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Powered Descent posted:Puff piece on MST3K on slate.com. Nothing really new, but some nice quotes from Joel on the early days and the revival. He's mentioned it before, but I always forget that he almost played Woody on Cheers. Part of me wishes he'd done a season and quit to MST3K just so we could live in a world where Ted Danson might have guested on Season 11.
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Bicyclops posted:He's mentioned it before, but I always forget that he almost played Woody on Cheers. Part of me wishes he'd done a season and quit to MST3K just so we could live in a world where Ted Danson might have guested on Season 11. I kinda wish he had gone on to play Philo in UHF too, but that might have messed up our puppet show.
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Dec 7, 2018 20:40
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Dawgstar posted:The Troll 2 RiffTrax our fearless(?) leader(??) did with Mike is pretty funny, save possibly relying too heavily on 'HEY THERE ARE NO TROLLS IN THIS MOVIE.' Lowtax does get my favorite riff, recurring or otherwise, in that one "LARRY DAVID!"
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Dec 8, 2018 00:29
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Dawgstar posted:Agreed. It's not by the Asylum either which means I think more folks are at least trying in the picture. It's probably up there with Eight-Legged Freaks for your dumb giant spider movies. Eight-Legged Freaks is a fantastically self-aware film and a personal favourite  .
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Dec 8, 2018 02:44
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let's get our story straight, uhhh, they shot first and he never had a wheelchair
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Eight-Legged Freaks is a fantastically self-aware film and a personal favourite Oh, it's fun, don't get me wrong and would in fact also be a great MST/RiffTrax even if it's probably too expensive for both (not counting a 'just the jokes' from RT).
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Dec 8, 2018 04:55
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Dawgstar posted:Oh, it's fun, don't get me wrong and would in fact also be a great MST/RiffTrax even if it's probably too expensive for both (not counting a 'just the jokes' from RT). It's really not that riffable. It's a rock-solid movie that makes its own jokes. For a movie to be riffable, it ideally needs to be something that's either just absolutely terrible, or tries and fails due to lack of effort/talent/money/originality.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's really not that riffable. It's a rock-solid movie that makes its own jokes. For a movie to be riffable, it ideally needs to be something that's either just absolutely terrible, or tries and fails due to lack of effort/talent/money/originality. Yeah I like the movies that are clear shills like atlantic rim or mac and me, but the real best ones are the movies that actually tried their little heart out.
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Dec 8, 2018 05:15
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Imagine if they did that Yongary remake from the late 90s in the next season
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Dec 8, 2018 06:56
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Nukieeeeeee
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Gozinbulx posted:Nukieeeeeee Oh no.
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Dec 8, 2018 14:01
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Rifftrax did a perfectly timed IT STINKS last night on No Retreat No Surrender and we nearly had to pause to catch our breath.
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Dec 8, 2018 20:31
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Chokes McGee posted:Rifftrax did a perfectly timed IT STINKS last night on No Retreat No Surrender and we nearly had to pause to catch our breath. Oh, that's a very entertaining RiffTrax is one hasn't seen it. I'm always amused by the inexplicable hatred the fat teenager has for our heroes. If he was any more stock 80's villain you could use him as an ingredient to make delicious gravy.
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Dawgstar posted:Oh, that's a very entertaining RiffTrax is one hasn't seen it. I'm always amused by the inexplicable hatred the fat teenager has for our heroes. If he was any more stock 80's villain you could use him as an ingredient to make delicious gravy. The thing is, by the end of the movie, you’re actively rooting for Van Damme’s chatacter because the people on the Seattle team are just so goddamn putrid. Like fat guy deserved way more a head butting, I wanted to see Ivan go full Bloodsport on him.
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Egbert Souse posted:While the ET stuff was a bit obvious with Mac and Me, the worse plagiarism was the nearly shot-for-shot ripping off of The Man Who Fell to Earth. THANK YOU! Like, Mac and his family look so similar to Thomas Newton's alien family that it has to be on purpose, but why the gently caress would you copy a Nick Roeg film in your ET rip-off?
