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jeriendhalUnless you were sitting under a rock last November, you may have heard that Joel Hodgson ran a wildly successful Kickstarter to revive MSt3K with 14 new episodes. Though the cast has been announced, what movies the new crew of the Satellite of Love will be watching is still under wraps. It's a hard choice, given the wealth of crappy movies out, but I've got some ideas.
1. Destination Moon: Rarely seen these days, like This Island Earth it's almost too good to mock, being a high budget Hollywood A-movie with a lack of silly monsters. On the other it's definitely mired in a certain 50's combination of earnestness, Commie paranoia, and lack of female roles (aside from the one love interest apparently inserted to show the female half of the human race existed).
2. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers: Flying Saucers, deadpan serious scientists in ties and smoking pipes, tons of stock footage and Ray Harryhausen special effects, casual sexism, rubber science galore. The only real question is why MST3K never riffed it before.
3. Kronos: More obscure than the above two films, it's got a weird 'monster' that's a hundred foot tall walking building with a habit of mind controlling people to cement it's takeover of the earth. A decent script, but with plenty of pacing issues and silly effects to give the SoL crew room to riff.
4. Trancers: A cop from a very Noirish futuretotally not ripped off from Bladerunner time travels into the body of his identical grandfather to hunt a body swapping criminal. One of the many, many films from B-movie director Charles Band, and in that sweet spot between Very Weird, Decent Action and Limited Budget to make it riffable.
What do think, sirs?
1. Destination Moon: Rarely seen these days, like This Island Earth it's almost too good to mock, being a high budget Hollywood A-movie with a lack of silly monsters. On the other it's definitely mired in a certain 50's combination of earnestness, Commie paranoia, and lack of female roles (aside from the one love interest apparently inserted to show the female half of the human race existed).
2. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers: Flying Saucers, deadpan serious scientists in ties and smoking pipes, tons of stock footage and Ray Harryhausen special effects, casual sexism, rubber science galore. The only real question is why MST3K never riffed it before.
3. Kronos: More obscure than the above two films, it's got a weird 'monster' that's a hundred foot tall walking building with a habit of mind controlling people to cement it's takeover of the earth. A decent script, but with plenty of pacing issues and silly effects to give the SoL crew room to riff.
4. Trancers: A cop from a very Noirish future
What do think, sirs?
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Date: 2016-04-16 04:47 pm (UTC)On the lack of female roles, I was heftily struck thereby on rewatching Forbidden Planet a couple years ago.
I'd love to see them try two of my absolute favorite bad films: Escape from Galaxy 3, with wonderfully Italian 80s costumes, and a bad guy with a glitter beard; and "Armageddon: The Final Challenge", which starts off all Max Headroom, and then segues into a very, very low rent Blade Runner, before performing its grand WTF reveal. (If you don't mind it all being spoiled for you, Corn Pone performed a magnificent review of the latter, distilling it down to a much more bearable 22 minutes. Oh, let's not forget the SFX in the latter, too, with highlights including "huge" spaceships moving at majestic speed by virtue of slowing the film down - except it was filmed at normal speed, so you get several fps instead. And completely non-hidden strings =:)