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1999 house of the future is a fun short riff, and the joy Bridgette brings when she sings 1999 is wonderful. Their first two shorts together was Consuming Women and a thing on sleeping pills right? Edit: Family Farm Fall is on YouTube https://youtu.be/dbMw5-9J-z4?si=5_d-GpntUbIbN9lV RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Mar 12, 2025 |
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Lumbermouth posted:Any of the Teen Agers series of 1940s teen comedies and any Hallmark/Lifetime-style TV movie. It's such a rich untapped vein of bad movies to make fun of. Oh poo poo I just read a book that used the Teen Agers movies as an example of media that vanishes from the collective consciousness and they sounded absolutely ridiculous. I’m psyched! Thanks to all for the recommendations.
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Mar 12, 2025 19:13
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The Teen Agers movies are basically Saved by the Bell for the 40s. They always remind me of this time when I was a kid watching Grease 2 on TV. My sister's husband walked in and said, "Don't worry, high school's nothing like this." I've always been grateful for that. Edit: by the way, which book?
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Mar 12, 2025 19:32
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A goofy thing about the Teen Agers movies is their extremely loose continuity. Also their extremely lazy writing, within like three movies they reuse the same plot twice of Freddie getting mistaken for a lookalike.
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Mar 12, 2025 20:15
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The Mother of the Bride / Children of the Bride / Baby of the Bride trilogy is incredible Bridget and Mary Jo fodder. It stars Rue McClanahan and whole slew of TV actors as her variously hosed up children. My favorite parts are 1) Paul Dooley's cameo as her lousy drunken gambling addict ex and 2) her son abducting his kids from their mother / his ex being presented in a sympathetic light.
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Mar 12, 2025 20:35
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Another Bill posted:The Mother of the Bride / Children of the Bride / Baby of the Bride trilogy is incredible Bridget and Mary Jo fodder. It stars Rue McClanahan and whole slew of TV actors as her variously hosed up children. Also Rue's character - who is presented at least in her 50's or more - has a VERY premature baby because it's funny she went into labor the same time as her daughter but the kid's fine, it's not that kind of movie.
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Mar 12, 2025 20:37
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The Sherlock stuff probably isn't peak Mary Jo & Bridget but I still like watching them.
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Mar 12, 2025 22:03
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Splint Chesthair posted:What else should I be watching from them? A couple of excellent shorts are "Good Grooming for Girls" - about a high school girl learning basic hygiene and making your clothes last longer. And "The Snob" - about a stuck-up girl who seemingly hates everyone and everything.
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Mar 12, 2025 22:33
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The short about the maturing woman is absolutely hilarious as its all friendly digs
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Mar 13, 2025 00:14
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Another Bill posted:The Mother of the Bride / Children of the Bride / Baby of the Bride trilogy is incredible Bridget and Mary Jo fodder. It stars Rue McClanahan and whole slew of TV actors as her variously hosed up children. Just a head's up for anyone wanting to check these out they recorded the riffs out of order. So if you try to watch them in original release order there will be riffs referencing stuff that hasn't happened yet.
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Mar 13, 2025 00:36
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Barudak posted:The short about the maturing woman is absolutely hilarious as its all friendly digs This one , “The Babysitter,” and “The Prom: It’s a Pleasure” are my MJ&B go-to shorts.
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Mar 13, 2025 13:48
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Barudak posted:The short about the maturing woman is absolutely hilarious as its all friendly digs "Oh, that's a bit too young for you." Just a delight in old friends deploying Minnesota Nice on each other.
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Mar 13, 2025 13:54
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I find those "of the Bride" movies tough to watch, not because they're incredibly awful or the riffing isn't good but all the dialogue is unbearably loving smarmy
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Mar 13, 2025 13:58
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A fun short is Oh, Boy! Babies! where Mary Jo falls in love with the nebbish 70s teacher.
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I like their various holiday short collections, they have a Halloween one, a couple Christmas ones and a Spring one. I wish they had kept doing these. One of the Christmas collections has them riffing on some early 20th century home film. Rescue Me as mentioned earlier is great, as is High School USA. A dumb tv movie with tons of 80s and 60s TV stars.
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Mar 13, 2025 14:19
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I enjoyed Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. It's already hilarious on its own.
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That's a problem for me, I don't enjoy Rifftrax in actually worthwhile films.
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Mar 14, 2025 10:42
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you know a movie is bad when it's hard to watch even with Rifftrax. Looking at you, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.
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By popular demand posted:That's a problem for me, I don't enjoy Rifftrax in actually worthwhile films. The Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Bridget and Mary Jo riffed was the TV-movie remake with the Redgrave sisters, not the original classic.
