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Mantis42 posted:Lowtax is a waste. Lowtax is a MES(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Antiquated Pants posted:I just tried going through season one. The improv riffing is so slow, it's easy to forget they're even riffing and you're left wondering why you're watching such a terrible movie. Late to the party on this one but I was thinking about it the other day. Before MST3k started there were a few shows that were just bad movies with host segments during commercial breaks when someone make a joke or comment about how cheesy the movie is. The movie was the star and I think early MST3k kinda wanted to keep that in mind. I never really saw a first season MST3k so I could be wrong but I think there was probably some nod to Elvira's show or Disasterpiece Theater.
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Apr 21, 2017 03:15
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You know if Felicia is the reason we got the Zelda Item Get jingle, then LowTax can go stow it because that was hilarious
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Apr 21, 2017 03:16
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So, just finished Starcrash. The Emperor using his ship to just stop time may be my favorite cinematic rear end-pull ever.
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Burkion posted:You know if Felicia is the reason we got the Zelda Item Get jingle, then LowTax can go stow it because that was hilarious Eh, I feel like she'd be more likely to have made the MMO jokes they do occasionally. She's gone on record that she and her brother were PC gamers because their parents wouldn't let them have a console.
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Apr 21, 2017 03:25
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Gaz-L posted:Eh, I feel like she'd be more likely to have made the MMO jokes they do occasionally. She's gone on record that she and her brother were PC gamers because their parents wouldn't let them have a console. Yeah, but I'm a PC gamer and even I would've done that.
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Apr 21, 2017 03:30
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Yeah, but I'm a PC gamer and even I would've done that. It's not like being a pc gamer didn't mean eventual access to pretty much every single console game anyone ever raved about. For 24 hours at a time only of course, before you deleted it.
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Apr 21, 2017 03:32
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If the show gets picked up again, is there another Joe Don Baker movie the guys could be subjected to? It feels like it should be a rite of passage.
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Apr 21, 2017 03:37
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Gaz-L posted:If the show gets picked up again, is there another Joe Don Baker movie the guys could be subjected to? It feels like it should be a rite of passage. ONly when they're about to change the cast up
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Apr 21, 2017 03:38
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Walking Tall is full of racist horrid hillbilly poo poo and utterly perfect for MST3K. Let me show you my choice cuts of Joe's fat bacon rear end THE PACK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ZI36Q1Vvw WACKO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drO36S7udoE
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Apr 21, 2017 03:58
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Its absurd that Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II was made in 1989
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Gaz-L posted:If the show gets picked up again, is there another Joe Don Baker movie the guys could be subjected to? It feels like it should be a rite of passage. Seeing as how this new season was lacking in 70s funk and martial arts, I would nominate Golden Needles.
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The Ape of Naples posted:Late to the party on this one but I was thinking about it the other day. Before MST3k started there were a few shows that were just bad movies with host segments during commercial breaks when someone make a joke or comment about how cheesy the movie is. The movie was the star and I think early MST3k kinda wanted to keep that in mind. I never really saw a first season MST3k so I could be wrong but I think there was probably some nod to Elvira's show or Disasterpiece Theater. That's exactly what it was. Joel's gimmick to make his show different was to have the host in the theater with you and to occasionally make jokes during the movie, then it turned out that the jokes were the popular part.
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I'm 5 minutes into Wizards of the Lost Kingdom and what the gently caress is going on? There's a gargoyle screaming in pain while a yeti makes Eegah noises.
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hercuLEAP e: what... what was the end of that. what were they doing oh god why are the mads doing it what is did I go insane, did they, what is going on Chokes McGee fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 04:34
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the amount of inappropriate butt in Wizard of the Lost Kingdom II is astounding.
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Apr 21, 2017 05:08
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Oh no, I tripped on a sand!  Starcrash feels like someone tried to do Star Wars after one time watching it high on cough syrup. Then the set got double-booked with a softcore porno shoot, and they just rolled with it.
