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Bicyclops posted:Christ, I'd forgotten that was even a thing. I remember reading the reviews, and I think the most positive that they got was "It's possible there are children who could enjoy this, but they do not seem to be the show's target audience." That has to be as niche as MST3K, I hope. A surprising number of people have Stockholm Syndrome for Dave Coulier et al. I almost wonder if that's why The Real Ghostbusters finally made it on there.
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LabyaMynora posted:I have a feeling Iron Fist sees a large drop off of views per episode as the season goes on. It's really stupid, and I'd be shocked if there's an Iron Fist season 2 (even knowing he's going to be in Defenders). It's that lovely. Marco Polo was $10mil an ep. For reference, Futurama's new seasons cost $1mil per ep and Simpsons is in the neighborhood of $2mil an ep. Not the best examples, but ones that come to mind as being more expensive than you'd think.
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To be fair, the Simpsons costs that mostly because of the talent cost. The 6 principals all make like 250 grand an episode. I assume if the MST cast took any pay, they were working for scale. The point still stands that 1 season's budget for Marco Polo would buy Netflix something like 10 seasons of MST.
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Apr 17, 2017 15:39
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Crazy Ferret posted:I just cant believe the climax of the movie is the main character swinging back and forth on a rope swing to lure a dinosaur into a swamp. Its so bafflingly dumb and it almost feels like the Beast just kind sits and watches him for a few moments in equal awe at how silly it is. I forget the exact line but one of them talked about how he never thought he'd be bored by a cowboy fighting a dinosaur, which is perfect. And good god the Mexican dance thing was just... it was something. "That wasn't us." The villain on Starcrash is also my new favorite actor.
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Apr 17, 2017 15:40
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That skit was excellent, and I liked how all 3 humans had different responses. Jonah is just baffled and worried, Max is terrified and Kinga is sobbing.
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Apr 17, 2017 15:45
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They say in the Comedy Bang Bang podcast that they want to keep doing more episodes. Yay!
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The principal continuing cost for any show that isn't like, Rome or Deadwood or some grand historical drama that involves a ton of costuming is actor salaries continuing to increase, which is why The Simpsons is now at the point where the network plays chicken with the voice actors every renewal and why Friends was an enormously expensive show compared to what you'd think. Excepting cameos, it's probably less of a problem for a trio of relatively unknown comedians and for someone like Felicia Day, whose whole brand (and, I think, genuine personality) is geek humor lady, (and this show virtually has to be kinder with scheduling than something like Supernatural when it comes to arranging around a new baby). Patton is their biggest liability there, because while I'm sure he's not going to demand a high price for appearing as Max, he seems to get asked to be in every other TV show that's made all of a sudden, and there has to come a point where if they go to a more regular filming schedule, he has to drop for other commitments.
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Push El Burrito posted:The villain on Starcrash is also my new favorite actor. Then you need to check out the original "Maniac" from 1980! It even has Stella Star in it! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081114/?ref_=nv_sr_3 (You will want to shower after watching this movie.)
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Mantis42 posted:I'm not surprised animated shows cost a ton, tbh. I suppose it makes sense but on the flip side the main Simpsons voice actors have it pretty easy compared to what they make. Not that they haven't earned it but I'm sure more than one of them has a recording setup in their house and knock out a episode pretty quickly.
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Franchescanado posted:The cast of MST3k is on today's episode of Comedy Bang Bang podcast, for those interested. Also, Jonah is on the latest Doug Loves Movies if podcasts are your thing.
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LabyaMynora posted:Then you need to check out the original "Maniac" from 1980! It even has Stella Star in it! They were also both in another obscure slasher film two years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Horror_Film
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Honestly, they'll announce a renewal for another season in a few weeks at most if it's happening. For context, Love got renewed 3 days after launch, Bojack Horseman got renewed 2 days BEFORE it launched. If people keep watching, it'll happen.
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Push El Burrito posted:The villain on Starcrash is also my new favorite actor. That actor understood what kind of movie he was in and played it to perfection. The ridiculous cape fluttering behind him whenever he moved was just great. There is no way to find out what ratings/views certain things get on netflix is there? I legit curious to see how well MST3K is doing cause I'm surprised by the media coverage I've seen. The reviews for this show have all been very positive from what I've seen that is.
