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I figured Starfighters would get a mention but in my opinion it's saved by great riffing and its inexplicable cool jazz soundtrack. Plus, the host segments giving an extremely accurate portrayal of trying to log on to the Internet for the first time in the early days of commercial dial-up Internet.
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I have no idea what's going on in Mighty Jack. I get that it's Sandy Frank editing the first and last episodes of a Japanese TV series into a movie. Time of the apes has a similar thing going on but at least I can follow that one. And it doesn't help that only four people or so dubbed the voices and only one woman doing the exact same voice for all female characters. Ones that I can't watch? Kitten with a Whip and Squirm. I'm one of those people who gets bad anxiety watching it. Ann-Margret completely sells her character though, I'll give her that. Between her juvenile delinquent character giving me the heebie-jeebies and the senator getting repeatedly trapped in her scheming even with multiple and plausible ways out, it is nigh unwatchable for me. As for squirm, the worms and the deep south setting have this visceral sliminess that's hard to watch.
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May 8, 2023 22:58
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Angry_Ed posted:Mike: *uses green marker on data side of CD* This is apparently a skit that sent Frank into hysterics the longer it went on with Mike not really doing anything but vaguely nodding, like a true audiophile.
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May 8, 2023 22:59
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Kitten With A Whip is a near perfect example of those teenage exploitation films
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May 8, 2023 23:08
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There's something about the sheer amount of 1960s melodramatic teen overacting in Teenage Strangler (the Mikey actor and girlfriend actress seem to be competing) and just raw 1960s teen-aged squareness - Dylan was about to go electric and these nitwits are jamming to Yipe Stripes; the feared hot rod biker gang is instantly deterred by a police threat to call their parents - that makes that one my favorite delinquency films, especially since the teens win at the end.
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Splint Chesthair posted:I can’t stand the westerns. Gunslinger, Last of the Wild Horses, The Painted Hills…I just can’t make myself care about them. Cowboy stuff in general just slides off my brain. Mulaney Power Move posted:Viking Women and the Sea Serpent - Why not just watch one of the Hercules movies?
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May 8, 2023 23:28
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verbal enema posted:Kitten With A Whip is a near perfect example of those teenage exploitation films It makes a fun double feature with Girls Town.
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May 8, 2023 23:37
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Invasion USA and Rocket Attack USA are two of my favorites because I loved the Cold War hysteria/support the military industrial complex narrative. help me.
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May 8, 2023 23:39
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Mulaney Power Move posted:There's something about the sheer amount of 1960s melodramatic teen overacting in Teenage Strangler (the Mikey actor and girlfriend actress seem to be competing) and just raw 1960s teen-aged squareness - Dylan was about to go electric and these nitwits are jamming to Yipe Stripes; the feared hot rod biker gang is instantly deterred by a police threat to call their parents - that makes that one my favorite delinquency films, especially since the teens win at the end. IIRC, they found out at some point that the actress who played the girlfriend was literally the only person on the set that had any actual professional acting experience (I think she'd done some stage plays or something). So when the actor playing Mikey was doing that scene with her at the police station, he basically just followed her lead, and that's why they both got super overwrought and weepy. "And hose these two off! Jeez!"
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Keromaru5 posted:Man, I had some friends over to watch Last of the Wild Horses, and it was the first one where they truly could not endure the movie long enough to stick with the host segments. Yep. It's really dull and it lacks a main character. I guess the Viking Women are the main character. There's barely any Sea Serpent. It's just dumb Viking women and ineffectual men on a dull island.
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May 8, 2023 23:48
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Yep. It's really dull and it lacks a main character. I guess the Viking Women are the main character. There's barely any Sea Serpent. It's just dumb Viking women and ineffectual men on a dull island. See I just thought they were ripping off the child actor who did young George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life.
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May 8, 2023 23:51
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Yep. It's really dull and it lacks a main character. I guess the Viking Women are the main character. There's barely any Sea Serpent. It's just dumb Viking women and ineffectual men on a dull island. I'm a Grimald warrior!