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Finally watching At the Earth's Core. "Do you smell gravy?" Some magnificent riffs in this episode. Edit: "Star Wars during the throes of a DXM trip" is actually a really apt description for Starcrash, if you ask me. Good call. Terra-da-loo! fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 05:15
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i can't believe they said "Beetlejuice" three times this season and Beetlejuice didn't show up.
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Out of the first four episodes, I want to say Avalanche is the best overall, though it still had some weak bits. It exceeded the unwritten limit for both the number of fart jokes and musical numbers in a MST3K episode. Josephine surviving the avalanche, deliriously playing the piano in the wreckage, succumbing to hypothermia, being revived through CPR, and then dying anyway when her ambulance careens over a cliff and explodes in a massive fireball was a much more satisfying payoff than I expected from a movie that managed to not be exceptionally bad until the final act. I think that left me more awestruck than anything in Cry Wilderness.
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Just watched the first half of Reptilicus and I'm legitimately shocked that this reboot is as good as it is. I had totally checked out because I was certain an MST3K revival would be a disaster. Fair to say this season is well received by fans, yeah? Is the rest of the season as good as the first episode so far?
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fsif posted:Just watched the first half of Reptilicus and I'm legitimately shocked that this reboot is as good as it is. I had totally checked out because I was certain an MST3K revival would be a disaster. Reptillicus is likely the weakest episode What I'm trying to say is, buckle in. This season is fantastic and it only gets better from there
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Apr 21, 2017 05:29
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Beast of Hollow Mountain upon rewatching is a solid episode, but it's always that last 10% of the movie with the actual beast where I keep laughing the most. Jonah and the Bots are just so in sync and the riff delivery is great. All around the mulberry bush, the dinosaur chased the people!
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fsif posted:Just watched the first half of Reptilicus and I'm legitimately shocked that this reboot is as good as it is. I had totally checked out because I was certain an MST3K revival would be a disaster. The next few rocket up in quality immediately, and by the time you hit the Hercules movie (appropriately enough, given the initial series' herc movies were all incredible) they're firing on all cylinders. Kinga in particular seemed a little uneasy, but by the herc episode, she's established her character. The moment I started finally seeing her as a mad was when she screamed at the top of her lungs right in Max's face and then turned back around to calmly address Jonah. Just think, soon she'll be killing Max for the first time. They grow up so fast 
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It was that data-mining comment that sold me on her character.
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I'm probably projecting but I think even the cast was having problems at first not being the character that came before them, and Crow's VA still can't get away from sounding like Trace despite trying in rehearsals. It takes them a bit to find their own thing but they eventually figure it out. Also I love how the guys distract themselves with the most inane poo poo when Kinga and Max are doing a sketch. The Marco Polo one got me because it's just so incredibly random.
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Anyone know they filmed these in the episode order? A lot of the critiques so far have revolved around Reptilicius being the weakest, and them finding their voice & timing later on, but maybe it's just that the viewer adjusts to this rhythm for the show by episode two, or that the viewer gets more accustomed to the new voices.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Oh no, I tripped on a sand! What the heck was up with Akton?
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I'm definitely seeing an overreliance on using movie sign to abruptly end host segments. That was absolutely a thing in the earlier seasons, but it never seemed like the norm. It kinda feels like they can't figure out how to properly end a skit now.EatinCake posted:Anyone know they filmed these in the episode order? A lot of the critiques so far have revolved around Reptilicius being the weakest, and them finding their voice & timing later on, I'm curious about this too, but it's not like the bad rhythm is a consistent problem even in Reptilicus. It just feels like they scripted too many different jokes for certain scenes (particularly action scenes with little to no dialogue) and decided to cram them all in there instead of cutting a few and having it feel a bit more natural. And it's also a case of the jokes not playing off each other—like someone put it before, a thing happens, and all three say something different in response, leading directly into the next riffable moment with no pause, and it's kinda exhausting and doesn't give you the chance to even react to what you're watching. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Rollersnake posted:I'm definitely seeing an overreliance on using movie sign to abruptly end host segments. That was absolutely a thing in the earlier seasons, but it never seemed like the norm. It kinda feels like they can't figure out how to properly end a skit now. And/or they didn't want to/couldn't spend time figuring it out, similar to how they just said "gently caress it" and edited the salvageable parts of several skit takes together via bubble interference instead of nailing down a usable single continuous take. I'm curious if a renewal from Netflix would give allow them to relax a bit and take more time, given that a lot of the props and such are already done.
