got lazy and decided to stop at five or six deadly sins.
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Aug 21, 2019 06:41
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do you guys know when this will be released on the site? at least a few months, right? cousin billeh
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Aug 21, 2019 06:43
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RandomPauI posted:Giant Spider Invasion feels like it's trying to be a series of religious parables. I certainly did not witness any lust in that film.
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Aug 21, 2019 07:23
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The sin of Lust used to be the sin of Prostitution. And the waitress being a hooker feels more comfortable to me than her actually liking Dan.
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Aug 21, 2019 08:49
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:do you guys know when this will be released on the site? at least a few months, right? Yeah Star Raiders just came out a week or so ago when that one aired in early July (or was it June?), so maybe Octoberish? Hope it's relatively soon, we weren't able to go see that one here, the two showings happened to coincide with two nights we just could not reschedule things.
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Aug 21, 2019 17:27
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:wow, didn't think giant spider invasion could be even more repulsive than the mst version "Ah, comfortable 2 PM beer buzz...greasy guys carrying unconscious girls...homesick yet, Mike?" 
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Aug 21, 2019 21:15
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:do you guys know when this will be released on the site? at least a few months, right? October 15
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Aug 24, 2019 02:41
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Street Fighter https://www.rifftrax.com/street-fighter quote:“Hadouken!” “Shoryuken!” Perhaps the two most iconic special moves from the classic video game Street Fighter II. Will you see or hear either of these moves in Street Fighter, the film adaptation of that game? No! Were 90s kids disappointed by this movie? Very!
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Aug 24, 2019 16:31
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Even in Rifftrax format you can feel Raul Julia making the poo poo material hes working with so much better than it should be.
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Aug 24, 2019 18:14
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Barudak posted:Even in Rifftrax format you can feel Raul Julia making the poo poo material hes working with so much better than it should be. I mean he's literally the only redeeming part of the film (ok, other than the guy who plays Zangief). I've only seen the film once before as a kid, and I never appreciated, for what was intended to be a Hollywood blockbuster, just how universally terrible the acting was for everyone outside of the antagonists.
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Aug 24, 2019 20:14
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the music and weird sound effects in psychotronic man are actually really interesting. i see why it's a cult film, there's a lot of cool stuff, in general. 🤷🏾♂️ it's also a smorgasbord of 70s chicago accents if that's your thing
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Aug 24, 2019 23:19
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Hey, hotshots, I found a restaurant that actually serves the legendary "size".
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Aug 25, 2019 09:34
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Hey, hotshots, I found a restaurant that actually serves the legendary "size". How was it? Did you feel you had the energy to go out and fight a bear?
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Aug 25, 2019 15:59
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Barudak posted:Even in Rifftrax format you can feel Raul Julia making the poo poo material hes working with so much better than it should be. Also a lot of the cast was a bunch of young, new actors who were suddenly in Thailand for filming, which is probably why most of the cast looks so sweaty all the time.
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Aug 28, 2019 20:45
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There appears to be something infectiously fun about playing the role of M. Bison. Raul Julia, the guy from the cartoon and the English and Japanese voice actors from the games ham it up so well. Neal McDonough... maybe not so much. I just discovered that JCVD wanted to get a sequel off the ground in 2003, but they went with the reboot instead. God, I hate you, Legend of Chun-Li. You cheated us out of Dolph Lundgren as Gill!
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Aug 28, 2019 21:22
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Gavok posted:There appears to be something infectiously fun about playing the role of M. Bison. Raul Julia, the guy from the cartoon and the English and Japanese voice actors from the games ham it up so well. Neal McDonough... maybe not so much. Neal McDonough can ham it up when he's got the right part. He owns as Damien Darhk in Legends of Tomorrow. I didn't appreciate it in Arrow because that show tended to be a little less goofy, but Legends of Tomorrow is all about being dumb and cool.
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Aug 29, 2019 06:30
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This was the first time I saw the long cut of street fighter. On the one hand almost 2 and a half hours are significantly more boring than 90 minutes, but on the other hand: 
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Aug 29, 2019 18:11
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Barudak posted:How was it? Did you feel you had the energy to go out and fight a bear? I can definitely say it was the best size I've ever tasted.
