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Breadallelogram posted:Castle of Fu Manchu is the worst one I've seen. Castle of Fu Manchu actually made me angry. What a piece of poo poo.
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Paul Revere 3000 posted:Castle of Fu Manchu actually made me angry. What a piece of poo poo. It’s confounding, but not in a fun or engaging way. That one hurts.
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Nov 29, 2023 23:44
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Oh, E.G. Marshall you are a Bold One!Paul Revere 3000 posted:Castle of Fu Manchu actually made me angry. What a piece of poo poo. Sometimes the scenes cut for time from a movie help explain odd things about said movie. The deleted scenes from Castle of Fu Manchu only make the film more confusing. There's a five minute sequence of Fu Manchu's minions carrying two coffins off a boat and then on a pointless trek around the Asian side of Istanbul before they're put on another boat for the final journey to the titular castle. It's a stunningly pointless scene even for a film that's almost entirely pointless scenes. Seriously, the most interesting part of Castle of Fu Manchu is the castle used as a location. And most of the castle scenes aren't even filmed there but in a garden park in Barcelona. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Nov 29, 2023 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Oh, E.G. Marshall you are a Bold One! Yeah, the Rifftrax version is a better print and (I'm guessing mostly) uncut. Doesn't make a whole lot of narrative sense either. I think Castle was the last of the five Christopher Lee Fu Manchu films.
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Nov 30, 2023 01:05
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I brought my Drake posted:Yeah, the Rifftrax version is a better print and (I'm guessing mostly) uncut. Doesn't make a whole lot of narrative sense either. I think Castle was the last of the five Christopher Lee Fu Manchu films. Selecting scenes to cut for the MST3K version must have been an absolute nightmare task because how do you choose what's filler and what's crucial?
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Splint Chesthair posted:To be fair, that world probably never existed the way those movies and educational films presented it. “Hired!” more than likely drew as many snickers from the salesmen who were trained with it as it does from us watching it today. I think that's one of the things that makes Chicken of Tomorrow work so well, like it's goofy as hell but in a relatively earnest manner where they for the most part aren't just lying off their asses zoux posted:All training videos are ridiculous and full of instructions no employee has ever followed. Yup, though when I worked at a Leslie's Pool Supply for a summer back in 2018 that was a notable exception but mostly because they emphasized clearly and often about how a lot of the stuff we sold was poisonous, flammable, and even explosive if not handled or stored properly so
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Nov 30, 2023 02:12
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I brought my Drake posted:Yeah, the Rifftrax version is a better print and (I'm guessing mostly) uncut. Doesn't make a whole lot of narrative sense either. I think Castle was the last of the five Christopher Lee Fu Manchu films.
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Nov 30, 2023 02:13
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zoux posted:These fellas today, they don't want to put in the WORK like we did! - a man in 1956 I mean, selling cars must’ve been harder in the loving 30s
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Nov 30, 2023 02:25
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What is "careful, this approaches engineering" from? I said that to my wife earlier today and got myself laughing at it and can't remember what it was from. Are You Ready for Marriage? Maybe?
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Nov 30, 2023 02:26
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Sash! posted:What is "careful, this approaches engineering" from? I think so. It's also got the rubber band stuff.
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Nov 30, 2023 04:43
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Sash! posted:What is "careful, this approaches engineering" from? I think so, because that's where Sue says that she really doesn't like it when Larry talks about his engineering school stuff. (Why do I remember these character names?)
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Nov 30, 2023 04:59
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The Sinister Urge is playing right now and man what an underrated ep. It has its dull moments but Gloria is unforgettable. *doorbell rings* Crow as Gloria: I'M DRINKING! "UP YOURS, GUMSHOE" "LET'S DRINK ALOOOOT" I love the film's thesis that the porno industry is connected to the crime epidemic that's corrupting the city, when it's really just the one rat-like man who kills women in public parks in broad daylight. Ed Wood would go on to film porn later of course.
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Nov 30, 2023 05:30
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But I'm vulnerable right now, dammit. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3oWwnPrEbg&t=700s
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Nov 30, 2023 05:48
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Sourdough Sam posted:The Sinister Urge is playing right now and man what an underrated ep. It has its dull moments but Gloria is unforgettable. That's one of my favorite episodes as well. "So they put her in more clothes than she's ever had on in her life!!"
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Nov 30, 2023 07:29
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Dawgstar posted:I think so. It's also got the rubber band stuff. Frank's "HE'S A SORCEROR!!" still cracks me up just thinking about it.
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Nov 30, 2023 08:31
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Sash! posted:What is "careful, this approaches engineering" from? Larry, you're a dullard.
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Nov 30, 2023 08:38
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Suddenly, their marriage has become The Eiger Sanction!
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Sourdough Sam posted:The Sinister Urge is playing right now and man what an underrated ep. It has its dull moments but Gloria is unforgettable. I'm putting this on now. I love all the 1950s juvenile delinquent panic movies. I watched Teenage Strangler yesterday and it's great because it's totally one of those movies, but it was made in 1964 so it's in color instead of black and white. It's also very much a movie where the women characters only exist to get strangled throughout the movie, which is glaring and horrific from a 2023 critical lens.
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Nov 30, 2023 16:18
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Sydney Bottocks posted:That's one of my favorite episodes as well. "I'll do a GREAT job in your picture!" "Not like now."
