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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 19, 2013 14:00:52 GMT -5
Girls Town as a 12-seed rankled this fan. I guess I'm just a Mamie homer. Oh well. She would have swept the NIT.
And I'm a bit surprised that the season 8 Japanese episodes are doing so well, while the season 3 Japanese episodes are doing so poorly. The Gamera films are like the Big East of MST. Prince of Space and Neptune Men are so weak in comparison, they should have had a play-in game.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 18, 2013 10:57:18 GMT -5
Are we going to do this? If so, I'm in.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 18, 2013 10:49:20 GMT -5
Puma Man vs. Jack Frost?
2 top-tier episodes meeting so early? Bah! I call shenanigans. Those shouldn't meet until the Final Four.
Seriously, though, I love the bracket idea. Nice work.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 14, 2013 23:47:39 GMT -5
Yep- Just a quick search reveals that the rough cut versions of "It Lives By Night" and "Magic Voyage of Sinbad" are still up on YouTube. They don't have host segments, but they do have the chatter between takes and breaks while they recorded the theater segments.
I've also seen one for Diabolik. During filming, editor Brad Keely threw in a montage of classic moments in previous movies, much to the surprise of Mike, Bill, and Kevin.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 12, 2013 15:43:01 GMT -5
I suppose what throws me is that the riff is almost completely out of his mouth before Mom even appears on the porch and we can get a good look at her. There were quite a few occasions where they were a little off between the script and the time code. YouTube has a couple "rough cut" episodes, where you can see them flub a line in the theater and stop the playback to get it right. Over the course of 200 episodes, there were plenty of times when they just let the flub go if it was close enough.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 11, 2013 23:09:23 GMT -5
We've done this in past years. Mod City usually sets it up. There's about 5 or 6 of us who participate. It's one of the only brackets I do anymore.
If you and/or Mod City wants to set it up this year, I'll play.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 10, 2013 16:12:34 GMT -5
Loved him in Wargames.
"I can't believe it, Jim. That girl's standing over there listening and you're telling him about our back doors?"
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 1, 2013 15:11:32 GMT -5
Jane Austen is overrated.
She's the Gin Blossoms of fiction writing. She wrote one book, 6 times. And it wasn't even good the first time.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 1, 2013 15:05:26 GMT -5
Last night's ep made me sad. Not nearly enough good lines, terrible villains (they were annoying in the foosball episode, too), and a cliched, sitcom wrap-up (they paint the second study room and everyone just forgives them?) Even a wasted cameo from the great Malcolm McDowell.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Mar 1, 2013 14:56:45 GMT -5
Ro-Man makes an appearance in The Cars' "You Might Think" video.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Feb 24, 2013 16:40:26 GMT -5
And now that I posted that, they ran a clean final 5 laps. Although, look who happened to be in the lead at the final caution-- Jimmie Johnson. And then he won with no real drama.
Not very exciting for me, though. Sorry.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Feb 24, 2013 16:35:37 GMT -5
I have good friends who have tried to get me into NASCAR every year. And every year, I watch the Daytona 500. I'm watching it right now, as a matter of fact. 9 laps to go (and yet another caution!).
One thing I've noticed- there's always (ALWAYS) caution flags in the last 10 laps, completely ruining any excitement that had built up for the first 2 hours. I think the last 3 years all ended with a green-white-checker finish, meaning 199 laps were pointless, and there's almost no suspense on the finish. Whoever happens to be in front when the pack restarts and crashes for the final time wins the race. Where's the drama of a mad dash to the finish line after 500 miles? And who cares who leads for the most laps, if it all comes down to the luck of the draw on the final crash/restart?
I admit that I don't get it, and I'm not a fan. But I don't think I'll become a fan if the races end this way all the time. It's worse than basketball time outs in the last 30 seconds.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Feb 22, 2013 14:50:46 GMT -5
Abed and Troy were Calvin and Hobbes. Britta mentioned that she and Troy were supposed to coordinate their costumes, but I'm not sure what that meant Troy was supposed to be. Unless a tiger and ham go together?
I was sad they didn't get Shirley another costume that could be two things.
Last night's episode was my favorite of the three so far this season. Maybe because I like Dr. Who, so I love the Inspector Spacetime gags. I thought they had the main 7 paired off in interesting plotlines, and some of the jokes were as good as Dan Harmon's. Particularly Jeff's panic about his hair loss. I also loved that Tricia Helfer (from Battlestar Galactica) played the hot Sci-Fi Convention fan. The tag with the Pierce-influenced American version of Inspector Spacetime was awesome, too.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Feb 20, 2013 19:28:03 GMT -5
They did cast it. If I remember correctly, Jeff's dad is a major plot point for the Thanksgiving episode. He'll be played by...(drum roll)... James Brolin And it took me a while to figure out all of the costumes. Abed's especially didn't click for at least half the episode (I finally got it when I saw him and Troy in the same shot). Maybe it's because I missed the first few minutes. Did they explain who they were at the beginning?
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Post by Mr. Atari on Feb 11, 2013 10:21:10 GMT -5
Princess Helene from The Magic Sword is top 5, if not top 3. Dolores Faith, who played a blind girl in one episode and a mute girl in another, deserves a spot. I'm not sure if being a fan of those two roles says more about her acting ability or my psychology. Hmm... Alison Hayes is definitely higher than #7, especially when you consider what she brought to the screen in The Undead and Gunslinger. zombiewhacker mentioned Joy Harmon from Village of the Giants. I vastly prefer the sweet, headband-wearing girlfriend. Not only did she admirably pretend Tommy Kirk was a masculine hero, but she was radiant in her Kennedy-era '60s charm. I've always been a sucker for Laura Petrie types.
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