Mythbusters “Mini Myth Mayhem”
Season 7, Episode 23.
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It’s none of your business what I’m watching or who is watching it with me!
And there’s an all night feed and grange store down the street. You don’t know me!
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No, I did have a yen to watch this … yes, yet again.
I find it almost refreshing.
The last time I tried to return to this source it was an exercise in frustration, but this time again I do find perhaps with older eyes that there is a kind of charm in this obviously self-aware little play.
It’s a simple little act in a simple little play, and for once in his miserable life, perhaps M. Godard achieved what he desired.
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I think I’m going to watch Commando right now.
That seems like the just solution to anybody’s ought fife thirty in the goddamned morning.
Oh, do you people still do the whole “link to an image” thing?
Well, we do not.
Here’s a little game you can try.
Pretend I said the movie Commando, and then imagine that I am beginning to watch it, which I am.
Get the picture, idiot?
I might “go to the bathroom” in about ten or fifteen minutes if that’s all right with you. Maybe even go the whole movie without a pause. And, yes, Carmen, they sell cigarettes right here.
We find that acceptable.
/* Castle of Fu Manchu MST3K style.
Damn Trace was a handsome young devil back now. Nice moustache. And TV’s Frank continues to layer his riffs with meaning even to this day.
WTH is Joel doing all that poncing around for? I don’t care for this opening skit. And he can’t hold his liquor either, one discovers. What would Big Stupid have said?
Yeah, I thought the composting toilet had backed up as well.
And “Take a tall drink of greywater,” nice callback.
Nope. Lost the plot already.
OK…they’re on a ship. Or there is a ship. Wait, an attack. Or something.
Well, at least the opening credits has a song without any distracting “plot.”
And a pretty sick burn by the unlikeliest of critics, the mild mannered Joel. “They should have stuck ‘Martin’ up there with ‘Crawford’ and everyone would have two names then.”
Good idea. And apparently Richard Greene is Nayland Smith. That is meaningless to me now and probably forever, but these credits are the best thing I’ve seen yet.
Will those puppets get down in front? It’s covering up the movie!
Got it: this is one of those movies that should be heard but not seen. L’homme atlantique, really.
Oh…and some hilarious English people or Welsh or something idiotic like that.
And yes the voice of Christopher Lee. “Obedience to my commands or.”
Four transmitters no less!
WTH? Now from the cavalcade of fezzes, some idiotic “business” deal about opium and trade and some ridiculous trash.
But Crow’s eyeballs are on fire in this one…from the first sketch, really. How’dya control the ping pong balls or whatever, anyway? Could even Regis Philbin have done it?
And dial it back, Joel. Way back.
Open the “gate”? OK, so I guess we’re back at the good old gothic castle, or whatever it is.
And what is this, like ninjas or Rollergator or something?
Oh, here’s the “cunning” idea of whatsiface! Something about pressure and crystals…and opium.
And apparently we have a character named Heracles. Surprisingly popular character in the XVIth C, actually, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. It wasn’t reverence for his wit.
See, I actually recall a good amount of this “movie” and the riffs. So yeah, there’s Burt Young doing all Fr Connection II or something, getting all Popeye Doyled up and why was there a sequel anyway?
It is true…cutting it faster does not make it more exciting.
I do miss the waterslide at the Dells.
No I don’t.
But that was wet and wild.
So what was the plan? Crudely leer at a slit in a gently curved dam, and then burst it.
Oh, no need. More incomprehensible British tw*ts with ridiculous accents. Oh wait, the same ones. George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon or whatever.
That is a handsome blonde girl, though. Where is her accent “from,” anyway?
And why is Burt Young still in this movie? Is he “professor Heracles” or whatever? Just smother him with a pillow or whatever. Or let him give himself a Carradine Jr., or whatever those Hollywood people do in Saigon or whatever.
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/* Well that sucked. Still don’t have any idea WTH just happened. So they saved Burt Young, I guess, and the blonde woman stopped lightening her hair.
It was great. Really liked that one.
Kroll Show Season One, Episode One. Can’t get enough George Saint Geegland. Those cantankerous old f***s wouldn’t have lasted a hot minute in IJmuiden.
Now I want to watch one of the million versions of that Sumuru thing. The one with the famous dame in it, but in better print.
“The only thing that Roger Ebert liked is big pans of lasagna. Lots of them.” */
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Twice as long…
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I should be sleeping for my new job tomorrow, but instead I’m wide awake watching Venture Brothers Season Five.
I’m on episode 4 at the moment:
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Documentary: Portrait of Jason – pretty much filming a guy talking about himself. It’s highly acclaimed as independent film/cinema verite but I didn’t get much out of it.
Random episodes of old TV shows on DVD: I Married Joan, Mannix, Burke’s Law, Peter Gunn, Fury, The Cisco Kid, Dragnet, and Make Room For Daddy.
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The Mads’ Battle of the Worlds.
It has one of my favorite riffs ever, as a character is walking through a greenhouse:
“Early attempts to make kale edible.”
(It can be difficult sometimes to eat out in Portland.)
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Hud.
