Really bad ‘Jaws’ ripoff, right down to the “scary” music. Mocks itself pretty well, is mocked decently.
Highlights:
Crow’s Michelangelo’s David
dolphin warship
random slo-mo’s
cr@ppy graphics and sounds
relentless beer
Inspirational Quote: “The director’s vision: lots of shots of things.”
Grade: C+
According to a recent statement/letter/article, basically the US government affirms the right to kill a US citizen on US soil without any sort of trial or even an officially lodged charge.
Two comments:
1) Who was naive (and STOO-pid) enough to believe the government would NEVER do anything like that UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE…until they actually came out and said so? I mean…come on. I’m not a big conspiracy theorist, but people who believe the government would NEVER, EVER do anything illegal if it felt it was in the interests of national security are just as deluded (in the opposite direction) as people who think everything is a government plot.
2) Who is paranoid enough to now believe this will lead to a collapse into a totalitarian state where people are constantly being killed by random drone strikes unless they salute Big Brother?
Tip: If you want to avoid being killed by a drone strike as a US citizen on US soil, don’t do anything that immediately threatens the national security of the US. e.g.: don’t build your own nuke, don’t climb to the top of a belltower carrying a bag full of automatic weapons, don’t place any orders with Chemical-Weapons-R-Us and make the address “The White House”…
*SATIRE…SATIRE…SATIRE*
Think about it, really.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
Newly-minted signs link belief in God to insane far-right stupidity via a *cough cough* “misquote”. Wait no…isn’t a “misquote” when you ACCIDENTALLY…errrmmm…nevermind.
Well played BS propaganda, American Atheists. Well played BS propaganda.
Hey, maybe they read my “Billboard Idea” post and learned from it that attacking Sarah Palin is a lot easier than attacking Jesus?
I mean, they didn’t rip my “THINK FOR YOURSELF” idea, but suggesting that Sarah Palin = Faith is undeniably more clever (since almost everyone agrees she’s a MORON) than suggesting Jesus = Myth and therefore non-non-theists = stupid.
Hey, I don’t promote these people OR their (or any) propaganda, I just circulate the information. (MST rip).
-Puppy >.< Yip!
First Nelson-hosted episode. A few interesting rookie bits, pretty good riffing on the movie.
Movie: cr@ppy “sci-fi” monster/”drama”. The acting is actually decent but the script is mediocre and it’s very pretentious/wanna-be-“thrilling!”. It does have a certain gruesome film-noir-ish feel to it though, and some of the FX are nasty enough to make this somewhat PG.
Highlights:
Signs of Life!
obvious (but amusing) anatomy jokes
skewering of anti-female/anti-trust messages
bad end credit
Inspirational Quote: “It’s nice and all, but I want something sleazy…”
Grade: B-
Plot: you find out how Pearl and company got to the castle. Who cares? Not me.
Movie: Sci-fi with lots of annoying orange. Mediocre in conception, boring first half, slightly better (to watch and to hear mocked) second half which transforms it from putrid to barely passable.
Highlights:
massive unnecessary projection sketch
Grade: D-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
the “Wealth Inequality In America” video.
No comment, just something to think about.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
P.S. – Actually screw that, comment:
People who complain about the dangers of Socialism (losing freedom, Stalin, blah blah) when they see this are confusing “more equitable but still basically capitalist profit structure that rewards hard work without putting HUGE numbers of people in complete poverty” with “Socialist dictatorship”.
Small mistake.
Most annoying opening in MST history. Repeated briefly at the end for your annoyance.
But the movie is an extremely bad/cheezy/pretentious D+D fantasy attempt, good for mocking.
And, thankfully, riffing.
Highlights:
cr@ppy ren faire sketch
cr@ppy sounds
cr@ppy villain
cr@ppy hero
REALLY cr@ppy ending fight scenes
Inspirational Quote: “The chilling sound of cardboard against cardboard!”
Grade: B
Dull movie about quickly-growing alien blob that produces telepathy, charades, and semi-creepy music. There’s a plot twist, but it’s still dull. So is most of the riffing.
Skip the movie, maybe watch the short.
Highlights:
parts of Century 21 short/parts of preemptive phone bit
Grade: D-
The movie opening has sort of a mish-mash thrown together ‘Master Ninja’ feel to it.
Usually tv movies suck (see ‘Riding With Death’) and are great for riffing, but this one is unusually decent. The riffing seems content with “predictable and tolerable” and the only real inspiration seems to go into the host segments.
Highlights:
weird-weapon-sound escalation segment
bad insinuation segment
Grade: D
Social page (link on top left, between Home and Photos) edited to include: news, sports, news, random quote, and everything it already had (which wasn’t much). So it’s still not very good. BUT, and this is the point, it is BETTER than it was.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
4/22/16: Update: Please go to my website and click on the blog link to come here even though there’s really no reason to go to my website as opposed to just coming here to my blog.
Cr@ppy Godzilla/King Kong mish-mash monster movie.
Riffing: first half mostly sucks, second half pretty darn good.
Inspirational Quote: “You know, when this boat was launched it was promoted as “pretty d@mn sinkable”…”
Grade: D+
Taking this seriously…
Basically, this treats ‘Inferno’ as a series of stupid video game levels with a “boss” to defeat to pass each one, which is a truly sad statement on both who it’s (I guess) trying to reach and the desperation with which it’s trying to reach them.
Not taking it seriously: Cr@ppy non-interactive ultra-violent/stupid/poorly-dubbed video game sh1t.
Inspirational Quote: “Isn’t there…perhaps, a…way around it?” – Our Hero
Grade: F-