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Crazy Ferret posted:. No, they keep it hidden. According to that CBB ep, each episode actually cost $350k to make
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Bicyclops posted:The principal continuing cost for any show that isn't like, Rome or Deadwood or some grand historical drama that involves a ton of costuming is actor salaries continuing to increase, which is why The Simpsons is now at the point where the network plays chicken with the voice actors every renewal and why Friends was an enormously expensive show compared to what you'd think. Excepting cameos, it's probably less of a problem for a trio of relatively unknown comedians and for someone like Felicia Day, whose whole brand (and, I think, genuine personality) is geek humor lady, (and this show virtually has to be kinder with scheduling than something like Supernatural when it comes to arranging around a new baby). Patton is their biggest liability there, because while I'm sure he's not going to demand a high price for appearing as Max, he seems to get asked to be in every other TV show that's made all of a sudden, and there has to come a point where if they go to a more regular filming schedule, he has to drop for other commitments. That's possibly true, but they have a built-in replacement with Rebecca's Pearl-clone. Just have her act more 'normal' and boom, instant new sidekick.
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Franchescanado posted:Honestly, they'll announce a renewal for another season in a few weeks at most if it's happening. For context, Love got renewed 3 days after launch, Bojack Horseman got renewed 2 days BEFORE it launched. If people keep watching, it'll happen. But I want to know that it's coming back next April now! 
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Crazy Ferret posted:That actor understood what kind of movie he was in and played it to perfection. The ridiculous cape fluttering behind him whenever he moved was just great. Yeah they hide it which has begun to worry film makers and such because netflix currently doesnt share that information with them either, so theyre entirely at the behest of Netflix and thus limited when negotiating.
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Gaz-L posted:A surprising number of people have Stockholm Syndrome for Dave Coulier et al. I almost wonder if that's why The Real Ghostbusters finally made it on there. Why won't they bring back Out of Control? 
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Crazy Ferret posted:That actor understood what kind of movie he was in and played it to perfection. The ridiculous cape fluttering behind him whenever he moved was just great. Netflix is super secretive about ratings/views. I don't think they even share it with the producers of a given show, which is crappy because it takes power away from them when it comes to negotiating future seasons.
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Push El Burrito posted:I forget the exact line but one of them talked about how he never thought he'd be bored by a cowboy fighting a dinosaur, which is perfect. And good god the Mexican dance thing was just... it was something. "That wasn't us." The weirdest host segment for me was when they started screaming at the end of the movie and then just kept it going through the closing segment like it was "Requiem for Soprano" or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhwWAciO6F4
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tvgm2 posted:Anyone else have the music from commercial breaks stuck in their head? Yes yes yes yes yes. And I love some of their little jigs as they play. That trumpet player's got moves.
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tvgm2 posted:Anyone else have the music from commercial breaks stuck in their head? I would buy an album of MST3k Ska covers in a heartbeat tbqh My current favorite is the "To Earth~" one from Danger! Diabolik
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Push El Burrito posted:The villain on Starcrash is also my new favorite actor. Joe Spinell was also in The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, Rocky, Rocky II, and Sorcerer (amongst many other things). If you wanted 1970s NYC personified on film, you wanted Joe Spinell. As others have said, his best film was MANIAC:  And yup, like LabyaMynora said it even co-stars Caroline Munro. It also has an infamous sequence of somebody taking a shotgun to the face, made more interesting by the fact that it was actually gore special effects maestro Tom Savini shooting a dummy of himself for the scene. The 2012 remake starring Elijah Wood is actually really good too, but obviously doesn't have Joe in it since he died in the 80s.
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I'd give anything to hear Joe Spinell's original dialogue from Starcrash.
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Anyone else find it unusual that the new MST3K isn't featured prominently on Netflix? It didn't show up as a featured release, nor was it under new releases or Netflix originals. I had to go to the search menu to actually find it. Don't know if it's like that for everyone, but it did happen like that with my friend as well. Also I'm a little nervous that it's separated from the original show episodes, so people who've been watching the classic MST may not even realize the new season is there. And before you say, "Well jeez *ALL* MSTies know about the knew season," I offer a brief anecdote: I went to Busch Gardens earlier this week rocking my MST revival t-shirt in honor of the new season. Had two different people stop me to compliment the shirt (yay!)... and neither one of them had any idea about the revival/new season on Netflix. I blew both of their minds telling them "Yeah new episodes on Netflix like, day after tomorrow. I am 100% serious." So keep wearing your shirts, and keep spreading the word. More people need to know about the new season, and I'm not convinced they'll stumble upon it just by loading up Netflix.
