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bad posts ahead!!! posted:i've always liked those rare moments when they acknowledge something good in a film. Dawgstar posted:Yeah. I can't remember if they commented on it, but in the Colossal Guide somebody (Kevin, I think) went on about how pretty the infamous Russo-Finnish co-productions were to look at as they obviously had money put into them. And of course, The Time Travellers has that big where Jonah points out that a lot of the effects are practical. Same in that Doug McClure submarine one.
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ALso that guy could have been referring to Jim Mallon, who was effectively The Guy In Charge and famously had a lovely view on the movies the show did
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Mister Kingdom posted:I have them all except The Singles Collection since I have them already. I buy them as soon as they are available to avoid what happened with Volume 10 (which I have an original as well). I buy them from Shout! Factory if there's a bonus disc involved Got a picture of your collection?
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drrockso20 posted:Got a picture of your collection? Not right now. I've got everything in boxes until I build some new shelves.
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muscles like this! posted:Fun fact is that the opening really did have nothing to do with anything and according to Tony Cardoza it was just something that Coleman Francis wanted to film. "If you see anything, film it and we'll throw it in"
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Mister Kingdom posted:I have them all except The Singles Collection since I have them already. I buy them as soon as they are available to avoid what happened with Volume 10 (which I have an original as well). I buy them from Shout! Factory if there's a bonus disc involved I'm just missing 10.2, which comes out on Tues. Obviously also missing 10.1, and the DVD of The Amazing Colossal Man, though I do have the VHS of that.
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Davros1 posted:I'm just missing 10.2, which comes out on Tues. Obviously also missing 10.1, and the DVD of The Amazing Colossal Man, though I do have the VHS of that. I also have the Giant Gila Monster "replacement" disc, too.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I also have the Giant Gila Monster "replacement" disc, too. Ah, when Toho said noho.
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Speaking of complete MST3K collections, are two Anniversary editions and a Turkey Day box necessary to complete one? Or these episodes will appear on the regular volumes later?
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ringu0 posted:Speaking of complete MST3K collections, are two Anniversary editions and a Turkey Day box necessary to complete one? Or these episodes will appear on the regular volumes later? They are all featuring unique episodes. The only exception is that 25th anniversary features Mitchell and The Brain that Wouldn't Die as a bonus, and Shout may have issued one of those films as a single. You'll also need the singles for Red Zone Cuba and The Wild World of Batwoman and Manos: The Hands of Fate.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I also have the Giant Gila Monster "replacement" disc, too. Did they ever release that as a seperate disc? I only have the original version of Volume 10 (I think that was the one anyway) with Godzilla Vs. Megalon and didn't think it was worth it to buy the same set again for the sake of one new episode.
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Larryb posted:Did they ever release that as a seperate disc? I only have the original version of Volume 10 (I think that was the one anyway) with Godzilla Vs. Megalon and didn't think it was worth it to buy the same set again for the sake of one new episode. Rhino made it available right after 10.2 was released for that very reason.   It was either $6.95 or $7.95. It's long out of print, of course.
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Re-watching Incredibly Strange Creatures, never really noticed how many trans jokes are at the beginning. 
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah. I can't remember if they commented on it, but in the Colossal Guide somebody (Kevin, I think) went on about how pretty the infamous Russo-Finnish co-productions were to look at as they obviously had money put into them. I remember watching an old interview where a film critic calls Mike out for making fun of Gamera and Godzilla movies. His response was that they'd gladly make fun of other good movies, past or present, but getting their rights would be prohibitively expensive. Hence why he does exactly that with commentary tracks through Rifftrax.
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Cemetry Gator posted:They are all featuring unique episodes. The only exception is that 25th anniversary features Mitchell and The Brain that Wouldn't Die as a bonus, and Shout may have issued one of those films as a single. Thank you
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Joel is nothing if not gracious SirPhoebos posted:Re-watching Incredibly Strange Creatures, never really noticed how many trans jokes are at the beginning. That's the problem with comedy and time. poo poo that people used to think was funny quickly gets sussed out as not so as the years go by. Just look at Eddie Murphy's early career. Don't think he'll be calling back to those routines
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Burkion posted:That's the problem with comedy and time. Wasn't there a thing about them taking out some more off-color jokes in a RiffTrax?
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Dawgstar posted:Wasn't there a thing about them taking out some more off-color jokes in a RiffTrax? https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/1084258998851911681
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SirPhoebos posted:Re-watching Incredibly Strange Creatures, never really noticed how many trans jokes are at the beginning. yeah that one's off my regular list now... so is violent years, with the male rape jokes
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:yeah that one's off my regular list now... so is violent years, with the male rape jokes I just cringe and move on. The Incredibly Strange Creatures is my favorite Sci-Fi episode.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:yeah that one's off my regular list now... so is violent years, with the male rape jokes It's hard for me to get outraged at The Violent Years just because the scene is done so badly. Like maybe if anyone in the scene had actually shown any emotion at all it would have been different but the guy is barely put out by the impending attack.
