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Post by vanhagar3000 on Jan 31, 2004 23:39:42 GMT -5
Okay usually someone in a MST3K movie will say something stupid and you know what they mean but it's stupid.
I just don't get "Flag on the Moon, How did it get there?" comments. Why did he say it? I doesn't make sense.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jan 31, 2004 23:47:15 GMT -5
Okay usually someone in a MST3K movie will say something stupid and you know what they mean but it's stupid. I just don't get "Flag on the Moon, How did it get there?" comments. Why did he say it? I doesn't make sense. You think a simpleton like you can figure out the genius of Coleman Francis? How arrogant. |
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Post by PumaMan on Feb 1, 2004 1:41:12 GMT -5
Flag on the moon.
Ask Cherokee Jack!
(just saw this episode for the first time 4 days ago)
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Post by Ator on Feb 1, 2004 1:59:56 GMT -5
When was Yucca Flats written? I think that he was talking about something along the lines of us landing on the moon, or at least sending unmanned landers to the moon, and putting up a US flag. The "How did it get there?" rhetoric is basically saying that many secret plots and govt things all collaborated together to make it happen.
Just a shot in the dark, as no one can truly dissect the thoughts of the genius that is Coleman Francis.
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Post by ChrisDalek on Feb 1, 2004 10:04:14 GMT -5
Yucca Flats was *written*?  |
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Post by Poe33 on Feb 1, 2004 10:25:17 GMT -5
Yucca Flats was *written*? LOL!!! Yucca Flats was barfed up after a night of too much tequila and chilli dogs. That's how he got the title: "Yucca!" |
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Feb 1, 2004 11:32:31 GMT -5
Phantom. If MST3K is ever picked up again- I hope that Mike will give you a job as writer. DREAM JOB! |
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Post by Miss Interoceter on Feb 1, 2004 14:17:49 GMT -5
Beast of Yucca Flats was *filmed* at least in 1963 or so. Way before the United States' flag on the moon but probably after Kennedy's "Before this decade's out, we will put a man on the moon" speech. So, I think Coleman was saying, Tor being a noted scientist and defector from the East, had something to do with the Cosmonaut space program and that they had beat the Americans to the moon like they did with the satellites in what '58? Of course, had there been a fleshed out story instead of random ideas from Coleman bombarding us, that might have been a little clearer. It's like he was saying, "Here's an idea, you fit it into the movie. Don't like that one, never mind it won't come up again anyway. Here's another one."
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Post by Tranq on Feb 1, 2004 14:33:56 GMT -5
I was fourtunate enough to see this flick un-mstied as well as with the crew.
This movie is like a madman running into the room carrying a huge and heavy iron bar in his hands, suddenly notices that I'm there, walks over to me, stares dumbly at me and then proceeds to bash me in the face and about the neck.
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Post by hasbeen on Oct 24, 2018 12:38:24 GMT -5
It was talked about earlier in the film. Listen from the beginning.
"secret data from the Russian moonshot" is being carried in Javorsky's briefcase.
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 25, 2018 10:38:31 GMT -5
It was talked about earlier in the film. Listen from the beginning. "secret data from the Russian moonshot" is being carried in Javorsky's briefcase. Whoa! Someone watching the movie actually was able to not zone out and realize: There WAS a plot!! (Kinda, sorta). I salute you. |
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Post by Smash Lampjaw on Oct 25, 2018 18:07:42 GMT -5
Seeing bumps from early 2004 makes me wistful. I was a senior in HS then. I just turned 33.
Time flies...
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Post by Caedmon on Oct 26, 2018 0:29:26 GMT -5
Holy bump, Batman! I just liked several comments in this thread not realizing they were made years ago, haha! But yeah, Coleman Francis... What has always been funny to me is that despite the fact that he is about as inept of a filmmaker as it gets, his movies were so pretentious and self-important. It's as if he thought he was some artistic genius, but he really had zero talent.
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Post by dbdukes on Mar 26, 2019 0:55:30 GMT -5
Luna 2, a Soviet lunar probe, impacted in late 1959. News reports said it carried a USSR flag. It didn’t have an actual flag, but we believed what the news reported back then.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Mar 26, 2019 14:14:03 GMT -5
Another bump! Though not quite as impressive as the previous one. Holy bump, Batman! I just liked several comments in this thread not realizing they were made years ago, haha! But yeah, Coleman Francis... What has always been funny to me is that despite the fact that he is about as inept of a filmmaker as it gets, his movies were so pretentious and self-important. It's as if he thought he was some artistic genius, but he really had zero talent. Yeah... I sometimes wonder if this is a sort of "cart before the horse" kinda thing. Movie makers take a look at movies that critics love, and put in all the elements that they see on the surface without actually taking it upon themselves to work on the craft that's involved. I think the flip of this is the people who don't look at what critics love, but at what either they or the fans love (for this, I recommend watching Rifftrax's Samurai Cop...) |
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