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A few additional things I really like about the new season -The silhouettes for the robot roll call means that they can preview a little bit of the film afterwards -The moving parts in the hallway sequence is really clever, with little washer/dryers folding out, bar seats, etc. -The band and interstitials with Patton doing a v/o does make it feel more like a late night tv show -There are some obscure rear end references (I feel Elliot Kalan channels this well) which I did miss quite a bit. -The movie choices have been extremely good so far, definitely capture the spirit of the original run's blend of films. e: "Time for go to bed" references will ALWAYS make me laugh Sushi in Yiddish fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Ensign_Ricky posted: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." I didn't miss anything on that, right? Akton doesn't get magic powers until Thor tries to kill him (again) and Akton's eyes flash?
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Apr 21, 2017 14:38
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It's possible some explanation was cut from the episode. I'm assuming they still edit these movies down for MST3K, because the episodes are only 90 minutes, including skits, commercial breaks, and opening/closing credits.
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Apr 21, 2017 14:42
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Evil Mastermind posted:Also they don't mention he's a Jedi until about halfway through the movie, and at the end of the movie he just knows everything that's going on and what everything is. He did a brief laser-hand-map-thing earlier but I assumed it was just a sci-fi map, til suddenly he was all lasers all the time.
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Apr 21, 2017 14:46
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rydiafan posted:It's possible some explanation was cut from the episode. I'm assuming they still edit these movies down for MST3K, because the episodes are only 90 minutes, including skits, commercial breaks, and opening/closing credits. They even have an explanation for it now, because Joel's character talks about how some of the movie spills sometimes.
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Apr 21, 2017 14:54
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Kojiro posted:He did a brief laser-hand-map-thing earlier but I assumed it was just a sci-fi map, til suddenly he was all lasers all the time. Oh, yeah. I thought that was a hologram or something, too.
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Apr 21, 2017 15:29
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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. I didn't see it as a lazy way to end a skit, it's more like this just happens when the mads get tired of talking to them. How else would they end a skit? Everyone says goodbye and hangs up and they walk casually into the theater? They have to get into the theater somehow, and that's just how they're called in. They even take advantage of it to continue cracking jokes, like "I still think I'm German!"
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Apr 21, 2017 15:48
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BJPaskoff posted:I didn't see it as a lazy way to end a skit, it's more like this just happens when the mads get tired of talking to them. How else would they end a skit? Everyone says goodbye and hangs up and they walk casually into the theater? They have to get into the theater somehow, and that's just how they're called in. They even take advantage of it to continue cracking jokes, like "I still think I'm German!" Yeah, it feels like Movie Sign is another reminder that they don't have control over seeing the movies and they're being forced back into the theater.
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Apr 21, 2017 15:56
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This season is the first time (that I remember anyway) where we explicitly see one of the Mads trigger a movie sign. For some reason I never thought about the 'why' of movie sign before.
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Apr 21, 2017 16:03
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I've often wondered about the "how" of movie sign -- do they remove the oxygen in the main bay? Fire? What's the rush? I also wonder how he eats and breathes.
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Apr 21, 2017 16:13
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Tayter Swift posted:I've often wondered about the "how" of movie sign -- do they remove the oxygen in the main bay? Fire? What's the rush? There are a couple of episodes that show they remove oxygen from the rest of the ship (they did this to Mike I think?), and the Mads can shock people who aren't in the theater (pretty sure this was a Joel episode).
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Apr 21, 2017 16:16
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Though, conversely, why do they leave the theater? I'd assume for feedback, test purposes but it's never really stated that I know of.
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Apr 21, 2017 16:16
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The MST3K movie has them cutting off the air.
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The Ape of Naples posted:Though, conversely, why do they leave the theater? I'd assume for feedback, test purposes but it's never really stated that I know of. There's usually no explanation for it, but it's sort of implied it's something they have to do, because often either Servo (or Joel in the older episodes) will say "We gotta go, guys."
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Apr 21, 2017 16:23
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Joel explicitly says he gets a "shock to the shammies"
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Apr 21, 2017 16:58
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There's an episode where Mike leaves the theater and Crow says "But there's no oxygen out there", and Mike says "I don't care".
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Apr 21, 2017 17:00
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I do like some of those first Mike episodes where he goes to get popcorn and soda and Crow is like "you can't do that". Also justifying why Tom gets carried in because there's a vent and it messes up his hover skirt. There was a bit of a learning curve.
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Bruteman posted:There are a couple of episodes that show they remove oxygen from the rest of the ship (they did this to Mike I think?), and the Mads can shock people who aren't in the theater (pretty sure this was a Joel episode). Yeah, the mads force compliance and shutting off oxygen is their most common play. In the movie, Dr. F chases then back in by shooting lasers out of an interocitor. Jonah also mentions Kinga zaps him with cattle prods if he doesn't do the show open after they Hoover him up. So basically going along with it is a lot less painful than not. Chokes McGee fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:There's an episode where Mike leaves the theater and Crow says "But there's no oxygen out there", and Mike says "I don't care". "I'm just gonna...leave the theater for a while." "Uh, Mike, there's no oxygen out there." "Yeah...that's okay."
