What genre of MSTed films do viewers prefer?
Ooh I like that one!
Me, I gotta pick the dumb rocketship movies, i.e. Rocketship XM and Phantom Planet. Second favorite: Giant bug movies such as Beginning of the End and The Deadly Mantis.
What’s yours?
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Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite MSTed Movie GenreAlert reader Glenn suggests:
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I’m a big fan of Sword & Sandal and Sword & Sorcery flicks (Hercules, Deathstalker, Cave Dwellers, etc.), but I also include a “genre” of movies that I’d enjoy watching even without the riffing (Operation Double 007, the Russo-Finnish co-productions, Pumaman, etc.).
I think I have a fondness for movies in which some guy named Paul ends up turning into some kind of monster. Paul seems to be the name of choice for hapless transmogrifying heroes (Werewolf, Track of the Moon Beast). I think, also, the educational shorts are among my favorites.
And, lastly, a special shout-out to those movies featuring Japanese superheroes. “How many times do I have to tell you that your weapons are useless against me?”
do Mitchell! and Final Justice qualify as giant monster movies? ’cause I don’t know if Godzilla could take Joe Don the Gigantic
My favorites are the fantasy adventure films. The Russian fairytales are probably the tops in that department. The movies are so imaginative and yet so completely goofy that they provide endless riffing opportunities. Coming in close second would be any big guy waving a sword around. Call him Hercules, Ator, or My Cheese-steak: those movies are usually really damn funny. Then you have the bizarre Ren-faire adventures of “Quest of the Delta Knights” or the just plain wrongness of “Merlin”. Gotta love the fantasy genre for this.
Behind fantasy I vote for the Japanese monster movies. Godzilla and Gamera were always good for laughs.
In third place is any movie made in the 80’s or 90’s. I love these flicks for some reason. “Space Mutiny”, “Hobgoblins”, “Soultaker”, “Future War”, it doesn’t matter. I laugh at them all. I think they land a little to close to home for me and it makes it funnier.
Shark #20 – Amen!! Warrior of the Lost World all the way!!
I like movies that “move” around a lot. Like WOTLW, Cave Dwellers, Day the Earth Froze, even Red Zone Cuba.
1. defintely the tv shows that were stitched together. goofy directing, stories, and acting.
2. Japanese space and monster movies. toy models mixed with jumpsuits battling sweaty rubber suits.
Great topic. I attempted to read all the posts, but too many.
Me, myself and all, go through phases and moods. Sometimes I find myself craving a stupid biker movie, Wild Rebels, Sidehackers or that other Ross Hagen one with Tony Cardoza where they lose their dignities, what’s that one again?
Sometimes its the 60’s, Kitten with a Whip or the killer Bees thing or Devil Doll. Or even the really old movies like Radar Secret Service and I Accuse My parents (natch)
Younger people seem to go for the 80’s, Hobgoblins, Space Mutiny, Future War and the like.
In my heart of hearts, it’s the 50’s sci fi movies with outer space undercurrents: Rocket X-M, Teenagers from Outer Space, Phantom Planet, Fire Maidens, etc.
As a man who suffers from Roji Panty Complex, any film with a good dose of babes, preferably in their underwear, or bikinis, is good for me! See Spider Island.
I do like the cheesy made-for-tv stuff, too. See San Fran International, Code Name: Diamond Head, Master Ninja, etc.
But then, really, Sci-Fi is the core of good cheese, no?
Re. Killer Pauls: It Lives by Night and The Projected Man both had unwilling Pauls transformed into monsters (or kind-of monsters anyway). The last two seasons of MST were hard on guys named Paul
To be fair, it seems that guys named Paul in bad movies were hard on Mike and the bots, too.
Maybe another discussion thread could be favorite and least favorite “Paul” monsters.
Any of the spy movies make for great episodes:
Agent for HARM
Secret Agent Super Dragon
Operation Double 007
Riding with Death (not really a spy movie, but secret agenty-esque)
I also enjoy any movie from the 80s (Space Mutiny, Boggy Creek II, Hobgoblins, etc.) What a great decade for incredibly goofy decade.
Suggestion for thread: Yes all movies done by MST3K, but if you had to pick the best movie that has been riffed on the show, which would it be?
oops little typo above
Suggestion for next thread: All MST3K movies are bad, but if you had to pick the best movie that has been riffed on, which would it be?
*Food Man Chu says: …I love the spy movies, which may mean that Agent for H.A.R.M. fulfills both of my loves at once.*
Good call! The spy movies are some of my favorites. Here’s a box set that Shout Factory needs to release: ‘The Spies Who Bored Me’ Set: Agent from HARM, Human Duplicators, Danger! Death Ray!, Operation Double 007. All great episodes.
I’d say my favorites are movies made from around 1970 to 1978, like Riding With Death, The Touch of Satan, Track of the Moonbeast, San Francisco International, the Master Ninja’s, Giant Spider Invasion, Time of the Apes, and such.
I love looking at the cars too, those were some of my favorites autos ever. I love the ’69 Skylark in Time of the Apes, mainly because that was my first car.
I also like the Giant things, which were mainly made by Bert I Gordon. They always have plenty of riffing fodder.
Thats why I still lobby for them to do Night of the Lepus (Especially since it stars Dr.McCoy in a rare movie role). Plus it’s a 70’s genre, so it’s my two favorite things.
Also a great “bad’ Movie is Bert I Gordon’s ‘Food of the Gods’, another awful 70’s genre pick. It has all kinds of giant animals that are obvious camera tricks that dont actually look real in any way. I saw it on amc a couple years back and laughed my ass off.
The genre I prefer for MST3K has to be movies from the ’80s… or ones with Mr. Estevez. :wink:
My favorite individual episodes are all over the map (Zombie Nightmare, Agent for HARM, Space Mutiny, Teenagers from Outer Space, Giant Spider Invasion, for reference). I tend to prefer the B&W movies as a whole, but certain color movies just hit it out of the park. I like the scifi genre more than any other, but I have lots of crime movies in my top 20. So, my final decision: B&W scifi movies, such as Teenangers…, Night of the Blood Beast, The Giant Gila Monster, It Conquered the World, The Amazing Colossal Man, Phantom Planet, etc. I would put B&W crime movies as a close second, such as The Dead Talk Back, The Sinister Urge, The Brute Man, The Beatniks, and Girls Town. The Gamera and Godzilla movies don’t really do it for me–they’re entertaining, but not consistently so. I also noticed that nobody mentioned the small but great western MST genre…
Anything Japanese-Godzilla, Gamera, Prince of Space, on and on…
The Hercules sagas…
(Where can we buy those? Never see them for sale on line.)
And of course…Manos-The Hands of Fate with the great 2nd feature- Hired!
Peace
My preferred movies for riffing are any of the crappy made for cable films made between 1987-1993. Including: Werewolf, Time Chasers, Hobgoblins, Pod People, Future War, etc.
Maybe it’s because I was alive during that time period and can relate, but I think it’s more based on the fact that filmmaking had been around for 70+ years by that point and you would think the people making the films would have learned something from past mistakes!