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Post by TheNewMads on Mar 9, 2010 18:00:34 GMT -5
OK, by god, i think this movie and ep are important enough to rate their own thread. society demands it. somehow i've gotten myself convinced that there's some interesting story behind how odd this movie is, with the misfired practical joke and all the other strange stuff in it. another message board had an interesting, long conversation about it... monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/3254/t/Track-Of-the-Moon-Beast.html?page=1amazingly, some people actually thought it was pretty good! anyway, one of the writers apparently worked on "batman" and the guy who designed the monster is a big guy in the field, worked with cronenberg in the early days. other than that, no one else seems to have gone on to do much else. i'm gonna keep trying to find someone who did a tell-all expose of all the behind-the-scenes turmoil i feel convinced must have plagued this movie. "she gets up off the ground saying 'what happened' a LOT."
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Post by TheNewMads on Mar 9, 2010 18:01:08 GMT -5
"what happens now?"
"well, mostly, you die."
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Post by TheNewMads on Mar 9, 2010 19:13:06 GMT -5
"paul is not paul anymore. he's not as you and i are."
say what you want about this movie, it has excellent grammar.
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Post by Continuing Legend on Mar 9, 2010 21:36:58 GMT -5
This is, as I'm sure you're all sick of hearing by now, my favorite episode.
Everything about it.
The movie itself: The terrible practical joke. The Band That Played California Lady. The slide show. The Indian legends. Johnny's Indian stew. I LOVE THIS MOVIE.
The MST: Every host segment except the last one, which is the only part of this episode I don't like. Crow's reenactment of the practical joke never fails to crack me up.
::sigh:: onions...
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Mar 9, 2010 21:40:29 GMT -5
I absolutely love this episode, and I'm glad that it seems to be getting a lot more respect here in the last few years. The movie is a bit interesting, it's like they started out intending to do something respectable with compelling characters, but ultimately ran out of gas and just made a normal, stupid monster flick. The riffing absolutely slays me, though; Bill is definitely the highlight and is at the top of his game.
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Post by TheNewMads on Mar 9, 2010 21:53:00 GMT -5
This is, as I'm sure you're all sick of hearing by now, my favorite episode. Everything about it. The movie itself: The terrible practical joke. The Band That Played California Lady. The slide show. The Indian legends. Johnny's Indian stew. I LOVE THIS MOVIE. The MST: Every host segment except the last one, which is the only part of this episode I don't like. Crow's reenactment of the practical joke never fails to crack me up. ::sigh:: onions... ha, yes, i watched it again tonight and thought the same, the last sketch is a bit weak. but they were already a lap ahead, they were totally entitled to jog to the finish line. the re-creation of the practical joke is minimalist genius. they just basically re-created the original scene, almost word for word, then had bill just have a melt down at the end. and it's hysterical. "let's just go eat!"
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Post by Bix Dugan on Mar 9, 2010 22:43:18 GMT -5
"How Green Were My Credits..."
To
"Do you hang up all the Center-folds you get?"
To
"I'll have a wheat penny and a Glock."
Definitely one of my Top Ten favorite episodes.
Edit:
I just checked out Mr. Tia's link. It's nice to know there are other people out there on the 'net that are as nerdy as we are when it comes to old, bad movies.
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Post by fathermushroom on Mar 9, 2010 23:00:03 GMT -5
Killer stuff all round.
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Post by Continuing Legend on Mar 10, 2010 0:13:19 GMT -5
Why does Moonbeast-Paul leave the drunk bowler guy perfectly balanced against the doorway so he falls on the lady when she opens the door? He doesn't seem to eat anybody, just kind of maul them and then go away.
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Post by sb5 on Mar 10, 2010 12:44:46 GMT -5
Love this episode - one of my favorites from the SciFi era and really underrated.
Paul's death, even after seeing it so many times over the years, still makes me crack up.
"The arrow caused him to froog!"
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Mar 10, 2010 13:37:38 GMT -5
Too bad, new girlfriend.
The bursts of screamy, dramatic "ACT-ING!" that punctuate the third act make the film for me.
