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“Attack of the Show” Blows ItJust about everything Chris Gore of Film Threat Magazine said about the 20th Anniversary Edition on G4’s “Attack of the Show” was inaccurate. Get your facts straight, Chris!
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You blew it Chris, I’ve been looking forward to that release for months and you just stuttered around the whole thing. It’s a BUY
I like the fact that it got, like, a minute of air time. I’ve never been one for Attack of the Show, but man, for apparently being all about the geek and the cult, they really blew it.
I agree with both of you. I watch AOTS, didn’t last nite and am happy i missed that farce. I have a problem with Chris in the first place. He puts himself on a pedestal to be ubergeeky and then blows it. I own it and have been laughing my ass off for days.
Oh wow(!) I didn’t know the episodes in the set were unaired! Chris must really know his facts(!)
That Chris Gore dude manages to suck some the awesomeness out of the boxset by saying it should be rented. And what was his reason? Because the show is still on the air? Maybe his living a decade behind the rest of the world.
Four “unaired” episodes that you can see on tv?
Uh-huh ….
“I know all the fans out there are gonna hate me”
I agree. And as for his review of the box set.
“It stinks!”
The MST3K 20th anniversary DVD set was reviewed on the “DVDuesday” segment on Attack Of The Show on the G4 cable network last night at 7 PM EST. To borrow a phrase, “worst review ever!”
The reviewer, Chris Gore, had no idea what he was talking about at all, stating that the shows in the set were unaired and saying you could watch them on TV so you should only rent the set!?! No mention of the fact that the extras are only available for a limited time either.
They should have let Kevin Pereira review the set, he clearly has more idea what’s going on when it comes to MST3K from hearing him talk about it.
I can’t believe that they couldn’t find a MST3K fan to ask, if they were aired or not.
Heck, they could of looked up the pertinent information, if they had access to a computer.
If G4 didn’t have a computer; they could of used a “lifeline” and phoned a friend.
I think they do their research with a Magic Eight Ball. lol
The only way that he could have been even remotely right about the episodes never airing is if they somehow eventually released the two live-shows that MST did.
…which I’m hoping for, but that’s besides the point.
At least he got the info on the OTHER TV show box set right…*goes to pick that up*
Chris Gore is self-pretensious hack who thinks fringe, independant/art house flicks are the only films worth seeing. It’s quickly becoming clear that he only panders to the geek crowd occassionally and often doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about. I’m surprised there hasn’t been a flame war on the G4 forums over this.
BTW, his website filmthreat.com had a review by someone else who was (gosh!) a fan himself and got it.
Course I’m just mad cause he dissed Chuck. Love that show!
Yikes ( & that square bugs me…. )
I love it when a reviewer admits that he hasn’t watched the very thing he’s reviewing. Nice job, Gore.
Whatever TV channel Chris is watching MST3K on, I want it.
Hey, Cable Operator! I Want My MST3K-TV!!
That’s a shame to hear.
But it doesn’t surprise me at all, G4 has been going down the crapper since 2005 anyway. I believe that’s when the new owners decided to make it more like SpikeTV instead of about geek/gaming culture.
Now that I know these are episodes I’ve never seen before, I’m definitely buying it!
I’ll just Tivo the others…
When they announced on Monday’s Attack Of The Show that they were going to review the MST3K set on Tuesday’s show, I emailed “Sampo” here at Satellite News about it early on Tuesday so that he’d have a chance to catch it. I also posted a comment about it on whatever topic was at the top of this forum yesterday.
Now I’m embarassed to have alerted any fellow MSTies to it. My wife and I were both annoyed at the review. Frankly, I’m sorry I watched it. If Chris Gore had got his facts correct and still didn’t care for the set, that would have at least been an informed opinion. Instead, he trashed the set without understanding anything about it. And he has the nerve to call himself a reviewer. What a twit!
