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Post by mst3ktemple on Aug 21, 2013 6:14:38 GMT -5
Yeah, but we got a much better close up view of the gorilla-grams.
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Post by satmorning91 on Aug 22, 2013 13:29:21 GMT -5
I saw the event from a theater in jersey. Heres my feelings on the censorship part.. The commentery was funny as always. No issue for me there.
This is the dumbest /greatest/ funniest edit job in history. It makes no logical sense, but it makes mst 3k sense. I was slightly annoyed at first but then realized how ridiculous the whole thing is. lets break this down lol. This is a film that almost got a nc-17 for violence. So they don't edit that. (under contract they were not allowed to edit the film) but they use the gorillagrams to cover up the nudity. But a few nipple shots still got in there. Hey, didn't a nip slip at the superbowl turn this country on its ear 10 years ago! They took a movie that was a hard R and made it a soft R. Cause gorillagrams or not this was still a R movie. Unless you were thier in person in tenn, then you got it all. lol. So we can offend people thier but not the rest of us? man, lol. It has to be hands down the hardest edged movie rifftrax,cinenamatic titanic,or mst 3k ever watched in public or was on the show. (not counting rifftrax downloads where you get the movie yourself or VOD). The titanic guys would never have even attempted this movie. If you recall in the CT dvd frankensteins castle of freaks they had the "breast blimp"(black bar basically) cover up a few nipple shots. They didn't give you anything. They would need 3 breast blimps,a ass blimp, a curse blimp and a 5 violence blimps for this thing. Kinda shocked they even went with this film in the first place. mst3k was a g rated show that started 25 years ago on UHF station.
The gorillagrams have a another comedic effect. You go home from the show and someone asks you how was it and how was the shower scene? oh well gorillaz came out with telegrams. and then you realize how stupid that sounds.....
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Post by satmorning91 on Aug 22, 2013 13:30:09 GMT -5
sorry about the paragraphs . not sure why it just did that.
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Post by Skyroniter on Aug 22, 2013 15:26:19 GMT -5
The Rifftrax guys are good at censorship. They've inserted more than one Disembaudio song or rant in a trax to let the squeamish know when to close their eyes.
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Post by Triple_sSs on Aug 22, 2013 17:33:49 GMT -5
I thought the Gorilla-Gram thing was pretty amusing myself, don't get why some people were so adverse to it.
And skyroniter, I'd love to hear some more of your thoughts on the show, maybe a few more pictures too if you have any.
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Post by davidbeegah on Aug 22, 2013 18:52:58 GMT -5
I saw something on my facebook page. I guess several members of the cast of Starship Troopers caught the show. Actress Dina Meyer (Dizzy Flores) thanked them for the gorilla grams. From what I can tell, the cast loved the Rifftrax treatment.
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Post by satmorning91 on Aug 22, 2013 23:10:53 GMT -5
I consider this to be a landmark moment in the overall history of the show . that 25 years after the show was on some no name UHF STATION that some form of the what the show would still be around to even do something like this. And also the CT guys doing what they do. This how you define "cult classic" in every sense of the word.
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Post by Skyroniter on Aug 23, 2013 11:19:42 GMT -5
I thought the Gorilla-Gram thing was pretty amusing myself, don't get why some people were so adverse to it. And skyroniter, I'd love to hear some more of your thoughts on the show, maybe a few more pictures too if you have any. I haven't forgotten but I've been so busy.
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Post by TheNewMads on Aug 23, 2013 11:57:42 GMT -5
[OB]This society sure does have some weird priorities. Over and over again there were these terrible shots of dozens of bloody, mangled, dismembered bodies strewn all over, real nightmare fuel, and that's fine, but a little T&A and suddenly they need a gorilla-gram to avoid MPAA trouble. I'm not blaming rifftrax, they did what they had to, but it's just odd things are set up that way.[/OB]
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Post by satmorning91 on Aug 23, 2013 13:43:35 GMT -5
Yea but the audience that were at the event itself saw all that. They never edited the film. So that's why its bizarre. Lol. And even with gorilla grams its still a r rated movie. As I said before this movie was a forced edit away in 1997 from being NC-17 . I mean the CT viewers thought blood of vampires and legacy of blood was seedy territory. Remember the blimp of modesty for castle of freaks? You would 10 blimps for starship troopers.
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Aug 29, 2013 11:28:02 GMT -5
Want to know how stupid I am? I had no idea that the gorillagrams were there to cover the nudity! I don't really see nudity as a big deal so I wasn't thinking ahead of time about how they were going to handle it.
Overall, it was quite fun -- I only had one issue, and that was the sound. The movie's soundtrack was played so loudly that it often drowned out the riffs, at least for me, and I missed about a third of them.
Actually, another thing I lamented was a lack of a short before the movie due to the full two-hour length of SST. Shorts are so inherently lame that the riffs can really just hit the stratosphere and the riffs on Welcome Home Norman were my favorite in the live show before this one.
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Post by torgospizza on Sept 3, 2013 12:18:42 GMT -5
Did the movie's loudness drown out some of the riffs for anyone else? During some of the beginning battle scenes especially? It felt like they fixed the sound mix by the end though, but for a while I could tell the riffers were saying something but it was getting drowned out in a shower of bullets. I have experienced this at all of the 6 shows I have seen to one degree to another. Last nights was the worst, due to the loudness of the film itself. Other times they had to compete with uproarious laughter (not their fault). However you look at it, I always miss some of the jokes between the two. We've had some discussions between Fathom and our production company, and are looking at ways to make sure the audio is as perfect as we can for upcoming shows. One of these involves a major change with how the audio is actually delivered to theaters. Hopefully you'll never have to experience that type of audio problem again. (We're also doing this for the Troopers encore, so anyone who wants to catch it, rest assured the audio will be far superior to the live version... which unfortunately doesn't help people who saw it live, but hopefully it'll be meaningful that we're trying to ensure perfection from here on out.)
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Post by Skyroniter on Sept 4, 2013 17:07:59 GMT -5
I bought my tickets today for the encore. I know it'll be just as funny on screen as it was in person.
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Post by reaperg on Sept 6, 2013 17:12:10 GMT -5
I wouldn't normally go to a theater to see a movie again, but since this won't be on DVD, I'd better go. And silly me for not catching on to the "Breaking Bad" reference at first.
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Post by Skyroniter on Sept 9, 2013 7:09:50 GMT -5
Bought an extra ticket for my future son-in-law. My son and I are going to try breaking him in. He has no knowledge of these Rifftrax of which we speak. If he doesn't enjoy it then I'm cancelling their engagement.
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