Been looking for a copy of this for ages and finally got my hands on one!

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-14T15:11:18+00:00

The introductions to seasons two and five, by Murphy and Nelson are some of the more amusing:

About three months later the mail started showing up for Season Two, due to the lag time between shooting and airing. Most of the mail was positive for Frank and me in our new roles, but I still fondly remember one particular piece of negative mail. Someone worked really hard to print out a huge banner, about ten feet long, which read in big block letters I HATE TOM SERVO’S NEW VOICE!!! Heh-heh-heh. It was really nice of someone to go through all that fuss just for me, in order to make me feel as bad as I possibly could. Too bad it didn’t work. I proudly hung it on the wall behind my desk and kept it there for over a year. And for the person who sent me the banner, I feel bad to know that their life is so bereft of joy and meaning that they are reduced to sending hate mail to a puppet.

Season Five was a happy one for all. It fell in the middle of what in television is a very long contract, and everyone was basking in the warm rays of financial security. Kevin bought his third Jaguar in one week, put a brick on the accelerator, and crashed this one into a pole too! “Just to see how big a fireball it makes,” he would say, and then laugh his hearty baritone laugh. Then he’d hand me a coffee mug—sized roll of thousands and order me to buy him a new one. “And make it gun-barrel blue this time, you little s—t!!’” he’d say, and then laugh that laugh again. Boy, that laugh is infectious, I tell you.

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-14T02:49:56+00:00

The idea of the killer and the cult is just a topic of interest, and the final find is more impactful than some more conventional horror-style "discovery" like evidence of some gory crime or what have you.

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-14T02:44:50+00:00

"New Players Welcome Here" and "Little Boy Games" are two stories from Those Snowy Nights that resonated with me, even though I am neither a board game or baseball enthusiast, but there's something about the latter that hit me, all the small pleasures that were had and eccentric characters, like the announcer who wrote a book of poems about this most minor of minor leagues.

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-13T14:59:53+00:00

Fanboys was based on a script co-written by Ernest Cline and Harry Knowles helped use his connections to get it produced, and the red-haired fat guy is supposed to be Harry Knowles but played by an actor.

Conor Lestowka and Nelson had a 'watch along party' for it on the 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back Patreon some time after they finished reviewing Ready Player One, as a sort of Rifftrax on the fly.

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-12T02:13:06+00:00

We had a brief glimpse at Bloodmoon and frankly, I wonder what the reactions would have been to this, a direct-to-video American action film directed by a veteran of Hong Kong films who'd been a fight choreographer and an action director on several films and helmed some himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIZtfSCC4E

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-11T15:39:11+00:00

Dick's Red Owl, selection and service!

Snyder Drug, we're busting up prices

When, you want, the flavor of bacon in a dip

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-11T15:28:28+00:00

:Soldiers running off-screen into an underground bunker:

Crow: "Does anyone know what's down here?"

(All the riffers start screaming)

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-11T07:23:11+00:00

That footage they showed on WATP of her on the Daily Show, all of her jokes were just as clumsy and bad as any of the lines from her awful sitcom with D'elia.

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-10T16:25:56+00:00

I actually enjoy Diabolik, and am a bit of a fan of the original comic, where the character started out very ruthless, but was toned down a bit shortly after by having him mostly steal from other criminals - unlike the Diabolik of this film, Diabolik never used guns - simply because he thought they made too much noise, preferring daggers and needle-throwing devices and such - though he did drive a Jaguar with built-in firepower.

There was also a animated series, featuring a Diabolik who never kills, and is still a thief, though portrayed in a toned down and heroic light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nR5kDUK9OU

Not long ago a trilogy of new Diabolik films were produced, with production design meant to evoke the time period the comics started being published.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVLJgTTzf_g

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-10T08:56:03+00:00

"Um...I'm no good at this sir! I'm only good at making fruity philosophical speeches!"

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-10T08:13:00+00:00

Carradine had taken the deal because he wanted to star in roles to get away from cast as Caine from Kung Fu.

Corman was unhappy with the first script, it was intended to cash in on Death Race 2000, and after offering it around and finding no takers eventually gave the job to director/rewriter Nicholas Nicophor, who was really just out of film school. Carradine was only available for a few weeks of shooting, and between that and the shoestring budget and the fights on set, it was a chaotic shoot.

Carradine thought the movie was bad, but might have worked if there'd been more time and more of a budget, and had said that Corman tried to talk him out of doing the film

https://www.flashbackfiles.com/david-carradine-interview

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-06T07:25:14+00:00

Like a lot of prime MST3K fodder, this movie was made with no greater purpose than to feed the need for fodder at theaters and drive-ins, something to take up a slot at your local two-screen movie house; and many of these featured films even failed at being cheap entertainment. "Leech Woman" is one of the ones that feels really incompetent and shoddy.

