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Post by Triple_sSs on Sept 19, 2014 15:23:20 GMT -5
Well I can't say it's perfect (I don't believe in true perfection anyhow) but here's 10 of some of my own personal favorites:
Pod People Cave Dwellers Danger! Death Ray The Magic Voyage of Sinbad Mitchell The Final Sacrifice Werewolf Eegah Hercules Against the Moon Men Godzilla vs. Megalon
Honorable mentions: Pumaman, Time of the Apes, Jack Frost, The Giant Spider Invasion, I Accuse My Parents, and the Gamera films.
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Post by RedTom on Sept 21, 2014 6:20:26 GMT -5
31. Leech Woman Ah, good old Leech Woman. I have watched this episode many times and on many occasions. I loved the animal footage riffs, as well as the African tribe riffs. This one had me rolling many times throughout it, and it made me want to chug a whole lot of whiskey! This was the episode where I got use to Bill Corbett as Crow. This was also the first episode I saw the nanites in! Favorite Riff: The bar? Are we there yet? Favorite Skit: Prairie Dog vacuum.
32. Invasion of the Neptune Men Yet another look at our friends in Japan. Only this time it is under the pitiful control of the most annoying and useless aliens. Space Chief is probably the best source of riffs, and so is the Hitler Building! The fight scenes are laughable by themselves, and the children are perhaps the best source in the entire show! This movie should have never seen the light of day. Favorite Riff: Go Panthers! Favorite Skit: The return of Krankor!
33. Gunslinger Roger Corman, what else needs to be said? The riffs in this were awesome! The buildings in this western were poorly planned out and it was hysterical when we get to see how stupid the characters really are. Roger Corman is such an easy target for MST3K, and it's hard to tell why he has had such a long film career. Favorite Riff: Cue the Horses Favorite Skit: The coffins
34. The Wild Wild World of Batwoman It is awesome to know that there are such things as these pieces of crap. It gives people hope of having a film career of some kind. The riffing in this is great, I love how the stupidity was captured just perfectly. The character Rat Fink had to be one of the dumbest characters ever, but their riffing on him was sublime. The stupidity of this movie has to be on a calibre of a mortar cannon if Jaws were a glock. Favorite Riff: It's like we're smart but we're not Favorite Skit: Frank's nuclear hair styler
35. Warrior of the Lost World A movie that makes less sense is hard to find. Why in the hell was this whiny little idiot the "chosen one". I admit that I bitch a lot, but this guy has me beat hands down. Once again we have our bald little villain. All of the plot twists in this were the work of pure idiocy, and there were no characters that caught any interest what so ever. Favorite Riff: We're bad mothers Favorite Skit: Crow picks up the Warrior of the Lost World, Joel
36. Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonder I forgot about this episode. I love this episode to the fullest extent! The riffs are absolute classic, and deserve to be higher on my list, but I don't feel like changing it. The killer monkey was a great source of jokes, as well as Merlin's stupid shop of Mystical Crap. Favorite Riff: The view from his hairline Favorite Skit: Tom in the phone booth and Crow on a flagpole.
37. The Magical Voyage of Sinbad Such a great piece of Russo-Finnish crap! Some of the greatest riffs came from Tripod and that stupid emperor guy from Arabia. Some parts of this were just wacky beyond belief, such as him going down to the water kingdom and somehow not drowning, or when they get the weirdo bird. However, the greatest part of all was the Try-outs for joining his crew. A very solid episode. Favorite Riff: Where he had a magic BM Favorite Skit: The meeting of the beards
38. The Day the Earth Froze A very recent addition to my collection as I just recently watched it. I loved how they got the word Sampo from this one, and I loved the riffs they did with all of the trolls. Though I hate to admit it, this movie was actually pretty cool. I liked how the blacksmith could even make a giant red horse from fire, and how even attempted to make a second sun without burning himself into cinders. The witch also grabbed a lot of laughs from me. This episode completely rocks! Favorite Riff: Quack quack quack quack Favorite Skit: What is a Sampo?
