Okay, THATâS awesome!
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Same with Plummer in Starcrash.
And to think we used to say only love pads the film.
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There were more scenes with it in the Rifftrax cut. It did mean he had nothing to lose in facing Omus. Heâd already committed. I think it was also supposed to make him a tragic hero. And show how determined he was in his course of action, that he was willing to not only defy the government and Lomax in launching the ship but fatally poison himself doing it. Everyone else was going to just give up, but he had his vision of the ship and its future, and the need to stop Omus and save humanity at any cost.
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My friends (and Zoidberg), we have been thoroughly Palanced!
Man, this movie is like an episode of Buck Rogers without the main characters, with a script thatâs being written minutes before each scene is shot, and then stretched over two episodes with a pointless middle section about some kids on another planet and some space shenanigans. But that makes it great riffing fuel!
Itâs no surprise at this point that the host segments are great. The robot taste test bit is classic bots-hazing-the-human, and the invention exchange made me realise that my house is full of lousy, lazy coasters. Emily and the bots glammed it up for the surprisngly dark Sparky roast, with drunk GPC being a particular standout. I loved the discussion about, uh, love, especially Servoâs idea that itâs a disease spread by microscopic babies. Then we got a pretentious conspiracy theory podcast with all the ridiculousness that suggests, although theyâre actually right about it all going back to Santa. I know because I saw it on the internet. And we finish strong with Palance!Crowâs dramatic⌠pause!
Some favorite riffs this time:
âMeanwhile at Netfixâ, âI want breakfast for dinnerâ, âNo human has ever lived here that longâ, and the return of âJim Hensonâs Sniper Babiesâ.
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The kids are on Earth, which tells our heroes that there are survivors there who need help, lending more urgency to the mission while also giving our heroes a bit of angst over having to leave the kids behind. It also sets up the ending of the movie, which got cut from the MST version.
It is weird, though, that the kids somehow took Niki far enough that Jason needed a Jeep to follow her, and that she had enough time to get to know them before he arrived. And yet she never told them to just stop and at least let her talk to Jason first.
But yes. The âMeanwhile at Netflixâ riff was perfect. I loved it because itâs so accurate. And then half a second later I remembered that MST3K was one of the shows that got that treatment, and the riff got better.
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My vote is for âMeanwhile, at NetflixâŚâ as somebody pushes a red cancel button.
Not just a reference to subscriber numbers droppingâalthough thatâs a different forums threadâbut maybe a not-fully-veiled shot at MST3Kâs former business partner. Doing so much with just three words.
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Fun fact: at the end of the film, a large chunk of the set that wasnât supposed to fall down fell directly on top of Jack Palanceâs head. It gave him a minor concussion. Naturally, the director used that take in the film.
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@RocketJForklift , thanks much. I can always count on you for providing coherence when the movie does its best to obscure it.
Other riffs I collected:
Kelseyâs âIâm a potatoâ sequence.
Mork Auditions.
Time - to - make - the - robots.
I had to Truffle Shuffle just to survive.
Your mimosa will have a bottom!
This murder goes to 11.
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I was a bit surprised that there werenât any riffs about Anne-Marie Martinâs career. No jokes about Sledge Hammer (although Rifftrax did one in theirs, so maybe avoiding repetition?), nothing about Twister, nothing about her ex-husbandâs sci-fi stories being better (or worse) than this stuff.
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This got LOLOLOLs under this roof, from Gen X to Z.
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This oneâs got legs. I donât tend bar anymore, but Iâll find a way to use it.
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They might have needed a third day to get the footage for that spinning Palance hologram (Palance-O-Gram?) bit.
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Like I said in the other thread, it would be amusing if Rotat-o-Palance was spinning of his volition.
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My review is up:
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I remember thinking that the costume design for the spacewear in this movie looked rather interesting to me. Itâs definitely something Iâd nick for costume designs, though itâs second to the âfeedback suitsâ from the Gunnerkrigg Court chapter that was a spoof of exactly this sort of movie. (Note the monsters having tied up several secondary characters despite being as armless as Homestar Runner.)
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Itâs not spoiling the movie, itâs spoiling the riffs. Like when you read the[quote=âFlyingSquid, post:29, topic:26222, full:trueâ]
I just realized that this thread title doesnât work because you canât spoil a movie THAT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE!
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live stream but are watching on a Roku.
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Iâm with you on this one. Just okay, and I was expecting great things. Iâll beg to differ re: Emilyâs crew though, I think theyâve had two great to very solid entries so far, Atlantis and Mordrid (which levels up heavily after the opening IMO).
I did like the love sketch, the podcast and the ending with Crowmus, but the roast went on too long for me.
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I hope thereâs a fan cut out there with dubstep added. I mean, I still have no idea what that is, or was. But it sounds cool.
Iâm slightly weirded out that our own Doctor Kabahl didnât appear for this episode. Or maybe it was really brief and happened when I was getting more snacksâŚ? 
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Dubstep has already been weaponised.
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