Movie: (1994) A man who was enslaved by aliens escapes to contemporary Los Angeles, where he is hunted by cyborgs using forced-perspective dinosaurs as trackers.
First shown: April 25, 1999
Opening: The bots calculate how many times a lady Gypsy is
Intro: Pearl conducts LSD experiments on the bots
Host segment 1: Tom makes a pair of legs so he can kickbox, but Gypsy has a leg up on him
Host segment 2: M&tB thank Pearl for not killing them, which puts a crimp in her plans
Host segment 3: Droppy the Water Droplet visits
End: Mike has a biiig chin; Pearl explodes Bobo and Brain Guy’s plans for going on the road
Stinger: The future warrior’s shirt is head-butted right off
(330 votes, average: 4.45 out of 5)
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• We’re still in a stretch of good-not-great here, seems to me. A mixed bag of host segments, a movie that is simultaneously watchable and incomprehensible and riffing that kind of rises and falls with the movie.
• Mary Jo’s thoughts are here.
• This episode appeared on the MST3K 20th Anniversary Edition, aka Vol. XIII.
• The opening segment is almost a textbook example of an opening bit. It’s apropos of nothing, takes a silly idea and takes it just as far as they should but doesn’t belabor it. Witty, fun and it’s over.
• The intro segment isn’t a laugh-riot, but Brain Guy and Bobo are hilarious.
• Filmmaker Dave Eddy revealed that this is another movie that kind of collapsed halfway through production and got taken over by another director (him). The original director, Tony Doublin, was battling with the movie’s producer, who felt the fight and action scenes weren’t being done correctly. (He might have been right!) Ultimately Doublin quit and Eddy and his team (dubbed the “Damage Control Unit”) was hired to salvage the movie as best they could. This is the result.
• He also noted that, while they did so, he and some of the crew remarked that it would be great if some day their movie would show up on “Mystery Science Theater 3000”!
• Then-current reference: Kim Wilde. Yes, I know she was actually popular in the ’80s, but at least in ’98-’99 people still remembered who she was!
• The characters cuss a few times and Sci-Fi Channel felt it necessary to insert silences.
• What IS going on with the “car visor cam” effect in some of the shots? (A “gradiant filter” was kindly explained to me in comments.)
• Segment 1 just kind of lays there. I think they’ve attached all the body parts to Servo that are possible.
• The guy with the magazine in the park who gets eaten by a dinosaur is none other than writer, editor, agent and movie fan, the late Forrest J. Ackerman.
• Callbacks: “Warwoolf”; “Tusk!” (Werewolf) “Would you dopple me into that movie, Mike?” (Overdrawn at the Memory Bank)
• Particularly amusing movie moment: the TV cameraman who is clearly holding a cardboard box sloppily made to look a little like a camera.
• Last time around I mentioned that the “Warren Moon impression” joke escaped me. I don’t follow the off-field antics of footballers. It was explained in the comments, as was the Mandy Patinkin reference.
• Segment 2 is a cute idea taken from the movie, but they belabor it a bit.
• On the other hand, segment 3, featuring a visit from Droppy the water droplet, is classic MST3K.
• This movie must have been extra-tough duty: The Brains had to come up with TWO sets of riffs for the same sequence–the one in which the rag-tag band infiltrates the dinosaurs’ lair — which is shown in its entirety TWICE.
• The subject of Joel comes up when Mike tries some forced perspective fun during the closing credits.
• Mike’s big chin is funny in the closer, but Pearl calmly blowing people up when they annoy her is not really a new concept.
• Cast and crew roundup: Robert Z’Dar was also in “Soultaker.” That’s it.
• CreditsWatch: Directed by Mike. Fred Street Post Audio get a special thanks in this and only this episode.
• Fave riff: “An actor prepares…to suck.” Honorable mention: “Z’dont!”
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Warren Moon was an NFL quarterback who at the time, was facing charges and bad publicity for allegations of domestic abuse.
There was a time when I thought no movie could have worse dinosaur effects than Carnosaur. How wrong I was. Haven’t seen this ep for a while. I think I recall having trouble staying awake during the movie. Robert Z’dar never looked so bad in a movie. Even Matt Cordell was a looker compared to this badly done cyborg.
I must admit, though, they came up with an interesting way to de-shirtify Jean-Clod van Dummb.
