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Poll Question: What's the worst movie MST3K ever featured?

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Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy

(5 votes, 4%)

Monster A-Go-Go

(37 votes, 30%)

Manos: The Hands Of Fate

(21 votes, 17%)

Wild, Wild World of Batwoman

(7 votes, 5.6%)

The Starfighters

(9 votes, 7.3%)

The Beast of Yucca Flats

(2 votes, 1.6%)

Incredibly Strange Creatures...Mixed-Up Zombies

(5 votes, 4%)

Hobgoblins

(5 votes, 4%)

Other (please specify)

(32 votes, 26%)

Poll Totals:
Total Votes: 123
Total Voters: 123

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #45 on Dec 16, 2008, 1:13pm »

I'm just kidding. I won't claim that Top Gun is better than anything, but I think that realistic flying is often pretty boring as far as film footage goes.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #46 on Dec 16, 2008, 2:13pm »

Dec 16, 2008, 1:13pm, Captain Hygiene wrote:

I'm just kidding. I won't claim that Top Gun is better than anything, but I think that realistic flying is often pretty boring as far as film footage goes.

Yeah, I do actually enjoy that stuff, but I can see where it would not appeal to most people.

I do wonder what reasoning they had to show so much refueling. Probably was just to pad out the movie, but I wonder if they thought the audience of that day would be really impressed by that? I would think if part of the intent was attract the nations youth to join the Air Force, that making it appear that most of your time in the air is spent refueling wasn't the best option.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #47 on Dec 16, 2008, 2:31pm »

Monster A-Go-Go - I know the MST3K gang "officially" states that Manos The Hands of Fate is the worst movie they ever did. However, Monster A-Go-Go is horribly unwatchable and there is absolutely nothing funny to say about it. If you watch this you quickly discover the Riffers are sucked into a comedy vortex they cannot extract themselves from. They resort to all sorts of jokes that have nothing at all to do with what's up on the screen just to kill time. Absolutely dreadful!

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #48 on Dec 17, 2008, 2:41am »

The starfighters is so terrible you might as well be making fun of stock footage which is all it is.It was like a bad short that lasted way too long

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #49 on Dec 17, 2008, 1:55pm »

Dec 13, 2008, 1:42pm, Mr. Atari wrote:

I think Fu Manchu is also better than the treatment it's getting in this thread. I think we all just remember it as being worse than it was because of the crying and whining from Joel & the 'bots. It also had decent effects (that it stole from other films, but still...), and even some decent acting. The print was terrible, and the plot was convoluted, but there were worse movies.

I dunno, I think I'll have to disagree with that. I know what your'e saying about their whining making it seem even worse, almost like they're lobbying the audience to agree with them. But really, that movie was just awful. Terribad. For me, as unwatchable as anything I've ever seen. It was so bad that it became a byword between me and my wife - anytime we need a movie suggestion for the evening, this comes up as a joke because we both consider it the worse movie we've ever seen.

Judgment call obv, but for us Fu Manchu takes the cake.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #50 on Dec 17, 2008, 3:55pm »

Dec 16, 2008, 2:31pm, doctorz wrote:

Hey, say that again. I can't understand you with that kazoo in your mouth.

I love this one, both the episode and the movie. This is one of the ultimate examples of "They just didn't care!". Even moreso because HG Lewis wasn't a terrible director in the way Larry Buchanan was. Lewis wasn't good but he was competent when he felt like it.

The Ending of Monster A-Go-Go? He just didn't care!