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Tormented and The Screaming Skull have absolutely nothing interesting. Screaming Skull has top tier riffing, but also the movie, despite some silliness, is a huge downer. I recall Tormented being a solid if unremarkable ep. My biggest gap is pretty much anything swords and sorcery or sandals. Most tend to be washed out or otherwise have bad picture quality, you're forced to endure everyone talking in awkward olde timey accents from before the invention of contractions, and everything seems to go at exactly one speed. They give me a "sick with the flu on a Sunday afternoon" vibe. A lot of other goofy fantasy/medieval ones rank among my favorites though.
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May 9, 2023 00:33
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People are fond of Fire Maidens from Outer Space because of the host segments, but the movie is just boring. The Slime People is pretty unentertaining, too.
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May 9, 2023 00:36
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I love the Hercules/Maciste movies. The riffs are so good they transform the main character. Riffed Herc is a great character. I think it was after the "even if it costs me my life bit" where Herc takes off on a horse and Joel says "Yeah and then Herc went to the bar and said he couldn't find them." and in my mind that's what happens off camera.
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May 9, 2023 00:50
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:help me. I've got Crow T Robot eyes~~~~
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John Murdoch posted:Screaming Skull has top tier riffing, but also the movie, despite some silliness, is a huge downer. Honestly there's the bones (ha ha) of a decent movie in Skull but it is, as Tom himself says, a serving of horror for two trying to serve five.
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I think the movie was originally titled "Screaming; Skull".
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the only movie i dont like is Screaming Skull cuz when i sleep i toss on a randomized playlist of all the episodes minus KTMA and S1 and when the crow as a skull bit comes on it ALWAYS wakes me up
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I figured Starfighters would get a mention but in my opinion it's saved by great riffing and its inexplicable cool jazz soundtrack. Plus, the host segments giving an extremely accurate portrayal of trying to log on to the Internet for the first time in the early days of commercial dial-up Internet. Agreed on all counts. The soundtrack, inexplicable as it is, is a really pleasant listen and the SOL crew is on top form.
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Cabbit posted:Agreed on all counts. The soundtrack, inexplicable as it is, is a really pleasant listen and the SOL crew is on top form. Drop your payload to the sounds of Ferrante and Teicher. 
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verbal enema posted:the only movie i dont like is Screaming Skull cuz when i sleep i toss on a randomized playlist of all the episodes minus KTMA and S1 and when the crow as a skull bit comes on it ALWAYS wakes me up That's also another 'Mike did the same thing for an extended period and everybody had to try hard not to crack up' skit.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I figured Starfighters would get a mention but in my opinion it's saved by great riffing and its inexplicable cool jazz soundtrack. Plus, the host segments giving an extremely accurate portrayal of trying to log on to the Internet for the first time in the early days of commercial dial-up Internet. 🎵 Don't crap in your hand, crap in your poopie suuuuit! 🎵
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Dawgstar posted:It makes a fun double feature with Girls Town. EARL'S TOWN
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I brought my Drake posted:EARL'S TOWN Gigaaaaaantor~!
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Her hinder is out of control! Personally I have to give that award to The Brute Man for having a movie that is actually almost good on its own merits, an interesting and goofy short, strong skits, and some of the strongest riffs in the history of the show(the Chicken of Tomorrow portion alone has like several episodes worth of high tier riffs shoved into a ~10 minute segment)
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I'll cop to liking Tormented. Unlike essentially every other movie MST3K has done, there's an actual dramatic tension. Though still not executed particularly well.
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Tormented is definitely one of the more watchable ones. I'm also pretty fond of Girls Town.
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Meg: Tom? Tom: Meg... Crew: (Singing) It will come back to you
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Then I'll drink turpentine and kill myself in the bathroom.
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Screaming Skull is a great episode, but on its own, the movie is maybe the dullest "thriller" ever made. They should have offered free coffins to anyone who died of boredom.
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They could have called it "Looking for Mickey."
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Yep, "shocking horror". 
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May 9, 2023 13:39
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"I heard her!" "Observed her, even!"
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:help me.
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Dawgstar posted:"I heard her!" GET A BOX!! 
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I think Pod People deserves a place in the conversation for worst movies. Pick a lane, cutesy ET rip-off or monster movie. Don't do both. Idiots in control now.
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Murdstone posted:Probably one of the top post-credits stingers ever. The one that started it all.
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Pod People is amazing because at one point the mom has like 3 dead teenage girls in her house and is apparently totally okay with this.
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