39. Outlaw Oh, how stupid of a movie could you possibly make without looking just outright silly? Well this movie just drives to the limit, and GUNS IT! The director obviously just wanted every single character to have no features of real human intellect, nor do they have anything interesting to talk about. Then there is the barrage of ASSES that they SPLASH across the screen many many times with men wearing the shortest skirts. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, as I have not yet mentioned Cabet's "friend" from Earth, he was the absolute MEANING of retardedness and annoyance. I could go on and on, but I'll just leave it at this. I almost passed out laughing. Favorite Riff: I'm sneaky Favorite Skit: Hey guys? How's the movie? Ooooooohhh,
40. Squirm Ah yes, worms and more worms. The main hero is an antique-hunting dork and the rest of the characters are hicks and dumbass rednecks. The very best riffs come from the mother and that weirdo worm salesman's son. Though it is not as bad of a movie as they usually do, the riffs are still just as entertaining. Favorite Riff: Arr, I am a pirate Favorite Skit: Crow in high heels
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Post by sidmelton on Dec 29, 2014 12:43:00 GMT -5
It's really tough....I can do Top 10 Joel and Top 10 Mike:
Joel: Mitchell Master Ninja I Master Ninja II The Lost Continent Eegah! Pod People Manos - the Hands of Fate I Accuse My Parents The Magic Sword Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Top 10 Mike: Santa Claus Village of the Giants San Francisco International Alien From L.A. High School Bigshot Track of the Moonbeast Time Chasers Werewolf Hobgoblins The Incredible Melting Man
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 29, 2014 23:12:40 GMT -5
19. Prince of Space Even without the crappy dubbing, this movie is still pretty damn bad! Along with the dubbing it makes for a perfectly good MST3K! The riffs on the Phantom and the kids had to be the biggest laugh-riots in this episode by far! At the end of the movie, the riffs on the old scientist guys were even better. Though there are places in this movie that suck a little too bad, it's still enjoyable! Favorite Riff: "After that dog!" Favorite Skit: Mike is a Puppet! Y'know, for the longest time I preferred Invasion Of The Neptune Men to Prince Of Space in the Season 8 Japanese Sweepstakes, but then, one night, I had Prince cued up in a double feature with Neptune Men, and suddenly found myself really digging Prince. I couldn't tell you why -- there was just something about it that caught me in the right mood at the right moment, and I was off and running. I love how the Bots treat Mike after the space-time continuum disruption turns him into a Gerry Anderson puppet. Actually, there are two songs in that movie which aren't half bad, and which made it into my MSTied Movie Music Mix Vol. 1: The main theme, "Girl In Gold Boots", and the song playing on the juke box in the opening scene, "Everything I Touched Turned To Gold" by Joe Valino. For you Ted V. Mikels fans out there, Tom Pace (the Icky Elf guy) also plays a CIA agent in the classic Astro Zombies, which also stars John Carradine, Wendell Corey, and the legendarily pulchritudinous Tura Satana.
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Post by Sacred Dust on May 31, 2016 0:47:04 GMT -5
Okay, I'll give it my best shot. I will be stealing RedTom's "favorite riff/favorite skit" idea because it's great.
10. Devil Doll I actually find the movie a guilty pleasure. It's legitimately creepy and Vorelli is an effective villain while still being riffable. Almost nothing else in the movie works, of course, and that's riffable too. Mike and the Bots have a field day. Favorite Riff: "Did I just see someone walk in and paw my puppet?" (Mike) Favorite Skit: Crow dresses Mike up as Hugo and cages him, while Tom becomes a toaster strudel with legs.
9. Future War What a truly awful, incompetent film. In fact it's bad enough that it knocked the episode back several spots, but I still enjoy this one quite a bit. Favorite Riff: "Killed by a pencil!" (Tom) Favorite Skit: Pearl conducts LSD experiments on the Bots.
8. Space Mutiny If the entire moon really was made of cheese, it still wouldn't be as cheesy as this film. A South African stink bomb that not only ripped off the far superior Star Wars and Star Trek from the U.S., but STOLE FOOTAGE from Battlestar Galactica for its space battle scenes. Railing kill! Thick McRunFast! Gristle McThornbody! Big McLargeHuge! Bob Johnson! This one's immortal. xD Favorite Riff: "Well, it is the rare meeting where something actually got done." (Crow) Favorite Skit: Tom and Crow have their own space battle using escape pods from the SOL.
7. Manos: The Hands of Fate I couldn't believe how bad and how bizarre this movie was when I first saw it, but it's grown on me. It's still horrible, but I'm convinced that the premise wasn't half-bad and could have been a solid B-movie in the hands of a real director with some kind of budget. But it was in the hands of a fertilizer salesman with almost no budget and a 30-second silent camera, and thus it was doomed. On the bright side, it became the most iconic episode of MST3K and I enjoy it every time. Favorite Riff: "Ugh, look at the pile he left." (Crow) Favorite Skit: Joel and the Bots discuss whether Torgo qualifies as a monster.
