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Wheat Loaf posted:Loads of Doctor Who references in that comic, too, at a time when that was fairly "only nerds and PBS viewers know about it" territory in America. There's also an issue where Excalibur turn into animes and meet not!Dirty Pair.
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Tracula posted:To go back to RLM again one of my absolute favorite things about them over them TGWTG veterans is I believe most of them have said they never even really watched MST3K while growing up. I just sort of appreciate them doing their own memes and bullshit when reviewing movies that MST3K might have covered rather than just aping what someone else did before them. Robert Denby posted:The four minutes of black screen with music is a holdover from the ‘roadshow’ days. If you see “Lawrence of Arabia” (or any roadshow movie really) in a theater, the overture plays at or a couple minutes before the start time while the house lights are still up, kind of like a play. At the end of the overture, the house lights dim, and the curtains open for the Columbia logo. There's also music at the end of the intermission to prompt people that the movie is starting back in a few minutes. These elements work awkwardly on home video but since its technically part of the film, it gets included if you watch something like "2001", "West Side Story", "Ben-Hur", "Spartacus", et al on home video. Funny story; when the fully-restored version of "Lawrence" first came out on home video in 1990, rental places had people returning the film thinking there was something wrong with it because of this. Sometimes I wish movies still had intermissions. It'd be a lot easier to commit to seeing a longer movie if I had a guaranteed bathroom/snack break in the middle. I still remember my friend's account of going to see The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. During the scene where everybody's riding barrels down the rapids, my friend got up, used the bathroom, got a drink, had a chat with an usher, went back to the theater, and it was still the same scene.
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Sep 27, 2015 05:58
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SatansBestBuddy posted:This wrestling derail is worse than all the other ones because it actually makes me want to start reading and watching all the backstage drama and possibly even actual wrestling. It just sounds like such a convoluted, drama-riddled trainwreck spanning decades and involving dozens of people and millions of dollars, which is my favourite kind of trainwreck. My dad got big into WWF back in the 90's pretty much for that reason: because it was like 70's Marvel Comics brought to life.
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Oct 11, 2015 14:51
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What got me was bleeping "Holy c*w!"
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Dec 13, 2015 01:14
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OldTennisCourt posted:I'd be interested in another long Final Fantasy look, maybe at 8 since that's probably one of the more interesting failures in Square's catologue, a game that isn't AWFUL but has glaring flaws coming after something as massive as 7. It deserves a better look than the Spoony "LOL CLOUD? MORE LIKE EMO GAY!" videos.
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Dec 23, 2015 01:02
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KKall posted:Or maybe it's just how creative types operate - we're all ashamed of our past work because we're all ashamed of our past selves. I mean, have you ever tried to read anything you wrote in high school? High school? I don't like reading what I wrote yesterday.
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Jan 6, 2016 07:13
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^ This guy gets it. Of course, a common bit of advice for the revision process for writers is to take advantage of this, set the work aside for a while, and then read it as if it were written by someone else. It works both ways: sometimes you look at a passage you liked and decide it needs fixing, and sometimes you look at one you thought was crap and realize it wasn't that bad.
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Jan 6, 2016 18:43
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Archer666 posted:Hahaha I totally missed it, but Moviebob's last upload was him defending his weird "which characters should be amiibos" list in the most passive aggressive way. Also he should never turn to his side
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Jan 15, 2016 03:10
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Max Wilco posted:An indie paper crossword where one of the questions pertains to a angry YouTube review of an Adam Sandler comedy film about video games which was loosely based on a short film. The theme was "Worst of Pop Culture, 2015." The clue was "2015 Adam Sandler movie that got an epic ten-minute review/rant from 'MovieBob Reviews' on YouTube." The answer was... well, you know.
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Jan 15, 2016 05:34
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I forget which game it was, but I once saw a video of an FPS mission where, thanks to the way it was scripted, the player didn't have to do a thing, except maybe fire a single shot from a turret. There was no risk to the player, nothing to gain from opening fire, and no tension whatsoever. That's what I'd call "not a game." If it doesn't have a goal that depends on some skill or ability to accomplish, I have trouble thinking of it as a "game." Which isn't always a bad thing. There's a solar system app for Oculus Rift that I once tried out at the local library. That definitely wasn't a game: it was a VR tour of the solar system, with factoids about each planet and moon. And I had a lot of fun with it.
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Jan 20, 2016 06:59
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At what point did Baywatch become the highest-rated show, or such an international hit? Or was it all so gradual that it took a while to notice?
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Jan 22, 2016 04:44
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The name "Kelly Slater" always makes me think of a possible Saved by the Bell future where Ms. Kapowski married Mario Lopez's character.
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Jan 24, 2016 01:56
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Is MST3k cheating? Because my brain keeps jumping to Monster A-Go-Go.
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Jan 24, 2016 21:30
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WickedHate posted:Lots of MST3K films fit that criteria but none of them are memorable as the "fun" bad ones like Manos. I'd say Manos is only "fun" because MST3k made it that way. Otherwise it's shoddy, stagnant and depressing. I can't imagine ever watching it without riffs. "Fun" bad is something like The Room or Miami Connection: movies that are so good at being bad that they become sublime. (I edited out Fateful Findings, because I'm not sure you can even call Neil Breen's movies "bad." They're so much their own thing. For all the technical deficiencies, he's achieving exactly what he sets out to do.) LFK posted:Yes, though they usually end up being namely insufferably full of themselves, which is worse than whatever "intentional" badness they put on screen. I also have a weakness for TV episodes where the characters go to see bad conceptual art, but that's a different discussion entirely. Keromaru5 fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Jan 25, 2016 |
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Jan 25, 2016 07:33
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Max Wilco posted:I admit that I was out of the theater between the point where you first see Rey and when you see her wearing the helmet, so it's possible that I missed something critical.
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Jan 28, 2016 19:31
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Infamous Sphere posted:Oh - you just reminded me. I was talking about a terrible kids/family movie I saw on Twitter, and someone told me about The Peanut Butter Solution. Basically, it's about a kid whose hair falls out because of some ghosts, and then the ghosts give him a hair treatment to make his hair grow back, but it grows back too fast so an evil art teacher enslaves him and forces children to make magic paintbrushes out of his hair? Apparently just about everyone who watched it as a child thought that they'd imagined seeing it, because they thought it was too horrible to possibly exist - but then..it turned out it wasn't a dream. It was real.
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Robert Denby posted:There's a 1986 animated film, only released in Japan in theaters and rental-only VHS, which is about as good as a 'faithful' adaptation could probably be. It is a completely straightforward adaptation, complete with sounds from the game and bizarre product placement for all these Mario food tie-ins (Mario and Luigi literally eat Mario brand curry at one point and tell you the viewer that you should buy this delicious food). Also, in an early twist on the formula, when Peach is rescued, she winds up with a prince instead of Mario.
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