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Post by KyrieEleison on Oct 28, 2011 3:13:05 GMT -5
Watched The Screaming Skull tonight with my dad. It's a tradition for me to break out all the old squeaky-clean spooky-fun Halloween classics (e.g., Corpse Bride, Casper, Hocus Pocus) and usually one or two of the MST3K horror-wannabe films, and Screaming Skull is one of my favorites. You have to love a film that says it's so scary it'll scare you to death, offers your grieving loved ones a coffin should you die of fright, and then proceeds to be not scary in the least.
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Post by ArtCrow on Oct 28, 2011 22:41:26 GMT -5
Hobgoblins
On first viewing I was so reviled by this movie that this episode didn't give me much joy, but over time I have grown to totally love it. The riffing is fabulous. Seen it several times now and still laughing pretty much throughout. Gotta be in the right mood for it though, it can't be too often. The movie is quite harsh.
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Post by angilasman on Nov 1, 2011 11:31:51 GMT -5
Samson vs. The Vampire Women
Halloween tradition (though, after 3 years in a row of it I may swap it for Werewolf next year). El Santo torching everybody in the last five minutes never gets old.
BTW, There was a pretty big shout-out to this movie in a recent Hellboy comic book.
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Post by reaperg on Nov 3, 2011 9:38:54 GMT -5
"The Starfighters"
Ah, Bob Dornan. You were the Michelle Bachmann of your day.
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Post by BJ on Nov 6, 2011 14:20:42 GMT -5
^That made me laugh.
I just finished up Swamp Diamonds. I found myself getting increasingly more angry at Roger Corman while watching this. The direction and writing are so inept, the actors never had a chance. If your movie is just over an hour long, and it still needs copious amounts of padding, you're a terrible director. I know it's supposed to be a showcase for Beverly Garland & friends in Daisy Dukes, but it's not even good at that. Remember, next time you're worrying about the Academy Awards, Roger Corman was recently given an honorary Oscar. Roger Corman.
Ahh, but as always, the riffing is good, so I'm not as angry as I sound.
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Post by KyrieEleison on Nov 6, 2011 20:19:42 GMT -5
Remember, next time you're worrying about the Academy Awards, Roger Corman was recently given an honorary Oscar. Roger Corman. I was a little miffed that Corman's honorary Oscar was relegated to "a private dinner," and therefore not aired. I wanted to see Corman's oeuvre splashed all over that Oscar telecast, just so everyone could get a glimpse of the kind of work he's released into the world (I mean seriously, who except for MSTies has heard of Roger Corman recently?) and realize how odd the award was.
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Post by angilasman on Nov 8, 2011 12:29:05 GMT -5
The Phantom Planet
Well, "watched" might not exactly be it. I had it on while doing some work for class, but I must've seen this episode more than a dozen times during the last days of Sci-Fi channel re-runs so I had pretty much everything memorized. As always, though, I got a few more references these years later... can't remember exactly what they were, but I remember thinking "ah, wouldn't have understood that one in my early teens" a few times.
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Post by BJ on Nov 8, 2011 13:19:42 GMT -5
Remember, next time you're worrying about the Academy Awards, Roger Corman was recently given an honorary Oscar. Roger Corman. I was a little miffed that Corman's honorary Oscar was relegated to "a private dinner," and therefore not aired. I wanted to see Corman's oeuvre splashed all over that Oscar telecast, just so everyone could get a glimpse of the kind of work he's released into the world (I mean seriously, who except for MSTies has heard of Roger Corman recently?) and realize how odd the award was. That's interesting. I'd just assumed it occurred during the main broadcast. I like to imagine that they brought out some graphs showcasing how profitable his films were, and then ran a montage of all the people he hired over the course of his career, all of whom would go on to create or act in films far better than his own.
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Post by KyrieEleison on Nov 8, 2011 20:43:55 GMT -5
Yeah, it used to be that I didn't watch the main broadcast, but I wanted to watch that year so I could see Corman get his award. And as we've established, it was nowhere to be seen. If I remember correctly, someone came up and mentioned Corman and Lauren Bacall (the other honorary Oscar winner that year), but I think that was it.
