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Weekend Discussion Thread: Least-Convincing Teenagers in a Movie or Short

Alert reader Robert suggests:

How about “Least convincing teenagers/college students in an episode?” From the geriatric college students in “Ring of Terror” to the 30-year-old “Teenagers from Outer Space,” episode casting directors must have been really lazy back then!

We definitely have to open this one up to shorts as well as movies, […]

How Was the Show?

An open thread for reports from Friday’s Cinematic Titanic show in Washington, DC, and Saturday’s show at the University of Rhode Island.

If you upload photos somewhere, PLEASE feel free to include links to them, but be aware, as always, that our spam filter may hold your post for approval. We’ll check it […]

Weekend Discussion Thread: Remakes and Recastings

These two suggestions arrived within days of each other and they seem complementary so I’m presenting them both.

First, alert reader Luci writes:

Hollywood’s in a remake rut, it seems, so why not give them some new fodder to work with? There are many times while watching an episode that my roommates and […]

Weekend Discussion Thread: Worst Comic Relief in a MSTed Movie

Alert reader Doug asks:

I was watching “Women of the Prehistoric Planet” today and the comedic horribleness of the “Hi-Keeba” guy got me to wondering which comic relief character(s) from MST3K movies were the worst of all. I’m sure there’s plenty more to choose from.

I’m going to go with our favorite little […]

Weekend Discussion Thread: Riffback!

Our buddy Bill writes:

“Riffback,” or moments when you made a joke just before the guys did.

Mine was during Godzilla vs. Megalon, when the two guys driving the truck make a joke about getting paid 100,000 yen. I said to my buddy, “Oooh, four bucks,” followed almost immediately by Joel […]