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The movie being so short was because their studio thought that nobody wanted to see a comedy longer than 80 minutes. Which is insane since it made it shorter than an episode.
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mycophobia posted:the movie was my first exposure to mst3k, watching it while getting high at a friends house sometime in 2008. i was extremely peripherally aware of mst3k being a thing so i didn't really know what it was about and wasn't expecting much but i laughed my rear end off Yeah, it was my first exposure as well. Some guys I knew had seen it at the scifi movie club at the local Uni and said it was the funniest thing they'd seen, so I bought the R1 DVD blind. When my brother and I watched it, we laughed so hard we thought we'd pass out. I've been in love with the show ever since.
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The AV Club oral history is a really good read for everything involving the movie https://www.avclub.com/mystery-science-theater-3000-the-movie-the-oral-histo-1846694612
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Best I remember Blockbuster had the Movie and then a smattering of the early Rhino single episodes, so I started with the Movie and was hooked from there.
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The whole experience seemed to mostly revolve around execs going "Why is this funny?" and possibly "Why did we buy this?" I remember a friend who read Mike's first book where he does (sort of) review the movie and was upset Mike didn't talk about it more or in more glowing terms and I had bad news to give him.
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zoux posted:
that's really fuckin funny
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Nearly choked on my Pepsi here: "Al Lewis, survivalist." Al Lewis: 
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Nearly choked on my Pepsi here: What episode is that one from?
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Jack Frost? The one where the guy gets turned into a bear. That's not-Baba Yaga
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Uncle Wemus posted:
The classic "turn and face the woods/turn and face me" six hour gag.
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Larryb posted:What episode is that one from? Yeah, it's Jack Frost.  "Looks like he's got an engine fire." It also features an amazing Mike line, when Jack Frost is running around the forest looking confused. "Where the hell did I park?" Imagine that in Mike's "Angry old coot" voice.
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You can easily find the original Jack Frost movie, subtitled, on youtube. It's pretty good!
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HopperUK posted:You can easily find the original Jack Frost movie, subtitled, on youtube. It's pretty good! Yeah it's easily the best of the Finnish/Soviet coproductions.
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zoux posted:Jack Frost? The one where the guy gets turned into a bear. That's not-Baba Yaga Oh yes, how could I forget HopperUK posted:You can easily find the original Jack Frost movie, subtitled, on youtube. It's pretty good! So the movie’s main issue was just the English dub then?
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yeah it's easily the best of the Finnish/Soviet coproductions. I hate those movies, they all feel like fever dreams
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Yeah, Jack Frost is vaguely enjoyable on its own and it's a good riff.
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Larryb posted:Oh yes, how could I forget Honestly yeah, the dub is really ropey. The movie still has effects that look dodgy to our modern eyes but it's imaginative and fun and the acting is not bad. e: Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw2DN4335hU
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HopperUK posted:You can easily find the original Jack Frost movie, subtitled, on youtube. It's pretty good! And on steam in game form! https://store.steampowered.com/app/289320/Fairy_Tale_About_Father_Frost_Ivan_and_Nastya/
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I actually saw MST3k The Movie in some arthouse theater in Baltimore when it came out. I remember sitting in a theater watching a movie where guys in a theater watch a movie felt different than it did at home. I was already a fan and I thought it was basically just a really good episode.
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John Murdoch posted:Lots of studio interference plus the inherent mismatch of cow town puppet show and Hollywood. Normal View is still one of my absolute favorite riffs they ever did Clouseau posted:I kind of think the movie being shorter than an episode is an asset to it. The movie is a really good intro to the show if you have no context for it, the This Island Earth itself isn't particularly bad, and it ends before you get bored. Exactly, was my first proper full exposure to the series when Netflix first got it back around I think 2013 or so zoux posted:
I'll admit I would like to see that collection Also I was reminded the other day of the existence of the Estus Pirkle/Ron Ormond trilogy of "Religious Exploitation" films and man those would be some good material for either MST3K or Rifftrax to mercilessly make fun of(the latter has already riffed one of Ron Ormond's earlier non-religious films Mesa of Lost Women)
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drrockso20 posted:Normal View is still one of my absolute favorite riffs they ever did I love pretty much everything they do with the goofy rear end Metalunans
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:I love pretty much everything they do with the goofy rear end Metalunans "Then I ram my ovipositor down your throat and lay eggs in your chest, but I'm not an alien!"
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What's important is why do I have a picture of a burger on the wall.
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Tom's incredulous "*gasp* No..." when the human scientists remark on the Metalunans' foreheads is perfect in its simplicity
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Weenieman; Awaaaay!
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"we'll start right here" "At goofy clown face."
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The secret government Eggo project. Also, increase the Flash Gordon noise and put more science stuff around. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Freemason Rush Week posted:Tom's incredulous "*gasp* No..." when the human scientists remark on the Metalunans' foreheads is perfect in its simplicity If I don't miss my guess, I think this has something to do with those white-haired fellows...
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John Murdoch posted:The secret government Eggo project. Warning the breakfast syrup
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And if your hands were made out of metal, that would mean something.
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MST3k is a goddamn miracle, there's no other TV show that's remotely like it. Reading that oral history of the movie, it was just a fortunate confluence of people and circumstances and it's amazing that it's still so important to so many people even 40 years later. I guess the closest thing would be the old midnight movie programs like with Elvira, but those hosts wouldn't really riff the movies. Trace, in that interview, talks about how surreal it was to have the movie close out at a certain MN theater because that's where he used to go see bad b-movies in the 70s. That's just a whole genre/mode of entertainment that doesn't exist anymore, outside of your odd Drafthouse revival or Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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zoux posted:I guess the closest thing would be the old midnight movie programs like with Elvira, but those hosts wouldn't really riff the movies. Yeah, I believe the original idea was basically “what if the horror movie host actually watched the movie with you” which is why there’s so few riffs in the first few KTMA episodes. It grew into what it became pretty organically. Someone (maybe Joel) said at one point that even they didn’t fully figure out what the show should be until they cut together a montage of the best KTMA bits to try and sell the it to other networks.
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Diabolik900 posted:Yeah, I believe the original idea was basically “what if the horror movie host actually watched the movie with you” which is why there’s so few riffs in the first few KTMA episodes. It grew into what it became pretty organically. In that interview, Mallon said the genesis of the idea of doing a movie was that they noticed the more people who were watching an episode with you, the more fun you had. They did a live show dry run with this Island Earth, the first one they ever did, and the cast and crew were stunned by the reaction from the audience. 
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:And if your hands were made out of metal, that would mean something. My mind immediately goes to this one any time schlock tries to invoke magnetism as magic that works on anything.
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