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Post by drlarryerhardt on Oct 7, 2005 17:40:39 GMT -5
210 King Dinosaur The short: "X Marks The Spot" Meet Joe, nothing wrong with him, just a selfish bastard on the road. Anyways, his last bout of selfishness leaves his driving guardian angel/ghost guy fed up, and causes him to leave earth. His driving guardian angel takes him to a drivers court in heaven, that only cares about road rage in New Jersey. To make a long description short, Joe has to listen to his ugly guardian angel/ghost guy describe everything he did wrong in detail, but hey, at least Joe never hit and ran. The Feature: Four Scientists (2 couples) visit Nova, a prehistoric planet.. With Dinosaurs? Well we don't find that out until the last 1/8th of the movie (although there is cool "Man wrestling an Alligator" scene. "Go alligator!!") Anyways during their adventures on this planet they meet Joey, an adoreable Lemur, they befriend this animal and keep him for their own. Then, finally when there's only 15 minutes left in the movie, 1 of the couples, with Joey, decide to to explore the mysterious island that's on a nearbye lake, ocean, whatever. Much to their chagrin, they meet "dinosaurs", and get themselves in trouble. Meanwhile the blonde couple grow concerned and set out to rescue their fellow scientists. So they save them from the"T-Rex" that is holding them captive in a cave somwhere, and then they decide to do the sensible thing to do when discovering dinosaurs, when on a prehistoric planet with no one living there, set off an atomic bomb. Anyhoo, our heroes leave the planet undeformed in anyway whatsoever, and have plans for colonizing. it when they return. What makes this movie bad: Welll it's a Robert Lippert film, that in itself says enough. It's suppose to be a prehistoric planet, yet the only prehistoric animals are an oversized bug, and "dinosaurs", which are really a bunch of processed shots of lizzards with dinosaur tales glued on. You can also see the string that is causing their spacecraft to float. The Episode: The riffin in this episode is very good, especially during the short. You see, the guardian angel/ghost guy looks like the grill of a car meet his face when he met his doom, so now it's all bondo. Host segments are allright. The invention exchange is nothing special. The Mads get the upper hand in this one when Frank Squishes Dr. Forrester with the elevator, causing Dr. F to Be the invention exchange, and J&TBs invention is a pair of stinky socks. The second host segment causes Crow to reflect on the short, and wonders how we can all can judge others actions. Whichs is okay. The "Joey The Lemur song" is okay, but the funny one would be at the end when Joel explains the concept of Lippert films, and the Mads attend a kurosawa film festival. Best Riff: Tom Servo: "That's one small step for man, one giant step into a cow pie." Stinger: The aftermath of the alligator fight. 3 out of 5 stars Robert Lippert? I thought this was a Bert I. Gordon Movie? I'm all confused, cause at the end of the "Earth Vs. The Spider" episode Tom Servo says something about Bert I. Gordon Stapling dinosaur tails on iguanas when doing his Bert I. Gordon Report. Was mr. BIG an Assistant director to Lippert?
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Oct 7, 2005 17:47:10 GMT -5
It was directed by Bert I. Gordon and distributed by Lippert Films. I think Mr. BIG moved to AIP shortly after this.
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Post by judaspriest77 on Oct 7, 2005 20:18:49 GMT -5
I just figured that Lippert directed it because it that was one of the main talking points throughout the episode.
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Post by judaspriest77 on Oct 8, 2005 16:42:48 GMT -5
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Teenage Caveman
Short 1: Aquatic Wizzards Just like Snow Thrills, except it now takes place on a thawed lake.
Short 2: Catching Trouble In this short of wackiness fun, we meet Ross Allen, who's job is to hunt animals, torture them, and then bring them to zoos. Join Ross and his Seminole friend as they capture a wild cat, a pair of black bear cubs (C'mon mother black bear, come out and maul this guy, he's taking your cubs), and 3 Eastern Diamondback Rattlers (Tag him!). Can Ross survive capturing 3 dangerous species of animals? Does Ross know that announcer Ted Huising is refferring to him as his boyfriend? Can anyone watch this short, and not hope that the Cubs' Mom comes out on her hind legs, or Ross gets bitten by an Eastern Diamondback?
The Feature: In another film by everyone's favorite movie director (other than Sandy Franks), we meet a questioning Thirty-something.. I mean Teenage Caveman, who is rebellious of his clan's rules and breaks them. So he does some forbidden things, like take his cronies beyond the river for a hunting expedition and almost gets himself executed by his clan for disobeying the law and what not. Anyways our middle-aged cave..I mean teenaged cavemen find the rules stupid and sets out to disobey them again. To make a long description short mordern man escape nuclear warfare by protecting themselves wearing Trumpy costumes and just hang around watching other survivors relapse back into cavemen. Of course the cavemen kill each of these modern man one by one thinking that they're henchmen carrying out punishment of their angry gods. Like other Corman movies, there's a preachy speach at the end.
What makes this movie bad: Like most Corman movies, it just drags on and on and on. Like I said in my Viking Women Vs. The Sea Serpent review, some the characters are wearing the same costumes, and both movies have appeared to made on the same set. Did I mention that Robert Vaughn looks and sounds nothing like a teenager.
