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Clouseau posted:If KTMA counts I’d add Phase IV as another good movie. Directed by Saul Bass! C’mon! I remember seeing that on TV in 1988...coincidentally the night before we checked into a hotel room that was dripping with ants
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I want some shorts with Season 12, and i want them now!
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Senior Woodchuck posted:It's odd how he admits to doing hackneyed Southern stereotypes and thinks that's somehow exculpatory. It's the standard "bad on purpose" excuse a lot of people use. As if intentionally being bad means that it is actually good. I do stuff in music sometimes, and I know a lot of people who will just say their crappy song is experimental. Yeah, the drummer is behind because he's messing with our expectations of what a beat is.
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Cemetry Gator posted:It's the standard "bad on purpose" excuse a lot of people use. As if intentionally being bad means that it is actually good. Experiments fail.
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Cemetry Gator posted:It's the standard "bad on purpose" excuse a lot of people use. As if intentionally being bad means that it is actually good. That reminds me that when the RiffTrax crew were doing the Sharknado flicks, somebody asked them what they thought of 'bad movies on purpose' and Kevin said in essence if somebody does a bad movie on purpose then all they have succeeded at is failure.
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Oct 1, 2018 01:50
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MR. BEARDSLEY!!!
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Bruceski posted:Experiments fail. Yeah, but even then, with music and movies, there's at least a cleverness in the execution to let us know it's supposed to be "bad". When I think of failed experiments like that, I always think of The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. I mean "I SLEEP NOW" will always make me laugh, but the rest of the movie only got a few weak chuckles and overall felt tedious to me. It was an attempt to make something deliberately "bad" and instead they ended up with BAD. But still, you always *knew* what they were going for even if they missed the mark.
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Oct 1, 2018 02:22
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Proteus Jones posted:Yeah, but even then, with music and movies, there's at least a cleverness in the execution to let us know it's supposed to be "bad". I thought Lost Skeleton of Cadavra was great, minus a couple of scenes that didn't work.
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Paper Kaiju posted:I thought Lost Skeleton of Cadavra was great, minus a couple of scenes that didn't work. You and bunch of people I know. And that's fine, just not my thing I guess. And I forgive much because of "I SLEEP NOW"
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Oct 1, 2018 03:07
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I enjoyed both Cadavra movies but I liked their haunted house movie, "Dark and Stormy Night" even more. I have a weakness for 30s and 40s style intrepid reporter characters.
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Oct 1, 2018 03:21
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TL posted:MR. BEARDSLEY!!! This is the story... Of a man named Jed JEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!
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Oct 1, 2018 03:28
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I tried Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and the sequel, but mostly felt the pacing was off. Several bits just dragged on too long. The best "intentionally bad" thing I've ever seen is still Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
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Oct 1, 2018 05:30
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Keromaru5 posted:I tried Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and the sequel, but mostly felt the pacing was off. Several bits just dragged on too long. I think Darkplace works really well because a) its aiming for comedy and b) it constantly acts like they lost footage or parts of episodes to get away with cutting down to just the funniest bits.
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Oct 1, 2018 05:42
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Keromaru5 posted:I tried Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and the sequel, but mostly felt the pacing was off. Several bits just dragged on too long. I'd say Xavier Renegade Angel would also be a good contender
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Bruceski posted:Experiments fail. True. What I meant is that it can be an easy excuse for producing something bad. Take the Velvet Underground's Murder Mystery. I would classify it as a failed experiment, but it wasn't laziness. You know they aren't lazy by the rest of the album. They made good music. It's just something that doesn't work. Now, this conversation gets into things like naive art and stuff like that, and it's hard to craft a statement that doesn't have an obvious gap. But I think there's a difference between incompetence and experimental, and it's easy for the former to claim the latter because they don't understand what experimental means. Manos is a great example of naive art. It fails at being a good movie, but part of what I appreciate about it is just the effort. And some things work, like the Master and Torgo. Those actors actually did a decent job. In the hands of a better script and film maker, they might have had a chance. Or they might have been mediocre. At least we got something that is strangely captivating. Cemetry Gator fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Oct 1, 2018 |
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New Joel interview: http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/mst3k/276617/mst3k-30th-anniversary-tour-joel-hodgson-puts-on-the-red-jumpsuit-again Two noteworthy items here: one, Tim Ryder and Grant Baciocco are playing Servo and Crow, respectively, on the tour. Tim was Servo on the tour last year and did a very good job. Second, Joel is very, very coy about any spoilers for season 12, particularly any onscreen appearances for him.
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TL posted:MR. BEARDSLEY!!!
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Oct 1, 2018 20:24
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World Famous W posted:How many films can you remember seeing before watching the riffed version? A gas station when I was a child had a vhs rental section and had Merlin's Shop for some reason. I watched that any times before ever seeing the episode. A huge amount. All the Gamera and Godzilla movies, The Amazing Colossal Man, Robot Monster, Marooned, Crawling Eye, Sidehackers, Wild Rebels...my father and I went to a local theater that played B-movies as a regular thing, switching them out every two or three days. We watched so much garbage there, but drat they were fun.