6. The Brain That Wouldn't Die Mike's first episode will always be close to my heart. He really did a great job, stepping in during the middle of the season like he did. The show never missed a step. I really like how he established his own style and connected with the Bots right away. And thank goodness, because if he dropped the ball this movie would have been unwatchable. Sleazy, twisted, and worst of all poorly executed. Favorite Riff: "Lots of ways. Many ways. Did I mention there are ways?" ... "WAYS." (Mike & Crow) Favorite Skit: Mike and the Bots talk about how awful the movie is; Mike tells an embarrassing story and is ridiculed.
5. The Magic Voyage of Sinbad Great, great episode. Host segments, riffing...they hit everything out of the park. Sadko--I mean, Sinbad--is a self-absorbed yet likeable hero in an unusually lavish production with wonderful props, sets, scenery, and not bad acting either. Favorite Riff: "Oh, by the way, I left ten thousand dollars in the ... *GLUB GLUB GLUB*" (Tom) Favorite Skit: The city council skit, which might be my favorite host segment in the entire series.
4. Tormented I think Manos and Sinbad were objectively some of the greatest Joel episodes, but Tormented will always be my favorite. And it's partly because, as much as I hate to admit it, I liked the movie. I thought the premise was interesting, the characters were fairly well developed, the atmosphere was great, and it all could have worked very well if Tom's "jazz" music was better and Bert I. Gordon understood subtlety and pacing in a horror film. The bright spot in the whole thing was Sandy. Poor, innocent, impossibly cute Sandy, played so well by BIG's daughter Susan, is my favorite character in any MST'd movie--and the hilarious adult riffs J&TB threw at her were pure gold. xD Favorite Riff: "The dog piddled the carpet and I evicted them." (Crow) Favorite Skit: Joel gets stuck in the vent.
3. Teen-Age Strangler What an episode. Even without Mikey, it would have been very solid, but that kid was just so weird and annoying that M&TB's riffs on him made it unforgettable. Plus we've got 'Yipes Stripes' (not a bad song at all actually), the side-splitting attempts at acting, the moronic characters, and one of my favorite shorts: Is This Love? Oh, AND Mike's janitor song. My jaw hit the floor the first time I saw that one. Favorite Riff: "Wouldja JUSTLEAVEMEALONE?!" (Tom, in the short) Favorite Skit: The Mikey Glasses.
2. Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders I'm in disbelief every time I watch this. How could the director/s possibly think this burning pool of nightmare fuel was appropriate for children? They just wrapped this Merlin nonsense, which was creepy enough by itself, around a 1970s ripoff of Stephen King's 'The Devil's Gift' and somehow expected it to work as family entertainment. That made it cannon fodder for the Brains. The surreal, clueless awfulness of the film, combined with the sheer verbal assault that was Mike and the Bots' riffing, makes this one of my favorite episodes ever. Favorite Riff: "Merlin was a thieving crackhead who fenced VCRs to feed his habit." (Crow) Favorite Skit: Every single one is great, which is unusual for the Sci-Fi era...but my favorite has to be Servo turning Mike into a baby. "Uh-oh ... someone made a present."
1. Time Chasers This is it. The perfect MST3K episode, in my view. The movie is goofy and clueless, yet not crushingly bad, and clearly had a lot of effort put into it. The riffing is inspired and merciless. I also loved the time travel subplot, Mike's brother Eddie, the weird "news report" from Brain Guy over the credits, and M&TB's following discussion about just who this movie was supposed to appeal to. (Elderly squirrels, people without heads, toadstools, etc.) A classic. Favorite Riff: Do I have to choose?! Oh, fine. "Arrr! Sixteen men on a dead Dodge Dart." (Mike) Favorite Skit: The opener with Mike floating over to visit Pearl. It was so natural and so different from what they usually did; just two people chatting and having a "Minnesota goodbye" in space. I loved it.
HONORABLE MENTION: Wild Rebels, Earth vs. The Spider, Outlaw (of Gor), Santa Claus, Beast of Yucca Flats, Werewolf, and The Final Sacrifice.
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Steve Had Crackers
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Post by Steve Had Crackers on Jun 26, 2016 18:56:38 GMT -5
Not as detailed as some of the replies, but I'm a slacker...in no particular order...
Mitchell The Leech Woman Daddy-O The Incredible Melting Man Laserblast Werewolf The Giant Spider Invasion Warrior of the Lost World I Accuse My Parents Track of the Moon Beast
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