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The Sustain-A-Band guitar that unbreaks is something that could have been found in the back of Agent J's closet.
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Nov 24, 2023 07:08
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Forgot Jennifer Love Hewitt was in this but then again I feel like I’ve deliberately forgotten a lot about this
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Nov 24, 2023 07:11
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The Twinkie Czar posted:The Sustain-A-Band guitar that unbreaks is something that could have been found in the back of Agent J's closet. This... probably wasn't very good for the longevity of the mechanism, come to think of it.
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Nov 24, 2023 07:16
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This movie is timeless in the sense that it feels out of place in any time period
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Nov 24, 2023 07:22
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It really was a bold choice to show death solving all a kid's problems, even as a dream sequence
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Nov 24, 2023 07:28
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The director of Munchie, Jim Wynorski, has a huge filmography including directing over 150 movies. Seems like he mostly did skin flicks but took a detour of two kids movies.
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Nov 24, 2023 07:35
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Munchie hurts to look at for extended periods
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Nov 24, 2023 07:42
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God damnit, Munchie is a hell of a thing to wake up to on a Friday morning.
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Nov 24, 2023 07:44
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The Twinkie Czar posted:The director of Munchie, Jim Wynorski, has a huge filmography including directing over 150 movies. Seems like he mostly did skin flicks but took a detour of two kids movies. The dude made Chopping Mall which is an amazing must watch.
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Nov 24, 2023 07:44
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Maxwell Lord posted:Munchie hurts to look at for extended periods The film, or the puppet? Who am I kidding, we all know the answer is "both". 
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Nov 24, 2023 07:45
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The puppet specifically, the way he’s animated is just disturbing.
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Nov 24, 2023 07:46
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Maxwell Lord posted:The puppet specifically, the way he’s animated is just disturbing. Yeah it's incredibly off-putting. And good lord, maybe Munchie shouldn't be leering at loving junior high school (at best) cheerleaders.
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Nov 24, 2023 07:46
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Maxwell Lord posted:Munchie hurts to look at for extended periods
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Nov 24, 2023 07:47
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Oh right Monique Gabrielle is in this
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Nov 24, 2023 07:49
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This has got some good riffs that I forgot about
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Nov 24, 2023 07:55
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Hiring Dom DeLuise to do loving Catskills level schtick in a kids movie sure was a choice.
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Nov 24, 2023 08:05
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I appreciate the Judy Tenuta ref
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Nov 24, 2023 08:07
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"The slide whistle of imminent doom" lol "behold. hijinx."
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Nov 24, 2023 08:13
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I do like Dr. Donna St. Phibes.
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Nov 24, 2023 08:23
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Maxwell Lord posted:I do like Dr. Donna St. Phibes. Same.
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Nov 24, 2023 08:26
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They really could not find someone to do a halfway awake Jack Nicholson impression
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Nov 24, 2023 08:27
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Maxwell Lord posted:They really could not find someone to do a halfway awake Jack Nicholson impression I ask again -- this is a kids movie, were there really a lot of kids around cracking up about "Jack Nicholson is a womanizing rear end in a top hat" jokes in 1992? Cause I sure wasn't! E: Ruff Ryder's Anthem reference out of nowhere.
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Nov 24, 2023 08:36
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I ask again -- this is a kids movie, were there really a lot of kids around cracking up about "Jack Nicholson is a womanizing rear end in a top hat" jokes in 1992? Cause I sure wasn't! I mean I’m pretty sure this is a film for nobody But honestly Nicholson was getting references in Tiny Toons and Animaniacs, he’d just been the Joker
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Nov 24, 2023 08:40
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I ask again -- this is a kids movie, were there really a lot of kids around cracking up about "Jack Nicholson is a womanizing rear end in a top hat" jokes in 1992? Cause I sure wasn't! There were a lot of kids screaming and begging to be let out of the theater, surely.
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Nov 24, 2023 08:43
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean I’m pretty sure this is a film for nobody Yeah you're right. Of course Animaniacs was always at least partially for adults as well as kids, but yeah, Batman definitely introduced Nicholson to my generation even in Finland. loving hell I had forgotten just how off-putting and awkward Munchie is. On the surface it looks like one of those movies, but everything is just off. The tone is weird, the jokes are rough and lean too far in some uncomfortable directions. What a loving mess of a movie. I AM GRANDO posted:There were a lot of kids screaming and begging to be let out of the theater, surely. 
