1201 - TBE - Spoiler Thread

[Pak-Man]

I'll say this. I did NOT expect the movie to end the way it did.

[Variety of Cells]

Great stuff!  I put this on at thanksgiving in the background but re watched the stuff I missed today. It wasn't until after the episode ended that I remembered season 11 had some problems with joke pacing, which is to say I didn't think about that at all during this first episode. It all flowed smoothly and was hilarious.

[ihavemyreasons]

The whole scene at McDonalds is amazing. It's just a terrible McDonalds commercial that has no resemblance to an actual movie scene. And the out-of-place unnatural dancers outside are outdone by the dancing football players inside.

[Pak-Man]

It's like they put a sign outside that said, "Street Performers Eat Free!"

[MrTorso]

Yeah a good kick off episode, I wish they didn't cut so much out, but I don't think it'd because of the gauntlet gimmick directly.

Not so much the gauntlet but getting the run times down to 80 minutes...

[ihavemyreasons]

Part of the McDonalds scene was indeed cut (full scene can be found on youtube). What was cut was riff-able, but unnecessary for any plot advancement and mostly more of the same of what was included.

[Iron Curtain]

Now that I saw one episode of Season 12, I can provide my thoughts on the riffing itself:

• KTMA-Season 1: Riffing is too infrequent and sluggish.
• Seasons 2-10: Riffing is perfect! Perfect pace, perfect riffer interaction, perfect tone and speed of voice.
• Season 11: Riffing goes into overdrive. Pace is too fast, unnatural riffer interaction and tone, speed is too fast.
• 2017/2018 Live tours: See Seasons 2-10. Riffing pace, interaction, tone, and speed return to natural perfection!
• Season 12 (Ep. 1): Riffing is better spaced and paced compared to Season 11, but still too fast. Interaction between riffers is just as nonexistent as it was in Season 11. Same with tone.
  

The riffing of Season 12 seemed to have listened to the criticism, but it wasn't enough to get back to the awesomeness that was in the live tours. And that's a shame, because two out of three of the riffers riffed on one of the live tours, and one of them on both.

[ihavemyreasons]

Interaction between riffers is just as nonexistent as it was in Season 11. Same with tone.

Strongly agree with this. I had trouble distinguishing between Jonah and Servo's riffs a lot this go round and I think it had more to do with the riffs as opposed to their voices being similar. In other words, they need to go to the next level and give the riffers more distinct personalities that play off one another (which we had in all of the original run) and not just have them all throw out funny lines.

[linszoid]

I was planning on binge watching the whole season. But I couldn't even make it through this episode in one sitting. The riffing was good but this for some reason is one of the most disturbing movies MST3k has featured.

[Edward J Grug III]

Could have been worse: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/08/watch-the-alternate-gruesome-climax-of-the-cult-classic-alien-film-mac-and-me/

[linszoid]

The whole scene at McDonalds is amazing. It's just a terrible McDonalds commercial that has no resemblance to an actual movie scene. And the out-of-place unnatural dancers outside are outdone by the dancing football players inside.

I worked at McDonalds once and that party was more unrealistic than the aliens.

[linszoid]

Really good episode! Some great riffs.

Anyone catch Jennifer Aniston's cameo? Blink and you'll miss it.

I had to look this up to see if this was true. In doing so I also found that the composer of this movie (Alan Sylvestri) was the same guy who did the Back to the Future movies, to which the riffers made a reference.

[Johnny Unusual]

Could have been worse: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/08/watch-the-alternate-gruesome-climax-of-the-cult-classic-alien-film-mac-and-me/

This is actually interesting because I noticed in watching the episode that Me in the wheelchair's silhouette was badly superimposed on the scene with the gas station explosion and I thought it was really weird.

Also, because no one posted this yet...

[Toyland Chairman]

Could have been worse: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/08/watch-the-alternate-gruesome-climax-of-the-cult-classic-alien-film-mac-and-me/

I saw a video about that recently. I didn't even realize Andrew Divoff was in this film before.

The movie hits you over the head with how blatant it wants to be E.T., but I have to admit it's better than NUKIE (1987).

[CJones]

I kept expecting a Paul Rudd joke during that scene. Oh well.

When I watched this a couple days ago, I thought "Did the explosion kill him? It doesn't look like it should have." I guess now I have my answer.