I love this episode, consistently at or near 10 in my TT. The Opening & closing host segs were great, but the mid ones were meh. The movie was a terrific pick and the riffing was very sharp. Aliens, Dinosaurs, gang members (Jenny Craig Gang, Oprahs Book club gang…), French Resistance fighters, Puffy Hat Police, ”Captain Polaris”, kickboxing, big knife, BIG guys, guy with BIG FACE, hookers + nun = hooker nun, drugs, pimps, automatic weapons, mullets, boxes, explosions, spaceship, Forrest J. Ackerman so many targets for riffing!? Like shooting fish in the barrel and the boys did not disappoint.
ditto on the Warren Moon notes. at the time of the troubles he was QB for the Vikings. a large enough cross to bear without the legal troubles. i wonder if the editors for X-Men 3 got their inspiration for Wolverine’s bloody now/ not bloody later T-shirt clearly seen in his epic fight with ‘disgruntled camper who could throw bones at people, man. just wondering.
Future..Wax!
The intro really feels like a Comedy Central era bit. Am I the only one who gets that? Maybe it’s because Trace’s Crow was often on a computer, I don’t know, but I liked the feeling it left me.
The movie is that lovely level of incompetence prime for MST3K. I love the scene when Anne first gets to the house and she’s out of breath, which makes sense if she carried Tool all the way from where she hit him as opposed to driving, like I’m sure she did. Of course the brisk jog from the car to the door might have winded her seeing as how winded she got when Tool held her to the wall moments later. Additionally it’s great that instead of just making her a nun in training that had a rough life before hand, having a crisis of faith, they provide tons of superfluous exposition to that rough life back story.
There is just so much great stuff that makes no sense. Anne and Tool escape the dinosaur at the house and immediately proceed to hop on a train. The cops picking up Anne and Tool for no reason and taking them to a warehouse they have under siege. Said warehouse (possibly warehouses) being full of empty boxes. The unexplained news team at the scene that gets random focus. The gay police radio operator inappropriately joking with a lone SWAT agent. That and the entire premise of all the effort the alien overlords are putting into getting one guy back, is laughable.
Oh, and the opening dialogue line, “For all the questions I had about the heavens, all it brought was hell on earth,” totally sets the tone for everything. Looking at it implies that the person’s questions are what created the hell on earth. And on top of that it totally looks like something I would’ve written in high school thinking it was deep and effective.
Some Fav Riffs:
Tom: “Future effects…” I hope that doesn’t mean Alf.
Crow: And now, “Ooo, Heaven is a Place on Earth: The Movie.”
Crow: You thick woman! Ennnnn!
Tom: This is then, too, it’s weird.
Mike: So when you edit it it’ll look like I stabbed him, right?
Crow: Look how much more can I drive? There’s no inherit amount of driving that I can increase.
one last question…were they trying to go for a low budget ‘terminator’ thing with this one? just wondering…
“It’s Liberation Theology versus Opus Dei!”
Pearl’s description of this as “a little tab of Orange Sunshine” sums this one up nicely. Why the train ride to nowhere and back again? Why dinosaurs? Who closed the gate when they were in the truck, being chased by a dinosaur? Why was the dinosaur stopped by the gate? Why the Plaid gang? Who thought this mess amounted to a movie?
I did enjoy Jean Claude Goshdarn’s character saying, “I am tool.” How can you top that line?
I didn’t find the movie particularly incomprehensible (although my attention tended to wander), but the backstory seemed unnecessarily complicated. The cyborgs from the future went back in time millions of years to abduct dinosaurs, and then, millions of years later, abducted humans. Having the cyborgs originate from the future wasn’t really necessary; maybe the notion of cyborgs existing on another planet contemporaneously with dinosaurs was a little too much for someone’s mind to wrap itself around.
Needed more Borg jokes.
“Hey, it’s Third of Five!”
“More like Fifth of Scotch.”
“Maybe Tenth of CC?”
“I don’t know.”
“Third of Base!”
The film’s tagline was:
Past Predator
Present Alien
Future Terminator
So apparently they were going for a hat trick, but instead they lost their shirt.
A real turkey of a movie, leading to a solid if not great episode. Riffing is good throughout, and host segments are just middling for me. The opening where they calculate how many times a lady is probably my favorite here, and Sampo nails it in his description above.
I can only imagine the pitch meeting for this movie: It’s like “Terminator” meets “Kickboxer” meets “Jurrasic Park”…oh, and everyone wears plaid. We’ve got a product placement deal with a cardboard box company.
On a side note among the crew listing in the credits was “Box Wranglers.”