Seems like a good time for it about now.
Might have to turn it off and start up Straw Dogs if I get a little bummed out by the downbeat qualities of this picture.
No…it’s too much. Yes, I recall the film pretty well, all the plot beats and all that…I just don’t wish to rewatch this one any longer.
Maybe Withnail and I: that’s a lighthearted film. Or *Woman Under the Influence." Always cheers me up (actually true, if only that the performances of Rowlands and Falk are so capitivating, never mind the psychology of the picture).
Nah. I watch A Bronx Tale. Haven’t seen that since was a teenager…ahem twenty years ago…cute movie with some solid performances.
/* Yeah, A Bronx Tale kills! Normally I don’t go in for movies with kid protagonists…in my memory it was more as he got older…you know, like teenager and stuff (yeah, I know, still kids, but I can understand them a bit more…not today’s kids, mind you, but in general! 
).
That craps shooting scene was not only hilarious, but made sense to me as a light-to-no aficionado of shooting dice.
Chazz RIP was on fire in this one! What a great actor, to the extent I can tell such things. Oh…my apologies…honestly I thought he died at a young age for some reason.
Fortunately, that’s not the case!
Kid’s kind of annoying though…the smaller version.
The actress who played the mother was terrific as well. Bob De Niro…well…how can I criticize…but he was kind of an autopilot…which is still better than Roger Ramjet’s full pilot! */
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Oo! Look what’s on YouTube!
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Children of the Corn (1984).
I find the subject matter is apt.
Nah. That one is boring.
I’m watching Roses à crédit from 2010.
Oh…well so far, I’m digging it. It’s like a Wes Anderson film (in that it has a saturated color and a kind of improbable et) that has actual dialogue and characters, and doesn’t make me want to puke.
Two thumbs up!
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Never saw this back in the day - the other Ustinov Poirots, but not this one.
One thing I always find funny, happened here. That’s when someone is eating up a tasty desert or whatnot, and then when they cut to another angle, not a bite has been taken, the cake or ice cream or whatever is intact. I need to find a place that serves a never-ending desert.
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Roses à credit is pretty boring. I’m watching The Hustler, because it was voted feel-good movie of the year a while ago.
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This is bizarre and kind of awful, and yet I can’t look away.
Unlike in the 2006 version, where I had to look away from creepy uncanny valley Richard Burton.
More info:
By the way, Liam Neeson, in Burton’s role, appears as a projection rather than being there. Guess they couldn’t actually pay him enough.
Edit: I can’t stop laughing. The video being projected behind the band and orchestra, especially the CG, is on the level of a 1990s game cut scene. In fact, it’s not too far off from the (really good) 1990s RTS game licensed from the musical.
Also… I read that he was a hologram, but he had just appeared as a projection so far when I wrote the post, but no, Liam is a hologram and other actors are interacting with his prerecorded video. It’s really weird.
Ok, can’t resist sharing one more terrible CG shot:
Ok, the giant fire-spitting Tripod that got lowered onto the stage is cool. The rest is just a disaster.
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I enjoyed this when I was a kid. Curious to see how it holds up.
Edit: This is already highly amusing and I’m only a few minutes in.
Oh wow, Joe Dante directed episode 2! And Vincent Schiavelli is in it! (Oh, I guess he directed the pilot as well.)
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Straw Dogs. Yeah, I do know why, but I’m not telling.
FWIW, they did a remake sometime in the late 1990s or whenever that was pretty good, IIRC.
But nothing like the real thing.
Beautiful title credits, actually on this one (the real one, the Peckinpah version)…never noticed that before, although it’s been a while.
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Monty Python - “Archaeology Today”.
I’ve always considered my favorite Python sketch to be the one with the merchant banker and the pantomime horses, but seeing this again reminded me how, the first time I saw it, I was so impressed by how completely mad it is. This might actually be my favorite. This is the best copy I could find online that has the whole sketch:
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This one is certainly a wild ride. Sounded a bit irksome on paper (I’ve had my fill of films set in an idealised 90’s*) but it really knocked my socks off. There are a couple of passages that genuinely feel like a nightmare and it did a great job of injecting just enough ambiguity into the story to keep me off axis but never fully ‘what the chuff is going on’. Highly recommended!
*I am a close observer of set dressing in alterna-teens bedrooms and, in terms of believability, this is one stretches it a bit. A personalised letter from Sarah Records on the wall? In a suburban American basement in 1996? Not impossible but highly, highly improbable. We will accept the veracity of a Bratmobile poster, however #cinemasins
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Junior Bonner. Why, what is it you?
As of UTC -8 (PDT) I’ve also had 0Alcohol and 0Tobacco units.
Maybe I ought to take up another line of work.
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Oh, wow.
Yes, naturally I’m compelled to watch all of the Listerine sponsored series and related spots.
It really riffs itself. I consider all of these Les and Mary spots basically one long movie. One very long movie.
Taken together, they turn the spotlight on the pleasures and perils of long-term cohabitation. From wolf-breath to the man borrowing his gal’s sewing equipment to fiddle with his guitar.
Truly, it is a majestic portrait.
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