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i just want to know what trashing the classroom was supposed to accomplish as a commie plot or whatever
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:i just want to know what trashing the classroom was supposed to accomplish as a commie plot or whatever Ed Wood wrote it.
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One reference that stands out to me is Track of the Moon Beast and the California Lady sketch where they keep saying "the Eskimo guy" but I feel like Eskimo wasn't accepted as the impolite term until later (probably because that's when they finally got around to asking Inuits).
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muscles like this! posted:It's hard for me to get outraged at The Violent Years just because the scene is done so badly. Like maybe if anyone in the scene had actually shown any emotion at all it would have been different but the guy is barely put out by the impending attack. I watched that episode and it didn't really strike me as offensive. I think a big part of it was that the movie wasn't going for horror or any kind of emotional pay off but rather just titillation. It's a male fantasy. And I didn't realized that some people could consider Eskimo impolite. Like, I never heard it before now. I do cringe a little when they shorten Gypsy's name, but I know it's just an unfortunate coincidence (although some people do consider even the full term to be a slur, but like a lot of these things, it depends on who you ask). Edit: https://www.uaf.edu/anlc/resources/inuit-eskimo/ So it looks like it depends. In Canada and Greenland, they don't like it, and in Alaska, they are okay with Eskimo. Cemetry Gator fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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as with a lot of things it depends on the person (don't treat entire groups of people as a singular bloc of group thought) and always err on the side of not being lovely
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah. I can't remember if they commented on it, but in the Colossal Guide somebody (Kevin, I think) went on about how pretty the infamous Russo-Finnish co-productions were to look at as they obviously had money put into them. they were pretty decent movies, they just suffered from cultural translation issues. russian/finnish folklore is weird if you're not familiar with it, same as how every so often people rediscover that a lot of germanic folklore tales are dark and morbid in their original form
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luxury handset posted:they were pretty decent movies, they just suffered from cultural translation issues. russian/finnish folklore is weird if you're not familiar with it, same as how every so often people rediscover that a lot of germanic folklore tales are dark and morbid in their original form They also suffered from actual translation issues. The movies came over during a time when the independent studios that bought the rights would often trim down or recut a foreign film, or sometimes they'd even create completely new stories. That man was no Sinbad...
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The Day The Earth Froze:quote:The Finnish version has been released on DVD in 2014. It was restored by Finnish National Audiovisual Institute in 2014 to digital 4K format
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Heck, Hercules Against the Moon Men isn't even really about Hercules. Then you have Germany, where thanks to Frankenstein Conquers the World, a bunch of kaiju flicks got retitled into things like "Frankenstein and the Monster from the Sea" (Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster) and "King Kong: Monsters from Outer Space" (Godzilla vs. Megalon).
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Keromaru5 posted:Heck, Hercules Against the Moon Men isn't even really about Hercules. Which makes one imagine a universe where Dr Frankenstein and his descendents just kept mucking around with things they shouldn't, in this case making Kaiju and Giant Robots and stuff, it's the kind of thing that would make for a great premise for a comic book or cartoon, or video game
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drrockso20 posted:Which makes one imagine a universe where Dr Frankenstein and his descendents just kept mucking around with things they shouldn't, in this case making Kaiju and Giant Robots and stuff, it's the kind of thing that would make for a great premise for a comic book or cartoon, or video game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddhwuSgzsY Kind of OT but there's a group of independant kaiju wrestlers that tours (out of boston iirc) and everyone should go see them if they get the chance they're amazing live.
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I had a Kaiju Big Battel poster (Silver Potato) back in 2003, good to see they are still doing their thing
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Just watched gunslinger, it’s probably one of the best movie movies of the season. There’s a reasonably well done romantic triangle, questions of honor, some fun western dialogue… Until it gets to the end and it gets Corman all over the place.
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Golden Bee posted:Just watched gunslinger, it’s probably one of the best movie movies of the season. There’s a reasonably well done romantic triangle, questions of honor, some fun western dialogue… Until it gets to the end and it gets Corman all over the place. Plus it has both Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes 
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beverly garland owns. i've never seen her give less than 100 percent to anything she's in. even things that clearly don't deserve it.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:beverly garland owns. i've never seen her give less than 100 percent to anything she's in. even things that clearly don't deserve it. She definitely does. And I'd go so far as to say that while Gunslinger doesn't even come close to being a great genre film, I've watched numerous western films and TV shows ever since I was a kid, and it's definitely nowhere near the worst of 'em. It's not The Wild Bunch, but it's also definitely not Last of the Wild Horses, either.
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