I have to say that Daniel Bernhardt is actually a good martial artist, but the fight choreography (which he did himself apparently) makes for lame fight scenes. Overall, there just seems to be such little effort that went into this movie (eg cardboard box with a lens taped on as a camera, editing machine in the shot, continuity issues). Every time the movie gets a tiny bit of momentum, it blows itself up.
Riffs:
Oh good, another large guy. The movie was needing one.
Oh, Z’no!
It’s Super Pope!
My theory is that director shot the entire movie without looking at it.
See, this what happens when you deregulate credits.
Fave riff: Come on and go…and then DRIVE!
BTW, Colossus Prime (#5), I appreciated your point about the opening dialogue…you’re right about the implications. Yet another factor that makes this such a fine piece of cheese!
Speaking of plaid, at least one callback to “Time Chasers” (“Two plaids?”) might have been warranted.
“Well, movie, I sure hope you can justify all this personnel…”
I love this one tremendously, I just watched it last week.
“He’s a Cute-asaurus!”
and
“What happened? We were batter dipping!”
I agree with Colossus Prime, this movie does look like it was written by a high schooler. Scenes follow each other with no explanation. People show up to deliver lines of dialog even though they haven’t been part of the ongoing conversation and in fact could not possibly have known where to show up in the first place.
The riffing is good and enjoyable. The hosts segments, other than the opening and Droppy the Water Droplet, are not very good. Tom’s attempt at kickboxing and the revelation of Gypsy’s new leg make me think the Brains were doing some of their own LSD experiments. I love Droppy, though. Who knew water had so many uses?
Ladies and gentlemen, Fred Burrows!
I love the two lines within minutes of each other: “I’m a tool” and “I’m a man” (“…in my particular relationship”)
The callbacks were a highlight in this experiment!
Other favorites as best I can remember:
For a lack of anything humerous please accept this substite.
[Mike as Zdar as Tool winds up a kick in the final fight] I’ll just stand here and see how this plays out. [the kick connects] ouch I guess.
I’ll admit that I actually thought Daniel Bernhardt was a stage name for Jean-Claude van Damme until I looked the movie up on IMDB. Whodathunk there’d be two guys who looked like that who were both kickboxers/actors/not-really-actors-at-all?
Personally, I think the film editor deserves an Oscar for this movie. There’s clearly not a single usable take in the whole movie, but he gamely presses on with montages and voiceovers and non-linear exposition in order to conceal it as best he can. (My favorite is the nun’s voiceover that covers her actual dialogue–clearly, she couldn’t convey emotion at all in the actual sequence as shot, so they just overdubbed her with a voiceover that wasn’t expected to.)
Does anyone else think that this is where the extra seconds from the super-slow countdown at the end of ‘Time Chasers’ wound up, or was it just me?
My favorite lines:
“I’ve done some things…I’m not proud of.”
“That’s why I keep this scrapbook!”
“Sister Vehicular Homicide.”
“Whew. Glad the dinosaurs got the kid. Really slowed them down.”
“So do they ship fully inflated balloons?”
Four stars, easily.
The “thank you for not killing us” segment has always baffled me. Mike and the bots are Pearl’s test subjects for the movie-watching experiment, right? So why would she decide to randomly blow them to smithereens in the middle of a movie? It’s an example of how I think the Brains kind of lost focus on what the show was really supposed to be about towards the end of its run.
I believe this is the episode the Brains were working on when the SciFi Channel announced that MST3K would not be coming back for an 11th season. And it shows – from here on until the end of the season, the riffing seems to lose a lot of its energy, sort of like the Brains didn’t have any fight left in them.
My favorite riff occurs at the cardboard warehouse. One of the Bots (can’t recall which) says, “He’s boxed in,” to which Mike replies, “Yeah, well I’m card-bored.”
Andrew Borntreger of BadMovies.Org reviewed this one.
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/futurewar/
Coincidentally, I just watched this one last night. I’d have to give it a solid 4 stars. I’d give it 5 if all of the host segments were on the par of the opening bit or “Droppy”.
Such a PERFECT movie for the guys to tear into! The cheapness and imcompetence just ABOUND in every single scene. The blah, fake-looking interiors all look like they’re the same exact location…the “fat guys’ house”, the police department, and even the highly UN-detailed church interior at the end of the movie. I mean, GEEEEEEZ!…the windows look like they’re made out of waxed paper! :roll:
Fave riff has got to be…
Anne: “I have a past that I’m not proud of” Crow: “That’s why I kept a SCRAPBOOK!”
