I was dying laughing during that whole bit with Jonah predicting the obvious ending (which ultimately wasn’t actually subverted).
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The dialogue and acting and everything in Atlantic Rim is so bad that it almost doesn't need to be riffed, good lord. I felt actively bad for the background extras.
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Atlantic Rim was terrible. Some of the riffing was good, but the awfulness of Atlantic Rim was threatening to overpower even that.
I felt really bad for any of the actors who took it seriously. You know there had to be one or two.
That's how I felt, but it seemed like they were being directed to be as ridiculous as possible, like the people yelling into the phones to send everyone right now!!!1.
I loved they kept passing by the seas of bodies without reacting at all, or even any indication of how they got there.
And then they had their little self-congratulatory circle jerk while standing in the middle of said sea of bodies...
BAH-BOOM!
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The only positive thing I can say is that I think the creature actually looked kind of cool, especially since it was probably made on a budget of gum wrappers.
The only positive thing I can say is that I think the creature actually looked kind of cool, especially since it was probably made on a budget of gum wrappers.
You just complimented Atlantic Rim.
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I feel like Mac & Me and Atlantic Rim would have been more tolerable if they were bracketed by the other entries, rather than coming at the front and back-to-back. Both were really, astoundingly terrible movies (as opposed to simply very bad movies that you can tell the people involved were at least trying in, like The Day Time Stopped or whatever it was called). I almost gave up on the new season halfway through Atlantic Rim because even the riffing was insufficient to make it not painful to watch. I'm glad I didn't because the rest of them wound up being pretty funniiiice but yeash.
I and my buddies laughed our asses off at the riffing in Mac & Me. We thoroughly enjoyed it.
Not all of us made it through Atlantic Rim. A few turned it off halfway through to just go to the next one, it was that bad. Some of the riffs were even good, but it's was so bad....
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No-QuarterNothing To FearBut Fear ItselfRegistered Userregular
For me it's a tie between Mac and Me and The Day Time Stopped for the worst movies.
The former is a ridiculous mess, and the latter is nearly incomprehensible.
Can anyone even tell me what actually occurs in that movie? The "Concepts!" song the bots sing was pretty spot on.
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
The only positive thing I can say is that I think the creature actually looked kind of cool, especially since it was probably made on a budget of gum wrappers.
You just complimented Atlantic Rim.
I'm sure whatever CGI designer that Asylum has chained up in their basement is happy for my support.
I'm 4 in. So far the plots have been getting steadily less coherent across the four movies, I think. Mac and Me was a particularly good episode, and might even be one I'd show to a neophyte to introduce the idea of the show. The riffing rhythm is more comfortable and natural this season, and I'm glad they ditched the "fake commercial" bumper bits. Overall I'm pretty darn satisfied.
The riffing is good, but my least favorite episodes of MST3k have always been the ones where the movie is just so egregiously bad that I can't focus on the riffs at all with how objectively terrible it is.
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I'm 4 in. So far the plots have been getting steadily less coherent across the four movies, I think. Mac and Me was a particularly good episode, and might even be one I'd show to a neophyte to introduce the idea of the show. The riffing rhythm is more comfortable and natural this season, and I'm glad they ditched the "fake commercial" bumper bits. Overall I'm pretty darn satisfied.
I think the fake ad breaks were originally filmed because they didn't know what network the show would wind up on at the time. They could have been on cable TV again, for all they knew.
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For me it's a tie between Mac and Me and The Day Time Stopped for the worst movies.
The former is a ridiculous mess, and the latter is nearly incomprehensible.
Can anyone even tell me what actually occurs in that movie? The "Concepts!" song the bots sing was pretty spot on.
As far as I could tell someone found a really torn up first draft of Close Encounters and filmed that without trying to put it back together.
I was actually trying to parse out the film today, and it really does feel like someone had multiple and vastly different scripts for the same alien movie and instead of picking one, they just took bits and pieces from all of them and stitched them together into some hideous progeny.
I STILL dont know what the deal was with the evil robot/Betamax player (lawl). It was obviously antagonistic,
but it doesn't really go anywhere. So many plot threads either start and go no where or come screaming out of left field
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I thought Atlantic rim was pretty good. .the movie was bad, but not intentionally bad. Just bad cgi and sme bad acting. Some of the actors are actually trying in scenes and some people are competent. I expected much worse the way people were talking. With the riffs it was a really enjoyable watch I think. And it's nothing like them doing a sharknado movie.
For me it's a tie between Mac and Me and The Day Time Stopped for the worst movies.
The former is a ridiculous mess, and the latter is nearly incomprehensible.
Can anyone even tell me what actually occurs in that movie? The "Concepts!" song the bots sing was pretty spot on.
As far as I could tell someone found a really torn up first draft of Close Encounters and filmed that without trying to put it back together.
I was actually trying to parse out the film today, and it really does feel like someone had multiple and vastly different scripts for the same alien movie and instead of picking one, they just took bits and pieces from all of them and stitched them together into some hideous progeny.
I STILL dont know what the deal was with the evil robot/Betamax player (lawl). It was obviously antagonistic,
but it doesn't really go anywhere. So many plot threads either start and go no where or come screaming out of left field
I think that's part of the cultural consciousness of the time. The whole alien abduction, visitation, and travel was all the rage throughout the 1970s, in some ways mirroring the seance and spiritualist movements of a century before. So I feel like a lot of the choppiness in the story is simply because we don't possess the zeitgeist and thus cannot translate all the shorthand the movie uses. Look at, say, Indonesian horror films. To us those things are a mess of conflicting weirdness, but to their makers who inherited the basis of those stories, they make perfect sense. I feel like something like that is at play in that one.
