1202 - TBE - Spoiler Thread

[Edward J Grug III]

Post discussions of season 12 episode 2 here. Title and first post to be edited to allow people to discover the episodes for themselves.

[Pak-Man]

Red is REALLY hard to root for.

[BathTub]

Go go Dour Rangers!

I loved all the slo-mo speech gags.

[Johnny Unusual]

I love that Red describes the scene we had just seen for WAY too long.  "Baboom!"  Also, he just straight up murders a building that 100% wasn't fully evacuated.

[ihavemyreasons]

I love that Red describes the scene we had just seen for WAY too long.  "Baboom!"...

Missed riff IMO was at the end of that scene after he's been telling that story and Blue and Green have been standing there listening, the camera pans back and there's all these bodies around them and they just casually walk away.

[Johnny Unusual]

Yeah, everyone is pretty indifferent to the body count, even though the film took the time to hire extras to be corpses strewn about the city.  Even Mark Millar would know enough to do that shit ironically.

[Edward J Grug III]

This movie was much more enjoyable to watch than Pacific Rim.

[dbsommer]

This is basically what happens when you hire one actual actor, the chick you are sleeping with, and some people off the street. The people with talent didn't give a fuck, and the people without any gave too much of one and chewed up the scenery worse than a coked up Shatner.

As a side note, I kept getting confused by, well, everything, but random dead bodies lying in random streets where the monster never got to, and if it did, they didn't look like a giant monster squished or ate them. I kept thinking, 'So, Chuck Norris from Breaker, Breaker found out these people killed his brother and he offed them by punching them to death, because that looks like the COD here.'

[Iron Curtain]

Is anyone but me disturbed that's there's too much blackness in the film and that you can't see the silhouettes? At least in the early seasons the old show the silhouettes would be a slightly different shade or color so you can see the silhouettes.

[CJones]

As a side note, I kept getting confused by, well, everything, but random dead bodies lying in random streets where the monster never got to, and if it did, they didn't look like a giant monster squished or ate them. I kept thinking, 'So, Chuck Norris from Breaker, Breaker found out these people killed his brother and he offed them by punching them to death, because that looks like the COD here.'

Yeah, this bugged me too. I kept waiting for someone to explain why the streets are littered with dead people, but nope. I'd don't think they even acknowledged they were there, despite standing right next to them.

[Toyland Chairman]

This and LORDS OF THE DEEP are the only two films featured that I didn't see prior to MST3K, but I never really liked The Asylum anyway. ATLANTIC RIM probably could have worked if they stopped to take a breath every once in a while, and gave us more likeable characters. Red is a douche, and the supposed love triangle they try to force on us is just filler. I didn't even think Tracy and Red were a thing until later, because she's clearly miserable when she's alone with this alcoholic. The film's in too much of a hurry, and the constant music takes its toll. It's like they were worried people would get bored. But non-stop action really can get boring.

[Edward J Grug III]

Is anyone but me disturbed that's there's too much blackness in the film and that you can't see the silhouettes? At least in the early seasons the old show the silhouettes would be a slightly different shade or color so you can see the silhouettes.

That was only at the very beginning, and it looked terrible. Then they realised it was better to tint the movie.

[Iron Curtain]

Is anyone but me disturbed that's there's too much blackness in the film and that you can't see the silhouettes? At least in the early seasons the old show the silhouettes would be a slightly different shade or color so you can see the silhouettes.

That was only at the very beginning, and it looked terrible. Then they realised it was better to tint the movie.

There was also even more of it in the next movie. Fortunately, there was enough contrast in Episode 4.

[Darth Geek]

So was the riff "Uh...line?" on a shot of Graham Greene a reference to the Rifftrax of Twilight?

[Pak-Man]

I feel like "line" predated twilight all the way to MST3K, but I can't think of where it would have been.