Oh, and BTW Sampo…The Mandy Patinkin referrence DOES pertain to the ladder in the background. A single ladder was the only set piece used on stage for his famous “Dress Casual” concert back in the 80’s.
Okay, if you’re operating an empty box factory/store/
warehouse wouldn’t it make sense to HAVE THE BOXES FOLDED!
…that’s “INcompentence”. sheesh, how impometent!
• Then-current reference: Kim Wilde.
Oh, Sampo honey, I don’t think so. She was early-to-mid-’80s.
What was she doing in 1999? According to the never-doubtable Wikipedia: “Since 1998, Wilde had an alternative career as a gardener, whilst still being active in music.“
It took me a long time to realize that the “I’m a tool” guy also played an Agent in Matrix Reloaded. His and Morpheus’ fight scene is cool except for when the CGI obviously takes over, but I had a hard time taking it seriously after I realized who the guy was.
Trying to think of a favorite riff, and a whole bunch kept popping into my head:
“Is this a halfway house for huge guys?”
“Somebody look in your rolodex for a Fred Burrows!”
“So in the future, they simply forgot about flashlights…”
“Someone shot the editor!”
3 stars (barely). Doesn’t do it for me.
Not a fan of martial arts, rubber dinosaurs, or the Catholic Church. The movie is hard to look at and painful to listen to. Large sections of the score sound like malfunctioning drum-machine overlaid with tracks of unrelated synthesizer noodling. It’s plot makes less sense to me every time I watch it. So given this train-wreck of a film, it’s a little disappointing that, while amusing, the riffing never really comes to a boil. And the host segments are generally lame, the worst set in awhile.
I usually hate when the riffers fixate on a minor point then run it into the ground (“Steve” in Bloodbeast, “Are you ready for some football?” in Laserblast), especially when it’s based in them mishearing something or not paying attention. This is one of those times. Fred Burroughs is the round black dude. He is called Fred at least three times at the house. Granted, his full name is only used by the police in conjunction with a scene that we never see (Alan Thicke Cop: “Fred Burroughs told us how he got you to give him a ride”) which is pretty confusing. To be fair, I realize the Brains have watched the movie a few times during the writing process and they may have figured this out themselves, and then decided to use the gag anyway because they know we will be confused by this element also. It just doesn’t work for me here, in this case.
Surprisingly, lead “tool” Daniel Bernhardt still has a career. Currently shooting a film in Baton Rouge.
http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/23569/1/AGENT-JOHNSON-HAS-LOCKJAW/Page1.html
Only the Shout! DVD extra of the Comic-Con makes this disc essential for fans.
Two things about this episode that always cracked me up.
The first is the random scene where Tool and the nun end up running away from the dinosaur, jump in a random truck and insist that the driver DRIVE! The editing is hysterical. “RUN!” Mike: “Who are those people?”
The other is the acting between Captain Polaris and the police dispatcher after the SWAT guy dies. Oh man, that has to be the most half-assed acting ive ever seen in a movie. The police dispatcher has no enthusiasm at all, not that i would either if i was in this movie and Captain Polaris is just so cheesy.
This movie is ripe for riffing, the cardboard box camera, ashy cyborgs, millions of cardboard boxes, dustbuster galactica, etc., etc. Understanding the plot could potentially merit a nobel peace prize.
“This movie is crediting the entire United States person by person!”
“the randy johnson model cyborg”
polaris: “what the hell is that?”
crow: “uh, thats your shadow sir”
and who the hell is Fred Borroughs????
Solid but not classic episode, though I love the first fifteen minutes or so.
Don’t forget the infamous fat guy dummy stand0in moment. Plus, with the sci-fi aspect and everything, you’d expect a name like Captain Polaris would belong to the hero or something.
Oh, and how many other movies had opening credits so long there is a commecial break as soon as they finish?
Fred Burrows…enough said.
#26: Fred Burroughs is the black guy who gets killed because the dinosaur “supersized it,” as Finnias Jones pointed out. It IS funny how the movie just introduces his full name at the awkwardest moment.
#29: “Hobgoblins,” rather famously. ;)
This movie is one of the funniest movies to have sets made out of poster board and styrofoam. As one reviewer said (paraphrased), “if your kids made this, you’d think it was cute.” Why are these time travelling cyborgs hovering around Earth in a huge dustbuster during the present day? Is it really a good idea to leave a dangerous wounded stranger who busts table alone with the son of Moe Howard? Why ARE they on a train that takes them back to the same place? Why do the police pick Ann and Future Tool up? Why exactly is Future Tool put in jail at all? Just because Sister Ann was a former prostitute, she has all these “connections” to get explosives? Why does a sewer, or whatever it is, have pipes along the walls and huge wooden slats? And didn’t Forrest J. Ackerman have better things to do than promote his sci-fi magazine in a film like this?
