Season 12

[wihogfan]

I really wasn't expecting to find the trailer funny (and didn't), but a couple of things in it did raise my interest in the new season.

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"Mac and Me" and "Atlantic Rim" both appear to be great picks and I've never seen either. "Atlantic Rim"-at least in the trailer- appears to be more Ultraman than "Pacific Rim" which is a good thing.

[JusSonic]

Thanks heaps for the spoilers that just about EVERYONE else was very careful to avoid here!   

I am excited for this new season!

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Mac and Me! Atlantic Rim! Lords of the Deep! The Day Time Ended! Killer Fish!

And Ator the Fighting Eagle

, which Rifftrax has done a riff previously! Awesome!

Though, I'm wondering if Rifftrax will no longer sell the

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Ator

one since they no longer sell the Wizards of the Lost Kingdom VOD (a movie done in Season 11).

Oops, sorry, my bad! I changed my post!

[wihogfan]

While I've seen a couple of the movies that will be in this upcoming season, we just watched one of them recently before knowing it was going to be featured. Late 70s movie that in my opinion is one that totally has the feel of something that would have made the original run.

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Earlier this year Shout! was pushing the anniversary of Pirahna and after watching that we watched several other Jaws rip offs. Killer Fish was one of those movies. Not the Jaws rip off we were expecting. And for a movie called Killer Fish, it's severely lacking in scenes of killer fish. Lots of plots holes that should make for some good riffing and the pace will make for some deep hurting.

[losingmydignity]

Let's just hope the riffing doesn't have the frenetic pacing of the trailer.

It does look like a good set of movies (except for Ator) to riff so let's hope for the best. Though let's face it, six movies in a row isn't really that many ; ) I'm also happy I haven't seen any of them except for Ator.

[Pak-Man]

It's about 9 hours of MST. That's a work day plus overtime. I want to view it as-intended, but parenthood makes it tough.

[Quirk]

Did anybody else notice that Crow is just... holding his mouth open for the duration of his lines now?

[Pak-Man]

Yeah, I noticed. It gets better at the end. I'm thinking/hoping that those lines are dubbed over other scenes for the purpose of the advertisement.

[wihogfan]

Did anybody else notice that Crow is just... holding his mouth open for the duration of his lines now?

Guessing that was just due to the trailer likely being quickly thrown together and edited with minimal budget and that his mouth will move in the final edited season...or maybe they want to confuse those of us who had a tough time with differientating the riffers last season even more.

[Anarchemist]

I hate to be one of those people who is disappointed before the thing even comes out[……………]

Stop right there. I agree with you there. I had a hard time getting sold on the preview. Nothing generated a WHOA! or even a chuckle. It was just meh. I'll still give it a chance, but the trailer isn't doing it a service. This isn't the first time a trailer failed to sell me on something that was genuinely awesome, if the Gauntlet turns out to be so; for instance, I wasn't sold on "Sorry To Bother You" when seeing the trailer in the Theaters, but after watching the movie, it's now my favorite movie. Maybe The Gauntlet will turn out to be wunderbar after all…

Believe me, I will do more than give it a chance! I am hoping to absolutely love the new season, But I just wish we'd go a little further back with the movies than 1979!  Half the fun of some of these movies was seeing what they thought space travel would be like prior to 1969's moon landing

[WhyDontTheyLook]

Believe me, I will do more than give it a chance! I am hoping to absolutely love the new season, But I just wish we'd go a little further back with the movies than 1979!  Half the fun of some of these movies was seeing what they thought space travel would be like prior to 1969's moon landing

From what I've read, one of Netflix's imposed requirements was that the movies for this season had to be in HD and widescreen.  That unfortunately cuts out a lot of older candidates.

[Iron Curtain]

Believe me, I will do more than give it a chance! I am hoping to absolutely love the new season, But I just wish we'd go a little further back with the movies than 1979!  Half the fun of some of these movies was seeing what they thought space travel would be like prior to 1969's moon landing

Ooooh, like First Spaceship On Venus, right?

[Darth Geek]

Half the fun of some of these movies was seeing what they thought space travel would be like prior to 1969's moon landing

When they thought that plywood would withstand the rigors of outer space.

[CJones]

I saw Mac and Me in the theater as a kid. Yes really. Can't wait to see that riffed. I'm honestly surprised Rifftrax hasn't done it already.

[CJones]

Did anybody else notice that Crow is just... holding his mouth open for the duration of his lines now?

In the last shot of the trailer he's moving it normally, so I hope that was just a trailer issue.

[Iron Curtain]

SPOILERS GALORE (but not TOO spoilerific, they don't reveal the plot of the episodes, they just speak in generalities)!

https://thefilmera.com/2018/11/19/mystery-science-theater-3000-the-gauntlet/

Also, Quirk will love this:

There were some calls for the jokes to breathe in The Return, the previous season, and here it is fine-tuned and less of an issue.

OMGOMGOMG!!!! We may have another classic season on our hands!!!