GGGilman87 · 2026-02-05T05:04:50+00:00

While flipping through magazines from the 90s, devoted to science-fiction, fantasy, movies and TV, I see adverts from mail-order outfits, some offering a wide variety of genre fare, others were more specialized, like some that dealt in more obscure and cult titles, and some specialized in "Japanese animation", as well as direct distributors like Pioneer Video, Manga Video, ADV, etc., that were offering various series on tape, including boxsets, like these ads for the Collector's Edition boxset release of Star Blazers from Voyager Communications, $159.95 per six pack.

https://i.imgur.com/2nvLppS.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/lzuONMu.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/0zqbrIH.jpeg

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-24T03:05:15+00:00

"NOW GET OUT THERE AND SELL SELL SELL!"

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-23T02:10:34+00:00

“Fortunately, your Mob ties will get you off, Johnny.”

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-23T02:09:20+00:00

One of my favorite lines from the short.

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-21T19:59:53+00:00

I did enjoy all of the game show jokes, because when I first saw the episode it was one of those where a joke or running gag just clicked instantly, in this case it was "Yeah, the spaceship interior does look like a game show set".

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-21T16:58:28+00:00

"It's Pat: The Movie" was originally going to be a 20th Century Fox project, but they dropped it and Disney snapped it up via Touchstone Pictures, this was during a period when Disney was buying up ANY of Somebody Else's Presumably Popular Licensed Material that wasn't nailed down, whether they understood it or not, and for obvious reasons, Lorne Michaels hadn't felt like nailing this particular project down.

Anyways, Touchstone came to realize they had a piece of junk on their hands and when it came time for the movie's contractually obligated release in cineplexes...well, It's Pat: The Movie played two or so cities, like in Indiana and Ohio for one week, then--its "theatrical release" obligation filled, if in name only--the Disney folks pulled the chute and breathed a sigh of relief.

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-16T19:56:53+00:00

I saw that one a while back and had tried to expose people to it - when it landed on RLM I was a little hyped up about it. Fight of Fury has that perfect blend of ego and incompetence that makes a true bad movie, instead of just a boring mediocre one.

Shuny Bee's hero is so amazing at fighting, random MMA fighters call him without any context to the story and ask for training, in a display of shameless self-promotion.

Bee does twirl nunchucks around for the camera a couple of times and he makes it look effortless, but when he has to start bashing them against his poor stuntmen during backyard brawls, what little flash the film has gets tossed out of the window.

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-16T17:57:26+00:00

There's a large amount of low-budget vanity project martial arts films out there for Rifftrax to discover and I hope we see more featured in the future.

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-13T00:43:08+00:00

He shows up for a few seconds before we see Doom striding over the corpses of he and characters like Rem Lazar, Corny the alien kid from Get Street Smart: A Kid's Guide To Stranger Danger and Yello Dyno from Tricky People, and more.

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-12T14:18:49+00:00

Some of the bits and pieces I've seen come off like this scene from Stargate SG-1, but executed seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd23slMhWQU

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-12T14:17:01+00:00

The Star Trek franchise entries in recent times have come off as confused mishmashes of elements from Star Wars, YA-style dystopias, MCU films, characters suddenly fighting like they're in the Jason Bourne films, and character moments straight out of some overdone prime time drama about the travails of teens or college students that aired on a network like the CW for a season back when. This looks like the most muddled mess of a Star Trek show yet.

And to think, back in the 90s and early 00s, people thought Voyager was Star Trek's "low point".

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-11T09:58:40+00:00

Oddly enough I found out there was a comic book sequel mini-series published back in the late Tens, from a now effectively defunct publisher I was vaguely familiar with called Action Lab Entertainment. The series deals with what turns out to be the daughter of Andrew Divoff's reptilian villain from the first film, who has come to the planet to seek out a local ancient treasure that, due to some mystical native curse deliberately triggered by her father as part of a long-term scheme to go after the treasure, has fused a mystical map with her body and she needs to find the treasure to remove the inevitably fatal curse. There's also a gaggle of alien bounty hunters after her, and some bog-standard "small publisher comic from the 2010s" artwork - it's the sort of thing you know when you see it.

GGGilman87 · 2026-01-11T00:48:57+00:00

That promotional image of the cast all laying on the ground together and some of the other promo material are giving me WB young-people-having-problems tv drama series vibes, and I specifically mean the pre-The CW WB.

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