I could think of more, but this movie constantly rewards with all the “huhs” per second.
The movie’s not the most watchable for me, but the riffing is excellent throughout. Lots of great, memorable lines. While I agree that the opening and Droppy segments are the best, I do like the others as well – the “You tried to kill us!” one is particularly fun, because Mary Jo delivers her “NO! I would NEVER . . .” lines so brilliantly. We use that one (and that tone) a lot for faux apologies around here. As for why she was trying to kill them . . . just relax. They took a liking to that line from the movie (“thanks for not killing me”/”they should have a Hallmark card for that”) and decided to run with it. I also like Brain Guy’s frustrated mutterings over Pearl’s sudden change of heart.
As others have noted, this film is freakin’ ideal for riffing. Nuns and cyborgs AND kickboxers AND dinosaurs? And it tries to take itself seriously? How could the riffing go wrong? It’s a perfect fanboy’s blend of material.
“Jerry, nooo!! He was only three days from retirement!”
“These, are things. They exist.”
“Haven’t had Hardee’s in over an hour.”
“No wonder fossils are so rare.”
“Im fretting . . . see audience? I’m fretting.”
Great stuff pretty much ll the way through, a few minor lulls aside.
I really have a hard time making it through this one in one sitting – I think it’s because the movie is soooooo bad. I have to turn it off occasionally and punch the walls to get through my frustration.
I haven’t watched it in while, but was this another 80s-early 90s SciFi movie where 3/4 of the movie is eaten up by credits?
Also, does Belgium have a college that specializes in producing crappy martial artists-slash-actors?
@#23- still, though- what with all the bank bailouts, and how I generally abhor their wealth and power- I’ll sing “we’re the bank of america” when I see one- puzzles and amuses my GF.
I actually really liked the kickboxing host segment, mainly because Gypsy is so adorable. “I don’t want to hurt you, Tom!”
I love this episode. The past four episodes have been great, riffing-wise. I do think the host segments got a little lame toward the end…but the riffing is top-notch.
And this movie is awesome. Easy to watch and terrible.
The stinger has to be my favorite of the series. Z’Dar’s look of disbelief cracks me up every time.
#26: The police dispatcher has no enthusiasm at all, not that i would either if i was in this movie
How much enthusiasm would you have if you were an actual police dispatcher? Maybe the actor’s performance hit the nail right on the head. :-)
Might’ve been nice if they’d given us better indications of exactly how the action was spread across the Four Days. So Day One started when Ann met Tool, and Day Four ended when Ann took her vows, right? Three days before her final vows and all THIS intrudes into her life, like she wouldn’t have been nervous enough in the first place.
One thing that always cracks me up about this episode is the newspaper clipping they show at the end of the movie that announces “Tool” as the newest staff member of the drug counseling center. The picture that accompanies the article shows “Tool” shirtless and with a demonic expression on his incredibly grimy face. What would it be like to go to the center for help with your nasty drug problem, and be met by that guy?
Favorite riff: “They must have a loser bishop”
I don’t care how “meh” anyone may be on this episode, I feel it is hilarious and one of my favorites. I also feel that there is no energy dropoff level (at least in the theater) on account of them being cancelled. Just my opinion though.
I find Servo’s “legs” highly disturbing and don’t think they look like human legs at all. Or was that the point and I’ve been watching this sketch all wrong for the last 11 years? Maybe it’s like a magic eye puzzle or that three prong fork illusion.
“Battle of the guys that peaked in high school.”
“The “thank you for not killing us” segment has always baffled me. Mike and the bots are Pearl’s test subjects for the movie-watching experiment, right? So why would she decide to randomly blow them to smithereens in the middle of a movie? It’s an example of how I think the Brains kind of lost focus on what the show was really supposed to be about towards the end of its run.”
I thought this was a show about a scientific experiment! Instead it’s about, like, jokes and stuff! Those sell-out bastards!
We finally see the other end of Gypsy’s body!!!! Or did that happen already before during the CC-era?
I think the director, or somebody who worked on this film made a blog post not long ago and said that when this episode aired, he had trouble watching it because he was a fan of MST3K, and he knew the end of the show was coming. However, when the episode came out to DVD, thanks to Shout Factory, he was able to re-watch it and found it hilarious.
