"The Medveds evolved into Mystery Science Theater 3000. Rather than giving Hollywood, with its plethora of big budget, generic excrement, what it deserved, the MST3K production team, erroneously imagining themselves hip, picked easy targets in low budget indie films. Naturally, Ed Wood was a frequent focus. The do-nothing couch potato geeks made the show a hit. It was their sole shot at superiority."
366 Weird movies is a good blog, but man Alfred Eaker is irritating.
I'm like, hey, an essay on Plan 9, this'll be interesting, but nope, you have to take paranoid potshots at people who don't enjoy the movie the way YOU enjoy it Alfred.
"The Medveds evolved into Mystery Science Theater 3000. Rather than giving Hollywood, with its plethora of big budget, generic excrement, what it deserved, the MST3K production team, erroneously imagining themselves hip, picked easy targets in low budget indie films. Naturally, Ed Wood was a frequent focus. The do-nothing couch potato geeks made the show a hit. It was their sole shot at superiority."
366 Weird movies is a good blog, but man Alfred Eaker is irritating.
*sigh*
We do not bust our asses and spend billions of dollars on this shit to be given "what we deserve"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Mildly amusing thing: A local BMW dealership uses a Mercedes-Benz van.
"The Medveds evolved into Mystery Science Theater 3000. Rather than giving Hollywood, with its plethora of big budget, generic excrement, what it deserved, the MST3K production team, erroneously imagining themselves hip, picked easy targets in low budget indie films. Naturally, Ed Wood was a frequent focus. The do-nothing couch potato geeks made the show a hit. It was their sole shot at superiority."
366 Weird movies is a good blog, but man Alfred Eaker is irritating.
I would disagree... slightly. Eaker is not irritating in general, but his opinions on things like this are.
Also, I still don't really know what he was doing with W: The Movie.
Kid in an Adventure Time hoodie walking around out here. It has little ears. It is awesome. I complemented him on it, but he just kind of looked at me oddly.
Also kind of biting the hand, because if you're doing a blog of weird movies on the internet, a fair share of your audience is gonna be do-nothing couch potato geeks.
Rather than giving Hollywood, with its plethora of big budget, generic excrement, what it deserved, the MST3K production team, erroneously imagining themselves hip, picked easy targets in low budget indie films.
I'm sure the fact that low-budget indie films were the only ones they could afford the rights to, had nothing to do with that decision. It's not like the head writer of MST3K, after the show was cancelled a second time, went on to record derisive commentary tracks for big-budget Hollywood films, after all.
Rather than giving Hollywood, with its plethora of big budget, generic excrement, what it deserved, the MST3K production team, erroneously imagining themselves hip, picked easy targets in low budget indie films.
I'm sure the fact that low-budget indie films were the only ones they could afford the rights to, had nothing to do with that decision. It's not like the head writer of MST3K, after the show was cancelled a second time, went on to record derisive commentary tracks for big-budget Hollywood films, after all.
This is correct.
Someone should probably tell Eaker this. Or at least try valiantly.
Speaking of MST3K, I'd like to say that I consider Girl From Lover's Lane, Jack Frost, The Mole People, The Leech Woman, Devil Doll, and SoulTaker to be good movies. Also The Magic Voyage of Sinbad is apparently a poorly-edited and dubbed version of a fairly good Russian fantasy movie. Also I am in the minority here very much, but I think Red Zone Cuba, is, from a meta-perspective, an interesting film and wouldn't be too out of place in the arthouse circuit.
On the one hand, I grew up reading the Mongolian view on Genghis Khan; and that has really colored my perception of him. Also, Subutai and Jebe are two of my favorite historical figures.
But on the other hand, I know it was Subutai and Jebe who destroyed the Kievan Rus; which is one of my favorite civilizations ever; and that destruction is one of the History's great losses.
It's like when Edward The Confessor kicks out the line of Canute from the throne of England, and I'm like; you're both awesome, why can't there be room for you both?
"Benatar anticipates this objection with the book’s other main argument: Life is a lot worse than we realize. But assuming that’s true, the stakes remain low. After all, if existence is so unfortunate, it’s at least a travesty with an out: death. If we grant to Benatar that, “the quality of even the best lives is very bad,” existence is like a prison with no locks, protected by unarmed guards who can plead with us to stay but cannot block the exits. We the prisoners may fear what the outside holds for us, and we may not want to hurt the guards by abandoning them, but if we decide we would be better off leaving, we’re free to go. And no matter what we decide, we’re all released before too long."
Incidentally, I disagree with this bit, except for the last sentence. I've seen some people who are really desperate to die who are still alive because suicide is a lot harder than it sounds, considering the difficulty of extreme self-harm, strong social structures in place to prevent suicide, and just plain fear.
There is also an important distinction to be made between not wanting to live any more or even be dead and wanting to die, and another between wanting to die and wanting to kill oneself.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
Speaking of MST3K, I'd like to say that I consider Girl From Lover's Lane, Jack Frost, The Mole People, The Leech Woman, Devil Doll, and SoulTaker to be good movies. Also The Magic Voyage of Sinbad is apparently a poorly-edited and dubbed version of a fairly good Russian fantasy movie. Also I am in the minority here very much, but I think Red Zone Cuba, is, from a meta-perspective, an interesting film and wouldn't be too out of place in the arthouse circuit.
The Russian fantasy movies were quite good. Some of the others you name were fine, though Soultaker was too high concept for its budget (Heaven is the top floor of a hospital?). But you're wrong, wrong, wrong about Devil Doll and Mole People. Especially the former, since the latter had an interesting script spoiled by the dragging injured guy subplot and casting John Agar to condesend to everyone.
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Gh from Laugh, o from women, and ti from motion.
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fish!
*sigh*
We do not bust our asses and spend billions of dollars on this shit to be given "what we deserve"
What we deserve is, to me, more MONEY
I thought we were done with the antinatalists
Incidentally, I disagree with this bit, except for the last sentence. I've seen some people who are really desperate to die who are still alive because suicide is a lot harder than it sounds, considering the difficulty of extreme self-harm, strong social structures in place to prevent suicide, and just plain fear.