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Aug 30, 2019 14:32
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I'm watching Oblivion right now. The opening shot is of a tumbleweed blowing silently across the desert. Mike: "Oh look, Bill Maher told a joke." 
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Sep 6, 2019 16:15
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A space western with appearances by George Takei, Julie Newmar and Isaac Hayes! All doing their absolute worst callbacks The real focus of the movie is obviously the outdoors ceiling fans.
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Sep 6, 2019 16:34
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Another Bill posted:I'm watching Oblivion right now. The opening shot is of a tumbleweed blowing silently across the desert. By my count that makes Mike the only conservative to ever successfully burn Bill Maher. You think the others would’ve figured it out by now.
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Sep 6, 2019 18:56
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New Bridget & Mary Jo riff is up today (my favorite kind of riff). Also the code WORK for the Labor Day sale says it is applied to the cart, but it doesn't show up in the breakdown. The codes WISCONSIN and SPIDER from the live show definitely still work, though.
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Sep 6, 2019 19:36
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BaronVonVaderham posted:New Bridget & Mary Jo riff is up today (my favorite kind of riff). They just don't stack. With WORK alone the new riff comes down to $10.19, while WISCONSIN combined with SPIDER reduces the price to $10.25. I am very intelligent.
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Ewen Cluney posted:How Did This Get Made did an episode about the movie (which led to them having a T-shirt for sale that said "What exactly is a Street Fighter?"), and apparently Raul Julia was in the process of dying during filming, so he would sit there most of the time, and then just kind of switch on and become Bison as soon as it was time to roll camera. I don't think anyone else could've yelled "GAME OVER!" with a straight face, much less with the utter conviction he radiated.
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Sep 6, 2019 19:59
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He could've just pick up the check and fake it but he still poured every bit of energy he could muster into this stupid stupid role.
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Sep 6, 2019 20:12
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Evil Mastermind posted:He took the role because the production company offered him a pretty large amount of money, and he wanted to make sure his family would be taken care of after he died. I also read that, on top of that, he wanted to end on something that he hoped his kids would enjoy. By popular demand posted:He could've just pick up the check and fake it but he still poured every bit of energy he could muster into this stupid stupid role. He was, if nothing else, a professional.
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See I’ve heard accounts that he didn’t know he was terminal, just was sick, but did it for his grandkids still.
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Sep 6, 2019 21:52
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Regardless he's a class act and that movie is made by him
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Sep 6, 2019 22:45
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Raul, like Tim Curry, never phones it in 
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Uncle Wemus posted:Raul, like Tim Curry, never phones it in Mom, my nuts?
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Its really hard to tell in the new Teen Agers movie if Big Jim is really that tall or if every single other character is short as hell.
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Sep 8, 2019 00:57
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Also for some reason Roy goes to their school again, although Jimmy is nowhere to be seen.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:22
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Maxwell Lord posted:See I’ve heard accounts that he didn’t know he was terminal, just was sick, but did it for his grandkids still. My understanding is he was coming off of surgery, possibly for stomach cancer, and then did the filming while recovering which is why he wasnt healthy. After filming and back in america he had a stroke and thats ultimately what killed him. Basically he took the film for his grandkids but at that point didnt believe his death was imminent nor had any reason to think so.
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muscles like this! posted:Also for some reason Roy goes to their school again, although Jimmy is nowhere to be seen. Barudak posted:My understanding is he was coming off of surgery, possibly for stomach cancer, and then did the filming while recovering which is why he wasnt healthy. After filming and back in america he had a stroke and thats ultimately what killed him. These posts back to back make it sound like Jimmy died before Vacation Days was filmed.
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I'm aware that years of following the various projects would probably leave me attuned to their brand of humor, and I was still caught off-guard. Watched the Star Raiders Live for the first time, about 5-10 minutes in I commented to my friends that the movie looked like it was made of stitched together FMV sequences from turn of the millennium video games, and later on the guys give me riffback!
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