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Post by Mr. Atari on Aug 11, 2012 19:50:54 GMT -5
That song is in my head every time I see this thread title.
Also, shorts. Always open with shorts. Are You Ready For Marriage and What To Do On A Date sound like appropriate ones for your situation. If she likes it, you can move up to Once Upon A Honeymoon.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Aug 10, 2012 16:02:56 GMT -5
I love Starfighters and other awful and slow films, like Mighty Jack or Monster A-Go-Go. But there's something about Coleman Francis that I just can't get past. No matter how funny the riffing is, it's just not an enjoyable experience. I'll keep trying, though.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Aug 7, 2012 8:47:00 GMT -5
Red Zone Cuba
The Coleman Francis trilogy are some of the hardest episodes for me to get through. Whenever we have a discussion here about the worst movies MST did, I'm amazed that he doesn't get more votes. During the "Cuba" scenes, I found myself staring at Crow, pretending he was looking at me and not at the movie when he talked, just so I could say I was still watching the episode. I had some laughs, but it took a LOT of effort this time through.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 29, 2012 23:26:17 GMT -5
I don't understand what "flaw" you're pointing out is. Are you saying Joel shouldn't not laugh at comics because they're old? And that's a flaw of the Invention Exchange itself how? I think Fluggenock's point was that the premise of the bit was the idea that TODAY'S comics aren't funny, but then Joel used the comics of YESTERDAY to make his point. Had Joel said, "Comics used to be funny, but they're not anymore. Look at this Sally Forth or Zits or Bloom County, for example..." it would have made more sense than citing Blondie or Ziggy as an example of "today's comics".
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 29, 2012 23:17:36 GMT -5
I'm not on the internet right now. I'm transmitting from my brains. Nice try. You can't fool us. We already know you don't have any.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 25, 2012 9:26:26 GMT -5
Did you know he had a MST connection?
Remember the old (OLD) woman who taught Colleen Gray the secrets of long life in The Leech Woman? Sherman's mom.
True story....I think.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 20, 2012 12:17:24 GMT -5
Not that it matters, but that was the theater where I was going to see Rifftrax's Manos next month.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 20, 2012 10:02:24 GMT -5
For those of you who don't know, I live in Aurora, CO. I wanted to post to let everyone know that my family and I are all safe and were miles away from last night's shooting.
However, the news is still rolling in, so I'm not sure about friends or friends of friends yet. Even if the victims were all strangers to me, the community will feel this one for a long time. Right now, I'm just absorbing the tragedy and trying to figure out the best way to help.
For those of you who were at the 2007 meetup, the movie theater is about a half mile north of the hotel where you all stayed.
Pray for Aurora.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 17, 2012 9:41:15 GMT -5
I don't want to interrupt your awesome thread, but I'm legitimately curious. What exactly do you mean by "pompous"? Is it the story? The dialogue/accents? The acting? The themes? The fact that the different races have their own languages & cultures?
I wondered at first if you disliked the Britishness of it all; that maybe the source material itself is what you find distasteful. But you've expressed an enjoyment of all sorts of foreign storytelling in this blog, so I doubt it's that.
It's an epic, so there's going to be some "bigness" and self-importance to everything, but that's the genre. And I don't think there's any more of that than in your run-of-the-mill superhero movie, and I know you love those. For me, I find the cinematography incredible, the action sequences thrilling, and the fictional world believable.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 16, 2012 18:50:15 GMT -5
Tenebaums is far and away my favorite Wes Anderson film, and another pick I agree with wholeheartedly.
Thank you also for mentioning Donnie Darko and The Man Who Wasn't There. They would go with Tenenbaums and LOTR as my best picture list.
Of course, I completely disagree with you about LOTR, even going so far as to say that Cate Blanchett was the worst part about the trilogy. She didn't act, she just stood there and looked bored. Her monotone delivery and facial expressions just confused me. She was the Kristen Stewart of the LOTR. That said, I think Fellowship is the most cohesive of the three films, and probably my favorite. Especially Sean Bean. He was awesome.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 11, 2012 13:32:34 GMT -5
• That's important because the game determines home field advantage in the World Series. While the American/National rotation for WS home field wasn't exactly perfect, it was better than having it decided by the All Star game, which is game between two teams made up of players who never play together. I have never understood what's wrong with the old "better regular season record = home field advantage" solution. It works for every other round in the playoffs, why not for the WS? Here's the Atari Method for picking All-Stars*: I think each team should send who they think their best 2 players are. With the Astros moving to the AL next year, that's 30 players per league. Maybe add a "legacy pick" for each team for the Chipper Joneses of the world. Figure out a way to balance pitchers and position players, and Bob's your uncle. Advantages to this system: 1) The TEAMS get to pick from their own rosters--- players they see every day for 81 (or more) games. Not fans who throw votes at a name-recognition guy who was good 2 years ago. And not coaches who have vendettas against other teams. 2) No ballot stuffing to get 8 players from one team. This always knocks other deserving players out just because their home stadium doesn't sell out every night. Each team gets 2, so make 'em count. 3) It rewards smaller market teams and players who could use the exposure and honor. What if the 6th best player on the Yankees is better than the 2nd best player on the Royals? Too frickin' bad! Stop overloading and overpaying your team and give someone else a chance for some media attention. It's the All-Star game, it's not the World Series. *patent pending
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 11, 2012 1:28:59 GMT -5
Backtracking -- I'm curious what everyone else liked best for 1997? Was it LA Confidential or something else? After looking through wikipedia's list for the year, nothing really jumped out at me. A couple I liked that you didn't mention were The Apostle and Copland. And so help me, but I liked Good Will Hunting. Still do, in fact. L.A. Confidential holds up well, and I've seen Guffman more times than any other movie here, and it never disappoints. If I were to pick one, I'd probably go with The Apostle, but really anything but Titanic is my final answer. I also need to go back to your 1995 writeup and ask where 12 Monkeys is. I'm sure it was an oversight; or maybe the interwebs gremlins maliciously deleted your paragraphs detailing how great it is, right? RIGHT?
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 10, 2012 9:56:21 GMT -5
Another home run, MJ. Dark City is one of my all-time favorites.
A close second for me in 1998 was The Thin Red Line. At the time, I knew it didn't stand a chance of winning, but it was the one I was rooting for on Oscar night. It was a better war movie than Saving Private Ryan which, although the first half hour was incredible, really faltered down the stretch.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 9, 2012 23:49:41 GMT -5
A good conversation is already happening here. Thanks.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jul 3, 2012 22:07:51 GMT -5
As I watched it, I enjoyed it. I liked that they dealt with real metaphysical questions like good science fiction should, and didn't just show spaceships and monsters for the sake of spaceships and monsters like bad science fiction does.
After I saw it, however, I thought about all of the plot holes, phony character motivations, and storytelling gaffes. The more I think about it, the less I like it.
For what it's worth, I haven't seen Alien in 20 years or so.
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