“Is this because Joel stopped by earlier?”
Unless I’m mistaken, this movie is also notable for being the most recently made film to appear on the show. The Brains at this point had rarely riffed a film made in the ’90s. So can anyone list all the ’90s films they riffed?
Definitely one of my desert island episodes. I think the riffing and host segments are strong throughout and the movie has just the right amount of incompetence and silliness. I think the message they were trying to convey is a nice idea; using your faith to get through tough times. The execution however was just bad. I give them at least one thumb up though for trying.
Fave riffs:
Servo: “I had a bottle of Dom Magwilli once, it was overrated.”
Crow: “It’s not even ass, Servo.”
“It’s hard to sample off the radio.”
“I’ll hit you so hard with this, you’ll go flying that way.”
Past Predator
Present Alien
Future Terminator
That was my Prom Theme!
Did anyone else notice that the organ music played in the background sounded remarkably similar to the background music in “Hobgoblins?”
Nobody has named my favorite riff yet, as it is one that absolutely floored me the first time I saw/listened to it (and I don’t even exactly know why).
As the clock winds down to detonation, “Introducing new, faster seconds.”
I also enjoy, “By the bells, it’s now 97 o’clock.”
“Fred Burroughs! Help me!”
Daniel Bernhardt really is Jean Claude Gosh Darn. He was in the three sequels to the movie Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Bloodsport. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0076780/
Okay, I give this episode 4 stars, but only because I really don’t like the second host segment. It’s just stupid. The Droppy the Water Droplet bit wasn’t all that funny either, but it was still watchable. The rest of the episode is lots of fun. Future War is another example of a newer movie being far worse than any bad movie before 1975.
I have to agree with Mary Jo Pehl about how sad the news reporter scenes are in the movie. The cardboard camera is so pathetic. I also feel sorry for actor Ray Adash, who played Captain Polaris.
Sampo: “Mandy Patinkin’s gonna do a concert back there.” What? Because of the ladder?
Yes, because of the ladder, although now I think Eric Bogosian would have been a better reference.
Favorite riffs:
“Is he talking about a ‘warwilf’?”
“Being a scab for UPS is hard.” (A then-current reference to the strike of UPS workers.)
“Thank you Soloflex.”
Servo: “Look at the beautiful stained-glass window.”
Crow: “They must have a loser bishop to get a basilica like this.”
Mike: “I think it’s the Arby’s employee chapel.”
One of my favorite episodes, the movie is just so goofy. I particularly like the end with Runaway’s photo in agressive action pose depicted in the newspaper as the new teen crisis counselor. cracks me up. Anyway, that is not a “car visor cam” ‘effect’ in that shot, it is probably a gradient filter used on the camera (a filter with two or more areas of gradually different shading). They are most often used to dim out bright areas of a shot (ie sky) which might blow out the exposure levels while filming. The effect of using a grad filter should be seemless, they just did a very bad job of using one. Good cinematographers can mess up using them too. Desert shots in “Thelma and Louise” have a similar problem, the tops of some of the land formations get into the graded area and look awkward. I do think they are being used less these days with digital color grading and digital cinema cameras, but in camera filtering is always better.
Hobgoblins went to commercial break immediately after the credits were done and Mike had corralled the Bots into just sitting down and watching this movie, provoking a rare bumper voice-over of “Doh!”
I think the late-credit champion is Angels Revenge, though, which as I recall doesn’t get the credits started until after the first break.
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One of those little lines that I love that nobody seems to notice comes from the Droppy sketch, as Crow’s listed several of the many uses for water and Mike just starts to ask, “Are these in any kind of order …” It’s a simple little yet logical thing, and the answer of course is no.
“The picture that accompanies the article shows “Tool” shirtless and with a demonic expression on his incredibly grimy face. What would it be like to go to the center for help with your nasty drug problem, and be met by that guy?”
Not only that, but the picture was clearly taken *during* his fight with the cyborg! Someone was snapping pictures during the climactic clash, and that’s what they choose to depict their new counselor! The hell?
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“I thought this was a show about a scientific experiment! Instead it’s about, like, jokes and stuff! Those sell-out bastards!”
I believe that qualifies as an owning.
My hat is off to you, sir. :twisted:
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“Unless I’m mistaken, this movie is also notable for being the most recently made film to appear on the show.”
Unfortunately, you are mistaken. We covered in the Merlin thread recently that Werewolf and Merlin were both from 1995, while Future War here was from 1994. Damn close, though.