I love MST3K but there were even episodes that the movie was so bad not even they could make it watchable. Two in particular stick out with me. Time Chashers and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies. Anyone else find an episode that was so bad you couldn't watch it?
Two immediately come to mind:
Gunslinger,
Bloodlust
Quote from: kodiakthejuggler on December 22, 2006, 12:42:44 PM
Two immediately come to mind:
Gunslinger,
Bloodlust
ohh bloodlust damn near took my life...horrible movie.
Monster A-Go-Go. Just so very wrong.
Hobgoblins, Boggy Creek II, and Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders. The jury's still out on Touch of Satan. It squicked me out so much I couldn't get through it the first time, but I may give it the old college try (yes, I've just been watching Riding with Death again, how did you know?) again one of these days.
City Limits
The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy
The Incredibly Strange Creatures That blah blah....
Monster a Go-Go
Invasion of the Neptune Men
Hellcats
The German version of Hamlet.
heheh..i'd watch time chasers on it's own. it's supercheesy fun!
monster a go-go
horror of party beach (?think that's the title)
skydivers
ya, hamlet was brutal. (BAD audio on that)
and *drumroll*
Manos:the hands of fate
it literally pains me to watch it. the only time i do is with other misties.
Quote from: PlayMSTie on December 22, 2006, 01:30:14 PM
Hobgoblins, Boggy Creek II, and Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders. The jury's still out on Touch of Satan. It squicked me out so much I couldn't get through it the first time, but I may give it the old college try (yes, I've just been watching Riding with Death again, how did you know?) again one of these days.
Huh. I enjoyed all of these, and Boggy Creek's one of my favorites.
Manos is by far the most unwatchable episode, in my opinion. They Brains did their best, but there's just no movie to riff. The "What type of deformed monster would you be?" host segment is classic, though.
Quote from: Imrahil on December 24, 2006, 11:24:10 PM
I'd say that I find most of the Gamera movies kind of hard to take. The one I can think of offhand though is "Santa Claus". That movie just gives me nightmares. THe execution of it, the garish colors, the fact that Santa lives in a house with strange penile appendages, insane clownish children, and fights a devil who wears red diapers...it's all so horrific that I find it not amusing, even with Riffs.
S.C. vs. the Martians I just find really boring. :/
Alas. I know you guys did your best, but...some are still too unwatchable.
I can understand why Davo said Manos, but the Torgo riffs make it worthwhile to watch in my mind.
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Quote from: PlayMSTie on December 22, 2006, 01:30:14 PM
Hobgoblins, Boggy Creek II, and Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.
Those are my three fave episodes.
Hamlet is the only episode of MST3k that I can't sit through. I mean, it's just bloody awful.
Surprised not to see Red Zone Cuba here yet.
The pain, the pain!
Took me 2 days to get through.
Now see, I have absolutely no problem with Manos or Hamlet! :) Each to his own, I guess. I think the concept of taking a crappy dubbed version of Shakespeare and getting a riff out of it -- and a darned good riff, at that -- was brilliant.
The Last of the Wild Horses was the first one that I did not watch all the way through. Perhaps not a bad movie in most senses but it was sooooo very very boring. No offence to mike and the bots as well but it wasn't the best riffing job as well. (I love you Mike! Please don't kill me :'() Just the movie itself was boring.
While Manos and Monster a Go-Go were defintly bad, the riffing is what made them bearable. When watching Manos though, I felt my brain start to strangle itself but thanks to Mike, he saved my life :D
The Wild Wild world of Batwomen. Deliciously bad but again, riffing I think made this a bearable adventure. Fav line; Crow: "END! END!"
The Incredibly BAD MOVIE that not even hypnosis could make good because people were hurt by the incredibly bad run on sentence that it created in the title alone along with almost no plot explanation what's so ever and bad acting doesn't really help either by the incredibly strange creatures who stopped living and became mixed up Zombies. Question, how did movie theatres fit that loooongggg title to show it was playing? :-P Must have been fine print on the poster as well. ::)
I quite enjoy the Hamlet episode. It's not their strongest riffing, but they get major bonus points just for riffing Shakespeare. Bad Shakespeare, but still.
Any of the Westerns, on the other hand? Dull dull dull. Nothing happens to make fun of. Ooh look, another scene with a guy on a horse squinting into the camera, not saying anything!
