Post by sergeofarnivillage on Jun 15, 2009 13:40:21 GMT -5
Y'know, kids today are ignorant of so many things that are worthy of so much adoration. I'm only 18 myself, but fortunately I have been somewhat saved from the vacuum of today's generation: I adore the 80s music, for instance, while many kids think that Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" is a rip-off of Miley Cyrus' version of the aforementioned. Kid's today think that Amy Winehouse's music is original, while her style has been around for decades (that said, I LOOOOVE Amy Winehouse!) Kid's today think that movies made in the 1930's were incapable of producing color. And so on. I would be laughing at their pitiful existence, if I wasn't crying in shame, that I too, have not been entirely sheltered from this mental disease.
My older brother bought a movie on whim: it was cheap, looked interesting, so on. I looked at the cover. "Mystery Science Theater: The Movie" Ah! Right!... "What is it about?" I asked?
Of course, I felt no shame then: why should I? It was just some weird, obscure, stupid little B-Movie, I was sure, with a name like that. Of course, later, after having basked in it's glory, I would understand what a little ignorant fool I was. Woe is I, Woe is me, and all others like me, in our retched existences! For I have missed out on the greatest thing since sliced pickles. Enter Mystery Science Theater. (Give yourself a cookie and a pat on the back if you just knew I was going to say "enter" as a pretentious pun of the title of the movie, like one of those AOL lists created by people who have no real sense of humor).
Me and my brother have watched this movie ten times already, and we laugh just as hard at it as we did when first watching it. Everything about the movie is basically perfect. (Give yourself yet another cookie and a pat on the back if you just knew I was going to use the word "basically" as a way to get out of going into elaborate detail as to WHY this movie is perfect) The jokes at this horrid movie's expense, This Island Earth, are some of the greatest gags I've ever heard. I've heard that on the TV show, the main problem they had to work around was toning down the jokes, so that the viewers wouldn't be laughing so hard that they couldn't pay some attention to the bad movie's plot. Just in case you somehow don't get the significance of that, I will repeat it in an asinine, annoying manner so that you cannot possible miss it's importance: the MAIN PROBLEM was that they might make the audience laugh TOO HARD. If that's the only real problem you have, then that's a dern good problem, if I say so myself! This movie's a keeper.
My older brother bought a movie on whim: it was cheap, looked interesting, so on. I looked at the cover. "Mystery Science Theater: The Movie" Ah! Right!... "What is it about?" I asked?
Of course, I felt no shame then: why should I? It was just some weird, obscure, stupid little B-Movie, I was sure, with a name like that. Of course, later, after having basked in it's glory, I would understand what a little ignorant fool I was. Woe is I, Woe is me, and all others like me, in our retched existences! For I have missed out on the greatest thing since sliced pickles. Enter Mystery Science Theater. (Give yourself a cookie and a pat on the back if you just knew I was going to say "enter" as a pretentious pun of the title of the movie, like one of those AOL lists created by people who have no real sense of humor).
Me and my brother have watched this movie ten times already, and we laugh just as hard at it as we did when first watching it. Everything about the movie is basically perfect. (Give yourself yet another cookie and a pat on the back if you just knew I was going to use the word "basically" as a way to get out of going into elaborate detail as to WHY this movie is perfect) The jokes at this horrid movie's expense, This Island Earth, are some of the greatest gags I've ever heard. I've heard that on the TV show, the main problem they had to work around was toning down the jokes, so that the viewers wouldn't be laughing so hard that they couldn't pay some attention to the bad movie's plot. Just in case you somehow don't get the significance of that, I will repeat it in an asinine, annoying manner so that you cannot possible miss it's importance: the MAIN PROBLEM was that they might make the audience laugh TOO HARD. If that's the only real problem you have, then that's a dern good problem, if I say so myself! This movie's a keeper.
"Horrid" should only be used for movies like "Manos: The Hands of Fate!" Even the excellent MST3K crew couldn't make that movie really bearable to watch: when we saw the MST3K version, we laughed our butts off, but a little piece of our soul has died since then. Nothing can prepare you for the sheer badness and incompetence that is Manos the Hands of Fate! We were in shock for a very long time since then, lol, it's like what Frank said: "I think we REALLY went overboard with this one."