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Just a heads up, a new Vol II is down to $18 and change on amazon
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I'd forgotten how overtly tone-deaf I Accuse My Parents is from start to finish. It's like it was written by an alien who learned about society from reading Goofus and Gallant cartoons. Also the Gypsy lip sync segment just struck me funny and I lost it for awhile. I'd seen this one most recently before my rewatch and I still somehow completely forgot about it. I hope the show maintains some of its earnest goofiness, as hard as that is in this self-aware, postmodern age for comedy.
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Feb 20, 2017 02:08
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I just watched Kitten With A Whip today and I'd like to submit it as one of the 'totally watchable on it's own' movies. It's certainly an absurd melodrama that plays into the moral panic at these newfangled "teen-agers" at the time, but it's a totally competent and fairly well-acted example of the genre.
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Feb 20, 2017 02:54
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Yeah it has a certain intensity that's helped by Ann Margaret being, well, Ann Margaret. "You turned off Doodles Weaver!"
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Feb 20, 2017 03:06
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Bicyclops posted:I'd forgotten how overtly tone-deaf I Accuse My Parents is from start to finish. It's like it was written by an alien who learned about society from reading Goofus and Gallant cartoons. Also the Gypsy lip sync segment just struck me funny and I lost it for awhile. I'd seen this one most recently before my rewatch and I still somehow completely forgot about it. I hope the show maintains some of its earnest goofiness, as hard as that is in this self-aware, postmodern age for comedy. I'm still confused as to how Jimmy having absentee parents caused him to write bad checks and get involved with the mob.
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Feb 20, 2017 03:32
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muscles like this! posted:I'm still confused as to how Jimmy having absentee parents caused him to write bad checks and get involved with the mob. Since I assume the target audience was parents, the idea would be that even something that simple could produce a bad kid to make decent parents work harder and have it be a weaksauce problem so that bad parents might feel ashamed in comparison. Space aliens writing it based on old Highlife magazines makes way more sense.
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Feb 20, 2017 04:13
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muscles like this! posted:I'm still confused as to how Jimmy having absentee parents caused him to write bad checks and get involved with the mob. His mom was drinking, Muscles. Drinking!!!
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Feb 20, 2017 04:16
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His parents were Nick and Nora Charles, that's what their kid's life was like because he didn't go on their crime-solving adventures
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Feb 20, 2017 04:26
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I'm not positive that OK Connery is even worse than the Lazenby bond movie.
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Feb 20, 2017 04:30
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Bicyclops posted:I'm not positive that OK Connery is even worse than the Lazenby bond movie. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is no where near the worst bond movie.
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Feb 20, 2017 04:40
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Kitten With a Whip has one of my favorite show moments where Ann-Margaret gets into the bed at the start of the movie and they do the voice of the stuffed animal she sleeps with. :camera zooms in on stuffed animal's eyes: "REMAIN CALM!"
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Feb 20, 2017 04:43
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The Ape of Naples posted:On Her Majesty's Secret Service is no where near the worst bond movie. It's actually one of the top tier ones for me. Lazenby is serviceable and sells the hell out of the ending, Rigg more than makes up for his weaknesses, and questionable gender politics aside, the story's one of the stronger ones in the franchise. Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah it has a certain intensity that's helped by Ann Margaret being, well, Ann Margaret. The guy playing the leader of Ann-Margaret's gang is also pretty fun with his whole intellectual thug shtick. It actually feels like there's fewer riffs than usual, almost like Mike and the guys are just watching the movie too. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Feb 20, 2017 04:46
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TL posted:I think they said it was because of their attempt to tell somewhat of an ongoing story once they got to Sci Fi that it was hard to shoehorn letters into the end of the episode. Maybe they'll go the other way for the new ones. Bobo and Brain Guy were alright, but the time travel stuff was just kinda in the way. I know I'm gonna get piled on, but the invention exchange was sub-Carrotop prop comedy, and I hope they don't revive it. Cringey every time.
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Feb 20, 2017 05:12
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Gaz-L posted:It's actually one of the top tier ones for me. Lazenby is serviceable and sells the hell out of the ending, Rigg more than makes up for his weaknesses, and questionable gender politics aside, the story's one of the stronger ones in the franchise. He's so bad they dub over the lines where he has to pretend to be somebody else and stuff him in a snow suit through half the movie so you don't have to look at him (and that's not the only dubbing in the film). Telly Sevalas can't seem to decide if he wants to go full Donald Pleasance or try to take the role a little seriously, and that whole confusion is everywhere, from the endless ski chases to the periodic mugging at the camera. It's arguably not the worst bond, if only because "worst" is a difficult thing to define and a lot of the other movies have more glaring racism or give up entirely on being serious, (and intentional camp or self-parody is, at the last, very subjective), but it is very definitely among the worst. The Neil Connery one might almost be better because it at least makes a definitive decision to be absurd and just hit the James Bond notes.
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Feb 20, 2017 05:22
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i could watch an entire movie of ann margaret calling things creamy.
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Feb 20, 2017 06:28
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Barudak posted:Since I assume the target audience was parents, the idea would be that even something that simple could produce a bad kid to make decent parents work harder and have it be a weaksauce problem so that bad parents might feel ashamed in comparison.