I read a statement very similar to what I’m about to type, and when you think about it…you almost have to ignore EVERY word that comes out of the mouth of a so-called reporter or reviewer:
If you can see all the lies from something that isn’t popular (like say how fans saw all the B.S. in the review for the MST3K set), but you have vast knowledge in…what makes you think that you’re getting the truth on subjects that you have no knowledge in?
I didn’t see the review for the set, since G4 and all their programming is crap and I refuse to even give my brain cells the chance to die off from watching any of their shows. I’d rather stare at a wall and drink some wine.
I’m a fan of the video game “Manhunt”. Not too many people probably know of the game, or have even played it, so when all the news was out about the sequel or how the game is a murder simulator…I would see so many “facts” that were nothing but lies. After seeing this, I basically stopped believing in anything that is said/read to be conceived as “Truth”. Unless I have done research on the subject, and then compared the two…then it will be truth or just continue to be lies.
Well, at least I can still see it on tv. Oh, wait. Idiot.
Premise A: These are un-aired episodes.
Premise B: You can still see them on TV.
Premise C: You should rent it.
Can someone create a Boolean logic table for this?
A?B?C AB?C…?
Screw it, I own it and love all the episodes.
Oh geez. Four unaired episodes. Rent the box set because you can see MST3K on TV. :lol:
Clearly no fans of the show are employed by G4.
Well,
He’s entitled to his….opinion. Yeah, if he’d at least SEEN the episodes then said “rent it”, I wouldn’t have cared. AFA not getting his facts straight, hey I was in the military for 21 years-I’m used to media “experts” not knowing what the hell they’re talking about…
But don’t forget these gems:
1- He didn’t know which films were in the clips. Transitioned from Laserblast to 1st Spaceship on Venus; he was lost.
2- Picked up the Crow figurine. It was obvious he didn’t have a clue to the ‘bots’ name-then immediately put it down,
3- He “didn’t have time to watch it”? Gutsy thing to say for a so-called reviewer.
dum-da-da-he-he….
who-a, who-a
I like that his reasoning for the renting recommendation is because “you can see them on TV.” Yet just 2 minutes earlier he had given a buying recommendation to A Christmas Story. :shock:
I also like how when the clip switches to First Spaceship on Venus he’s not sure what’s going on, and says, “with these box sets I just can’t watch everything they…..” and trails off. As if the episode were some really minor bonus feature.
I wouldn’t feel the need to rag on the guy so bad if he hadn’t, in all probability, received a paycheck for that review.
A retarded poodle would have done a better job. Where did they get this dip from? Why doesn’t the mystery book of the month club let me review the latest mystery novel THAT I NEVER READ. That makes as much sense as what AOTS did.
Randy
Ever since G4 (AKA G$) bought TechTV (formerly ZDTV) it has been total feces. I used to watch The Screen Savers, very informative computer/tech, then G$ bought up TTV and it became A Tacky Show… er Attack Of The Show, and it looked like an elementary school video production. Kevin (Digg) Rose stayed on when it moved from SF to LA, and was the last thing I could stomach on the channel…
Obviously, this guy is as professional as a 3rd grader.
J/P=?
And after Kevin said such nice things about him in A Year At the Movies (in the chapter about the internet)…
Hmmm, i usually don’t have a problem with Mr. Gore. In fact, i was just at filmthreat.com, where people who actually know what the show is review the box sets. I’m not sure why he did this if he had no clue about what he was talking about. But really, what the heck Chris? It’s MST3K, fer’ cryin’ out loud! Any film geek worth his salt knows at least SOMETHING about this show. Disappointing. You think you know people…
My opinion of Gore was all ready a flatine when he once reviewed High Tension and called it a zombie movie. He also reviewed Devil’s Rejects and referred to the first movie as House Of 100 Corpses (not 1000).
What a douchebag… I hate G4. It has sucked ever since they destroyed Tech TV. Long live Leo Laporte. Suck it, G4! The Box set is phenomenal despite the 3 Mikes vs. 1 Joel.