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Post by Continuing Legend on Mar 10, 2010 13:54:18 GMT -5
another question: what, exactly, happened to Paul's pet lizard? for years I thought Paul ate him, but now I have no idea. Did he merge with Paul to make him more lizardy? Did he just let him escape? WHAT?
(if this is answered in the unMSTed version, I sadly have not seen it yet... yes, I do want to watch this unriffed someday)
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Post by stevehadcrackers on Mar 10, 2010 13:56:03 GMT -5
My recent musings on The Legendary Practical Joke:
"The practical joke misfire in Track of the Moon Beast is glorious. NOTHING about that scene works in any way, shape, or form. If I were to try and figure it out, I think that Paul actually was supposed to be scared, and that it was just bad acting. I don't know how it's possible, but anything more complex would just (I believe) be beyond the scope of the movie. Maybe Paul was supposed to be stunned, as in it shocked him so much he just kind of... stared. "I'm afraid we got more of a reaction than we bargained for." WHAT
And yes, the Paul/Kathy relationship is one of those romances that just comes out of NOWHERE. I think the joke scene was supposed to be their "bonding." Notice how Butt Peeler and his girlfriend look at eachother knowingly when Paul and Kathy are being introduced? I did, because I have seen that episode far too many times. "
I know I've talked about it in like 5 different threads recently; it's easily my favorite scene in the movie. Not favorite joke-wise, because the riffing in that episode is so strong that I don't think that there's one funniest scene; it's just my favorite part of the movie ITSELF.
On a side note, I own this movie un-MSTed as a part of one of those Mill Creek 50-horror-flicks-for-five-bucks deals, and there are two scenes that were cut from the MST product: a scene in which Cathy, Butt Peeler and his girlfriend are looking at a strange picture that Kathy took of Paul, and another scene at a photo lab where they're trying to figure out what the hell is going on in the picture. Enjoy!
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Post by TheNewMads on Mar 10, 2010 14:06:27 GMT -5
My recent musings on The Legendary Practical Joke: "The practical joke misfire in Track of the Moon Beast is glorious. NOTHING about that scene works in any way, shape, or form. If I were to try and figure it out, I think that Paul actually was supposed to be scared, and that it was just bad acting. I don't know how it's possible, but anything more complex would just (I believe) be beyond the scope of the movie. Maybe Paul was supposed to be stunned, as in it shocked him so much he just kind of... stared. "I'm afraid we got more of a reaction than we bargained for." WHAT And yes, the Paul/Kathy relationship is one of those romances that just comes out of NOWHERE. I think the joke scene was supposed to be their "bonding." Notice how Butt Peeler and his girlfriend look at eachother knowingly when Paul and Kathy are being introduced? I did, because I have seen that episode far too many times. " I know I've talked about it in like 5 different threads recently; it's easily my favorite scene in the movie. Not favorite joke-wise, because the riffing in that episode is so strong that I don't think that there's one funniest scene; it's just my favorite part of the movie ITSELF. On a side note, I own this movie un-MSTed as a part of one of those Mill Creek 50-horror-flicks-for-five-bucks deals, and there are two scenes that were cut from the MST product: a scene in which Cathy, Butt Peeler and his girlfriend are looking at a strange picture that Kathy took of Paul, and another scene at a photo lab where they're trying to figure out what the hell is going on in the picture. Enjoy! i watched this scene with great care the other night, i think a big part of what makes it so funny is that when they do the mask scare, the mask is shown in this weird floaty insert that totally has no continuity with the shots before and after. no one even seems to be holding it, it's super-weird. so then when paul is sorta looking around all confused and non-plussed and non-scared, i realized hey, i think i have the exact same expression on MY face. and the belabored explaining-the-joke stuff goes on about three times longer than i remembered it going. and i remember it going on pretty damn long. ;D (PS i'm the biggest mill creek fanatic in the world...)
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Post by fathermushroom on Mar 10, 2010 21:04:46 GMT -5
And also, somehow this "traditional" mask appears to be made of aluminum sheet metal.
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