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Feb 20, 2017 06:52
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Gaz-L posted:I just watched Kitten With A Whip today and I'd like to submit it as one of the 'totally watchable on it's own' movies. It's certainly an absurd melodrama that plays into the moral panic at these newfangled "teen-agers" at the time, but it's a totally competent and fairly well-acted example of the genre. Plus you get a Sylvester cartoon out of it. I agree with Mike & the bots that the movie's biggest sin is having its protagonist be such a dope.
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Feb 20, 2017 14:55
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Plus you get a Sylvester cartoon out of it. You have to suspect the respectability of Forsyth's character if the public would be so ready to think he's a perv.
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Feb 20, 2017 16:44
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My favorite "moral panic" film is Racket Girls It's got the psychologist from Glen or Glenda as the most passive mobster in history, and the extended wrestling scenes has me wishing for Jim Ross, Bobby Heenan-hell, I'd loving take Tony Schaivone!-to give a play-by-play. The lack of music until the last scene is bafflingly hilarious. Also the last host segment with Mike, Tom & Crow in wrestling garb and nicknames was incredible.
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Feb 20, 2017 17:53
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SirPhoebos posted:My favorite "moral panic" film is Racket Girls It's got the psychologist from Glen or Glenda as the most passive mobster in history, and the extended wrestling scenes has me wishing for Jim Ross, Bobby Heenan-hell, I'd loving take Tony Schaivone!-to give a play-by-play. Whoa, whoa whoa...let's not say things we can't take back here.
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Feb 20, 2017 17:55
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The Violent Years is funny just because of the wonky bit where the girls are hired by communists to trash their school.
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Feb 20, 2017 21:07
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I think The Sinister Urge is the best MST3K "moral panic" film, partly because of its' laughable look into the inner workings of porn ("he's the kindly old pornographer"), and partly because of the two lazy-rear end cops investigating the whole thing ("let's rest a while").
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Feb 20, 2017 22:17
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I think The Sinister Urge is the best MST3K "moral panic" film, partly because of its' laughable look into the inner workings of porn ("he's the kindly old pornographer"), and partly because of the two lazy-rear end cops investigating the whole thing ("let's rest a while"). I was going to mention this one but I got lazy. Its a pretty good "moral panic" film. Especially the murderer crazed by porn.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:26
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They get a lot of mileage out of Gloria. "LET'S DRINK A LOT!"
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Feb 20, 2017 22:49
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I hope they get a good moral panic/teen issues movie in the new season.
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Feb 21, 2017 00:39
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Clouseau posted:I hope they get a good moral panic/teen issues movie in the new season. Cyberbu//y or Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life are too perfect to hope for.
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Feb 21, 2017 00:53
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I always thought Teenage Crime Wave was surprisingly watchable.
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Feb 21, 2017 01:00
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Village of the Giants has the most annoying teen cast. Also giant fake legs.
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Feb 21, 2017 02:03
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Joel said on Facebook that they've delivered all 14 episodes to Netflix. Apparently, Netflix does about 30 days of quality control, then they go up. So hopefully in a little over a month we'll all be watching new MST3K.
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Feb 21, 2017 02:27
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Village of the Giants has the most annoying teen cast. Also giant fake legs. I'd go with Teenage Strangler. Mikey? C'mon.
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Feb 21, 2017 02:48
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I finally got around to watching all of "The Projected Man" and it was better than I gave it credit for. In some ways it reminded me of earlier MST3ks. I think it's because Tom had a crush on one of women in it. "I want her Mike..."
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Feb 21, 2017 02:51
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The Ape of Naples posted:I finally got around to watching all of "The Projected Man" and it was better than I gave it credit for. In some ways it reminded me of earlier MST3ks. I think it's because Tom had a crush on one of women in it. Well, she was cuter than The Creepy Girl.
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Feb 21, 2017 03:04
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I have to agree.
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Feb 21, 2017 03:09
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TL posted:Joel said on Facebook that they've delivered all 14 episodes to Netflix. Apparently, Netflix does about 30 days of quality control, then they go up. So hopefully in a little over a month we'll all be watching new MST3K. Aheh heh, well, I just finished The Brain That Wouldn't Die in my rewatch so I guess I'd better pick up the pace!
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Feb 21, 2017 04:48
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My watch/rewatch (it turns out I haven't seen every episode) is close to the finish, and if I time it out right, I'll get to Diabolik the day the new experiments come out.
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Feb 21, 2017 05:12
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I haven't revisited Diabolik in years because it made me sad that it was the last one. 
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Feb 21, 2017 10:20
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Ms Boods posted:I haven't revisited Diabolik in years because it made me sad that it was the last one. The ending was perfect though.
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Feb 21, 2017 12:29
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https://twitter.com/jelvisweinstein/status/833876794470068225 Did we know Josh had cancer? It certainly explains why he hasn't been involved in anything since the end of CT.
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Feb 21, 2017 19:03
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Ballz posted:https://twitter.com/jelvisweinstein/status/833876794470068225 last year he directed a documentary called I Need You to Kill, its not on imdb I guess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqFSbgJFM_k
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TL posted:Joel said on Facebook that they've delivered all 14 episodes to Netflix. Apparently, Netflix does about 30 days of quality control, then they go up. So hopefully in a little over a month we'll all be watching new MST3K. I assume they're (Netflix) going to hold the Christmas special until December, though?
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