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Cemetry Gator posted:Also, I love how the cell is clearly just a spare office. Like, that thing is massive. Complete with one of those lovely synthetic chipboard tiled ceilings, so anyone who wanted to escape could just climb out.
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Dec 9, 2018 16:46
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Murderion posted:Complete with one of those lovely synthetic chipboard tiled ceilings, so anyone who wanted to escape could just climb out. I am certain there were no script pages for the scene where the jackass main mech pilot guy (excitedly describes robot / monster / airplane battle). "Are you sure we're good on that? I made a bunch of airplane sounds and pretended to fly around and said ka-BOOM like nine times" We're good. Moving on! That's when it clicked to me, ohhhh this movie is just trying to be terrible.
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Never saw this before. Prior to the release of Godzilla '98, CBS decided to interview three "Godzilla Experts": Mike, Crow, and Tom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQiojRWMnk
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Mike is bizarrely over the top chill in that footage, did Joel's soul possess him
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Davros1 posted:Never saw this before. Can you imagine them doing GINO as an episode of MST3K, it would be brutal
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drrockso20 posted:Can you imagine them doing GINO as an episode of MST3K, it would be brutal I can imagine, because Rifftrax did a live show of it a couple of years back. Twas good.
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Paper Kaiju posted:I can imagine, because Rifftrax did a live show of it a couple of years back. Twas good. I thought it was one of the weaker Rifftrax Lives, to be honest. There’s huge stretches of that film that are just too dull to even riff over.
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Dec 10, 2018 06:44
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It was the worst Rifftrax for me, because it was the one where my greatest Rifftrax fear came true: some rear end in a top hat in the theater thought the gimmick of the show meant they could go ahead and make loud jokes about the movie the entire time.
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Random thoughts about the Gauntlet, and the movies therein: - Dr. Donna St. Phibes' accent is so horribly bad that I legitimately can't tell what kind of an accent she's even going for. Her character seems like it's going to get old, fast. - In Atlantic Rim, I loved the corpses strewn about on sidewalks that were clearly unharmed extras with occasional unconvincing blood smears near them. - Graham Greene isn't the only actual name in Atlantic Rim. Jim is the rapper Treach from Naughty by Nature. - If Netflix really did push for "bigger names," a la Atlantic Rim, that worries me, that they want to start interfering. Especially since I feel like AR was the weakest link this time around. - Mac and Me is a weirdly dark movie when you think about it. The aliens are dying on a barren planet, then nearly die in the California desert. Mac spends a lot of time crying or being sucked into vacuums. It's just relentlessly depressing. - Speaking of, the infamous cliff scene isn't in any way caused by the alien. The wrecked living room is why Eric heads outside by himself, sure, but his wheelchair failing, that was just faulty mechanics. Which means it was going to happen anyway. Had a tiny alien not climbed into their minivan, Eric would have drowned during his family's first day in California. - Weirdly enough, my favorite movie was The Day Time Ended, because I'm a sucker for insane bullshit movies that make less sense sober than they do when you're high as balls. - I seem to be the only one who liked S11 better than S12. I can't put my finger on why, exactly. I felt like S11 had more charm, and S12 seemed too forced? Don't get me wrong, I loved both of them, but 11 squeaked it out for me. - Did anyone else think that the captain and the ship's doctor were banging, in Lords of the Deep? Not unfinished Michelle Pfeiffer, the dark haired medic. I got a serious side hook up vibe from them. My husband thinks I'm insane.
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oh yeah that movie was just a bunch of amateur actors hooking up and occasionally they turned the camera on and read some lines
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spacing in vienna posted:
Eat a Big Mac, have a Coke. You'll feel better.
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I liked season 11 more than season 12, though I've learned if I can't get into the movie then I can't get into the riffing. Graham Green's explanation as to why his pilot is both in jail and getting a medal, however, is both one of the worst lines of dialog I've heard on mst3k (non-missed line division) and the best part of the episode.
