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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 4, 2008 16:11:18 GMT -5
Things shouldn't be giant. They should be the size of normal things.
This goes for locusts, pandas, squids, body parts, and mechanical ants.
It goes double for gila monsters, leeches, spiders, and Beau Bridges. Especially Beau Bridges.
So which episode is the most like a messed-up fever dream?
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Post by Bix Dugan on Apr 4, 2008 16:16:09 GMT -5
Village. Toni Basil IS Tiny Dancer...
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Post by Mod City on Apr 4, 2008 16:28:20 GMT -5
Village is the only one I haven't seen, so I can't say either way on that one. I'm going with the invasion of giant dune buggy spiders.
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Post by quinnmartin on Apr 4, 2008 16:28:57 GMT -5
All very good episodes, but I've got to go with Giant Spider Invasion. Just barely though. I wish I could say rural Wisconsin isn't really like that, but since I grew up there, I know better.
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Post by Miss Interoceter on Apr 4, 2008 17:59:36 GMT -5
Would you forget the skid marks?!?
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Apr 4, 2008 18:45:39 GMT -5
Village bothers me a great deal. That dancing is the most embarassing bit of a movie that embarasses me from beginning to end--both for myself, for humanity in general, and for the actors who allowed themselves to be in it. Surely no financial situation is so dire, no longing to be a star so deep as to allow yourself to be connected eternally with this piece of doo. It's one of those movies that, for me, is so bad I can't get past its badness to enjoy the riffing.
Gila Monster has some good riffing for a pretty silly giant creature 50's film. Giant Leeches has some sort of Tennessee Williams thing going on that makes me not sneer at the film itself as much as I do some of these films, but the riffing isn't top notch, imo.
So Bill Rebane's best movie ever (well, it is! Of the three I've seen, at least) riffed very well is my pick here. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I applaud/marvel that the science recited in the planetarium scene is accurate. (The way the spiders get here is goofy, but I can't have everything.) I like Barbara Hale and the idea of middle-aged heroes. The movie seems a perfect blend of characteristics that do appeal to me and those that repel me utterly (like the back brace guy and every moment he's on screen), which is my favorite balance for an ep.
And the riffing is terrific: "They're only poor in money--and..." still makes me laugh every time I hear it anew, and "Let's just say if you had a barrelful of these..." There are many, many belly laughs. You rolled on me!
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Apr 4, 2008 18:51:08 GMT -5
Giant dancing teenagers are an image that could be formed only in the depths of a fever dream, one induced in the humid, hovering tropics, that no quinine could touch, no aspirin succor, as the fringe and beads swayed to frantic rhythms and giant ducks quacked on the dance floor.
And let's not forget the giant legs. As if we could.
Beau, Beau!--the hand thing isn't working, Beau!
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Post by Crowfan on Apr 4, 2008 20:16:03 GMT -5
Giant Spider Invasion. You'd think if spiders actually invaded us, they wouldn't go to Wisconsin.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Apr 4, 2008 21:03:43 GMT -5
I LOVE Village of the Giants, I can and I have watched the movie sans riffing. I love the music (Miss the Freddie Cannon song cut from the MST version) and the bass heavy score. Plus the riffing is sharp. Charles Bukowski's sink. LMAO. Now Mr. A if you come on here and say you don't like VOTG because of the Opie jokes... "I can't stand them, it's like Opie, Uma, Uma Opie. It's not the funny the first time I heard it Dave!" I'll pull out my hair I'm teasing of course Gila isn't as funny as It used to be. I think it's kind of light on the stunningly clever riffing I prefer. Though there are many goodies (like the braces scene with lil sis) and it's a decent episode as are Giant Spider and Leeches. But Village goes above and beyond for me in the laugh department.
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Post by ometiklon on Apr 4, 2008 21:24:35 GMT -5
Giant Spider Invasion.... Little Buddies!
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 5, 2008 1:33:01 GMT -5
Now Mr. A if you come on here and say you don't like VOTG because of the Opie jokes... "I can't stand them, it's like Opie, Uma, Uma Opie. It's not the funny the first time I heard it Dave!" I'll pull out my hair I'm teasing of course No worries. Just so you know where I'm coming from with that complaint: the difference is that the Opie jokes have a context in the movie. Every time Ron Howard is on screen, I'm hoping for a Happy Days or Andy Griffith or Willow riff. Those other ones are all just callbacks to something that wasn't funny in the first place, that nothing in the movie is referencing. It's just lazy comedy. Village was great, as long as Beau wasn't on-screen and that Mary Tyler Moore-type girlfriend was. Spider was a wonderful movie for the show, but I don't have the gushing love for the Sci-Fi era that everyone else seems to have. So I'm gonna vote for Gila Monster. There's something about the monster movies that Joel just excelled at. And Gila Monster might be my favorite of that genre.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Apr 5, 2008 3:42:45 GMT -5
Well okay, but I still don't really get where your coming from. In last weeks polls for example, both movies are identical in the way Mike, Kev and Bill find something that strikes them as funny within the movie and hammer away at it.
In Riding with Death it's Patent papers and Abbey's some gal and dirty glasses and Robert Denby and... turkeys. But it's the turkey thing that distracts you and you find unfunny? And Death Ray is even worse, they really pound away at the same things over and over and over (primarily the music) but that one you love?
I'm not picking a fight and Lord knows I've got my idiosyncrasies too. I just find it strangely curious what bugs you and what delights you are the same things.
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Post by Broadsword on Apr 5, 2008 6:11:17 GMT -5
I went with Gila Monster, it's one of my top 5 episodes. Though Village and Spiders are two very funny ones that I can watch over and over again. Giant Leeches isn't bad either with a great short.
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Post by braindeadzombie on Apr 5, 2008 6:17:29 GMT -5
Hey, a poll with four choices and I've actually seen all of them. Village of the Giants gets my pick as for techinicolor dreamscape of giants and giantesses. Oh those giantesses...
It also has a giant cat, giant dog and a pair of giant ducks.
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Post by Ron Codpiece on Apr 5, 2008 7:44:21 GMT -5
Spider Invasion wins my vote because of Menards and PAAAAACKERS!!!
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