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Oct 1, 2018 22:18
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I'd also like to recommend Kevin Murphy's A Year at the Movies, just for his description of kidney stone. Something like: "A radioactive potato from hell in my lower abdomen." Anyone read Frank's recent books? World Famous W posted:How many films can you remember seeing before watching the riffed version? A gas station when I was a child had a vhs rental section and had Merlin's Shop for some reason. I watched that any times before ever seeing the episode. Tons, my folks seemed determined to make sure I grew into a huge nerd. Bride of the Monster, Robot Monster, Earth vs. the Spider, all the giant monster flicks including Yongary and Gorgo. Light on the horror though, I was still scared of everything. Failson fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Oct 1, 2018 |
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Oct 1, 2018 22:24
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Failson posted:Anyone read Frank's recent books? 25 MST3k Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever is good, but don’t go in expecting lots of behind-the-scenes info. It’s more like 25 short essays where Frank starts to talk about the film and then rambles on about something unrelated. It’s really funny.
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Oct 1, 2018 22:49
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TL posted:New Joel interview: Kind of bitter they didn't ask me to take this assignment. While not "intentionally bad," I do feel that Case of Spring Fever is very much in on the joke. Not overtly, but it's just self-aware enough that we're all laughing at it together.
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Failson posted:I'd also like to recommend Kevin Murphy's A Year at the Movies, just for his description of kidney stone. Something like: "A radioactive potato from hell in my lower abdomen." I just did a reread of this last month; still love it. And he gives a nice mini-rant about "so-bad-it's-good" films during the chapter on Corky Romano. (He does not include it among that class of film, or even the class of films trying to achieve that status.)
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:A huge amount. All the Gamera and Godzilla movies, The Amazing Colossal Man, Robot Monster, Marooned, Crawling Eye, Sidehackers, Wild Rebels...my father and I went to a local theater that played B-movies as a regular thing, switching them out every two or three days. We watched so much garbage there, but drat they were fun. Yikes. Sidehackers? Knowing what they left out, I can only imagine it's even more loathsome.
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Oct 2, 2018 03:01
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"This is the test of the emergency broadcast chicken"
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Senior Woodchuck posted:I just did a reread of this last month; still love it. And he gives a nice mini-rant about "so-bad-it's-good" films during the chapter on Corky Romano. (He does not include it among that class of film, or even the class of films trying to achieve that status.) I loved his rant about Forrest Gump, and I agree with it whole-heartedly
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Davros1 posted:I loved his rant about Forrest Gump, and I agree with it whole-heartedly Me, too. The bit about how it's like the really bad story your friend wrote about a puppy that dies and if you tell him the story is bad he yells you obviously hate puppies rings true.
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Rewatched Werewolf (or Arizona Werewolf, if you like) for the first time in ages and ages so once again I was childishly delighted by Santa Castro the Militiaman.
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Dawgstar posted:Rewatched Werewolf (or Arizona Werewolf, if you like) for the first time in ages and ages so once again I was childishly delighted by Santa Castro the Militiaman. "I've been issued as your best friend!"
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Oct 5, 2018 18:03
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Good Lord, the RiffTrax Twitch stream is unwatchable. Twitch Prime doesn't eliminate commercials anymore, and they have 30 seconds of commercials every 3 minutes. It's obscene.
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Oct 6, 2018 02:44
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rydiafan posted:Good Lord, the RiffTrax Twitch stream is unwatchable. Twitch Prime doesn't eliminate commercials anymore, and they have 30 seconds of commercials every 3 minutes. It's obscene. It is horrific. I used to just have that in the background and now no way
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rydiafan posted:Good Lord, the RiffTrax Twitch stream is unwatchable. Twitch Prime doesn't eliminate commercials anymore, and they have 30 seconds of commercials every 3 minutes. It's obscene. I haven't experienced this yet, sounds terrible. I never got ads on PS4, FWIW.
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Another Bill posted:I haven't experienced this yet, sounds terrible. I never got ads on PS4, FWIW. I’ve had luck with a 3rd party app called Twitchy on the AppleTV. Have yet to see a commercial when watching TurkeyDay MST3K Twitch channel (literally the only time I use it) The Pluto.tv RiffTrax channel is pretty good. They do have commercials, but no where near the frequency you’re reporting.
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Another Bill posted:I haven't experienced this yet, sounds terrible. I never got ads on PS4, FWIW. That's odd, because I'm watching on PS4 myself. No other station does it to me, either.
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Oct 6, 2018 03:26
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Proteus Jones posted:I’ve had luck with a 3rd party app called Twitchy on the AppleTV. Have yet to see a commercial when watching TurkeyDay MST3K Twitch channel (literally the only time I use it) They have a pretty reasonable frequency for their commercials--unfortunately I've found their application to be a bit on the buggy side.
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Oct 6, 2018 03:36
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Pluto.tv's problem is they have like 4 sponsors at any given time, and if I see that goddamn "guy trains for a marathon so he can photograph his daughter who is in the marathon" ad again I swear
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Oct 6, 2018 04:50
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Oct 6, 2018 06:29
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drrockso20 posted:Apparently MST3K got pulled off Hulu I’m betting Shout! Factory didn’t renew Hulu’s license, now that they own the back catalog (bought it in 2015, I think?)
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Oct 6, 2018 06:59
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Maxwell Lord posted:Pluto.tv's problem is they have like 4 sponsors at any given time, and if I see that goddamn "guy trains for a marathon so he can photograph his daughter who is in the marathon" ad again I swear That's bad enough. The real problem is the bug I get where it plays two or three ads at more or less the same time.
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Proteus Jones posted:I’m betting Shout! Factory didn’t renew Hulu’s license, now that they own the back catalog (bought it in 2015, I think?) Wonder if they'll expand the offerings of classic episodes on Netflix due to this Also someone really needs to tell Shout Factory to update their Kindle app, drat thing is near useless, doesn't even have a search function Also why the gently caress do they not have a version available on Android or PS4?
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