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Let's all go to the movies! MST3K Watch-Along

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  • ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... ... and hard.Registered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Man, Parts: The Clonus Horror. I thought I was actually factually losing control of my brain when I saw The Island because not only is that movie tres not very good it is also a straight up ripoff of The Clonus Horror, somehow, for some reason.

    Fun fact: the Parts: The Clonus Horror guy sued and got at least something for it:
    The creators of the 1979 film Parts: The Clonus Horror, which was also about a colony that breeds clones to harvest organs for the elite, filed a copyright infringement suit in 2005.[16][17] DreamWorks attempted to have the suit dismissed but a federal judge determined that there was indeed a copyright infringement case to be heard and scheduled the case to go to trial in February 2007. However, DreamWorks then settled the case out of court in late 2006 for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.[18]

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Whew, seven figure! Hell yeah he got something out of it!

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited February 2016
    Good for them

    Don't let Michael Bay of all people steal your idea without at least getting a piece of that pie

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  • DaMoonRulzDaMoonRulz Mare ImbriumRegistered User regular
    I think my favorite is Time Chasers.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    DaMoonRulz wrote: »
    I think my favorite is Time Chasers.

    Then you might be interested in this recent Rifftrax, starring Sean Astin and Bruce Campbell.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Bald Bruce Campbell is a visual phenomenon that I do not approve of

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    Another watch-along THURSDAY, February 11th! Maybe a double-feature!

    The fun starts at 6PM EST! This will be my last watch-along for a little while!

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited February 2016
    Have you selected episodes yet? Might I suggest if you go the double feature route one Joel episode and one Mike episode.

    And maybe as a send off do one of most infamous episodes of all. Manos "the hands of fate"

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    I heard Manos is an episode best left for seasoned veterans

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    For Joel, I vote Gamera vs. Guiron

    For Mike, I vote Werewolf

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    godmode wrote: »
    I heard Manos is an episode best left for seasoned veterans

    It is hard. very hard to watch. Even with their jokes.

  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    a double feature would be cool, I'm actually going out that evening so I would probably miss the 6pm ep

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Joel episode vote: godzilla vs megalon

    Mike episode vote: pumaman

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    edited February 2016
    Save Manos for a day you feel less like laughing and more like marveling at how something so abominable could ever be created

    The best MST3K episodes are making fun of watchable schlock

    Manos is painful, but absolutely a critical part of the show's catalog because of how unbelievably and singularly weird it is

    EDIT: I would also put Monster-a-Go-Go up there with Manos on the short list of episodes that are basically like watching a trainwreck

    That twist ending

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    joshofalltrades wrote: »
    For Joel, I vote Gamera vs. Guiron

    For Mike, I vote Werewolf

    These picks are both for Joel (me). Two of my all-time favorites. And on the one night this week I'm actually free, too.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    See, for me, Manos is just soothing. It's so bizarre and so weird that it's badness is never actually irritating, it's just strange. I can get down with strange

    Even Monster-a-Go-Go, a movie literally compiled from unused footage from other movies, is strange enough that I can watch that. Same with Red Zone Cuba--that movie is incompetent and nonsensical, but it has a definitive vision and an ethos and a mood. It fails to communicate all of those, but they're there and you can see them so I can watch it and marvel at it as a piece of monumentally failed art

    Now, Hobgoblins? Oh wow Hobgoblins is almost unwatchable

    I struggle to make it through that episode, I can't even imagine what watching the movie itself would be like

    I would chew through my own arm before it was over

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Hobgoblins is amazing!

    The rake fight, Club Scum, the silly puppets that they could obviously just let go of and they'd hit the ground...

    That's the first episode that really had Megan rolling!

  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    red zone cuba is unwatchable, even with mst3k

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Touch Of Satan is a pretty good one.

  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Ehh I find The Wild World of Batwoman and Monster A Go-Go to be my most unwatchable. Like. Monster A Go-Go is AWFUL and no amount of riffing makes it enjoyable. And The Wild World of Batwoman has some good moments but mostly I feel like Servo does at the end, just screaming END! ENNNNND!

