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How Was the Show?An open thread for reports from today’s Cinematic Titanic shows in Green Bay. PACKERS!
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I’ll leave a longer comment later. For now, suffice it to say that it was excellent! Joel really seemed to enjoy playing to his home town crowd.
I was there for both shows and they were both great,better than the studio episodes I have on dvd. The theater was mostly full for both shows and seeing it with an audience has an energy other than just watching a dvd. They all seemed to be having a good time and being in Wisconsin they can make numerous Packer jokes wich the crowd loved. The best part was there was trouble getting the first movie started and the improv riffing was very funny and it looked like the second movie might have trouble and Mary Jo thought Rifftrax was sabotaging them.
It was a great evening. I went to the 6:00 show. The pre-show introductions sound like the ones described for the other shows on this tour. Josh mc’d and introduced himself as the one who did the voice of Tom Servo that everybody hated. (Gruber wasn’t along for this performance.) Mary Jo and Trace read portions of their books. Frank did a great little stand-up. His letter to his younger self was both funny and a little unnerving. Joel clearly enjoyed being back in Titletown. He talked about seeing Star Wars in the Meyer Theatre. He talked about the local television hosts who influenced his later work. He made special mention of a show called TJ and the ANT (Television Jockey and the All Night Theatre) which he described as kind of like the Jerry Todd show from SCTV where a local host (Doug Hein) sat behind a control board and hosted movies on Channel 11 all night long. He then introduced Doug who was in the audience. Here’s a little more info about that show: http://myweb.wvnet.edu/e-gor/tvhorrorhosts/hostst.html He also did a pretty neat trick involving a torn up newspaper.
The movie (Dangers of Tiki Island) was bizarre beyond compare (I hadn’t seen it before). They had trouble getting the movie started and the gang did a great job improving while that was going on. The riffing was strong and the audience reacted very enthusiastically.
Everyone was really pleasant for the meet and greet. I was touched to see my usually tough-on-the-outside 17 year old son a little star struck when he met the cast. I had a Tom Servo bubble gum dispenser head that I had found a a garage sale a few years ago and I gave it to my 10 year old daugter with instructions that she have Josh (the guy in the hat) sign it. As she carried it down the line, Joel asked if he could sign it, too. My daughter wasn’t sure, but Joel told her that he had designed the robot, so it would be OK. After we went through the line, a couple who knew Joel from childhood came through and he gave them a big hug. It was the perfect capper for a great night. :-))
A little movie history recap, Danger On Tiki Island is another film where the owners asked CT to change the name for their comedy show version of the film. The film is actually part of a trilogy of US/Philippines productions often called the “Blood Island Trilogy”. The three films are:
– Brides Of Blood (aka Danger On Tiki Island)
– Mad Doctor Of Blood Island
– Beast Of Blood
I find it interesting that a few show attendees recently are reporting here on Satellite News that there were technical issues with the DVD equipment running the films. The same thing occurred during the Rattlers show we attended in Washington, D.C., repeatedly. Not only was there one lengthy pause, but there were other issues where the film froze and or jumped ahead, skipping part of the film which kind of squashed any thoughts that maybe the temporary pause was a staged event for the sake of the additional jokes. It was our fifth CT live show, but the first time we’d ever seen problems like that. Apparently, those problems are not going away on this tour till something to do with the equipment gets some technical support or replacement. Perhaps the jokes during biggest glitch at the D.C. show went down so well that they’ve been deliberately added to later shows with a staged “problem”?
I’m planning to see the show in Hartford; they have 2 performances same night, Day of the Insects and Doomsday Machine. Since I can only see one, which of the two is the better choice? Thanx!
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I’ve seen CT’s Doomsday Machine on DVD and War Of The Insects at a live CT show in D.C. last year. Doomsday Machine is my favorite CT DVD, those old space exploration films are some of my favorite MST3K and now CT riffing projects and that one does not disappoint, it’s really goofy fun. War Of The Insects was excellent live and is not quite yet available on DVD (but should be shortly), so from that standpoint alone you might choose the Insects show. As far as quality between them that’s a toss-up for me, they are both excellent and really funny. So you might want to let the movie itself decide for you. Doomsday Machine is a dull, poorly made, gloomy film about a handful of survivors escaping the end of human civilization while War Of The Insects is a depressing film from Japan where science and nature go awry with tragic results. What a choice! ;)
I was at both shows in Green Bay. Wonderful night, and I like how the movies contrasted each other nicely so it didn’t feel all “same-y”. On the whole, I think I’d say I had more fun with “Rattlers”, it just felt more loose and it felt like the gang was more into it. Enjoyed the local references (“Sheboygan!”, “Would all teachers please turn in your collective bargaining rights…”, etc.). The Meyer Theater was a great venue, not too big (like the last time I saw CT in Milwaukee at Turner Hall), not too small (like the first time I saw them in Chicago at the Riverside). Just right.
Amusing what a Wisconsin-Minnesota weekend it ended up being. Packers-Vikings, Badgers-Gophers, former MST3K-ers in Green Bay…
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Similar to Mr. Bob, I have Doomsday Machine on DVD and saw Insects live (in Philly). I would have to say that War of the Insects would be my choice, although it is a tough call. I just think that Insects is a little goofier and therefore a little more fun than Doomsday to sit through. But as mentioned before, you should have so much fun going to either show.
I think I read in an interview, though, that they’ve changed Doomsday Machine. So the live version may be quite a bit different than the DVD version.
I got the impression that they were never *quite* satisfied with [b]Doomsday Machine[/b] and took another crack at it after they’d been doing this for a while.