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Rollersnake posted:I'm definitely seeing an overreliance on using movie sign to abruptly end host segments. That was absolutely a thing in the earlier seasons, but it never seemed like the norm. It kinda feels like they can't figure out how to properly end a skit now. In the original show, they got commercial signs along with movie signs, and commercial signs were a much more low-key way to end a skit. The tone was different, but it was still an excuse to end the skit. And it's come up before, but the episodes were in fact filmed out of order.
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EatinCake posted:Anyone know they filmed these in the episode order? A lot of the critiques so far have revolved around Reptilicius being the weakest, and them finding their voice & timing later on, Reptilicus was indeed the first one they wrote and recorded riffs for, regardless of the production order of the rest of the episodes. Even Joel knew the Reptilicus episode was kinda rough: quote:ComingSoon.net: So I saw the “Reptilicus” premiere episode and then the “Cry Wilderness” episode. When I talked to Joel he was very insistent, “I want to stress there’s a big uptick in quality from the first episode to the other ones.” And I felt it. The “Cry Wilderness” episode felt like it was stronger, faster, funnier. Can you talk a little bit about the leap from the pilot to the rest of the episodes? Alehkhs fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 07:33
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Bruceski posted:What the heck was up with Akton? He's like if Rex Smith and Willie Ames had a child, and that child played a combination of C-3PO and Ben Kenobi.
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Bruceski posted:What the heck was up with Akton? I described him as "Imagine there's a Jedi, but they never call him that, or even bother to hand-wave his abilities by mentioning 'the Force' or even just 'magic', then he dies from a nick on the arm."
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IMDB posted:The character Akton was originally devised as a grotesque alien, but Marjoe Gortner refused to wear any heavy make-up. There's your answer.
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remusclaw posted:Yeah, Yongary had more than a few instances of them cracking each other up. I really like the new season, that said I like all the era's of the show. I'm one of the Mike fans. He always seemed significantly more comfortable in front of the camera than Joel. With Joel it always felt like that really awkward highschool play with the lead who REALLY doesn't want to be there.
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Compendium posted:Beast of Hollow Mountain upon rewatching is a solid episode, but it's always that last 10% of the movie with the actual beast where I keep laughing the most. Jonah and the Bots are just so in sync and the riff delivery is great. It's such a weird movie to me, because for the first hour, none of the people act like regular humans. Pancho openly tells his son that he drinks to forget his dead wife, and it's supposed to be a laugh line. The main female lead says hello to Jimmy in the graveyard and he immediately pulls a gun on her, despite her telling him to meet her there. And Panchito just happens to sense his father got eaten by the beast.
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Is anyone else up to The Christmas That Almost Wasn't yet because that one is a really strong episode with a really loving weird movie, definitely one of the best of the season.
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Terra-da-loo! posted:Finally watching At the Earth's Core. That one has so many good riffs, and so many of them are just silly things that are perfectly timed. The Benny Hill Theme absolutely slew me. Kojiro posted:Is anyone else up to The Christmas That Almost Wasn't yet because that one is a really strong episode with a really loving weird movie, definitely one of the best of the season. It's so weird. It's like they were trying to make a Frosty the Snowman kind of kid's Christmas movie, but somehow made every single character supremely creepy.
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