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Post by leeharveyosmond on Mar 26, 2024 20:44:57 GMT -5
god, that error's been there for over a decade. i remember streaming it on netflix in 2010 or 2011, whenever i first saw it, and being startled when that part came up. i saw it again on shout factory's own video service a couple years later, and yet again when i purchased a downloadable copy. when shout re-released vol. 3 on dvd they were alerted to the problem and patched it up (probably taking the non-corrupted portion from the previous dvd release?) but it's clearly not something that anybody's bothered to take into account permanently. It definitely was not on my downloaded version from amazon. they had a thing set up on vimeo at one point where you could get a bunch of episodes, that's where i got my copy of the ep (amongst a few others). amazon might have the old transfer without the glitch, i think i even rented it there and thought it might have been the same as the old dvd/without the glitching.
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Mar 26, 2024 17:56:14 GMT -5
god, that error's been there for over a decade. i remember streaming it on netflix in 2010 or 2011, whenever i first saw it, and being startled when that part came up. i saw it again on shout factory's own video service a couple years later, and yet again when i purchased a downloadable copy. when shout re-released vol. 3 on dvd they were alerted to the problem and patched it up (probably taking the non-corrupted portion from the previous dvd release?) but it's clearly not something that anybody's bothered to take into account permanently.
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Post by leeharveyosmond on May 4, 2022 16:40:13 GMT -5
the world is changing...
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Apr 17, 2022 17:12:16 GMT -5
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Nov 28, 2021 21:10:17 GMT -5
well that's news to me
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Nov 19, 2021 21:27:04 GMT -5
Even the "worst" episode of MST3k has a few golden moments. That's why it's the best. I overall don't care for 815-904, as I feel it's the laziest, most phoned in era of the show. But, I also know I'm in the extreme minority, too. i think the "phoned-in" feeling even carries through the rest of the Sci-Fi era. there's definitely some highlights that i would pick out from the stretch you're not fond of, and even past that, but as a whole there's such a different tone to those last 3 seasons that i get put off by a lot of those episodes. it does set in around 815 and never really lets up. in terms of those shows' popularity, they really did reach a new audience on Sci-Fi, no? from my experiences online it feels like the loudest fans tend to be Joel-heads from way back that think the show peaked at seasons 3-4 and Mike fans who can speak of Space Mutiny or The Final Sacrifice like they're the pinnacle of comedy. i prefer seasons 2 & 5-7 over everything else, which has to be a very small minority of fans.
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Sept 10, 2021 11:39:02 GMT -5
it at least helped in season 8 that they were a fairly small crew of people who had worked on the show for years, with bill corbett being new but quickly fitting in and making crow his own. it ain't like that now.
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Sept 5, 2021 20:14:33 GMT -5
quoting somebody from your reddit thread whose perspective i share:
"Let's face facts: Comedy Central nee The Comedy Channel picked up MST3K because it was a two-hour show that could be made relatively cheaply and fill time on their schedule. The late 80s in cable TV was the Wild West, where the networks were desperate for any content that would sell people on this whole 'pay for television programming' thing. Once it was established that cable TV was here to stay (for a little while at least), the ecology shifted and the networks' time became valuable real estate that production companies had to compete for."
if anything, i feel like you guys made it a bit worse with your demands, just completely unearned entitlement. that's all i've ever thought from reading about all of this in retrospect. (i was too young to have seen the show when it was originally on the air, all of three months old when season 3 premiered)
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Jul 27, 2021 18:13:01 GMT -5
i put on The Creeping Terror and Bloodlust! back to back while messing around online last night and busted up over the latter episode when Mike goes "I love liquor. I should gain weight so I can handle more of this stuff." that matter of fact, dry delivery is just the best.
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Jul 18, 2021 22:51:18 GMT -5
Joel made the better host, his interactions with the robots and the mad scientists just feels so much more right than anything that followed. Mike's episodes make me laugh more.
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Jun 10, 2021 12:32:22 GMT -5
the most brutal movies made for good, and in some cases the very best, episodes of the show. monster a-go go, red zone cuba, beast of yucca flats, all representative of what i like about this series and what i thought it was going to be like before i ever started watching. even movies that aren't extremely incompetent, just relentlessly mean or depressing, like kitten with a whip or high school big shot, i adore. partially because they're a bit different than what i think most people would suppose a show called "mystery science theater" would feature and partly because they seem to get on both those movies and my personal wavelengths exceptionally well and roll with everything that gets thrown at them.
the worst episodes are ones where they have nothing new to say, just pulling out the same (half-baked, dated, in-the-know) jokes they've been running into the ground over the previous episodes and delivering them poorly to boot. hercules against the moon men is my no. 1 example of this, very unpleasant & shrill, tiresome and practically void of any laughs. the print of the movie looks like garbage as well, all washed out with too much brown/beige standing out. it's yucky to look at and yucky to hear them fail at being funny over it.
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Post by leeharveyosmond on Jun 3, 2021 11:27:41 GMT -5
that's in Code Name: Diamond Head where he goofs on Crash Test Dummies' Brad Roberts
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Post by leeharveyosmond on May 26, 2021 13:02:56 GMT -5
1. Village of the Giants 2. Beginning of the End 3. King Dinosaur
top 3 are all good/great, i'm fond of Earth vs. the Spider and Tormented, really don't like the remaining three that much.
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Post by leeharveyosmond on May 16, 2021 2:52:21 GMT -5
i didn't get into the show until around 2010/2011 so really discovering it for the first time and trying to track down every episode through the internet via multiple outlets (and eventually buying the box sets as they came out) was very exciting. watching an episode or two on netflix every couple of nights or so. memorizing the episodes. things like that. i don't think any one show stood out right away, it took me multiple viewings and eventually watching them in order when i could tell which shows i liked best and where they placed chronologically. (seasons 2 & 5-7 generally, also realizing that not too many fan favorites speak to me)
it's one of two major comedy shows i bonded with my dad over in these past 10 years. we went to all three shows joel hodgson did at the colonial theatre in phoenixville pa within a year or 2 and had a pretty great time. i was delighted that the "secret" episode he selected for the second show was the beatniks.
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Post by leeharveyosmond on May 8, 2021 11:45:57 GMT -5
tab hunter douglas mccarthy
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