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Post by zombiewhacker on Mar 28, 2013 4:01:01 GMT -5
Patooie!!!
(Spits out a ten pound wad of cotton.)
Whoa, sorry about that, guys. It was hard to talk with all that cotton stuck in my mouth. Come to think of it, why did I have cotton in my mouth? Why do I keep doing things like that?!
Um, anyway, back on course, let's try this one again:
Who, in your most humble opinions, was the most mumbling, most inarticulate, most inaudible, unintelligble, most "Mmmghfurhfffmmm" star or starlet in an MST3K film? Someone so bad the boom mike could have been hitting them in the nose and you still wouldn't be able to understand a single word they were saying.
Mind you, the fact that I'm bringing up this topic right now has nothing to do with the fact that I just finished watching Robert Ginty in Warrior of the Lost World.
Nothing whatsoever.
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Post by GodoHell on Mar 28, 2013 9:41:11 GMT -5
Ass munchashaiwaaa naschaaay....
Sorry. I'll start again....
As much as I want to say Valeria from Robot Holocaust since it's in my viewing rotation at the moment, I'm going to go with Wendell Corey as Jim Graff in Agent For H.A.R.M. It sounds like he phoned his lines in from the bottom of a Jim Beam bottle.
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Post by Monophylos on Mar 28, 2013 11:21:07 GMT -5
Wendell Corey is definitely on the list of worst mumblers, and unfortunately it's all too credible that he really was drunk during filming: Corey was a serious alcoholic and his drinking hurt his career badly. The same thing is possible true of Bernard Lee in Operation Double 007. (Reputedly Lee once drank Richard Burton under the table and we all know what a champion souse Burton was.) The Paper Chase Guy on the other hand doesn't sound drunk, he sounds like he's exerting the barest minimum of effort needed to read his lines.
EDIT: And let's not forget Reb Brown's garbled reading of, "There wasn't time to go over to the auxiliary backup system!" in Space Mutiny that prompted a giggle from Mike Nelson.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 28, 2013 11:55:22 GMT -5
I immediately thought of the "solar panels" guy in Birdemic. But I don't know if Rifftrax counts.
There's always Max Keller. Nothing like a sunken-chested, mullet-headed, pasty hero who can't string two syllables together.
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Post by Cubey on Mar 29, 2013 0:28:06 GMT -5
I'd have to say Ray Dennis Steckler and his pal, hands down.
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Post by DON3k on Mar 29, 2013 6:31:44 GMT -5
I'd have to say Ray Dennis Steckler and his pal, hands down. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=UlZlDu9KCWo[/youtube] WhatChuTinkWeCameHereForToEat?!
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Post by Cubey on Mar 29, 2013 8:59:44 GMT -5
I'd have to say Ray Dennis Steckler and his pal, hands down. WhatChuTinkWeCameHereForToEat?! He said "read", not "eat", I think.
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Post by Monophylos on Mar 29, 2013 10:43:28 GMT -5
Then there's this wonderful scene from Riding with Death. I don't know if you can call what Jim Stafford is doing "mumbling", exactly, but it doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense, especially when everyone's talking over everyone else: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQRAzC1Q1ww
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Mar 29, 2013 20:35:00 GMT -5
Yeah, Wendell Corey had to be pretty much the king of that. There isn't a single movie I've seen him in -- including a couple not "covered" by MST3K -- where he doesn't sound as if he's lushed out of his mind.
I'm surprised even the Season 1 cast didn't pick up more on his slurred delivery in Women Of The Prehistoric Planet.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Mar 29, 2013 20:36:25 GMT -5
I don't remember the actor's name, but I believe it was the guy who played Banjo in Wild Rebels who dazzled us all with his magnificent reading of "Man, you're messin' with private stock."
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Mar 29, 2013 20:38:58 GMT -5
...As much as I want to say Valeria from Robot Holocaust since it's in my viewing rotation at the moment... Ahh, yeah, Angelika Jager. Who can forget that elegant lisping, that simpering rendition of "Dahk Wahn"... or, was it "Dog Won..." or, maybe...
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Mar 29, 2013 20:40:54 GMT -5
I'd have to say Ray Dennis Steckler and his pal, hands down.
Oh, jeezus, yeah. And, don't forget that scene where he bursts into Madam Estrella's room to confront her, and continues gwobbling even as a handful of marbles falls from his pocket.
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Post by Cubey on Mar 31, 2013 0:15:52 GMT -5
Oh, jeezus, yeah. And, don't forget that scene where he bursts into Madam Estrella's room to confront her, and continues gwobbling even as a handful of marbles falls from his pocket. As I have mentioned in other thread(s), it was a poorly edited in echoy sound effect of a short burst of applause from the nearby night club show. The scene I posted is the worst. Well no, I take that back. The part later in the film of him wandering around with the "western zombie music" playing is the worst. You can actually make out what's being said by Harold if you listen hard enough. The western zombie music is impossible to make out.
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Mar 31, 2013 12:35:51 GMT -5
Lance Fuller in She Creature and Natalie in Werewolf.
I'll cut Nats a little slack since English wasn't her first language (It's not like I speak wowsers Lettish or Czechoslovakian or whatever her first tongue is), but Lance has no such excuse.
He studied under David Duchovny!
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Post by continosbuckle on Mar 31, 2013 13:55:37 GMT -5
Lance Fuller in She Creature Sometimes I just trail off and.... Good choice! I keep coming back to the older movies with non-American female leads who only got the role because they were Miss Universe contestants, but yeah, they should get some slack. I'm reminded of Ingrid Goude in Killer Shrews and Chase's French girlfriend in Giant Gila Monster. For the latter, I can't remember a single line of hers that I understood.
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