{"id":3178,"date":"2009-06-20T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2009-06-19T20:45:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T00:45:33","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-mst3k-the-movie-2-what-movie-would-you-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Discussion Thread: &#8220;MST3K The Movie 2&#8221;&#8211;What Movie Would You Choose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>The MSTies have spoken and the next item in the episode guide, next Thursday, will be &#8220;MST3K: The Movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which got us to thinking: What if MST3K: The Movie had been released in 2,000 theaters instead of 50? What if, promoted properly, it had become the hit we all know it could have been? What if (as I like to think happened in some alternative universe) it became the first of a long-running series of MST3K movies. If that happened, what movie do you think they should have chosen to riff in &#8220;MST3K: The Movie 2&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Remember the formula: It needs to be something where the rights won&#8217;t be break the budget, something that will be accessible to non-MSTies, it can&#8217;t be too terribly long or OVERLY painful, but wacky enough to inspire plenty of great riffs. <\/p>\n<p>My pick: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074148\/\">A*P*E*<\/a> Color, horrible, short (and cuttable), big stupid monster, equally stupid humans. Perfect fodder.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your pick? Show your work! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>The MSTies have spoken and the next item in the episode guide, next Thursday, will be &#8220;MST3K: The Movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which got us to thinking: What if MST3K: The Movie had been released in 2,000 theaters instead of 50? What if, promoted properly, it had become the hit we all know it could have [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msties","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}