― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:12 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:16 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:21 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:24 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:34 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:52 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
"Bad touch.""Does this mean I like guys now?""I feel ill.""Spanking time!"
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― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 25 May 2003 15:58 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 May 2003 16:02 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Keep in mind that the fidelity on these files is sometimes suprisingly good considering the size, and sometimes fairly bad, but even the worst files usually have more than enough detail for a person to get what's going on.
I'm hoping the DVD is a Santa Claus vs. The Martians/Santa Claus double fun pak. It is going to come out late 2003, after all.
Later I may want to say something about MST3K in light of Mark's venting on Zappa, but right now I want to go to Central Park and maybe the Malevich exhibit before it starts raining (again).
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 May 2003 16:33 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
goooch....goooch....
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 May 2003 19:29 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
This show got me through middle school.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 May 2003 19:31 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 25 May 2003 19:38 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 25 May 2003 20:40 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Sunday, 25 May 2003 23:19 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 May 2003 00:08 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 26 May 2003 00:32 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 26 May 2003 00:48 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 26 May 2003 00:52 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 26 May 2003 01:09 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 May 2003 06:09 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
(current space on home PC C-Drive abt 700meg, it are old and small)
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 26 May 2003 10:11 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
"Santa Claus, you're coming with us!""You're coming to town."
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 26 May 2003 14:15 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 May 2003 23:57 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Because I'm not funny. And neither are you.
― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:31 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:39 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:44 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Fave all time moment ever, from any episode -- this snippet from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, delivered and timed JUST RIGHT:
MARTIAN: "What soft, and round, and you put it on the end of a stick --"
SERVO: "An elf?"
MARTIAN: "-- and green?"
SERVO: "Oh, a DEAD elf."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:47 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:51 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Chris Fujiwara (sounding a little prim), here.
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:53 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:54 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:55 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:56 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:58 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Gamera Vs. Guiron is one of my most underrated favorites, with the Gamera song, Cornjob and the Zabriske Point ref. The "Hello/Thank You" scene with the mothers is my #1 funniest MST3K moment.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:58 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
We both idly comment on stupidity of movie showing and the commentary from Joel + robots. Go back to reading book/half-watching.
15 minutes later - 'actually, this isn't that bad'
10 minutes later - we have both decided this is the best show ever created
― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:58 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
I salute you!
I am still in fact missing Gamera Vs. Guiron, though happily I've seen it a number of times -- that along with Gamera Vs. Gaos, It Conquered the World and four season six entries are now the only things I'm missing from season two on...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:08 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:14 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
ignoring realities of production? tedium?
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:20 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:24 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
I think Fujiwara scores some good points, but yes of course we must give no quarter to a fun-hater.
The show made me laugh but I can't love it.
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:28 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:34 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:36 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:41 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:41 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
(...when -- you want -- the flavor of bacon -- in a dip.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:45 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
The thing I like abt Fujiwara's thing (and yes I do realize what a humorless piece of writing it is [but bits make me laugh out loud so eh]) is that it's about giving a shit, about not letting something slide. He thinks the whole enterprise was deeply, offensively unfunny, and that seemed like a rare and valuable enough er perspective w/r/t ile & mst.
I have a strong affection for cranks and fuddy-duddies.
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:47 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
Now, railing about MST3K in its own style -- responding to it and heckling it -- that could be clever enough to be worth the time.
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:58 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
And when they *did* do that, as happened with the Little Golden Statuette thingummybob, it actually undercut a lot of the claims MST3K could make to somehow being a subversive force battling against whiteelephantHollywoodbullshit because the special arguably ended up being essentially more hype for the Oscars and the Hollywood machine.
IIRC, the central reason for Fujiwara's groaning and moaning about MST3K was due to the lack of respect they were giving to these oddly wonderful artifacts suitable for voyeuristic delectation. (Fujiwara once wrote up a list of the best movies of 1953 and included *Robot Monster* as his tenth best -- and seriously, the only reason I can imagine ANYONE doing that is to prove some banal point about hegemony and the canon blah blah blah FIGHT THE POWER!!! etc. As bad movies go, there are so many better ones, like *Monster A Go-Go* for starters) This is baloney on many levels. "MST3K involves people making fun of bad movies" is a good shorthand description of the show, but only that: most of the time, Best Brains aren't "making fun" of the movies (most of the riffs' humor are totally incidental to the badness of the film), nor are most of the films they riff on aren't really *bad.* A good chunk are, most are just utterly indifferent, and few are pretty good for what they are (say, the Lassie or Godzilla movies.), and a movie's badness is no guarantee of an episode's goodness. (I think *Monster A Go-Go* is probably the worst thing I've ever seen and most of the time BB was just struggling to say something, anything about it.) Most of the time I attribute BB's claims to a movie being bad as just a bunch of hyperbole for comedy's sake. (On the other hand, if *I* had to watch most movies with the kind of attentiveness *they* did in creating MST3K, I think most films would probably come up short, anyway.)
And ANYWAY, I knew a lot of hardcore MSTies who argued the 'essence' of the show wasn't the riffing but the relationship between Joel/Mike, the 'bots and the Mads.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:05 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:14 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
I noticed that the MST3K version cut out around half of the Mcdonalds scene. I know they cut, but I was surprised they chose that material to cut.
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 26 November 2018 08:19 (two months ago) Permalink
Phew, okay, got through all six at last (saw the first two last week, was home sick today so I knocked off the rest). More thoughts later but Killer Fish is some goddamn hilarity.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 December 2018 05:40 (two months ago) Permalink
i started in on Mac and Me and i had forgotten how much i loved these guys
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 December 2018 10:15 (two months ago) Permalink
Moved recently and got a Roku and discovered to my pleasant surprise that Pluto (which has a 24/7 MST3K channel AND a Rifftrax channel) and Tubi (which has the Shout Factory episodes on demand) exist.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 21 December 2018 04:41 (two months ago) Permalink
Forgot how annoying the motorcycle in Warrior of the Lost World was btw
"Tuuuuubular."
"SHUT UP!"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 December 2018 05:06 (two months ago) Permalink
...and the bad fathers who love them
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 21 December 2018 05:32 (two months ago) Permalink