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    Yep

    You said it, brother

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    I went back and watched some of the first season episodes a few years back, and they're just not very good

    There are hints at the glory the show would become, but even through nostalgia glasses, they had to work to get to that point

    I would actually rather watch Monster-a-Go-Go or Wild World of Batwoman again than to go back and watch virtually anything from season 1

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Lost Salient wrote: »
    Ehh I find The Wild World of Batwoman and Monster A Go-Go to be my most unwatchable. Like. Monster A Go-Go is AWFUL and no amount of riffing makes it enjoyable. And The Wild World of Batwoman has some good moments but mostly I feel like Servo does at the end, just screaming END! ENNNNND!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_nPp64OrBc

    Yep

    You said it, brother

    Batwoman is an episode best left to a highlights reel. Episodes like that get put onto my "background watching" list, for something to throw on the other monitor when I'm playing Minecraft or Spelunky or something. I'm not really paying attention but can still catch the good jokes.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Oh and yeah Josh I'm with you, I actually consider my episode collection "complete" despite skipping season one entirely.

    Ain't worth it.

    So I'm a heretic.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    joshofalltrades wrote: »
    Hobgoblins is amazing!

    The rake fight, Club Scum, the silly puppets that they could obviously just let go of and they'd hit the ground...

    That's the first episode that really had Megan rolling!

    It's just so irritating

    Other movies are drab or dull or boring, but none of them make me so mad

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Lost Salient wrote: »
    Oh and yeah Josh I'm with you, I actually consider my episode collection "complete" despite skipping season one entirely.

    Ain't worth it.

    So I'm a heretic.

    Nah nothing heretical about wanting to watch the shows after they'd worked out the kinks

    Some people want them to find a way to release the very old KTMA episodes (which almost nobody has ever seen, unless you watched them as they were broadcasted originally) and I can cheer for that from a historical/archivist perspective but man I bet you a million bucks they suuuuuck

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    I think the first season and the KTMA season are both worth watching if you're interested in improv and riffing as a thing, because that was before things were really scripted and you can learn a lot from how those episodes go. Like "don't riff it live on camera if you want to be entertaining".

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    edited February 2016
    Olivaw wrote: »
    joshofalltrades wrote: »
    Hobgoblins is amazing!

    The rake fight, Club Scum, the silly puppets that they could obviously just let go of and they'd hit the ground...

    That's the first episode that really had Megan rolling!

    It's just so irritating

    Other movies are drab or dull or boring, but none of them make me so mad

    I get that

    People rave about Jack Frost so I went into watching it with high expectations but was disappointed, the surreal stuff happening just didn't really do it for me I guess

    Might be worth a re-watch without all the hype, though

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Oh man I love Jack Frost.

    (I also like Hobgoblins.)

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    I love Jack Frost and The Day the Earth Froze. That bizarre Russo-Finnish aesthetic is totally my jam.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Red Zone Cuba is actual, factual literally poison for you soul

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    New MST3K Kickstarter update!

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    I will probably be picking two movies from the list of 30-something available on Hulu.

  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    When? Tonight?

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2016
    Lost Salient wrote: »
    When? Tonight?

    tomorrow, afaik

    hulu doesn't have wairfwlf

    but it does have mitchell

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Aw, drag.

    Got company in town tomorrow.

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2016
    Bring your friends! Tomorrow at 6PM EST!

    I say there's going to be a double feature, but considering the (lack of) amount of work I've done prepping and packing to depart Friday morning, I may lose steam after one movie.

    I will try to persevere.

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    Fuuuuuuuuuuuck me I have just discovered that I lost the checklist I wrote myself. Now I don't even know how many things I have left to avoid doing until the last second.

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I will be at work, and I will be there! Lets send Godmode to Japan right!

    Everyone make sure to post lewd pics in the chat tomorrow. Even if its not you in the pic! Gotta send him off with American hopitality!

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Watching Prince of Space right now and I had forgotten how magical this episode is

  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    I hate to do this to my loyal followers, but I have to push the start time back an hour - I still have a lot of cleaning to do and I haven't eaten yet.

    New time is 7PM EST

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