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #51 on Dec 17, 2008, 4:05pm »

Dec 17, 2008, 1:55pm, fanliorel wrote:

Dec 13, 2008, 1:42pm, Mr. Atari wrote:

The Fu Manchu episode also has several strikes against it (apart from the movie itself):

1. No short;
2. Mediocre to substandard riffing; and
3. Below average host segments.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #52 on Dec 17, 2008, 4:27pm »

Dec 16, 2008, 2:31pm, doctorz wrote:

I agree the movie is brutal, but I find the riffing to be among the best they ever did. I'll have to watch it again and see if I can pick up on that comedy vortex.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #53 on Dec 17, 2008, 5:25pm »

I absolutely hated Starfighters. There was nothing to it. It was the most boring movie I've ever seen. All the other choices were bad, but they at least entertained me and had me laughing.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #54 on Dec 17, 2008, 8:26pm »

I always say it's Monster A Go-Go very a technical reason: it isn't really a finished movie, although it's put forward as one. The "extra footage" just tried to fill in the gaps (poorly), but it's not like the new director was actually trying to make anything decent out of it. They just needed something cheap for a double feature.

But I don't have any that are really hard to sit through.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #55 on Dec 17, 2008, 9:53pm »

I chose Manos.

While I suppose it is technically better than some of the other films they've done in that it has an actual plot and story, it just reeks with such awfulness that it far out-bads anything else. Manos was one of the first MST3K episoded I'd ever seen, and it was the movie that awakened me to the fact that movies this bad actually DO exist; they just hardly ever see the light of day. It is just a hauntingly bad movie. Joel sums it up the best: "Every frame of this movie looks like someone's last known photograph." The weird stigma surrounding the actual filming of the movie seems to translate directly onto the celluloid.
Monster a Go Go is a very close second because of the sheer ineptitude of the whole ordeal, what with characters and storylines being introduced and then disappearing, the narration that kicks in randomly, and the infamous "there was no monster" bit. But nothing really happens in the movie, ever, so it fails. Manos has a plot and characters with names, and yet it is a colossal fail.
In third place I'd put The Creeping Terror. The movie has no audio, for god's sake. And that was not a creative decision; it was a MISTAKE. The monster, the cast, the score... everything. Very bad film.

So, yeah: Manos, Monster A Go Go, and Creeping Terror, in that order.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #56 on Dec 17, 2008, 11:36pm »

Went with Monster A Go-Go. The "ringing phone" scene puts it out front for good. Of the ones not on the list I'd have to say that Rocket Attack USA is the worst. God awful mess, that one.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #57 on Dec 23, 2008, 8:56pm »

My knee-jerk pick is "Monster A Go-Go", for reasons already stated by many above. It barely qualifies as a movie, yet expects us to treat it like one.

Still, it made for one of the great MST3K episodes.

"Manos" at least tried. There was some kind of vision there, just zero budget and zero competence. At least Warren completed the dang thing.

As for "Castle of Fu Manchu", it's almost as bad as "Monster" and "Manos", in SPITE of somewhat decent production values and above-average talent involved (Christopher Lee). That it is as bad as it is makes me wonder if it should be considered the worst of them all.

But no. . .I'm sticking with "Monster A Go-Go". For now, anyway.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #58 on Jan 2, 2009, 11:52pm »

Dec 12, 2008, 4:42pm, mrsphyllistorgo wrote:

can't get through Mighty Jack once, but there you are.

Mrs. Torgo I understand what you mean. I bought 314 Mighty Jack from skyroniter the year before last and tried to watch it last night for the first time. I turned that crap off after they said "Mr. Atari" for about the 200th time about 20 minutes into the picture. And I just basically had the TV on in the background, I was trying to ignore it and I turned it off anyway. The only other experiment I have ever turned off and never revisited was Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. Never revisited. No plans to revisit. I'd throw it away if it wasn't part of Vol 4 box set.

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Re: The WORST MST3K movie is...
« Reply #59 on Jan 3, 2009, 12:42am »

For me this is no contest. Monster A-Go-Go is not only the worst film they ever did, I would go so far as to nominate it as the worst film ever made, period.

All of the other films mentioned here (fu manchu, Starfighters, Batwoman...etc) you can at least hear and see reasonably well. Plus, they all had endings... not good ones, but they were endings. None of these things can be said about Monster A-Go-Go.

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