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Ballz posted:Anyone else find it unusual that the new MST3K isn't featured prominently on Netflix? It showed up as the featured show for me and it was also under new releases and was first in my "Top Picks for InfiniteZero" list. I also got an email about it from Netflix when it went live (one of those "We've added a show you might like" emails). That's about as prominent as any other big release on Netflix.
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Ballz posted:Anyone else find it unusual that the new MST3K isn't featured prominently on Netflix? It didn't show up as a featured release, nor was it under new releases or Netflix originals. I had to go to the search menu to actually find it. I was looking for it on day one (Friday), and it was the featured thing for the day. However, I think as of Saturday the featured spot was replaced with the new Adam Sandler "Sandy Wexler" or whatever thing. Should note that I also was watching some of the old ones leading up to the release, so Netflix may have matched it to me for that (even though I'm skeptical that Netflix really matches much based on what you watch anymore. It always seems to be what THEY are looking to promote. For example, I have no interest in, nor have I ever watched anything with Adam Sandler in it on Netflix.) This was both on the Comcast cable box app and the PS4 btw. As for making it separate from old MST3K, I think they kind of have to for multiple reasons involving different production studios as separate legal identities. I would worry it would kind of get lost if they grouped it with the old episodes, anyway.
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InfiniteZero posted:It showed up as the featured show for me and it was also under new releases and was first in my "Top Picks for InfiniteZero" list. Same here. I tried to access it on Chromecast at first and couldn't find it, because the search functions are truly awful without the tablet that's tied to it available and it kept finding the old show, but the second I fired up Netflix, it was the first thing on my screen (and I did get an email as well).
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LabyaMynora posted:I was looking for it on day one (Friday), and it was the featured thing for the day. However, I think as of Saturday the featured spot was replaced with the new Adam Sandler "Sandy Wexler" or whatever thing. It would not be good for the new show or Netflix to have linked them together only for new viewers to tune into a "new" show that looked like it was straight out of the 90's or early 2000's.
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Neglecting work and watching Starcrash again, and also googling for trivia on it. It's funny they riff on the robot Elle trying to get with Caroline Munro, because Elle was played by Munro's husband at the time, Judd Hamilton (he was dubbed with the Texan accent by another actor). All of Stella's dialogue is dubbed by Candy Clark, who was married to Marjoe Gortner (Akton) at the time. LOL, Christopher Plummer talking to AV Club about his role: quote:Starcrash (1978)—“The Emperor”
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Ahahaha that's amazing. "Look, I got to travel, look at some hot chick, and make believe I was basically God, tell me you wouldn't have done it."
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I was streaming through the mst3k collection Netflix had up right before the new release and when the new episodes came out they popped up at right away for me. I didn't even realize I was selecting a different show until I went back to watch more the next day.
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maybe my brain has just been warped by a decade of deliberately watching bad movies, but Time Travelers seems like it would be fine on its own terms.
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Bruteman posted:Neglecting work and watching Starcrash again, and also googling for trivia on it. This is hilarious, because there was a point in the movie where I said to my wife, "I think everyone's lines are overdubbed by different actors, and I think they're speeding up and slowing down the picture to match the voice over." Something seemed very hinkey about the picture quality of some scenes, like it was stop motion when there were no stop motion happening in the scene.
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HannibalBarca posted:maybe my brain has just been warped by a decade of deliberately watching bad movies, but Time Travelers seems like it would be fine on its own terms. Did you even see the "keyboard solo" scene? So far, I'd only watch Cry Wilderness on it's own terms. I watched Starcrash on it's own terms when it was on Netflix a few years ago, and it was great.
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HannibalBarca posted:maybe my brain has just been warped by a decade of deliberately watching bad movies, but Time Travelers seems like it would be fine on its own terms. It's not just you. It seems like it's basically a bit of a long Twilight Zone episode, with some stuff in it that's definitely outdated but that's fun to sit through, and generally well executed for its time.
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HannibalBarca posted:maybe my brain has just been warped by a decade of deliberately watching bad movies, but Time Travelers seems like it would be fine on its own terms. I have a feeling that when they bought the rights to Reptiicus, it was included, too. Same writer/director and production company, I think.
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