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Season 11 had twice as much schlock fantasy so it was twice as good, QED
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Season 11 had more episodes so when you had a dud here and there, it didn't matter as much.
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Graham Green was contracted for exactly one half of a gently caress and by god that is exactly what he delivered.
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rydiafan posted:It was the worst Rifftrax for me, because it was the one where my greatest Rifftrax fear came true: some rear end in a top hat in the theater thought the gimmick of the show meant they could go ahead and make loud jokes about the movie the entire time. Ouch. I've been to most and haven't had that happen. Admittedly the only times the theater was really full were for The Room (where I think a lot of them just wanted to see Tommy's vision on the big screen) and, oddly, Krull. Nobody thought it was the time to start acting like it's Open Mic Night at the Ha-Ha Hut and now I realize how fortunate that is.
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Dawgstar posted:Ouch. I've been to most and haven't had that happen. Admittedly the only times the theater was really full were for The Room (where I think a lot of them just wanted to see Tommy's vision on the big screen) and, oddly, Krull. Nobody thought it was the time to start acting like it's Open Mic Night at the Ha-Ha Hut and now I realize how fortunate that is. At least it's not very common. I've been to 4-5 live riffing events and I've never seen that happen in the theater. A packed house every time, too.
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Yeah, I think most obnoxious thing I've heard anyone do was get drunk enough to howl with extremely loud laughter after most of the riffs, loud enough that the people in surrounding rows couldn't hear, and while the inebriation didn't help, the bulk of the reason it was annoying was that the person had an extremely annoying laugh, which is probably not their fault. Some people are just made that way.
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spacing in vienna posted:- Speaking of, the infamous cliff scene isn't in any way caused by the alien. The wrecked living room is why Eric heads outside by himself, sure, but his wheelchair failing, that was just faulty mechanics. Which means it was going to happen anyway. Had a tiny alien not climbed into their minivan, Eric would have drowned during his family's first day in California. eric kept dicking around in the area behind his yard because mac kept fleeing there after busting up eric's house. without mac eric probably wouldn't be back there in the first place personally i blame the subdivision developer who thought to provide open, unrestricted access to a slope, adjacent to a home, that was overlooking a giant precipice
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:At least it's not very common. I've been to 4-5 live riffing events and I've never seen that happen in the theater. A packed house every time, too.
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luxury handset posted:eric kept dicking around in the area behind his yard because mac kept fleeing there after busting up eric's house. without mac eric probably wouldn't be back there in the first place Eric's mom: Hello, we'd like the Calvin and Hobbes house, please.
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luxury handset posted:personally i blame the subdivision developer who thought to provide open, unrestricted access to a slope, adjacent to a home, that was overlooking a giant precipice
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realtors call it a "scenic overlook"
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I know this is like trying to untangle a hairball, but I'm trying to figure out Killer Fish's plot. Not sure if bits were cut or just talked over. --Steal jewels, toss in dam, wait 60 days for heat to die down. Fish deployed to ensure that. --Flunkies try a double-cross, get fished. --Flunkies try again, get fished. --Everybody sits around for 60 days showering and such. --Baddie and Wife get jewels. Protagonist sabotages boat (out of spite for the dead flunkies? Just plain orneryness? He did not yet know Baddie was a baddie.) --Storm hits. --Lots of folks get fished, Protagonist realizes Baddie is a baddie. --Baddie dies, folks rescued, entire tourist industry for the lake ruined due to piranha. --Wife gets jewelbox. --(apparently) Wife opens jewelbox, takes half the jewels, and pretends she can't open it even when on the plane home scott free. --(at some point afterward) Model swaps jewelbox.
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luxury handset posted:personally i blame the subdivision developer who thought to provide open, unrestricted access to a slope, adjacent to a home, that was overlooking a giant precipice The house I grew up in had one of those. Maybe 40 feet out the back gate was an 800-foot cliff overlooking the Rio Grande. A bit less of a slope leading up to it, though.
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