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Post by cahvaydweller on Apr 12, 2014 12:10:03 GMT -5
What were some moments in MSTed films that completely take you out of the movie? I have a few: 1) the murder of the professor at the beginning of Project Moonbase. 2) The stop-motion aliens in Laserblast. 3) The polar bear in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
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Post by brandonakaxerxes on Apr 12, 2014 12:37:48 GMT -5
You mean like "big-lipped alligator moments"?
"They took out the Hitler building! Where's everyone gonna go to see Hitler memorabilia?!"
From "Invasion of the Neptune Men" of course.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 12, 2014 12:41:00 GMT -5
I'm not sure those qualify as true big-lipped alligator moments necessarily, but they're in the same ballpark. The Hitler building is more of a badly used bit of stock footage (that stands out amid a way too long series of unremarkable bits of stock footage). The bear from Santa Claus Conquers The Martians might count, though, as it was a legitimately scripted thing that never got referenced again after.
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Post by brandonakaxerxes on Apr 12, 2014 14:08:17 GMT -5
How about the "PISS/BUZZ OFF, KID!" scene from "Mitchell"?
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Post by Frameous on Apr 12, 2014 15:19:26 GMT -5
Large portions of Incredibly Strange creatures sprang to mind for me. The freak out scene and all the dance and music numbers they used for padding just bring the "narrative" to a stand still.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 12, 2014 20:58:03 GMT -5
The underwater scene in Sinbad is a pretty super freak-out moment. WTF?!! But then, it's not really Sinbad...
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Post by afriendlychicken on Apr 12, 2014 21:13:20 GMT -5
The rock climbing scenes in Lost Continent. Oh, wait, that is the movie.
The hang glider moment from Cave Dwellers. Weren't we supposed to be in the future somewhere?
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 12, 2014 21:41:08 GMT -5
Large portions of Incredibly Strange creatures sprang to mind for me. The freak out scene and all the dance and music numbers they used for padding just bring the "narrative" to a stand still. absolutely. ^what he said.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Apr 12, 2014 22:15:42 GMT -5
That moment at the end of Monster A Go-Go where they realize that There Was No Monster. It's like they stand on the pedal, lock up the brakes, and the whole movie skids to a screeching halt.
The moment in King Dinosaur where they decide, for some ungodly reason, that it's a good time to use the atom bomb -- not the actual detonation, mind you, but that moment where that one guy actually says it "...looks like a good time to use it."
The scene in Gamera Vs. Gaos where they use a giant spinning fountain of blood to try to kill Gaos. What the actual ever-lovin' f@ck!ng f^ck...?
The stripper catfight scene in The Brain That Wouldn't Die. "At last, something I can get behind!" --Michael J. Nelson
The snake pit sacrifice scene in Cavé Dwellers where the villain is talking to Ator, and emphasizes a point by lightly poking Ator in one of his pecs. "Dinnggggg...donnggggg!" --Tom Servo ... "Tit's all over -- uh, it's all over, Ator!" --Crow T. Robot.
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Post by Monophylos on Apr 13, 2014 18:52:36 GMT -5
Hm...a few examples.
1. When Richard Kind shows up as goofy, incompetent "Wamthool" in Quest of the Delta Knights. It's almost like he wandered in from another movie, bringing comical music with him to underscore his scene (which isn't funny at all.)
2. Whenever Adam Chance calls Ava "angel face" or anything like that in Agent for H.A.R.M. Any time a character is supposed to be coming across as charming or roguish but instead comes across as oily and repulsive, that takes me right out of the movie. I can say the same about Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell when the hero's going on how everyone loves him because he's handsomer and better with a sword and--just, ugh.
3. I'm mostly inured to bad model work in cheap movies but whenever I see the submarine and the toy helicopter in Danger! Death Ray I just stare in disbelief. Couldn't they have gotten some stock footage instead?
4. A rather silly little example: it bugs the heck out of me whenever the doctor in The Amazing Colossal Man mispronounces the term "sulfhydryl" as "sulfahydryl". There's a lot of other laughable science in that movie but "sulfahydryl" really gets to me somehow.
5. Whenever any of the brave explorers in King Dinosaur says or does anything particularly stupid, but the moment when the supposedly professional geologist grabs a photograph of a dinosaur, pitches a fit and screams, "Who cares, nobody's gonna believe us anyway!", and rips up the photo...in a way that's more stunning in its idiocy than detonating the bomb.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Apr 14, 2014 1:33:40 GMT -5
That scene in The Screaming Skull where Eric is trying to get Mickey to tell him where he hid the skull, and he starts slapping Mickey around, and the foley artist dubs in that Three Stooges slapping sound effect.
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Apr 14, 2014 11:57:10 GMT -5
I don't usually feel "in" any of these movies to start with, so it's hard to be taken out of them....
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Post by Monophylos on Apr 14, 2014 12:01:55 GMT -5
I don't usually feel "in" any of these movies to start with, so it's hard to be taken out of them.... I was thinking the same. I find myself wondering what I'd have done if I'd seen most of these movies as they came out, unriffed and in a theater. Only once have I ever walked out on a movie (it was "Lake Placid") but I can't imagine wanting to sit all the way through a lot of the MST3K fare.
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Apr 14, 2014 12:07:18 GMT -5
You walked out of Lake Placid? Have to ask: why? I mean, the movie is not as funny as it thinks it is, but despite that I found it to be quite entertaining, at least until the typically overly-busy Hollywood ending.
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Post by Monophylos on Apr 14, 2014 12:14:01 GMT -5
You walked out of Lake Placid? Have to ask: why? I mean, the movie is not as funny as it thinks it is, but despite that I found it to be quite entertaining, at least until the typically overly-busy Hollywood ending. I wasn't liking it much but more importantly I had decided to catch a movie at an awkward time and realized it'd probably be simpler to skip out rather than risk getting where I was going afterward late. So it wasn't entirely the movie's fault.
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