Alert reader Tim has alerted us to a screening of a movie called “The Summer of Walter Hacks,” which is directed and co-written by George Woodard, who played J.K. Robertson (aka “Bob Evil”) in the movie in episode 821- TIME CHASERS.
George has been a busy dairy farmer/independent film maker in Vermont for quite a long time. This indie film he directed was filmed in and around Waterbury a couple years ago. They debuted it last year, but will be showing it again this weekend. Here’s the website to Woodard’s company with plenty of info on the film: http://www.pastureproductions.com. It’ll be showing at the Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe St., on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. Admission is $5. All proceeds will go towards rebuilding Waterbury. Hurricane Irene flooded the whole downtown, destroying homes and businesses this past August. The town is hanging in the balance since the flooding decimated much of Vermont’s state office complex, so this fundraiser looks to help out those affected. I’m a resident of Waterbury and I can attest to things not having been the same since late August. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve heard good things. Hopefully it’s good and not MST3K ‘good’.”
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I’ve got a whole building full of people here!
Aww! I was gonna say that!!
We know you’re using this film as a weapon.
I am not!
You people are SO immature.
Come on! Did you think we were going to use
time transport to take kids on history trips?
Keep it up and you’ll get your library vards revoked.
I leave for one moment and EvilCo. is in shambles.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
“Obscure’ is in the eye of the beholder, I think this is a natural for a MST site which holds some warm reverence for JK Robertson.
I think its time we decide whether we are ‘team players’ or not.
Also, George Woodard was prominently featured in that national film a few years ago of regular Americans from across the country’s spectrum; quite a big project, but I forget its name now, and refuse to look it up. Anyway, glad to see george is active and doing excellent work.
Can anybody say or even think the names J. K. Robertson or George Woodard without saying them the way he talks?
I think its impossible.
Time Chasers is such a great episode, and that’s part of the reason why. (Eddie Nelson helped a lot too.)
“Mike Nelson to the breakroom, another robot from the future to see you”
Dude.
For what it’s worth, my mother has seen “The Summer of Walter Hacks” at a film festival, and thought it was a lovely movie. Of course, she’s nearly 70 and isn’t terribly sophisticated as far as film goes, but there we are. I’d go see it myself if it were closer to me.
Speaking of J.K. Robertson…there could be some loose ends (not unlike the
spare Crow at the Cheese Coop calling for a sequel!
Early 21st Century Vermont: A team of plucky geologists from Castleton are on a
dig in the woods looking for traces of an epic Revolutionary battle (because of some
strange reports by participants of an oddly clad person firing a small musket which
kept on firing and firing). Underneath some modern airplane fuselage parts they find
a skeleton and some preserved plastic i. d. cards. DNA tests also reveal the bone
fragments to be those of the powerful head of Gen-Corp. J.K.Robertson suddenly recalls
a series of unfortunate events when he went to a nearby airport to see a prototype
“time transport”. He decides to investigate and…
. . . and that’s when he uses the Time Transport (Cessna) to sell the plans for the Death Star to the Trade Federation, or to Count Dooku, whoever will pay more.