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Nov 24, 2023 08:49
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Oh god, Master Ninja II.
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Nov 24, 2023 09:01
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Nov 24, 2023 09:03
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Overall I preferred Master Ninja I, but I do love that General Timothy Van Patton sketch.
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Nov 24, 2023 10:02
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I love that they got Penn Jilette to do their promos, gives me a nice warm feeling of Comedy Central nostalgia.
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Nov 24, 2023 11:32
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Catalina Caper was one of the enhanced episodes, right? I have to say the cast outlines look extremely like someone turned on 2xSaI in their emulator.
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Nov 24, 2023 11:50
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I don’t get Joel’s fascination with trying to make MST3k fully HD. Part of the original show’s charm was often the extremely lovely and hosed up prints they were riffing. Not to mention how many great riffable b-grade and lower movies there are that just flat out don’t exist in anything close to pristine HD quality. Manos is almost certainly the show’s most well-known movie and there’s literally a joke about how ‘every frame looks like someone’s last known photograph’. No one cares about the visual quality of the riffed movies, there’s little-to-no benefit in only riffing HD stuff in the new seasons or doing things like the upscales of old episodes.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I don’t get Joel’s fascination with trying to make MST3k fully HD. Part of the original show’s charm was often the extremely lovely and hosed up prints they were riffing. Not to mention how many great riffable b-grade and lower movies there are that just flat out don’t exist in anything close to pristine HD quality. It's especially weird because it's the sort of thing you'd expect would happen if MST3K was being aired on TV again, where they are getting money from a network and have to meet certain expectations. That's obviously not the case, so why worry about it? I also wonder if that's contributing to some of the costs and financial issues they're having. I know movie rights are a weird and not-so-wonderful thing, but I'd have to think trying to get the rights to doing higher-quality prints of movies adds some extra costs over getting prints that look like they aired on a UHF station back in the 80s.
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Nov 24, 2023 12:46
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Sydney Bottocks posted:It's especially weird because it's the sort of thing you'd expect would happen if MST3K was being aired on TV again, where they are getting money from a network and have to meet certain expectations. That's obviously not the case, so why worry about it? It could be as simple as media preservation, wanting a copy that looks "good" in modern media formats.
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Nov 24, 2023 12:48
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It could be as simple as media preservation, wanting a copy that looks "good" in modern media formats. That may be, but then it's limiting the pool of crappy films they have to choose from, if Joel only wants HD quality ones. I don't think being in HD quality would have added to the experience of movies like Racket Girls or I Accuse My Parents or the Coleman Francis trilogy, for example.
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Nov 24, 2023 12:52
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Sydney Bottocks posted:That may be, but then it's limiting the pool of crappy films they have to choose from, if Joel only wants HD quality ones. I don't think being in HD quality would have added to the experience of movies like Racket Girls or I Accuse My Parents or the Coleman Francis trilogy, for example. Oh, I meant the HD remastering, not the movie selections.
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Nov 24, 2023 12:55
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Oh, I meant the HD remastering, not the movie selections. Ah gotcha. Yeah, it's one of those weird "this because of that" sort of things. Joel's insistence on having HD quality movies means they might look "good" on Blu-ray or 4k streaming or whatever, but it limits the pool of movies they can use to only movies that are available in those formats, which means we don't get the types of movies that used to be staples of MST3K, that had a kind of charm (or sleaze) to them because the print they used was hazy or murky or whatnot. Oddly enough, I think that does work in the favor of some of the older movies shown in the newer seasons, like the Gamera and Santo movies they did; even with a clean high quality print, they're still pretty low-budget movies with a certain charm to them. It's the newer ones they've done from the 90s and up that kind of leave me cold, for some reason.
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Nov 24, 2023 13:14
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Operation Kid Brother isn't a great movie by any means, but god drat I like the theme song.
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Nov 24, 2023 13:15
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Hiring Dom DeLuise to do loving Catskills level schtick in a kids movie sure was a choice. What's weird is this isn't the only time he's done it. He also played an irritating talking magical skateboard in The Skateboard Kid.
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muscles like this! posted:What's weird is this isn't the only time he's done it. He also played an irritating talking magical skateboard in The Skateboard Kid. Oh poo poo, you're right. I guess he was a cheap hire?
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