The Episode: The Shorts really save this episode, cause the movie is just wretched (J&TBs still make it funny), you can't help but laugh at the idiots in these shorts doing suicidal stunts. The host segments are pretty good too. For the invention exchange J&TBs invent new rainy day epicacs, and the mads.. well, don't really get to theirs. The host segment that does stand out is "Catching Ross", a revenge short that sticks it to Catching Trouble, never before have I rolled on the floor laughing out loud. The other host segments are also good, but don't hold anything to "Catching Ross".
Best Riff: All 3: "We are all neanderfalls We are all neanderfalls, We are gonna have a ball We are gonna have a ball"
Stinger: Robert Vaugh runs into a tree.
4 out of 5 stars
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Post by judaspriest77 on Nov 9, 2005 15:40:09 GMT -5
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Space Travelers (Marooned)
The Feature: In this bad movie, which looks like a poor version of Apollo 13, Gene Hackman and 2 other astronauts get shot into space and are forced to watch the movie that they're making. ;D Well Gene Hackman and two other astronauts get shot into space, experience melfunction with their tin can, and are "Marooned." It's up to Gregory Peck in ground control to rescue them, but one of them will have to be sacraficed.
What makes this Movie bad: How could this movie be bad? Gene Hackman is in it, and he's good in anything! Well not this time, Hoosiers, this one is not! The added presence of Gregory also doesn't help it. The whole movie is just a back & Fourth conversation between Iron Man (The Shuttle) and Ground control.
The episode: This episode is pretty funny. During the theater segments Crow nails Gregory Peck well (impersonates, that is), and there's an extremely funny host segment where Joel and Tom Servoe are on the rocket, and Crow is Gregory Peck, which kind of gets out of hand, but you'll laugh out loud at it. J&tBs get the upper hand in the invention exchange with the "Dollaroid" which takes your picture on a dollar. Customer Crow and Cashier/Clerk lady Tom Servo do a presentation involving the said invention.
Best Riff: Crow: "Check it out, I'm giving Houston the finger!"
4 Out of 5 stars
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Nov 9, 2005 18:20:31 GMT -5
I liked Marooned. Have you seen the full version?
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Post by judaspriest77 on Nov 19, 2005 1:30:02 GMT -5
I liked Marooned. Have you seen the full version? nope, just the mistified version.
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Post by Cleolanta on Nov 27, 2005 3:30:10 GMT -5
Oh, these are some of my favourite episodes ever, here. Including Viking Women vs. the Sea Serpent--heck, it was the first movie I flung poor Sandy into in the "B-Movie Story"... I should be writing my own reviews; the problem is I don't write directly after seeing the episode, I always forget...and I'm bad with remembering characters' names and keeping track of all the "plot" points. (I also tend to weigh the host segments a bit too heavily.)
And speaking of Marooned...isn't it kinda funny that in "Rocketship X-M", Joel complains about "What is the deal with sending a bunch of people trapped in a space capsule a movie about people DYING in a space capsule?!" then (I think) Crow says "Yeah! Why don't you just send us 'Marooned'?" FORRESTER: We couldn't get it!
.... HA! :P I'm sure this has been noticed before, but it's MY first time, go easy on me.
As for the original title of this thread...yes, I LOVED "Earth Vs. the Spider"! One of my favourite episodes, I'd say. When it comes to movies about giant arachnids, I'd more likely watch this one than "Giant Spider Invasion" any day. Then again, the latter one has some outright disturbing elements in it that make it painful to watch, even _with_ Mike and the 'bots, and it's also got the more "edgy", heavier on dirty/potty humour Sci-Fi Era style writing, whereas I prefer the Joel-era writing style. So it's really just personal preference here.
But come on...'50s black and white cheese, Burt I. Gordon, lovely superimposed "giant" monsters, Earth Vs. Soup, and the "death" of Dr. Erhadt. What more could you want? :P (Lemme rephrase that...I don't really want Dr. E. to die.--I mean I like the way they made a riff tie into an earlier part of MST continuity like that. The fact that they also had the Mads go "THANK you!" in the same episode is just great. Heh.)
Anyway, cool thread! I like the reviews. Very detailed. :)
...Notorious
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Post by MSTJedi on Dec 7, 2005 1:07:54 GMT -5
In this Roger Corman masterpiece we meet Dr. Anderson, well I'll call him Lando, since he looks and sounds alot like Lando from Star Wars I'll have you know that's the unforgettable Lee Van Cleef of Master Ninja fame. Oh yeah, and I think he did some cowboy movie . . . Seven Samurai or somethin'.
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Post by Prisoner416 on Apr 16, 2007 14:10:03 GMT -5
I feel that "It lives by night" is the SINGLE most underrated episode. I plan to make a review for it soon... it's the first full episode I ever watched, and I can't recall any pauses in the laughter. The timing of the jokes was just perfect.
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Apr 16, 2007 14:35:58 GMT -5
No Sci-Fi episode is more underrated than several CC episodes. Classics have seemingly been forgotten, and good episodes have been panned. It stuns me sometimes.
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Post by Prisoner416 on Apr 16, 2007 16:38:25 GMT -5
I can't judge as I haven't seen many of the CC episodes. However, I've been stunned by the amount of people who seem to hate the episode I named in particular.
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Post by vanhagar3000 on Apr 17, 2007 7:59:17 GMT -5
Yeah. That one gets panned some. Most people think it's average or above average, but you're not the only one who thinks it's a classic or near classic.
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