:evil: A good reviewer always does a lot of research.In this case,he didn’t do jack ____! I wonder what channel these episodes air on anyway? Too bad he didn’t tell us,huh?? Next time get someone who KNOWS what they’re talking about instead of some lazy airhead,ok???
Not that I agree with anything this guy says, but I’m going to play devils advocate here…
1. By “Unaired” he may have just misspoke and meant to say “unreleased.”
2. By “You can see them on TV” he is actually trying to find a better way to say “most fans already have these episodes illegally (albeit ALLOWED to own them from an informal understanding between the copyright holders and the fans), and didn’t want to say THAT on TV.
3. and maybe that factors into his decision for “rent” (plus, it’s maybe just his opinion and nothing else).
I think he probably knows the basics about the show seeing as how he knows the fans will go nuts on him for saying “rent.”
:???: :?: :?: :mad:
#31 Any fan of the show knows this set is a MUST BUY. The ComicCon panel alone is worth the price. Gore is totally clueless. My question is why isn’t he working for the Bush administration?
Randy
What a tool!
So who wants to nominate “My Big Fat Independent Movie” for the first Rifftrax/Cinematic Titanic crossover target. Hit it with both barrels…
Wow! I’ve never had any issue with Chris Gore, but this was a ridiculus review. Offering your opinion on something you haven’t even watched or done even minimal research on is dangerous at best, and here he proved himself to be completely clueless.
I think AOTS and G4 should offer a retraction and apology to fans for wasting our time and to the ex-Brains this “review” potentially adversely affecting sales.
Chris Gore is a notorious douche ever since he published FILM THREAT, a magazine that could have been great but turned out to be a massive circle-jerk for Gore and his “filmmaker” friends.
Attack of the Show is such a retarded show. It was alright when it first started (though it’s definitely no replacement for “The Screen Savers”) but it seems like the longer it is on, the more up their own butts they get. Now instead of having it be a very loose and natural feeling “messing around” kind of show every moment feels calculated to be “cool”, and it is constantly full of extremely forced sounding laughing, and hooting and hollering from the crew. They aren’t on the edge of pop culture as they pretend to be. They pretty much just cater to unoriginal trend following internet nerds. People who say things like “epic fail” and “do want” and think they are being clever and hip. But in reality they are the biggest doofuses on the planet. Illiterate, unoriginal buttlickers I calls ’em.
Anyway about Chris Gores moronically named “DVDuesday” segment…
He is absolutely right that Batman The Animated series is by far the best screen adaptation of Batman after the Nolan films (and I would actually say that it is even more faithful to the comics than those films), and that A Christmas Story is an amazing movie that absolutely never gets old, and is well worth owning (I might even pick it up once again on Blu-Ray depending on how much money it costs). But did anyone else notice that he admits he didn’t even watch the whole MST set? He blames having so many box sets to watch, and I can understand not watching every episode of the Batman Animated series in order to be able to recommend the set, but he couldn’t watch four episodes of MST3000? They are 90 minutes long for crying out loud. I watched three of them in one day and the fourth and all the extras the next day. I think he actually doesn’t like the show, and didn’t want to face the wrath of the MSTies by admitting it on live television. He obviously knows nothing about it, and was too lazy to do even the simplest bit of research. Simply looking at Wikipedia for a couple of minutes would have told him anything he needed to know in order to not make as big of an ass of himself as he has. Hell he probably could have asked any number of people who he works with, and learned it from them in a minute or two as well. What a plumplubber.
MST3K’s mantra has always been “the right people will get it”. G4 and Attack of the show simply do not “get it”. Sad for them because this is a must have DVD set.
Dear Chris Gore,
You’re an idiot. You suck. You blow. A box turtle could have done a better job with that review.