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Nov 30, 2023 16:31
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The old guy in real life? Couldn’t separate sex and death. The Sinister Urge is an underrated episode, so much good stuff in it. I always crack up at Crow’s Bob Dylan: “This lookslikeajobferSOOPERMAN WOOO!!”
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Nov 30, 2023 17:56
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He's the kindly old pornographer.
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Nov 30, 2023 18:20
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I think I've been confusing Torgo and Ortega
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Nov 30, 2023 18:25
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Whoa, almost ran over Kissinger! I’m gonna have to go back.
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Nov 30, 2023 18:26
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I'm reading Romeo and Juliet while student teaching, and Friar Lawrence reminded me of the "Is This Love?" short. "Married?!" "That's immoral!"
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Nov 30, 2023 18:49
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I’m really happy that Rifftrax did The Careless Years recently because I’ve really grown to love the 50s delinquent/morality play movies.
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Nov 30, 2023 19:08
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They make a lot of Trump jokes over the years and every time it surprises me. I'm like, oh wait, they don't know
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Nov 30, 2023 19:10
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As I watch both, I wonder: Who has the more bizarre reaction to being punched? Buzz's 'Nyeehh!' face from Girl in Gold Boots or Mike's 'Boiyoiyoyionggg!' head wobble from Teen-Age Crime Wave.
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Nov 30, 2023 21:11
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I've had MST3K on shuffle this week while I work, and today Avalanche came on. It's one of my favourite episodes of the new seasons, but it immediately struck me how much quicker the pace is. It feels like they wanted to cram in two riffs for every one that would've been in the old episodes. It's not terrible, but it is definitely noticeable.
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Nov 30, 2023 21:54
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In that first new season the pace of jokes is insanely fast, just right on top of each other. I think it gets a lot better in the Gauntlet seasons. Speaking of that season, god I hate Starcrash, it's so loving Italian. All the crotch pieces, everything looks like it was designed by Milo Manara. And the plot is like when you have a fake fight with a five year old, they keep pulling out these heretofore unmentioned powers and plot points and things, it's just so disrespectful to the concept of sci fi space opera movies. It's like the guy who made it watched Star Wars, completely didn't get any of it, and just copied some stuff he liked poorly. The sfx look like trash, the script reads like a badly localized video game translation ("Imperial starship...stop the flow of time!") and the plot just jumps from scene to scene in a way that cannot be followed. The poo poo they make Christopher Plummer say man...
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zoux posted:It's like the guy who made it watched [popular film], completely didn't get any of it, and just copied some stuff he liked poorly. That's the Italian movie industry from the 1950s through to the 1980s in a nutshell! Fun fact: back in those days, Italy had something like 2 or 3 (state-run, IIRC) TV channels, and something like 15,000 movie theaters. That's why whenever a movie was a hit over there, the Italian studios would just absolutely crank out ripoffs and pump them into the movie theaters, often with the violence and sex amped up. In terms of Italian movie trends, they tended to follow a particular cycle: starting off with films that were actually fairly serious adaptations in terms of tone and dialogue, moving on into further explorations of a particular genre (in some cases creating films that were actually good to great), and then devolving into outright comedic parody as the trends began to lose popularity and other movies started getting more popular. Throughout all of this, the budgets were usually nonexistent unless other countries (the UK, Germany, etc. ) helped foot part of the bill. If the budgets were big enough, they could bring in (relatively) popular stars from outside Italy; there's a reason why you see American and British actors like John Saxon, Donald Pleasance, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalas, and many others making appearances in numerous low-budget Italian knockoff films. Sword and sandal movies, Westerns, spy movies, gritty urban crime dramas, slasher films, devil/demonic possession movies, superhero films, post-apocalypse road warrior movies, sci-fi films, zombie apocalypse movies...all of them had numerous Italian versions cranked out to fill Italian movie theaters at various times. For more info, I refer you to the excellent 2012 documentary Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s. While it's mainly focused on the Italian poliziotteschi films that cropped up in the wake of Death Wish and Dirty Harry (which were also somewhat reflective of the national mood at the time, in terms of the national crime rate and acts of political terrorism that often plagued Italy during the 1970s), it does give some fairly valuable insight into how the Italian movie industry was in general back in those days. Sydney Bottocks fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Nov 30, 2023 |
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Italian movies are great. I just watched a 7 samurai homage except it's gladiators and Lou Farigno is there
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Dec 1, 2023 00:41
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Welp, I’m sold. Just ordered the DVD.
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zoux posted:It's like the guy who made it watched Star Wars, completely didn't get any of it, and just copied some stuff he liked poorly. Oh, it's better than that. The studio or whoever asked him to write a Star Wars type movie, so he went and read the novelization. He never actually watched the film.
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I mean there are straight rips of scenes, notably the opening shots of the huge capital ship looming into frame. It's obviously a lot less impressive in one than the other.
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I brought my Drake posted:I think so, because that's where Sue says that she really doesn't like it when Larry talks about his engineering school stuff. (Why do I remember these character names?) She's suing him?
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Frankly, neither of you has a chance for love, ever.
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Splint Chesthair posted:Popular songs…? New England journalists?
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She’s gonna drop shorts on the runway?
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