Which is not to say it's not still completely nonsensical. It's that a small part of that nonsense isn't.
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3 completed thus far. So far, Mac & Me was the overall most entertaining to me. Lords of the Deep and Atlantic Rim genuine awfulness is dragging it down a bit.
It might be because the movies are being edited to fit, I dunno.
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I'm three in so far. Mac & Me was so great. "Sunglasses on. Sunglasses off. Sunglasses on. Sunglasses off"
For me it's a tie between Mac and Me and The Day Time Stopped for the worst movies.
The former is a ridiculous mess, and the latter is nearly incomprehensible.
Can anyone even tell me what actually occurs in that movie? The "Concepts!" song the bots sing was pretty spot on.
As far as I could tell someone found a really torn up first draft of Close Encounters and filmed that without trying to put it back together.
I was actually trying to parse out the film today, and it really does feel like someone had multiple and vastly different scripts for the same alien movie and instead of picking one, they just took bits and pieces from all of them and stitched them together into some hideous progeny.
I STILL dont know what the deal was with the evil robot/Betamax player (lawl). It was obviously antagonistic,
but it doesn't really go anywhere. So many plot threads either start and go no where or come screaming out of left field
I think that's part of the cultural consciousness of the time. The whole alien abduction, visitation, and travel was all the rage throughout the 1970s, in some ways mirroring the seance and spiritualist movements of a century before. So I feel like a lot of the choppiness in the story is simply because we don't possess the zeitgeist and thus cannot translate all the shorthand the movie uses. Look at, say, Indonesian horror films. To us those things are a mess of conflicting weirdness, but to their makers who inherited the basis of those stories, they make perfect sense. I feel like something like that is at play in that one.
Which is not to say it's not still completely nonsensical. It's that a small part of that nonsense isn't.
Google says the movies original runtime is 80 minutes, while that episode of MST3K is 82 minutes long. To fit the movie into their time constraints MST3K probably chopped a scene or two that might have helped make the story a little more understandable.
The Day Time Stopped makes slightly more sense if you assume that rather than one set of aliens attacking this farmhouse using increasingly elaborate and randomly shifting techniques it's actually a bunch of different alien species arriving and trying to get control of the green pyramid thingy for whatever reason.
So, like, the flying betamax was after the pyramid but then gets distracted by the arrival of other aliens. The many-boobed alien arrives but then gets attacked by the uncertainly-boobed alien trying to stop it getting the pyramid first.
It still doesn't make a lot of sense but it's a bit less "and then the aliens do A and then they do B and then they do C and then..."
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I'm 4 episodes in, and I'm worried they front-loaded the funny. Mac & Me and Atlantic Rim were great, but I nearly fell asleep during Lords of the Deep and The Day Time Stopped was just so incomprehensible, that the riffing couldn't do much to save it.
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Holy shit the original ending was even darker!
hahahahaha
It feels like they're doing Sharknado.
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This is splendid, fantastic
oh god my sides
Dude was in Maverick and Dances with Wolves
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I felt really bad for any of the actors who took it seriously. You know there had to be one or two.
That's how I felt, but it seemed like they were being directed to be as ridiculous as possible, like the people yelling into the phones to send everyone right now!!!1.
Dont worry, you can tell he was thinking the same thing the whole movie.
And then they had their little self-congratulatory circle jerk while standing in the middle of said sea of bodies...
You just complimented Atlantic Rim.
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Not all of us made it through Atlantic Rim. A few turned it off halfway through to just go to the next one, it was that bad. Some of the riffs were even good, but it's was so bad....
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The former is a ridiculous mess, and the latter is nearly incomprehensible.
Can anyone even tell me what actually occurs in that movie? The "Concepts!" song the bots sing was pretty spot on.
I'm sure whatever CGI designer that Asylum has chained up in their basement is happy for my support.
As far as I could tell someone found a really torn up first draft of Close Encounters and filmed that without trying to put it back together.
I think the fake ad breaks were originally filmed because they didn't know what network the show would wind up on at the time. They could have been on cable TV again, for all they knew.
I was actually trying to parse out the film today, and it really does feel like someone had multiple and vastly different scripts for the same alien movie and instead of picking one, they just took bits and pieces from all of them and stitched them together into some hideous progeny.
but it doesn't really go anywhere. So many plot threads either start and go no where or come screaming out of left field
Didn't it burn down the day BEFORE they went there? I thought it was the same place, but couldn't care enough to rewind. 😅
I think that's part of the cultural consciousness of the time. The whole alien abduction, visitation, and travel was all the rage throughout the 1970s, in some ways mirroring the seance and spiritualist movements of a century before. So I feel like a lot of the choppiness in the story is simply because we don't possess the zeitgeist and thus cannot translate all the shorthand the movie uses. Look at, say, Indonesian horror films. To us those things are a mess of conflicting weirdness, but to their makers who inherited the basis of those stories, they make perfect sense. I feel like something like that is at play in that one.
Which is not to say it's not still completely nonsensical. It's that a small part of that nonsense isn't.
thats what I meant
It might be because the movies are being edited to fit, I dunno.
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Google says the movies original runtime is 80 minutes, while that episode of MST3K is 82 minutes long. To fit the movie into their time constraints MST3K probably chopped a scene or two that might have helped make the story a little more understandable.
So, like, the flying betamax was after the pyramid but then gets distracted by the arrival of other aliens. The many-boobed alien arrives but then gets attacked by the uncertainly-boobed alien trying to stop it getting the pyramid first.
It still doesn't make a lot of sense but it's a bit less "and then the aliens do A and then they do B and then they do C and then..."