{"id":5819,"date":"2018-02-01T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2018-01-31T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:48:51","slug":"episode-guide-1004-future-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=5819","title":{"rendered":"Episode guide: 1004- Future War"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Movie:<\/strong> (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.<\/p>\n

First shown:<\/strong> April 25, 1999
\nOpening:<\/strong> The bots calculate how many times a lady Gypsy is
\nIntro:<\/strong> Pearl conducts LSD experiments on the bots
\nHost segment 1:<\/strong> Tom makes a pair of legs so he can kickbox, but Gypsy has a leg up on him
\nHost segment 2:<\/strong> M&tB thank Pearl for not killing them, which puts a crimp in her plans
\nHost segment 3:<\/strong> Droppy the Water Droplet visits
\nEnd:<\/strong> Mike has a biiig chin; Pearl explodes Bobo and Brain Guy’s plans for going on the road
\nStinger: <\/strong>The future warrior’s shirt is head-butted right off
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\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 Mary Jo’s thoughts are here<\/a>.
\n\u2022 This episode appeared on the MST3K 20th Anniversary Edition, aka Vol. XIII.
\n\u2022 The opening segment<\/a> 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.
\n\u2022 The intro segment<\/a> isn’t a laugh-riot, but Brain Guy and Bobo are hilarious.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 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”!
\n\u2022 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!
\n\u2022 The characters cuss a few times and Sci-Fi Channel felt it necessary to insert silences.
\n\u2022 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.)
\n\u2022 Segment 1 just kind of lays there. I think they’ve attached all the body parts to Servo that are possible.
\n\u2022 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<\/a>.
\n\u2022 Callbacks: “Warwoolf”; “Tusk!” (Werewolf) “Would you dopple me into that movie, Mike?” (Overdrawn at the Memory Bank)
\n\u2022 Particularly amusing movie moment: the TV cameraman who is clearly holding a cardboard box sloppily made to look a little like a camera.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 Segment 2 is a cute idea taken from the movie, but they belabor it a bit.
\n\u2022 On the other hand, segment 3, featuring a visit from Droppy the water droplet<\/a>, is classic MST3K.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 The subject of Joel comes up when Mike tries some forced perspective fun during the closing credits.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 Cast and crew roundup: Robert Z’Dar was also in “Soultaker.” That’s it.
\n\u2022 CreditsWatch: Directed by Mike. Fred Street Post Audio get a special thanks in this and only this episode.
\n\u2022 Fave riff: “An actor prepares…to suck.” Honorable mention: “Z’dont!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

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