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"Firehead" New VOD Available Now!

Started by Thrashalla, June 13, 2013, 01:31:43 PM

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Thrifty

Sometimes it's hard to find menu music.  Times like this, it's almost too easy.



Gandalf Lundgren

Not seen this one. But have to say from the clip, Bill Corbett singing what happens is not that funny. Seems to be filler material to me.

KidFlash

What, no "FROM THE CREATORS OF SPACE MUTINY" crack?

ScottotD

I would like a shot-for-shot remake with Conan and Andy as 'Flaming C: The Movie'
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"A thing I like that there was no chance would ever continue until recently is now continuing but it doesn't meet my exact personal specifications so fuck this"

- how I read any complaint about MST3k (or Star Wars or Ghostbusters)

Edward J Grug III

Hey, a shout-out to my (and ScottotD's) home town in this riff.

"Shattered a car window in Perth, Australia." (I think that was the line)

:D
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mstgator

Thought I'd share these actual review blurbs of the unriffed movie (as found on Amazon.com).  Makes you wonder what words were edited out by the ellipses:

"Firehead successfully combines the elements of Hunt for Red October and Batman...a winner." --Video Digest

"A timely political thriller in the tradition of The Package...A must see." --Twice Magazine

"A star-studded cast...director Peter Yuval displays a strong visual sense...don't miss this one." --Video Insider

Trekker4747

Star-studded cast?! There was Christopher Plummer and then..... Poor Man's Wings Hauser?


ManUnderMask

You know, you haven't watched Firehead until you've watched it in the original Klingon.
I survived the San Diego Comic Con 2010 Hall H stabbing.

Sugar Ray Dodge

Quote from: ManUnderMask on June 21, 2013, 08:04:51 PM
You know, you haven't watched Firehead until you've watched it in the original Klingon.

Bach-tach-tach-bech! HAHAHAHAHA!

Bob

The scene where Lemon and Firehead get in the main building and, er, overpower the guys with guns HAD to reshot eventually, right?   

I had to watch it three times to get past the scene without laughing.

Rabbi Hi-Keeba

I have to say, I can rationalize almost any title in my head. I even rationalized that the creators of Future War were somehow implying that Sister Mary Despair (who was quite probably the single worst actress in any MST3k movie of all of them. Even the Werewolf actors who probably didn't know the meaning of all the words and phrases they were emitting ("OH-vair MAI-ded BAH-dee [Over my dead body]" was my favorite of those) were at least something besides annoyed or somewhat-less-annoyed-mixed-with-shampoo-commercial-bemused some of the time) was the John Brown of the Tool-People (to paraphrase a great Mole People riff) and that she started a sort of war between the Trackers and the extremely-unlikely Gang Members (I guess it's possible that assistant librarians have rumbles and call the Library of Congress prefixes of which they are personally in charge, their "turf," but I doubt it), for the freedom of the Tool-People, which is sort of a War. And the war is against people using weapons and flesh that come from the future. And it's definitely the future to the dinosaurs, who are really only evolved for the Jurassic Period (and were also probably shocked to find that they were made of rubber, probably alongside Triumph, the Insult-Comic Dog).

But Firehead? No. Sorry. Nuclear fission is not fire. Fire is rapid oxidation. "Firehead" is maybe a semi-mean nickname for a ginger. It isn't something you call a telekinetic cyborg who shoots lasers from his eyes. Because lasers are not "fire," either. They are beams of light, a band on the spectrum of radioactive energy that can be seen when it is reflected by something solid, as a point, because they have been rendered coherent and orderly by human technology.

Does he cause fires? Yes. But so did Carrie. Carrie was not called Firestarter, though, because she started that last, apocalyptic prom-fire by getting water and electric cables together to make sparks on a wooden floor with plenty of crepe-paper and flammable-stage-curtain kindling. Firestarter started fires.

And neither one was...

Well, I guess what I'm saying is, if you have the command of the English language necessary to write  "[EVIL HORRIBLE SOMETIMES-BRITISH GUY zips up FLY and extends his hand to EGG-SHAPED NEBBISH WHO COULDN'T GET A JOB AS A SHOE SALESMAN BECAUSE YOU NEED MORE CHARISMA THAN THAT TO SELL SHOES]" (or something to that effect), you also know English well enough to know that you are purposely telling people not to even pick up your movie for distribution, much less pay to see it, if you call it "Firehead." Expecially if the guy's powers are not the proximate cause of any actual fires, nor is the guy's head made of fire in any way.

RVR II

The internet around here in Mexico is all shitty DSL modems so I won't be able to get this one till I return to the states July 1 :-[

Bob

Just call Firehead and he will smash some DSL up

LuvBJones

"Well, I guess what I'm saying is, if you have the command of the English language necessary to write  "[EVIL HORRIBLE SOMETIMES-BRITISH GUY zips up FLY and extends his hand to EGG-SHAPED NEBBISH WHO COULDN'T GET A JOB AS A SHOE SALESMAN BECAUSE YOU NEED MORE CHARISMA THAN THAT TO SELL SHOES]" (or something to that effect), you also know English well enough to know that you are purposely telling people not to even pick up your movie for distribution, much less pay to see it, if you call it "Firehead." Expecially if the guy's powers are not the proximate cause of any actual fires, nor is the guy's head made of fire in any way."

Rabbi, honey, you ok?
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