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Mar 14, 2025 12:59
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I'll check it out.
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midnight77 posted:you know a movie is bad when it's hard to watch even with Rifftrax. Looking at you, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. That's not helped because the guys are kinda mad at them. Especially Kevin.
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Mar 14, 2025 13:21
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midnight77 posted:you know a movie is bad when it's hard to watch even with Rifftrax. Looking at you, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. I was at a Q&A session with Bill Corbett last weekend, and someone asked him about movies that are too bad/poorly produced to be enjoyable even with riffs. He called out Rollergator by name, and said these days they're being more careful about getting movies that are at least semi-watchable. He also mentioned that they try to avoid movies that were poorly made by design. He said Birdemic 2 fit into this category, which is why they skipped it. Oddly, Birdemic 3 seems to be earnestly (if erroneously) made as something people might want to actually watch on its own merits. WhiteHowler fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Mar 14, 2025 |
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Mar 14, 2025 14:04
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WhiteHowler posted:He also mentioned that they try to avoid movies that were poorly made by design. He said Birdemic 2 fit into this category, which is why they skipped it). Oddly, Birdemic 3 seems to be earnestly (if erroneously) made as something people might want to actually watch on its own merits. Yeah, I've seen a lot of folks like in the Twitch channel chat and in comments going "Do Birdemic 2" but you watch it and realize 'oh no, James thinks he's in on the joke.' So it's really bad in new ways, but not particularly funny ones.
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I'm fond of Replica, it makes it plain to see that James must be a very nice man who has absolutely no understanding at all about the art of or craft of cinema.
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By popular demand posted:I'm fond of Replica, it makes it plain to see that James must be a very nice man who has absolutely no understanding at all about the art of or craft of cinema. Honestly from what I've seen people talk about their experiences with James 'nice' is very shaky. Here's one example. It's not the first time I've heard Nguyen didn't want to pay people. Wiseau might have been an rear end on set but at least his checks cleared. (I think.)
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Moving right along... MST3K 1311- The Mask (1961) came up on the stream and bored me enough that I looked up horror movies of the period and settled on rewatching Eyes Without A Face (1960) instead. Just had to remind myself that a movie being old is no excuse for being crap.
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WhiteHowler posted:I was at a Q&A session with Bill Corbett last weekend, and someone asked him about movies that are too bad/poorly produced to be enjoyable even with riffs. He called out Rollergator by name, and said these days they're being more careful about getting movies that are at least semi-watchable. Semi-watchable like The Amazing Bulk? 
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From the clips I've seen, it certainly looks like the sort of thing you just can't take your eyes off of.
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WhiteHowler posted:He also mentioned that they try to avoid movies that were poorly made by design. He said Birdemic 2 fit into this category, which is why they skipped it. Oddly, Birdemic 3 seems to be earnestly (if erroneously) made as something people might want to actually watch on its own merits. it really bummed me out when they did Sharknado for a live show since it's probably the biggest example of that subgenre, it's the only live show I didn't like and haven't rewatched after
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Sardonik posted:Semi-watchable like The Amazing Bulk? God, that one was excruciating. I had to break it up over 3 nights. Only time a MST3K/Rifftrax film broke me like that.
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Mar 14, 2025 20:31
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Things still holds the top spot for me
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Whoolighams posted:it really bummed me out when they did Sharknado for a live show since it's probably the biggest example of that subgenre, it's the only live show I didn't like and haven't rewatched after I thought Sharknado itself was a sincere flick, but then 2 was the intentional one. I dunno now.
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All the Sharknado films are tongue-in-cheek to a certain degree simply because they involve tornadoes full of sharks, but the first was still more or less played straight (well, as straight as a movie about a LA getting flooded and terrorized by tornadoes full of sharks could be). The first sequel was way more nudge nudge wink wink about it.
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Would the team do birdemic 2 as a command performance for the King of England? Follow up question, how do I become King of England? I assume seizing the bone and slaying a giant are involved.
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RandomPauI posted:Would the team do birdemic 2 as a command performance for the King of England? I'm led to believe imprisoning an irish-man is critical Barudak fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Mar 15, 2025 |
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In Over the Top, how come Bull doesn't get a second chance in the double elimination tournament?
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SilentChaz posted:The Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Bridget and Mary Jo riffed was the TV-movie remake with the Redgrave sisters, not the original classic. Yeah, the remake is incredibly trashy and sleazy.
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Highly recommend The Trucker's Woman. Not Bridget and MJ, but just really funny.
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I just found out that the star of Truckers Woman is Christian Slaters father. That's certainly something.
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 I love Bill Corbett, he goes hard.
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