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Post by starsteam on Apr 22, 2017 12:46:50 GMT -5
Yep, those are exactly the ones I kept thinking of when I saw those bots. Nice that they're still kitbashing some of the props.
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Post by brandonakaxerxes on Apr 24, 2017 10:30:28 GMT -5
It felt like the "lull distraction" style of riffing had dialed down a little bit, so the riffing style seemed somewhat closer to the original series. That said, there were some great riffs throughout. "Note she didn't call out for Danny." "Let's try the Time Warp again." (I'm actually stoked that MST3K did a Rocky Horror reference) "The Blue Men Group is creepy without their make-up!" "There was a fly in the teleporter." "The paper plate alarm!" Servo acting like he's helping land the rocket. Classic. "Either all women are the same height, or taller women are in a lot of trouble." The brunette that hits on Danny? I've added her to my list of hot babes from MST'ed movies.
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Post by gorncaptain on Apr 25, 2017 4:08:44 GMT -5
This is one of those movies I saw as a kid, but only had dim memories of decades later, mainly the creepy androids and the characters jumping through the giant tv screen. I must have blotted out the rest. And wow, hiring that guy with the deformed hands and feet to play the mutant would probably cause a firestorm of controversy if this was made today. I lost it when Tom and Crow got touchy-feely with the women. Nice to see movie characters are going to show up now and again. Joel looked like Bill Mumy in that wig.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Apr 26, 2017 12:53:14 GMT -5
To be honest, this movie made me think of Human Duplicators. The riffing had some slow bits but definitely picked up later on. My favorite jokes were the pot ones and when the eye balls are being placed into the head and Servo makes painful noises as it. The host segments were okay. Not the best in the series so far, but I liked Joel's cameo (though I wish he had some lines). Overall, decent episode. (Also, I'm with Max when he says "Technically, this is only our third episode."; I personally don't like to count this as season 11, even if people say otherwise. But I guess at the end of the day, it's all a matter of taste.
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Post by brandonakaxerxes on Apr 26, 2017 15:51:01 GMT -5
(Also, I'm with Max when he says "Technically, this is only our third episode."; I personally don't like to count this as season 11, even if people say otherwise. But I guess at the end of the day, it's all a matter of taste. Technically, it's *Season 12* if you count KTMA.
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Post by kmorgan on Apr 30, 2017 20:27:38 GMT -5
Haven't read the other comments yet. Personally, I thought this one turned out pretty well.
The movie pretty much checks all the boxes for sci-fi of that period (monochromatic casting, non-scientist comic relief, instant romance, nodding acquaintance with science). Plus it seems to have a lot of padding for a relatively brief movie, and a lot of build-up for possible villainy from that one council member which goes nowhere. And I can only assume they threw in the women's spa scene to wake up the audience. I do understand that they cut the ending down for the episode; I'll have to check on that.
As for the episode, the riffing was great and pretty well-paced. (I was surprised nobody referenced John Hoyt from "The Cage", or spoke up with one, "...and me, Steve Franken".) I liked the visual gag of Servo and the rocket, then both 'bots and the aforementioned spa scene. The robot-breaking sketch was good, and I loved Joel's expression during his cameo. I'm still getting used to Gypsy having a more normal voice, though. I did think the anniversary bit at the end was good, though I wonder if we're looking at a whole big fan-numbering controversy, like Whovians have with the "UNIT dating" thing.
We're definitely having a good run of shows thus far.