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Post by BJ on Nov 9, 2011 0:36:11 GMT -5
Eegah!
Tonight, I couldn't stop thinking about how Tom drives a '61 Corvette, which would have been a little over a year old. He must be getting a lot of tips at the gas station.
Also, I find it funny that at any given moment, Roxy seems like she might sleep with Eegah, or even her father, but never Tom. I think she chose the pumpkin faced Tom as a fake boyfriend to cover up her unconventional personal life.
Edited to avoid posting twice in a row
the Girl in Lovers Lane
The problems with this film are well known to us, but I have to vent anyway. I think that the good acting and engaging story almost disguise the fact that this film was so poorly written and directed. When it's done, you basically want everyone but Carrie to die in a fire, and yet she's the one who perishes. I normally like a down ending (Chinatown seems like a good comparison, where evil will always triumph over good), but it doesn't work here. Everything was being set up for redemption and a somewhat nice ending, and then it falls downhill like the Agony of Defeat guy.
First off, Big Stupid is a jerk, treating a girl he knows is innocent like dirt. That's simple and obvious. Then we have the whole town that stands idly while Jesse, the rapiest character of all time, harasses women. There's no way this guy hasn't killed before, and they probably looked the other way then as well. Hell, Carrie didn't even report her attack in the woods. And then the crazy men had the audacity to form a lynch mob, attack the police and almost kill an innocent man based on no evidence. Oh, and there's the guy in the billiards hall who doesn't care if his customers have their lives threatened right in front of him. I'm sure I'm forgetting some other horrible stuff. What a great community. I think Kevin McCarthy was dealing with better neighbors in Body Snatchers.
On the plus side, I'd totally forgotten about Crow as Jack Elam. That was hilarious.
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Post by KyrieEleison on Nov 12, 2011 23:40:10 GMT -5
I just saw Eegah! too. The movie was a little weird and stilted for me, but the riffs were great. And I had my iPod Touch with me, so as soon as the dad mentioned the Bible, I was on my Bible app to search for Genesis 4:32. And, it doesn't exist. The verse does, but it's Genesis 6:4. I was very glad to find out that other people had noticed it, too - my faith in the internet would have been shaken if I had been the first to notice.
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universehall
Anteater
You've GOT to be KIDDING me!
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Post by universehall on Nov 15, 2011 12:38:39 GMT -5
Last night I re-watched my taped-off-tv copy of "Diabolique".
That episode always makes me a bit sad... I started watching MST3k just about ONE YEAR before the show got cancelled on Sci-Fi! I still remember my shock and disbelief when they started airing the commercials for the finale... "This can't be real. They can't be cancelling that show. ...It's the only thing on TV I like to watch!!"
They said it was being cancelled because the new head of SciFI didn't think it was Sci-Fi enough. And now what does SciFi (or Syfy, as it is evidently now called) show?
Wrestling.
This gauls me to no end.
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Post by BJ on Nov 16, 2011 1:01:07 GMT -5
^I still get sad when I watch Joel, Trace, and Frank's last episodes, as well as Diabolik. You'd think after all these years, those emotions would die, but they still live on.
I think Cheers is the worst for me in that respect. I could hear Sam say "Sorry, we're closed" tonight, and I'd still be a little depressed. There's 11 seasons to fall back on, and the show's been off the air since I was a kid, but it still hits hard.
Right now, I'm almost done with Gunslinger. It's paused, and I had to take a break because this movie paralyzes my brain. I've seen it a number of times, but I have no clue what the motivations are of any character, and I'm not 100% sure what's actually going on. And while I know Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes were both very attractive, they look like clowns in this. Roger Corman, you win again.
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Post by caucasoididiot on Nov 16, 2011 11:01:51 GMT -5
Roger Corman, you win again. See, you should have been wearing your Trumpy radiation suit, then you'd at least have been half-protected.
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Post by pablo on Nov 16, 2011 17:40:44 GMT -5
^ And while I know Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes were both very attractive, they look like clowns in this. . lol, this made me laugh. I agree
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