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Evil Mastermind posted:I think it was Invasion of the Neptune Men. The defeated way he drops back into his seat on coming back in cracked me up.
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I forgot how funny the American dubbing in Neptune Men is.
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Ok, here's a legitimate Starcrash question. Why is Christopher Plummer transparent at the end?
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Ok, here's a legitimate Starcrash question. I can't say for sure but I'd bet it's because there was a problem with something that was shot and Plummer was already unavailable so he was just composited into a reshoot that way instead. I believe he worked on the film for a grand total of a few days tops and then enjoyed his vacation in Rome.
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Mace Bacon posted:There's your answer. Well THAT would have had things make a lot more sense. Turn a dude into an alien and I can much more easily accept defrosting microwave hands and immunity to death rays and such. Not sarcastic there.
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Apr 21, 2017 19:17
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What does Gypsy keep taking up and down at the beginning/middle of the movies? A lunch box?
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I forgot how funny the American dubbing in Neptune Men is. Prince of Space is still my favorite for that, especially Japanese Don Knotts.
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Pollyanna posted:What does Gypsy keep taking up and down at the beginning/middle of the movies? A lunch box? According to Joel: She's delivering "the payload" That's all we've been told 
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I love the jokes about Alex the incredibly Underwhelming Chimpanzee. "Oh man, the orange juice is so cloudy and gross, like there's medicine in it!!" "Sure he can carry the glasses, but can he hand them off!?"
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Good Lord Almighty, I want a t-shirt with the logo for the Moon 14 dinosaur barbeque joint.
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InfiniteZero posted:I can't say for sure but I'd bet it's because there was a problem with something that was shot and Plummer was already unavailable so he was just composited into a reshoot that way instead. I believe he worked on the film for a grand total of a few days tops and then enjoyed his vacation in Rome. According to the IMDB Tribune, he was only there for one day.
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Rollersnake posted:Also Steve Franken (Danny in Time Travelers, Henry in Avalanche) is giving me a severe case of "he looks so familiar, but IMDB confirms I haven't seen him in anything else, so who is he reminding me of" syndrome. he reminds me of gene wilder
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:-There are some obscure rear end references (I feel Elliot Kalan channels this well) which I did miss quite a bit. Yeah the CW McAll reference sold me.
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Pollyanna posted:What does Gypsy keep taking up and down at the beginning/middle of the movies? A lunch box? the movie is delivered via some weird liquid technology, and in the opening credits jonah is shot into the theater from a tube approximately where gypsy drops down and places the payload. i'm assuming it's a bucket to collect the leaked liquid bad movie. a nice absurd reason to have gypsy come into the theater for the occasional riff since she's otherwise ostensibly running the sol's systems and is too busy keeping everyone alive to riff
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Having only seen the "greatest hits" collection they put up a few weeks ago I'm not nearly as well versed in the sausage factory aspects of the show as most of you, but I love that the countdown chambers have all the stuff that's mentioned in the "if you're wondering how he eats and breathes" line. One chamber is like a workshop for making skit props, another's the bathroom, the kitchen, etc. I thought that was cute. And Mark Hamill as the space carny was wonderful.
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I went back and watched The Movie and it's a lot better than I remembered. I like Mike's hamster wheel thingy.
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Am I the only person that tends to zone the gently caress out during the more talk-heavy movies? I dunno why, but MST3K seems to work better alongside cheesy action than cheesy drama.
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Another repeat offender in this series: Keith Barron, who has been in every single bloody thing on British TV for about fifty years, is both the journo at the start of At The Earth's Core and the "This sounds like a question for Brother Weed!" sailor in The Land That Time Forgot.
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Pollyanna posted:Am I the only person that tends to zone the gently caress out during the more talk-heavy movies? I dunno why, but MST3K seems to work better alongside cheesy action than cheesy drama. As a big fan of stuff like Kitten With A Whip, I disagree strongly with this.  Also, having gone through the whole season, I finally decided to get back to the Rifftrax stuff I bought a week before S11 went live, and am watching Mary Jo & Bridget's take on Angels' Revenge, and I'm not sure why, but the tampon joke was really unexpected. Not in a bad way, but despite being an obvious gag, it just caught me off-guard. Probably because Mike & co wouldn't have dared.
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HopperUK posted:I went back and watched The Movie and it's a lot better than I remembered. I like Mike's hamster wheel thingy. The movie is amazingly solid, and one of my go-to introductions for people who've never seen the show before.
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rydiafan posted:The movie is amazingly solid, and one of my go-to introductions for people who've never seen the show before. The "THE END" title card makes me laugh every time.
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