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Post by Ford Prefect on May 1, 2017 8:07:14 GMT -5
Haven't read the other comments yet. I did think the anniversary bit at the end was good, though I wonder if we're looking at a whole big fan-numbering controversy, like Whovians have with the "UNIT dating" thing. I thought it was a funny sketch, but it does raise some interesting continuity questions. Not only is Kinga not counting The Movie she IS counting the KTMA series. Unlike later seasons that had major changes, season one was genuinely something of a reboot for the series. Once they got picked up by The Comedy Channel, a ton of stuff they did on the show blatantly contradicted some of the things that were established on KTMA. Lots of other material was recycled without any reference to the fact that they'd done them before. A lot of host segments, especially in season one, are just redos of KTMA host segments and they did no less than nine KTMA movies during season three. It's basically an alternate, cheaper looking universe compared to the rest of the show's run. There are a couple of possible in-universe reasons for this. 1) Kinga has access to some alternate reality viewing device and uses her knowledge of those episodes existence to boost her own episode numbers to make the show sounds slightly more impressive and move up the time table for that "200th episode" bit. 2) In 101: The Crawling Eye, Dr. F establishes that this is the first episode where they've contacted Joel from their new home at Deep 13, attempting to hide the experiment from other Gizmonic Institute employees. Dr. F also seems to imply that this isn't the first time they've shown a movie to Joel as part of an experiment. However the rest of the series never follows up on this idea, operating under the premise that the beginning of the show and the beginning of the experiments pretty much line up. Much in the same way that there's a two month gap between Jonah's capture and the beginning of Reptilicus, it's possible that there's an undocumented period of time where Dr. F showed Joel movies but didn't think the results of those experiments were very good and he didn't want to sell the results to TV. This idea sort of mirrors the real life embarrassment they have of showing KTMA to a national audience after 1989. In universe, Dr. F may have felt that the movies he was showing were "too good" for his needs and The Crawling Eye represents his first major attempt to drive Joel insane with what he considers to be a truly bad movie. It's possible that Kinga knows about her father's largely unspoken about early attempts and chose to boost her numbers that way, much like the first theory.
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Post by dudehitscar on May 1, 2017 14:23:01 GMT -5
The only one I turned off. The Danny jokes were lame... Reminded me of the Weenie man jokes from This island earth. Opening was boring as heck. My son watched it and he said it's the best of the season so I guess I'll give it another go.
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Post by ChrisDalek on May 1, 2017 15:18:00 GMT -5
I found this the best one yet, and also found myself really getting into the movie. It's nothing spectacular but it is on that level of Girls Town or Girl in Lovers Lane where I genuinely was invested in what was happening in the film. There were points where I was actually getting distracted by the riffing cos I was enjoying the film so much (and that deleted ending is pretty unsettling too!).
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Post by crowschmo on May 1, 2017 18:57:55 GMT -5
My favorite riff from this one (said by Crow): The lesson here - always walk into a pitch black time machine because: PONIES!!
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Post by BoB3K on May 15, 2017 13:24:59 GMT -5
- Fun movie, my favorite kind of MST3K movie (maybe, maybe tied with 60s spy movies....and maybe 70s disaster movies, oh and giant rubber monster movies... ... ...I'm sure there's more).
- I went and watched the 'real' ending of the movie (thanks for the link waxcylinder!), and that's a bummer that they cut it. Although I do see why--it's confusing and goes on a little long. BUT, having said that, why couldn't they have just edited it down--mainly the first replay takes two minutes and could easily be edited down to 30 secs. It would have been perfect riff material--"seen it. seen it. been there.", resay riffs in same spots, jokes about "must pad film, not enough time used," jokes about getting nauseous, etc. Total missed opportunity.
- 200th movie segment was so lame, I'm not sure why they even bothered calling it out. I liked the smashing robot skit. Time portal skit wasn't bad. I still feel like the skits are rushed and I'm just not getting pulled into the new world very well. I've also decided that the lame, so lame it looks green-screened in SOL background is possibly more distracting than the iffy puppeteering. Maybe there will be a whole set redesign if (when!) we get Season 12--oh and some more mobile cameras!!
- I liked the Danny riffs a lot. Mainly because I like it when they form on-going riff themes in the movies (being careful not to overdo them), because it really gives the feel that you're watching a movie with some friends and not just watching 3 comedians throw out jokes.
- More good riffing. The pace is a bit much and the riffs are often a little too jokey (as Diet Kolos very sufficiently points out). But, bottom line is they're funny. As a comparison, my opinion of modern RiffTrax is that they're still mostly entertaining, but I put the funny/lame ratio at about 1/5 (where as the other 4/5 are eye-rolling, fall flat, or are the apparently now mandatory (really just lazy writing) dick-jokes). Whereas this new MST3K season, I would put at about 4/5 jokes being some level of funny.
- The magic tricks used for special effects were fun. I'm betting Joel the prop-comic/magician has a soft spot for this movie for that very reason.
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