Only _The_Castle_of_Fu_Manchu_ has made me turn off. I still haven't managed to watch it, even several years on.
I never much liked the "Teen" pictures they did, until I saw Teenager Strangler and Girl in Lovers Lane. Both of which were brilliant.
Quote from: Sharktopus on December 28, 2006, 03:02:34 AM
I quite enjoy the Hamlet episode. It's not their strongest riffing, but they get major bonus points just for riffing Shakespeare. Bad Shakespeare, but still.
Any of the Westerns, on the other hand? Dull dull dull. Nothing happens to make fun of. Ooh look, another scene with a guy on a horse squinting into the camera, not saying anything!
There was some awfully good riffing in
Gunslinger, though. "Cue the horses!" :D
Monster a Go Go is very hard to do. I tried it alone one night and, and...
It was a mistake.
On the other hand, I can watch Pod People over and over and over again. Pod People makes everything better.
-dale
Quote from: PlayMSTie on December 28, 2006, 07:54:18 AM
Quote from: Sharktopus on December 28, 2006, 03:02:34 AM
I quite enjoy the Hamlet episode. It's not their strongest riffing, but they get major bonus points just for riffing Shakespeare. Bad Shakespeare, but still.
Any of the Westerns, on the other hand? Dull dull dull. Nothing happens to make fun of. Ooh look, another scene with a guy on a horse squinting into the camera, not saying anything!
There was some awfully good riffing in Gunslinger, though. "Cue the horses!" :D
Was Gunslinger the one where the inside of the room was in the hallway? :^)
Manos is a classic. The worse the film, the better the episode, usually.
I've turned off "Fugitive Alien", which is about the only episode I've not been able to finish. But then, I sat through "Orgy of the Dead".
Who here really finds Manos to be a classic? Yes, Torgo is memorable, and it's probaby the worst movie they did, but is the episode really that funny? The only riff I can ever remember is Crow's Seinfeldian "What's he looking for - a big on/off switch?" when the father is looking under the hood of the car.
"Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy" is pathetic. I've only seen it once and hardly ever cracked a smile.
"Ring of Terror" Couldn't see most of it since the print was so bad and the story wasn't much of anything either.
"Monster A-Go-Go" Herschell G. Lewis should have left this movie on the cutting room floor where he found it!
Red Zone Cuba was definitelt painful. But I think the worse movie they riffed on was Invasion of the Neptune Men. I mean it's one of the only episodes where Mike and the Bots were so disgusted that they actually attempted to leave the theatre.
did anyone mention skydivers?
that movie hurt. a whole lot o' nuthin going on in that flick.
Quote from: Pak-Man on December 28, 2006, 06:14:21 PM
Quote from: PlayMSTie on December 28, 2006, 07:54:18 AM
Quote from: Sharktopus on December 28, 2006, 03:02:34 AM
I quite enjoy the Hamlet episode. It's not their strongest riffing, but they get major bonus points just for riffing Shakespeare. Bad Shakespeare, but still.
Any of the Westerns, on the other hand? Dull dull dull. Nothing happens to make fun of. Ooh look, another scene with a guy on a horse squinting into the camera, not saying anything!
There was some awfully good riffing in Gunslinger, though. "Cue the horses!" :D
Was Gunslinger the one where the inside of the room was in the hallway? :^)
:D I'm not sure, but I think that was from
Gunslinger. Funny bit, wherever it was from.
Anything by Coleman Francis. Seriously. MST3K + Coleman Francis did nothing to get the Colman Francis-ey taste out of my mouth.
Hamlet, Hamlet, and Hamlet.
All of the ones I originally found hard to watch (Red Zone Cuba, Gunslinger, Manos to name a few) really grew on me after a while. All except The Crawling Hand. Yeah, say "Tell 'em I'm smoking" one more time Servo, maybe it'll be funny eventually.
Quote from: Sharktopus on January 01, 2007, 10:40:42 PM
Who here really finds Manos to be a classic? Yes, Torgo is memorable, and it's probaby the worst movie they did, but is the episode really that funny? The only riff I can ever remember is Crow's Seinfeldian "What's he looking for - a big on/off switch?" when the father is looking under the hood of the car.
The host segments are among the strongest they ever did. The "every frame of this film looks like someone's last known photo" riff always makes me chuckle. "Thanks for letting me crash here last night, man" also fits the action beautifully.
It's probably my favourite ever episode.