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Post by Poe33 on Feb 13, 2004 12:21:28 GMT -5
We are a rare breed who can laugh just as hard at crap jokes and the Zoroastrian philosophy - who are familiar with the works of both Anna Nicole Smith AND Pintar! Basically, I think we're just better than everyone else. DAMN RIGHT! Literacy is a cool thing. |
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Post by Blurryeye on Feb 13, 2004 13:04:04 GMT -5
I've very gradually been testing the waters with my boyfriend, trying to see if he'll ever think it's funny. He's sat down and watched about fifteen minutes of the show, total, and I just don't think he gets it. The last time he saw the show, I was watching "Creeping Terror", and he said it was pretty funny, but some of their riffs were stupid. Except he wasn't completely paying attention to what was going on in the movie, since he was playing with my cat at the same time. Which just proves that you really have to concentrate on everything going on to really pick up most of the humor. He doesn't like feeling stupid, and I think the show does that because he isn't highly literate or learned. He also is easily distracted. He's intelligent, but not "book-smart". But, who knows, he may be gradually converted over years of exposure to it. I converted him into a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fan (well, not fan, exactly, but he does think the show is good now). Actually, when I was explaining the show to him, he couldn't understand why they only watch bad movies. He also said it was hard to watch the movie and listen to the riffs at the same time. He really was interested in what was going on in the movie. So, maybe I should just shrug and back off. Oh well, I'm smart enough for two!  |
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Post by doctorz on Feb 13, 2004 13:42:05 GMT -5
I am not sure what the common thread is between MSTies. I think it is a genuine love of bad film. By that I mean most large budget movies nowdays and in the past are pretty formulaic. They have to be. There are literally millions at stake so these films are literally run by a corporate mentality. This reduces any risk taking at all so you get the same thing over and over again. No surprises in plot, character development, nor much of anything else. Even special effects nowdays are pretty routine. (I actually fell asleep during the battle sequence in the last L.O.R trilogy movie!) This can be very comforting to most people because they can go to the movies and not be challenged in anyway at all and just be entertained.
When you decend down the ladder to the level of budget that most of the movies that MST3K had to be produced with, you enter the realm of the sole visionary desperately trying to get his vision, however twisted, to print, hurdling over all the considerable obstacles thrown in his path. I love these films for this very reason! They were a struggle to produce and in a large way they fail miserably in suspending our disbelief, but I for one find them infinitely more entertaining than .. oh ... "Armageddon!" Why do you think the MST3K space ship is called the Satellite of Love?;D These films are all the more interesting because it is up to you to fill in the contiunity gaps, the atrotious editing, the bad acting, the visibly zippered monster suits. Most people won't or can't take the time to look past the obvious flaws and see the beauty of an artist forced by powers beyond his understanding to produce such works of cinematic genius! (God, I gotta stop and get off this soapbox!) Anyway, If you are introducing someone to MST3K for the first time, I agree you should show them one of the Shorts tapes or POOPIE! first. If they laugh at that, you have a chance.
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Post by Poe33 on Feb 13, 2004 14:10:32 GMT -5
I think the common denominator goes deeper than just the love of bad movies.
I think it has more to do with being both somewhat of a social misfit (something I am proud of) and a love of nostalgia.
POLL: how many of you consider yourselves social misfits. I do.
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Post by Blurryeye on Feb 13, 2004 14:16:50 GMT -5
I'm definitely a loner, but I like people. I think people like me generally, but I'm reserved and introverted. People are also intimidated by my looks (I'm not being conceited, this has been confirmed by my boyfriend, and my handful of friends!) I think that qualifies me as a social misfit. I was ridiculed as a nerd up through high school.
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Post by doctorz on Feb 13, 2004 14:39:39 GMT -5
Loner? Yes, I've been one all my life. It was a burden for a long time, but I've come to accept it as just who I am. The loner/social misfit personal dovetails pretty well into a creative personality which I think a lot of MISTies share! You gotta be alone to create art or think! If you have ever read Annelli Rufus's book "Party of One" (I highly recomend it!) You'll feel sooo much better about your loner-self. Yeah, most of us are social outcasts in one way or another, but I think we are infinitly more interesting people to get to know.
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Post by Poe33 on Feb 13, 2004 14:50:09 GMT -5
I never said LONER. I said MISFIT
BIG DIFFERENCE. While I enjoy being alone to write, watch MST, whatever. I am married and enjoy the company of family and friends. However, they all know I am OUT THERE. It is part of my charm. I am very much extroverted.
I take pride in my misfittieness
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Post by Blurryeye on Feb 13, 2004 14:53:40 GMT -5
Well, EXCUUUUUUUUUSE ME! I thought loners qualified as *social misfits*. I mean, we don't *fit in* socially, right? |
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Post by doctorz on Feb 13, 2004 15:01:55 GMT -5
Actually I was addressing the person who actually declared themselves to be a loner. I did not mean to infer that you, poe33, were one. Maybe I should have done a private post. I forget the word "loner" scares a lot of people and they don't want in any way to be thought of as one. I am perfectly harmless, I assure you.  |
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Post by Poe33 on Feb 13, 2004 15:42:45 GMT -5
Well, EXCUUUUUUUUUSE ME! I thought loners qualified as *social misfits*. I mean, we don't *fit in* socially, right? ;D actually loners are a subset of the misfit. I love being alone. but I am wondering if MSTies in general are all sorts of misfits. I think we are. |
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Post by Ator on Feb 13, 2004 15:48:02 GMT -5
;D actually loners are a subset of the misfit. I love being alone. but I am wondering if MSTies in general are all sorts of misfits. I think we are. We all definitely are misfits. We laugh at puppet robots who make fun of bad movies. |
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Post by Buddhist Kitten on Feb 13, 2004 16:21:26 GMT -5
Yes, I am a misfit. Sniff.
But, on the subject of Adam Sandler/MST3K. . . I have a friend who has been recently introduced into MST3K, likes it a lot, and likes Adam Sandler. Our ulimate quote movie is Airplane. Three weeks after I saw it, we were still like, "Remember the part when. . ."
And both of my newbie MST3K fan are sad about the show cancellation.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Feb 13, 2004 19:02:54 GMT -5
[quote author=Blurryeye link=board=mstchat&thread=1076536372&start=36#2 date=1076699810 People are also intimidated by my looks [/quote]
Would it kill ya to post a picture?
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Post by mightyjack on Feb 13, 2004 22:12:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm with phantom. I like intimidation!!!
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Post by Blurryeye on Feb 13, 2004 23:28:01 GMT -5
Well, I don't have a way of posting a picture. Sorry, I don't even have Internet at my apartment, much less a digital camera or anything. Besides, I kind of like keeping an air of mystery |
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