Four unaired episodes. *le snort*
Rent, don’t buy. *double snort*
Fans can still watch the show on TV. *Excuse me….Hahahah HA hahaah HA Ha Ha HAHA haha!* I’ll be sure to catch it after I watch the new episode of “Gunsmoke”.
Do the words “fact check” mean anything to you, Chris? Or do you just need a good hard smack with a clue-by-four?
Jerk.
Well…he was right about one thing…
“The fans of the show are gonna hate me…”
:roll:
:shock: I don’t think he figured out Crows name!
You suck, Chris Gore
“People who say things like “epic fail” and “do want” and think they are being clever and hip. But in reality they are the biggest doofuses on the planet. Illiterate, unoriginal buttlickers I calls ‘em.”
Now wait a minute. At least some of us say those things because – simply – they are absurd, if not outright ironic, and absurdity is an entirely legitimate form of humor . . . as we should all know.
I, for example, enjoy the occasional Engrish phrasing to throw people off from my normally straight-laced, mostly-articulate self. Absurdity, you see.
Just like with any other oft-abused sayings, it’s people who *don’t know how to say anything else* who should get on our nerves (mine included. Sheep). Have a lack of credit where a lack of credit is due.
And let’s face it, most of us here could probably have entire conversations composed almost wholly of MST3k references – that ain’t original on our part either. Or hip. Just sheer fun.
And to bring this back to some kind of relevancy (I paraphrase):
Bill: “Pwned!”
Mike: “No, it’s just ‘owned.’ You don’t pronounce the ‘P’.”
Bill: “And how would you know that? Ha ha, pwned!”
I wholeheartedly agree, Mike.
(Batman Begins)
P.S. Never really trust reviews (too many snobs) or stuff you see on TV (too many idiots). TV reviews aren’t even worth considering (two bad tastes that taste worse together).
A few months back Chris Gore did a review of about 10 straight to dvd horror movies and gave them all negative reviews. He told people to not even rent them they were so bad. At the end of the review the host asked him how he could watch 10 movies in such a short amount of time to review them. He replied that he just put them in and fast forwarded through them and hit play whenever something looked cool. This man is a serious hack. AOTS needs to drop him.
Hmm… seems like they took down the review! :roll:
G4 started going downhill once it got combined with Tech-TV.
Actually, it’s the other way around. Tech-TV was waaaaay better, and the whole format went straight down the crapper once Comcast merged them into G4 – and the ELIMINATED every show from Tech-TV except X-Play.
I miss Leo Laporte….
Yep! Spudmantrumpy is correct. They took down the video alleged “review” (and I use the term review extremely lightly) from the G4 “Attack of the Show” web site. Which is the best thing that could have happened to it yet!!! It seems their web master knows G4 should be ashamed and embarassed :oops: about keeping that fecal matter around, and appropriatedly flushed it down the toilet where it belongs. Thank goodness at least one person over there had the good sense and common decency to remove that piece of inaccurate idiocy from polluting the internet stream further! :razz:
I didn’t catch the DVDuseday thing so I went to g4s website to watch it. Surprise surprise it’s no longer available. we can only hope it was taken down due to embarissment. Yeah rent the box set cause you can still watch it on tv… pshh i wish.
good fact checking on their part, I wonder how manny other things they got wrong in the past.
I used to watch AOTS but now I think im all set.
Oh and dosnt anyone else think it’s weird that a network thats supposed to be all about filling the geeky cult nitch dosnt own the rights to atleaste a season of MST3K?
That would be the perfect show for them to air.
It’s obviouse they NEED 2 hours of programming to throw on the air a few times a day 7 days a week.
I mean has any one seen the crap the have on that network ugghh… terrible!
“spaceballs the series” “code monkeys” “Cheaters” “Jamie Kennedy Experiment” “Unbeatable Banzuke” just to name the worst of the worst. It’s not tv it’s craptastic! they should change the name of the show AOTS to Hey kids buy these fine soney and apple products.
I notice the video is down now.. must have been embrassed. :smile: