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bad posts ahead!!! posted:Both movies feature prominently a much older woman seducing a (pre?)teen boy, wtf was that about? Again just want to say "...and that's how babies are made" from the first one was one of the biggest laughs of the season for me.
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Light Gun Man posted:There's like a lot more weed jokes now too or am i just forgetting old ones? I know it happened SOMETIMES before. Having just gone through the old show, they were pretty abundantly prominent, especially during the Joel years.
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laserblast is probably a 50/50 split of weed jokes and ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:Both movies feature prominently a much older woman seducing a (pre?)teen boy, wtf was that about? At least the temptress in the first movie was actually some kind of hellish spider-creature; the second movie can't even fall back on that flimsy excuse.
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Bicyclops posted:Having just gone through the old show, they were pretty abundantly prominent, especially during the Joel years. Willing to accept I forgot lots of weed jokes. Antiquated Pants posted:Look familiar MIKE ? Yeah, that sounds familiar. Good poo poo.
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The Joel era was a weed joke told in long form over a period of 100 episodes.
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remusclaw posted:The Joel era was a weed joke told in long form over a period of 100 episodes. Mighty Jack has a bunch of them, for example. Also he makes his own gravy!
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http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/noise/bcpnews-the-new-mystery-science-theater-3000-is-a-bad-show-about-bad-movies-20170417-story.html edit: VV haha I almost called it "a review by Armond White" Bruteman fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Bruteman posted:http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/noise/bcpnews-the-new-mystery-science-theater-3000-is-a-bad-show-about-bad-movies-20170417-story.html Armond White's really fallen on hard times to be writing for a local paper.
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Crave's "Nine Things You Need To Know about the new season of MST3k"
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All the grievances listed by the article is kinda dumb. It just seems to hate the very things people ended up liking about this season (like Cry Wilderness, the Monster Rap) which I personally find charmingly kooky and emulates earlier stuff that Joel did in his era. It's the same level of offbeat humor and references except in 2017 which apparently makes it suck according to the article? IDK man, I'm having fun.
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There are two types of fans I've written off - The "I love MST3k but hate the new season" fan -The "I love MST3k but refuse to watch the new season, as it might tarnish my love" fan. Both are useless to this world.
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Franchescanado posted:There are two types of fans I've written off E: Oops, someone else beat me to it. First bad press I've seen: http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/noise/bcpnews-the-new-mystery-science-theater-3000-is-a-bad-show-about-bad-movies-20170417-story.html TVGM fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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twistedmentat posted:I'd totally be down for shorts being their own episodes. They could put them out in between full seasons to keep people interested. Throw them on YouTube to get new viewers.
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Franchescanado posted:There are two types of fans I've written off The thing that particularly aggravates me on my Facebook are people who see it as some kind of cynical, Hollywood-ized nostalgia cash-in, sell-out, because it really just seems clear that Joel was upset that his jokey puppet show died and found a bunch of up-and-coming comedians who grew up with and loved it to death. Whatever flaws it might have in the tough balancing act between winking too much and winking too little, staying too faithful and reinventing the wheel, bringing in new, exciting talent and maintaining the cow town feel, everyone associated with it tried really hard, whether they were making cardboard cut-outs, playing a cover of the Canada song, or just mailing postcards to backers. At least that terribly wrong reviewer admitted it was a labor of love.
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Bicyclops posted:The thing that particularly aggravates me on my Facebook are people who see it as some kind of cynical, Hollywood-ized nostalgia cash-in, sell-out, because it really just seems clear that Joel was upset that his jokey puppet show died and found a bunch of up-and-coming comedians who grew up with and loved it to death. Whatever flaws it might have in the tough balancing act between winking too much and winking too little, staying too faithful and reinventing the wheel, bringing in new, exciting talent and maintaining the cow town feel, everyone associated with it tried really hard, whether they were making cardboard cut-outs, playing a cover of the Canada song, or just mailing postcards to backers. At least that terribly wrong reviewer admitted it was a labor of love. I honestly can't think of anything I've seen lately that feels more earnest. Everyone is throwing their heart and soul into this, and you can just feel it. They just want to make you laugh, it's really sweet. 
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Add "people who want Gypsy to be a big dumb dragon voiced by a dude" to my list of pet peeves too, I guess. One of the more common complaints everywhere seems to be some variation of "They've ruined Gypsy with the new 'sexy' voice!"
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WOuld putting Gypsie in the theatre for a whole episode make it to crowded?
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BigRed0427 posted:WOuld putting Gypsie in the theatre for a whole episode make it to crowded? Nah just have her tube run off to the left so she isn't blocking too much of the screen. Cinematic Titanic had a lot of people all around the screen and it never bothered me that much.
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Bicyclops posted:Add "people who want Gypsy to be a big dumb dragon voiced by a dude" to my list of pet peeves too, I guess. One of the more common complaints everywhere seems to be some variation of "They've ruined Gypsy with the new 'sexy' voice!" It took me by surprise, but that went away quickly. And "now you're MISTER cabinet" was such a great and unexpected riff that it sold me on her.
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Most of the modern cast openly (and legally) smoke weed, and have for various shows and podcasts. Baron and Jonah have both been on Getting Doug with High (but Jonah absolutely did not handle it well).
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boner confessor posted:riding with death has a lot of weed jokes too, or at least talk about how mellow the 70's are lucky fellow, he's about to find out I'm Ben Murphy
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Gypsy's new voice is perfect and fits her more than her previous strange dumb bovine voice
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Raskolnikov38 posted:laserblast is probably a 50/50 split of weed jokes and ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL All right thunderbucket get ready for your biggest challenge
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boner confessor posted:riding with death has a lot of weed jokes too, or at least talk about how mellow the 70's are This Island Earth has a few too. "Looks like the inside of a bong!"
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:Gypsy's new voice is perfect and fits her more than her previous strange dumb bovine voice I feel like while Gypsy may have been a one-note character before, there's just nothing distinctive about her now. Getting two riffs a movie just isn't enough; maybe if she came in more often it would be better. I do like how the puppet redesign lets them hang bodies off the neck for playing dressing up. Basically, new voice is fine, but Gypsy needs more to do.
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Question: Do you think ANYONE could have sold "IMPERIAL BATTLESHIP! HALT... THE PASSAGE OF TIME!"?
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Random Stranger posted:I feel like while Gypsy may have been a one-note character before, there's just nothing distinctive about her now. Getting two riffs a movie just isn't enough; maybe if she came in more often it would be better. I do like how the puppet redesign lets them hang bodies off the neck for playing dressing up. I mean, the satellite is tethered to the moonbase now, they could say this frees up more of her cycles for doing / saying more stuff.
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Starcrash was the wrong episode to introduce my girlfriend to MST3K with. I thought the Star Wars rip-off would lead to some good riffing, but the riffs are slower than the other episodes I watched. Maybe it's hard to mine humor from an already absurd sci-fi plot that has no grounding in reality? Anyway, she got more into trying to follow the plot of the movie than Jonah and the bots.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:Gypsy's new voice is perfect and fits her more than her previous strange dumb bovine voice Yeah, I look forward to seeing more of her. I hope next season (fingers crossed) they give Synthia a little more to work with. It's eerie how much she looks like sci-fi era Pearl (lots of people thought it was her!) and I feel like someone with Rebecca Hanson's background could actually do a lot with that beyond "Initiating hug."
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If they get renewed and the same cast all return, honestly, they should just rotate the bots for the movies. Maybe have a different pairing for each segment of the movies, or maybe let Gypsy and Crow do one episode, and then Gypsy and Servo, and then Tom and Crow and repeat.
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Gaz-L posted:Question: Do you think ANYONE could have sold "IMPERIAL BATTLESHIP! HALT... THE PASSAGE OF TIME!"? I think you'll find that the most famous line from Starcrash is "Imperial Battleship... Halt... the flow of time!" Nobody could sell "halt the passage of time", but "the flow of time"? Absolutely. At a nerd convention over ten years ago I ran into someone with a t-shirt with that line on it. And I wished I had one...
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It would be good to actually get a female voice in the theater. One of the things my wife hates about MST3K is the voice the guys put on when they're riffing a woman in the film in a way that mocks the decade's sensibilities about women, and it would help a lot just to have an actual woman do those ones. Plus Gypsy is less cumbersome now.
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So we're all in agreement that if they get another season: Jonah created a clone of himself, made the clone wear the tattoo, then while the wedding was going on the original went for a spacewalk on the Satellite of Love with the suit he built
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Must say, after watching Wizards of the Lost Kingdom, I kind of like the Rifftrax version more. I think the pacing on the Rifftrax one is better, and more of the jokes land for me then don't. The MST3K version feels more like the riffs are cut and pasted next to each other, and don't have as much effect. For the five rapid fire jokes in a row you get with MST, you can get one good out of the Rifftrax. The one significant advantage the MST3K version has is the print is much much better (Rifftrax is a VHS copy and looks horrible), and you can watch it. The Rifftrax version got pulled (I think over rights?), so you can only watch this new version. But having said that, it's still a good episode. And the "sequel" is very much worth watching too.
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Bicyclops posted:It would be good to actually get a female voice in the theater. One of the things my wife hates about MST3K is the voice the guys put on when they're riffing a woman in the film in a way that mocks the decade's sensibilities about women, and it would help a lot just to have an actual woman do those ones. Plus Gypsy is less cumbersome now. To be fair, even Mary Jo and Bridget sort of do the Fargo voice when they do that on their videos.
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BJPaskoff posted:Starcrash was the wrong episode to introduce my girlfriend to MST3K with. I thought the Star Wars rip-off would lead to some good riffing, but the riffs are slower than the other episodes I watched. Maybe it's hard to mine humor from an already absurd sci-fi plot that has no grounding in reality? Anyway, she got more into trying to follow the plot of the movie than Jonah and the bots. There's no wrong way to enjoy an MST3K episode. Except for that review a few posts back. My only real complaint about the new series is that a good chunk of the intermediary skits feel VERY rushed. Ever done that improv thing where you do a scene, and then need to do it again in half the time so you're stepping on lines and falling over each other? They feel like that. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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